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  • A cacao fruit

    Extortionate Easter eggs and shrinking sweets: fears grow of a ‘chocolate meltdown’

    Poor harvests in extreme weather conditions have led to a tripling of cocoa prices – but farmers have seen no benefit
  • A completely destroyed bus lying at the bottom of a hill. A firefighter is spraying a hose over the bus.

    45 dead as bus plunges from bridge into ravine in South Africa

  • A woman stands facing some standing water, surrounded by washing spread out to dry.

    ‘Staggering’ rise in women with reproductive health issues near DRC cobalt mines – study

  • Kenya police patrol the streets of Nairobi, Kenya,

    ‘It’s mission impossible’: fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti

  • People in Dakar celebrate the presumed win of Bassirou Diomaye Faye in Senegal's presidential elections

    ‘We are finally free’: Senegal hails new anti-establishment president

  • A nurse sees patients at Ewim Polyclinic in Cape Coast, Ghana,

    Recruitment of nurses from global south branded ‘new form of colonialism’

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  • BRAZIL-PUTSCH<br>Brazilian army tanks stand in front of Laranjeiras Palace, on April 01, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro during the military putsch that led to the overthrow of President Joao Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, and a military regime led by Humberto Castelo Branco. (Photo by - / AFP)        (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

    Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election
  • etching of people working in a mine

    Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’

  • two men in white shirts clutching hands closely on a boat

    Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit

  • Boris Johnson

    ‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting

  • forest on side of road with a sign

    Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature

  • In recent years, educators have spend a growing share of their time in the classroom attempting to get students to focus, the boards said.

    Canada school boards accuse social media firms of ‘rewiring’ how kids think

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  • South Korean Ambassador to Australia, Lee Jong-sup at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, South Korea

    South Korea’s ambassador to Australia resigns after four weeks amid corruption probe

    Lee Jong-sup is being investigated over allegations he tried to improperly influence an inquiry into death of marine while he was defence minister
  • An email inbox on a laptop computer screen

    Western governments struggle to coordinate response to Chinese hacking

  • Man in front of Russian Federation label

    Russia criticised for using veto to end UN monitoring of North Korea sanctions

  • Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi greets New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon in Wellington on 18 March 18. New Zealand has opted against applying sanctions over China’s alleged hacking operations.

    Why didn’t New Zealand impose sanctions on China?

  • A boomerang word … Katsu has been added to the OED

    The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words

  • Former trader Tom Hayes, who was jailed alongside Carlo Palombo over interest rate benchmark manipulation, outside the Royal Courts Of Justice.

    UK Libor trader Tom Hayes loses appeal against rate-rigging conviction – as it happened

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  • Jacqui Lambie Network Senator Jacqui Lambie

    Jacqui Lambie says Tammy Tyrrell’s decision to split from the party amicable

    Tyrrell worked as Lambie’s office manager for years before being elected to the upper house in 2022
  • Eddie Betts

    Former AFL player Eddie Betts shares video of racist abuse hurled at children playing in yard

  • Forensic investigators on the scene after a man was shot dead in Melbourne’s north early on Good Friday.

    Man shot dead in ‘very targeted’ attack in Melbourne’s north, police say

  • Sydney is expected to be sunny over the Easter weekend, with temperatures in the high 20s.

    Warm and sunny weather expected for most Australian capitals over Easter weekend

  • Scott Morrison

    ‘Humility keeps you real’: Scott Morrison tells podcast he was always wary of power

  • AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine bottle next to a syringe

    AstraZeneca claims Australian rules stopped it defending its vaccine during pandemic

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  • A Ukrainian border guard launches a drone to survey the border with Romania in September 2023.

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    Russia-Ukraine war live: Romania finds ‘drone fragments’ on farm near Ukraine border

    Nato member says it finds fragments of what appears to be a drone on farm near river Danube and border with Ukraine
  • People shelter from the rain under umbrellas and some people are dressed in black pointed hoods

    Easter processions cancelled in southern Spain due to rainstorms

  • An Inuit mother and girls in traditional costume in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland, in 2010.

    ‘I was only a child’: Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception

  • A mural of a woman and a polar bear on the side of a block of flats in an urban area lit up after dusk

    ‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women

  • a man stands with his arms crossed in a glass cage

    ‘He’s not broken’: a year later, Evan Gershkovich is still in Russian prison

  • Antonina Favorskaya walks on a street

    Russian police detain journalist who filmed last video of Alexei Navalny alive

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  • People look at buildings destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on 27 March.

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    Middle East crisis live: Israeli military says it has killed Hezbollah deputy commander

    IDF says Ali Abed Akhsan Naim, deputy commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missiles unit, was killed in airstrike in Lebanon
  • Israeli airstrike in Syria kills more than 40 people, says war monitor Strike near Aleppo weapons depot reportedly killed Hezbollah and Syrian troops, while civilians also said to be among dead

    Israeli airstrike in Syria kills more than 40 people, says war monitor

  • A tank drives along a dirt road past yellow flowers

    ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

  • Palestinian families displaced from their homes make preparations for the iftar dinner in temporary tents in Rafah on Thursday.

    ‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid

  • Olly Alexander on stage.

    Queer artists call on Olly Alexander to boycott Eurovision over Israel participation

  • Flags fly at half mast outside a burnt-out concert hall

    Advance of Islamic State affiliates ‘could lay ground for new wave of terrorism’

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  • Aam Aadmi party activists protest in New Delhi.

    India summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister’s arrest

    Calls for fair legal process for opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal amid claims rivals to Modi are being targeted before elections
  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

  • Security personnel inspect the site of the attack near Besham city in the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

    Six killed after suicide bomber rams convoy of Chinese engineers in Pakistan

  • Clockwise from top left, Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Fayzov and Shamsidin Fariduni

    ‘I noticed nothing strange’: suspect’s colleagues express shock at Moscow attack

  • Johnny Mercer

    Minister told to name sources in Afghan inquiry or face potential jail term

  • Arvind Kejriwal is the top elected official for the Indian capital.

    Delhi chief minister to be held for six days after arrest on corruption charges

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  • Two boys playing online games

    Video game firms found to have broken their own industry rules on loot boxes

    Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches
  • Sunak looking at Farage during an ITV election debate

    Labour urges Rishi Sunak to rule out offering Nigel Farage US ambassador job

  • Cleanshaven British army troops on parade

    British army ends century-old ban to allow troops to grow beards

  • Lucy Mangan

    Digested week: Germany has the right idea on dachshunds. Dogs should be cuddly

    Lucy Mangan
  • Him with two horses

    Khan tells Labour mayoral election still a two-horse race

  • Beckenham (Greater London), Kent, UK. Entrance to Beckenham Junction railway station with station sign and card readers looking through to platform.<br>2C80M2F Beckenham (Greater London), Kent, UK. Entrance to Beckenham Junction railway station with station sign and card readers looking through to platform.

    Teenager charged with attempted murder after London train stabbing

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  • Smoke caused by an Israeli airstrike rises against the backdrop of mountains, behind green fields, in Baalbek, Lebanon

    First Thing: Israel launches deadly airstrike on Syria

    War monitor reports Israeli airstrike in Syria has killed more than 40 people, mainly troops. Plus: ecocide in Gaza
  • Tractor sprays liquid on green land

    Low-income California Latinos at higher risk from Parkinson’s-linked weedkiller

  • Boise State University in Idaho in 2015.

    Revealed: US professor was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies

  • Election workers handle ballots during a recount

    The election deniers relentlessly hounding Georgia officials

  • Woman in brown shirt stands in front of brown background

    Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted

  • man in a suit

    Biden campaign raises $25m ‘money bomb’ at event with Obama and Clinton

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