Three more cases have been added since this afternoon to a total of 10 cases in the community.

Nearly 200 passengers have boarded a flight towards Darwin from Indonesia, where there have been more than 1000 COVID deaths per day for the past month.

Although in small numbers, breakthrough infections accounted for at least one in 5 newly diagnosed cases in six of these states and higher hospitalisation and death rates.

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Known as the “Godfather of Sudoku”, Kaji never trademarked it except within Japan, which helped drive a worldwide craze.

For many there is a real, deeply personal, sense of loss, but as a former solider I would like to offer a different perspective.

Images circulated on social media earlier this week of Afghans desperate to leave Kabul rushing toward a C-17 and clinging to its side.  

Afghans flee the country as Taliban fighters take control

The UN refugee agency estimates that about 550,000 Afghans have been driven from their homes so far this year, and there are fears that thousands more may now follow. 

The positive tests comes a day after Abbott tweeted a picture of himself not wearing a mask while speaking indoors near Dallas to a group of Republicans, most of whom were unmasked.

Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabinet secretary confirmed by the Senate, posted on Twitter: “For some time, Chasten and I have wanted to grow our family”.

The government’s sourcing of 500,000 doses of Pfizer from a facility set up for poorer nations has not been welcomed.

Afghans working on Australian-led aid programs say they expect to be hunted down door-to-door after the Taliban seized control of Kabul.

The body of the man, believed to be in his 60s, was found in a tomb that dated to the final decades of Pompeii, before it was destroyed by the Vesuvius volcano in 79AD.

“Nobody is going to harm you, nobody is going to knock on your doors,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said during the Taliban’s first official news conference since their shock seizure of Kabul.

Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron joined Boris Johnson in blaming the US for the fall of Kabul but Joe Biden doubled down on his decision to withdraw.

Zarifa Ghafari has survived three assassination attempts but has never felt as much despair as now.

“We are better to start high [with restrictions] and be cautious,” PM Jacinda Ardern said. “We only need to look at Australia to see the alternative.”

The price of Chinese cooperation and economic investment is for an Islamist Afghanistan to remain silent on the plight of more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang.

One of the river’s dams is just a few metres away from having its hydroelectric shut off. “What we hoped we’d never see is here,” said an official.

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The “key to NYC” program will make vaccination a condition of entry to cultural venues as well as bars and gyms.

It was once a stop on the hippie trail and inspiration for the Lonely Planet guidebooks. So how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war and terrorism?

After two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, the Taliban has seized power again for the first time since 2001. But what does the fundamentalist force want?

The contract is one of the most significant NASA programs in some time and has been a target for Blue Origin for years.

Carrying what is believed to be among the most people flown in a C-17 Globemaster, the US Air Force transport plane departed Kabul on Monday for Qatar.

China and Russia have cultivated contacts with the Taliban, who in turn have been careful to reassure them that the group is a friendly force. 

Dr Zhang Wenhong was criticised on social media for “pandering to foreigners” and shunning China’s way of dealing with the pandemic for a Western one.

Biden was speaking as chaotic scenes unfolded at the US-controlled Kabul international airport as thousands of Afghans tried to flee the country.

While ‘black sites’ are common in China, a 26-year-old woman’s account is the only testimony known to experts that Beijing has set one up in another country.

With the Taliban taking over their homeland, Afghan refugees stranded in Indonesia are contemplating travelling illegally to Australia.

Thousands of Afghans tried to flee the country, with several people clinging to the outside of a US military plane as it took off and plunging to their deaths, officials say.

Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had sought to cling to power, but the withdrawal of support from coalition MPs sealed his fate.

The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, promising to run an inclusive government two decades after being ousted from Kabul by the United States.

The least Australia can do now is to make good on our vague promises to join the rescue mission and evacuate the Afghans stuck in Kabul .

An entire generation of Afghans raised on hopes of building a modern, democratic state have seen their dreams seem to melt away.

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Local leaders I met didn’t understand why we were still in their country.

When Joe Biden fronts the nation to speak about Afghanistan this week, he will need to choose harsh realism over false optimism.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken conceded that the Taliban were able to take control of the country far more quickly than the White House had predicted.

Eurico Guterres was once indicted by the UN for crimes against humanity in East Timor. Now he has received one of Indonesia’s top awards from President Joko Widodo.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is betting that high COVID-19 vaccination rates and a post-pandemic economic rebound will help him strengthen his grip on power.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose on Sunday as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors before a tropical storm hit.

The insurgents ordered its fighters to refrain from violence as they negotiate “a peaceful transfer of Kabul city” into their hands after 20 years.

There’s only one way out for those fleeing the endgame of the Afghan war, and tickets on the last planes out of Kabul are almost gone.

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While children under 12 are not eligible for vaccinations, children now make up about 24 per cent of the nation’s COVID-19 hospitalisations.

A major earthquake reduced buildings to rubble and sent shock waves across the Caribbean, where people fled their homes for fear they might collapse.

France is planning a sporting extravaganza like no other with much of it outdoors and open to the public.