International

Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi, was sentenced Thursday to at least 55 years in prison for his involvement in the Ariana Grande concert attack that killed 22 people in May 2017.

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon is charged with fraud over the campaign to build a Mexican border wall.

Alexei Navalny is seriously ill in hospital in Omsk after his plane made an emergency landing.

The United States government has officially suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong over concerns that the Chinese government’s new national security law is eroding the city’s autonomy.

More than 90% of new Covid-19 cases in Australia’s state of Victoria can be traced back to one quarantine hotel, officials say. The state has launched a judicial inquiry into what went wrong in the quarantine hotels that helped unleash a fresh outbreak in the state. CNN’s Will Ripley reports.

Synthetic drug production has exploded in Southeast Asia.

Australian carrier Qantas Airways announced Thursday that it’s “unlikely” to resume international flights before July 2021, as it suffers heavy losses due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Australia has secured a deal with the drugmaker AstraZeneca to supply a potential Covid-19 vaccine to its entire population free of charge, the government announced Tuesday, becoming the latest country to lock in supplies of the drug should trials succeed.

The California senator accepts the vice-presidential nomination with an attack on the US president.

The former US president will say his Republican successor “hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t.”