Turkey’s formal exit from a European treaty aimed at preventing violence against women prompted hundreds of protesters to take to the streets.

The former defence secretary reduced war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase.

“You cannot expect people to live like that,” Singapore’s health minister said, “restricting themselves, not meeting friends, not being able to travel.”

When he heard that Donald Rumsfeld had died, former detainee Ali Ridha al-Tamimi told his four children: “This is the person who ruined our country.”

“I don’t agree with a fight that reduces everyone to their identity or their particularity,” the French President says.

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His company and CFO were charged with conspiracy and tax fraud. It doesn’t change how supporters perceive Donald Trump.

Despite the mixed reviews, the sons Princess Diana brought up as equals were genuinely happy to celebrate her maternal instincts.

“A black man had beaten a system that too often has left African Americans with a knee on their throats.”

Wally Funk was the youngest member of a group of women being trained to be astronauts by NASA before the program was cancelled.

The prosecutor described a scheme “orchestrated by the most senior executives”, including CFO Allen Weisselberg, that was “sweeping and audacious”.

The work has already earned mixed reactions, but Prince William and Prince Harry believe it will be a more fitting reminder of Diana’s place in history.

Crews have noticed widening cracks and up to 30cm of movement in a large column, leading to concerns about the stability of the remaining structure.

The World Health Organisation has called on governments exempting their vaccinated citizens from pandemic restrictions to grant the same allowances to people who have received any WHO-approved jab.

The charges are the first to emerge from an ongoing investigation into Donald Trump’s real estate empire.

Scientists warn that Indonesia’s outbreak is starting to resemble India’s as morgues fill up and the government scrambles for doses for its 270 million people.

At the 90-year celebrations, the world was cheering China on. Not now. Global public opinion has deserted Xi Jinping’s China.

Samoa is withdrawing its weightlifting team from the Tokyo Games because of COVID-19 curbs, the chief of the Pacific nation’s Olympic committee said.

Standing in Tiananmen Square, a site scrubbed clean of its past, The Chinese President promised the party’s second century would be even more glorious.

A heatwave that smashed all-time high temperature records in western Canada and the US north-west has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling weather and the threat of wildfires.

There is a cost to having a constitution that protects the guilty as well as the innocent.

The Chinese President has given a major speech at Tiananmen Square to mark the 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party.

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The lawsuit alleged that the Hollywood star’s acting and filmmaking school was actually a setup to provide them with a stream of young, impressionable women for sexual and financial exploitation.

The comedian has walked free from jail just hours after a US appeals court overturned his sexual assault conviction, saying he never should have faced charges.

Jamie Spears says he has had no power over his daughter’s personal affairs for nearly two years. She has a court-appointed guardian.

This is the Herald’s first reporting on the Battle of Gettysburg, the decisive encounter of the American Civil War, that took place from the 1st to 3rd of July, 1863.

Tens of millions of people in the UK may be offered a new round of protection from September before Australia’s troubled initial rollout is completed. 

The twice US secretary of defence claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Mack, who played a key role in the scandal-ridden, cult-like group NXIVM, told the court that she had “made choices I will forever regret”.

The charges against the Trump Organisation and the company’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, are expected to involve alleged tax violations related to benefits the company gave to top executives.

A retired US ambassador has called for the former east London schoolgirl’s repatriation after he helped free a Canadian woman held at the same Syrian detention camp.

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More than 500,000 people have died of COVID in Brazil. Its President has called the Senate investigation into his government’s response a “national shame”.

The North Korean leader whose country claims to have no cases called a meeting of the politburo to address some party executives’ neglect of duty.

Family is what drove William and Harry apart and family is what will bring them back together. Physically, at least.

It’s a very small study, but the company says the initial results are encouraging.

“Are you going to pay it?” The cost of the needed repairs was all apartment owners could talk about since April.

If China chose to attack Taiwan, the US could be powerless to stop it. But if China wanted to conquer Taiwan, that’s a different story.

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the most dense object in the universe – all in a split-second gulp.

More than 40 people, many unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for hours, were rescued and at least seven bodies were recovered near the resort island.

South Africa’s highest court on Tuesday sentenced the ex-president to 15 months in jail for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry.

President Xi Jinping appeared on the big screen at a Beijing gala celebrating the party’s history, ahead of his public address from Tiananmen Square on Thursday.

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The Indonesian President wants vaccines as well as the beach to lure people back to Bali.

The ongoing toxicity between William and Harry means that their relationship, not their mother, will be the focal point on Thursday.

One man checked into an air-conditioned five-star hotel, after the five fans aimed at his bed at home and the seventh cold shower failed to bring relief.

New Zealand halted its “travel bubble” with Australia on Saturday but has made plans to restart travel with some states.

Following what police describe as a “stunning tip”, the missing paintings were recovered.

The Ethiopian government earlier called a ceasefire but the People’s Liberation Front said it anticipated retaliation and called on residents to rally behind it.