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Matt Hancock

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock resigns after Covid breach

By AFP News

Johnson praised Hancock for his role in Britain's succesful vaccine rollout, which he called "one of the greatest successes of the modern state".

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Angela Merkel

Merkel legacy in balance as party headed for worst score since WWII

Going into the summer, the conservatives were enjoying a comfortable lead against the SPD.

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By Hui Min Neo

Russian voter

Russia opposition claims mass fraud after Putin party sweeps vote

The gathering organised by members of the communist party was monitored by the police but there...

By Michael Mainville

Thailand protests

Protesters call to 'kick out' Thai PM on coup anniversary

The red-clad protesters in cars and on motorbikes moved to Democracy Monument for a quick...

By AFP News

Kim Jong Un

N. Korea test-fires new 'long-range cruise missile': KCNA

The reported launches are the first since March by the North, which has not carried out a nuclear...

By Sunghee Hwang

Armin Laschet

Germany's Laschet and Scholz trade blows in heated election debate

Merkel's CDU/CSU alliance, which has dominated Germany's post-war politics, now faces a "historic...

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden

Biden, Xi talk to avoid US-China 'conflict': White House

The list of disagreements between Washington and Beijing is long and growing.

By Sebastian Smith

Afghanistan

Taliban announce hardline govt as protests grow

The group -- which executed people in stadiums and chopped the hands of thieves in the 1990s -- has...

By James Edgar

US covid aid

'Silent crisis' looms as US to end Covid aid for millions of jobless

While never meant to be permanent, the benefits were reauthorized twice, most recently in the $1.9...

By Chris Stein

Joe Biden

In climate reversal, Biden okays new oil and gas mega auction

Environmental groups led by the Earthjustice advocacy group sued the Bureau of Ocean Energy...

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Kim Jong Un

North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor: UN agency

By AFP News

IAEA inspectors were kicked out of North Korea in 2009, and the agency has since monitored it from outside.

Emmanuel Macron

Macron visits IS former stronghold in Iraq's Mosul

By Laurence Benhamou

The French leader was also due to meet the family of a Peshmerga fighter killed by IS

US President Joe Biden

Biden presidency shaken to core by Kabul bombings

By Sebastian Smith

The 78-year-old Democrat was already reeling from the almost overnight collapse of the US-backed government and...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union leader

Post-Merkel German election a nailbiter in final stretch

By Deborah Cole

Polls put both the centre-right CDU-CSU and the Social Democrats on around 23 percent, with the...

Andrew Cuomo

Ex-New York governor Cuomo stripped of Emmy over sex harassment

By AFP News

Cuomo strenuously denied the allegations and initially rejected calls to quit, including from...

Huawei CFO

Huawei exec's extradition hearing in Canada comes to a close

By Michel Comte

Her arrest in December 2018 during a stopover in Vancouver caused a deep...

Justin Trudeau

Canada's Trudeau calls snap elections

By Marion Thibaut

Trudeau was re-elected to office in 2019 but lost his majority in his second...

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Hong Kong Bar Association

Hong Kong Bar Association 'gravely concerned' by security law

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Harry and Meghan request Archewell visitors to 'take a break' from website

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