A two-dose Pfizer vaccination appears to provide just 33 per cent protection against infection during South Africa’s current Omicron wave.

The Duke’s latest 11-page legal memorandum describes Virginia Giuffre’s civil claim against him as “ambiguous at best and unintelligible at worst”.

“He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand,” the president’s son texted. Three Fox News hosts also asked for Trump to tell rioters to go home.

In a country beset by war, and divided by rebels and by a Saudi-backed government “The joy was for all, even those who are fighting each other”.

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Authors of a new report card on the state of the top of the world say it is “hugely surprising” to see things changing so fast.

Some 99 Conservatives opposed plans for the COVID passes, a much higher number of rebels than was expected.

Barry Sherman, who founded generic drugmaker Apotex, and his wife, Honey, were found dead in their Toronto mansion on December 15, 2017.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya vowed to continue her campaign against authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko after a court in the country jailed her husband for 18 years.

The World Meteorological Organisation said the temperature “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic” was registered on June 20, 2020, during a heat wave that swept across Siberia.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the delays in getting ambassadors to their posts were a ‘huge problem’ that was hampering efforts to tackle foreign policy challenges.

Amir Khan Muttaqi says the Taliban government wants good relations with all countries and has no issue with the US, and he’d like $US10m released.

Australian parents accuse the Japanese government of causing them “untold pain and suffering” but the ambassador to Australia says they’re merely confused.

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Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has a Hindu nationalist base, the national government has taken steps in recent years to promote the religion and to sideline Muslims and other groups.

Dunn’s supporters hailed the breakthrough and said it was the first time the US had allowed one of its diplomats to face justice abroad.

The statue of the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was ordered taken down by the executor of the estate of the man who erected it.

Bob Innes, who set up the website in 2005, said: “I thought nobody can be that stupid, and boy have I been proven wrong.”

Nassar, who had been the main doctor for Olympic gymnasts, was sentenced in federal court on charges of molesting female gymnasts under his care and possessing child sex abuse material.

Norway is setting record highs both in terms of new COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations, partly due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the virus.

It would be entirely consistent for Beijing to use its monopoly control of the digital yuan as another layer in its “techno authoritarianism” for use at home and abroad.

The Tesla CEO was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year that saw his electric car company become the most valuable carmaker in the world.

Jimmy Lai, the founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, has already been jailed for taking part in pro-democracy protests.

The video used during a presentation by Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang caused an immediate flurry of emails among US officials.

Positive cases to be followed along the streets, their contacts and mask-wearing habits recorded, in new program going live in January despite privacy concerns.

Beyond the laughs, analysts see an effort to improve the image of a leader in need of support in a country struggling through a years-long crisis.

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US prosecutors have presented a succession of women making powerful accusations against Ghislaine Maxwell, but one large elephant remains in the room.

The plane is based on a design of a Two-Stage Vehicle X-plane by Ming Han Tang, the Chinese-born chief engineer of NASA’s early hypersonic program in the late 1990s. 

In a televised statement, PM Boris Johnson said British adults would be offered a third shot of vaccine by the end of this month in response to the Omicron “emergency”.

At least 100 people were believed to have been killed in Kentucky alone after the tornadoes tore through the US Midwest and South on Friday night.

Wallace’s announcement even took the guests on his show Sunday by surprise; they were not tipped off ahead of time.

International sanctions against the Taliban have made it difficult to get funds into the country since the group took power in August.

Its latest Defence Assessment shows New Zealand raising the alarm.

At a meeting in England on Sunday, G7 delegates said they were united in their condemnation of Russia’s military build-up near Ukraine.

Voters in New Caledonia have rejected independence in a referendum boycotted by separatist groups and closely watched around the South Pacific.

Boris Johnson, engulfed by a string of scandals that have outraged the public, faces fresh allegations he broke lockdown rules by hosting a Christmas quiz.

New Zealand health authorities say that despite all the doses, the man won’t have stronger immunity from COVID-19.

There is a strong humanitarian and pragmatic argument for freeing the WikiLeaks founder.

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Barbara Richards made a horrifying discovery as she looked out the glass door of the Monette Manor nursing home. A tornado was heading straight for her.

Julian Assange suffered a stroke during his High Court appeal, his fiancee Stella Moris has revealed on social media.

Doctors and medical experts suspect that the Omicron version really is causing milder COVID-19 than Delta, even if it seems to be spreading faster.

At least 100 people were killed in a devastating outbreak of tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and several other US states.

The defence has tried hard to portray the accusers’ testimony as tainted by faulty memories, drug abuse and the millions of dollars they’ve received from Epstein’s estate.

Amid fears Asia’s fourth-largest economy is being left behind by the members of the Quad, South Korea’s President will look to lock in US support via Australia.

The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father’s famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.

The document recommended that then president Donald Trump declare a national emergency to delay the certification of the election results.

The US had frozen the supply of funds to the country after the Taliban takeover in August.

Annie Farmer was the last accuser to testify in the British socialite’s trial. The defence will begin to put its case next week.