Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blamed Iran for a blast aboard an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman last week but sidestepped a question on whether Israel would retaliate.

As jailed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court via videolink, Australian officials still don’t know whether her key adviser Sean Turnell has been charged with any offences.

A push for development among indigenous Brazillians has stirred debate over whether some of the world’s most isolated tribes should be integrated into modern society or left alone, along with the Amazon.

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Protesters marched again on Monday in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier.

Security was tight, with more than 100 police officers deployed as about 1000 people gathered outside the West Kowloon court in support of 47 activists in one of the largest rallies since the coronavirus outbreak.

Trump fatigue is real but he remains easily the brightest star in the galaxy of American conservatism.

An article in Moroccan media suggested Dr Usama al-Hasani was involved in a group opposed to the ultraconservative form of Islam known as Wahhabism.

More than 20 million people - almost four in 10 adults - have already been vaccinated in Britain, and the government is looking to fund a third booster jab.

ASB said the seven-day lockdown announced on Saturday was likely to have a proportionately larger impact than the one in mid-February, as it includes parts of two weekends.

Fears that prime minister is trying to eclipse the role of non-Hindus as stadium is rebranded in his honour.

The crisis now enveloping Cuomo’s office developed rapidly after a second woman on Saturday went public with a story about being harassed by the governor in the workplace.

In first speech since leaving office, Trump revived his false claims that he was the true victor of the November election - a lie that inspired his supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6.

Followers of the QAnon cult have claimed Mr Trump will reclaim the presidency on March 4, the date presidents were inaugurated up until 1933.

Susan Hopkins, PHE’s strategic response director for COVID-19, said Britain’s advanced gene sequencing capabilities meant it was finding more variants and mutations than many other countries.

Pro-democracy advocates say the budding pro-democracy pan-Asian solidarity coalition is now playing a consistent role in helping activists mobilise. 

Governments around the world are closely studying Israel’s mammoth vaccination program and its new carrot and stick approach.

On Sunday, more than 40 pro-democracy activists were charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under Hong Kong’s national security law.

Myanmar has been in chaos since the army seized power and detained elected government leader Aung San Suu Kyi and much of her party leadership at the beginning of February.

Technology expert warns communication shutdowns are ‘more prevalent than previously thought’.

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“It is more than likely there will be additional cases in the community,” Ardern says after a person was infectious with the UK variant for a week but not in isolation.

Reports indicate that the British government is planning to raise billion of pounds in additional revenue to help pay for grants to pandemic-hit businesses.

A second former aide has come forward with sexual harassment allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement saying he never made advances toward her and never intended to be inappropriate.

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference is accompanied by none of the soul-searching you might expect following devastating election defeats.

A man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue by a judge who described the case as “dripping with Nazism and supremacy.”

Health experts have been anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed up vaccinations as deaths continue to mount from the coronavirus.

Investigators probing the death of a US Capitol Police officer killed in the January 6 riot have zeroed in on a suspect seen on video appearing to spray a chemical substance on the officer before he later collapsed and died.

The joy of receiving a note from a member of the royal family, in response to a card or a letter, has long been keenly felt across the globe but well-wishers for Harry and Meghan will need to rethink their correspondence.

“I hope it will receive quick action. We have no time to waste,” Joes Biden said. “The people of this country have suffered far too much for far too long.”

The New York Governor won lavish praise - and even an Emmy award - for his coronavirus briefings last year but is now mired in scandal and under attack.

Police in Myanmar at the weekend launched their most sweeping crackdown in three weeks of protests against military rule in towns and cities across the country, with media reports of a woman shot dead and dozens of people detained.

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the northern state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a seven-day lockdown of Auckland after the emergence of a “mystery” case involving a man who moved through the community for a week when he should have been isolating.

A judge approved the deal in a 2015 Illinois class action involving nearly 1.6 million Facebook users. 

Shamima Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and went to Syria via Turkey with two school friends.

The companies must purchase the vaccines from the government, but provide them for free through privately-run health centres.

Donald Trump’s niece has accused him of trying to dodge accountability for defrauding her out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station after the singer reiterated her offer of a $US500,000 reward.

It follows the expansion of a large crack in the floating ice during the past decade.

Parents said they had no faith in authorities to return their kidnapped girls and would follow them into a forest where police believes they are being held.

Some Democrats criticised the strikes as an unnecessary military provocation while others complained Biden had not sought congressional approval beforehand.

A new “Khashoggi ban” will restrict US visas for those who harass, detain or harm dissidents and journalists around the world. But it won’t apply to MBS.

Vaccination hubs in COVID-19 hard-hit Europe are begging for people to come inside. Why?

There is no denying the Duke of Sussex’s first interview since leaving the Royal family was 17 minutes of television gold.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince likely approved an operation to kill or capture a US-based journalist inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified US intelligence report.

The MV Helios Ray was hit by an explosion in the Gulf of Oman and a US defence official said the blast left holes in both sides of the vessel’s hull.

Los Angeles police are wondering if Lady Gaga’s two French bulldogs were targeted because of their doting owner’s deep pockets.

Harry told James Corden, host of the Late Late Show in the US, he stepped back from his royal duties because the British press was destroying his mental health.

“They want to wipe out the opposition altogether and impose direct rule from Beijing.”