Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’ll do “whatever it takes” to restore order and that his goal is to “degrade” the ability of Hamas to threaten Israel.

In the last week, the number of new cases plunged by nearly 70 per cent in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to 22 million people.

Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea all flattened the curve with quarantine and contact-tracing. Now their sluggish vaccination programs are being questioned.

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Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier also decried anti-racism training and education and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend and Australia is part of the region that is worst affected, the World Health Organisation says.

On at least a few occasions, Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to people with direct knowledge of his overtures.

While Australia has excelled at keeping the virus at bay, it seems to be falling behind the rest of the world in its understanding of what the vaccines can do. 

A police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, was one of several actions that led, less than a month later, to the sudden resumption of war between Israel and Hamas.

Japan, a country that’s witnessed the consequences of too much government power, has proved reluctant to implement strict rules to combat a mounting health crisis ahead of the Olympics.

Heavy rainfall and winds from the cyclone, which formed in the Arabian Sea, had already pounded some states along India’s western coast, causing power outages, downing trees and resulting in deaths.

Johnson was responding to a video that showed a convoy of cars bearing Palestinian flags driving through a Jewish community in north London, broadcasting anti-Semitic messages.

The attack took place one day after Israel’s military was accused of misleading foreign journalists by announcing it had launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, then retracting that claim an hour later.

It’s an odd proposition at an odd time given that major airlines have suspended flights to Israel amid the deadly violence.

The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli air strikes in the heart of Gaza City have killed dozens of people in the deadliest single attack since the start of heavy fighting a week ago.

The city state, home to more than 20,000 Australians, was less than three weeks ago named the best place to be during COVID-19. Now it’s virtually in lockdown.

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The latest Israeli air strikes further reduce our understanding of what is taking place inside the Gaza Strip at a time when accurate information is more important than ever.

The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.

A tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen wandering around a Houston suburb has been found and appears to be unharmed, police have announced.

With the military seizing power in a February 1 coup and killing hundreds of protesters, Thuzar Wint Lwin hopes to use her platform to call attention to Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement.

The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew, a woman missing for more than five months.

Charities have rushed to distance themselves from Queen’s son over links with dead paedophile Epstein, in one case hiding a charity plaque bearing his name behind a plant.

My colleagues’ shouts awakened me, and the pounding of my heart drowned out the racing of my mind. What was happening? They were shouting: “Evacuation! Evacuation!”

An Israeli airstrike targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been silent as India endures one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was released from Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital on Saturday, where he was treated for complications related to his earlier bout with coronavirus.

Palestinian supporters have gathered in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, while Israel and Hamas continue to pound each other’s side with heavy fire.

With the fighting between Israel and the Palestinians threatening to escalate into all-out war, the Abraham Accords are facing their first major challenge.

Boris Johnson said terrorist content was “like a metastasising tumour within the internet” that must be excised.

In the most widespread Palestinian protests in years, hundreds of young people clashed with Israeli troops, who shot and killed at least 11.

The country has been struggling to slow infections ahead of the Games.

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has touched down and its lander, Zhurong, will undergo tests before rolling down a ramp to explore Utopia Planitia.

Travellers should not suffer financially as a result of quarantine restrictions used to protect the health of the population, it says.

The BBC says Bashir has quit for health reasons, as an investigation into claims about his conduct is wrapped up.

The conversation occurred on the same day the British Prime Minister’s climate chief said it was time to “consign coal power to history”.

After her election into the ranks of House leadership, Elise Stefanik said: “Voters determine the leader of the Republican Party, and president Trump is the leader that they look to”.

Appointments and elective surgeries were cancelled at several hospitals and Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said the disruption could last for days.

Saleh Aruri, an exiled senior Hamas leader, said his group has turned down a proposal from Egypt for a three-hour hiatus in the fighting.

The 6.6 earthquake struck off the western coast of Sumatra at a depth of 10 kilometres. No tsunami warning was issued.

The conflagration in Israel and Palestine should spur both sides to restart the long-dead peace process.

At an event for foreign diplomats and media, Uighur Muslim leaders defended the Communist party and denied human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

There’s been a rapid escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians this week. Here’s what you need to know.

Changi Airport is now the single biggest cluster of COVID cases, with 46 linked to the aerodrome, raising fears that travellers have spread the pathogen to airport staff despite strict post-arrival quarantine regulations.

The new fear and distrust in Lod has old roots in duelling nationalism. Violence that started there in reaction to events in Jerusalem this week, has now spread.

On one state, plans to give priority to the “poorest of the poor” were successfully challenged in court by residents living above the poverty line.

Biden wants to treat the Middle East like any other region outside of Asia. But overnight, he’s found out that’s easier said than done.

The former British prime minister was accused of “stalking” rather than lobbying on behalf of controversial banker Lex Greensill.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to wrest immigration powers from the United Kingdom government, welcomed the police force’s actions.

The team at Eleven Madison Park in New York have challenged themselves to make vegan food desirable, covetable, and worthy of a steep price tag.