Miner Ok Tedi announced it was suspending its operations as Europe threatens to withhold vaccines and PNG teeters on the edge of a COVID-19 disaster.

Beijing has revealed few details of the charges against “the two Michaels”, held since December 2018.

Rutte resigned last year over a robodebt scandal, but stayed on as caretaker and is set to become the longest serving prime minister in Dutch history.

Human Rights Watch says the right to not wear a hijab in Indonesian schools and workplaces should be protected.

“I’ve never been this afraid to be Asian in America,” said Dorothy Kuo, 38, who attempted to explain to her six-year-old daughter what had happened.

It involved Japanese celebrity Naomi Watanabe and is the latest scandal for the 2021 Olympics.

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The ability to keep embryos alive and developing “is a gold mine for us,” Dr Jacob Hanna said.

Cherokee County sheriff’s deputy told a press conference “yesterday was a really bad day” for the man charged with eight murders “and this is what he did”.

It is also not an asteroid, nor a comet. Scientists say Oumuamua is from beyond our solar system.

An antiques enthusiast paid $45 for the Ming Dynasty-era piece and thought it could be something special - only six other bowls like this are known to exist.

“We’ve been doing this for a long time,” said Soledad Martínez, an assistant professor of public health at the University of Chile.

Missing from public life since February, Magufuli has died of heart disease. In 2020, he cracked down on coronavirus reporting and said prayer had solved the crisis.

The US president said the Kremlin would “see shortly” what that price was.

The US Secretary of State mentioned China in the same breath as Myanmar, North Korea and other countries in which he said threatened democracy and stability.

European Commission President warns “all options are on the table” to boost the number of doses available to the continent’s 450 million citizens.

The Sapporo District Court’s decision could help prod the government to stop dragging its feet on a change that polls show is increasingly accepted by the public.

56 years ago, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history when he executed the first spacewalk.

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Hayley Hadassin’s nine-year-old son narrowly avoided a quarantine camp, but dozens of other children have been separated from their parents.

Port Moresby General Hospital, the city’s largest, is losing 10 per cent of its workforce every week to COVID and there are fears of a virulent new strain.

It is one of at least three phone calls where Trump sought help from high-level Georgia officials in subverting the election.

Trump tells Fox he would recommend the vaccine to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of them voted for me” but added “we have our freedoms”.

Chinese embassies in a number of countries have been instructed to streamline travel permits for foreigners inoculated with one of China’s four homegrown shots.

Like with Labor in Australia, Democrats are happiest when the public is focused on issues such as education and healthcare. Border security is another issue entirely.

At least eight people died in the shootings that come amid a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the US.

The tough lockdown measures have sparked anxiety among expats who are still coming to grips with the implications of national security laws imposed by Beijing.

“We tried to escape but they took my eldest son and beheaded him,” one mother told Save the Children. “We couldn’t do anything because we would be killed too.”

To improve respect for women, men cannot be excluded from the conversation about the changes they need to make.

Beijing dismissed the concerns of the US Indo-Pacific chief Kurt Campbell ahead of the first meeting between the two superpowers in Alaska. 

A five-month investigation found that the login for an assistant principal at a Florida school was used to lodge high school students votes for homecoming queen.

Laser pointers emerged as a safety hazard more than a decade ago, with the devices being flashed at planes near airports around the world.

The report punctures a counter-narrative pushed by Trump’s allies that China was interfering on Biden’s behalf, concluding that Beijing “did not deploy interference efforts.”

The European Medicines Agency says it is “firmly convinced” the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine far outweigh any risks.

Prince Harry has spoken to his elder brother William for the first time since he and his wife Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview but the talks were “not productive”, a friend of the couple said.

The move escalates the Russian government’s drawn-out standoff with social media platforms that have played a major role in amplifying dissent in Russia.

The scroll fragments bearing a biblical text were found in a desert cave and were believed to be hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1900 years ago.

The 99-year-old has left a London hospital after receiving treatment for an unspecified infection. He also underwent a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition.

The Jesuit priests’ Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation is a partnership among descendants of both the enslaved and enslavers.

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The Interior Department has wielded influence over American tribes for nearly two centuries. It also looks after endangered species, national parks and energy development.

A review of the UK’s foreign and security policies will advocate more investment by, and trade with, Chinese interests, as well as increased protection of critical assets.

US-China relations will not improve until economic coercion of Australia stops, says Biden’s ‘Asia tsar’ Kurt Campbell, who vows not to leave Canberra “alone on the field”.

Australia’s campaign to win enough votes for Mathias Cormann to lead the OECD was a case study in the dark arts of diplomacy and power of personal relationships.

The test run was proposed by Más País, a left-wing party that has argued that longer hours don’t necessarily lead to higher productivity.

It came as the World Health Organisation appealed to countries not to suspend vaccinations against a disease that has caused more than 2.7 million deaths worldwide.

The colourful 1905 oil work by the Austrian symbolist painter titled “Rosebushes under the Trees” has been hanging in Paris’ Musee d’Orsay museum for decades.

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said China is in a “state of ongoing noncompliance” with the 1984 treaty allowing Hong Kong’s return to Chinese control.

Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and their spouses have begun an ambitious, cross-country tour this week to promote the $US1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

The TV report showed footage of scores of missiles in an enclosed space resembling an underground corridor.