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Scientists warn that Indonesia’s outbreak is starting to resemble India’s as morgues fill up and the government scrambles for doses for its 270 million people.

Samoa is withdrawing its weightlifting team from the Tokyo Games because of COVID-19 curbs, the chief of the Pacific nation’s Olympic committee said.

Standing in Tiananmen Square, a site scrubbed clean of its past, China’s President promised that the party’s second century would be even more glorious.

A heatwave that smashed all-time high temperature records in western Canada and the US north-west has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling weather and the threat of wildfires.

There is a cost to having a constitution that protects the guilty as well as the innocent.

The Chinese President has given a major speech at Tiananmen Square to mark the 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party.

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The lawsuit alleged that the Hollywood star’s acting and filmmaking school was actually a setup to provide them with a stream of young, impressionable women for sexual and financial exploitation.

The comedian has walked free from jail just hours after a US appeals court overturned his sexual assault conviction, saying he never should have faced charges.

Jamie Spears says he has had no power over his daughter’s personal affairs for nearly two years. She has a court-appointed guardian.

This is the Herald’s first reporting on the Battle of Gettysburg, the decisive encounter of the American Civil War, that took place from the 1st to 3rd of July, 1863.

Tens of millions of people in the UK may be offered a new round of protection from September before Australia’s troubled initial rollout is completed. 

The twice US secretary of defence claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group NXIVM, told the court that she had “made choices I will forever regret”.

The charges against the Trump Organisation and the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, are expected to involve alleged tax violations related to benefits the company gave to top executives.

A retired US ambassador has called for the former east London schoolgirl’s repatriation after he helped free a Canadian woman held at the same Syrian detention camp.

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More than 500,000 people have died of COVID in Brazil. Its President has called the Senate investigation into his government’s response a “national shame”.

The North Korean leader whose country claims to have no cases called a meeting of the politburo to address some party executives’ neglect of duty.

Family is what drove William and Harry apart and family is what will bring them back together. Physically, at least.

It’s a very small study, but the company says the initial results are encouraging.

“Are you going to pay it?” The cost of the needed repairs was all apartment owners could talk about since April.

If China chose to attack Taiwan, the US could be powerless to stop it. But if China wanted to conquer Taiwan, that’s a different story.

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe – all in a split-second gulp.

More than 40 people, many unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for hours, were rescued and at least seven bodies were recovered near the resort island.

South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday sentenced the ex-president to 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry.

President Xi Jinping appeared on the big screen at a Beijing gala celebrating the party’s history, ahead of his public address from Tiananmen Square on Thursday.

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The Indonesian President wants vaccines as well as the beach to lure people back to Bali.

The ongoing toxicity between William and Harry means that their relationship, not their mother, will be the focal point on Thursday.

One man checked into an air-conditioned five-star hotel, after the five fans aimed at his bed at home and the seventh cold shower failed to bring relief.

New Zealand halted its “travel bubble” with Australia on Saturday but has made plans to restart travel with some states.

Following what police describe as a “stunning tip”, the missing paintings were recovered.

The Ethiopian government earlier called a ceasefire but the People’s Liberation Front said it anticipated retaliation and called on residents to rally behind it.

The contest between vaccine and virus in Britain is much more nuanced than Scott Morrison makes out.

Dame Sarah Gilbert hardly knew where to look as she was greeted in a manner usually reserved for tournament greats.

It comes a day after the United States conducted air strikes on installations in the area.

Even though the first known COVID-19 outbreak originated in Wuhan, China has leveraged the pandemic to bolster its global reputation.

Biden says the US is in a competition with China to win the 21st century - but Beijing is on track to beat them.

Meantime, early results from another British vaccine study suggest that mixing different brands of vaccines can provoke a protective immune response against COVID-19.

Indonesia’s drug authority has approved children aged 12 and above being vaccinated as more than 280 toddlers were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the nation’s capital on one day alone last week.

Voters largely stayed away from the ballot box - the abstention rate is estimated at 65.7 per cent.

The revelation adds years to the time they knew each other and was gleaned from more than 200 interviews as well as scouring court documents.

The death toll has risen to nine with more than 150 people still missing as questions swirled about the tower’s structural integrity.

The papers included discussion about the potential Russian reaction to the British warship HMS Defender’s travel through waters off the Crimean coast last week, the BBC said.

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A spokesman says the US is responding to an “ongoing series of attacks by Iran-backed groups targeting US interests”.

Danielle Anderson’s career has taken her all over the world, including to the Chinese research lab now at the centre of attention due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

The rare public comment on Kim’s health comes after foreign analysts noted that the autocratic leader appeared to have lost a noticeable amount of weight.