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Parliament has unanimously called for action to prevent severe human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, in a motion that stopped short of calling those abuses genocide. Video

Venezuela has been "sending signals" to the Biden administration, but Washington will not ease sanctions without concrete steps toward new elections.

Families in Israel have begun burying their loved ones after at least 45 people died in a crush at a crowded Orthodox Jewish festival overnight.

President Joe Biden has proposed a sweeping new $1.8 trillion plan in a joint US congress, pleading with Republicans to work with him on divisive issues and to meet the stiff competition posed by…

Federal investigators executed a search warrant at the Manhattan apartment of Rudolph Giuliani, former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, as they probe his business dealings with Ukraine.

Crematoriums in the Indian capital Delhi have been forced to build makeshift funeral pyres, as the city runs out of space to cremate its dead.

The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change.

Justice has finally arrived for George Floyd's family with the murder conviction of former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, the family's lawyer says.

President Joe Biden says Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict could be a "giant step forward in the march toward justice in America". Video

US President Joe Biden has said he is praying for the "right verdict" in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-policeman accused of killing George Floyd.

Environmental and humanitarian organisations in the Pacific are urging Australia to commit to its climate responsibilities.

The gunman who killed eight people at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis was a former employee, the company says.

Daunte Wright, 20, was fatally shot after an officer mistook her gun for a Taser, the police chief says.

World leaders have expressed sympathy and sorrow at the Duke of Edinburgh's death.

The US President announced limited measures to tackle gun violence in the United States, in what the White House described as a first step to curb mass shootings, community bloodshed and suicides.

A US police officer and the suspect in an attack near the US Capitol building in Washington are dead, a senior police officer says.

Several powerful tornadoes have torn through northern Alabama, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others and destroying entire neighbourhoods.

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in support of the Asian community, after a shooting that left eight people dead, six of them Asian women.

President Joe Biden says Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the 2020 US presidential election.

Investigators say the suspect admitted to the attack, but denied that he was motivated by racism.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered for a rally and march in the US city of Louisville to mark a year since the killing of Breonna Taylor, whose death helped fuel protests against police brutality.

Myanmar security forces have killed at least 12 people, as the acting leader of a civilian parallel government vowed to pursue a "revolution" to overturn the 1 February military coup.

In unaired footage, the Duke of Sussex says the "bigoted" UK media created a "toxic environment".