The US President wants the informal group known as the Quad - comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States - to push back further against Beijing. On Tuesday two US carrier groups conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea, the firs...

Boris Johnson is facing a showdown over claims China is waging genocide against the Uighur Muslims interned at camps in Xinjiang province.

The second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump will open on Wednesday at 5am (Australian time), just over a month after the January 6 assault on the Capitol the House has charged him with inciting.

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The operator of a ship carrying Australian coal is diverting the vessel to Japan in a high stakes dash to relieve the vessel’s 18 sailors caught up in a diplomatic stalemate with China.

The government is yet to strike a contract with any hotel chain even though the rooms need to be available by Monday.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was speaking in a televised address, his first to the country since last Monday’s military takeover.

Figures suggest black Americans are three times as likely to die from coronavirus as their white peers, but lag way behind in terms of immunisation rates.

The United States - which announced on Monday that it was returning to the forum it quit in June 2018 - was among 28 observer states listed as supporting the move.

Maxwell is separately seeking to dismiss all or part of the indictment, arguing in part that prosecutors are targeting her only because Jeffrey Epstein is dead.

Trump’s lawyers argue that Trump was only speaking figuratively when urging his supporters to “fight like hell” against the election result.

For a brief time, those bounded by the Great Firewall, had found an island of unregulated speech.

The figure is almost three times higher than the 57,555 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in 2020 by Russia’s coronavirus task force.

US Representative Ron Wright has died after testing positive for COVID-19 last month. He was also battling cancer.

The couple’s gesture went horribly wrong when the gunpowder inside the cannon exploded, fracturing its metal frame and launching shrapnel into the air.

The flash flood in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand has killed at least 12 people, with fears for 170 more.

Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei has been formally arrested by Chinese authorities on suspicion of illegally supplying state secrets overseas.

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has accused a conspiracy of trying to kill him and overthrow his government, including a Supreme Court judge who has the support of opposition leaders demanding that Moïse step down.

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Trump pulled out of the world body’s main human rights agency in 2018 due to its disproportionate focus on Israel.

Biden, in the interview taped Friday, said he has said to Xi “all along, that we need not have a conflict.”

The official data released on Monday adds to signs that China has managed to stamp out the latest wave of the disease.

The government will allow French employees to eat lunch at their desks in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, a practice previously forbidden.

The carefully curated informality of the two-and-a-half-minute chat is a break from previous incarnations of the weekly address.

Britons tend to “see through” attempts by far-right groups to broaden their appeal but many “happily embrace” far-left front organisations, said Lord Walney.

Since the pandemic hit, similar tents have popped up around the country and in places like Brazil and England, where some people call them “cuddle curtains.”

South Africa said it will suspend use of the AstraZeneca shot after data showed it gave minimal protection against the country’s dominant coronavirus variant.

The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. A week later, NASA’s rover is set to arrive.

At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global warming.

A woman has died after being found with symptoms of the deadly virus in the town of Biena on February 1.

The US President has no intention of repeating Barack Obama’s mistakes. He knows he must deliver on his early promises - and do so quickly.

Dr Sean Turnell, an adviser to Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was detained by the country’s police on Saturday.

For Australia, the challenge is finding an approach to relations with Beijing it can share not only with its chief ally but also with regional partners.

Scientists probing the origins of the coronavirus are wrapping up a lengthy investigation in China and have found “important clues” about a Wuhan seafood market’s role in the outbreak.

Residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the “whistleblower” doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak but was reprimanded by police for “spreading rumours”.

Those searching for motives behind putsch that imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi and plunged Myanmar back towards oppressive junta rule need look no further than the service ribbons on the chest of General Min Aung Hlaing.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an economist and former finance minister of Nigeria, appears set to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation.

The daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney faces blowback for joining nine other Republicans in voting to impeach Trump.

In the most extensive real-world test so far, Israel has demonstrated that a robust coronavirus vaccination program can have a quick and powerful impact, showing the world a plausible way out of the pandemic.

A man is warning people against using headphones while falling asleep after healthcare workers had to remove a wireless earbud from his oesophagus.

Julian Assange’s accuser has come under fire in Sweden after she went public for the first time with a tell-all book centred around her allegations of sexual abuse.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has joined a group of high-profile female athletes who are challenging Joe Biden’s push to allow transgender people to compete in girls’ and women’s competitive sports.

Trump’s impeachment trial this week will unfold in a country that feels utterly transformed from 12 months ago, when his first Senate trial occurred.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar’s cities on Saturday to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, despite a blockade on the internet by the junta.

Buildings were burned during protests in a town in southern Chile on Friday, as angry demonstrators reacted to the fatal police shooting of a street juggler.

Vietnam is expected to get access to the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX sharing scheme within the first quarter, its government said on Friday.

The military junta has tried to silence dissent by temporarily blocking Facebook and extending a social media crackdown to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday in the face of the growing protest movement.

Scientists from Madagascar and Germany say, despite its size, the genitals of the new specimen were almost one-fifth of its body length, possibly to allow it to mate with the larger female.

Although, accurate and official data is not available, local media reports say 70 per cent of volunteers, evacuees and health workers have tested positive since the quake struck in January.

Asked in an interview with CBS News what he feared if his predecessor continued to receive the briefings, as per protocol, Biden said he did not want to “speculate out loud”.