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Africa

  • the muddy rain-sodden legs and shoes of two young people

    Weather tracker: heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa

    Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi has damaged farmland and infrastructure
  • Rishi Sunak's head under a sign saying 'STOP THE BOATS'

    UK Rwanda policy is ‘kneejerk reaction’ to migration, says Ireland’s deputy PM

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

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Americas

  • Armed security personnel in full kit in road on patrol

    New Haiti government sworn in during secret ceremony

    ‘Transitional council’ takes oath of office after prime minister formally resigns as gang violence continues to rock capital
  • A woman holds out the skirt of her white dress showing the printed scene of slaves picking cotton on Lisbon’s Praça do Comércio.

    Portugal needs to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president

  • A crowd of women march along a street holding banners

    Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban

  • Nancy Gonzalez shows off her collection of handbags at Neiman Marcus in Bal Harbour, Florida in 2008.

    Designer Nancy Gonzalez sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags

  • Fishers working with a net

    ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims

  • A woman fans herself as she and another woman walk across a street

    Weather tracker: Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave

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Asia Pacific

  • Antony Blinken shakes hands with Wang Yi in front of their respective flags

    China warns relations with US could slip into ‘downward spiral’ if red lines crossed

    Wang Yi tells Antony Blinken ‘disruptions’ could arise amid threat of sanctions over China’s support for Russia’s defence industry
  • The popular tourist spot with view of a Lawson convenience shop, with view of Mount Fuji behind at Kawaguchiko station

    Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot

  • City of London File police were involved in an international operation to raid the ‘counterfeit shopping agent’ Pandabuy in China

    Pandabuy: police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses

  • Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto

    Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

  • Outdoors view of white TikTok logo on a company sign.

    Congress passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app?

  • a man in a blue suit and striped blue and red tie speaks from behind a lectern

    Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

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Australia

  • Members of the Australian National Imams Council during a press conference in Sydney

    Australian Muslim leaders call out ‘questionable law enforcement tactics’ that led to arrest of minors

    Muslim organisations say they were not consulted before counter-terrorism raids that resulted in arrests relating to a church stabbing in Sydney
  • A silhouetted pithead at an Anglo American Platinum open pit mine in South Africa

    Anglo American rejects £31bn takeover offer from mining rival BHP

  • Taylor Swift performing in Melbourne

    Taylor Swift makes Arias history; Tucker Carlson and Clive Palmer to headline ‘Australian freedom conferences’ – as it happened

  • Scott Farquhar

    Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Bruce Lehrmann to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs

  • Aboriginal flag

    Urban Rampage banned from using Centrepay to sign up mostly Indigenous customers to credit arrangements

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Europe

  • Mykola Solskyi, Ukraine’s agriculture minister.

    Live
    Ukrainian court orders agriculture minister to be taken into custody – Europe live

    Mykola Solskyi is first known minister under Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be named in a corruption case
  • Mykola Solskyi sits at a desk during a summit

    Ukraine agriculture minister detained in multimillion-dollar corruption inquiry

  • Tractors in the streets of Krakow, Poland, as part of a protest against the EU's nature restoration law.

    New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn

  • Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock (12904693d) Ukrainian women from the "Vitsche" and "Voices of Ukraine" initiatives protest in front of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian army during the war in Ukraine. They call for an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make financing the war more difficult./Ukrainian women of the initiatives "Vitsche" and "voices of Ukraine" protest bloodied and partially tied up in front of the Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection in Berlin against rapes of women and girls by soldiers of the Russian Army during the War in Ukraine. They demand an immediate embargo on Russian oil and gas to make it harder to finance the war. Protest against war crimes in Ukraine, Berlin, Ukraine - 21 Apr 2022

    Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine

  • Laurent Cantet looks at the camera with a jacket over his shoulder

    Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63

  • A sign reading 'European Elections' is displayed on a building while people walk in front of it in the foreground

    MEPs urged to fight far right as they head home to campaign for European elections

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Middle East

  • An aerial view of the heavily damaged, collapsed buildings of Khan Yunis after Israeli attacks

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    Middle East crisis live: Egyptian delegation due in Israel seeking to kickstart Gaza ceasefire talks, say reports

    Israeli media reports planned visit, citing unnamed officials, in the wake of stalled talks mediated by Qatar, the US and Egypt
  • Palestinians bring cement blocks to a pier that could be used to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza in March

    US troops begin construction of Gaza aid pier as questions remain over distribution

  • Friends and supporters of Hersh Goldberg-Polin outside Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem: a woman wears a red T-shirt with the words Bring Them Home Now across it and holds a placard reading Bring Hersh Home under a picture of the hostage; a crowd of people is gathered behind her, some others with placards and signs

    Leaders of 18 countries urge Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza

  • UAE-WEATHER-FLOOD<br>Cars drive down a flooded motorway in Dubai on April 20, 2024. Four people died after the heaviest rainfall on record in the oil-rich UAE on April 16, including two Filipino women who suffocated inside their vehicle in Dubai's flooding. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds

  • A man walk passes the rubble of destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah.

    Middle East crisis: US and other countries link ‘immediate ceasefire’ to hostages’ release – as it happened

  • A man and a woman walk past a billboard with an illustration showing missiles taking off from a stylised 3D relief map of Iran

    Oil price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns

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South and Central Asia

  • Avani Dias

    Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist

    Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’
  • A hand holds three cardboard cutouts of Narendra Modi with party supporters out of focus in the background

    Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues

  • Thai soldiers stand guard as Myanmar villagers flee to Thailand amid clashes between rebels and the junta

    Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops

  • Narendra Modi addresses a crowd on Independence Day. He is looking towards the right and appears to be speaking, with one arm in the air. He is wearing a red turban and white kurta.

    ‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality

  • A motorcyclist drives past a poster of Narendra Modi in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh

    Voting begins in India’s election with Modi widely expected to win third term

  • Diagram showing 20 of the snake's vertebrae.

    Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India

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UK

  • Humza Yousaf speaks at a press conference in front of a Scottish saltire flag

    Humza Yousaf cancels Glasgow speech as speculation grows over political future

    Allies of Scottish first minister say he ‘will come out fighting’ after Greens say they would back no-confidence motion
  • Humza Yousaf stands in front of a Scottish flag during a press conference

    Live
    Humza Yousaf cancels planned speech as leadership crisis continues – UK politics live

  • Two police officers walk along the water line of a stony beach with houses in the background

    Two men charged in connection with deaths of five people in Channel

  • Chris Philp on BBC One's Question Time

    UK minister appears to mix up Rwanda and Congo on Question Time

  • A man looks at his iPhone which displays the Barclaycard logo

    Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers

  • Silhouette of woman by a window

    UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge

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US

  • Kristi Noem arrives onstage at a campaign rally ahead of remarks from Donald Trump in Vandalia, Ohio.

    Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book

    South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’
  • police detain a demonstrator

    Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas at university protest in Georgia

  • Lines of tents at a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University

    The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses

  • Man in blue suits speaks to press behind microphones at media conference

    What does Harvey Weinstein’s New York ruling mean for his California rape conviction?

  • Three men wearing blue uniforms stand behind a man wearing a neon vest getting into a white car with his hands on his head

    USC cancels main commencement ceremony amid Gaza protests

  • Black sign with TikTok logo in front of bushes and building windows

    ByteDance would shut down TikTok in US rather than sell it, sources say

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