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Africa

  • A head shot of a woman wearing a blue headscarf with a brown burqa over the top

    Nigerian woman rescued 10 years after kidnap by Boko Haram in Chibok

    Lydia Simon, recovered along with three children born in captivity, was one of 276 schoolgirls taken in 2014
  • A man stands at a podium reading from a script. Behind him hangs a large image showing a seated woman, her head bowed in grief, holding the body of a child completely wrapped in a winding-sheet

    War, grief and hope: the stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners

  • Tony-Jason, eight months, and his mother, Melissa, at home in Soa, near Yaoundé, Cameroon, with the mosquito nets in their bedroom.

    New types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half, trial finds

  • Cattle-drawn haycart

    Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds

  • Close up of an African elephant, Botswana.

    Europeans care more about elephants than people, says Botswana president

  • Side-by-side composite of Kagame shaking Rishi Sunak’s hand outside No 10, and Kagame in the crowd at the Arsenal match

    Rwandan leader went to Arsenal game as country marked 30 years since genocide

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Americas

  • Burned-out cars in the street

    US resumes deportation flights to Haiti despite continuing bloodshed

    Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of country
  • Toussaint ‘L’Ouverture

    France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

  • A long, close line of people carrying backpacks trudges along a muddy jungle trail.

    Panama’s presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap

  • In a scene with the sky the same silver gray color as the water, towers appear to sit in the middle.

    US reimposes sanctions on Venezuela as hope for democracy crumbles

  • A woman brought her seemingly dead uncle to a bank in Brazil for a loan.

    Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’

  • a man speaks from behind a lectern

    Six men arrested in Toronto gold heist that ‘belongs in a Netflix series’

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Asia Pacific

  • Joe Biden

    ‘Lost for words’: Joe Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents

    President’s suggestion that his ‘Uncle Bosie’ was eaten by cannibals harms US efforts to build Pacific ties, say local experts
  • Flock of Merino Rams.

    Ram believed responsible for deaths of elderly New Zealand couple

  • Michael Pezzullo

    Australia needs a plan for war to ‘focus the national mind’, Michael Pezzullo says

  • Richard Marles

    Australia plans for a ‘less certain’ future in Asia — one where the US may not remain the dominant force

  • US marines take part in a joint amphibious assault exercise as part of the annual 'Balikatan' (shoulder-to-shoulder) US-Philippines war exercises in 2022.

    China sounds warning after Philippines and US announce most expansive military drills yet

  • Mount Ruang in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province spews hot lava and smoke as the volcano erupts.

    Indonesia volcano eruption sparks tsunami fears

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Australia

  • Greens senator David Shoebridge

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    News live: Australia must condemn all attacks by both Israel and Iran, Greens say; WA crash kills four

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  • An undated photograph of a salt-water crocodile

    Teenager dies after suspected crocodile attack in the Torres Strait

  • Police tape across the fence outside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd Church in western Sydney

    Teenager accused of Sydney church stabbing has history of behaviour consistent with mental illness, court hears

  • The comet – real name 12P/Pons-Brooks – was nicknamed the Devil comet because eruptions from its nucleus can make it look like it has two horns.

    After an absence of 71 years, the green-tinged Devil Comet returns to Australian skies

  • Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd

    Sydney church stabbing: police charge 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence

  • Detective Superintendent Ben Fadian speaks to media during a press conference at Queensland Police Service Headquarters in Brisbane

    High-ranking Queensland police officers under scrutiny over offensive social media activity

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Europe

  • Two young people talk animatedly outside next to an EH Bildu sign with white letters on a green background.

    Basque election: leftwing coalition partly descended from Eta leads in polls

    Surveys suggest EH Bildu’s focus on health, housing and employment is attracting younger voters
  • A UK border agent checks a lorry at a customs point

    UK to delay start of health and safety checks on EU imports – report

  • Patriot missiles at Rzeszów-Jasionka airport.

    Polish man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskiy

  • Students walking on a wide path outside in the sun on a university campus, with grass and trees outside and a building in the background

    Brussels proposes return to pre-Brexit mobility for UK and EU young people

  • Two soldiers with guns in front of an armoured vehicle

    Germany arrests two dual nationals on suspicion of plotting attacks for Russia

  • Alexandre and Frédéric Arnault seated in the audience at the annual shareholders meeting of LVMH in Paris on Thursday.

    Two sons of world’s richest man Bernard Arnault join him on board of LVMH

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Middle East

  • A man watches tv reporter in Tehran, Iran after Iranian official TV confirms 'massive explosions' in central Isfahan province

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    Middle East crisis live: Israel has carried out an attack on Iran, US officials say, after blasts reported near Isfahan

    US officials say military operation carried out, without giving further details; Iran state media says air defences fired and airspace closed in some areas
  • The United Nations Security Council

    US vetoes Palestinian request for full UN membership

  • David Cameron and Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands in front of UK and Israel flags

    Israel still plans to launch Rafah assault, Netanyahu tells western diplomats

  • ‘Forced the decisions on to authors’ … PEN America

    Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza

  • Israeli soldiers approach a ruined apartment building

    Middle East crisis: UN security council to vote on granting membership to Palestine – as it happened

  • A person stands surrounded by flood water caused by heavy rains, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday.

    Dubai floods: Chaos, queues and submerged cars after UAE hit by record rains

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South and Central Asia

  • 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

    First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period
  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

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

  • Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s jailed former leader, moved to house arrest, says junta

  • Salman Khan, wearing a white shirt, waves to fans

    Gang members fire at Bollywood star’s home in antelope killing row

  • Women and young children pull luggage as they queue to board a plane

    Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

  • Emergency workers use a boat to evacuate people in floodwater

    Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate tens of thousands amid worst floods in decades

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UK

  • A chequered skipper butterfly in long grass.

    Letting grass grow long boosts butterfly numbers, UK study proves

    Analysis of 600 gardens shows wilder lawns feed caterpillars and create breeding habitat
  • People walk past the House of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge in London with the sunsetting in the background.

    Rwanda bill: what does the latest delay mean?

  • Three cows amid green grass

    Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers

  • Head shots of Joanna Scanlan, Stella Kanu and Gemma Arterton

    Joanna Scanlan among actors backing gender equality push in theatre

  • A street sign for Cherry Orchard Lane fixed to a brick wall

    Lost orchards and blossom flourish in placenames across England and Wales

  • Britain's Prince Harry, right, and wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex

    Prince Harry confirms he is now a US resident

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US

  • police arrest a protester

    Police arrest Columbia University students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza

    Students set up encampments to demand Columbia divest from Israel while those at USC gathered in support of Asna Tabassum
  • An undated photo of Lawrence Hecker

    Mental competency hearing delayed for US priest charged with raping teen

  • Donald Trump returns from a lunch break at Manhattan criminal court as jury selection continues in New York

    All 12 jurors seated for Trump’s historic criminal trial – as it happened

  • a man speaks from behind a lectern

    Kennedy family members endorse Biden in stinging rebuke to RFK Jr

  • Graphic illustration of black-and-white image of white woman with long wavy hair smiling in portrait, surrounded by red, dark blue and light blue images of state seals and voter receipts.

    Exclusive: Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

  • People mourn the death of a loved one

    US accused of failing to act on reports of abuse by Israeli forces

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