The National Health Commission did not reveal how the man had been infected with the virus.

“The fact that the US Deputy Secretary of State is visiting speaks volumes to Cambodia’s degree of discomfort at the position it has found itself in, in relation to China.”

Before he published has masterwork Principia in 1687 setting out the laws of gravitation and motion, there were revisions. And lots of notes.

Including the workers’ family members, some 3000 more Afghans could settle in the UK under the plan.

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Experts are debating whether they show an adult Peanuts’ Lucy Van Pelt.

The New Zealand government is currently running an ambitious campaign to eradicate all introduced predators by 2050.

Known generally by the public as the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India variants, the strains have now been given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.

The dogs being trained to sniff out coronavirus have accurately detected it 96.2 per cent of the time in controlled settings.

Under the Republican bill, a judge could void a candidate’s victory if the number of fraudulent votes cast could change the outcome, even if no fraud was proven to have affected the result.

The Russian embassy did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking an explanation for why its mission in a country of 10.7 million people had been so big.

One critic argued that EU officials were adopting “techno-solutionism” to sideline moral considerations in dealing with the complex issue of migration.

The group, Open Russia, said on Thursday it had decided to end its operations in Russia to protect its members from the risk of being jailed.

Banned by the United States and Australia and shut out by other western nations, Huawei is ramping up its 5G push into south-east Asia.

More restrictions to deal with a growing COVID-19 outbreak have also been imposed on Ho Chi Minh city, where people are only allowed to leave home for necessary activities.

At least 50 people have been killed in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years, the Kivu Security Tracker research group says.

100 years ago, mobs of White residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma attacked the district known as “Black Wall Street”, leaving many dead or injured, and thousands homeless.

The city-state is among the first countries in the world to offer vaccines to teenagers before completing inoculation of adults.

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.