Papuans fear crackdown on independence will get much worse as autonomy deadline looms.

Bahraini officials said this week that it would be offering Pfizer-BioNTech doses to certain high-risk individuals who have already received two Sinopharm jabs.

Some gourmands have taken to calling cicadas “the other white meat” – or “tree shrimp” because of their genetic closeness to crustaceans.

But with 120 incidents over the past decades, it’s still far from clear what the flying objects are.

“I criticised Alexander Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] a lot, but...I began to understand that he was doing the right thing,” said Raman Pratasevich.

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Trials of the vehicle had to be suspended from November 2020 to March of this year, after troops suffered swollen joints and tinnitus.

A Stanford University student mocked a right-wing club with a satirical flier. In response, he was nearly denied graduation.

The fire aboard the Kharg warship follows a series of mysterious explosions that began in 2019, targeting commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman.

Investigators in US attorney’s offices handling ransomware attacks will be expected to share both updated case details and active technical information with leaders in Washington.

Australia is not among the more than 40 countries that will receive allocations in the first phase of the US vaccine-sharing program.

After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: administering COVID-19 shots at a staggering pace.

The ultra-fast jets would cut flying time between London and the New York area by 50 per cent to about 3½ hours, while Tokyo would be only six hours from San Francisco.

The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, was anchored off Sri Lanka when a fire erupted.

We must not sully our reputation in Afghanistan by leaving our allies in the lurch.

Keep Venice afloat but don’t turn it into Disneyland, say a group of celebrities putting forward a 10-point plan to save the city.

A four-day holiday, a year of celebrations, star-studded concerts and beacons lit up across the Commonwealth are planned to mark Her Majesty’s 70th year on the throne.

Shifting between seemingly contradictory alliances, he has been called a right-wing extremist, a pragmatist and an opportunist.

The surprise eruption on White Island, or Whakaari, in 2019 killed 22 people from several countries including Australia.

The former US president’s blog page, launched last month after major social media platforms banned him, has been removed from his website.

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She even had a “caring dress” which she wore often because children were attracted to its floral pattern.

With Scott Morrison visiting the south-east Asian city-state next week, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has flagged a desire to “stay connected to the world”. 

US President Joe Biden has announced an all-out push to vaccinate more Americans against COVID-19, including offering free child care for those getting the jab.

Under the agreement, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett will split the job of prime minister in a rotation. Bennett will serve the first two years, while Lapid is to serve the final two years.

The mission, the first in decades, will study the atmosphere and geologic history of Earth’s closest planetary neighbour.

The US intelligence and military community has long had the capability to damage computer servers used by private hackers in other countries, but largely refrained.

Separately, hackers believed to be backed by the Chinese government broke into New York City’s subway system’s networks in April, a report revealed.

An elephant expert said the incident was the longest-distance migration of wild elephants recorded in China and it was possible their leader “lacks experience and led the whole group astray”.

It came as authorities revealed three-quarters of adults in Britain had received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose, and nearly half the population was fully vaccinated.

The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances.

The correspondence from March and April 2020 opens a window to the world of the American health official during some of the most frantic days of the crisis.

California teen Hailey Morinico said she didn’t push that bear “that hard” off her garden wall, but the TikTok footage has made her an overnight sensation.

The rare, iron-based mineral previously had been found only in actual rocks.

Giovanni Brusca once dissolved a teenage boy in acid because his father turned informer. But Brusca didn’t get a life sentence - because he too cooperated.

So called “red list” arrivals will pass through the airport’s Terminal 3, which was closed in April 2020 as international air travel plummeted, leaving Heathrow — previously Europe’s busiest airport — largely empty.

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The Chinese President called for officials of all levels to improve their international communication.

The eviction threat, currently in the courts, was a cited by Hamas as part of its reason for firing rockets at Israel in May.

The air force said on Tuesday its radar picked up the jets flying in an “in-trail” formation near Malaysian airspace in eastern Sarawak state on Borneo the day before.

Talukder would secretly enter the Sundarbans mangrove forest and hunt wild animals despite having being banned from entering the forest long ago, said one park conservator.

The cyberattack caused its Australian operations to shut down and has stopped livestock slaughter at its plants in several US states.

Republicans and the oil industry have long been trying to open the wildlife refuge, considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in, for drilling.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson now faces the dilemma of whether to prioritise the economy and ease the rules or to stay cautious and delay the final step out of lockdown.

Pope Francis has issued the most extensive revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or attempt to ordain women.

The World Health Organisation has approved the Sinovac Biotech vaccine for emergency use, only the second Chinese vaccine to be given the green light to fight COVID-19.

It’s an unusual story, but the tale of Florida’s Jim Strickland and his two wives is a testament to how love and compassion can triumph over division.

For one thing, the Coalition should re-examine its policy of deporting criminals who, while born in New Zealand, have no real connection to that country.

The National Health Commission did not reveal how the man had been infected with the virus.

“The fact that the US Deputy Secretary of State is visiting speaks volumes to Cambodia’s degree of discomfort at the position it has found itself in, in relation to China.”