The employer-led drive is expected to reach more than 13 million people, including suppliers and workers’ families, boosting the country’s slow vaccine rollout.

Not long ago, Abiy Ahmed, whose country voted in long-delayed parliamentary elections on Monday, was a shining hope for the country and continent.

The Philippines is currently battling the Delta variant and the President says another wave of infections would be disastrous for the country.

Authorities froze access to the firm’s core operating capital on national security grounds, an adviser said.

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A spokesperson said the couple purchased a “significant” number of domain names for a range of potential names they were considering.

WA appointed two pro-Beijing community leaders to a new paid advisory council before Premier Mark McGowan escalated his criticism of the Morrison government.

The WHO’s policy adviser on alcohol said the guidance was intended only to raise awareness about fetal alcohol disorder syndrome but agreed it was badly written.

Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s ouster is the latest sign that Swedish politics have been fundamentally altered since the rise of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats.

Hollywood has sought to increase the number of people of colour in front of and behind the camera since the #OscarsSoWhite scandal in 2016.

The results underscore how evidence is mounting that people can still suffer from illness related to COVID-19 many months after infection.

We need to understand what Isaiah Berlin called “the most important, most inhuman and still the most imperfectly understood phenomenon of our times”.

At one point, Trump mused about transferring infected American citizens to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where the US holds terrorism suspects.

Health experts were warning that big crowds risk fuelling a resurgence in COVID-19 infections.

NZ has 10 million doses of Pfizer on order in 2021, enough for two doses for its entire population.

President Emmanuel Macron’s rival Marine Le Pen had hoped to use the regional elections as a springboard for next year’s national ballot.

He’s the veteran American pollster whose advice led to the US government abandoning the term “global warming” and he’s got a new goal.

“We took note of Chairman Kim’s recent statement, referring to both dialogue and confrontation. We will be prepared for either,” the US envoy said in Seoul.

Tourism is booming in Tibet as more Chinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites.

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Eight children in a van from a youth home for abused or neglected children were killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash, the most devastating blow from a tropical depression that caused flash floods and spurred tornadoes in Alabama.

Beccy Serou didn’t see her daughter’s text message until 40 minutes after it was sent. When she tried to respond, her daughter’s phone was off.

Choice of flowers in book one of the numerous personal “nuggets tucked within the book” to honour Diana, Meghan Markle revealed.

Footage showed a BBC journalist making his way through an aggressive mob of anti-vaccination protesters who accused the journalist of “lying” about lockdowns.

In the past 24 hours, around a dozen districts have fallen to the Taliban — mostly in the country’s north - the culmination of an insurgent offensive.

China has rejected the theory that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the first cases were reported. 

Australia has reciprocal social security agreements with 31 foreign governments, but citizens in other countries are left without financial support.

Scott Morrison’s office spent weeks planning a secret G7 side trip for the Prime Minister to explore his convict family roots.

The breakdown in talks coincided with confirmation that Iran’s only nuclear power plant had undergone an unexplained emergency shutdown.

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Officials said the Hong Kong government has demanded staff sign a letter supporting Beijing’s claim to Taiwan.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president should “prompt grave concern among the international community”.

Cuba, whose biotech sector has exported vaccines for decades, has opted not to import foreign vaccines but rather to rely on its own.

The EU said because Banksy “has chosen to be anonymous” his “identity cannot be legally determined”, leading to his trademark to be cancelled on two more pieces.

Brazil has recorded half a million COVID-19 deaths, a toll second only to the US that shows few signs of easing.

The director of a new Pixar animation has dashed the LGBTQ community’s hope that the film Luca is the company’s first major homosexual production.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Saturday announced the passing of their German shepherd Champ, who they called a “constant, cherished companion” for 13 years.

Searchers combed a North Carolina river Friday for two missing tubers after a family on a recreational float went over a dam, resulting in three deaths and the rescue of four people from the water.

Ebrahim Raisi has been congratulated on his victory by the other two candidates, but his dark past troubles Washington DC.

The star witness in tell-all The Closet of the Vatican, gay activist Francesco Lepore writes about “Vladimirum Putin” being called “pro homicida habet” (a killer).

The World Health Organisation’s chief scientist says the variant, more infectious than others, will soon be dominant globally.

In a rare move, the United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly for an arms embargo against Myanmar’s junta, although China and India abstained.

Indonesia is experiencing its biggest surge of the virus since February but Bali’s deputy governor says the province is ready to welcome foreign tourists in July.

Beijing says Dong Jingwei is still running counter-intelligence and warning against foreign agents - but rumours persist that he is now in Washington DC.

The head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service said calls for women “of childbearing age” to avoid alcohol sounded like advice from The Handmaid’s Tale.

Friends of Australian Sean Turnell fear that the junta need to convict him if they’re to find Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of passing information to foreigners.

The European Union on Friday added the US to a list of countries for which travel restrictions should gradually be lifted. The list applies to all American tourists, vaccinated or not, for nonessential travel.

In his first direct comments on US President Joe Biden’s administration, Kim said preparing for dialogue and confrontation would protect the dignity of his country.

Eight flights were cancelled and 10 schools were shut down in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo after a bear shoved its way onto a military base.

Females don’t hit sexual maturity until their late 50s, a new study said, and maybe strangest of all, they are pregnant for a long time.