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Lai Chiwai became the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair as he pulled himself up for more than 10 hours on Saturday to raise money for spinal cord patients.

Germany has given transcripts of interviews with Alexei Navalny to Russia as part of Moscow's probe into the poisoning of the Kremlin critic, a Justice Ministry spokesman said, demanding a thorough investigation into the crime.

The Brazilian jungle state of Amazonas received more emergency supplies of oxygen and respirators on Saturday, as the military and neighboring Venezuela scrambled to alleviate an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by a devastating COVID19 outbreak.

Ethiopia has denied a Sudanese allegation that an Ethiopian military aircraft crossed the border into Sudan.

Foreign ministers of China and the Philippines on Saturday committed to prioritising postpandemic recovery efforts as senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi wrapped up a weeklong visit to four Southeast Asian countries.

The FBI has warned police agencies of possible armed protests at all 50 state capitols starting January 16 through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, fuelled by supporters of President Donald Trump who believe his false claims of elec...

The Guatemalan military has detained hundreds of migrants at its border as thousands of Hondurans, including many families with young children, continued to walk north on Friday as part of a caravan hoping to reach the United States.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced parliamentary and presidential elections on Friday, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal longstanding internal divisions.

Libyan authorities on Friday released two bodies found in mass graves in the city of Tarhouna after the Tripoli government retook it in June from Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA).

As rioters overpowered Capitol police, Sicknick was pepper-sprayed and hit in the head, his father told Reuters last week. Ambulance crews resuscitated him twice as he was rushed to a nearby Washington hospital. Sicknick died the next day.

Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand have caused next months Club World Cup to shrink from seven teams to six.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired "abundant" surfacetosurface ballistic missiles and tested locally manufactured new drones in a military exercise on Friday, state television reported.

The Saudiled coalition fighting Houthis in Yemen said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed three explosiveladen drones launched by the Iranaligned Houthi movement towards Saudi Arabia, state media reported.

The warmest six years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three. The differences in average global temperatures among the three warmest years are indistinguishably small.

The Philippines on Friday extended by two weeks a ban on travellers from more than 30 territories and countries where a more transmissible COVID19 variant has been detected, with the restriction also now covering Filipinos who want to come home.

President Xi Jinping is asking former CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks to help repair U.S.Chinese relations that have plunged to their lowest level in decades amid a tariff war and tension over technology and security.