The election was described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his opposition.

Countries in the bloc have requested a UN resolution dealing with the brutal crackdown by the military be altered to remove a ban on weapon sales.

There’s a new understanding by an African nation and a former colonial power of a historical crime over the genocide of Tutsis.

The royal family appears to have taken matters into its own hands, making vaccines locally and importing more doses, surprising even the government.

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Russian hackers broke into an email marketing account used by the United States Agency For International Development to launch phishing attacks.

Police detained dozens of Rizieq Shihab’s supporters who tried to stage a rally in front of the court to demand that he be released.

The comments from the senior colonel and defence ministry spokesman are the first official response from the Chinese military to a flurry of concerns from Australian leaders.

“I was screaming enough that my parents thought that I was crying and that something was wrong,” Abbigail Bugenske said.

Cosby’s lawyer said the decision was “not a surprise” and that the comedian “continues to deny all allegations made against him”.

A series of developments showed how the diversion of the flight from Greece to Lithuania and the arrest of Raman Pratasevich were having widening repercussions for travel and commerce.

Letters will require more black stamps than white ones, which will become “a reflection of the inequality created by racism”, Spain’s postal authority announced, a highly criticised statement.

The UK does not recognise Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea and those waters around Crimea are not considered Russian territorial waters, a Whitehouse source clarified.

The reopening of debate presents challenging issues for Facebook because the claim has also been associated with a wave of anti-Asian sentiment.

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During incendiary parliamentary testimony Johnson’s former top adviser described the government’s response to the pandemic as “lions led by donkeys” and declared Johnson “unfit for the job”.

Volcanologists in Goma warned that a volcanic eruption under a nearby lake, accompanied by a large earthquake, could trigger a sudden release of carbon dioxide which could asphyxiate thousands.

The head of a Japanese doctors’ union says that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo could lead to the emergence of an “Olympic” coronavirus strain.

An employee who gunned down nine people at a California rail yard had talked about killing people at work more than a decade ago, his ex-wife said.

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.