The vaccine rollout in Papua New Guinea will require overcoming huge logistical hurdles. But there’s a second looming health crisis.

The Philippines is considering expelling a Chinese diplomatic spokesman in Manila in the latest twist of a new dispute over the South China Sea.

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Fatalities climbed above 4000 in a day on Tuesday for the first time, taking the pandemic total to nearly 337,000.

One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months.

Reporters drank lustily from the fire hose of leaks that emanated from the West Wing during the last four years. What do they do now?

The downing happened as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on US troops in Iraq in retaliation for a US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general.

When I return, I want to embrace both my family and the land. To stand and once again absorb my tūrangawaewae as a woman who has grown and ultimately found herself in this city.

Dutch police have arrested a suspect in the theft last year of two valuable paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals from different museums, a spokeswoman said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has blamed tensions in Europe for Australia missing its target of vaccinating four million Australians by the end of March, and announced he would seek formal approval from AstraZeneca for the release of the blocked vacc...

“It is becoming more and more difficult to affirm that there isn’t a cause-and-effect relationship,” the EMA’s head of health threats and vaccine strategy said.

The recurring avalanche of falsehoods has implications not only for the world’s pandemic response but for the next “infodemic”.

The State Department made clear the US would expect to be joined by its allies if it were to boycott the games, scheduled for next February.

China has already proved how effectively it can mobilise against the coronavirus. Now it has set itself a new goal.

The World Health Organisation says people should not be required to prove they have been vaccinated in order to travel overseas, warning that vaccine passports would isolate poorer countries.

Officers charged demonstrators after they tried to breach a police cordon outside parliament, where a protest was being held about ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

Police said they detained nine people who allegedly “breached public order”, including Navalny’s physician Dr Anastasia Vasilyeva.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is speeding up aid for affected areas as rescuers battled heavy rain to dig through debris.

Reuven Rivlin’s announcement in Jerusalem on Tuesday nudged forward the twin dramas over the country’s future and Netanyahu’s fate as his corruption trial resumed across town.

An internal memo says that Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands will have enough supply to vaccinate more than 55 per cent of their populations.

The first flight to leave Australia under the new arrangement will be Jetstar flight 201 from Sydney to Auckland at 6.15am on Monday, April 19.

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia’s vaccine efforts put us ahead of New Zealand and many other countries. So where are the Kiwis at with their rollout at the moment?

So there’s finally a bubble across the Tasman but how does it work and what happens if there’s a lockdown?

In Florida, the state’s Republican Governor has banned any form of vaccine passport. In New York, where Democrats rule, they are seen as an important tool.

The lists published in the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper include actors, musicians and social media influencers.

California’s wildlife department has reported four instances of bear cubs with a mysterious brain illness that makes them behave like puppies around humans.

The ex-US president and many of his allies have publicly painted a picture of the January 6 events jarringly at odds with reality.

Weinstein’s lawyers argue he was tried in ‘carnival-like conditions’ and challenged the refusal to remove a juror who had written a novel about predatory men.

Far from being oppressed, the musical seems to say, the Uighurs and other minorities are singing and dancing happily in colourful dress.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is due to announce the official date of the quarantine-free travel corridor between Australia and NZ on Tuesday.

Officer Derek Chauvin failed to render first aid before the ambulance arrived and violated policy requiring officers to de-escalate tense situations, his ex-boss said.

The crush of coronavirus patients has been relentless for hospitals running out of ICU beds in Poland, France and Ukraine among others.

On the first day of his corruption trial, prosecutors accuse the Israeli Prime Minister of helping clinch deals in return for positive media coverage.

The 38-year-old Trump ally from Florida is under scrutiny over whether he had sex with underage girls and violated federal sex trafficking laws.

Once the hardest-hit country in Europe, the number of infections, hospitalisations and deaths in Britain has collapsed.

The 68-year-old Russian President already has been in power for more than two decades, longer than any other Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

India now has a seven-day rolling average of more than 73,000 cases per day and infections in the country are being reported faster than anywhere else in the world.

The extremist movement’s leader had purported to be a top-secret government operative. But a possible slip-up in a new documentary suggests otherwise.

Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was subject to a fake news campaign blaming her for grounding the Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal, despite at the time working on a ship that was hundreds of kilometres away.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said everyone in England will be able to take a COVID-19 test twice a week in a new drive to track the pandemic as society reopens.

Multiple disasters caused by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 55 people and displaced thousands, the country’s disaster relief agency said Monday. More than 40 other people were missing.

While at least 564 people have been killed in the junta’s brutal crackdown, many more have been detained or “forcibly disappeared”.

Without urgent intervention from ASEAN, instability and violence from Myanmar coup will bleed into neighbouring countries - destabilising Asia.

France’s oldest student union is being attacked by Macron’s government for holding minority-only meetings to discuss discrimination.

The Yorkshire moors that inspired the Bronte sisters could soon offer views of 150 new homes, under a local council plan.

Thousands of Pakistanis rushed to get inoculated in the first round of commercial sales of COVID-19 vaccines that began over the weekend, with vaccination sites in the southern city of Karachi saying they had already sold out.

The FA Cup semifinals, nightclubs and comedy shows will be part of a trial of COVID-testing fans, as Boris Johnson readies his verdict on vaccination passports.

Beijing fears criticism from the Chinese filmmakers shortlisted for best director, best international feature and best short documentary.

Israel’s vaccination program allowed dozens of worshippers to celebrate at Jerusalem’s newly reopened Church of the Holy Sepulchre but there were no pilgrims.