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Africa

  • Jacob Zuma sitting in a chair, waving.

    Jacob Zuma not eligible to run for South African parliament, court rules

    Ex-president’s jail sentence precludes him from standing for new MK party in decision that could affect general election results
  • Blue truck labelled 'police' on a tree-lined street

    DRC army says it stopped attempted coup involving three US citizens

  • Two people holding up a black banner with no Rwanda written on top in red and white

    Rwanda denies entry to senior human rights researcher

  • Anthony George.

    Home Office in threat to deport disabled man to Nigeria after 38 years in UK

  • 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

  • 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

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Americas

  • View of dry-looking trees on the banks of the dried-up Rio Negro, seen as a strip of brown, cracked mud and silt.

    More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds

    ‘Critical slowing down’ of recovery raises concern over forest’s resilience to ecosystem collapse
  • Javier Milei

    Diplomatic row deepens after Javier Milei calls wife of Spanish PM ‘corrupt’

  • Scattered tree branches and a fallen Stop sign on the pavement in Houston, Texas

    Weather tracker: Tornado and hail risk as US storm season ramps up again

  • Two piles of soft-bound books with colorful graphic illustration of man wearing cowboy hat playing electric guitar, woman behind him and child.

    ‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage

  • Municipal Guard In Porto Alegre Boat Patrol The City to Keep Order And Help People Affected By The Floods<br>PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL - MAY 17: Aerial view a members of the Municipal Guard on a boat guard the flooded streets near Porto Alegre City Hall on May 17, 2024 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The situation in Rio Grande Do Sul remains critical as the predictions mention that the level of the water will keep above the flood level for about a month. Death toll continues to increase and as of today, it has surpassed the 150 deceases. Damages to the infrastructure of the State and its capital, Porto Alegre, worsen while authorities and citizens continue with the rescue and safety efforts. (Photo by Jefferson Bernardes/Getty Images)

    Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon

  • An aerial view of Toronto, by the shore of Lake Ontario

    Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds

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Asia Pacific

  • An Indigenous Kanak flag stands next to a burning vehicle at a roadblock at La Tamoa, in the commune of Paita, New Caledonia.

    New Caledonia unrest: Australia and New Zealand sending evacuation flights for stranded tourists

    France gives clearance for several planes to bring home travellers stuck in French Pacific territory in wake of violent protests
  • The Shard, Tower Bridge and the City of London financial district in May 2024 (taken by a drone)

    UK cannot afford to give ‘cold shoulder’ to China, says City minister

  • An armoured vehicle with troops nearby

    New Caledonia: Macron calls further security meeting as deadly unrest grinds on

  • A burnt car in New Caledonia

    Evacuation flights unable to reach tourists stranded in New Caledonia amid unrest

  • Taiwan's former President Tsai Ing-wen, new President Lai Ching-te and new Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim wave during the inauguration ceremony outside the Presidential office building in Taipei, Taiwan

    Taiwan’s new president takes office and calls on China to cease hostile actions

  • Two small Korean girls and a woman stand in front of an aquarium as a white whale looks at them through the glass

    ‘Free Bella’: campaigners fight to save lonely beluga whale from Seoul mall

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Australia

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton

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    News live: Dutton says Australia ‘should stand shoulder to shoulder’ with Biden in condemning ICC warrant

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  • Telstra sign

    Telstra to cut 2,800 jobs but chief executive insists change won’t affect retail customers

  • Matildas captain Sam Kerr

    Sam Kerr certain to miss Paris Olympics after being omitted from Matildas squad for warm-up games

  • Eraring Newcastle power station

    Closing Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station would leave NSW exposed to risk of blackouts – Aemo

  • Close up blattella germanica german cockroach

    Where is the German cockroach actually from? We tested its DNA to trace its true origins

    Theo Evans and Qian Tang for the Conversation
  • Large number of male and female students wearing neat uniforms

    Australian school students most bullied among comparable English-speaking countries, report finds

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Europe

  • Film still: The Apprentice, Director: Ali Abbasi. Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump Re: Cannes film festival 2024

    Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts him as a rapist

    Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retracted
  • Video "Portal" Between New York And Dublin Shut Down After Lewd Behavior<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 15: People pass a video "Portal" art installation connecting New York City and Dublin, Ireland via a 24/7 video livestream which sits temporarily shut down in the Flatiron Plaza on May 15, 2024 in New York City. The "Portal", a Flatiron NoMad Partnership, has been temporarily shut down after two weeks for "inappropriate behavior" from a small group of individuals on both sides of the Atlantic. The livestream will once again be opened by the end of the week. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Portal installations linking Dublin to New York City reopen after shutdown

  • A young greater spotted eagle

    Eagles shifting flight paths to avoid Ukraine conflict, scientists find

  • Police officers inspect a neighborhood for evacuation of civilians on a village nearby Vovchansk in Kharkiv, the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

    Russia-Ukraine war: Russia to make further bid to carve out ‘buffer zone’ in coming weeks, warns US defence secretary – as it happened

  • The Adriana, an ageing fishing trawler, is seen illuminated in the dark at a port with people crammed onto its decks and even onto the roof of its cabin. It is painted blue with large patches of rust on its hull.

    Mediterranean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers

  • A girl eats an ice cream as she walks along Nakamise-dori, a shopping street near Senso-ji buddhist temple, in Tokyo

    ‘Bloody £9 for two!’ How much does an ice-cream cost around the world?

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Middle East

  • US president Joe Biden speaks at a celebration for Jewish American heritage month on 20 May.

    Biden attacks request by ICC prosecutor for Netanyahu arrest warrant

    US president sides with Israeli PM as he calls Karim Khan’s pursuit of warrants for Netanyahu along with Hamas leaders ‘outrageous’
  • The helicopter is seen taking off at the Iranian border with Azerbaijan: it is a small twin-blade aircraft with white and blue livery and is pictured rising from a remote-looking airfield against a backdrop of a rocky ledge and mountains.

    No signal from helicopter that crashed killing Iran’s president, Turkish minister says

  • Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant sitting with Israeli flags in the background

    ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Israeli PM and Hamas officials for war crimes

  • Commemoration ceremony in Tehran for Iranian president Raisi<br>TEHRAN, IRAN - MAY 20: People holding photos gathering at Valiasr Square mourn the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian and other Iranian officials in a helicopter crash on Sunday in Iran, during a ceremony in Tehran on May 20, 2024.. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Iran: who holds power now the president is dead?

  • Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    Israeli ministers condemn ICC arrest warrant call as ‘scandalous’ – as it happened

  • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sitting behind a microphone, with an Iranian flag behind him

    Iran’s supreme leader sets its hardline foreign policies: expect more of the same

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South and Central Asia

  • Narendra Modi holds a microphone as he speaks to Mark Zuckerberg while seated on stage

    Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

    Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups
  • Children wearing Narendra Modi masks ride a bicycle in Varanasi

    ‘Modi builds highways but where are our jobs?’: rising inequality looms over India’s election

  • Taliban security officers by parked cars

    Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly tourist attack in Afghanistan

  • men stand by their belongings by water

    Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

  • 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

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UK

  • Michael Gove

    UK risks ‘descending into darkness’ of antisemitism, Michael Gove to say

    Safety of Jewish community ‘canary in mine’ for British political system, communities secretary will warn in speech
  • AI (artificial intelligence) letters and robot hand miniature

    Productivity soars in sectors of global economy most exposed to AI, says report

  • The Princess of Wales

    Invest in childhood to unlock £45.5bn a year, says Princess of Wales’s taskforce

  • New homes under construction. Partially build new homes with scaffolding outside.

    Labour will aim to reveal new town sites within first year in power

  • metropolitan police vehicle with battenburg chequered livery

    Bedfordshire man charged after explosives discovered near Luton

  • Cornwall close Hornchurch.

    Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London

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US

  • A man in a navy blue suit and white shirt is surrounded by people

    Ivan Boesky, Wall Street financier who coined ‘greed is good’, dies aged 87

    Known as ‘Ivan The Terrible’, the risk arbitrage maven fell from glory in one of the biggest insider trading scandals of the 1980s
  • 'The Apprentice' premiere, 77th Cannes Film Festival, France - 20 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock (14490934ez) Sebastian Stan, Ali Abbasi and Maria Bakalova 'The Apprentice' premiere, 77th Cannes Film Festival, France - 20 May 2024

    The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist

  • woman in orange and pink striped dress in front of photographers

    ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI

  • US president Joe Biden speaks at a celebration for Jewish American heritage month on 20 May.

    ‘What’s happening is not genocide’: Biden criticizes ICC for seeking arrest warrants for Israeli officials – as it happened

  • The Truth Social logo with a picture of Donald Trump

    Trump’s Truth Social media company posts $327m first-quarter loss

  • People collect food and water from volunteers

    Houston power outages persist amid sweltering heat

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