Myanmar’s detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed her pro-democracy political party would continue its work despite being slated for dissolution in her first public appearance since her government was overthrown in a military coup.

China is set to vaccinate more than 20 million people per day, equivalent to delivering a dose to the entire vaccine-eligible population of Australia in 24 hours.

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Journalist Roman Protasevich, charged with extremism by Belarusians, was shaking when he realised the plane was headed for Minsk: ‘I’ll get the death penalty.’

Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa and her supporters showed up at Parliament on Monday to form a new government, but were not allowed inside.

As Arctic ice melts, Russia is building military capacity in the far north, becoming the first military to act on the strategic implications of climate change.

Girls who discovered clumsy modesty edits in the Bartram Trail High School’s annual magazine said the alterations made them feel sexualised and ashamed.

Travel agencies in India and Thailand are promoting trips to the United States and Russia to get vaccinated - but visas may be difficult to get.

The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees estimates “only a small number” of the 13,745 refugees waiting in Indonesia will be resettled elsewhere.

One child has died in hospital from injuries sustained in the crash and authorities fear their family may be among the dead.

The UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel has not ruled out criminal prosecutions over the interview and cover-up, as Martin Bashir breaks his silence.

The untested, little-known Florida firm Cyber Ninjas is running an audit that election experts describe as so deeply flawed it veers into the surreal.

Taiwan’s successes in tackling the pandemic are a model for the world. The chargé d’affaires at the US embassy in Canberra writes that Taiwan’s exclusion by China at the World Health Assembly this week undermines global health and security.

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Teachers have been pressured to accept the coup as junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home, in his first interview since he seized power.

Critics are blaming a “man-made calamity” after at least 20 people running a mountain marathon cross-country race have died in north-western China on a high-altitude track.

Mice found to produce a chemical that works like catnip on cats and gives them a chance to escape.

Trains instead of flights, fossil fuel ad bans and charging landlords for tenant’s heating emissions will be legislated in parts of Europe.

A photograph of Princess Latifa,the missing daughter of the ruler of Dubai, has surfaced online, following calls from the UN for Dubai to prove the princess was alive.

Would things really might have turned out differently had the late Princess of Wales not given that tell-all “interview of the century” with the BBC?

Martin Bashir, the former BBC journalist found to have deceived Princess Diana in order to secure an explosive interview with her in 1995 has denied he was responsible for a chain of events that led to her death.

Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo has erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, turning the night sky a fiery red and sending lava onto a major highway as panicked residents tried to flee Goma, a city of nearly 2 million.

Momentum for the lab leak theory has only grown following the release of a World Health Organisation report that found it “extremely unlikely”.

Current COVID shots provide a high level of protection against hospitalization and death, according to a summary of the efficacy of eight vaccines that showed the Pfizer jab may better at stopping at least two worrisome coronavirus variants.

The figures have sparked optimism that vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID-19 cases and the spread of the virus.

Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned on Saturday as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery.

Two key paragraphs in the Olympic contract give the International Olympic Committee extraordinary power over a sovereign government.

Yang Hengjun will face trial on espionage charges, a development that is straining already fraught ties between Beijing and Canberra.

Cardinal George Pell has spent the northern winter watching as a scandal over Vatican corruption has unfolded: “We must act within the norms of justice,” he says.

The two prison workers were accused of shopping online instead of monitoring Epstein on the night the convicted sex offender took his own life.

Rebuilding Gaza will pose a daunting challenge to Hamas, which has run the besieged territory since seizing power in 2007, with a reconstruction bill that could run into the billions. 

Republican congressman Mike Gallagher says he fears the Chinese Communist Party sees a moment of “strategic opportunity” to assert its dominance in Taiwan.

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The Wales brothers’ responses to Bashir revelations are as different as they are as people - but we knew they would be.

One of the dating sites reported that people who display their vaccination status were 14 per cent more likely to get a match.

Relations between China and the United States have grown increasingly tense, with the world’s two largest economies clashing over everything from Taiwan and China’s human rights record.

The first colleague to confront Martin Bashir over the famous TV tell-all says the BBC should offer more than a “generic apology”.

Julia Gillard had a choice after she left office: join the crowded ranks of opinionated former prime ministers or pursue a second act.

Some 6 million to 8 million people may have now died from COVID-19 or its effects since the start of the pandemic, compared with 3.4 million deaths recorded in official data, the WHO says.

A truce between Israel and Hamas took hold on Friday after the worst violence in years, but brief clashes broke out around Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem where similar scenes had touched off the Gaza conflict.

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People ran in panic from the SEG Plaza on Tuesday after the tower began to wobble - even though there was no seismic activity in the area.

Hamas claimed Netanyahu had agreed to call off the planned evictions of Palestinians in the nearby Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

Israeli and US officials may tout the return of calm after a ceasefire, but experts fear the opposite.

While things in the United States are still not entirely back to normal, the population is rapidly being inoculated and more people are out on the streets enjoying their freedom.

As COVID cases reach record highs, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim called on the Prime Minister to resign. “There is no coherence and clear incompetence.”

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The cases share elements of the #MeToo movement and other collective outpourings on social media - but have a decidedly Korean twist.

The scoop of the decade has its own dark story, including a cover-up by the world’s most revered public broadcaster.

The FDA issued an import alert on April 30, to prevent the syringe and needle configurations from entering the United States.