Malaysian authorities have arrested and charged a politician with bribery over allegations he oversaw a scheme to inflate the price of Australian property purchases.

The new Education Bureau guidelines show the plans for semi-autonomous Hong Kong go beyond quashing dissent.

The Russian dissident has been a thorn in Vladimir Putin’s side, surviving an attempted Novichok poisoning before returning to Russia, where he was jailed for three years this week. Thousands have taken to the streets in protest across the vast cou...

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As a pharmacist, the Rohingya man works to treat COVID patients in hospital. His wife-to-be, however, is trapped in Cox’s Bazar after fleeing Myanmar and faces deportation to a remote tsunami and flood-prone island.

The Southeast Asian nation’s army seized power on Monday, cutting short a transition to democracy and drawing condemnation from concerned citizens and the international community.

The starkly different trajectories show how unevenly countries around the world have kicked off the largest mass vaccination drive in history.

The vote came amid a broader push by Democrats to associate their political opponents with dangerous conspiracy theories and make Greene the face of the party. 

The list, compiled by the Stop Trump Coalition in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, has more than doubled in length since it was first published in June 2020.

US House impeachment managers asked former President Donald Trump on Thursday to provide testimony under oath about his conduct before the violent breach of the Capitol in rioting on January 6.

The explosives were discovered in the car of two men who were stopped and arrested in Brussels in a joint operation involving Belgian, French and German security services. 

Among several major policy announcements are the end of American support for Saudi Arabia’s military operations in Yemen and a massive increase in the US refugee intake.

Britain’s Ofcom said its decision was the result of an investigation into who owned CGTN which found it was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

The lawsuit alleges that Fox went along with the “well-orchestrated dance” due to pressure from newcomer outlets such as Newsmax and One America News.

The UN Security Council has called for the release of Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained by the military during a coup on Monday.

The herding village of Khirbet Humsu in the occupied West Bank looks like it’s been destroyed by a tornado.

The 83-year-old Yoshiro Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, acknowledged that his comments that women board members for the Tokyo Games talked too much were “inappropriate” and against the Olympic spirit.

Tech giant Apple has issued a warning that its iPhone 12 devices and MagSafe chargers pose a potential risk for millions of people at risk for dangerous heart complications.

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“We want to show the world we are totally against military dictatorship and we want our elected government and leader back,” said Dr Zun Ei Phyu who lives in Yangon.

Republican conflict over Marjorie Taylor Greene’s extreme views and Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach Donald Trump reflect a deeper schism in the party.

The Scottish Green Party co-leader said there were longstanding concerns about Trump’s financial conduct, describing the ex-president “untrustworthy” and “dishonest”.

The Myanmar army detained the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others on Monday in response to “election fraud”, handing power to the military.

Draghi said he accepted the mandate knowing that Italy faces the multiple challenges of a health care crisis, a national vaccination campaign and an economic recession.

Her post prompted an uproar in India as pro-government supporters trolled the singer, accusing her of tweeting to her 101 million Twitter followers in exchange for money. Others thanked her.

A court on Tuesday sentenced Navalny, a prominent opponent of Vladimir Putin, to three and a half years for parole violations he said were trumped up to sideline him.

The announcement by Public Safety Minister comes less than a month after Proud Boys joined the violent mob that stormed the US Capitol after attending a rally by US President Donald Trump.

Ireland does not currently plan to give the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to people over the age of 65, the country’s health service said on Wednesday.

Britain has given 10 million people the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday.

Oxford University has released a study showing the vaccine can cut transmission of the virus by two-thirds and prevent severe disease.

Ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of illegally importing communications equipment and will be detained until February 15, Myanmar police say.

Australian senators have accused the Chinese Communist Party of “unspeakable human rights abuses” after the BBC aired accounts of systematic rape and torture. Warning: graphic content.

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Former Trump administration and other American officials have espoused the debunked theories that the virus was either a bioweapon or a “lab leak”.

The mutation may help the virus to elude detection and make neutralisation by the human immune system less efficient.

Outside experts said the data convincingly shows the vaccine works. It’s the third coronavirus vaccine to show an efficacy of more than 90 per cent.

Silenced and crunched during the global financial crisis in 2008, outsiders have finally had a direct say in Wall Street matters.

After 12 hours of public pressure, Twitter restored the suspended accounts, saying the suspensions were routine.

The FAA gave permission for Tuesday’s launch, but then added that the December launch had occurred without the agency’s approval.

Sergio Mattarella said Italy can’t afford to suffer through a months-long campaign and early parliamentary election during a “crucial moment” of the pandemic.

Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was arrested on January 17.

The software flaw exploited by the suspected Chinese group is separate from the one the United States has accused Russian government operatives of using.

India — which considers the Indian Ocean region to be its strategic backyard — has for years been worried by Chinese influence over neighbouring Sri Lanka.

The tech billionaire’s past activity on Twitter has also landed him in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In their trial brief, the impeachment managers state that Trump “summoned a mob to Washington” and “aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue”.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s whereabouts remained unknown more than 24 hours after her arrest in a military coup.

Captain Tom Moore, the British World War II veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers, has died at the age of 100.

World leaders hailed Russia’s “soft landing” on the moon in 1966 as “a major contribution to man’s knowledge of the moon and of space.”

Earlier, more than 100 police gathered at the main entrance of the campus.

If a political accord cannot not be found, there’s talk of creating a government of technocrats.