Jake Sullivan says returning to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was a priority for the new Biden administration.

A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Chinese aircraft did not come within 460 km of the US Navy vessels.

Analysts see parallels between what’s taking place on Wall Street and the streak of populism that powered Donald Trump’s rise to political power.

The company says its vaccine is 72 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in the US but a lower rate of 66 per cent was observed globally in the large trial conducted across three continents.

GameStop short sellers have endured mark-to-market losses of $US19.75 billion so far this year, according to S3 Partners.

Discord among US lawmakers remains after a January 6 riot during which Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

Organisers of the World Wide Robin Hood Society were surprised to find their 400 Twitter followers had swollen to 33,000 in a few hours.

The European Union exempted more than 120 countries from new export controls but Australia did not make the list.

Lai Xiaomin was executed on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case.

The regulator recommended approving the vaccine for people over the age of 18, the third vaccine to be cleared for use in the European Union.

The 46-year-old was diagnosed with brain tumours at the end of 2019 and has been living with his wife and two children in Japan.

Why does China have Taiwan in its sights? What does Taiwan want? And how would the US – and Australia – be likely to respond if there was an attack?

An abrupt decision by Britain to close its border to the United Arab Emirates has dealt a fresh blow to stranded Australians.

The government is even giving incentives to stop roughly 300 million domestic migrant workers from going home during the traditional holiday.

With polls showing increased support for Scottish independence from the UK, the British PM went to Glasgow despite a lockdown to promote the benefits of the union.

That is despite a drop of 23 per cent in the number of asylum seeker arrivals last year compared to 2019.

In echoes of a debate held in Australia in 2017, many hit out at the idea of a permanent barrier, saying the “people’s house” should not be fenced off from the public.

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The country’s vaccine committee says there is not enough trial data available for the age group. Australia says it trusts the TGA’s assessment.

The government defended the auction, saying the elephants would not be sold to zoos. “Only some circles of people, mostly foreigners, object to this.”

The meeting came three weeks after McCarthy enraged Trump by saying the then-outgoing president bore responsibility for the deadly January 6 riot.

It comes as the Chinese Defence Ministry warned: “Those who play with fire will get burnt.”

The king, who normally appears in public wearing a robe, was pictured in a dark T-shirt and with a surgical mask on his face as he got jabbed in the arm.

Efforts to curb trading by retail investors prompted a swift response from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who tweeted: “This is unacceptable” only for far-right GOP Senator Ted Cruz to agree.

The proposed remedy is being criticised as label censorship by advocates for alternatives to conventionally produced protein.

Frontex said that it was ceasing work in Hungary until the nationalist government brings its laws into line with a ruling by the EU’s top court in December.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene supported Facebook posts that advocated violence against Democrats and the FBI. One suggested shooting Pelosi in the head.

A World Health Organisation team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

The workers trekked through the snow on the highway, knocking on car windows in search of six lucky arms.

Officials are rushing to prepare up to 17,900 new plots on the outskirts of Jakarta as COVID deaths mount.

“We are dealing with incompetence, corruption, a total decay of the state, so these men are doing what they know best — taking away rights and freedoms from the citizens,” said a protest organiser.

Tony Blinken says hunger for US leadership is ‘almost palpable’.

The casino CEO and his actress wife allegedly flew to a remote community in Yukon Territory on a chartered flight and posed as hotel workers.

Australia has extended its suspension of the travel bubble with New Zealand for a further 72 hours after more community cases were reported. 

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“We reject the logic of first come, first served,” the EU’s Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides said.

Douglass Mackey, who the feds say went by the Twitter name Ricky Vaughan, was a prominent anti-Semite, racist and Trump-booster online before the 2016 election.

Unlike Australia, Britain has never closed its borders and had previously allowed travellers to quarantine at home for ten days, with officials performing few checks.

The department did not cite a specific threat, but pointed to “a heightened threat environment across the United States” that it believes “will persist” for weeks.

Last year, then-president Donald Trump famously told the group to “stand back, and stand by” when asked during a debate to condemn white supremacists.

In a call to action ahead of the Glasgow climate summit, the US President’s special envoy also criticised gas as a transition fuel.

Vladimir Putin says the world risks spiralling into “all against all” conflict, as the Russian President faces fresh pressure over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.

IOC President Thomas Bach could not guarantee there would be spectators and denied that pushing ahead with the event was “irresponsible”.

Officers raided a party at a bar on a popular resort island in southern Thailand and arrested 89 foreigners for violating coronavirus regulations, officials say.

The Internal Security Department said the teen was inspired by the Australian gunman who killed 51 worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019.

Three days of strikes have forced the Indonesian Trade Ministry to warn it may have to look elsewhere for meat imports.

It was Mount Merapi’s biggest lava flow since authorities raised its danger level in November, officials said.

The New Zealand Ministry of Health is carrying out “urgent testing” after two more people tested positive for COVID-19 after leaving hotel quarantine.

Despite pressure not to speak out, Zhang has been organising relatives of coronavirus victims in China to demand accountability from officials.

A new report accuses the government of money-laundering and being indifferent to the devastating impact on its people.