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American Heather Mack has been released after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for helping to kill her mother and then stuffing the body in a suitcase.

With an approval rating of 63 per cent, the former banker is more popular than most of the other democratic leaders who will be visiting Rome.

The researchers underlined that the findings did not weaken the argument for vaccination as the best way of reducing serious illness from COVID-19.

Two thirds of the Virginian island of Tangier has disappeared since 1850. But the mayor doesn’t believe in climate change - or the last election result.

The plan to dissuade migrants from making “dangerous irregular journeys” involves the EU launching “targeted information campaigns” across the region.

France also suggested it might restrict energy supplies to the Channel Islands, British Crown dependencies that lie off the coast of France.

Lawyers for Julian Assange told Britain’s High Court that the reported CIA plot to kill or kidnap the Australian shows that the US government’s pledge to safely extradite the WikiLeaks founder can’t be trusted.

South Korea’s spy agency used artificial intelligence techniques and an analysis of super-resolution video of Kim to investigate his condition, politicians say.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Australia has to be the one to repair the damage caused by the AUKUS defence pact.

The seven-day national average has plummeted since the latest wave’s peak in September.

After isolation from the international financing system during the three decades of Bashir’s rule, Sudan had gained access to $2.6 billion in financing.

The government funding for the OzAsia Festival is at risk over claims of political interference in a Hong Kong performance.

The Ardern government has changed COVID requirements to allow more New Zealanders abroad to come home.

It comes as President Joe Biden vowed to stand with Taiwan and ASEAN nations against China’s “coercive” actions.

US authorities told British judges that if they agreed to extradite the WikiLeaks founder on espionage charges, he could serve any US prison sentence he received in Australia.

The outcome of study on the pills’ effects were so strong that independent experts recommended stopping the study early because the results were clear.

Fox News host and cancer survivor Neil Cavuto shared angry messages he received from viewers after testing positive for COVID-19 last week.

India, the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US, is under pressure to announce plans to become carbon-neutral by mid-century.

The government in an affidavit has not told the court whether it used the Israeli equipment for spying, citing security reasons.

Authorities say they have not ruled out the possibility of laying charges over the shooting last week that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal.

Sudanese security forces detained three prominent pro-democracy figures, according to their relatives and other activists on Wednesday, as internal and international pressure mounted on the country’s military to walk back its coup.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has said that she was the “most trolled person” in the world. A report seems to vindicate her claim.

Inside the Lucky Dumpling Market on the Moon Lantern Trail in Adelaide, Janet Leung wanted to put up some umbrellas. That’s when the trouble started.

The Brazilian President could face charges for a litany of offences including spreading false information claiming vaccinated people in the UK were contracting AIDS faster.

The frequency of meetings, both private and public, between the US leader and his Vice-President has declined dramatically.

No journalists, diplomats or observers were allowed into the especially built court hearing the ousted leader’s testimony.

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A regional approach has helped Italy get on top of the virus - and may have lessons for Australia.

Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout from the death of Halyna Hutchins, definitely in civil lawsuits and potentially in criminal charges.

An advisory panel voted unanimously, with one abstention, that the vaccine’s benefits in preventing COVID-19 in the 5-11 year-old age group outweigh any potential risks.

New rules on investment are considered a big win for those who had been demanding the government rid Britain’s critical infrastructure of Chinese involvement.

The idea of the Calm Line, as it is called, is not just to prevent violence against women, but to address what many experts say is one of its root causes.

The US has warned businesses about the risks of supply chains and investments in China’s Xinjiang region which supplies much of the world’s solar industry.

The 95-year-old monarch has “regretfully” decided that she will no longer travel to Glasgow.

Ahead of crunch climate talks in Glasgow, a United Nations report has delivered a stark warning that current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track to dangerous warming.

The link will enable Australians to fly to Singapore and back without quarantining and is expected to also include Singaporean students and business travellers.

The sudden restrictions come 100 days out from the start of the Winter Olympics and two weeks before a key Chinese Communist Party meeting in Beijing.

An oversight panel has set out a blueprint for what countries must do in the next two months to fix this pandemic and cope with the next.

Mako married her fiance Kei Komuro today with only a press conference for ceremony, exiting the Japanese Imperial family and leaving behind just 12 women and five men.

The British Prime Minister singled out political events in Canberra as a sign world leaders were beginning to take climate change seriously. 

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In August 2019, Saad al-Jabri filed a 107-page lawsuit in the United States, alleging that the Crown Prince “dispatched a “hit squad” to kill him in October 2018.

Baldwin’s impression of former president Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live long angered the businessman-turned-politician.

A facebook investigation found domestic workers frequently complained of being locked in their homes, starved, unpaid, and repeatedly sold.

Stella Moris likened a reported CIA plot to kidnap or kill the WikiLeaks founder to that of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the coup that threatens the country’s shaky progress toward democracy.

Activities at the Willard, mapped out in memos and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers, add to a picture of an effort to pull off a second Trump term.

Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has been put under house arrest after an unidentified military force besieged his house.

Alec Baldwin was pointing a revolver at a camera during rehearsal when the weapon fired and struck the cinematographer in the chest, according to documents just released.