Beijing quiet as virus continues to impact
Cities, like Beijing, which were already battling severe COVID-19 outbreaks have seen a sharp fall in activity after regular testing rules were stopped.
Cities, like Beijing, which were already battling severe COVID-19 outbreaks have seen a sharp fall in activity after regular testing rules were stopped.
Since October, Moscow has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure with large waves of missile and drone strikes.
Australia is about to play host to negotiators from 14 countries involved in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) over six days in Brisbane from Saturday. They include the United States, Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, but not China.
Jesse Langford, who lost his parents and sister in the 2019 White Island volcano eruption, has shared his ordeal in a new Netflix documentary.
Russia has battered eastern Ukraine's front line in support of the Kremlin's apparently scaled-back plans to secure only the bulk of lands it has claimed.
An Indonesian official says Bali attacks bomb maker Umar Patek has been freed from prison on parole after serving about half his 20-year sentence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has celebrated seizing territory in Ukraine as his forces press forward with air and ground attacks in the country's east.
Police in Germany are set to make further arrests as investigations into a thwarted plot to overthrow the government continue.
Ukraine has demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres deep into its neighbour's airspace with attacks on three Russian bases.
The United Arab Emirates and Ukraine have announced their intention to start talks on a bilateral trade deal, expected to conclude by the middle of next year.
Russian commentators say if Ukraine can launch drone strikes hundreds of kilometres deep into the country's air space, it might also be able to hit Moscow.
A G7 price cap on Russian seaborne oil is now in force, however a defiant Russia says it will not abide by the measure even if it has to cut production.
"We cannot allow any kind of internal conflicts and strike that can weaken us all," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has told the people of Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden isn't interested in talks with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine right now, while the G7 has joined the EU on a Russian oil price cap.
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to avoid being extradited to the United States.
The Russian government says it is preparing its response after the G7, the European Union and Australia announced a price cap on its oil.
Lockdowns and restrictions have begun easing in some towns and districts as China prepares to announce revised COVID-19 quarantine rules.
A US federal appeals court has ended an independent review of documents seized from Donald Trump's Florida estate.
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to talks about a possible settlement in Ukraine after Joe Biden said he was willing to meet.
Emmanuel Macron and President Joe Biden have shown they are in lock-step over the conflict in Ukraine during the French president's state visit to Washington.
A man of accused of murdering Toyah Cordingley has made a brief court appearance in the Indian capital amid Australian attempts to extradite him.
In the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, site of the heaviest fighting, Russian forces have tried to make further advances and shelled several towns.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers militia group, has been convicted by a jury of seditious conspiracy for last year's attack on the US Capitol.
Protesters' clashes with police in Guangzhou have marked an escalation in rallies against China's strict COVID-19 rules.
NATO will help Ukraine repair energy infrastructure damaged by Russian shelling, in what the alliance's head says is Russia using the cold as "a weapon of war".
Extradition proceedings against a man accused of killing Toyah Cordingley on a Queensland beach will be pursued swiftly, an Indian public prosecutor says.
Anti-lockdown protests in China have flared up, with hundreds gathering in Shanghai and Beijing calling for an end to the hardline zero-COVID policy.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has eschewed her regular holiday in Australia this summer, deciding to holiday at home.
Simmering discontent with stringent COVID-19 prevention policies three years into the pandemic have ignited into broader protests in cities across China.
Ukraine is bracing for new attacks on its already-battered power grid, while the US plans new aid to help the country restore electricity as winter approaches.
An Iranian general has acknowledged that hundreds of people have died during a state crackdown on nationwide protests about the death of a woman in custody.