The Brazilain President, a former army captain, has sought to steer the public conversation to his nostalgia for the 1964-1985 dictatorship and away from his handling of the pandemic.

When officers arrived at a small business premises the shots were still being fired. Up to four people were reported dead, including a child.

Apple Daily media tycoon Jimmy Lai and protest veteran Martin Lee were among seven activists found guilty of organising and participating in an unlawful assembly.

An emergency meeting of the UN’s security council did not persuade China to back sanctions but the superpower did say it hoped for “a democratic transition”.

The unusual decision will sweep away outside researchers picked under the previous administration who some say tilted too favourably toward regulated industries.

Jurors were shown police body camera video of the approximately 20 minutes between when police approached Floyd’s vehicle and when he was loaded into the ambulance.

The coronavirus may have initially jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary, but infections have since appeared in other animals, from zoos to mink farms.

The US President said that in 50 years people would look back on his infrastructure package as “the moment that America won the future”.

Now fully vaccinated, the Queen’s warm, chatty appearance at the air force’s centenary was a return to the public life she forswore during the pandemic.

The move is a departure from the government’s policy in recent months, which has focused on regionalised restrictions.

The campaign of harassment included being trailed by secret police on the morning the journalist couple hastily left the country.

A sting operation on the outskirts of Rome allegedly caught the Italian and one of the Russians in a “clandestine operation” to exchange the documents for cash.

The Russian opposition leader has started the hunger strike to protest officials’ failure to provide proper treatment for his back and leg pains.

A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago was arrested after allegedly attacking the woman near New York City’s Times Square, police say.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed that he legally married Prince Harry and Meghan at Windsor Castle in May 2018, despite the couple’s claim that they had a private ceremony three days earlier.

Preliminary data from a study in the US showed there were no cases of COVID-19 among fully vaccinated adolescents compared to 18 among those given dummy shots, Pfizer reported.

The visit to the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede was only the third time since March 2020 that the Queen has appeared outside Windsor Castle.

Correspondence released under the Official Information Act 1982 shows the tour’s promoter writing desperately to the NZ government to be allowed in.

The Karen National Union rebel group, which operates along the eastern border with Thailand, said on Tuesday it was bracing for a major government offensive.

With the situation in Myanmar now spiralling out of control and a major humanitarian crisis looming, the Australian government needs to act quickly.

The resignations followed the appointment of a new defence minister who celebrated the dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands of Brazilians.

They are among the estimated 20 million people around the world who keep cities clean. But despite risks, they miss out on the health services they need.

With his intense stare, cannonball head, bristling moustache and machine-gun style of speaking, Liddy looked like the archetypal bad guys he later depicted on TV.

The German shepherd nipped someone while on a walk on Monday while still adjusting to his new surroundings, a White House staffer said.

The city that never sleeps slipped into a COVID-era coma last March. But New York’s nightlife is back, with lights on for clubs and live shows from Friday.

Some see Taiwan’s religions of Daoism and Buddhism as encouraging the trend but experts say it is driven by a growing sense of isolation in the middle-class.

IPAC was formed last year, partly in response to China’s bullying of Australia after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the video of the attack “absolutely disgusting and outrageous” and said it was “absolutely unacceptable” that witnesses did not intervene.

The head of the World Health Organisation acknowledged his investigators were not able to access all the data they wanted during their trip to China.

The need for Australia to define what it stands for has never been more pressing and, it seems, never further from our grasp.

Several German regions have suspended use of the shots in people under 60 after reviewing the latest data on rare side-effects released by Germany’s medical regulator.

The teenager who shot the harrowing footage of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer told court she began recording because “it wasn’t right, he was suffering, he was in pain”.

SpaceX has chalked up another failed landing for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown.

A UK police watchdog says that officers didn’t behave “in a heavy-handed manner” when they broke up a vigil for a London woman whose killing sparked an outcry about women’s safety.

Chinese authorities have said the changes are aimed at getting rid of loopholes and deficiencies that threaten national security.

The former heads of government are imploring the United Nations to act to stop the military killing spree.

It is still an idea, but one that already has substantial backing. It could avoid some of the nationalistic decisions made this time around.

Terrified villagers were forced back into Myanmar from Thailand as the junta bombed the borderlands and three ethnic armed groups vowed to join the resistance.

Indonesian police said the couple, married six months, used pressure cooker bombs in an attack on a Roman Catholic Cathedral.

“I felt he was acting in a highly flirtatious and inappropriate manner, especially in front of my family and neighbours,” the woman said.

Palma is the centre of one of Africa’s biggest gas deposits, where Total plans to extract liquified natural gas from offshore sites in the Indian Ocean.

The state prosecutor is preparing femicide charges for four Tulum police officers after an autopsy concluded they broke her neck when kneeling on her back.

Investigators are likely to examine the performance of the two Egyptian canal pilots aboard the Ever Given who were supposed to advise the captain.

The trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd has begun, with prosecutors showing the jury video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the black man’s neck.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a US citizen, has pleaded not guilty to charges brought a year after her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges.

Speaking during a virtual White House briefing, Dr Rochelle Walensky grew emotional as she reflected on her experience treating COVID-19 patients.

Revelation throws into question how the US government can protect individuals, companies and institutions if it can’t protect itself.

The tugs blared their horns in jubilation as they guided the Ever Given through the water after days of futility that had captivated the world, drawing scrutiny and social media ridicule.

China is once again employing the strategy it has used to great effect to project its military power in the South China Sea.

A leaked draft version of the report, however, said that the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from animals to humans was the most likely scenario.