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US President Joe Biden has said he is "disappointed" that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping plans to skip the upcoming G20 summit in India."I am disappointed... but I am going to get to see him," Mr Biden told reporters on Sunday, but did not say when that meeting may take place...
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The leader of Gabon's military junta has vowed to return power to civilians after "free, transparent" elections.However, in a speech after being sworn in as interim president, he did not give a date for military rule to end.Gen Brice Nguema led last Wednesday's coup against Ali Bon...
Australia has successfully evacuated a sick Antarctic researcher from a remote outpost on the icy continent.An urgent rescue operation was launched last week to reach the man, who has an undisclosed "developing medical condition".The mission required a medical retrieval team, a massive ice...
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German prosecutors have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of some 3,300 people at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two.The man, not yet named, was an adolescent when he served as a guard at Sachsenhausen between July 1943 and February 1945, the indictment says.He allegedl...
A massive manhunt is under way in Pennsylvania for a prison inmate who escaped just a week after being sentenced to life in prison for murder.Brazilian national Danelo Cavalcante, 34, escaped from Chester County Prison in West Chester on Thursday morning.A week ago, he was sentenced to life in priso...
World
Singaporeans have headed to the polls to vote in their first contested presidential election in over a decade.The president has a mainly ceremonial role in the city-state with few powers and little say in public affairs.But the result on Friday could be a marker of public sentiment on the long-term ...
South African firefighters have gone back inside the Johannesburg building destroyed by fire on Thursday to see if they can find any more bodies.The blaze, in the overcrowded and condemned five-storey building, claimed 74 lives, including 12 children.The fire service says it wants to be sure that no...
"After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad," says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai.Natkai's name has been changed for her own safety.The Taliban have cracked down hard on women who oppose them.Natkai...
A catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the Antarctic, with up to 10,000 young birds estimated to have been killed.The sea-ice on which the chicks were being raised broke up before they had fully developed the waterproof feathers needed to swim in the ocean. The birds m...
India's Moon rover has taken first steps on the lunar surface a day after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the south pole.Chandrayaan-3's rover "ramped down" from the lander and "India took a walk on the Moon!", the space agency said.The Vikram ...
India's space agency has released images of the far side of the Moon as its third lunar mission attempts to locate a safe landing spot on the little-explored south pole.The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3's lander, which began the last phase of its mission on Thursday.Vikra...
Some 850 people are still missing after the devastating wildfires in Maui, County Mayor Richard Bissen has said.Over 1,200 people who had been on the list of those missing have been found safe, MrBissen said on Monday, warning numbers are expected to fluctuate.One hundred and fourteen people are con...
Niger's coup leader has promised to return the West African nation to civilian rule within three years.Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani made the announcement after meeting mediators from the West African regional bloc Ecowas in the capital, Niamey.Ecowas has threatened military action to reverse last m...
India's space agency has released latest images of the Moon as its third lunar mission starts descending towards the little-explored south pole.The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3's lander, which began the last phase of its mission on Thursday.Vikram, which carries a rover ...
The family of Victorian-era prime minister William Gladstone are due to travel to the Caribbean to apologise for the historical part an ancestor played in the slave trade.William was the son of John Gladstone, who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.Charlie Gladstone, the ...
Entertainment & Glomour
Britney Spears has spoken for the first time since her husband Sam Asghari announced their split, saying she "couldn't take the pain anymore".Mr Asghari, 29, cited "irreconcilable differences" in a divorce petition filed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.He asks that spousal suppor...
Madonna has announced rescheduled tour dates for her world tour, as she marks her recovery from a bacterial infection that left her in intensive care.The Celebration tour will now kick off in London on 14 October, three months after it was originally due to begin in Vancouver, Canada.Most of the US ...
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"We are going to allow women to study and work within our framework. Women are going to be very active in our society," the Taliban announced in their first press conference shortly after seizing power on 15 August 2021.Two years on, these assurances have been firmly demolished by the...
Algeria has banned the popular Barbie film three weeks after its release in the mainly Muslim North African nation.The culture ministry has asked cinemas to withdraw the Hollywood blockbuster immediately.The movie promoted homosexuality and did not comply with Algeria's religious and cultur...
Japan's economy grew much faster than expected in the three months to the end of June as the country's weak currency boosted exports.The world's third largest economy saw its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rise by an annualised 6% in the period.It is about twice the rate of growth forecast...
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