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Africa

  • Rishi Sunak walks to attend a press conference at Downing Street in London, 22 April 2024.

    Tuesday briefing: Rishi Sunak finally passes his Rwanda bill – now to find out if it works

    In today’s newsletter: After months of wrangling, Parliament passed the government’s controversial plan to tackle small boats
  • A family of African elephants crossing a dirt road, with a safari jeep in background.

    World Bank suspends Tanzania tourism funding after claims of killings and evictions

  • Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

    Sudan’s forgotten war

  • Rishi Sunak in front a lectern which reads 'Stop the Boats'

    UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

  • Copy of Saleh Ahmed Handule Ali's travel document

    Refugee who left UK for holiday in 2008 stranded in east Africa for 16 years

  • A group of Nigerien men with very short hair, wearing powder blue and white linen shirts, hold a brown and white handpainted sign that says "US Army, You Leave, You Vanish, No Bonus, No Negotiation."

    US to withdraw from Niger after security pact fails in strategic victory for Russia

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Americas

  • 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

    Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on commercial flights, receives 18-month sentence
  • 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

  • Ukrainian soldier manning mortar unit

    Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn

  • Supporters of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro hold up a sign saying ‘Thank you Elon Musk'

    Bolsonaro supporters hit streets of Rio and hail new hero Elon Musk

  • A person stands next to boxes with electoral kits ahead of the referendum, on 10 April in Quito, Ecuador.

    Ecuadoreans to vote in referendum on unprecedented security measures

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Asia Pacific

  • File photo of police in Dresden

    AfD politician’s employee arrested on suspicion of spying for China

    Man worked as assistant to Maximilian Krah, AfD’s top candidate in European parliament elections, say reports
  • Rescue services inspect the crash site of two helicopters in Lumur, Perak state

    Malaysia navy helicopters collide in mid-air, killing all 10 onboard

  • A statue of General Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan

    Taiwan pledges to remove 760 statues of Chinese dictator Chiang Kai-shek

  • The drag queen Nymphia Wind dressed in a gold outfit holding a stick with a gold sequinned stick with banana at the top

    Joy in Taiwan – and praise from the president – as Nymphia Wind wins RuPaul’s Drag Race

  • mother and baby lying on the floor

    ‘Horizontally’ recycled nappies go on sale in Japan in world first

  • Maldives' President Mohamed Muizzu addresses the media after casting his ballot during the country's parliamentary elections.

    Pro-China party wins landslide victory in Maldives parliamentary elections

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Australia

  • Jacqui Lambie

    Live
    Australia news live: Jacqui Lambie deletes X account after criticising Elon Musk; Victorian Greens pick first millennial leader

    Follow live
  • X owner Elon Musk

    Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    ‘Will cost lives’: addiction experts condemn decision to scrap proposed safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD

  • Police tape restricts access to a crime scene

    Queensland police say man stole three cars and pointed a loaded rifle at officers before he was fatally shot

  • Beetaloo Station

    NT government deal to buy Beetaloo Basin gas from US company labelled ‘carbon bomb’

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Bruce Lehrmann should pay Ten’s entire legal bill after ‘deliberately wicked’ decision to sue, network says

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Europe

  • Police officers stand next to a part of a television tower partially destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 22 April 2024.

    Rishi Sunak promises UK’s largest ever military support package for Ukraine

    PM pledges equipment including 400 vehicles, 1,600 weapons and 4m rounds of ammunition, plus £500m in funding
  • TikTok Lite logo

    EU threatens TikTok Lite with ban over reward-to-watch feature

  • Nikol Pashinyan speaking at a press conference with the Armenian flag behind him.

    Armenian PM defends decision to give four villages to Azerbaijan

  • The market square in Bruges

    Belgian man whose body makes its own alcohol cleared of drunk-driving

  • Thomas Haldenwang leaves a press conference in Berlin, January 2019: he is seen holding an orange file and standing against a blue background and a sign for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

    Three German citizens arrested on suspicion of spying for China

  • Service personnel fire a howitzer towards Russian forces

    EU ministers warned not to relax support for Ukraine amid requests for air defence aid

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Middle East

  • Smoke and a mass of fire rising during an Israeli air strike in Rafah in southern Gaza, where many displaced Palestinians have fled during the Israel-Gaza war

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: US says Hamas has ‘moved the goal post’ on Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Israel

    State department says Hamas has changed their demands, but that the US will keep pushing for an agreement
  • Faculty members at Columbia hold a demonstration in support of student protesters on Monday.

    Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested

  • Palestinians walk with their belongings along a dusty road between destroyed buildings

    Israel still has no proof of Unrwa terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done

  • Palestinians carry away flour distributed by Unrwa in Rafah, Gaza, late last year.

    Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says

  • Mourners react as people rebury the bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive in Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis: More than 200 bodies recovered from temporary mass graves in Nasser hospital, local authorities say – as it happened

  • Summer Lee, Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.

    Pro-Israel US groups plan $100m effort to unseat progressives over Gaza

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South and Central Asia

  • Narendra Modi

    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

  • Buses on the street in the City of London

    FTSE 100 hits record high as shares rise amid hopes of interest rate cuts

    UK’s blue-chip index rises to 8,076, surpassing previous high of 8,047 in February 2023
  • An electric car being charged on a street in London

    Electric and hybrid car sales to rise to new global record in 2024

  • Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill<br>The vote is read out in the House of Commons, London as MPs have voted 306 to 229, majority 77, to reject Lords Amendment 3G to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, aimed at ensuring Rwanda could not be treated as safe unless it was deemed so by an independent monitoring body. Picture date: Monday April 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story Politics Rwanda. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

    Rwanda bill clears parliament after peers abandon final battle over safety amendment – as it happened

  • 3D rendering of the head and face of a child robot against a futuristic space background in pink and blue.

    Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?

  • hands on a laptop keyboard

    Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort them, says charity

  • Doreen, Lady Lawrence

    Met’s handling of new evidence about Stephen Lawrence case to be reviewed

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US

  • Police intervene and arrest students at New York University (NYU) after they continue their pro-Palestinian protests on campus over the Israel-Gaza war

    Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread

    Authorities move to break up encampments at two more US universities on Monday, as Columbia University cancels in-person classes
  • women cry as they hold each other

    Antony Blinken rejects suggestion of ‘double standard’ on Israel

  • Man in cowboy hat with woman carry bags outside court

    Mistrial in case of Arizona rancher accused of shooting migrant dead

  • FILE PHOTO: A view of a Coach store, a brand owned by Tapestry, Inc., in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo

    US sues to block Tapestry-Capri $8.5bn merger, citing monopoly concerns

  • The new public bathroom in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood.

    Relief as San Francisco public toilet finally opens – and not for $1.7m after all

  • Workers install solar panels on a rooftop

    Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn ‘solar for all’ investment amid week of climate action

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