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Africa

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

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

    Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine says in interview that US troops ‘stayed on our soil, doing nothing while terrorists killed people’
  • 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

  • Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno puts a ballot paper in a container surrounded by security staff and people holding up phones and cameras inside a white tent

    Chad’s military leader Itno declared president as results contested by rival

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Americas

  • People attend memorial service for the Schoenborn children

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

    Health minister makes announcement following revelations that a man who killed his children legally changed his name
  • 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

  • brown horse stands on strips of land surrounded by water

    Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people

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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

  • a Ford Ranger on display

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

    Advertising expenditure on the large, highly polluting vehicles leapt by 29% between 2022 and 2023
  • Victorian attorney general Jaclyn Symes

    Victorian law aims to help sexual assault victims report crimes by providing defamation immunity

  • James Paterson

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

  • Follow live updates from the 2024 Australia federal budget, including treasurer Jim Chalmers’s announcement speech.

    Jim Chalmers delivers budget speech – as it happened

  • Electricity wire towers at sunset

    Federal budget 2024 – winners and losers summary

  • Increased funding for aged care and a freeze on medicine prices under the PBS, especially for pensioners, are among Australia’s 2024 budget measures.

    Medicine price freeze and $2.2bn for home and aged care among Australia’s federal budget health measures

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Europe

  • Georgian law enforcement officers are seen deployed on streets of Tbilisi.

    Live
    Georgia protests: riot police move in on demonstrations after ‘foreign agents’ bill passed into law – live

    Protesters in Tbilisi treated by medics after bill condemned as Kremlin-inspired act of repression was passed into law
  • (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’

  • A gunman is seen after a prison van was attacked in Incarville in the Eure region of Normandy.

    Manhunt launched after two French prison guards killed and inmate freed

  • A forensic officer works as police officers patrol at the site of an attack in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France.

    Live
    Huge manhunt in France as gunmen kill two guards and free inmate from van – as it happened

  • Georgian demonstrators protesting against the ‘foreign agents’ bill in Tbilisi.

    Police fire teargas at protesters and MPs brawl as Georgia passes ‘foreign agents’ bill

  • Man speaks at a lectern while other men listen in the background

    Antisemitism in Europe leading some to hide Jewish identity, says leading rabbi

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Middle East

  • 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

    Witnesses report clashes in streets after seeing tanks cross strategically important Salah al-Din road
  • 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

  • Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

    Israel deepens offensive in Rafah and re-enters northern areas of Gaza

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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

  • Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer sets out plans to tackle small boat crossings<br>Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks, at an event on how to tackle small boat crossings, in Deal, Britain, May 10, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

    Live
    Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates its full commitment to new deal for working people

    Both sides agree a joint statement expressing full commitment “to the new deal for working people as agreed in July” after a meeting with unions this afternoon
  • A model holds a De Beers diamond

    Anglo American to sell famous diamond business De Beers in break-up plan

  • External view of Westminster magistrates court

    Men accused of plot to attack Jews with machine guns in north-west England

  • Diana being interviewed by Martin Bashir

    Diana chauffeur and BBC agree payout over claim Martin Bashir slandered him

  • Members of the PCS union hold placards while standing on grass in front of a fence

    UK armed forces being trained to cover possible Border Force summer strikes

  • The crown court in Gloucester in late afternoon wintry sun

    Woman disposed of baby’s body in bin after alleged illegal abortion, court told

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US

  • 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.

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    Michael Cohen: I stayed in Trump camp because of president ‘protecting me’ after 2018 FBI raid – live

    Trump’s former fixer says then-president told him ‘you’re going to be OK’ after the FBA raided his home
  • Mike Johnson and Donald Trump in front of US flags.

    Mike Johnson skips vital US House session to support Trump in New York

  • debris is strewn on the ground

    Two people dead in Louisiana after tornadoes sweep through US south

  • Rafah pictured earlier this week as hundreds of thousands of people fled amid Israeli warnings to evacuate many neighbourhoods

    Middle East crisis: large parts of Rafah now a ‘ghost town’, says Unrwa spokesperson – as it happened

  • Emergency crews respond to a bus crash

    Eight killed after bus carrying migrant workers crashes in Florida

  • Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger

    Three men strike plea deals over prison killing of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger

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