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Africa

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

    ‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find

    Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila
  • Supporters of Niger's ruling junta hold a Russian flag

    Niger’s prime minister blames US for rupture of military pact

  • 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

  • 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

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Americas

  • Smoke from the wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday. Authorities are bracing for another possibly devastating wildfire season.

    Canada city devastated by 2016 wildfire faces evacuations as new blaze nears

    Residents of suburbs in Fort McMurray ordered to leave as officials monitor a fire nearby that has grown to cover 9,600 hectares
  • People attend memorial service for the Schoenborn children

    British Columbia to bar those guilty of serious crimes from changing names

  • huge red fire photographed from the air at night

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

  • 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

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Asia Pacific

  • Two people hold candles and one holds a picture of a woman at a vigil for Netiporn Sanae-sangkhom

    Political activist held in Thai jail dies after 65 days on hunger strike

    Netiporn Sanae-sangkhom, 28, faced seven court cases including two for criticising Thailand’s monarchy
  • 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

  • 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

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Australia

  • The logo of the Australian National University (ANU) is seen on a building at the campus in Canberra

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    Australia news live: ANU pro-Palestine protesters say they were ‘directed to vacate’ camp

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  • Jim Chalmers delivers the 2024 budget.

    Future Made in Australia: what’s in the $23bn package meant to create a ‘renewable energy superpower’

  • The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, said in his budget speech that it is the first back-to-back surplus in nearly two decades, before noting that pressures will intensify after that

    How it began v how it’s going: 2024 budget shows limits of financial forecasting

  • a Ford Ranger on display

    Car companies spending up on ads for SUVs despite Australia’s new fuel efficiency standards

  • Victorian attorney general Jaclyn Symes

    Victoria moves to protect sexual assault victims from defamation action for reporting crimes

  • James Paterson

    AFP must explain deal allowing Chinese ‘secret police’ to conduct operations in Australia, Coalition says

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Europe

  • GEORGIA-POLITICS-DEMOCRACY-LAW-DEMO<br>Protesters gather during a rally against the controversial "foreign influence" bill in Tbilisi on May 14, 2024. Georgia's parliament on May 14, 2024 adopted a controversial "foreign influence" law that has sparked mass protests against the measure, denounced as mirroring Russian legislation used to silence dissent. Tbilisi has seen weeks of rallies over the bill that culminated on May 11, when up to 100,000 people took to the streets in the largest anti-government rally in Georgia's recent history. (Photo by Giorgi ARJEVANIDZE / AFP) (Photo by GIORGI ARJEVANIDZE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Georgia protests: Thousands close major intersection in Tbilisi – as it happened

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  • Children in New York City signal to people in Dublin through the livestream Portal

    Dublin video portal to New York shuts temporarily due to unruly behaviour

  • A big crowd of protesters holding Georgian and EU flags in a street at night

    US warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west

  • Björn Höcke next to an official wearing a shirt with the word 'justiz' on the back

    German court fines senior AfD politician €13,000 for using banned Nazi phrase

  • The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, clapping his hands together

    Blinken delivers message of US support to Kyiv as thousands flee Kharkiv region

  • (From left) Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Greta Gerwig, Eva Green and Lily Gladstone at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    Greta Gerwig: ‘The number of female directors has gotten better. We’re not done yet’

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Middle East

  • Silhouette of man walking amid rubble in Rafah

    US advances $1bn Israel weapons package amid Rafah tensions

    Package in congressional review process after Biden delayed shipment of bombs over fears they would be used to attack Rafah
  • Two men carry belongings, as one holds the hand of a child. Rubble is strewn on the ground with a school in the background

    Israeli tanks reach residential areas as IDF pushes further into Rafah

  • 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

  • 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

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South and Central Asia

  • 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

    Kazakhstan to toughen penalties for domestic violence as killing of Saltanat Nukenova prompts national outcry and shines spotlight on high femicide rates
  • 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

  • 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

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UK

  • Those who did get through to an adviser waited an average of nearly 23 minutes during 2023-24.

    Call waiting times at HMRC rise 350% in five years, says NAO report

    Report from public spending watchdog comes soon after similar data from parliamentary committee
  • The shadow of a young girl or boy playing on a swing.

    Vulnerable children in England ‘safer at school’ than being educated at home

  • 'Zombie'-style knives

    Young people buying large knives on Telegram and TikTok, police say

  • A girl raising her hand in class

    Sex education in English schools set to be banned before children are nine

  • police perform a stop and search in harrow

    Policing minister calls for officers to conduct more stop and searches

  • People arriving at Co-op Live in Manchester

    Co-op Live finally hosts first gig after spate of cancellations

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US

  • Woman smiles during day of campaigning

    Democrat Angela Alsobrooks to face ex-governor Larry Hogan in Maryland Senate race

    Alsobrooks beats Dave Trone and Hogan wins Republican primary, setting up November clash that could determine control of Senate
  • White man wearing cap stands at podium in front of microphone

    California: Newsom advances $3.3bn for mental health centers and homeless housing

  • Emergency crews respond to a bus crash

    Arrest made in Florida bus crash that killed eight farm workers

  • Man in orange tie stands with lawyer and waves papers around

    Cohen declines to bite at combative questions from Trump’s man Todd

  • Michael Cohen leaves his apartment to head to court in New York on 14 May 2024. Donald Trump outside court in New York on 13 May 2024.

    Michael Cohen admits he wants to see Trump convicted in hush-money cross-examination – as it happened

  • explosion of metal wreckage on top of huge cargo ship

    Ship in Baltimore bridge collapse lost power hours before leaving port - report

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