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Africa

  • Dozens of war-displaced people stand in the courtyard of an elementary school where they have taken refuge in Minova, South Kivu province, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people

    Conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to a total of 68m IDPs across the world
  • A woman and baby at the Zamzam camp south of El Fasher.

    Death, disease and despair as fighting closes in on besieged Sudanese city

  • Keir Starmer in Dover this week

    Starmer has laid out his plan to tackle asylum. Will it actually work?

  • Picture of Winnie Byanyima sitting in front of red background with her hands raised to her face, talking into a microphone

    World Bank and IMF can press Ghana to rethink ‘punitive’ LGBTQ law, charities say

  • Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno puts a ballot paper in a container surrounded by security staff and people holding up phones and cameras inside a white tent

    Chad’s military leader Itno declared president as results contested by rival

  • Saibai Island from the air, in the Torres Strait, north Queensland

    Rwandans arrive in Australia after perilous journey to claim asylum

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Americas

  • huge red fire photographed from the air at night

    British Columbia ‘extremely concerned’ as wildfire threatens to destroy town

    Out-of-control Parker Lake fire, which has already forced thousands to evacuate, bears down on Fort Nelson
  • People stand on a beach at night looking towards the northern lights in the sky above the water. The lights have coloured the sky purple and green

    Weather tracker: Geomagnetic storms trigger northern lights

  • Woman dressed in pink suit holds necklace and sits with man in front of Peruvian flags

    Brother and lawyer of Peru president held as corruption inquiry widens

  • Small girl shelters from cold wind in front of Mexican and other flags at US-Mexico border

    Vulnerable Biden tries to straddle both sides with new asylum rules

  • brown horse stands on strips of land surrounded by water

    Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

  • Shakira in a red dress at the Met Gala in New York.

    Spanish investigation into Shakira’s alleged tax evasion dropped

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Asia Pacific

  • Red-coloured robotic arms work on the car assembly line of new energy vehicles at a factory

    Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

    White House levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to inflame trade tensions
  • Residents survey the devastation in Lima Kaum village after heavy rains triggered flash floods and cold lava mudslides down the slopes of Mount Marapi in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, at the weekend

    Dozens killed in cold lava mudslides on Indonesian island of Sumatra

  • Two men brewing sake from rice

    Sake takes UK by storm as Japan’s national drink goes mainstream

  • Zhang Zhan, who went on hunger strikes over her detention

    Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years

  • a slightly blurred time-lapsed image of a woman passing a Shein advert on a white-tiled London tube walkway

    Shein ‘steps up plan for London IPO’ amid US listing hurdles

  • A drone view shows BYD electric vehicles parked up before being loaded on to a BYD ship for export

    Biden White House to expand tariffs on Chinese trade

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Australia

  • Jim Chalmers outside Parliament House in Canberra

    Live
    Federal budget 2024 live updates: Jim Chalmers to deliver Australia budget speech – latest news

    Energy bill rebate and rent assistance boost confirmed ahead of speech at 7.30pm tonight. Follow live updates
  • The new Red Cross field hospital in Raffah in southern Gaza.

    Australian medics staffing new Red Cross hospital in Rafah as Israeli offensive intensifies

  • Venting at the Cadia mining operations about 20km south of Orange in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales

    NSW’s Cadia goldmine confirms groundwater affected by potentially toxic mining waste

  • Chis Dawson

    ‘Not a significant possibility’ Chris Dawson innocent of his wife’s murder, court told

  • A photo of nine-year-old Charlise Mutten, whose body was found in a barrel after she went missing in the Blue Mountains, during a candlelight vigil at the front gates of Tweed Heads Public School on the Gold Coast, Wednesday, January 19, 2022.

    Charlise Mutten murder trial: nine-year-old was ‘excited’ before fatal Christmas trip with alleged killer, jury told

  • Deakin University Burwood Campus Melbourne Victoria

    Deakin University requests dismantling of pro-Palestine encampment as protesters pledge to stay

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Europe

  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) arrives by train at Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi station.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war live: Blinken visits Kyiv as Ukrainians struggle amid intense Russian attacks

    Mission by US secretary of state comes shortly after Congress approved a long-delayed $60bn package of aid
  • Bambie Thug<br>Joost Klein of Netherlands arrives on stage for the introducing of the artists at the dress rehearsal for the final at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Friday, May 10, 2024. Klein's performance was cancelled for unknown reasons, he was supposed to perform before Israel. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

    Disqualified Eurovision contestant Joost Klein likely to face charges, say Swedish police

  • Defence Minister Andrei Belousov speaks during a meeting with a Russian flag to his left

    Andrei Belousov: Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defence ministry

  • Thousands evacuate from border areas in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

    Tuesday briefing: How Russia’s advance on Kharkiv might end

  • Large white butterfly among wildflowers

    Ministers mount last-ditch attempt to save EU laws on restoring nature

  • Protesters wave Georgian and EU flags outside the Georgian parliament

    ‘The whole country will strike’: protesters vow to keep fighting Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill

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Middle East

  • Aerial photograph of a burnt-out hole in the roof of a vehicle featuring the World Central Kitchen logo

    At least eight Israeli strikes on Gaza aid groups since October, says report

    Human Rights Watch says warnings were not issued before attacks, which have killed or injured dozens
  • A crowd of men, some holding up guns

    US gives Saudis green light to try to revive peace deal with Houthis

  • Palestinian child peering out from tent

    UN denies Gaza death toll of women and children has been revised down

  • Palestinians walk past damaged buildings in Khan Yunis

    Ex-US military intelligence official says he quit over ‘moral injury’ of Gaza war

  • Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

    Israel deepens offensive in Rafah and re-enters northern areas of Gaza

  • Children play in a charred van in Rafah.

    Israel-Gaza war: Gaza health system could collapse within hours, authorities say; 20 killed in attacks on Jabaliya camp – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • Men of various ages disembark a train

    Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

    Myanmar military has conscripted 1,000 Rohingya men and boys since February, with fears some are being used as human shields, according to NGOs
  • Rajesh Maurya and Sumitra Maurya

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

  • Afghan men shovel mud from a house following flash floods after heavy rains at a village in Baghlan province northern Afghanistan on Saturday

    Afghanistan flash floods kill more than 300 as torrents of water and mud crash through villages

  • An Afghan girl walking towards a flooded village in the mountains of Afghanistan

    At least 50 dead after flash flooding in northern Afghanistan

  • Arvind Kejriwal in a car

    Jailed Indian opposition leader granted bail to take part in election campaign

  • Amit Shah

    India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video

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UK

  • Students pictured from behind while sitting in a lecture at university

    No evidence foreign students are abusing UK graduate visas, review finds

    Migration Advisory Committee says the risks are low, despite Tory claims the route is being exploited
  • A large group of people holding up posters and a large sign that reads dying for justice

    Infected blood scandal: women with hepatitis C ‘dismissed’ by doctors

  • People walk past a branch of Jobcentre Plus

    UK unemployment may not reach its worst, but economic rebound will stall

  • Grant Shapps

    Live
    Shapps believes Labour’s failure to have a plan to increase defence budget ‘presents a danger to this country’ – UK politics live

  • Rishi Sunak surrounded by party supporters at Conservative party conference

    Tory party refers itself to watchdog over alleged data breach

  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visiting a technology institute

    Union chiefs to hold showdown talks with Starmer over workers’ rights

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US

  • Palestinians who fled Rafah in the south arrive in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. A senior US official has said a ‘total’ Israeli victory over Hamas is neither likely nor possible. Follow live updates.

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah as Qatar PM warns ceasefire talks heading ‘backwards’

    Israeli operation means truce negotiations cannot progress, says Sheikh Mohammed, as estimated 500,000 flee after evacuation order
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy shakes hands with Antony Blinken

    Zelenskiy calls for more air defences as Blinken arrives in Kyiv

  • Debonair yet untamed … David Sanborn in 1980.

    David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist known for work with David Bowie and more, dies aged 78

  • Man in navy suit leaves apartment building with other people nearby

    Michael Cohen to continue testimony at Trump hush-money trial

  • White man wearing blue suit and red tie

    Biden signs bipartisan bill banning imports of Russian uranium

  • Red flag on the ground with a white and red truck in the back

    Man who crashed truck into White House barriers in 2023 pleads guilty

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