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New Zealand suspends Hong Kong extradition treaty after China's new security law

China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Hong Kong's government would suspend agreements on mutual assistance for criminal matters, including extradition, ...

Queensland Is Shutting Its Border To Everyone From Greater Sydney

Queensland state will close its borders to all visitors from Sydney from Saturday (Aug 1), after declaring Australia's most-populous city a coronavirus hotspot....

Protesters take to the streets of Portland to support Black Lives Matter

The Trump administration has sent 100 more federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to quell ongoing protests in the city and is considering sending 50 more, th...

German police search garden near Hanover, says public prosecutor's office — Madeleine McCann

A mini excavator is being used to dig the land and there is some activity at least just off the side of the road there. He is believed to have been in the are...

U.S. closes Chengdu consulate in China, after Houston order

The closure leaves the United States with four consulates in mainland China and an embassy in the capital Beijing. Yunnan, Guizhou, and Chongqing are Sichuan's ...

Students Scammed Into Kidnapping Themselves

Many students are even convinced to fake their own kidnapping. "NSW Police have been assured from the Chinese Consulate-General in Sydney that no person cla...

South Korea To Have Solid Fuel Rockets In Major Deal With US

South Korea announced Tuesday it has become able to develop solid-propellant space rockets under the new missile guidelines with the United States, saying the d...

Barr To Smear Russiagate As 'Bogus' During House Judiciary Hearing

Bush. The question came amid a contentious back-and-forth with Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, who reclaimed his time "without political bias" to say, "In Ap...

Biden to unveil plan to combat racial inequities

The former vice-president wants to take US$30 billion, or 10 per cent of federal investment he's already promised as part of larger economic plans, and funnel i...

Twitter locks Donald Trump Jr.'s account for spreading COVID misinformation

At times during the interview Dr Fauci , who is of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), appeared uncomfortable being urged to com...

ITER reactor, a promise of peace, moment in history: Macron

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's message was read out by science minister Hagiuda Koichi. "Today, we have a cause to celebrate, as we embark on machine a...

Five women social media influencers jailed in Egypt

A court released her on bail in June but she was re-arrested after the prosecution found new evidence. "It is still a risky indicator..." The previous year,...

Jet2 keeps flying to Spain as it removes its Quarantine free promise

Airline and travel shares have taken a hit and the plans of hundreds of thousands of British travellers have been left in limbo after the decision. Spanish ...

Afghanistan: Taliban to observe 3-day ceasefire during Eid al-Adha

But any attack "by the enemy" would be met with force, he added. There was no immediate response to the ceasefire offer from the Kabul government, but in an a...

Trump lawyers renew legal assault on tax records subpoena

Lawyers filed a rewritten lawsuit in Manhattan federal court to challenge the subpoena by Manhattan's state prosecutor on grounds they believe conform with how ...

World Health Organization to Hold COVID-19 Emergency Meeting This Week

Meanwhile, countries across the globe are struggling to keep economies afloat as cases surge and countries are forced to reimpose stricter measures. "Where they...

Philippines’ Duterte says govt prevented 1.3-3.5 million coronavirus cases

Opposition lawmakers and investors were hoping Duterte would reveal plans on how to restore millions of jobs and mitigate economic damages from the pandemic, bu...

Australian Outback pub bans messy emus for 'bad behavior'

After learning how to climb the stairs, Kevin's exploits of rummaging through bins, stealing food and auto keys - not to mention his poor toileting manners - ha...

Austin police release man who says he fatally shot protester

Foster pointed the weapon directly at him and he fired his handgun at Mr. Since the tragic incident, police have reportedly taken the suspect into custody. "I...

West Allis-West Milwaukee School District will start the school year virtually

Those preliminary options also vary for different grade levels: K-4 in person; 5-12, a hybrid of in-person and remote learning; and the "Virtual Academy" for ...

German police search Hanover garden — Madeleine McCann case

McCann was 3 at the time of her 2007 disappearance from an apartment while her family vacationed in the seaside town of Praia da Luz in Portugal's Algarve regio...

China's Liaoning reports 6 new confirmed COVID-19 cases

China's port city Dalian, which recently reported a spike in the coronavirus cases, has conducted nucleic acid tests on 1.68 million people - one-sixth of it...

US Republican senator defends describing slavery as a 'necessary evil'

Tom Cotton of Arkansas described slavery as a "necessary evil" in his ongoing effort to prevent United States schools from teaching the 1619 Project , an i...

Im not against COVID-19 vaccine, clarifies Lewis Hamilton

Hamilton shared a post from content creator "King Bach" who embedded a video in which Microsoft founder Bill Gates comments in an interview with CBSN on the ...

Iran moves mock-up carrier to Strait of Hormuz

An Iranian boat, top left, approaches a mockup aircraft carrier built by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. The US Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet did...

Georgia's Ossoff quarantines after wife positive for virus

His campaign said in a statement that that Ossoff has not held or participated in an in-person campaign event in more than a month. "Jon is also experiencing ...

Gallup: Global approval of US leadership still at historic low

Russians, who have typically been the least likely in the region (and the world) to approve of USA leadership, were not far behind at 11 percent - which was unc...

Twitter Trends Are a Crime Against Me, the President, Tweets President

His son did, which is why Twitter only took action against Trump Jr.'s account, a company spokesperson said. "These thugs are dishonoring the memory of George...

Maas: Germany against United States push to let Russian Federation back into G7

The nation was however suspended from the G7 summit on March 24, 2014, following the annexation of Crimea. "The G7 and G20 are two sensibly coordinated format...

German police dig through garden in investigation — Madeleine McCann

Last month, the Metropolitan Police said the case remained a "missing persons" investigation in the United Kingdom because there was no "definitive evidence" as...