Peru oil spill: Judge bars Repsol executives from leaving country
Peruvian judge issues 18-month travel ban on four company executives as officials investigate massive coastal oil spill.
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COVID: New Omicron subvariant ‘appears to have growth advantage’
The UK Health security agency says early assessment does not find difference in vaccine effectiveness between subtypes.
Ukraine military escalation would be ‘devastating’: Rights group
Military escalation in Ukraine would further harm economy and devastate human rights, warns Amnesty International.
Airlines divert flights to limit exposure to Ukraine airspace
Ryanair, Europe’s largest discount airline, said it has reduced the number of flights with Ukraine.
Biden vows more investments after Pittsburgh bridge collapse
Incident, which left 10 people injured, underscores President Joe Biden's push to address ageing US infrastructure.
Oil set for sixth straight weekly gain amid tightening supply
Global benchmark Brent approached $91 a barrel while West Texas Intermediate traded near $88.
No justice? Ex-cop to go on trial for Breonna Taylor raid
Former Louisville officer Brett Hankison faces felony charges for firing wildly on night Breonna Taylor was killed.
Vatican sells luxury London building at heart of fraud trial
Purchase of building in London's Chelsea has been one of the blackest marks on the Vatican’s finances in recent years.
ECOWAS suspends Burkina Faso after military coup
West Africa regional bloc suspends Burkina Faso days after mutinous soldiers forced President Kabore to resign.
US workers see strongest compensation gains in two decades
The US employment cost index jumped 4% in the fourth quarter compared to a year earlier.
Metres from Russian separatists, some Ukrainians feel indifferent
Residents on the faultline of a crisis with Russia say a takeover would neither harm nor improve their status.
‘Hysteria has negative consequences and actually damages Ukraine’
Al Jazeera speaks to Volodymyr Ishchenko, a Ukrainian sociologist, about the crisis between Moscow and Kyiv.
Omicron, supply shortages risk pushing Germany into recession
Germany's economy contracted 0.7% in the fourth quarter and now risks falling into recession.
Europeans eye endemic light at end of pandemic tunnel
European leaders are reframing their thinking around COVID-19, and consumers are slowly catching up.
Locking down homes, Hong Kong takes COVID lesson from Beijing
Residents in the city prevented from leaving apartments as authorities race to halt spread of Omicron.
Australia PM promises $700m more to protect Great Barrier Reef
Investment will help protect about 64,000 jobs but critics say Scott Morrison is ignoring climate change.
As Omicron pushes the West to reopen, Asia hunkers down
The variant is sharpening an East-West divide on the balance between public health, the economy and basic freedoms.
UN human rights chief allowed to visit Xinjiang after Olympics
South China Morning Post reported that Beijing approved Bachelet's trip on the condition that it should be 'friendly'.
North Korea confirms latest tests as Kim visits weapons factory
Pyongyang says two tactical guided missiles struck its targets marking its sixth such launch in January.
Myanmar’s ghostly monkey among new species found in Mekong region
Popa langur found living in an extinct volcano in Myanmar among 224 new species listed by the World Wildlife Fund.