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China relations

'Caught in a political war': First sailors set free after months stuck at sea

But scores of others remain stranded in the multibillion-dollar trade dispute between Australia and China.

by Eryk Bagshaw

A protester holds a Trump flag inside the US Capitol Building.

US votes 2020

New Yorker video reveals 'the hatred and the buffoonery' of Capitol siege

by N'Dea Yancey-Bragg

Israeli politician Gideon Saar is promising "new hope" for voters ahead of March elections.

World elections

Netanyahu challenger pledges change with Biden but stands firm on settlements

by Josef Federman

Girls head home from school in Kabul past a mural promoting voting for men and women.

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War

Miniskirts and mujahideen: how did Afghanistan come to be defined by war?

by Maher Mughrabi

As the death toll from COVID-19 hits 400,000 in the US, many Americans blame Donald Trump and his administration.

Coronavirus pandemic

'Blood on his hands': As US nears 400,000 COVID deaths, experts blame Trump

by Jorge L. Ortiz

Opinion & Perspectives

Capitol rioters led to their deaths by a false prophet

Julie Szego

The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were deplorables. But they were also victims.

The verdict's in on Trump's trade war with China

Stephen Bartholomeusz

A year ago the US and China agreed a truce in their trade war. The latest data confirms that Donald Trump's attempt to slow China's export growth and lower the US trade deficit has failed.

US cannot ignore the lessons of history

Dennis Glover

If history can ever repeat, it did on January 6 when Trump supporters marched on the US Capitol.

North America

Participants in the rehearsal for Joe Biden's inauguration were ushered from the West Front of the Capitol.

US votes 2020

Biden's inauguration rehearsal evacuated after nearby fire

The US Capitol complex temporarily locked down during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration after a nearby fire caused security concerns.

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by Andrew Taylor, Colleen Long and Eric Tucker

Opinion

Donald Trump

Capitol rioters led to their deaths by a false prophet

The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were deplorables. But they were also victims.

by Julie Szego

US votes 2020

New Yorker video reveals 'the hatred and the buffoonery' of Capitol siege

by N'Dea Yancey-Bragg

Donald and Melania Trump on New Year's Eve. They will leave the White House at 8am on Inauguration Day.

US votes 2020

No farewell parade: Trump's dawn departure to be a subdued affair

by Jennifer Jacobs and Steve Holland

Airmen and soldiers from the Alaska National Guard prepare to depart from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Sunday to assist with Joe Biden's inauguration.

US politics

Inauguration lockdown: FBI to vet all 25,000 National Guard troops

by Laura Meckler

Europe

Proposed target ... The British teenager had allegedly been planning a terrorist attack on the Anzac Day parade in Melbourne.

Courts

Teenage terrorist who plotted Anzac Day attack released from prison

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by Bevan Shields

The first Europe-wide safety report on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is due to be published at the end of January.

Coronavirus pandemic

Norway finds no direct link between elderly deaths and vaccine

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by Lars Erik Taraldsen

Police officers stand at an entrance of the police station during Navalny's court hearing in Khimki, outside in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's arrest as he arrived in Moscow after recovering from his poisoning with a nerve agent drew criticism from Western nations and calls for his release. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Putin's Russia

Navalny held in pre-trial detention as Moscow tells West to butt out

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by Anton Zverev and Andrew Osborn

Berliners stay distanced at a vaccine centre.

Coronavirus pandemic

German states plan to lock up quarantine breakers

by Joerg Luyken

Alexei Navalny and Yulia on board their flight to Moscow.

Putin's Russia

Kremlin critic Navalny detained after returning to Russia

by Polina Ivanova and Andrew Osborn

Sambuca will be offering 15 houses for 1 euro each.

Property investment

Sicilian town offers fresh chance to snap up house for €1

by Nick Squires

Asia

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, center, is questioned by reporters upon his arrival at the Seoul High Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Lee was sent back to prison on Monday after a South Korean court sentenced him to two and a half years over his involvement in a 2016 corruption scandal that spurred massive street protests and ousted South Korea’s then-president. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Courts

Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong sent back to prison by South Korean court over bribery

In a much-anticipated retrial, the Seoul High Court found Lee guilty of bribing then-President Park Geun-hye and her close confidante in 2015.

by Kim Tong-hyung

An Indian wildlife department doctor collects a swab sample from a duck to test for bird flue at Manda park in Jammu, India.

Illness

Indian zoo stops feeding chickens to hawks on bird flu fears

Serological tests of a brown fish owl, which died at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, confirmed that the bird was infected with the H5N8 virus.

by Atul Prakash

China relations

'Caught in a political war': First sailors set free after months stuck at sea

by Eryk Bagshaw

Workers wearing face masks to protect themselves from the coronavirus arrange the face masks at a factory in Handan, Hebei province, China, in January.

Coronavirus pandemic

Chinese economy picks up speed, ends 2020 in solid position despite COVID

by Gabriel Crossley and Kevin Yao

Earthquake

Indonesian teams find more bodies from Sulawesi quake

by Muhammad Rifki and Yusuf Wahil

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