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Africa

  • Police fire teargas during a protest in Abuja

    Bullets and teargas reportedly fired at journalists covering protests in Nigeria

    At least 50 press arrested on Saturday in Abuja and almost 700 demonstrators detained since unrest began
  • Five men carry a body in a red plastic sheet across the sand with a restaurant in the background

    At least 37 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach

  • Lagos protesters against cost of living crisis.

    Why are Nigerians protesting? Young people were roused by events in Kenya

  • Mummy of woman with a wide-open mouth

    Egyptian mummy with screaming expression ‘may have died in agony’, say researchers

  • A woman in a white dress

    Miss South Africa contestant faces backlash over Nigerian father

  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

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Americas

  • María Corina Machado (c) next to Delsa Solorzano (third left), leader of the opposition Encuentro ciudadano party, during a protest in Caracas

    Huge crowds return to Venezuela’s streets to protest against Maduro

    Tens of thousands gather in Caracas defying crackdown by president to hear speech by María Corina Machado
  • Venezuela presidential candidate Edmundo González, centre, with opposition leader María Corina Machado, left, in front of UN headquarters during a rally in Caracas this week after the disputed election

    Venezuela: Blinken congratulates González on winning election as more countries come out against Maduro

  • Stephen Lawrence

    Stephen Lawrence’s father says he was not told son’s body was being exhumed

  • Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado hugs presidential candidate Edmundo González

    Venezuela election: US recognises opposition candidate Edmundo González as winner

  • Closeup of a midge on a person’s hand

    Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

  • A man in combat fatigues stands by a mental door aiming a rifle at an unseen target

    UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

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Asia Pacific

  • A trader works on the floor of the New York stock exchange

    Fear of US recession rattles global markets as tech shares fall

    Europe’s main indices all decline and Japanese equities suffer worst day since 2020 while gold hits fresh record
  • This aerial photo taken on July 28, 2024 shows a flood-affected village following heavy rains caused by Typhoon Gaemi in Zixing, in central China's Hunan province

    China sees highest number of significant floods since records began

  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

  • Japanese rice inventories have fallen to the lowest levels since 1999.

    Japan’s rice stocks drop to lowest level in decades amid tourist boom and poor crop yields

  • Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, delivers a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in Taipei, on Tuesday

    China used ‘shocking’ bullying tactics ahead of Taiwan Ipac meeting, organiser says

  • Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration in Germany, on May 23, 2012

    Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson could face up to 15 years’ prison in Japan if convicted

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Australia

  • Passengers board a Queensland Rail (QR) train in Brisbane, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

    One of Australia’s most expensive commutes becomes the cheapest, as Queensland’s 50c public transport trial begins

    Operators not predicting a large influx of new customers right away, with patronage still well below pre-Covid levels
  • The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong

    Wong warns Australians in Lebanon to ‘leave immediately’ – as it happened

  • Independent Senator David Pocock

    ‘A total cop out’ if Albanese government refuses blanket ban on gambling ads, Pocock says

  • Anthony Albanese

    Albanese endorses ‘principle’ of makarrata but stops short of backing truth and justice commission

  • Legionella

    Second person dies after being diagnosed with legionnaires’ disease amid Melbourne outbreak

  • Pro Palestine rally in Sydney

    Government will consider pathways for Palestinians fleeing Gaza to stay longer in Australia, Burke says

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Europe

  • President Zelenskiy with troops

    Zelenskiy praises Ukraine’s strikes on military targets inside Russia

    Ukrainian army reports several hits on sites including Russian airfields, oil refineries and logistics
  • Rear view of police officers with the word Garda on their vests

    Irish police question man over woman’s death in County Cork

  • Three men sit in a row at a table with microphones on the table in front of them

    Russian dissidents freed in prisoner swap speak of deal ‘dilemma’

  • Plane on runway at night

    Russian prisoner swap deal was to have included Alexei Navalny

  • A middle-aged woman hugs a smiling young man.

    Evan Gershkovich’s most tireless advocate to secure his release: his mother

  • Krasikov shakes the hand of Putin while Russian guards stand in the background

    Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin

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Middle East

  • An oil storage facility ablaze in Hodeida, Yemen, after Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for a Houthi drone attack that killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

    Hamas’s leader is dead, Iran vows revenge: can anything stop all-out war in the Middle East?

    The assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran humiliated Iran’s leaders, dashed hopes of a ceasefire and left the heavily armed nations of the Middle East moving inexorably closer to an all-out war they all claim not to want
  • On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, the community in the old city of Sinjar hung the pictures of victims on the rubble.

    Iraq’s Yazidis gather to remember the dead and missing, 10 years on from Islamic State genocide

  • A portrait of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is displayed during a demonstration in the Lebanese city of Sidon.

    Middle East crisis: Iran vows ‘severe’ revenge against Israel as US deploys jets and warships to region – as it happened

  • side by side screenshots of a gun being fired and a mosque in flames

    US-Israeli soldier posted videos showing detonation of Gaza homes and mosque

  • Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu standing beside each other

    Assassination again shows Netanyahu’s disregard for US-Israel relations

  • File photo of a US Osprey landing on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea

    US bolsters military presence in Middle East as threat of regional escalation intensifies

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South and Central Asia

  • People and a cow walking on a street in the rain

    Weather tracker: Record-breaking rain in Delhi leaves trail of destruction

    Almost 200 killed as deluge sweeps northern India, while rain gives way to high humidity at Paris Olympics
  • Teaching staff from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology show support for the student protesters. One placard reads 'We stand with our students' and another reads 'Every lie is a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid'

    Bangladesh arrests more than 10,000 in crackdown on protests

  • People search under the remains of a ceiling covered in mud and debris

    Death toll from landslides in India’s Kerala state rises to 166

  • Rescuers help residents at the site of a landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, India.

    India landslides: death toll passes 100 with dozens feared missing

  • Protesters clash with guards in the street

    Bangladesh student protests turn into ‘mass movement against a dictator’

  • Young man with beard turned to one side revealing arm with severe bruising

    Bangladeshi students allege police torture after protests crackdown

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UK

  • Riot police stand by a pulled-down barrier as rightwing protesters gather in front of them

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    Rioting ‘flooding across major cities and towns’ as police brace for further disorder across UK – live

    Police officers attacked and injured and dozens of arrests made after scenes of disorder across country on Saturday
  • An elderly lady holding a cup of tea at home in front of an electric fire

    UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

  • Mel Stride, a Tory leadership contender, outside a house

    ‘I worry about populist politics’: Mel Stride says even progressive voters should want a strong Tory party

  • Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre in Harmondsworth.

    ‘Worrying deterioration in safety’ at UK immigration removal centres, warns chief inspector of prisons

  • Junior Doctor Victoria Selwyn, photographed at Shenley Park in Hertfordshire. She is the founder of Headucate UK, a mental health charity.

    Trainee doctors in UK facing higher risk of burnout than during pandemic

  • Police clash with rightwing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester.

    Dozens arrested across UK as Cooper says ‘violent thugs will pay the price’ – as it happened

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US

  • Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Georgia.

    Donald Trump: judge rejects efforts to dismiss election subversion case against ex-president

    The ruling is the first substantive order after a landmark supreme court opinion last month that conferred broad immunity for former presidents
  • Donald Trump addresses the crowd at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Name-calling and hyperbole: Trump continues fear-mongering fest at Georgia rally

  • A lifeguard tower being secured in preparation of a potential storm at Clearwater Beach on Saturday, in Florida.

    Florida braces for tropical storm with hurricane force winds and ocean surges

  • A bronze statue of legendary baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas, in January.

    Man who stole Jackie Robinson statue leaving only feet given 15 years in jail

  • A younger middle-aged man speaks outside.

    Democratic politicians’ husbands rake in record haul during New York event

  • Trump with head cocked.

    Trump says he would debate on Fox News – but Harris insists on ABC

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