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Africa

  • Tigran Gambaryan waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria

    Binance executive denied bail in Nigeria over money laundering charges

    Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of ‘serious criminality’ on behalf of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange
  • A group of young men carrying a banner showing two soldiers in front of a DRC flag, run through the streets

    ‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma

  • A line of judges walk to their seats in a courtroom

    South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive

  • Small houses, cutout figures and tree in scene from Haufinyana

    ‘Realities of apartheid’: South African artist wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

  • A line of women wearing red robes.

    Nigerian activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women

  • The pyramid of Khafre on the Giza plateau in Cairo, Egypt.

    Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones

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Americas

  • An aerial view of Toronto, by the shore of Lake Ontario

    Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds

    PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater
  • A mural depicting author Gabriel Gárcia Márquez in Aracataca.

    Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown

  • Man in apron prepares beef on hot grill with customers behind

    Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star

  • Migrants At The US-Mexico Border In California<br>The US-Mexico border wall in Jacumba, California, US, on Friday, April 5, 2024. Last week a federal judge sharply questioned the Biden administration's position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children while they wait in makeshift camps along the US-Mexico border, reported the AP. Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico

  • GUATEMALA-US-MEXICO-MIGRATION<br>In this aerial view people use makeshift rafts to illegaly cross the Suchiate river from Tecun Uman in Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo in Chiapas State, Mexico, on May 17, 2022. - The undocumented migrants heading for the US walk in small groups in Guatemala to evade the police and then regroup in Mexico. Some go with friends and others, like Gilberto, a 27-year-old Venezuelan, travel smiling with his dog. The US, their final destination, is on the verge of lifting Title 42, a rule that allows undocumented immigrants to be expelled for health reasons, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Stringer / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

    Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico

  • A stairway leading to a subway station in Buenos Aires.

    Buenos Aires metro fare jumps 360% amid Argentina’s harsh austerity measures

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Asia Pacific

  • A residential complex in Nanjing, China.

    China to cut mortgage rates as part of plan to prop up property market

    Local authorities will be allowed to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing
  • People gather near an overturned car in the Motor Pool district on Tuband in Noumea on May 16, 2024,

    New Caledonia riots: parts of territory ‘out of state control’, French representative says

  • Snow on a mountain, with the tops of city buildings in the foreground

    Weather tracker: heavy snow hits eastern highlands in South Korea

  • A woman takes photos as traditional Lion dance performers dance

    Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’

  • A building damaged in the New Caledonia riots against plans to allow more people to take part in local elections

    Hundreds of French police deployed amid New Caledonia riots

  • Ukrainian servicemen of the 92nd Assault Brigade fire BM-21 'Grad' multiple rocket launcher toward Russian positions.

    Zelenskiy says situation is ‘difficult’ on visit to Kharkiv; Putin calls China relationship an international ‘stabilising factor’ – as it happened

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Australia

  • Placards are seen as activists gather during a pro-Palestine rally outside the 2024 Victorian Labor state conference in Melbourne on Saturday

    Victorian premier accuses pro-Palestine protesters of bringing ‘violence, homophobia and antisemitism’ to Labor conference

    Six motions calling for end to Israel-Gaza conflict carried after Jacinta Allan says she is ‘disgusted’ by behaviour of protesters at Labor state conference
  • A mother looks over her son's shoulder as he works on the laptop.

    Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds

  • Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan speaks on stage during the 2024 Victorian Labor state conference at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne, Saturday, May 18, 2024.

    Customer-facing workers ‘should not have to work in fear’, Victorian premier says, announcing plans for tougher laws

  • Police tape restricts access to a crime scene

    Police charge 17-year-old with attempted murder over alleged daylight brawl and stabbing in Brisbane

  • NSW strike force detectives arrest a man in Old Guildford, Sydney, on Friday

    Children’s author charged with online grooming in Sydney

  • PwC signage on a building

    Expert says employers can be found liable for sexual assault outside of work hours as PwC fights case

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Europe

  • Policemen guard the area as they wait for the suspect in the shooting of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, to be brought to court in Pezinok, Slovakia.

    Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico

    Media is barred from hearing as 71-year-old man appears in closed session over attempted assassination of prime minister
  • Ursula von der Leyen.

    Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections

  • Climate activists sit near a Lufthansa plane as police stand nearby

    Eight climate activists arrested in Germany over airport protest

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    Zelenskiy says situation in Kharkiv under control but he fears second Russian attack

  • A stamp featuring a photo of a baguette on a white background overdrawn with a French tricolour ribbon and the words 'La baguette de pain française'

    French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp

  • "Megalopolis" Red Carpet - The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival<br>CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 16: Francis Ford Co departs the "Megalopolis" Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2024 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’

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Middle East

  • Benny Gantz

    Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan

    Benny Gantz’s threat to withdraw his opposition party from coalition calls into question future of government
  • A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged house in Jenin

    Islamic Jihad leader killed in West Bank and 70 targets hit in Gaza, says Israel

  • The temporary floating pier built to receive humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip

    Hamas ‘rejects’ any military presence in Gaza as aid begins to arrive along US-made pier – as it happened

  • A mural shows the jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2023.

    Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’

  • Dusk image of flatbed truck along beach road.

    Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief

  • Head and shoulder photos of Itzhak Gelerenter, Shani Louk and Amit Buskila.

    Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk

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South and Central Asia

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

    Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods
  • A Taliban soldier stands guard in front of the ruins of a Buddha statue in Bamiyan.

    Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack

  • A man wearing only shorts pours water over himself at the side of a road

    ‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find

  • People strand holding handwritten signs with pictures of Saltanat Nukenova and writing in Kazakh and English saying 'Justice for Salta'

    Kazakh court jails former minister for 24 years for brutal murder of wife

  • Men of various ages disembark a train

    Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

  • Rajesh Maurya and Sumitra Maurya

    ‘Pressured to withdraw’: BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls

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UK

  • Nadhim Zahawi

    Nadhim Zahawi says it was a mistake for Tories to force Boris Johnson from No 10

    Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’
  • Keir Starmer sitting with new Labour MP Natalie Elphicke

    Third of voters believe Starmer was wrong to let Elphicke into Labour party

  • British chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt.

    Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts

  • A roomful of people working in the arts

    Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots

  • Three children.

    Archbishop of Canterbury urges Starmer to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap

  • A man puts water in the boot of a woman's car.

    Thousands in Devon no longer have to boil drinking water, says supplier

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US

  • Helmeted and armored police confront a young woman waving a Palestinian flag.

    Police arrest six student protesters at University of Pennsylvania

    Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’
  • Police tape saying 'Police line do not cross'

    Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father

  • A greenish, oxidized statue of a man on a horse, wrapped and being hoisted by a crane under a hazy sky and amid trees.

    Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions

  • An industrial chicken plant.

    Alabama poultry plant could be closed for 30 days for allegedly hiring minors

  • The Missouri state capitol.

    Missouri Republican party fails to boot KKK-linked candidate from gubernatorial ticket

  • woman speaks at lectern in front of american flag

    ‘She’s in the pantheon now’: Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct

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