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Australian intelligence agency staff searched the homes of Chinese journalists in June, questioning them for several hours and removing their computers and mobile phones, China's state news agency Xinhua reported late on Tuesday.

Sergio Barrera Ruiz, a 52yearold pediatrician from Jujuy in the north of Argentina, sees a local health crisis looming as the coronavirus pandemic ripples out from Buenos Aires, the capital, and grips the country's less wellequipped provinces.

The African wild dog distinguishes itself from rival predators like lions and hyenas by using the unique hunting style of chasing prey over long distances until the target collapses from exhaustion, instead of relying upon speed, strength or stealth.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, meanwhile, has given assurances that Trump will not in any way sacrifice safety when it comes to a vaccine.

The Panama Canal authority has put out a call for bids on a $2 billion package of water supply projects aimed at combating a drought that affects the fresh water lakes that supply the canal's locks.

Democratic candidate Amy McGrath laid the mounting toll of coronavirus cases in the U.S. at the feet of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday while declaring that the country needs people in power who take responsibility again."

The Palestinian leadership has watered down its criticism of the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates before an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Wednesday at which the accord will be debated.

A tiny baby gorilla has been born at the zoo in New Orleans.

Ireland plans to allow the reopening of all pubs on Sept. 21, dropping a ban on bars that do not serve food, a senior minister said on Tuesday.

Siberia's Vector virology institute on Tuesday completed earlystage human trials, known as Phase II, of a second potential Russian vaccine against COVID19, the state consumer safety watchdog was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying.

An Australian journalist for Chinese state television who was detained last month is suspected of carrying out illegal activities that endanger the country's security, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry told a media briefing on Tuesday.

The New Diamond has been burning since Thursday, and a huge blaze believed to have been extinguished on Sunday reignited because of strong winds on Monday, raising fears of another environmental disaster in the Indian Ocean.

Get back in the car! the masked people shouted at me. Get back in!

A couples plan to reveal their babys gender went up not in blue or pink smoke but in flames when the device they used sparked a wildfire that burned thousands of acres and forced people to flee from a city east of Los Angeles.

A Turkish court on Monday sentenced an Islamic State militant to life in prison over the New Years Eve attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead in 2017.

The wreckage of a major German warship has been discovered off the coast of Norway some 80 years after it was sunk in a World War Two battle, Norwegian power grid operator Statnett and a maritime archaeologist said.