Indonesian troops could also begin training with Australian military in Australia soon as defence links between the neighbouring countries grow.

A video posted on social media showed a Taliban fighter whipping one of the demonstrators as several women screamed and hurried away.

Weeks into the pandemic, Soren Brostrom gained international prominence for discussing a topic few health officials dared to broach: casual sex and COVID.

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Since 1890, the towering memorial has stood in the former capital of the pro-slavery Confederacy.

A four-wheeled law enforcer is helping to enforce mask-wearing, social distancing and other forms of bad behaviour such as smoking in no-smoking areas.

The lawyer for Prince Andrew’s accuser says the Duke’s legal team is “stonewalling” and made clear that wherever he is, they will find him.

The nurse said she fell under the cult leader’s spell and she started rationalising the wrongdoing she saw around her.

Melbourne teacher Shanae Edwards, 31, disappeared while trekking in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on July 30. Her body was found the next day.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sent a stream of Twitter messages over the past 36 hours instructing users on how to download the government-backed Chivo.

Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir Mohamad says Australia’s renewed Quad alliance with the US, Japan and India is “an aggressive move” that will anger China.

The backdown has prompted claims Boris Johnson is not applying enough pressure on Australia ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

The trial of 20 men accused in a series of co-ordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France has opened.

Zero tolerance, zero emissions, COVID zero – as targets of public policy, these all had their origin at Ground Zero.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the sacrifices of Australians stuck overseas had helped save 30,000 lives.

Health authorities are blaming a “one-off human error” for the mistake, which led the babies to be raised by the wrong families.

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New genetic research validates an almost 70-year-old theory first posited by Alan Turing, famous for cracking the Nazi Enigma code.

Now women in Texas will be able to travel south over the border for an abortion.

The US President said the world is at “one of those inflection points where we either act or we’re going to be in real, real trouble”.

His detention comes on the same day that tens of thousands of people rallied in support of embattled Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, with whom Miller met during his visit.

Earlier, Salvadorans trying to download the Chivo digital wallet found it was unavailable on popular app stores.

Wuhan’s P4 pathogen lab is one of several dozen in the world with the highest security designation. Now, some suspect it might have been involved in the genesis of COVID-19.

Top posts have been given to Taliban personalities who dominated the 20-year battle against the US-led coalition and its Afghan government allies.

David Horder and his two brothers, Matthew and Adam spoke of the grief, trauma, anxiety and the effect on their life after learning of the downing of the flight killing their parents and 296 others.

As the national election campaign enters its final weeks, the Prime Minister had attacked his main rival, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, for pandering towards “anti-vaxxers”.

Vietnam jailed a man for five years for breaking strict COVID-19 quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media reported.

Cambodia is an outlier in mainland south-east Asia in the speed of its vaccine rollout, benefitting from being near the front of the queue with chief sponsor Beijing.

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The Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday newspapers reported that Michael Fawcett coordinated support for an honour for Saudi businessman Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.

Ferrari and Maserati account for just a fraction of the market and it is unfair that they should be held to the same standards as automobile giants, Italy argues.

The move by the nation’s top law enforcement official comes just days after the Supreme Court refused to block an extreme Texas abortion statute.

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Despite the emergence of Mu, Delta is now estimated to comprise more than 99 per cent of the variants circulating in the United States.

China has imposed a new law that challenges freedom of navigation in the South China Sea.

Maria Kolesnikova’s jailing was the latest move in a relentless crackdown in the wake of last year’s anti-government protests.

Six prisoners tunnelled out of their cell and escaped from a high-security facility in Israel in the biggest prison break of its kind in decades.

Relatives of the 298 victims of the downed flight began testifying in the Dutch murder trial of four suspects.

The former British prime minister has warned the West needs to prepare itself for terrorist organisations using bioweapons as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The province was the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their blitz across Afghanistan last month.

Earlier, the country reported 20 new community cases of COVID-19, the third day in a row at that level, suggesting restrictions were having an effect.

“It is with deep sadness and dismay that we learned of the sudden death of the German ambassador to China,” the Federal Foreign Office said on its website.

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The searches were revealed in documents released on Monday showing authorities had attempted to prevent the Islamic State-inspired attacker from owning a large knife.

“He fought for his country in Afghanistan and Iraq,” said the local sheriff. “And this morning he’s a cold-blooded killer.”

A few weeks ago COVID was ravaging the continent. Now new infections have fallen in nearly every nation as vaccination rates have ramped up.

Olga Safronova follows Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya who defected to Poland last month after she said coaches had ordered her to fly home from Olympics.

The CDC has reported that almost 90,000 prescriptions for ivermectin were being written per week in mid-August, up 3600 before the pandemic.

With the collapse of Kabul imminent, a senior Afghani woman reached out to the Australian government for help to save 90 of her staff. She received no response.

A new travel lane for vaccinated travellers between Singapore and Germany could present a model for how other countries, including Australia, can eventually resume international travel.