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Harry has raised hackles in the UK by telling American television show Today that he wanted to make sure his grandmother ‘had the right people around her’.

“We will not lay down our weapons,” pledges the Ukrainian major whose forces are holding out in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works.

An animal park in Bavaria that had named one its wild boars Putin due to its Russian genetic heritage has had a change of heart.

A decade after being voted out, Ramos-Horta was headed for a return to the presidential palace, from where he will be tasked with resolving the country’s political impasse.

Scientists at Meiji University have teamed up with Kirin Holdings Company to transform traditional chopsticks into a solution to high blood pressure, strokes and other illnesses.

Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland this week.

The British leader has been savaged by an influential MP over parties held in his office during lockdown.

Ukrainian soldiers defending the besieged port city have been joined by 1000 or more civilians, taking shelter in the steel plant’s warren of rooms.

The 58-year-old actor took to the stand for the first time in his blockbuster trial, revealing details of physical and pyschological abuse he endured as a child.

Explosions targeting schools in Kabul killed at least six people and wounded at least 17 in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul.

Some children in the UK have required specialist care at liver units and a few have needed a liver transplant.

The United States had earlier warned that China’s soldiers could be stationed in the Pacific nation if it signs a security deal with Beijing.

Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes in southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to rockets fired into Israel.

Air and other public transport travel will now be mask-free in the country, dealing a blow to President Joe Biden’s promise to “defeat” COVID.

Russian forces have taken control of Kreminna after “levelling everything to the ground” and reportedly dropped bunker-buster bombs on the Azovstal steel plant.

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Russian forces are focusing their efforts closer to their own border and the south-eastern port city Mariupol, but that doesn't mean people closer to Kyiv are safe.

While many raised eyebrows at the French President’s “he-vage” in an official campaign photo, it’s actually very fashionable right now.

The judge said the CDC had exceeded its authority with the mandate, had not sought public comment and did not adequately explain its decisions.

Yet Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne seems strangely complacent about the nation’s planned security deal with China.

One of the problems is that yachts need constant maintenance, yet the people who would normally pay for it are sanctioned.

The newly reported deaths are the first since two people passed away in mid-March in the northeastern province of Jilin.

Swedish police say the riots are extremely serious crimes against society and suspect some protesters are linked to criminal gangs that intentionally target police.

Infowars is facing multiple defamation lawsuits from families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, which Alex Jones has claimed was a hoax.

Days after the Moskva sank off the coast of Ukraine, the pictures, which are still to be officially confirmed, shows a Slava class cruiser with black smoke billowing from its hull.

Six people were killed and another 11, including a child, were wounded by Russian strikes in the western city of Lviv, according to Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

A pivotal turning point when Tom Turcich was a teenager sowed the seeds of his quest to walk around the world.

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The relentless bombardment and street fighting have left much of Mariupol destroyed and an estimated 21,000 people dead.

Part of the problem is we don’t know the ratio of peaceful to hostile civilisations in the galaxy- should they exist.

“Please, please, let us not get used to war,” Francis told a 50,000-strong crowd who gathered at the Vatican for the first public Easter address since 2019.

The South Carolina shootings and one in Pittsburgh, in which two minors were killed early Sunday, also left at least 31 people wounded.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge led the royal family’s Easter Sunday church service at Windsor Castle, the Queen noticeably absent from one of her traditional outings.

Airstrikes and preparations for a naval landing by Russian forces in Mariupol appear to be under way, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 

Tens of thousands of pilgrims have flocked to Jerusalem this week to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Christian Easter and the Jewish Passover.

Many leftists are unsure whether they will vote for either candidate in France’s election next Sunday, deeming it a choice between “the plague and cholera”.

Fresh from fighting Disney over “don’t say gay” laws, Ron DeSantis has banned primary school texts that he claims, without proof, contain critical race theory.

The new COVID breathalyser detects 9 out of 10 positive cases, on par with most nasal swab tests, but must be administered by a trained operator.

Harry and Meghan could be waving alongside the other Windsors to celebrate the Queen’s record reign - but they are yet to make peace with William and Kate.

The Ukrainian president said up to 3000 Ukrainian troops had died so far in the war with Russia and 10,000 had been injured.

As Ukrainian citizens flee for Poland, the people left behind confront the carnage of war.

The US president vowed to adhere to official health guidelines often ignored by Donald Trump. That doesn’t always happen, even as the virus strikes his inner circle.

In one video clip, residents are kneeling in front of hazmat-suit-wearing officials, pleading to not have their homes transformed into quarantine centres.

But Pavlo Kyrylenko said troops were still “courageously defending Mariupol” against the Russian forces that have bombarded the city, leaving it in ruins.

Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the IS attack team that terrorised Paris in 2015. His testimony has changed since the case started in September.

Matilda Bogner, a Russian-speaking lawyer, heads a United Nations mission trying to sort fact from fiction in Ukraine.

Of Australian citizenship and Ukrainian background, I’ve found the best of humanity in this invaded country. But what of those invaders who have become something less than human?

Harrods head pastry chef Philip Khoury doesn’t want eggs and dairy in pastry. It’s as much about saving the planet as it is about stimulating the tastebuds. 

The explosions appeared to be among the most significant in Ukraine’s capital region since Russian troops pulled back from the area.