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Dozens have been killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces over a disputed area in the south Caucasus region, with international calls mounting for an immediate ceasefire.Tensions between the countries have been growing for months over …
China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their “re-education” system was winding down, an Australian thinktank has found.The ne…
China’s UN representative Zhang Jun said the country rejected ‘baseless accusations’ around coronavirus before introducing President Xi Jinping.In a video address, Donald Trump said the UN had to take action against China and called for Beijing to be h…
James Spigelman resigned from Hong Kong appeal court citing concerns with new law imposed by ChinaAustralian judge James Spigelman has resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court, reportedly citing concerns over the national security law imposed on the reg…
The Philippine president pardoned a US marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment for the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman. Rodrigo Duterte said he had decided to pardon L/Cpl Joseph Scott Pemberton because the…
3 September 1945: With the signing on the USS Missouri, the second world war is now officially over. Full occupation of Japan is about to beginThe Japanese signed the terms of surrender in the American battleship Missouri early yesterday and the war is…
More than 90 people – the wounded, the mourning, the defiant – spoke at the sentencing hearing for the gunman responsible for New Zealand’s most deadly terrorist attack, explaining how the massacre changed their lives forever. Here we document their ev…
Midwestern states report record infections; Colombia passes 600,000 Covid-19 cases; India sets global daily case record. Follow latest updatesUK records 1,715 Covid cases in largest weekend figure since mid-MayAustralia – coronavirus liveWorld map: whi…
Footage shows a girl, 3, in Taiwan being lifted high into the air after becoming entangled in the strings of a kite. The unidentified girl was taking part in a kite festival on Sunday in the seaside town of Nanliao when she was hoisted several metres i…
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has announced his resignation, citing ill-health. His departure marks the end of an unusual era of stability in which the Japanese leader struck up strong ties with the US president, Donald Trump, eve…
Measure brought in to curb surging coronavirus infections in French capital; Europe sees increase in infections among younger people, says WHO chief; India records daily rise in cases of 75,000EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan resigns after flouting Cov…
More than half a century ago, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to summit Everest. Now a collection of rare photos from Hillary’s life is up for auction in New Zealand, featuring scenes of the climbers tackling the world’s tallest …
Extreme floods have hit the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to promise it could withstand the flows.Several outlets of the dam have been opened to discharge water, th…
Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-old Unesco world heritage site, the Leshan Giant Buddha.Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try to p…
People gathered in Bangkok on Sunday for one of the biggest demonstrations against the country’s military rulers since the 2014 coup. The student-led movement has three core demands: hold new elections, amend the constitution and end the intimidation o…