Earlier this month, the National Bureau of Statistics said China’s overall population has experienced the lowest rate of growth since 1961 during a famine.

While no official announcements have been made, AP separately reported that Kennedy is expected to serve in a high-profile ambassadorial role in the Asia-Pacific region.

Netanyahu, 71, has struggled to hold on to power after four inconclusive elections in two years while facing an ongoing corruption trial.

Construction is under way for one of Europe’s largest mosques, a huge space with prayer capacity of 2500, plus a school, restaurant, library and 14 shops.

The Australian government is being urged to introduce new sanctions on Myanmar’s military government in a document sent to Foreign Minister Marise Payne.

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Brazil has the world’s second deadliest outbreak with more than 461,000 deaths and a very slow immunisation pace due to the lack of vaccines.

The International Space Station will take delivery of 5000 microscopic creatures to probe the impact of zero gravity and long-term space travel on humans.

The shortage threatens an estimated 309,000 public swimming centres and the health of 10 million household pools.

Dr Peter Daszak sympathised with the Chinese government for refusing to give “oxygen” to “conspiracy theories”, and cast doubt on US intelligence suggesting three workers at the lab fell ill shortly before the first recorded case. 

The Canadian government apologised in Parliament in 2008 and admitted that physical and sexual abuse in the schools was rampant. Many students recalled being beaten for speaking their native languages.

Most contraceptives available to women are hundreds of times riskier than coronavirus vaccines and yet safer alternatives are not in sight. 

A photo of the patches was shared widely on social media with the hashtag “hateworks”, prompting hat maker Stetson to announce that it was pulling its products from the store.

Naftali Bennett’s decision could enable opposition chief Yair Lapid to put together a coalition to hand Netanyahu his first election defeat since 1999.

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In a rare account inside China’s opaque judicial system, Dr Yang said he pleaded with the judge to dismiss recordings taken while he was being tortured.

The premise is simply: zone out for 90 minutes, with the winner having the lowest and most stable heart rate. Reasons for competing this year were complicated.

A police dog can’t tell the difference between a personal and commercial quantity of marijuana, and can’t be taught not to detect decriminalised drugs.

“The guy didn’t even ask what we came here to do,” Colombian Juan Bojacá said. “I had practiced like 80 times how to say ‘vaccines’ in English.”

In the last few weeks, Vietnam has confirmed more than 3,500 new cases and 12 deaths, increasing the country’s total death toll to 47.

The Crown’s historical research team have spent weeks poring over the Panorama scandal, in which the BBC covered up deception by interviewer Martin Bashir.

Even writers at Pravda are demanding the release of 23-year-old Russian Sofia Sapega, arrested last week in Minsk alongside boyfriend Raman Pratasevich.

So-called QAnon shaman Jacob Chansely is among the defendants whose lawyers are arguing they were duped or brainwashed into storming the Capitol.

His signature recording was ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head’, an Oscar winner for best original song 1969 Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

The last British prime minister to marry in office was Lord Liverpool in 1822.

A crippling drought is hitting the world’s electronics supply, just as COVID-19 lockdowns send the demand for gadgets to record heights.

Vaccination rates are accelerating across Europe, and there are hopes for a rebirth of its tourism industry.

The last time anyone saw Huang Guanjun alive, he was climbing a steep, rocky slope. Wind howled. Hail and rain pounded, but Huang heard nothing. He ran, like always, in silence.

The latest move will result in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund withholding funding to a nation led by a Nobel laureate Prime Minister.

The gift will help enrich the journalism and sports program at the Morehouse College for black male students.

A mass grave has been found on the site of a residential school set up by the Roman Catholic church in 1890 and closed in 1977.

It was the first successful use of a Senate filibuster in the Biden presidency and was emblematic of the profound mistrust between the two parties.

If approved the plan, part of Biden’s $6 trillion budget for 2022, will raise taxes on high-income earners and corporations.

Up to 100,000 people were killed in the early 20th century in what was seen as a forerunner to Holocaust.

The Brazilian President inaugurated a bridge that allows access to areas where major reserves of niobium have been found.

A police officer was dispatched to the Santa Barbara home of Harry and Meghan to break the news.

Citizens who receive approved vaccines overseas want the same quarantine system as those vaccinated in Australia.

From expulsions in Jerusalem to air strikes on Gaza, the recent escalation of violence has changed the geography and battle lines of this long struggle.

The image is a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

A Canadian MP is temporarily stepping down from some duties after being caught on camera urinating during parliamentary proceedings, a month after being caught on camera naked during another virtual appearance.

A radicalised French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station and died following a shoot-out with police, a government minister said.

The lockdown was imposed after daily new infections breached 8000 for the first time, sparking fears the disease could spiral out of control.

Dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich laughed it off when Belarus declared him a terrorist last year. But then the President sent a jet to divert his flight.

The Foreign Minister has escalated Australia’s response to Beijing’s detention of writer and academic Dr Yang Hengjun, who has gone on trial on espionage charges.

The election was described as illegitimate and a sham by the West and his opposition.

Countries in the bloc have requested a UN resolution dealing with the brutal crackdown by the military be altered to remove a ban on weapon sales.

There’s a new understanding by an African nation and a former colonial power of a historical crime over the genocide of Tutsis.

The royal family appears to have taken matters into its own hands, making vaccines locally and importing more doses, surprising even the government.

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Russian hackers broke into an email marketing account used by the United States Agency For International Development to launch phishing attacks.