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Africa

  • Five men carry a body in a red plastic sheet across the sand with a restaurant in the background

    More than 30 killed in terrorist attack on popular Mogadishu beach

    At least 63 wounded after suicide bomber and gunmen target busy beachfront in Somali capital
  • 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

  • Two Nigerians protesters gold up a sign saying 'hungry'

    Up to seven reportedly dead in Nigeria after clashes between police and citizens

  • Moussa Dadis Camara

    Guinea court finds former dictator guilty in stadium massacre trial

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Americas

  • 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

    US secretary of state also voices concern for opposition candidate’s safety while Venezuelan government accuses Washington of leading ‘coup attempt’
  • 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

  • Stephen Lawrence

    Stephen Lawrence’s body to be returned to UK 31 years after murder

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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

  • Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy

    NT police commissioner apologises to Indigenous community at Garma festival

    Michael Murphy publicly acknowledges the impact of territory policing on Indigenous Australians over the past 154 years
  • The Queensland Police emblem

    Man dead after accident at central Queensland mine

  • Services Australia Centrepay logo in a composite image

    Media exposure has forced the government’s hand on Centrepay. The contrast with robodebt could not be more stark

  • Alaskan cyclist Lael Wilcox takes a break in front of the giant lobster in Kingston, South Australia

    ‘A tiny ant crawling on a map’: Lael Wilcox on her epic cycle from Perth to Brisbane

  • Anthony Albanese at Garma festival

    ‘We have to make a new path,’ Albanese vows, returning to Garma festival after voice defeat

  • Composite image featuring picture taken by a police drone in the days after the attack. It depicts the long driveway and the police vehicle the Trains burnt out at the front gate and inset images of slain Queensland police officers Constable Rachel McCrow & Constable Matthew Arnold and civilian Alan Dare

    Terror in Wieambilla: inquest hears of a radio blackspot, booby traps and ‘fatal funnel’ of gunfire

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Europe

  • Rear view of police officers with the word Garda on their vests

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

    Woman named locally as Daena Walsh died shortly after being found with serious injuries in Midleton flat
  • 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

  • Vladimir Putin shakes a man's hand as he stands on the runway

    Russia-US prisoner swap: Kremlin confirms hitman Vadim Krasikov worked for FSB security service – as it happened

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Middle East

  • 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

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said retaliation for Ismail Haniyeh assassination in Tehran would come ‘at an appropriate time, place and manner’
  • 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

  • Two men sit in the Oval Office.

    Report reveals secret US inquiry into alleged 2016 Egyptian $10m gift to Trump

  • Crowds of men with heads bowed, surrounding a large mosque

    Hamas leader buried in Doha as Biden says killing has ‘not helped’ ceasefire efforts

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South and Central Asia

  • 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

    Student protests that began over government-job quotas have led to mass roundups, says families of detainees
  • 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

  • A crowd of student protesters

    Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests

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UK

  • Police clash with right wing protesters in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester.

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    Police clash with far-right protesters as demonstrations spread across UK – live

    Far-right groups and anti-racism campaigners are facing off in cities around the UK
  • Axel Rudakubana wears a brown coat over a blue suit in front of a blue police box

    BBC charity removes promo video featuring Southport murder accused

  • Three peope in hi-viz jackets at an exterior barrier entrance

    Home Office urged to settle asylum claims over unlawful detention

  • People sweep up and bag ashes on a street as others gather on the pavement talking

    Far-right rioters in Sunderland ‘will not define us’, says mayor

  • Huw Edwards presenting the BBC news in June 2022.

    Man at centre of Huw Edwards case says he felt ‘groomed’ by presenter

  • A man with binoculars standing by a fenced-off field

    Ecologist taking on MoD to protect skylarks says he has faced threats and assault

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US

  • Kyle Rittenhouse cries at his trial in November 2021 for killing two people.

    Kyle Rittenhouse reverses course on not endorsing Trump after online pile-on

    Man who killed activists in 2020 questioned Trump’s gun rights bona fides before backing down in face of hate tweets
  • Trump with head cocked.

    Donald Trump agrees to debate Kamala Harris on Fox News

  • A man wearing a blue suit and red tie speaks into a microphone with his hand gestured

    Why conservative women dealing with infertility aren’t upset about Vance’s ‘cat ladies’ comment

  • Large color photos and crosses draped with leis are displayed outside with small mountains in the background.

    Lawsuit over last year’s deadly Maui wildfires settled for $4bn

  • USA News - 01 Aug 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Bailey Stover/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14615170e) Linda Fischer crouches and holds her head in her hands amidst the ruins of her home along Peregrine Road in Forest Ranch, California, on Wednesday. ''I can't do this,'' said Fischer, who lived in the home with her husband for 15 years before it was burned by the Park fire. USA News - 01 Aug 2024

    ‘Here we are again’: a fire-addled California enclave reckons with disaster on repeat

  • Three men wearing suits stand at a conference, with one speaking at a podium

    What’s ahead for Kosa, an online safety act for minors, as it reaches US House?

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