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New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order that enables pharmacists to administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests one, directly challenging the new restrictions imposed by the Trump administration.

China has criticized the passage of Canadian and Australian naval vessels through the Taiwan Strait, describing it as a deliberate provocation that threatens regional security.

A man has died on a Sydney beach after being bitten by a suspected "large shark," Australia’s New South Wales police have said.

New Delhi will continue to buy Russian oil despite facing heavy U.S. tariffs for doing so, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sept. 5.

A 52-year-old citizen of Belarus and Britain, Yulia Fenner, was detained last spring while crossing the border.

This week, four former employees from Kyrgyzstan’s leading investigative newsroom, Kloop, stood trial in Bishkek, accused of conspiring to “incite mass unrest.”

Donald Trump and Narendra Modi have insisted that their much-publicized personal relationship remains strong despite Washington imposing a staggering 50 percent tariff on Indian imports.

The British couple killed in the Lisbon funicular crash have been remembered as “hugely talented” members of the theatre community dedicated to “inspiring the next generation”.

The former President of Russia has warned Moscow could seek revenge after the UK used the nation’s frozen assets to fund military support in Ukraine.

In a large-scale immigration enforcement raid at a huge Hyundai facility in Georgia on Thursday, 475 immigrants suspected of living and working in the U.S. illegally were detained, federal authorities announced.

Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, could become the first trillionaire after the Tesla board introduced a massive new pay package for its CEO to maintain his focus on the troubled EV maker.

Vladimir Putin has wasted no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing, while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.

A young British woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Dubai, her family revealed tonight.

Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin’s ex-wife can pursue a multi-billion dollar share of his stake in Nornickel, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, allowing potentially one of the highest-value divorce cases ever brought to continue.

A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to a second prison term for money laundering and corruption linked to bribes he received from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that any Western peacekeeping forces deployed to Ukraine would be a “legitimate” target for Moscow’s armies.

The matriarch of a wealthy South Florida family was convicted Thursday of murder in the killing of her former son-in-law, a prominent law professor who was locked in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife when he was gunned down in 2014.

Bolivian authorities arrested former Interior Minister Arturo Murillo on Thursday following his extradition from the United States, where he had been serving a prison sentence for money laundering, the Interior Ministry said.

Thieves snatched three porcelain works worth millions of euros in a night raid on a French museum.

Donald Trump will order that the Pentagon be called the Department of War as it "conveys a stronger message of readiness and resolve."

Mark Carney has informed Canadians to brace for austerity measures, and his finance minister has warned of “tough choices” in the coming months, as the government strives to balance near-record defence spending, cuts to government programs, and a trade conflict with the United States.

Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, has promised a swift and thorough investigation to determine the causes of the funicular railway crash in Lisbon that killed 16 people and injured 21 others, describing the incident as “one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history”.

Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.

Ukraine’s anti-corruption prosecutors have charged Illia Vitiuk, former head of the Security Service’s cyber department, with illicit enrichment and false asset declarations.