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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have urged people in the US to vote and to “reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity”.

Face masks are no longer mandatory on public transport in most of New Zealand as COVID-19 cases continue to drop.

At least 25 people have been killed in central Nigeria after a fuel tanker exploded following a collision with other vehicles.

The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has praised African states for managing to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been discharged from a Berlin hospital where he was being treated for Novichok nerve agent poisoning.

The government of the United Kingdom has warned of tougher measures if people do not follow the latest coronavirus restrictions.

The Australian state of Tasmania has recorded its largest-ever stranding of whales after more were found beached during a large rescue effort.

China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.

Three more people have died in French Polynesia’s COVID-19 outbreak, which has seen a rise of about 1000 cases in the past month.

The UK has reached “a perilous turning point”, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, as he set out a raft of new coronavirus restrictions for England which could last for up to six months.

A two-day EU leaders’ summit due to start on Thursday has been postponed until 1 October after a security guard tested positive for COVID-19.

The US coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU).