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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted he "personally" paid for the refurbishment of his London flat. An hour after Britain's political party regulator announced it was investigating how the flat was paid for, opposition leader Keir Starmer questioned Johnson about the refurbishment initially during the weekly prime minister's questions in the British parliament. "I paid for the Downing Street refurbishment personally," Johnson said, adding any further declaration he would have to make would be given to Christopher Geidt, the ministers' interests advisor. Johnson added he had "confo......

Dissident Alexei Navalny has landed in Moscow after his plane was diverted to the Russian capital's Sheremetyevo airport at the last minute, according to a dpa reporter. The plane was originally due to land at Vnukovo airport on Sunday evening, but display boards there said the plane had been diverted to the capital's larger international airport. The flight from Berlin, operated by Pobeda airline, was circulating above Vnukovo before it changed its course. Opposition politician Ilya Yashin called the diversion a "hysterical reaction" of the Russian government....

Sydney was like a ghost town as the clock ticked over from 2020 to 2021. The fireworks were smaller than previous years, limited to the Sydney Harbour Bridge for just seven minutes and aimed at a global TV audience. Wire fences blocked entry to the foreshore and police stopped anybody from heading towards vantage points where normally up to a million people pack together to watch the world famous fireworks up and down the harbour. New Year's revellers who try to breach Sydney harbour lockout laws to watch the midnight fireworks risk being hit with fines of 1,000 Australian dollars (770 dollars......