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Africa

  • A large group of people in a refugee camp.

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

    As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan
  • 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

  • A rocky landscape behind a stone wall

    Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Namibia’s Shark Island

  • A pedestrian walks past a campaign poster of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno in N'Djamena

    Opposition cries foul over ‘dynastic dictatorship’ as Chad goes to polls

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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

  • Air Vanuatu, Boeing 737-800, landing at Bauerfield International Airport, Port Vila

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

    Troubled airline had earlier cancelled flights to Australia and New Zealand, citing ‘maintenance’ requirements
  • 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

  • Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, right, jogs on to a practice field with his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara before news of the scandal broke

    Shohei Ohtani interpreter to plead guilty to stealing millions from MLB star

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Australia

  • Saibai Island

    Australia will seek to return Rwandans to PNG after unauthorised arrival in Torres Strait

    Government will require that the five men who claimed asylum will not be sent to a country where they face persecution
  • A Virgin plane comes in for landing at Sydney International Airport

    Live
    Australia news live: Virgin agrees to government request to ramp up Vanuatu flights; three more charged over Wakeley unrest

  • A Bonza 737 Max aircraft in Melbourne

    Bonza hopeful for Queensland bailout but federal government support unlikely

  • Australian National University

    Student protester suspended by ANU for expressing support for Hamas as police warn over encampments

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Bruce Lehrmann ordered to pay almost all of Channel Ten’s defamation case costs

  • Kamahl

    Kamahl charged with stalking and intimidating a 38-year-old woman

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Europe

  • Eden Golan performing on stage.

    Israel qualifies for Eurovision song contest final despite protests

    Thousands had marched against the country’s inclusion in Saturday’s final but Eden Golan’s entry was voted through
  • Taylor Swift on stage dressed in a red bodysuit holding up a microphone

    Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour

  • Rear view of troops with fixed bayonets in front of Xi and Sulyok with part of Hungarian flag visible

    Hungary rolls out red carpet for Xi in final leg of European tour

  • A green tank flying a red flag

    Putin watches Russian military parade featuring a solitary, Soviet-era tank

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy replaces special operations chief for second time in six months – as it happened

  • a large group of riot police wearing helmets and high-vis jackets surround a group of protesters in a courtyard at the university, which is a historic brick building. One student is seen on the roof with a banner and some are holding cardboard placards; there is graffiti scrawled in red paint on the walls.

    Students across Europe hold Gaza war protests in run-up to UN vote on Palestinian statehood

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Middle East

  • Palestinian children collect belongings from the rubble after Israeli attacks in Rafah.

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    Israel-Gaza war live: Rafah offensive could give Hamas ‘strategic victory’, US says; UNGA in new Palestinian vote

    The White House says that more civilian deaths in Rafah will play into Hamas’ ‘twisted narrative’ about Israel; UNGA resolution calls on security council to reconsider membership request
  • 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

  • Philippe Lazzarini in front of a United Nations logo

    Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after ‘Israeli extremist’ arson attack

  • 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

  • Israeli troops with military vehicles gathering in southern Israel near the Gaza border, 9 May 2024

    Does Israel need more US arms for a Rafah offensive?

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South and Central Asia

  • Amit Shah

    India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video

    Congress party’s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah
  • 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

  • A girl cools off during the heat wave at the Suhrawardy Udyan water reserve in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia

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UK

  • The skyline of the City of London financial district

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    UK economy escapes recession with 0.6% growth in the last quarter – business live

    Short recession is over, as UK economy grows faster than forecast in January-March quarter
  • Tables set ready for customers in a restaurant

    UK has moved out of recession, official figures show

  • The Vulcan Hotel, which once stood in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, has been rebuilt in its original 1915 state at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales, UK<br>Pictured: Exterior view of the Vulcan Hotel. Thursday 09 May 2024 Re: The Vulcan Hotel, which once stood in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, has been rebuilt in its original 1915 state at St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales, UK.

    Beloved Cardiff pub demolished in 2012 reopens after brick-by-brick rebuild on new site

  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

  • Wind turbines in a field with a dark sky behind

    Fixation on UK nuclear power may not help to solve climate crisis

  • Ride side of woman's face looking at sample in microscope

    Adapted NHS bowel cancer test developed for blind and partly sighted people

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US

  • Mountains with snow above buildings

    Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in Utah mountains

    Search team find man who dug himself out of the snow, and confirm two men, aged 23 and 32, died near Lone Peak
  • MC5 at the Cinch Levis store in London. MC5 are Wayne Kramer (brown jacket), Dennis Thompson (black vesst), Michael Davis (black jacket).

    Dennis Thompson, drummer in rock band MC5, dies aged 75

  • Large, strong, brown arms with two light tattoos are wrapped around a framed color photograph of a young black man in a blue military uniform with a peaked cap beside an American flag.

    Family of US airman killed by Florida police dispute sheriff’s narrative

  • An undated photo of a younger Lawrence Hecker.

    ‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church

  • Lawrence Hecker. The St Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

    ‘We were encouraged to be with younger boys’: breaking down a child molester priest’s secret testimony

  • Migrants with interviews are allowed to enter the United States at the Chaparral pedestrian border on May 16, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico.

    Biden officials propose denying some migrants earlier in asylum process

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