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Africa

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker: heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

    Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least 90 people and damages farmland and infrastructure
  • Rishi Sunak's head under a sign saying 'STOP THE BOATS'

    UK Rwanda policy is ‘kneejerk reaction’ to migration, says Ireland’s deputy PM

  • 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

  • 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

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Americas

  • FILE PHOTO: A passenger walks past several Air Canada jets at Vancouver International Airport<br>FILE PHOTO: A passenger walks past several Air Canada jets at Vancouver International Airport, September 26, 2001. REUTERS/Andy Clark/File Photo

    Air Canada apologizes after headdress of First Nations chief removed to hold

    Politicians decry ‘shameful’ incident on domestic flight in which Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak’s headdress was taken by airline staff
  • Armed security personnel in full kit in road on patrol

    New Haiti government sworn in during secret ceremony

  • 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

  • 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

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Asia Pacific

  • Antony Blinken and Xi Jinping shake hands in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

    US has seen evidence of attempts by China to influence election, says Blinken

    Secretary of state met Xi Jinping in Beijing and warned of sanctions over China’s support for Russian arms industry
  • The popular tourist spot with view of a Lawson convenience shop, with view of Mount Fuji behind at Kawaguchiko station

    Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

  • City of London File police were involved in an international operation to raid the ‘counterfeit shopping agent’ Pandabuy in China

    Pandabuy: police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

  • Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto

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

  • 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

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Australia

  • A silhouetted pithead at an Anglo American Platinum open pit mine in South Africa

    Anglo American rejects £31bn takeover offer from mining rival BHP

    All-share proposal had potential to be one of biggest deals in sector for decade but deemed ‘opportunistic’
  • Members of the Australian National Imams Council during a press conference in Sydney

    Australian Muslim leaders call out ‘questionable law enforcement tactics’ that led to arrest of minors

  • Taylor Swift performing in Melbourne

    Taylor Swift makes Arias history; Tucker Carlson and Clive Palmer to headline ‘Australian freedom conferences’ – as it happened

  • Scott Farquhar

    Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Bruce Lehrmann to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs

  • Aboriginal flag

    Urban Rampage banned from using Centrepay to sign up mostly Indigenous customers to credit arrangements

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Europe

  • Mykola Solskyi, Ukraine’s agriculture minister.

    Ukrainian minister freed on bail after arrest over corruption allegations – as it happened

    Mykola Solskyi is first known minister under Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be named in a corruption case
  • The museum on a cliff

    ‘Massive and exciting impact’: show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum

  • Aya Nakamura, wearing a clingy, wet-look white dress, poses outside the awards

    Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards

  • Smoke comes out of chimneys at a refinery against a backdrop of clear blue skies.

    Barclays accused of greenwashing over financing for Italian oil company

  • Mykola Solskyi sits at a desk during a summit

    Ukraine agriculture minister detained in multimillion-dollar corruption inquiry

  • Tractors in the streets of Krakow, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

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Middle East

  • Three men sitting amid the destroyed concrete of a building

    Middle East crisis: it could take 14 years to clear Gaza Strip of rubble and unexploded bombs, says UN official – as it happened

    War has left estimated 37m tons of debris in area, requiring years of work with ‘100 trucks’, says Pehr Lodhammar
  • Two police officers dragging away a woman as two other protesters sit on the ground, one of them with a megaphone

    ‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers

  • A newborn baby lying in an incubator in a hospital

    Palestinian baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza hospital

  • Palestinians bring cement blocks to a pier that could be used to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza in March

    US troops begin construction of Gaza aid pier as questions remain over distribution

  • Friends and supporters of Hersh Goldberg-Polin outside Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem: a woman wears a red T-shirt with the words Bring Them Home Now across it and holds a placard reading Bring Hersh Home under a picture of the hostage; a crowd of people is gathered behind her, some others with placards and signs

    Leaders of 18 countries urge Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds

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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

  • Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin: close-up head and shoulders portraits of both. They are both blond women wearing dark-rimmed glasses; Elias has her hair tied back while Hopkin's hair falls across her forehead

    Teachers hurt in Welsh school stabbing speak of incident’s ‘enormous impact’

    Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin thank emergency services and NHS staff and pay tribute to colleagues and ‘wonderful pupils’
  • Rishi Sunak adjusting an earpiece at a press conference

    Rishi Sunak struggling to smother frenzy of election rumours

  • Humza Yousaf speaking to the media in Dundee

    Humza Yousaf fights to stay on as second no confidence motion tabled

  • The mural featuring four journalists painted on to the side of a house with the words 'Heroes of Palestine' at the top

    ‘It’s an expression of emotion’: Pro-Palestine mural under review by London council

  • Copies of Liz Truss's book in a shop

    Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

  • People walk next to a Google logo during a trade fair in Hanover

    Google parent Alphabet hits $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

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US

  • Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush-money payments linked to extramarital affairs on Friday.

    Live
    Trump lawyer tries to distance David Pecker from Stormy Daniels payments in cross-examination – live

    Emil Bove’s line of questioning apparently aimed at undermining Pecker’s role in any purported conspiracy
  • Emma Stone in Poor Things

    Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name – Emily

  • woman wearing a red baseball cap

    Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Howard Stern

    Biden says he’ll debate Trump in surprise Howard Stern interview

  • police in helmets and armed with clubs walk along a street

    Pro-Palestine protest camps spread to 40 campuses across US

  • FILE: Ellen DeGeneres Tests Positive for Coronavirus<br>FILE - DECEMBER 10: Ellen DeGeneres has tested positive for Coronavirus. Filming of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" has been put on hold. NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: Ellen Degeneres hosts 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' Season 13 Bi-Coastal Premiere at Rockefeller Center on September 8, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)

    Ellen DeGeneres: I was ‘kicked out of show business’ for being ‘mean’

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