Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed as authorities pursue a deluge of cases against high-profile dissidents.

Eight people were shot and killed, multiple other people were injured and went to local hospitals, police said.

The goalposts have shifted once again on Australia’s closed borders. The Morrison government should tell Australians what the path out looks like.

The result caps a remarkable 12-month turnaround from the depths of the coronavirus crisis.

When American and Australian troops withdraw from Afghanistan, a whole generation that grew up under occupation face the prospect of civil war and Taliban rule.

Amazon’s processes have been so cleverly streamlined, so cynically optimised, that you are not given the opportunity to ponder how such a modern miracle is even possible.

This is National Security Education Day in Hong Kong, the first since the central Chinese government imposed a wide-ranging security law on the territory.

The scenes playing out across Brazil, one of the nations hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, are placing growing international pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro.

For the likes of Asics and Hugo Boss, backtracking on their support of China amidst the Uighurs controversy is proving to be costly.

The reversal in fortunes affects Indian vaccine makers who account for some 60 per cent of global supplies.

The longest-serving consort in British history will be remembered in the smallest royal funeral of modern times.

While the age of consent was previously 15, prosecutors in France used to be required to prove sex was non-consensual to obtain a rape conviction. 

Entesar Al-Hammadi was arrested in the Yemeni capital in February with two friends as they travelled to a film set.

Pence, 61, was found to have an abnormality in the electrical impulses of his heart, known as a left bundle branch block.

The requirement of a third dose, which the Biden administration believes is likely, would put even greater strain on the global supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

Derek Chauvin removed his mask to inform the judge that he would not testify, saying he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to take the stand.

New Delhi will use hotels and banquet halls to treat coronavirus patients as new infections in the country shot past 200,000 amid a devastating surge.

Feuding brothers William and Harry will walk behind their grandfather’s coffin but be separated by a cousin.

Russia swiftly warned of retaliation after the US expelled 10 Russian diplomats and announced sanctions against dozens of people and companies.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw all American troops from the country.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there would be at least 1000 coronavirus cases in Australia every week if the international borders were to open, even if people were vaccinated.

Small teams will be sent to villages while stadiums could be used for mass vaccinations as the country attempts to stamp down its raging COVID-19 epidemic.

The horrors they said happened behind closed doors for years will play out in court. Richard Daschbach’s is the first clergy sex case in a country that is solidly Catholic.

After 20 years the war is unwinnable and the global situation has changed dramatically.

The American delegation of former senior officials met with the Taiwanese President on Thursday amid military threats from China.

Sweeping financial sanctions will be used to punish Russia for government hacking, election meddling and paying bounties for dead American soldiers.

Getting the Dolly Parton Moderna jab marked the end of my dispiriting experience of living through the pandemic in the US.

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Parliament Speaker Anthony Rota later clarified that while he had not seen anything, he checked with technicians and confirmed they saw something.

With record numbers of the virus seeded by entertainment venues, the vision for quarantine-free travel in the holiday hub from July has received a major blow.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, infamous for trolling Australia over the Afghanistan war crimes cases, has spoken out again.

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan shows that, for all their stylistic differences, there is plenty of continuity between the Biden and Trump administrations.

Americans in blue states that lean Democratic appear to be getting vaccinated at more robust rates, while those in red Republican states seem to be more hesitant.

Australian businessman Lex Greensill and ex-PM David Cameron could be called to testify, with parliamentary committees having the power to summon British citizens.

Azimuth unlocked the iPhone at the centre of an epic legal battle between the FBI and Apple. Now, Apple is suing the company co-founded by one of the hackers behind the unlock.

A former police officer will be charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest.

The European Commission has hinted it will not renew contracts for vaccines produced by pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

Madoff was serving a 150-year jail sentence after admitting to swindling thousands of clients out of billions of dollars in investments over decades.

“For the Kremlin, COVID was a godsend,” says a former US official of Russia’s vaccine outreach.

Coping with a rising China is a challenge the Japanese have had to face earlier than many other countries.

Brenton Tarrant’s legal bid to get NZ’s High Court to revoke his ‘terrorist’ status will have no impact on his life sentence.

Heavy ash has contaminated water supplies and leaders estimate the island will need hundreds of millions of dollars to recover from the eruption of La Soufriere.

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The satellite, owned by a company backed by British taxpayers, came within 60 metres of smashing into one owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Organisers are racing to establish contingency plans, spectator limits, coronavirus testing protocols for athletes and book out hotels to isolate infected participants.

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The big concern is that doubts about the J&J dose will metastasise into a more general reluctance to get inoculated as American vaccine hesitancy grows.

Barry Brodd likened the police handling of Floyd to a situation in which officers use a Taser on someone fighting with officers, and the suspect falls, hits his head and dies.

“Can you imagine any other game where you can score points and win by using a racial epithet?” said Mattel’s head of global games. “It’s long overdue.”

Biden’s call with Putin came as the top US diplomat and the leader of NATO condemned the recent massing of thousands of Russian troops.