World

Workers in protective suits carry the coffin of a suspected victim of COVID-19 during a burial at Pondok Ranggon cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia, earlier this month.

Coronavirus pandemic

Body snatching families risk catching coronavirus to perform final rites

Across Indonesia cases are emerging of grieving families stealing back the bodies of dead coronavirus patients.

by James Massola and Amilia Rosa

Vice President Mike Pence adjusts his mask during news conference at the University of Texas in Dallas.

Coronavirus pandemic

Pence advocates masks as daily global coronavirus infections hit new high

by Nicole Winfield

Alif Baqytali hugs his mother, Gulnar Omirzakh, at their new home in Shonzhy, Kazakhstan. Omirzakh, a Chinese-born ethnic Kazakh, says she was forced to get an intrauterine contraceptive device, and that authorities in China threatened to detain her if she didn't pay a large fine for giving birth to Alif, her third child.

Inside China

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: investigation

A healthcare worker at a COVID-19 testing centre in New Delhi.

Coronavirus pandemic

'Mayhem': Gripped by pandemic, India's healthcare system buckles

by Joe Wallen and Sweta Dash

Senator Briggs Hopson is hugged by Senator Robert Jackson after the Senate voted to change the state flag.

Black Lives Matter

Mississippi votes to remove Confederate emblem from flag

by Emily Wagster Pettus

Opinion & Perspectives

The Morrison government doesn't want to talk about Trump and the shocking Russian bounty story

Peter Hartcher

The American failure to respond to a Russian plan to pay the Taliban to kill US troops raises profound questions.

America is too broken to fight the coronavirus

Michelle Goldberg

The paranoia and resentment that have long been part of the culture of the modern right are now directed at those warning about the ongoing dangers of the pandemic.

'Annexation' is a misnomer: Israel wants a safe way to hand land to Palestinians in return for peace

Gregory Rose

Israel has legitimate claims of sovereignty in the West Bank, but it wants to negotiate most of it away - but first it needs Palestinians to come to the negotiating table.

North America

Trump's White House

Reddit bans pro-Trump forum in content crackdown

The social media site's new content policy said communities and users that promoted hate based on identity or vulnerability would be banned.

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by Elizabeth Culliford

Seven correspondent Amelia Brace described

Floyd protests

Australian reporter testifies about police beating outside White House

Seven Network US correspondent Amelia Brace has described to a US congressional committee how she was shot by non-lethal projectiles and hit by a truncheon.

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by Peter Mitchell

Armed residents confront protesters in Portland Place in St Louis.

Floyd protests

Couple draw guns at protesters heading to St Louis mayor's home

Anti-abortion protesters outside the Supreme Court on Monday.

US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court strikes down strict Louisiana abortion clinic law

Opinion

Donald Trump

The Morrison government doesn't want to talk about Trump and the shocking Russian bounty story

by Peter Hartcher

Europe

A health worker checks the temperature a woman at a slum in Mumbai, India, this month.

Coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus pandemic 'is not even close to being over', WHO chief says

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Francois Fillon, right, and his wife Penelope wear protective masks as they arrive at Paris courthouse on Monday.

Courts

Former French prime minister Francois Fillon found guilty of fraud

Space

EU ramps up space efforts with €1bn deal

by Michel Rose

World elections

Macron loses ground in local French elections as Greens vote surges

by Marine Pennetier and Michel Rose

World elections

Poland's far-right President Duda loses ground in elections

Vice President Mike Pence leaves Friday's briefing with the Coronavirus Taskforce.

Coronavirus pandemic

Confirmed COVID-19 cases hit 10 million worldwide as Pence skips campaign rallies

by Kirsti Knolle

Asia

Coronavirus pandemic

Body snatching families risk catching coronavirus to perform final rites

Across Indonesia cases are emerging of grieving families stealing back the bodies of dead coronavirus patients.

by James Massola and Amilia Rosa

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

Hong Kong protests

China to impose visa restrictions on US individuals over Hong Kong

Beijing will impose visa restrictions on US individuals with "egregious conduct" on Hong Kong-related issues, mirroring American sanctions against unnamed Chinese officials.

by Cate Cadell

Security personnel surround the Stock Exchange Building after gunmen's attack in Karachi, Pakistan.

Mass shooting

Militants killed in deadly attack on Karachi stock exchange

by Adil Jawad

by Joe Wallen and Sweta Dash

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Iran has asked Interpol to help detain US President Donald Trump and others it believes carried out a drone strike that killed general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in January.

Iran sanctions

Iran issues arrest warrant for Donald Trump, requests help from Interpol

Iran has asked Interpol to help detain US President Donald Trump and others it believes carried out a drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani in January.