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Japan’s treatment of women faces a reckoning. A decision on who will replace the 84-year-old male ousted because of sexist comments is expected within days.

When she complained, Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend was made to clean bathrooms, her lawyer says in a letter of complaint.

Cases in India have been falling dramatically and uniformly across the country for months. But the detection of the more infectious variants comes amid some worrying but so far isolated outbreaks.

In this episode of Please Explain Daily, national editor Tory Maguire and deputy federal editor Stephanie Peatling reflect on the terrible chain of events and the spotlight they’ve shone on the employment conditions for political staffers.

“Is our blood worth less than the blood of a German?“, asked a father who lost two sons in the 2009 tanker bombings near Kunduz. He expected the court to rule in his favour.

In Lincoln, Nebraska, a reading of minus 35 degrees Celsius shattered a record set in 1978 of minus 27.

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole said Canada should not be turning a blind eye to genocide.

The changes of a decade ago did not give Myanmar a perfect democracy. But it did pave the way for today’s young protesters: keenly aware of the past, social media-savvy, and resilient. They need the world to stand with them.

White House spokeswoman has also told reporters Joe Biden plans a call soon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump’s vicious statement will exacerbate the rapidly deepening divisions within the Republican Party over whether to embrace or reject the former president.

Europe’s most active volcano has roared back into spectacular volcanic action.

Adam Kinzinger, a six-term Republican from Illinois, was one of the 10 GOP House members who joined Democrats to impeach Trump after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

The daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler tried to flee the country in 2018 only to be detained by commandos in a boat off India.

The exercise dubbed “Iran-Russia Maritime Security Belt 2021” is taking place in the northern part of Indian Ocean, spanning a stretch of about a 17,000 kilometres.

With no heat and no working stove, the couple and their 11-year-old daughter hunkered down in a makeshift bedroom fort made from nearly a dozen blankets.

The new charge may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial as part of an intensifying crackdown by authorities who seized power in a coup.

A Democratic congressman has filed a lawsuit accusing former president Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani of conspiring to incite the violent riot that shook the US Capitol on January 6.

Sean Turnell’s peers will deliver a petition to the Myanmar embassy on Wednesday.

A Reuters reporter heard several blasts and saw a fire blazing for a few minutes in the vicinity of the airport. One security official said the total number of mortars fired was five. 

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The head of the Supreme Judicial Council said the ruling was “balanced” and consistent with Islamic and civil laws. He dismissed what he called “artificial and unjustified noise” on social media about the edict.

The sudden return of military rule and leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s renewed detention are the latest evidence of a far darker and more complicated reality.

A telegram that was in the collection of an advisor to former French president François Mitterrand has been declassified after 25 years.

The person was found on Tuesday morning near a checkpoint on the eastern side of the DMZ separating the rival Koreas.

As of this week, 28 per cent of Israelis have received both doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine and an additional 43 per cent have received their first.

When she joins the World Trade Organisation’s Geneva lakeside headquarters her portrait is set to be hung beside others of men, mostly white and from rich countries.

The study found that black people with dementia were nearly three times as likely as white people with dementia to become infected with the virus.

Mick Mulvaney says the former president would no longer be considered the “prohibitive favourite” for the Republican nomination if he chose to run again.

The commission will “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex, Pelosi said.

“It would be a great honour to speak with you,” Musk, the world’s richest man, added in a follow-up tweet in Russian.

Zuma’s refusal to attend the hearing is his latest attempt to subvert the authority of his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa.

President Joe Biden declared an emergency on Monday, unlocking federal assistance to Texas, where temperatures on Monday ranged from minus-2 to minus-22 Celsius.

Canadians Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, have been detained in China for more than two years and have had no charges laid against them.

The wide-ranging interview will cover everything from Meghan stepping into life as a royal, the couple’s marriage and how they handle life under intense public pressure, CBS said.

The World Health Organisation has listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world.

Dr Anthony Fauci was credited with “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis”.

The Seoul government said it had found its first case of COVID-19 in a cat, shortly after offering free tests to pets in the South Korean capital.

Myanmar’s military leaders have extended their detention of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose freedom is a key demand of the crowds of people continuing to protest this month’s military coup.

A nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation shows how a rumour that the US created the virus that causes COVID-19 was weaponised by the Chinese government, spreading from the dark corners of the internet to millions across the globe.

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Peru’s foreign minister has resigned amid an uproar over government officials being secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus ahead of health workers.

It is the first resurgence of the disease in Guinea since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016 killed more than 11,000 people.

In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and science reporter Liam Mannix discuss the CSL facility in Victoria, where the company is about to start pumping out millions of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith said more than 1000 engineers worked on the hack, which gained access to emails across sensitive US government departments, including the US Treasury, Justice and Commerce departments.

The President used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons.

Indian police have arrested a woman accused of editing and circulating a document tweeted by climate activist Greta Thunberg that authorities say is anti-government.

Election monitors swapped face masks for full personal protective equipment, including suits, masks, visors, goggles and black trash bags tied around their feet during the final hour of voting.

Mental health professionals are growing alarmed about the state of young people, who they say have been among the most badly affected by a world with a foreshortened sense of the future.

Feeling emboldened by the trial’s outcome, Trump is expected to reemerge from a self-imposed hibernation at his club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is eyeing ways to reassert his power.