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Earlier attempts to prosecute the man behind the Auckland attack were stymied after New Zealand’s High Court ruled that preparing a terrorist attack was not an offence under the country’s anti-terrorism laws.

Suga’s resignation will continue the Japanese government’s Olympics curse. The prime minister has resigned within a year of each of the four Games hosted by Japan.

British national Alexanda Anon Kotey is one of four Islamic State members who were dubbed “the Beatles” by their captives because of their British accents.

Searching for escape from lockdown, the memory travels to a bookstore called Shakespeare and Company, where strangers often found hospitality.

“While the fall is encouraging, we are mindful these outbreaks can have a long tail,” Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McEnlay said.

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The island-nation of 24 million people has been desperate for vaccines after a sudden outbreak that started in late April caught authorities by surprise.

With one of the world’s highest vaccination rates, Britain hopes immunity will offer protection when the school year triggers a new wave of infections.

Musk’s companies have been relocating to Texas from California in recent years. Yet the billionaire’s response to Greg Abbott was less than enthusiastic.

The US, UN and EU have called on the Taliban to form an inclusive government that includes women: but many in Afghanistan doubt the regime’s intentions.

In New York City, the storm’s toll reflected not just an ancient and inadequate drainage system but entrenched inequality.

The FAA said the rocketship carrying Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees veered off course during its descent back to New Mexico on July 11, bringing outside of its clearance area.

“Complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women,” said US President Joe Biden.

Foreign military forces have pulled out of Afghanistan but millions of Afghans under an oppressive regime to face winter and starvation.

As the evidence against him mounted, some of the most respected organisations in the world continued to fawn.

The report by state-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times is the most explicit official statement yet on how the espionage cases of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are linked.

They were “footsteps from freedom” when Kabul airport was attacked. Now a far-flung coalition of congressmen, soldiers and sportswomen want to help them escape.

The Texas law bans abortions once doctors can detect a heart beat, usually around six weeks and before most women know they’re pregnant.

Chinese regulators demanded broadcasters cease airing “deformed” tastes, such as “vulgar” internet celebrities, scandals and the flaunting of wealth.

The large new report on British adults provides new evidence that two-shot vaccines offer powerful protection against symptomatic and severe disease caused by the coronavirus.

Asked what she thought of criticism from Australia over New Zealand’s approach to the Delta variant, PM Jacinda Ardern said keeping cases down has to be the goal.

The slim, disposable, fashionable vapes deliver more than 600 puffs of nicotine disguised with flavours such as “pineapple ice” and “cotton candy”.

Critics of President Nayib Bukele’s to adopt bitcoin argue it is risky given the cryptocurrency’s volatility and because it could be used to launder money.

“Anti-mask people keep saying, ‘Where’s the randomised controlled trial?’ Well, here you go,” said one researcher not involved in the study.

In a social media post, Rogan said he took ivermectin, the animal worming treatment debunked as a coronavirus treatment and linked to poisonings.

Republican House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy spoke by phone with then-President Donald Trump on the day of the attack and is a potential witness in the select committee’s probe. 

The United States is looking at all possible options and routes to continue helping Americans and legal permanent residents leave Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen says Australian soldiers should be prosecuted for alleged war crimes committed during the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.

New Zealanders rushed to get their first taste of eased restrictions on Tuesday morning.

An Indonesian search and rescue crew will give itself two more days to try to find an Australian man who disappeared while spearfishing in the Mentawai Islands.

Across the bloc’s 27 countries COVID vaccinations rolled out at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world.

The massacre in Punjab saw hundreds of unarmed Indians killed and was a turning point in the struggle for Indian emancipation.

Poland accuses Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian president, of masterminding the crisis to punish it for offering a safe haven for Belarusian dissidents.

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The country has reported 75 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, all but one in Auckland.

In July 2020, China closed the US consulate in Chengdu in retaliation for being ousted from its Houston consulate a week earlier.

Thirteen alleged card purchasers were also charged, including a man who has been accused of paying to be entered in the database. Actual COVID-19 vaccines are available free of charge.

In his first comments since the withdrawal of the last US troops, President Joe Biden called the evacuation from Afghanistan an extraordinary success, ending a 20-year war.

Demonstrators have said they will gather in front of many train stations in Italy and block the railways, to protest the health pass obligation on trains.

A deep and deadly crevasse opened up on a Mississippi highway on Tuesday as rescue operations continued on the US Gulf Coast.

The controversial camelid was sentenced to death after twice testing positive for bovine TB.

The Taliban are already in talks with Qatar and Turkey about management of the airport and will decide if anyone else can leave when commercial flights resume.

Only China could enforce a scheme to limit children’s video game time to three one-hour sessions across the weekend.

Like a movie scene: there was rubbish blowing across the single Kabul airstrip, Afghans lingering outside the gates, the Taliban firing victoriously into the night sky.

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A 20-year war has come to a sad and profoundly unsatisfying end. Well before the last C-17 left the tarmac, the war was already lost.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the “reproduction rate is remaining under 1, which means cases should continue to decline”. Auckland’s lockdown continues for two weeks.

Evidence of CIA torture could taint the long-delayed trial of Hambali, charged with masterminding the attacks, and his two alleged co-conspirators.

Their latest attack, following Thursday’s fatal suicide bombing outside the airport, was launched on the eve of the United States’ exit from the country.