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Africa

  • Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno puts a ballot paper in a container surrounded by security staff and people holding up phones and cameras inside a white tent

    Chad’s military leader Itno declared president as results contested by rival

    Prime minister, Masra, accuses officials of manipulating results that show he won 18.5% of vote to Itno’s 61%
  • Saibai Island from the air, in the Torres Strait, north Queensland

    Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum

  • A large group of people in a refugee camp.

    Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

  • African army officers sit across a table from a European officials and an officer

    UK officials under fire for congratulating ‘repressive’ new chief of Uganda’s army

  • A small boat full of people at sea.

    Soaring number of migrants trapped in Yemen face abuse and starvation, say NGOs

  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

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Americas

  • Small girl shelters from cold wind in front of Mexican and other flags at US-Mexico border

    Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules

    The president is under pressure from Republicans and progressives as humanitarian crisis builds and immigration remains a key voter issue
  • brown horse stands on strips of land surrounded by water

    Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

  • Shakira in a red dress at the Met Gala in New York.

    Spanish investigation into Shakira’s alleged tax evasion dropped

  • Drake pictured in September 2022.

    Man arrested for attempted break-in at Drake’s Toronto mansion

  • concrete building with parking lot in front, against a blue sky

    Congress hears testimony on Russia’s sonic attacks on US officials in Havana

  • Graffiti on concrete that reads 'No canal'

    Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

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Asia Pacific

  • A drone view shows BYD electric vehicles parked up before being loaded on to a BYD ship for export

    Biden White House to expand tariffs on Chinese trade

    President likely to add sectors such as electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells to range of levies set up under Donald Trump
  • Air Vanuatu, Boeing 737-800, landing at Bauerfield International Airport, Port Vila

    Flights cancelled and tourists stranded as Air Vanuatu put into voluntary liquidation

  • A woman is silhouetted against the Baidu logo at a new product launch from Baidu, in Shanghai, China, November 26, 2015. Thousands of apps running code built by Chinese Internet giant Baidu have collected and transmitted users' personal information to the company, much of it easily intercepted, researchers say. Picture taken November 26. REUTERS/Aly Song

    Chinese PR boss says sorry after glorifying work-till-you-drop culture

  • Two reddy brown orangutans handing from a perch

    Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

  • Former Fiji prime minister Frank Bainimarama wearing handcuffs at court

    Former Fiji PM Frank Bainimarama sentenced to year in jail

  • Local residents sing a theme song written by protesters "Glory to Hong Kong" at a shopping mall in Hong Kong in 2019

    Court bans Glory to Hong Kong protest song prompting further fears for free speech

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Australia

  • Screen grab from live stream of Krista Kach during siege in Stockton Australia, who died after NSW police officers forced their way into her apartment and shot her with a Taser and bean bag rounds

    NSW police fighting to keep secret documents from watchdog related to death of woman shot with bean bag round

    Watchdog wants access to manual on use of ‘less-lethal’ force and personnel logs as part of investigation into Krista Kach’s fatal wounding
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Perth, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

    Labor pours $1bn into domestic violence crisis housing and doubles homelessness funding

  • Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien

    Coalition MPs dismiss International Energy Agency advice to ditch nuclear plans

  • Anglo American's Mogalakwena mine in South Africa

    Anglo American’s South African investors open to revised BHP offer

  • Penny Wong addressing the United Nations General Assembly

    Australia likely to support UN vote on status of Palestine after resolution was watered down

  • Warragamba Dam spills amid flooding in New South Wales, Australia

    Flood fears as weekend rain and thunderstorms forecast for NSW, with Sydney dam likely to spill

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Europe

  • Rescue workers after a Russian missile attack, Kharkiv.

    Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv sends reinforcements to Kharkiv and evacuates civilians as Russian forces advance – as it happened

    Head of the town of Vovchansk’s military administration said transport was being organised for those without cars
  • People standing on roof of submerged bus in river.

    Bus plunges into river in central St Petersburg killing at least three

  • Smoke rises from a building, with rubble in the foreground

    Russians try to break through Ukrainian defence lines north of Kharkiv

  • A herd of goats in a mountainous landscape

    Great goat giveaway: Italian island inundated with adoption offers

  • Houses submerged in flood water in Germany

    ‘No alternative’: EU climate chief urges MEPs not to use crisis as political tool

  • Eden Golan performing on stage.

    Israel qualifies for Eurovision song contest final despite protests

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Middle East

  • The Israeli military has been accused of abusing detainees at the Sde Teiman desert camp.

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: UN passed resolution for security council to reconsider and support Palestine membership

    143 countries supported it, 9 voted against, and 25 abstained
  • People attend a protest

    Israel’s isolation grows over war in Gaza and rise in settler violence

  • Philippe Lazzarini in front of a United Nations logo

    UN agency closes East Jerusalem HQ after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’

  • Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with President Isaac Herzog on his left, 6 May 2024

    ‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms

  • A rally in Berlin on 28 April protesting against the death sentence given to Toomaj Salehi.

    Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death

  • A Palestinian family on a truck with all their belongings seen from the back on a road with a shopping trolley and tents

    More than 100,000 flee Rafah as Israel steps up strikes, says UN

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South and Central Asia

  • Arvind Kejriwal in a car

    Jailed Indian opposition leader granted bail to take part in election campaign

    Supreme court judges order Arvind Kejriwal’s release until 1 June and question timing of his arrest on corruption charges
  • Amit Shah

    India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video

  • Friends and family join a funeral procession for a member of the Parsi community at a prayer hall

    ‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

  • A turbaned man holds a sword in front of a poster featuring the photo of another turbaned man.

    Canadian police charge three over killing of Sikh activist

  • Josie Stewart pictured sitting on a park bench near Westminster

    UK whistleblower ‘morally compelled’ to speak out on Afghan withdrawal

  • Voters queue to cast their election ballot outside a village polling station in Assam state

    India election: Modi and rivals trade accusations as voter turnout slumps in second phase

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UK

  • Floral tributes to PC Sharon Beshenivsky

    Gang ringleader jailed for life for 2005 murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky

    Piran Ditta Khan, 75, was last of seven men convicted for involvement in Bradford robbery during which police officer was killed
  • A younger woman helps and older woman button up her jacket

    MPs call on spending watchdog to investigate DWP overpayments to carers

  • British soldiers

    MoD contractor hacked by China failed to report breach for months

  • Shoppers on Oxford Street in central London cross a road under lots of suspended union flags

    UK has moved out of recession, official figures show

  • The skyline of the City of London financial district

    Live
    UK economy escapes recession with fastest growth since 2021, sending FTSE 100 to new high – as it happened

  • A waste operative sorts through piles of batteries

    UK public warned after huge rise in fires caused by binned batteries

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US

  • Donald Trump, with attorney Todd Blanche (right), speaks to the press as he arrives for his trial on Friday.

    Live
    Ex-Trump aide tells trial he was ‘very upset’ by Stormy Daniels’ story – live

    Madeleine Westerhout also tells court he would sign checks without reviewing them; Michael Cohen could testify on Monday
  • Steve Bannon

    Live
    Court upholds Steve Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan 6 committee subpoena – live

  • Artificial intelligence AI and machine learning concept. Computer processor chip with microchip on electronic circuit board on blue background.<br>2WMW4H6 Artificial intelligence AI and machine learning concept. Computer processor chip with microchip on electronic circuit board on blue background.

    Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception

  • dark clouds in the sky and a person standing on a car reflected in the side mirror of another car

    Baseball-sized hailstones fall in Texas as southern US hit by severe storms

  • In a selfie taken in July 2014, Johnathan Walton poses with Marianne Smyth during a vacation in Palm Springs, California.

    ‘Queen of the Con’ found in Maine ordered to be extradited to Northern Ireland

  • Demonstrators with a peace sign and placards say 'Stop glorifying civil war leaders' next to a school board meeting sign.

    Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

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