Planned Parenthood sued Right to Life in state court to stop the anti-abortion group from enforcing Texas’ new six-week abortion ban against its centres.

The Taliban have promised a more enlightened regime, but counter-terrorism’s old hands fear civil war and terror exports like Syria five years ago.

The man Scott Morrison called “Yoshi” is gone. Whoever replaces him will have to negotiate a volatile international environment.

In a statement, the Health Ministry said a woman in her 90s who was a confirmed case of COVID-19 died in North Shore Hospital in Auckland last night.

Michelle Simmons, the 2018 Australian of the Year, is so driven to make history in quantum computing that she admits she’s barely noticed the pandemic: “I live in a bubble.”

Publication of sensitive material sparks security concerns and anger at Buckingham Palace, and the British government has started a leak inquiry.

Jacinda Ardern said she would not name him herself. “No terrorist, whether alive or deceased, deserves their name to be shared for the infamy they were seeking.”

British experts have said the benefits of vaccinating children against COVID-19 are not big enough to justify giving healthy teenagers, aged below 16, the jab.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that he would not seek re-election, putting an end to a tumultuous year in charge that saw Japan deliver a successful Olympics and a record number of coronavirus cases.

Police went door to door in search of more possible victims and drew up lists of the missing as the death toll rose to 49 on Friday in the catastrophic flooding set off across America’s northeast by the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

Consolidating authority will be the mission for the new rebel rulers in Afghanistan.

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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.

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.