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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
  • 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

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

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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

  • Ursula von der Leyen.

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

    Researcher uncovers vast Facebook campaign and accuses Meta of ‘lack of willingness’ to counter it
  • 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’

  • A statue of the Virgin Mary outside a church in New Orleans.

    Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena in crackdown on hoaxes

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Middle East

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

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    Israel-Gaza war live: Hamas ‘rejects’ any military presence in Gaza as aid begins to arrive along US-made pier

    The US military has begun moving aid ashore in Gaza, as the UN says truck convoys by land remain the most efficient way of getting aid in
  • 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

  • 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

  • people behind barrier with Israeli flags and pictures of women with signs under them saying 'Murdered'

    South Africa’s ICJ genocide case aimed at defending Hamas, Israel claims

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South and Central Asia

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 50 after heavy rain brings devastation

    Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 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

  • Nelson Shardey pictured on the street outside of the now closed Nelson's Convenience Store

    £30,000 raised for Wirral ‘local legend’ denied UK citizenship

    Nelson Shardey, 74, became tearful on hearing of support for effort to gain settled status after 50 years in UK
  • Victoria Atkins

    NHS must listen to whistleblowers, says health secretary

  • People wearing hi-vis vests standing next to pallets of bottled water

    Anger in Devon as more cases of waterborne disease expected

  • People by St Mary's lighthouse in Whitley Bay look at the aurora borealis

    Northern lights across UK may happen again soon, experts predict

  • Dark clouds over a rural landscape

    UK weather: thunderstorm warnings for Wales and south-west England

  • The biometric residence permit

    Fears of new Windrush as thousands of UK immigrants face ‘cliff edge’ visa change

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US

  • The Missouri state capitol.

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

    Judge declines to remove Darrell McClanahan, who merely claims one-year honorary membership in terror group, from GOP primary race
  • woman speaks at lectern in front of american flag

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

  • Steve Buscemi vaguely smiling.

    Man arrested in connection with assault on actor Steve Buscemi

  • Toddler wearing blue glasses and a green scarf can be seen resting his head against a fabric headrest, mouth ajar and looking to the right

    Argentinian couple moves to US to allow their toddler to join gene therapy trial

  • man in a suit with arms outstretched in front of american flags

    Trump to address NRA after threatening to roll back gun control laws if elected

  • Tabby cat sits on wall in front of university building

    Master of litters: cat named Max given honorary degree by US university

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