The group, which is said to have ties to the Indian military, has targeted Pakistani military officials and the country’s top nuclear regulator.

Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday with searing footage of the US Capitol riot.

The two leaders spoke for the first time since Biden’s inauguration just hours after he announced plans for a taskforce to review US national security strategy on China.

The battle over control of her finances is due to return to court this week amid a renewed discussion of how she was treated during her meteoric rise as a teen pop star.

The evidence presented on day two of Trump’s impeachment trial offered a fresh and visceral perspective on what took place on January 6.

The US Senate is sitting to decide if Donald Trump is guilty of inciting the deadly January 6 riot at the Capitol. Follow our impeachment trial coverage.

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The Israeli prime minister is yet to receive a personal phone call from Biden, who has already spoken to leaders in Britain, France and Germany. 

Democrats said Trump “assembled, inflamed and incited” his supporters to commit violence and waited until it was too late to condemn the deadly Capitol riot.

Her imprisonment, along with her allegations that she was tortured, focused global attention on the crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Biden administration planned to identify specific targets of the sanctions later this week.

In an effort to shore up its own supplies, the EU last month gave itself powers to block exports of vaccines made on the continent.

Shirkey had earlier apologised after the release of an hour-long video in which he told Republicans last week that the January 6 protest “wasn’t Trump people.”

The panel of scientists said Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was safe and effective and should be deployed widely to adults of all ages.

Prosecutors in Fulton County have initiated a criminal investigation into former president Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn Georgia’s election results.

Expectations are rising in Europe that the former Australian finance minister could pull off a historic victory.

As his second impeachment trial began, a Zoom meeting discussed if Trump violated a 1993 deal that allowed him to convert his residence into a money-making club.

Other trans-friendly changes include replacing the use of the word “woman” with the phrase “woman or person”, and the term “father” with “parent” when working with transgender patients.

Police and protesters clashed in Myanmar on Tuesday in the most violent day of demonstrations against the February 1 coup by generals.

Amal, in Arabic, is a source of immense national pride for the first Arab state to launch an interplanetary space mission.

What’s behind the latest coup? Why is Aung San Suu Kyi in detention? And isn’t Myanmar a democracy? 

Wuhan probe done, the science has become part of a much larger geopolitical minefield.

David Vigneault is worried about what he says are attempts to steal secrets and intimidate the local Chinese community.

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Rawiri Waititi was prevented from asking questions because he wasn’t wearing a tie. He wore a Maori greenstone pendant instead.

The program, believed to be the first of its kind among the Group of 7 industrialised nations, was inspired by author Margaret Atwood.

The former US president’s lawyer Bruce Castor’s opening defence argument was so cringe-worthy that Newsmax, the fiercely pro-Trump alternative to Fox News, cut away.

Judge Roy Ferguson’s warning comes after an attorney accidentally joined a video court hearing while using a Zoom filter that made him appear like a fluffy white kitten.

Trump was impeached by the Democratic-led House of Representatives last month for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.

One of the Conservative MPs who put forward the amendment said that it was time to take back control from international fora that Russia and China had repeatedly hijacked.

Erdogan announced the program, seen as part of his vision for placing Turkey in expanded regional and global role, during a live televised event laced with special effects.

WikiLeaks drew fury from the US government after publishing thousands of pages of once-secret reports generated by US military and intelligence agencies.

Britain’s Princess Eugenie, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, has given birth to a baby son, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed in South California, killing Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers, made a key error by flying through thick clouds, investigators say.

A hacker gained entry to the system controlling the water treatment plant of a city of 15,000 people and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical, police say.

Police cracked down on demonstrators opposing Myanmar’s military coup, firing warning shots and shooting water cannons to disperse crowds that took to the streets again in defiance of rules making protests illegal.

The WHO and Chinese investigators announced several key findings including that the virus could have been present in other regions or countries before the first cases were reported in Wuhan.

The US President wants the informal group known as the Quad - comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States - to push back further against Beijing. On Tuesday two US carrier groups conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea, the firs...

Boris Johnson is facing a showdown over claims China is waging genocide against the Uighur Muslims interned at camps in Xinjiang province.

The second Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened on Wednesday at 5am (Australian time), just over a month after the January 6 assault on the Capitol the House has charged him with inciting.

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The operator of a ship carrying Australian coal is diverting the vessel to Japan in a high stakes dash to relieve the vessel’s 18 sailors caught up in a diplomatic stalemate with China.

The government is yet to strike a contract with any hotel chain even though the rooms need to be available by Monday.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing was speaking in a televised address, his first to the country since last Monday’s military takeover.

Figures suggest black Americans are three times as likely to die from coronavirus as their white peers, but lag way behind in terms of immunisation rates.

The United States - which announced on Monday that it was returning to the forum it quit in June 2018 - was among 28 observer states listed as supporting the move.

Maxwell is separately seeking to dismiss all or part of the indictment, arguing in part that prosecutors are targeting her only because Jeffrey Epstein is dead.

Trump’s lawyers argue that Trump was only speaking figuratively when urging his supporters to “fight like hell” against the election result.

For a brief time, those bounded by the Great Firewall, had found an island of unregulated speech.

The figure is almost three times higher than the 57,555 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in 2020 by Russia’s coronavirus task force.