The UN wants countries to introduce water safety, swimming and first aid lessons as part of school curricula, and observe a new World Drowning Prevention Day.

“Penguin” is among the best known faces of a youth-driven pro-democracy movement that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets last year.

In a speech, China’s top diplomat in Australia said “Whoever tied the knot is responsible for untying it”.

In a hopeful speech, Joe Biden used his first address to the joint session of Congress to outline his presidential ambitions.

As Afghans brace for the withdrawal of American and Australian troops, a woman is helping negotiate the future of the country with the very men who threaten it.

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Seated behind Biden were Vice-President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the first women in US history to fill their positions.

For decades, menthol cigarettes have been marketed aggressively to black people in the United States.

I’ve seen Palestinian suffering. I desperately want to help, but Human Rights Watch’s distortions do not assist that cause.

“The government is lying to you” is a more appealing message than “the government makes some good points about having fewer people die.”

Oxygen and drugs, including unproven and fake treatments, are being sold at hundreds of dollars above their official price.

The number of people with some protection against virus, either from vaccination or prior infection, far exceeds government projections.

From December to April, the two countries’ state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalising vaccine safety concerns.

Bitcoin Fog is one of the original Bitcoin “tumbler” or “mixer” services designed to help users anonymise cryptocurrencies payments.

The nation’s blood pressure is collectively down, but there will be two markers for Joe Biden’s next 100 days.

Often described as the “forgotten” third astronaut on the historic 1969 mission, Collins stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin travelled to the lunar surface.

Federal investigators seized electronic devices as part of the search warrant, marking a major turning point in the long-running investigation into Giuliani.

Senior Democrat John Podesta warns that Australia will be told by key allies that technological solutions to climate change “are just not going to cut it”.

The Prime Minister, when grilled on the issue in the Commons, said that he had “personally” paid for the refurbishment.

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.