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Israel's President has tasked Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government following recent elections which did not produce a clear winner. Netanyahu – Israel's caretaker prime minister - got the most endorse
New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern says conditions for quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand have been met, and a bubble will start in less than two weeks. Cabinet met today to decide the
Singapore will next month accept visitors who use a mobile travel pass containing digital certificates for COVID-19 tests and vaccines, becoming one of the first countries to adopt the initiative. Singapore will accep
India has stepped up its coronavirus vaccination drive amid a deadly second wave of infections. The country on Sunday breached the 100,000 daily caseload mark for the first time since the pandemic began. BBC r
Landslides and flash floods from torrential rains in eastern Indonesia have killed at least 41 people and displaced thousands. More than two dozen others are still missing. Mud tumbled down from surrounding hills o
The Indian state of Maharashtra will see tighter restrictions from today following a sharp spike in COVID-19 infections. A night time curfew will be enforced and the state will be under a full lockdown on weekends.
A US Police officer has been killed after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the US Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife. A video showed the driver of the crashed car emerging with a
Dozens of people are feared dead after a train carrying some 350 passengers derailed inside a tunnel in Taiwan. Taiwan's Central Emergency Operation centre says rescuers are struggling to access four carriages insi
After years of stalled attempts, New York State has legalized the use of recreational marijuana, enacting a robust program that will reinvest millions of dollars of tax revenues from cannabis in minority communities rav
A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. BBC News reports officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, maybe
The boss of Australian airline Qantas says governments are going to insist on vaccines for international travellers. Coronavirus vaccines are seen as crucial to reviving an industry that saw worldwide passenger num
More people in Sydney have been ordered to evacuate because of a risk of major flooding, as torrential rain continues to batter Australia's east coast. The authorities say anyone living in low-lying areas of the ci
A court in Pakistan has sentenced two men to death for a rape which triggered public outrage. Abid Mehli and Shafqat Ali came across a Pakistani-French woman and her two children stranded on a motorway near Lahore
Emergency authorities in Australia are warning of "life threatening" flash floods as torrential rains batter parts of the country's east coast. Dozens of people have been rescued from floodwaters, and residents in
Facebook working on Instagram for kids under 13 Facebook says it is working on a version of its Instagram app for kids under 13, who are technically not allowed to use the app in its current form due to federal pr
Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored report. The World Happiness Report saw Denmark in second place, then Switzerland, Iceland and the Netherlands.
A review by the European Union’s medicines regulator has concluded the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is "safe and effective". The European Medicines Agency investigated after 13 EU states suspended use of t
Dozens of people in Taiwan have changed their names to "salmon" to take advantage of a restaurant's sushi promotion deal. Officials have issued a plea asking people to stop visiting government offices to request th
Facebook has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia for journalism from its local mastheads. The deal was secured just weeks after Australia passed a controversial world-first law aimed at making tech p
Germany, France and Italy have halted rollouts of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, after a series of incidents in Europe involving blood clots. They join several smaller European nations who have halted vaccinations
