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Africa

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

    Few economic and social benefits will come to Africans if processing is all done overseas, says Wanjira Mathai
  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • People hold pots as volunteers distribute food in Omdurman, Sudan, September 3, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

    Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows

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Americas

  • A woman holds out the skirt of her white dress showing the printed scene of slaves picking cotton on Lisbon’s Praça do Comércio.

    Portugal needs to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president

    Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schools
  • A crowd of women march along a street holding banners

    Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban

  • Nancy Gonzalez shows off her collection of handbags at Neiman Marcus in Bal Harbour, Florida in 2008.

    Designer Nancy Gonzalez sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags

  • Fishers working with a net

    ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

  • A woman fans herself as she and another woman walk across a street

    Weather tracker: Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave

  • Ukrainian soldier manning mortar unit

    Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

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Asia Pacific

  • Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto

    Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changes
  • Outdoors view of white TikTok logo on a company sign.

    Congress passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app?

  • a man in a blue suit and striped blue and red tie speaks from behind a lectern

    Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

  • Antony Blinken waves as he boards his plane at Andrews airbase in Maryland on his way to Beijing for his three-day visit to China

    Antony Blinken arrives in China with warning for Beijing over support of Russia

  • Visitors from Australia and New Zealand attend a dawn ceremony at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli peninsula

    Lost luggage leaves New Zealand’s band without instruments for Anzac Day at Gallipoli

  • Police in Dresden, where the suspect was arrested on Monday night.

    AfD politician’s aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China

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Australia

  • Krissy Barrett

    Five teenagers charged with terrorism offences after police raids across Sydney

    All were refused bail and due to appear in children’s court on Thursday on charges including possessing or controlling violent extremist material
  • Pilot whales beached

    Twenty-nine pilot whales dead after mass stranding on WA beach

  • A crew member is seen onboard the USS Asheville, a Los Angeles-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine at HMAS Stirling in Perth

    US Congress passes foreign military aid package with $5bn boost for Aukus agreement with Australia

  • Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton backs Elon Musk and contradicts Sussan Ley on ‘silly’ demand for global removal of stabbing footage

  • Logo of Australian oil and gas producer Santos Ltd

    Activist groups not directly involved in Tiwi Island lawsuit must hand over documents to Santos, court rules

  • Deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley says she is ‘really disappointed’ by the approach Elon Musk is taking with X.

    Sussan Ley ‘really disappointed’ with Elon Musk – as it happened

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Europe

  • Lukashenko stands behind a podium

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war live: risk of military incidents along Ukraine border quite high, says Belarus

    Alexander Lukashenko also said there could be an ‘apocalypse’ if Russia used nuclear weapons in retaliation for western actions.
  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

  • A demonstration against the new ‘Venice Access Fee’.

    Live
    Europe live: Venice residents protest as city begins visitor charging scheme

  • Exterior of Warsaw University library

    Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

  • People take pictures of the red windmill without its blades as a worker loads damaged items into the back of a truck

    Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse in Paris

  • Pedro Sánchez with his wife, Begoña Gómez

    Spanish PM considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ of wife

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Middle East

  • An aerial view of a tent camp established by Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Palestinians have started moving to the area from Rafah.

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: White House says it wants ‘answers’ from Israel after mass graves found near hospitals in Gaza

    Israel says the graves were dug by people in Gaza a few months ago but the corpses had been examined by IDF soldiers
  • A woman is arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas in Austin,

    Dozens arrested in California and Texas as campus administrators move to shut down protests – as it happened

  • Daily Life In Gaza Amid Hamas-Israel Conflict, Palestine - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446835j) Displaced Palestinians are sheltering in a UNRWA-affiliated school after fleeing their homes due to Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 23, 2024. Daily Life In Gaza Amid Hamas-Israel Conflict, Palestine - 23 Apr 2024

    Germany to resume funding of Unrwa aid operations in Gaza

  • A satellite image shows rows of white tents from above

    Israel thought to be preparing to send troops into Rafah

  • People cook on makeshift stoves in a camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza

    Middle East crisis: Germany to resume working with Unrwa after UN report finds Israel yet to supply evidence to back terror claims – as it happened

  • Biden in suit and shades strolling in on a lawn.

    Biden praises Congress for foreign aid bill and says he will sign it immediately

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South and Central Asia

  • Avani Dias

    Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist

    Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’
  • A hand holds three cardboard cutouts of Narendra Modi with party supporters out of focus in the background

    Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues

  • Thai soldiers stand guard as Myanmar villagers flee to Thailand amid clashes between rebels and the junta

    Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops

  • Narendra Modi addresses a crowd on Independence Day. He is looking towards the right and appears to be speaking, with one arm in the air. He is wearing a red turban and white kurta.

    ‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality

  • A motorcyclist drives past a poster of Narendra Modi in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh

    Voting begins in India’s election with Modi widely expected to win third term

  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

    Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

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UK

  • Humza Yousaf

    Live
    Humza Yousaf says deal with Greens ‘has served its purpose’ after ending power sharing – UK politics live

    First minister says deal was no longer providing stability in parliament and parties will cooperate but less formally in future
  • orange glow of the sky at dawn with the distinctly shaped pit head structure in silhouette

    BHP move to buy Anglo American puts future of copper in spotlight

  • Three people stand on a street holding a banner saying: 'No more climate betrayals'. Other people hold a variety of banners saying: 'Scrap fossil fuels not targets', 'No future in fossil fuels', and 'Scottish Borders for climate justice'

    SNP ends power-sharing deal with Scottish Greens over climate strategy row

  • The frontage of the large Sainsburys superstore incorporating Argos, Habitat and Lloyd's pharmacy

    Sainsbury’s says sales revival in big-ticket items depends on base rate cut

  • A black and a white horse bolt through the streets of central London, the white horse blood-stained

    Runaway horses in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through central London

  • Barclays logo on a bank close up

    Barclays profits tumble 12% as UK interest rates hit mortgage demand

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US

  • Donald Trump

    Live
    Donald Trump hush-money trial: David Pecker returns to witness stand – live

    Ex-president’s longtime ally and former National Enquirer publisher on stand again following Monday opening statements
  • The Marshall Steam Station coal power plant operates 3 March 2024, near Mooresville, North Carolina.

    New rule compels US coal-fired power plants to capture emissions – or shut down

  • University of Texas police officers arrest a man at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Wednesday April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

    First Thing: Dozens more protesters arrested as Mike Johnson suggests calling in national guard

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    ‘Outrageous’ climate activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • Student protesters are pushed to the edge of campus at the University of Texas, on Wednesday, 24 April 2024, in Austin, Texas.

    Protesters arrested amid crackdown on pro-Palestine student rallies across US campuses

  • Tupac Shakur pictured in 1996.

    Estate of Tupac Shakur threatens legal action against Drake over AI diss track

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