It’s unclear how many times a user’s posts have to be flagged before the company starts limiting their reach.

Despite a two-way consular pact, Graham Fletcher has been denied access to hear the case of the Australian citizen charged with espionage.

About one third of the intelligence community is leaning towards the idea COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab

She said in the lawsuit it wasn’t racism that led her to call police but fear.

COVID-19 has stopped Richard Daschbach from attending, but not the judges and legal teams.

Laurence des Cars will take over the Louvre’s nearly $400-million annual budget and 2000 employees at a challenging time.

A thick white mucus on the surface of the Sea of Marmara is killing the fish and revolting the people.

Carle was going to write about a hungry worm but changed his lead character to a caterpillar on his editor’s advice.

A boat carrying more than 165 passengers on the Niger River broke apart and sank as it sailed in the northern state of Kebbi.

The US President has asked US intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including the possibility that the origins of the virus trace to a Chinese lab.

During the Munich Security Conference, Wang Yi said sanctions imposed by the European Union over human rights violations in Xinjiang made China feel bullied.

A mysterious PR agency with Russian links made French science YouTuber Leo Grasset an offer: we’ll pay you €2,000 to say the Pfizer vaccine is deadly.

Two new studies offer hope that those who recover from COVID infection and get vaccinated may have lifetime immunity. Others will need boosters.

Tens of thousands of people died because of incompetence, indecision and neglect by Boris Johnson and his government, Dominic Cummings says.

Many Palestinians and Israelis hope for peaceful co-existence, but that is not what Hamas wants.

At least eight people were killed when a transit employee opened fire at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, the county sheriff’s office said.

Belarus’ president has defended the forced diversion of a passenger jet to Minsk and accused the West of waging a hybrid war.

Dominic Cummings also conceded to a parliamentary inquiry the government’s decision to delay lockdown at the start of the pandemic had caused “carnage”. 

China offered the island the German-made shots to fight its outbreak via a Chinese company as more than 600 new cases were recorded overnight.

The imprisoned Australian pro-democracy writer will face court in Beijing on Thursday.

Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of India’s eastern coast as a cyclone pushed ashore in a region already struck by a devastating coronavirus surge.

Sofia Sapega was detained by Minsk “in connection with the suspicion of having committed...offences”.

The prospect of a US return to the nuclear deal threatens to generate new strains between Washington and Jerusalem.

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Cena apologised in Mandarin for a statement he made in an interview with the Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS, where he said “Taiwan is the first country that can watch the film.” 

Underlying the emotional day, however, was the inability of Congress to meet the president’s deadline to advance police reform legislation by the anniversary of Floyd’s death.

Cat Moody is among the more than 50,000 New Zealanders who returned home in the last year. But will low wages and escalating house prices drive them away again?

The development signals that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was moving toward seeking charges as a result of its two-year probe of the ex-president.

The runway on Mayun Island, which no country has officially claimed, will allow whoever controls it to launch air strikes into the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and nearby East Africa.

After activism during the Black Lives Matter protests last year and more recently against a controversial policing bill earlier this year, she detailed a torrent of abuse.

New coronavirus infections nationwide have settled into a sustained decline as more people become vaccinated.

The leaders have agreed to meet next month in Geneva, a face-to-face encounter the White House hopes will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship.

The country’s gender quota rules are under fire after a tight election and constitutional crisis stopped the elected female PM taking government.

Jack Ray Snyder, who has treated horses at five Olympic Games and has travelled the world volunteering his services.

The United Nations has urged the island nation’s leaders to talk to each other to find a solution to the unprecedented political deadlock gripping the country.

EU leaders also demanded the immediate release of the journalist, Raman Pratasevich, a key foe of authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Authorities in China have reportedly grown concerned “the Steve Jobs of China” could help teach entrepreneurs who may want to influence Chinese politics.

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Western nations last year imposed economic sanctions and visa bans on some Belarusian officials but they did nothing to deter Lukashenko, whose recent attacks against civil society show an utter neglect for international law.

Locals in San Felice Circeo, a picturesque town between Rome and Naples, have been told they owe thousands of euros as a result of a medieval levy long forgotten.

“I could not believe it,” said the 58-year-old mother of six in an interview at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem. “I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe it.”

Experts also widely caution that India’s official numbers severely undercount new infections and deaths because of a lack of testing in a developing country of 1.4 billion people.

Many women and people of colour are only now learning, after years or even decades of difficulty, that they may meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, thanks in part to a wave of creators on social media trying to spread awareness.

Raman Pratasevich’s comments were immediately dismissed by his allies as made under duress.

The new US president is repairing American alliances after four years of damage.

For the first time since Myanmar’s military locked her up in a pre-dawn raid as part of its coup on February 1, Aung San Suu Kyi has been seen in person when she sat briefly at a court hearing.

More than 200 people were injured in Malaysia when two metro light rail trains collided in an underground tunnel close to the Petronas Twin Towers in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Investigators say their initial probe into a cable car disaster in northern Italy that killed 14 people would look into how the lead cable snapped and why a safety brake mechanism failed to activate.

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.