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Covid crisis: Australians trying to return home from India face up to $66,000 fine or five years’ jail

Grammy Awards scrap controversial voting committees

US senators said Friday that the government is investigating an apparent increase in mysterious directed-energy attacks dubbed "Havana syndrome"

Scientists say India government ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge

Russia records more than 400,000 excess deaths during pandemic

Covid: Australians could face jail or fines if they return from India

Significant magnitude 6.7 earthquake 45 km southeast of Ishinomaki, Japan / VolcanoDiscovery

‘This is genocide’: Ethiopia attempts to erase Tigrayan ethnicity

Palestinian president decides — on his own — to postpone elections

India's over-18s vaccination to start

Covid: Australians could face jail or fines if they return from India

Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense causing cancer among soldiers, report claims

Guantánamo detainee takes on CIA ‘black sites’ in UN human rights case

Brazilian Activists Display Fake Body Bags Representing Dead as Country Becomes Second to Pass 400,000 Deaths

Ireland sending 700 oxygen concentrators to India

Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians

Singapore: What's it like in the best place to live during Covid?

Covid: Pakistan fears 'Impending doom' threatens Pakistan

How a Nigerian mother fought to hold on to her child in Italy

Alaska's first CSI takes on blood and burglaries in sub-zero weather

India's Covid vaccine shortage: The desperate wait gets longer

France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara

India's new registered COVID-19 cases cross 400k per day.

Israel crush: Witnesses tell of people 'thrown up in the air'

Mexico: 'Revenge Porn' to be punishable with jail term of up to 6 years

These people aren't real but could help tackle bias in tech

Woman who starved and abused her Myanmar maid to death seeks to avoid life imprisonment

Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China to combat brain drain

Afghan forces prepare to take on the Taliban without U.S. help, because there's "no other option."

Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan violence: Deadly clash amid water dispute

China adopts law against food waste; binge eating, excessive leftovers to face fines

Germany to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in 2022

Israel stampede: Chaotic scenes as dozens dead at religious festival

‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe

India Covid: Delhi seeks more cremation space as deaths rise

Ghislaine Maxwell: Lawyers release photo that shows bruised face

‘Cannon fodder’: India’s COVID-hit medical students feel betrayed | Junior doctors subjected to mammoth workloads, lack of pay, rampant exposure to virus and complete academic neglect.

28 people crushed to death, dozens hurt at mass Lag B'Omer event in Mt. Meron

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice: reliant on the river for millennia, they are struggling to adapt to other livelihoods

More than 1,000 parking tickets issued at Calgary's mass vaccination site

Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic

Navalny Ally Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Prison For Reposting Music Video

Israel stampede: Dozens killed in crush at religious festival

Germany puts anti-lockdown activists under surveillance

Rape victims in south Asia still face vaginal tests, report finds. The test involves a medical practitioner inserting two fingers into the vagina of a rape survivor in an attempt to determine if the hymen is broken, as well as to test laxity in the vagina.

Pfizer begins exporting U.S. made COVID-19 shots abroad, starting with Mexico

Just 1.2 per cent of rental properties in Australia are affordable for minimum wage earners, analysis finds

Italy theft: Two suspects die in jewellery shop robbery

Cop's wife who starved, tortured Myanmar maid to death makes legal moves to avoid life imprisonment

El Risitas: Man behind 'Spanish laughing guy' meme dies

Britney Spears fans jubilant at news she will address court

India has declined assistance offered by the United Nations of its integrated supply chain for COVID19-related material, saying the country has a "robust system" to deal with the required logistics, a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.

Pfizer CEO Says Antiviral Pill To Treat Covid Could Be Ready By The End Of The Year

India: Modi’s pandemic choice: Protect his image or protect India. He chose himself - Washington Post

Scientists have discovered a billion-year-old fossil in the Scottish Highlands that could reveal a new link in the evolution of animals

Chinese International Student Stabbed in Edmonton, bystanders allegedly prevent others from helping

Facebook hid posts calling for PM Modi’s resignation in India ‘by mistake’

West Bengal: India state elections go ahead as deaths hit record high

China launches first module of new space station

Biden pitches 'once in a generation investment' to Congress

Human rights watch delivers a 213 page report detailing apartheid in Israel, calls on UN to impose sanctions.

Facebook blocked hashtag calling for Narendra Modi to resign over pandemic | Users based in India noted on Twitter that the #ResignModi hashtag had been blocked from view on Facebook

They are killing our forest, Brazilian tribe warns

Bystanders prevent others from helping Chinese student, saying it’s "his problem” after being assaulted and stabbed at the University of Alberta

Rudy Giuliani's apartment raided by feds, accelerating inquiry into Ukraine dealings; warrant served on DC lawyer

Tainted batches of Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine sent to Brazil carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus, the South American country's health regulator reported in a presentation explaining its decision to ban the drug's import

Covid: Turkey prepares for its first full lockdown

Zac Easter: He left his brain behind to save others from his fate

Facebook temporarily hid posts calling for India’s prime minister to resign

PM Modi a 'Super Spreader', Responsible For COVID Second Wave: Indian Medical Association

China delivers 800 oxygen concentrators to India from Hong Kong, promises another 10,000 soon

India tops 200,000 dead as virus surge breaks health system

India's Covid crisis: 'I lost my unborn child and wife on the same day'

US Navy fired warning shots at Iranian vessels Monday evening

Albertans in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s are ending up in ICU with COVID-19 faster than ever before

Video Shows Police Kneeled On Mario Gonzalez’s Back For 5 Minutes Before He Died

Switzerland is holding a referendum on legalising same-sex marriage

Biden to sell historic spending plans in speech to Congress

Australia warns Google and Apple over app stores

Australia to upgrade military bases, expand wargames with U.S

Up to 25,000 barrels at DDT dump site in Pacific, scientists say

'Sickening': Wildlife conservationists outraged after NRA head Wayne LaPierre shoots endangered elephant in Botswana

Nepalese climbers removed 2.2 tons of trash from Everest while the tourists were away

Richard Pusey: Australian jailed for filming dying officers

The Secret Footage of the N.R.A. Chief’s Botched Elephant Hunt

Mon Laferte: Chile's pop export on repression and injustice

Kuwait: Murder spurs demands for greater safety for women

Kenyans bitter over al-Qaeda US embassy compensation snub

Why India's Covid crisis matters to the whole world

India coronavirus: Can it make enough vaccines to meet demand?

A vaccine maker ruined 15 million doses. Its CEO sold $11 million of stock before that was public

Russia 'direct threat to Europe's security': Germany

Israel committing crimes of apartheid and persecution - HRW

Britain is sending a huge naval force through some of the most tense waters in Asia

MI6 'green spying' on biggest polluters to ensure nations keep climate change promises

India Covid: First UK aid arrives as coronavirus deaths mount

Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, rights watchdog says | Israel

Stunning DDT dump site off L.A. coast much bigger than scientists expected

U.S. announces $310 mln in humanitarian, food aid to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

‘Grave abuses’: Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of apartheid

Taliban tribunal gives woman 40 lashes for talking to a man on the phone

Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say

Tesla: Bitcoin sales, environmental credits boost profits

Boris Johnson denies saying he'd rather see 'bodies pile high in their thousands' than impose third lockdown

US police mock dementia sufferer in 'torture' arrest

Nepal COVID infections surge, fuelled by India’s mutant strains

Coronavirus: Pfizer confirms fake versions of vaccine in Poland and Mexico

Obama calls Myanmar violence ‘heartbreaking,’ says there should be costs to generals

Austria: Anti-Semitic crimes hit record high in 2020. The Jewish Community of Vienna has found that right-wing ideology played a significant role behind Austria's anti-Semitic attacks

Facebook stopped employee from reading an internal reports about its role in the insurrection.

Police In Italy Arrest Dozens Of Members Of Nigerian Secret Society Charged With Human Trafficking

Taiwan Security Officials Propose Ban on Chinese Flag

Five things to know about Apple's iOS update

Two arrested in Argentina for plotting to attack Jewish community on Shabbat

The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether the government can block a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from obtaining information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him on the ground that it would expose state secrets

Man Arrested For Allegedly Infecting 22 People With Covid-19 Coronavirus

US teen's Snapchat rant reaches Supreme Court in free speech case

China censors Oscars winners Chloé Zhao and 'Nomadland'

France knife attacker 'watched jihadist videos' before killing policewoman

Mozambique gas project: Total halts work after Palma attacks

Covid-19: EU hints at summer return for US travellers

Ingenuity Mars helicopter makes third successful flight

‘The poor won’t survive’: Lockdown hits Phnom Penh’s hand-to-mouth workers

Covid: Perth ends lockdown after Covid cases contained

A study of more than 2,100 pregnant women across 18 countries worldwide has revealed that COVID-19 is associated with a higher risk of severe maternal and newborn complications than previously recognised.

Chloé Zhao Becomes Only the Second Woman to Win Oscar for Best Director in 93 Years

India Covid: Anger as Twitter ordered to remove critical virus posts

Singapore and Hong Kong to open travel bubble

Fiji capital in lockdown after 'superspreader' funeral leaves 500 exposed to COVID-19

'I will not return to work': Myanmar coup cripples healthcare system

$1 million in toxic bleach sold as ‘miracle’ cure, officials say

Former Swedish LGBT activist convicted of raping four migrants

Germany will send oxygen, medical aid to India to help in COVID crisis

Australian governments spend $19,000 a minute subsidising fossil fuels, report finds

Military expenditure worldwide rose to nearly $2 trillion in 2020, defying the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Global military spending increased by 2.6 percent to $1,981 billion (about 1,650 billion euros) in 2020, when global GDP shrank 4.4 percent,

Turkmenistan celebrates new holiday to honour native dog breed

Boris Johnson: 'Let the bodies pile high in their thousands'. PM's incendiary remark during fight over lockdowns is latest claim in No10 drama - amid spectacular row with Cummings

Over one-third of COVID-19 cases among Canadian children are asymptomatic according to University of Guelph study of over 220,000 positive cases

Turkish court orders Erdogan to stop denying journalists credentials

Taiwan has lowest birth rate in world

COVID-19: India records 349,691 new infections in another daily global record | World News

EU blames China for endangering peace in South China Sea

Officer stabbed to death inside her police station near Paris

India Covid: Patients dying without oxygen amid Delhi surge

Bernie Sanders Says Backing Waiver for Covid Vaccine Patents Is 'Common Human Morality'

Zimbabwe to sell hunting rights for endangered elephants

Citibank to exit 13 global consumer banking markets, including India and China

Covid: India sets another infection record as US shows concern

Syria Gets Donation of 150,000 COVID Shots from China

Can Western brands recover from consumer backlash in China?

Armenians celebrate Biden's genocide declaration as furious Turkey summons US ambassador

At least 27 die in fire at Baghdad hospital housing COVID patients | Iraq

Conor McGregor buys Dublin pub where he sucker punched old man

Saudi Arabia will join the United States, Canada, Norway, and Qatar in forming a new platform for oil and gas producers to discuss how they can support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change

Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

As COVID-19 devastates India, deaths go undercounted

MIT researchers say you're no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study challenging social distancing policies

Iraq Covid hospital fire: At least 23 dead after 'oxygen tank explodes'

Extremist Jewish Israeli to Arab reporter neighbor: I want to expel you, not burn your village

'Humanity first': Pakistan offers support to India in Covid fight | The Express Tribune

Missing Indonesian submarine has sunk, objects recovered: Military chief

Indonesian submarine sank off Bali, navy says

Brazil cuts environment budget despite climate summit pledge

USA defends ban on export of raw materials of vaccines to India, despite severe health infrastructure collapse in the latter

Indonesia submarine KRI Nanggala 402 declared sunk with all 53 crew members on board.

Nepal becomes first country in Asia Pacific to vaccinate refugees against COVID-19

As bodies pile up, India's leaders face rising public anger over second Covid-19 wave

India Covid surge: Hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered

Biden will push allies to act on China forced labor at G7

US denies India's request to lift an export ban on raw materials needed to make COVID-19 vaccines

Japan to host first joint ‘war games’ with US, France

Biden told Erdogan he plans to call 1915 massacres of Armenians genocide -sources

Interpreters who helped Australian forces in Afghanistan plead for visas to escape ‘extreme threats’

German gymnasts' outfits take on sexualisation in sport

Covid-19: Israel records no daily deaths for the first time in 10 months

First Aerial Color Image of Mars

Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong

Palestinian election: Leaders face reckoning as rare vote looms

Telegram misogyny: 'They wanted to tie me and my child to a horse'

Mental health: Trauma, genocide and my invisible illness

It's the Oscars 2021 - but how many people have seen the main films?

Week in pictures: 17 - 23 April 2021

Brazil cuts environment spending one day after U.S. climate summit pledge

Alexei Navalny's medical team has urged him to "immediately" bring an end to his hunger strike as the jailed Kremlin critic said he was full of "pride and hope" after nationwide protests in his name. Navlany's doctors, who have been prevented from examining their patient in his prison colony

Daunte Wright funeral: As Minneapolis mourns, what next for police reform?

Chinese boats keep up steady presence at Julian Felipe Reef, says US ship tracker: China has kept up a sustained presence around a disputed South China Sea reef for two years, according to a Washington-based think tank – despite Beijing’s claims that its vessels were only sheltering in the area.

US joins race to find stricken Indonesia submarine

Mount Everest: Coronavirus reaches world's tallest peak

Covid-19: India hospital fire kills 13 amid Covid oxygen crisis

'A sin to waste': Montana tribe provides COVID-19 vaccinations at Alberta border crossing

US President Joe Biden to 'propose hiking tax on rich'

Philippines fires twin diplomatic protests over Chinese vessels' lingering presence in West Philippine Sea: "The presence of these vessels blatantly infringe upon Philippine sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction."

Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

Alberta confirms first COVID-19 case linked to variant fuelling case surge in India | CBC News

Dozens injured in East Jerusalem clashes

Three abducted Catholic clergy released in Haiti

Coronavirus: Tokyo Motor Show cancelled for first time in 67 years

Armenia Goes Dark To Remember Victims Of Genocide

18,292 unaccompanied child migrants went missing in Europe (including Greece, Italy and Germany) between January 2018 and December 2020 – equivalent to nearly 17 children a day | Investigation finds 1 in 6 were solo and under 15, as experts say cross-border cooperation ‘nonexistent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to receive AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday

Scores of Kuwaitis staged a rally on Thursday to protest violence against women, after a young mother was kidnapped and murdered by a man who had stalked her relentlessly despite repeated complaints to authorities

China's Xi "welcomes U.S. return" to working with world on climate change, thanks Biden

Tesla's Autopilot 'tricked' to operate without driver

Australia resists calls for tougher climate targets

Argentina Loses Country's Google Domain After Random Citizen Buys it for $5

Chernobyl: There is no "additional DNA damage" in children born to parents who were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl explosion before they were conceived.

Syrian air-defence missile lands near Israeli nuclear site

Russia arrests over 1,400 at rallies for hunger-striking Navalny

Italian police have arrested a man suspected of supplying a weapon to the attacker who rammed a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in the southern French city of Nice in 2016, killing 86 people

European Super League Q&A: Why it failed - and will clubs try again?

Big Dog's Backyard Ultra: The toughest, weirdest race you've never heard of

US drugmaker Pfizer on Wednesday confirmed that suspect doses of its coronavirus vaccine that were seized in Mexico and Poland were indeed fake, with doses going for as much as $1,000 a shot

Crew Of 'Ever Given' Could Be Stuck On The Big Boat For Years.

Brazil wants U.S. to pay not to raze Amazon

Australia was blindsided when Five Eyes ally New Zealand backed away from China criticism

Billionaire Sir James Dyson moves residency back to the UK

In another extraterrestrial first, NASA extracts pure, breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

NASA's Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars for 1st time

Arrest warrant issued for QAnon promoter suspected in child kidnapping plot

India Covid: Delhi high court criticises 'ridiculous' oxygen shortage

Too scared to offend China: Royal Navy's new carrier 'will avoid the Taiwan Strait on maiden voyage'

Pfizer vaccine to require 3rd shot. Possibly annually.

Australia provokes China anger over scrapped deals

Biden is set to officially recognize the Armenian genocide, despite warnings from Turkey it could 'worsen ties' even more

Alarms sound in southern Israel, explosions heard throughout the country

Climate change: Biden summit to push for 'immediate' action

Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'

China is behind a newly discovered series of hacks against key targets in the U.S. government, private companies and the country’s critical infrastructure

Biden administration to proceed with $23bn arms sales to UAE

TikTok sued for billions over use of children's data

Netflix shares plunge amid fears coronavirus boom is over

Covid wreaking havoc in India: 300,000 new cases and over 2000 deaths in past 24 hours

Pakistani Journalist Is Shot After Criticizing the Military

Xi to attend Biden's climate change summit in first meeting of two leaders

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs 'anti-riot' bill that grants civil immunity to drivers who hit protesters and protects police budgets from being cut

Ohio shooting: Columbus police shoot dead black teenage girl

Tensions escalate as Russia fires missiles in Black Sea exercise

Czech Republic asks EU, NATO allies to expel Russian diplomats

Czech Republic threatens to expel all Russian diplomats over Moscow's alleged involvement in 2014 explosions

Nuclear weapons: Top military official warns China and Russia are modernizing faster than US

Ukraine says Russia will soon have over 120,000 troops on its borders

Is the Australia-NZ travel bubble the way ahead?

US ambassador to leave Moscow as tensions rise

YouTube shuts down prominent Nigerian megachurch preacher's channel for 'gay curing' claims

Middle East states dominate list of top executioners in 2020 - Amnesty

Coronapas: The passport helping Denmark open up after Covid

Navalny's supporters fear Russia's Putin wants him dead

Idriss Déby: Chad's future rocked by president's battlefield death

Oscars 2021: The lowdown on the international feature nominees

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday invited Russian leader Vladimir Putin to meet in war-torn eastern Ukraine, stressing that millions of lives were at stake from fresh fighting the separatist conflict

Russia’s Putin to address nation as mass Navalny protests are planned

Russian prosecutors move to liquidate Navalny’s ‘extremist’ movement

China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture'

China’s social credit program creeps into Canada

U.S. warns airlines on flights near Ukraine-Russian border

European Super League: What happens next?

New Zealand airport worker tests positive to Covid on second day of travel bubble

Climate change: Carbon 'surge' expected in post-Covid energy boom

Facebook creates Clubhouse clone Live Audio Rooms

‘Relentless’ climate crisis intensified in 2020, says UN report

New Zealand airport worker tests positive day after bubble opens

Brian Sicknick: US Capitol riot policeman 'died of natural causes'

India to start vaccinating all adults over 18 amid surge in infections

Former US Vice-President Walter Mondale dies aged 93

James Charles: YouTube temporarily demonetises beauty influencer

Major Archbishop: Ukrainians living in ‘psychological terror’ as Russian troops gather at border

Covid in Uttar Pradesh: Coronavirus overwhelms India's most populous state

Duterte says he will send warships to West Philippine Sea if China starts drilling for oil

The war against Russia's spies just cost Putin billions from a cancelled nuclear contract

World on the verge of climate crisis ‘abyss’, warns UN

Germany conservatives: Armin Laschet backed by Merkel party in chancellor race

Drought-hit Taiwan rations water to protect tech

How a bicycle tripled one woman's income

We are Reuters journalists Poppy McPherson and Shoon Naing. We've been covering the recent events in Myanmar. Ask us anything!

Moscow's military build-up on the border with Ukraine is even bigger than in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, describing the deployment as "very seriously concerning"

Facebook: Our staff can carry on working from home after Covid

In the Philippines, people are putting makeshift community pantries to help those affected by the lockdowns to get food, basic necessities.

Egypt's second deadly rail accident in a month kills 11

Spain dismantles workshop making 3D-printed weapons

Chinese feminists are being attacked online by nationalist trolls. Some refuse to be silenced

UK is the world’s biggest producer of medical cannabis – but Brits can’t access it

The best climate solution you've never heard of

Spanish police raid 'far-right' 3D-printed gun workshop

Australia opens travel bubble with New Zealand

Abba: Why the UK gave the Swedish band 'nul points' at Eurovision

Russia to withdraw from International Space Station starting from 2025, deputy PM confirms, as Moscow works on replacement

New Zealand ‘uncomfortable’ with expanding Five Eyes’ remit, says foreign minister | New Zealand

Byron Bay: Calls for Netflix boycott over reality show plans

Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting new tournament?

Sex workers get priority vaccine access in Vancouver

Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

A leading conspiracy theorist who thought COVID-19 was a hoax died from the virus after hosting illegal house parties

Philippine authorities seize fossilized giant clam shells worth $25 million

Police killing hundreds in Rio de Janeiro despite court ban on favela raids | Global development

Australia opens travel bubble with New Zealand

Five rockets targeted an Iraqi airbase hosting US soldiers Sunday, wounding two foreign contractors and three Iraqi soldiers, in the latest attack coinciding with tensions between Baghdad's allies Tehran and Washington