A car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni killed at least 40 Afghan soldiers and wounded 24, Ghazni public health department told CNN on Sunday. An attacker detonated an explosive packed vehicle in front of a security base in the Deh Yak district of the province. According to a statement from the Afghan...
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Sydney records hottest November night on record
Sydney has reported its hottest November night on record, with the official start of summer still days away. The city recorded a minimum overnight temperature of 25.4C and then hit 40C during the daytime on Sunday. Dozens of bush fires are already burning in New South Wales with hotter weather predicted on Tuesday. The states...
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Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong facing prison after guilty plea over 2019 protest
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to charges related to a protest outside police headquarters last year, during months of unrest over a proposed extradition bill with China. Wong, who faces up to three years in prison according to his lawyer, was charged alongside two other activists,...
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PM Morrison calls on the US and China to dial down hostilities in UK’s Policy Exchange speech at UK
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged the United States and China to show more “latitude” to smaller nations, warning that partners and allies need “a bit more room to move” as strategic competition intensifies in the region. Morrison used a speech to the UK think tank Policy Exchange to call on both great powers to...
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Vatican asks Instagram to get to the bottom of Pope account’s lingerie model ‘like’
The Vatican is seeking an explanation from Instagram, after the official account of Pope Francis liked a photograph of a lingerie-clad Brazilian model. A photograph of model Natalia Garibotto, who was dressed in schoolgirl-style undergarments, was liked by Francis’ verified account, franciscus, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported. It is unclear when the photograph —...
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Almost a million people have been given an experimental Chinese coronavirus vaccine, pharmaceutical giant claims
Almost a million people have been given an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Sinopharm as part of an emergency-use program authorized by Beijing, the Chinese pharmaceutical giant’s chairman said. No serious adverse effects have been reported from vaccine recipients so far, Sinopharm said Wednesday in an article on social media platform WeChat, citing Chairman Liu...
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Europe’s richest country Germany running out of ICU beds
Germany was seen as a beacon for other European countries during the first coronavirus wave and hailed for one of the world’s best health care systems. But it is now beginning to struggle with more severe infections than at any other point during the pandemic. Coronavirus infection numbers hit an all-time record Friday, with nearly...
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Australia to prosecute troops for war crimes in Afghanistan
Australia on Thursday announced a new investigative agency to build criminal cases against Australian special forces suspected of committing war crimes in Afghanistan. The Office of the Special Investigator is to be formed after a four-year investigation into allegations and rumors surrounding behavior of some soldiers in Special Air Service and Commando Regiments in Afghanistan...
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NSW Premier reveals NYE and Christmas plans as state approaches COVID milestone
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced how the state will be able to celebrate Christmas and New Year this year. The NSW premier said residents will only be allowed into Sydney’s CBD on New Year’s Eve if they have a booking at a restaurant or a ticket for an event. “Apart from that, stay home...
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Internal email reveals 65 virus cases among WHO Geneva staff
The World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its Geneva headquarters, including five people who worked on the premises and were in contact with one another, an internal email obtained by The Associated Press shows. The U.N. health agency said it is investigating how and where the five...