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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +1000
Disappearances ‘show Rwanda unfit to host Commonwealth summit’
Human rights advocates say Rwanda’s human rights record has worsened since it joined the Commonwealth and that it does not deserve to host this week’s Heads of Government meeting.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:10:55 +1000
Rapidly spreading bird flu infects foxes and other wild mammals
Something was wrong with the foxes. Fox kits, or young foxes, were behaving in strange ways: shaking, seizing or struggling to stand.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:20:47 +1000
Macron hunts for way to salvage a ruling majority after support surges for far-left, far-right
With no coalitions near an outright majority, the French president will have a hard time passing legislation, putting much of his second-term agenda at risk.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:10:59 +1000
Gallery: The best photos from around the world
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:12:03 +1000
Saudi seizes rainbow items in homosexuality crackdown
Saudi officials say they are seizing rainbow coloured items because they "promote homosexuality."

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:00:45 +1000
Macron projected to lose parliamentary majority
French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance was projected to lose its majority despite getting the most seats in the final round of parliamentary elections.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:55:36 +1000
Germany to reboot mothballed coal-power plants after Putin throttles gas supply
“This is bitter but in this situation essential to lower the use of gas,” said Germany’s economics minister Robert Habeck, a Greens MP.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:47:24 +1000
Former guerilla becomes Colombia’s first leftist president
Gustavo Petro, a leftist who vowed profound social and economic change, has become the first progressive to win Colombia’s presidency.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:55:27 +1000
‘Dangerous beach season’ kicks off on Ukrainian coast laced with explosive mines
A 50-year-old man was blown up while diving only a few metres from the shore and the blast flung his body onto the sand in front of his family.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:16:51 +1000
Caught the first Omicron wave? Study says you can still catch the latest variant
Findings published in Nature suggest that vaccinated, boosted patients infected by the first Omicron BA.1 variant can still catch the newly dominant BA.5.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:51:36 +1000
‘Crash’ director Paul Haggis detained in Italy over sexual assault charges
Prosecutors told Italian media they were investigating allegations a foreign woman found in a distressed state at an airport had been assaulted over two days.

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:00:00 +1000
Could Trump be charged over the US Capitol attack?
The congressional committee investigating the US Capitol attack has made its most forceful case yet of potential criminality against Donald Trump.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:44:25 +1000
Google urged to stop directing people to fake abortion clinics
US politicians are questioning Google search results that divert people looking for abortion services to “fake clinics” that don’t provide the procedure and dissuade people from ending a pregnancy.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 14:39:02 +1000
Jokes and theatre aside, the prosecution of Donald Trump has already begun
Republicans are central to the condemning of Trump at the hearings into the January 6 Capitol riot. This could well be the precursor to a federal indictment that ensures Trump cannot regain power.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:03:35 +1000
‘You find a way to live with it’: Camilla opens up on public criticism
The Duchess of Cornwall also said that she and the Prince of Wales can be like “ships passing in the night”, such is their unrelentingly busy schedule.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:07:23 +1000
Defying Putin’s barbarism, Odesa opera house reopens
The war is not far away, but Odesa, a city that has always lived for the moment, proclaims that culture will help Ukraine prevail.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 10:53:49 +1000
After outcry, Boris Johnson defends 24/7 electronic monitoring of asylum seekers
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain has defended his government’s plans to electronically tag asylum-seekers who cross the English Channel.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +1000
The tech essential that just faded away
Internet Explorer was an escape route out of childhood bedrooms, university dorm rooms and office cubicles. But it’s been retired.

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 01:17:00 +1000
Joe Biden falls off his bike near his Delaware beach home
President Joe Biden was enjoying a bike ride with his wife when he took a tumble.

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 17:08:19 +1000
Japan has the lowest COVID death rate in the OECD without mandates. Here’s why
There are four simple reasons Japan has the lowest death rate from coronavirus per capita of OECD nations. Mask-wearing is one of them. Vaccine mandates isn’t.



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