Biden’s 2019 campaign pledge could not foresee the pandemic, nor the full measure of Trump’s effort to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

Of the Italian athletes who competed in Tokyo, 46 were foreign-born. Many more could be representing the country of their birth with a law change.

Much of the world has yet to see enough doses to vaccinate even the most vulnerable. In the Netherlands, however, they are letting surplus doses expire.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawyer said his team was preparing to present fresh testimony that would throw further doubt on the prince’s account.

The high rate of vaccine refusal in the US has revealed the dark side of American individualism and liberty: selfishness and a lack of empathy. 

New Zealand’s chief epidemiologist said plans by NSW to increase vaccination so restrictions can be relaxed “will just make things worse”.

It’s unlikely the suspect David S. had diplomatic immunity because in such a case he would have normally been expelled from the country instead of being detained.

Defence Minister Nobuo Kishi has warned China’s clout is backed by force and coercion, and it is trying to make its dominance “into a fait accompli”.

Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan’s capital in 30 days and possibly take it over in 90, a US defence official cited US intelligence as saying.

The Australian WikiLeaks founder appeared dishevelled in court as a London judge widened the scope of a US appeal against a block on his extradition.

Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards was widely quoted in China for his fierce criticism of the World Health Organisation. But the embassy thinks he is ‘fake news’.

Spavor is among a handful of Canadians in China facing stiff punishments in the wake of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s December 2018 arrest.

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Hours after the threat, Milenio Television anchor Azucena Uresti posted a photo of herself smiling, saying she would be on-air as usual. A minute later, the broadcast began.

Sir Andrew Pollard told British MPs that Delta was so widespread, it made sense to only test and treat people with symptoms, rather than all their contacts.

In coming together over a massive infrastructure spending plan, Republican and Democratic senators showed that Congress, for all its dysfunction, can still do its job.

The monarchy is much bigger than Andrew and it won’t hesitate to drive a stake through him should events in a New York courtroom spiral out of control.

Lithuania said earlier this year it planned to open its own representative office in Taiwan, and has donated 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to the island.

Prosecutors say the defendant met his victim on an online dating site but there was no indication that he agreed to be killed.

The Fazze network also contacted social media influencers in several countries with offers to pay them for reposting the misleading content.

The three-term Governor’s decision, which will take effect in two weeks, was announced as momentum built to remove him by impeachment.

Is it realistic for New Zealand to maintain its zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19 once it begins to reopen its borders? The answer from an expert group is a resounding “Yes”.

A rare coalition of Democrats and Republicans voted together to overcome sceptics and deliver a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s agenda.

For 457 days the tiny sultanate on Borneo went without a case of the virus but now that streak is over, it is trying “to put the cat back in the bag”.

Some champagne producers warned that harvest potential has been slashed in half by late frosts and heavy floods.

Firefighters across Europe have rushed to help Greece as the Prime Minister is forced to apologise for “any weaknesses” in the emergency response.

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“I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me,” said Virginia Giuffre in a statement filed in a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court.

The French government said for the first week of implementation the police would not issue fines of up to $216 for non-compliance.

“The United States, unlike most countries which have electronic systems in place, is basing its vaccination on a flimsy paper card,” said one health professional.

Not since the United Kingdom’s last state-sanctioned execution in 1964 has a death sentence captured so much public attention.

Our position on emissions at Glasgow will be very closely watched throughout the troubled region.

An immigrant in France already under investigation for setting the Nantes cathedral on fire last year has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a Catholic priest.

The head of a fund providing restitution to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuses says she has finished the claims process, and awarded nearly $US125 million ($170 million) to about 150 eligible claimants.

President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a Belarusian sprinter defected at the Olympic Games only because she had been “manipulated” by outside forces.

Never before in 20 years of war had the Taliban directly assaulted more than one provincial capital at a time. Now, three fell on one day.

An unemployed local has confessed to killing a 57-year-old Swiss tourist while trying to rob her of $12. Her death has rocked the reopened tourist island.

As the Taliban attempt to create an air of inevitability and the US military campaign mostly finished, the public relations war in Afghanistan has taken on outsize importance.

About 400 so-called grassroots associations were tapped to play a key role in Hong Kong’s elections after Beijing overhauled the system to ensure that only “patriots” could run the territory.

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Greg Abbott’s pose didn’t escape the attention of critics on Twitter who made comparisons to the Roman emperor Nero remembered for his indifference to the Republic’s suffering.

The politically popular bill has survived largely because most of the key Republican senators involved in negotiating it are not operating under his influence.

Before analysis showed missile silos being built in western China, US-based analysts warned of lasers based in Xinjiang that could blind or disable orbiting satellites.

It was the latest in a string of provincial capital to largely succumb to Taliban fighters in less than a week, as US forces complete their pullout.

The idea of the study is to determine how to safely reopen nightclubs without anyone getting infected.

The woman who filed a criminal complaint against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo alleging he engaged in illegal sexual conduct has come forward publicly.

Fuelled by strong winds and bone-dry vegetation, the Dixie Fire has grown to become one of the largest wildfires in California’s history.

Europe is declaring its steady immunisation strategy a success as public confidence and incentives push a surge in vaccine numbers.

Nobody was talking about critical race theory two years ago, but in the wake of the George Floyd protests, it has become the latest moral panic in schools.

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