LATEST WORLD NEWS

President George H. W. Bush pictured in 1990 hiding behind his sister, Nancy Ellis, as he prepares for a jog along the C&O canal in the Georgetown section of Washington (Marcy Nighswander/AP)

Nancy Bush, sister to one president and aunt to another, dies aged 94

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The Capitol in Washington (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

New acting police chief named after US Capitol violence

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Mike Pence and Donald Trump (J. Scott Applewhite and Evan Vucci/AP)

Republicans block House call for Mike Pence to oust Donald Trump

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An American flag flies at half-mast above the White House (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Donald Trump to face impeachment charge of ‘incitement of insurrection’

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William Burns (Saurabh Das/AP)

Joe Biden names veteran diplomat as new director of CIA

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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko (Maxi Guchek/AP)

Belarus leader ridicules US over Capitol protests

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks during his meeting with Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev, left, and Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan in the Kremlin in Moscow (Mikhail Klimentyev/AP)

Vladimir Putin hosts meeting with Armenia and Azerbaijan leaders

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump (Patrick Semansky/AP)

Melania Trump condemns Capitol violence but hits out at ‘false accusations’

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Indian cricketer Virat Kohli, left, and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma (Rajanish Kakade/AP)

Baby girl for Bollywood’s Anushka Sharma and cricketer Virat Kohli

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Pope Francis leads a Mass for the Feast of Epiphany in St Peter’s Basilica (Remo Casilli/AP)

Pope Francis expands role of women in Mass but keeps priesthood off limits

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Pro-king supporters are stopped by riot police as they march demanding reinstating the monarchy that was abolished more than a decade ago in Kathmandu, Nepal (Niranjan Shrestha/AP)

Riot police clash with protesters calling for return of Nepal’s monarchy

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Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by US Capitol Police officers (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Records reveal fervent Trump supporters fuelled US Capitol takeover

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A plough clears snow in central Madrid (Manu Fernandez/AP)

Record snowfall hampers Spain’s efforts to distribute vaccine

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Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, looks up near a slide showing a photo of Uighur infants during a press conference (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Anger as China says it is freeing Uighur women from being ‘baby-making machines’

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The US Capitol

Capitol police ‘made no added preparations ahead of riot’

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Chinese health authorities say scores more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Hebei province

World Health Organisation experts due to arrive in China this week for Covid investigation

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Indonesian Navy divers pull a part of an airplane out of the water during a search operation for the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed into the sea near Jakarta, Indonesia

Indonesia intensifies search for crashed plane’s black boxes

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Workers install a flag on the US Capitol

Possible virus exposure for politicians sheltering during Capitol riot

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