Britain's Prime Minister has come under sustained attack in parliament today over allegations that parties at his residence broke Covid lockdown rules, France’s education minister is facing calls to resign after announcing Covid protocol for schoo…
The government says it will continue the programme for people over 60. Also: Quebec is banning alcohol sales to unvaccinated people to encourage them to get jabbed; and thousands of hamsters are being culled in Hong Kong over concerns of animal to hu…
Beijing fears items delivered from overseas could spread the Omicron variant. Also: tsunami-hit Tonga fears foreign aid could bring coronavirus to the country; and Greece begins to fine people over 60 who haven’t been vaccinated.
Novak Djokovic is on a flight from Australia after a court ruled the tennis star should not be allowed stay in the country. Federal judges upheld the government's decision to cancel his visa on the basis that his presence risked encouraging anti-vacc…
Authorities want to eradicate Covid in the city of 14 million residents ahead of the Lunar New Year and Beijing Winter Olympic Games after cases were found in previous testing rounds. Also: an update on why Novak Djokovic's visa was cancelled, and wh…
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National leaders are promoting it. Local ones want to curb driving…
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Scott Morrison says claims federal government requisitioning Covid rapid antigen tests ‘categorically untrue’; 60 coronavirus deaths recorded across four states; NSW hospitalisations have fallen; two oral treatments for Covid-19 given provisional…
US president Joe Biden has accused the Republicans of blocking his legislative agenda for purely political purposes, saying the party is more interested in defeating his presidency than doing things for the American people. Without mentioning his nam…
First aid supplies have arrived in Tonga amid fears over contaminated water sources after volcano eruptionFresh pictures of the devastation in Tonga have emerged five days after an enormous volcano eruption and subsequent tsunami cut off contact with…
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The U.S. secretary of state met with Ukraine’s president and said he would not present a written diplomatic proposal to Russia when he meets with his Russian counterpart on Friday.
President Biden’s comments went well beyond the formal intelligence assessments described by White House officials, which conclude that Russia’s president has not yet decided whether to invade.
The country’s Covid measures were eased last week, but many arts venues had to remain closed and many in the sector are unhappy about it.
The Svalbard Islands, part of Norway, are warming seven times faster than the global average. Aerial pictures from the 1930s are helping researchers understand what that means for the region’s ice.
The New York Times obtained footage of the botched strike in Kabul, whose victims included seven children, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
A global survey has found that while public trust in the world’s democracies has fallen to new lows, scores are rising in several autocratic states – notably China.The Edelman Trust Barometer – which for 20 years has polled thousands of people…
Joe Biden sought to reset his presidency in a marathon press conference on Wednesday, vowing to reconnect with American voters in his second year and touting what he said were his unprecedented successes, but stumbling during an answer on the Ukraine…
North Korea on Thursday threatened to scrap its self-imposed moratorium on testing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, lashing out at American “military threats” that it said had reached a “danger line”.Leader Kim Jong-un convened a meet…
Hong Kong’s education authorities are likely to suspend most in-person classes in secondary schools starting Monday amid growing local outbreaks involving the Delta and Omicron variants, with health experts and principals backing the idea and an an…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that restrictions will be tightened across the country if there is a community transmission of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus but she ruled out lockdowns.New Zealand’s tight control…
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January 20, 2022 11:17 AMPolls show that significant portions of the American public continue to believe conspiracy theories about the pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged states to ease testing rules, surfing legend Kelly Slater has “no chance” of getting into the country if he’s not vaccinated and in the UK Boris Johnson is resisting calls to step down.
Follow along for all the major moments of day four at the 2022 Australian Open.
Clive Palmer’s party has spent almost $5 million on political advertising on YouTube, which has subsequently removed four ads for breaching its policies.
Students have begun receiving their HSC results and band six results will be released here at noon. Follow the news as we celebrate the Class of 2021.
The number of working holidaymakers has plummeted and is slow to rebound, as the federal government waives visa fees to encourage more arrivals.
REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoTesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders on Tuesday asked a judge to find that Elon Musk forced the company's board of directors into a deal for SolarCity in 2016 and wanted the CEO convicted, the electric vehicl…
Photo Credit: Fabrice Coffrini | ReutersAt present, there is no evidence that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, World Health Organization chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday. …
The Android app will get new pencil and drawing tools in a future update, while WhatsApp Desktop will get new chat bubble colors. The desktop app also gets a new dark blue color that is only visible in dark theme mode.The instant messagin…
(Mike Blake, Reuters)Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is buying "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtual future.The dea…
Photo credit: Gadgets Now Apple has confirmed that iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro do not cancel noise during phone calls, including iPhone 13 mini and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Apple included the feature in the iPhone 12 series and earli…
The decline in New Delhi and Mumbai suggests prior infections might be helping to prevent a repeat of last year’s devastating wave.
The U.S. president said Russia would face consequences calibrated to the degree of aggression, while the Biden administration’s top diplomat sought to reassure Ukraine’s president of unified support from the West.
At a Politburo meeting, the Kim Jong Un regime blasted the U.S. for maintaining hostilities and said it needs to prepare for a long-term confrontation with the U.S.
French President Emmanuel Macron marked his turn at the helm of the EU’s rotating presidency with a call for Europe to chart its own defense course aside from the trans-Atlantic alliance with the U.S.
The British prime minister faced rising political pressure over allegations that he broke lockdown rules by attending a drinks party in Downing Street, as some of his Conservative lawmakers strategized how to oust the British leader and one defected…
Microsoft is betting on a future more focused on games than hardware.
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Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November.
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Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow.
On 18 February 2021, the National IHR Focal Point for the Russian Federation notified WHO of detection of avian influenza A(H5N8) in seven human clinical specimens. These are the first reported detection of avian influenza A(H5N8) in humans. Positive…
On 14 February 2021, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Guinea informed WHO of a cluster of Ebola Virus…
Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been reported in Kenya in humans in Isiolo and Mandera counties and in…
On 7 February 2021, the Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the laboratory confirmation of one case in North Kivu Province. The case was an adult female living in Biena He…
On 13 January, 2021, a child under 18 years of age in Wisconsin developed respiratory disease. A respiratory specimen was collected on 14 January. Real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing conducted at the Wisconsin S…
