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Africa

  • 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

    Activists call move ‘absurd’, as Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Museveni, is accused of torture and abusing critics
  • 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

  • Hope Hostel

    Rwanda admits it can’t guarantee how many asylum seekers it will take in from UK

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Americas

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

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

    Panel heard from expert witnesses how Russia had ‘means, motive and opportunity’ for covert targeting of intelligence officers
  • Graffiti on concrete that reads 'No canal'

    Nicaragua cancels Chinese plan for controversial canal 10 years on

  • woman performs on stage surrounded by dancers in punky outfits

    Brazil’s far right pilloried for Madonna outrage after figures spotted at concert

  • People on boats move through floodwater on a flooded street in Porto Alegre

    Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

  • Satellite image

    Flooding in Brazil: then and now – in pictures

  • Aerial view of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela

    Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field

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Asia Pacific

  • Half the image shows a Chinese flag hanging from a building; the other half shows the Belgrade skyline and busy motorway

    ‘Countries are now forced to confront it’: Rise in Chinese espionage arrests alarms Europe

    Increase in cases reflects changing mood across continent towards Chinese threats, say experts
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (front centre) pays tribute to former propaganda chief Kim Ki Nam, who has died aged 94, at a funeral hall in Pyongyang.

    Kim Ki-nam, North Korean propaganda chief who shaped dynasty’s personality cult, dies aged 94

  • Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah.

    China angles for Gaza mediation role to expand influence in Middle East

  • Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian

    China accuses Australian navy helicopter of flying near airspace in ‘provocative move’

  • China’s Xi Jinping, French president Emmanuel Macron, center, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Élysée palace.

    Europe live: China’s Xi Jinping calls for closer ties with the EU at opening of Paris talks – as it happened

  • Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping walk in the middle of a large courtyard as they review an assembly of guards during an official welcome ceremony

    Xi’s European tour: where is Chinese leader going and what are visit’s aims?

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Australia

  • ACT senator David Pocock

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    Australia news live: Labor’s gas strategy ‘morally bankrupt’, Pocock says; Victoria Police to apologise for Stolen Generations role

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  • The Australian Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

    Budget sneak peek predicts higher wages and tax breaks – but no increase for Australians on jobseeker

  • two men pose for picture, one with a suitcase

    US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

  • Glenda Parkin siting in a field of flowers smiling

    Australia’s health watchdog warns patients are being overprescribed psychotropic medication

  • A mental health graphic

    ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment

  • Police tape at the scene where a 15-year-old male allegedly fired multiple shots from a rifle at Atlantis Beach Baptist College in Perth, Thursday, May 25, 2023. A 15-year-old is in police custody after he allegedly fired three shots from a rifle at his former private school in Perth's northern suburbs. (AAP Image/Aaron Bunch) NO ARCHIVING

    Boy, 10, arrested after alleged sexual assault of a tourist in Cairns

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Europe

  • Students taking part in an encampment protest over the Gaza conflict on the grounds of Trinity College in Dublin

    Trinity College Dublin agrees to divest from Israeli firms after student protest

    Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners
  • David Miliband

    David Miliband condemns ‘absurd’ lack of cooperation between EU and UK

  • The Italian Ukrainian model Anna Haholkina

    Model seeks legal advice after Salvini’s party uses image for anti-Islam poster

  • Olaf Scholz

    Olaf Scholz condemns attacks on politicians after third assault in a week

  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the agreement.

    EU reaches deal on using profits from Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine

  • The UK’s home secretary James Cleverly.

    Russia-Ukraine war: UK to expel Russian defence attache, who it claims is ‘undeclared military intelligence officer’ – as it happened

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Middle East

  • Man in suit on stage at White House speaks into microphone

    Biden seeks to pull rank in US-Israel relationship – a trial of strength beckons

    The decision to place a weapons shipment on hold sends a message to Netanyahu that the US dog is beginning to regain control of its tail
  • A man inspects a destroyed building after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on May 7, 2024.

    US signals to Israel more arms shipments could be paused over Rafah offensive

  • Abandoned hospital beds on deserted ward.

    Rafah hospitals in danger of being overwhelmed, say Gaza doctors

  • view across Mariner oil field off Aberdeen, Scotland showing large oil rig structures including cranes and drilling equipment; the sea and sky are both dark grey, and a red oil tanker is seen in the background

    Oil services company John Wood Group rejects £1.4bn takeover offer

  • Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Rafah.

    No sign of breakthrough in hostage and ceasefire talks, Israeli official says; Kerem Shalom aid crossing reopens – as it happened

  • Police close the pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University<br>epa11326565 Police work at the scene following the removal of pro-Palestinian protesters and the closure of the encampment in the University Yard at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, USA, 08 May 2024. Police cleared the encampment using pepper spray and arresting those that resisted as they shut down the pro-Palestinian encampment. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    Dozens reportedly arrested as police clear George Washington University encampment

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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

  • Reena Barai: she is standing in a doorway between shelves of medicines in packaging, and wears a black and white striped dress with black cardigan. She is Asian and has collar-length curly dark hair and glasses; she is smiling and resting one hand on a black desk

    ‘We’re firefighting in the background’: the pharmacists coping with record drug shortages

    Pharmacies are unable to get medicines they need and are increasingly experiencing patients’ anger and frustration
  • A female pharmacist at work: she is seen in white overalls stacking a set of long shelves filled with medicines

    Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn

  • David Cameron walks out of a building holding a red folder.

    David Cameron: west has not learned lesson of Ukraine and must get tougher

  • Metropolitan police officers on patrol in London: two officers, one make and the other female, seen from behind. They are wearing high-vis jackets and black hats with chequered bands, and are pictured facing a blurred view of people in a street

    Met police policy on mental health calls may be putting lives at risk, say charities

  • Exterior of Wandsworth prison

    Domestic abuse survivors ‘put in danger by early prison release of perpetrators’

  • Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke shaking hands

    Admitting Elphicke leaves some in Labour asking how far Starmer will go

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US

  • Internally displaced Palestinians leave Rafah after Israel’s call to evacuate the city in southern Gaza.

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    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Biden warns US will halt more weapons shipments to Israel if major Rafah offensive launched

    The US president said he had made it clear to PM Netanyahu that if Israeli military ‘go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons’
  • Woman in blue suit with blond hair wags finger

    House quashes Marjorie Taylor Greene motion to oust speaker Mike Johnson

  • Man wearing grey suit in front of shelves of books

    Pete McCloskey, Republican who tried to unseat Richard Nixon, dies aged 96

  • An image provided by Peta shows its Kristi Noem Halloween costume.

    Peta unveils Kristi Noem ‘ghoulish monster’ Halloween costume

  • Utah coach Lynne Roberts said she was concerned for her team’s safety in Idaho.

    Prosecutors won’t charge man over racist slurs directed at Utah basketball team

  • People hold flowers and mourn death of nursing student in Georgia

    Suspect in killing of Georgia student Laken Riley charged with murder

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