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The broadcaster’s fierce criticism of the Duchess of Sussex prompted tens of thousands of complaints to the media regulator. 

Last month, Democratic senators called for sanctions on Juan Orlando Hernandez and a determination “whether he is a specially designated narcotics trafficker”.

International travellers may soon be able to enter China or travel around Europe without quarantine if they can prove they’re vaccinated.

“I begged them not to shoot the children,” she says in the video.

A new 25,000-page report quotes Uighur exiles and Chinese government documents detailing China’s treatment of an estimated population of 12 million Uighurs.

The head of European Medicines Agency had said approving Sputnik V would be “comparable to Russian roulette”.

Governor Asa Hutchinson has signed into law a bill that bans abortion except to save the mother’s life. Another 13 states have proposed outright bans.

The “if in doubt, blame the staff” mantra can be a convenient foil, but there is some justification to Harry and Meghan’s exasperation with interfering aides.

The White House said the first ever leaders-level meeting showed the Biden administration is deeply engaged with the Indo-Pacific.

Harry and Meghan’s claims have prompted a mix of defensiveness and introspection in newsrooms and triggered fiery scenes on breakfast television.

The House is expected to vote on the $US1.9 trillion stimulus plan as soon as Wednesday (Thursday AEDT).

White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained the canine caper by saying the dogs “are still getting acclimated and accustomed to their new surroundings and people.”

The 93-metre-high spire, made of wood and clad in lead, became the most potent symbol of the April 2019 blaze when it was seen engulfed in flames.

The duchess disclosed she had serious mental health issues yet somehow it’s the royal family that is the victim.

The Queen said the whole family was “saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan”. 

Prayuth Chan-ocha left the podium, grabbed a bottle of sanitiser, casually walked over to journalists and sprayed each of them while holding a surgical mask in front of his face.

European Council President Charles Michel has rejected charges of “vaccine nationalism” levelled against the EU, after it last week backed an Italian decision to halt a vaccine shipment to Australia.

Thomas Markle said he did not think the British royal family was racist after the Duchess of Sussex accused a royal family member of expressing concerns about her child’s skin tone.

After all three palaces - home to the Windsors, the Waleses and the Cambridges, were updated on the Sussexes interview, the royal family said nothing.

The Australian government was not aware of the junta’s claims against economist Sean Turnell until they were announced by the military on Burmese TV on Tuesday.

On his first day in office, US President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 13990, directing agencies to calculate the “social cost” of greenhouse gas pollution. Some Republican states argue he had no right.

The President called on the army to clear the roads of protesters after repeated demonstrations. The army chief’s response was totally different to, say, Myanmar.

Ted Hui has become the first Hong Kong politician to be granted a travel exemption by the Australian government.

A justice from the top court has annulled all sentences against the twice-jailed former president, which for now restores his political rights as the country is reels from the pandemic.

This “wonder of nature”, reported in a biology journal, could eventually help scientists better understand and tackle regeneration of human tissue.

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The letter sent by lawyers for Trump ramped up tension between the two camps as the ex-president seeks to preserve his political viability post-election. 

The issue of racism and what part it may have played in Meghan’s struggles with her husband’s family is one that divides the British public.

The British press was primed for the fallout from the couple’s tell-all interview with Oprah, but the revelations and claims exceeded their wildest expectations.

WHO announced its highest level of alert - a public health emergency of international concern - on January 30 but did not describe it as a “pandemic” until March 11.

The couple claimed in the Oprah interview that they decided to have their own private moment and married in their garden days before their official ceremony.

Farmers had lost income because traffickers are switching to buying fentanyl from Asia, rather than paying people to grow poppies needed for heroin.

Italy is the seventh country in the world to reach the bleak milestone, following the United States, Brazil, Mexico, India, Russia and Britain.

The United States has identified three online publications directed by Russia’s intelligence services that it says are seeking to undermine COVID-19 vaccines.

Talkshow host Oprah Winfrey said Prince Harry wanted it known that the Queen and Prince Philip were not the royal family members who had expressed concern about how dark Archie’s skin would be.

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been delayed as the judge contends with a last-minute order by a higher court to reconsider adding an additional murder charge.

Assad’s office said the first couple did PCR tests after they experienced symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 illness.

Instead of burning a bridge, Meghan lit 20,000 sticks of dynamite under it in her chat with Oprah.

The Islamic State inflicted atrocities against all communities during its three-year rule in parts of Iraq. But the Christian minority was hit especially hard.

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex sit down with Oprah Winfrey to explain what drove them to walk away from their roles in the Royal Family.

We were expecting fireworks from this tell-all but Harry and Meghan instead lit a raging bonfire that threatens to engulf the royal family.

Harry and Meghan also revealed their new baby will be a girl and exposed deep family rifts in a wide-ranging interview which will rock the monarchy.

The country has chosen to buy 10 million doses of only the German vaccine based on trial results pointing to 95 per cent effectiveness.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has reportedly said the legislature would have to impeach him if it wanted him out of office.

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The agreement reflects the Biden administration’s “commitment to reinvigorating and modernising our democratic alliances,” the State Department said.

The death of Floyd, 46, triggered protests and rioting across the US after mobile phone footage emerged showing Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeling on his neck.

The cause of the blasts was not yet known. A defence official told television station TVGE that authorities had ruled out an attack.

The pontiff, winding up a historic trip to Iraq, met Abdullah Kurdi at the end of Mass in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil, the Vatican said in a statement.