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Royal ructions raise issues close to home

The Age's View
The Age's View

Many will wonder afresh why the members of this dysfunctional family are destined to continue providing us our head of state.

‘Dead men walking’: Queen and Prince Charles’ aides in spotlight

Camilla Tominey

The “if in doubt, blame the staff” mantra can be a convenient foil, but there is some justification to Harry and Meghan’s exasperation with interfering aides.

Why don’t people believe Meghan Markle?

Brooke Boney
Brooke Boney

The duchess disclosed she had serious mental health issues yet somehow it’s the royal family that is the victim.

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North America

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has outlawed almost all abortion in his state.

Arkansas abortion ban sets up Roe v Wade challenge

Governor Asa Hutchinson has signed into law a bill that bans abortion except to save the mother’s life. Another 13 states have proposed outright bans.

  • by Andrew DeMillo
The leaders of the Quad will hold their first summit together.

Scott Morrison, Joe Biden’s ‘Quad’ meeting to bring four-nation alliance to ‘whole new level’

The White House said the first ever leaders-level meeting showed the Biden administration is deeply engaged with the Indo-Pacific.

  • by Matthew Knott

Europe

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Asia

An airport worker in China’s Jiangsu province gets a Sinovac vaccine.

China, EU plan vaccine certificates for international travel

International travellers may soon be able to enter China or travel around Europe without quarantine if they can prove they’re vaccinated.

  • by Alberto Nardelli and Viktoria Dendrinou
Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng pleads with police not to harm protesters in Myitkyina in Myanmar’s Kachin state, amid a crackdown on demonstrations against the military coup.

Nun begs Myanmar police to stop but killing continues around her

“I begged them not to shoot the children,” she says in the video.

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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to reporters in Washington in 2019.

Honduras President helped move drugs, say US prosecutors

Last month, Democratic senators called for sanctions on Juan Orlando Hernandez and a determination “whether he is a specially designated narcotics trafficker”.

  • by Claudia Torrens

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