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Africa

  • Two people with a banner saying 'No Rwanda'

    Refused asylum seekers also at risk of being sent to Rwanda, says Home Office

    UK and Rwanda agree deal to extend cohort of those eligible to be forcibly removed to east African country
  • Israeli tanks

    Israel and Egypt in growing diplomatic row over Rafah border crossing

  • Skulls belonging to victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are placed together in Mubirizi, Rusizi district, in 2023 after more than 1,100 bodies were found in one of the largest mass graves from the atrocities of 1994.

    Revealed: Rwanda genocide war crimes tribunal wraps up mission after 29 years

  • In this photo taken Thursday, April 2, 2020 women queue alongside a testing clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries with a large population vulnerable to the new coronavirus, may have an advantage in the coronavirus outbreak, honed during years battling HIV and tuberculosis: the know-how and infrastructure to conduct mass testing. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

    Outdated laws stalling progress on women’s rights in 20 countries across Africa – study

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

    ‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find

  • Supporters of Niger's ruling junta hold a Russian flag

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

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Americas

  • A moel ship is examined by people in a museum

    Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York City

    As new exhibition opens in Amsterdam exploring the settlement of North America, original Manhattanites demand apology
  • a wildfire burns beneath the aurora borealis

    No internet, no phone: Canada wildfires expose fragility of rural infrastructure

  • Models wear the Burberry collection at London fashion week earlier this

    Burberry profits slump by 40% as demand for luxury goods slows

  • 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

  • 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

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Asia Pacific

  • Masked protesters sing in a shopping mall.

    YouTube blocks videos set to Hong Kong protest anthem

    Court order compelled Google subsidiary to block local access to 32 videos of Glory to Hong Kong judged to be prohibited content
  • Headshot of Zhang Zhan wearing round glasses

    Concerns grow for Chinese citizen journalist after supposed jail release

  • Scene of rioting with a burnt-out car

    France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots

  • Filipino fishermen and volunteers join civilian-led supply mission to Scarborough shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday

    South China Sea: huge civilian Filipino flotilla heads to disputed shoal to ‘assert sovereign rights’

  • Lawrence Wong will become the fourth prime minister to lead Singapore

    Singapore to get guitar-playing new PM in first transfer of power for 20 years

  • 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

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Australia

  • Jim Chalmers

    Dutton readies budget reply as Chalmers links migration cut to inflation fight

    Treasurer says migration ‘important’ but needs to be ‘well managed’
  • Cassandra Goldie

    Australia’s budget has ‘gaping hole’ in funds for DV victims, environment and housing, advocates say

  • Centrelink signage at the Prahran office

    Centrelink mutual obligations: budget changes tipped to prevent 1m jobseeker suspensions a year

  • Waste bins outside a home in Melbourne

    Snakes, donkey heads, a dead cow: the odd things found in recycling – and how they should be disposed of

  • John Howard and peter Cosgrove in East Timor in 1999.

    Dfat accused of attempting to censor official history of military operations in Timor-Leste

  • Protesters gather outside the Cumberland city council

    Sydney council reverses ban on same-sex parenting books after fiery meeting

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Europe

  • Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico being transported by medics and his security detail to the hospital in Banska Bystrica.

    Live
    Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico ‘in life-threatening condition’ after shooting; suspect detained – live updates

    Robert Fico taken to hospital after four shots reported to have been fired after government meeting in Handlova
  • Geert Wilders in profile with white collar and red tie

    Far-right Geert Wilders agrees deal for Dutch coalition government

  • A man in handcuffs flanked by police officers is led into court

    Woman raped at knifepoint in Portugal gives evidence in Christian Brückner trial

  • A gunman seen through the window of a vehicle

    Will prison van ambush put law and order at heart of EU elections in France?

  • Georgian law enforcement officers deployed against protesters rallying against the ‘foreign agents’ bill in Tbilisi

    Why has Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill caused so much protest and anger?

  • German chancellor, Olaf Scholz.

    EU leaders condemn ‘cowardly’ shooting of Slovakian PM amid rise in attacks

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Middle East

  • A woman walks across an arid landscape

    UN says it has no more food or tents for nearly 2m people in Gaza

    Aid warehouses in southern two-thirds of territory are now empty and resupply will be very difficult, according to officials
  • A Palestinian child walks among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks.

    Israel-Gaza war: Israeli defence chief rejects military regime in Gaza and calls on Netanyahu to decide on postwar governance – as it happened

  • Silhouette of man walking amid rubble in Rafah

    US advances $1bn Israel weapons package amid Rafah tensions

  • 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

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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

  • Esther McVey had said civil servants should leave their political views ‘at the building entrance’.

    UK politics: I never called for rainbow lanyard ban, claims Esther McVey – as it happened

    ‘Common sense minister’ denies plan to Channel 4 News despite saying earlier this week that lanyards should be a ‘standard design’
  • Nelson Shardey sitting on a chair in front of green-painted shutters on a shopfront.

    Wirral ‘local legend’ refused indefinite leave to remain by Home Office

  • John Crace

    The end is nigh and Labour MPs just want to have fun. At the Tories’ expense

    John Crace
  • Downing Street denied that prisons were now officially full and defended government measures to cut overcrowding.

    Last-minute delay to hundreds of court hearings due to prison overcrowding in England

  • Lucy Letby

    MP uses parliamentary privilege to ask why Lucy Letby story blocked in UK

  • Man and a dog jumping into a river. He is diving head-first and wears blue patterned shorts; the dog is a golden labrador. A rowing boat and people on the bank can be seen in the background as the river curves, with trees and a field to the side.

    ‘Someone is going to die’: MPs warned of E coli risk to swimmers in English waters

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US

  • Composite of two photos each of an older white man in a suit.

    Don’t panic about presidential polls – yet

    Trump’s criminal hush-money trial continues in New York, while both Trump and Biden fight for voters in swing states
  • Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    Live
    Trump accepts invitations for three debates with Biden – live

  • Stormy Daniels leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on May 09, 2024 in New York City.

    Stormy Daniels’ husband says they’ll likely leave the US if Trump is acquitted

  • women marching holding signs

    More than half of US Black women aged 15-49 live under abortion bans – report

  • Kristi Noem.

    South Dakota governor banned from seven Native American reservations in her own state

  • Dune: Prophecy

    Dune: Prophecy: first trailer for female-led prequel TV series

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