The five-day trial saw Democratic prosecutors argue -- bolstered by dramatic video of the January 6 riot -- that Trump betrayed his oath by whipping up his supporters into storming Congress in a last-ditch attempt to cling to power.

Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi will be sworn in Saturday as Italy's new prime minister, charged with guiding his country through the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

A fresh COVID-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel in Melbourne, capital of Victoria state, reached 13 cases as of Thursday midnight as authorities rushed to quash the spread of the virus.

Under pressure as the variant hammers the jungle city of Manaus with a devastating second wave of infections, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello sought to reassure lawmakers that the surge of recent months was unexpected but coming under control.

Normally, the festival period starts with the world's biggest annual human migration as hundreds of millions of China's workers undertake a pilgrimage back home from industrial zones and big cities.

But Ali Salam, the mayor of Nazareth, says that he sees "no better choice" for Israel's 21 percent Arab minority than veteran conservative Benjamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu.

The variant detected in South Africa has now been found in six other countries across the continent, Nkengasong said -- Botswana, Comoros, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia.

Faced with a new United States administration that has signaled a normalizing of ties with Palestine, Indonesia's continued support for the latter has managed to balance out the dynamic in the Middle East conflict.

India said Thursday it had reached an agreement with China for both to pull back from part of their contested Himalayan border.

Joe Biden challenged Chinese leader Xi Jinping on human rights, trade and regional muscle-flexing, in their first call since the new US president took office.

Trump's "de-platforming" by Twitter came after a violent uprising by his supporters leading to a deadly siege at the US Capitol on January 6. Facebook and other social networks also banned Trump after the incident.

As the clock counts down to her finally leaving Hong Kong, Judy is riddled with self-doubt and guilt over the gut-wrenching decision to move her family to the other side of the world for a new life in Britain.

Impeachment prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case against ex-president Donald Trump in the US Senate Thursday.

Setting the stage for what could extend the contentious relationship between the two superpowers, Biden offered Xi his "greetings and wellwishes" for the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year celebrations, the White House said in a statement.

Support for the Papuan struggle to break free from Indonesian rule has flourished in neighboring Australia, although activists are the first to say that they are not that well organized.

The sanctions will not only affect the military leaders but also their business interests and their close family members, he said. A first round of targets will be identified this week.

More than 22,500 test results were conducted in the past 24 hours in Australia's second most populous city Melbourne and authorities urged residents to get tested amid fears of community transmission from a worker at the Holiday Inn in the city.

President Joe Biden's government, which took office on Jan. 20, has moved to reassure Chinese-claimed Taiwan that its commitment to them is "rock solid", especially after China stepped up its military activity near the island shortly after Biden's inauguration.

The foreign entry ban, with its new exemptions, will be reviewed regularly and enforced until further notice, officials have said.

Compiled by a panel of experts monitoring sanctions on Pyongyang, the report said the country's "total theft of virtual assets from 2019 to November 2020 is valued at approximately $316.4 million", citing a UN member state.

Police arrested the suspected shooter, identified as Gregory Ulrich, 67, who was known to law enforcement from previous encounters.

Despite the sergeant at arm's command that all 100 senators remain silent "on pain of imprisonment," an informal, detached mood descended Tuesday on the Senate's Republican side, where many lawmakers have said they oppose holding the unprecedented second trial of Donald Trump.

The country said last month that it had secured doses for 72 million people based on the assumption that each vial could provide six shots. But without low dead space syringes, which minimize the amount of vaccine left in the syringe after use, a vial ends up yielding only five doses -- enough for 60 million people.

Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 after a fiery speech in which the then president repeated his false claims that his Nov. 3 election defeat was the result of widespread fraud and urging them to "fight like hell (or) you're not going to have a country anymore."

The virus most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species, Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the WHO team and a food safety specialist, said at a press conference after its joint investigation with Chinese experts.

Trump is the first president ever to face two impeachment trials -- he was already acquitted in 2020 of abuse of power -- as well as the first in history to be tried after leaving the White House.

China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory, has increased its military activity around the island in recent months, responding to what Beijing calls "collusion" between Taipei and Washington, Taiwan's most important international backer.

Unveiling the measures, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called for the international community to "strongly condemn what we're seeing happen in Myanmar".

The SNA Emeraude was accompanied by support ship BSAM Seine for the passage, Defence Minister Florence Parly said on Twitter late Monday.

The affirmation may add momentum to the Quad grouping made up of the four major Indo-Pacific democracies. Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has called it "a foundation upon which to build substantial American policy in the Indo-Pacific."