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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Auckland will once again move to Alert Level 3 restrictions, this time for seven days, after another new community COVID-19 case this evening.

Gunmen in northern Nigeria abducted 317 girls from a boarding school today, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation.

A US intelligence report has found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

Australian police say they have found the partial remains of a fraud suspect who vanished from her Sydney home four months ago.

The US House of Representatives has passed sweeping legislation that prohibits LGBT discrimination, but it faces an unlikely future in the Senate.

US President Joe Biden has talked by phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia as he seeks to put relations with America’s old ally on a new footing.

When COVID-19 patients inundated St. Louis hospitals, respiratory therapists arriving for yet another grueling shift with a dwindling supply of ventilators would often glance at their assignments and cry.

Greece and Austria are urging other EU states to adopt coronavirus vaccination “passports” which could help revive Europe’s stricken tourist industry.

Papua New Guinea’s first prime minister, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has died at the age of 84.

Australia has passed a world-first law aimed at making Google and Facebook pay for news content on their platforms.

A review by US regulators of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine has found it is safe and effective.

A goods train transporting petrol has burst into flames after colliding with a lorry at a level crossing in the US state of Texas, police say.