A spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte says he will not cooperate with an investigation: “We do not need foreigners to investigate killings in the drug war.”

The tone was not as strident as some hawks would like but the G7 meeting in Britain was a good start in building a more united front.

The French joint operator of the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong, China, said it was dealing with a “performance issue”.

Experts believe the snow algae may be a marker of climate change but also that their rise could hasten the shrinking of glaciers and snow caps.

The treaty organisation has traditionally focussed on the threat of Russia, but is increasingly concerned about China’s nuclear arsenal and lack of transparency.

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When the PM said he was prepared to wait for the right trade deal with Britain rather than a rushed one, he wasn’t bluffing. 

The TV host said sorry for her “meanness masquerading as edgy humour” after vicious tweets the then-supermodel sent to other celebrities in 2011 were unearthed.

Journalists from the BBC walked out of the event, saying it was clear he appeared under duress.

New free trade deal will pave the way for more Australians to live and work in Britain once international borders reopen.

“How on earth can I offer up evidence for something where there is no evidence?” she said, her voice rising in anger during the brief, unscheduled conversation.

The final unlocking of England’s economy has been delayed because of a resurgence in coronavirus due to the more transmissible Delta variant.

Two French companies involved in the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant have acknowledged unusual activity at the reactor in Guangdong province.

Suu Kyi, 75, faces a slew of charges since being overthrown by the army in a February 1 coup that cut short a decade of tentative democratic reforms and has plunged the South-East Asian country into chaos.

The Australian government has ordered 51 million doses of Novavax’s product, which is easy to store and transport.

Evidence is mounting that Xinjiang detainees - after being subjected to physical torture and political indoctrination in re-education camps - are being forced to work in factories producing goods for export.

Held annually since 1877, the show is one of the oldest and most popular sporting events in the United States.

The producer who was working on They Are Us, Philippa Campbell, resigned on Monday. She issued a statement apologising for her involvement in the film.

US President Joe Biden also says Beijing must “act more responsibly in terms of international norms, human rights and transparency”.

US President Joe Biden is expected to underscore commitment to Article 5 of the alliance charter, which says an attack on one member is an attack on all.

Netanyahu’s opponents are pushing back in a way that might work for Israel, but broader efforts are needed to confront authoritarianism worldwide.

Over the past seven decades, the Queen has met every US president, bar one.

For the first time in 12 years, Israeli lawmakers have voted to install a government led by someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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He compartmentalised the Palestinian conflict, snubbing endless peace talks, unilaterally expanding the Jewish presence in the occupied West Bank, while presiding over an extraordinary economic turnaround.

As leaders walked down the long beach boardwalk in Cornwall on Friday for the traditional “family photo,” Trudeau trailed behind as Macron made a beeline for Biden.

Bosses at the broadcaster’s Rome headquarters uncovered the issue by chance when a painting fell to the floor, its broken frame revealing it was actually a copy.

The US President later revealed that the Queen asked him about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Windsor Castle.

If you are here to pick up the plane “then the light must be at the end of the tunnel,” wrote one pilot as he parked his commercial jet in storage in March 2020.

The CEO of a high-powered eco-investment firm, Fiona Reynolds, has resigned so she can see her family. “Australia’s not changing anything, so what am I going to do?”

The delicate post-Brexit act of protecting the Good Friday Agreement usually centres on history, nationalism, religion and geography, but the latest spat is centred on sausages.

Tired of having spent much of the last year cooped up at home, customers are buying high-end items as they emerge from lockdown.

Naftali Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will take over as prime minister. But if he wants to keep the job, he will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, left and centre.

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Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson will thrash out the final terms over a lavish dinner at Downing Street.

The heavy sentence comes amid a continuing flurry of incidents and arrests at places like banks and polling places across the US over masks.

Tigsti’s mother walked for 12 days to get her famished newborn to a clinic in Tigray. The UN says this is the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said he could count on police officers “whatever happens,” as the far-right former army captain dubbed the country’s state military police “my army”.

ID cards and other possessions from people long disappeared were found at the junk-filled home, suggesting the trail of killings may go back years.

The Russian leader bristled when a US reporter named specific opponents of Putin’s who have been killed in recent years.

The company’s first flight into space is scheduled for July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Scott Morrison, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson agree more co-operation is needed because the “strategic context in the Indo-Pacific was changing”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says more work is needed to find out what caused the global “carnage” of the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States is back as a cooperative leader of the free world under President Joe Biden, France’s Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, illustrating the relief felt by many key US allies that the tumult of Donald Trump’s presidency is over.

Airline bookings have been picking up since February, as more Americans were vaccinated against COVID-19.

Hawking’s personal reference library and his papers are being preserved by Cambridge University Library, which also holds the papers of other scientific giants, such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

“I realised, oh my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth and he’s trying to swallow me,” lobster diver Michael Packard told a Boston TV station. “This is it. I’m gonna die.”

Chow, along with Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, who has since been given asylum in Britain, came to prominence as teenagers during the 2014 protests.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will debate the fast-tracked vaccine timeline in Carbis Bay this weekend, as world leaders discuss readiness for the next virus.

She is the heir apparent. But after the Vice-President’s difficult week, Democrats are asking if she would be up to the task of running for president in 2024.