More than 140 people have died and scores more are missing as rain continued to pound Indonesian islands.

The police had to close roads into the nearby Protestant area as crowds from each divide attacked each other.

A new paper points to large financial donations by a country where ‘torture and repression is a stock in trade’.

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A hotel quarantine security guard in Auckland has tested positive for COVID-19, days after complaining of a sore throat.

Pakistani rights groups are criticising Prime Minister Imran Khan after he claimed that wearing traditional Islamic veil will protect women from sexual assault and not lead men into temptation.

The Biden administration has announced it would provide $US235 million in US aid to the Palestinians, restarting funding cut off by former president Donald Trump.

The Myanmar embassy in London was “stormed” and seized by allies of the nation’s new military regime, the ambassador has alleged.

The three powerful leaders entered a big room in front of cameras for high level discussions - but there were only two chairs. Many believe it was a deliberate snub by Turkish President Recep Erdogan to the female President of the European Commission...

Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister says it’s a “bloody outrage” that ordinary citizens have to pay around $10,000 to return to the country.

Greenland’s main opposition party, which campaign heavily against an Australian company’s mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an earl...

Australia’s vaccine rollout has been propped up by doses manufactured in Britain rather than from factories in Europe as had been widely believed.

In a separate decision, the European Medicines Agency said it would list the blood clots as a “very rare” side effect of the vaccine.

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has scientists baffled and thrilled.

Three veteran pro-democracy protesters, including well-known publisher Jimmy Lai, pleaded guilty over an unauthorised rally.

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 nudged forward the twin dramas over the country’s future and Netanyahu’s fate as his corruption trial resumed.

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.