The interceptors are designed to crash into and destroy incoming missiles from an adversary such as North Korea or Iran.

The story whipped around conservative media and elicited denunciations from leading Republicans. There was just one problem: it wasn’t true.

In a world where governments loudly proclaim their dedication to human rights and equality, some voices are still granted more credibility than others. Is Human Rights Watch one of them?

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck Assam, India, on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.

It is a question that continues to puzzle experts. In early February, there were 10,000 to 12,000 new daily cases. Now there are more than 300,000.

It is an attempt to control the population of an invasive, disease-carrying species that has settled in the area.

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Singapore pursued “risk minimisation” rather than the Australian “risk elimination” approach. Now the south-east Asian nation has more flexibility to open borders.

The judge set a June 23 hearing for Spears to speak to the court. It was not known which matters the singer planned to address.

Biden administration officials said that the higher wages would lead to greater worker productivity, offsetting any additional costs to taxpayers.

Johnson’s key adviser on the Brexit campaign said Johnson wanted donors to secretly pay for the renovation and he told the prime minister such plans were “unethical, foolish, possibly illegal”. 

Moscow alarmed Kiev and Western capitals in recent weeks by building up forces along the border with Ukraine, though last week it ordered a withdrawal of some troops.

The new guidance represents another carefully calibrated step on the road back to normal from the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 570,000 people in US.

The graves, some of which have human remains inside, were found at the Koum el-Khulgan archaeological site north-east of Cairo.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will appear at Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World, joining world leaders, actors and musicians, including Jennifer Lopez and the Foo Fighters.

India has been “the pharmacy to the developing world”. Now it is in need and the US and China are arguing about who should help.

The vessel had allegedly left Colombia’s northern coast with the goal of unloading its cargo in Puerto Rico.

By the end of France’s big freeze, at least one-third of this year’s wine harvest and many other crops were lost, despite enormous efforts.

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The fighting came days after Southeast Asian leaders said they had reached consensus with the Myanmar junta on ending violence.

A crucial issue was the presence in the vaccine of the adenovirus that could reproduce a “serious” defect, an Anvisa expert said.

The professor has backed her citation of the non-peer-reviewed paper at a Press Club address and said she knows “more about Xinjiang than Mike Pompeo”.

DHS calls domestic violent extremism the “most lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat” facing the nation following a series of deadly incidents in recent years.

The vaccine passport is a document that has existed for more than two centuries, but it has rarely promised to hold so much power over culture and commerce.

If Navalny’s party is declared extremist, authorities will gain the legal power to force the network to stop campaigning or go underground.

The claim is the latest in a swirl of allegations of cronyism and ethical breaches against Johnson and his Conservative government.

The Turkish president slammed the United States for having failed to find a solution to the decades-old conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh

European Commission President told the EU Parliament that she believed that in a meeting with Turkey’s leader she had been denied a chair and equal billing.

The US is expected to have around 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which has not been approved for use in the US, available to ship overseas in May and June.

The situation in the world’s second most populous country is “beyond heartbreaking”, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The government has ordered parks, gyms, cinemas and day-care centres in its capital, the epicentre of the latest wave of infections, to shut from April 26 until May 9.

Zhao has fallen victim to a wave of nationalism and attacks accusing her of betraying the country where she was born.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation charity, was arrested at a Tehran airport in April 2016 and later convicted of plotting to overthrow the clerical establishment.

A second COVID-19 wave has wreaked havoc on India with daily infection and death rates breaking all records.

An Indonesian brigadier general was killed in an ongoing clash between security forces and a rebel group in restive Papua province, authorities said.

Indonesia found the wreckage of the navy submarine of the KRI Nanggala-402 missing since Wednesday and declared all 53 of its crew members dead, the country’s military chief said.

Ingenuity’s third flight is about 25 times as far as the second flight flew three days ago. The helicopter reached a top speed of 6.4 kilometres per hour.

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Brandi Levy, 14, went on Snapchat to vent about the cheerleading squad. Her school suspended her for coarse language but it didn’t end there.

With 352,991 new cases, India’s total caseload has crossed 17 million. Deaths rose by a record 2,812 to reach a total of 195,123.

The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 as the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence.

While millions of people have missed their second shots, the overall rates of follow-through, with some 92 per cent getting fully vaccinated, are strong by historical standards.

Leaders of a business masquerading as a church sold a toxic bleach solution as a religious sacrament and marketed it as a “miracle” cure for COVID-19, cancer and other diseases, US prosecutors say.

The woman had been charged with a felony when, according to court documents, she had failed to return a VHS copy of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the mission aims to show that Britain is “not stepping back but sailing forth to play an active role in shaping the international system.”

One key Tory has has urged Number 10 to draw a line under the row and move on. ‘Tittle-tattle can only do damage’, said Bob Blackman.

The case of Fahmi Reza has sparked more concerns about the Malaysian government of Muhyiddin Yassin acting like “a dictatorship” during its COVID-19 emergency rule.

France’s highest court found that a man who threw his Jewish neighbour out a window was “in a delirious state” from heavy marijuana use when he killed her.

An underwater robot found the lost submarine lying in at least three pieces at a depth of 838 metres, much deeper than the submarine’s collapse depth of 200 metres.

The tourist-starved European nations are already developing a ‘green card’ to allow free movement for those fully vaccinated with EU-approved jabs.