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Africa

  • Tundu Lissu

    Firm disclosed phone data of shot Tanzanian politician, UK tribunal hears

    Tigo’s former investigator claims he was unfairly dismissed for raising concerns over 2017 attack on Tundu Lissu
  • Security helicopters hover above Mogadishu sea port

    Fresh Egypt arms shipment to Somalia raises regional tensions

  • Antony Blinken in New York for the general assembly

    As it meets against backdrop of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, is UN too broken to be fixed?

  • Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    Family call on UK to ensure British activist goes free from Egyptian jail

  • Tanzanian police prevent banned opposition rally to take place in Dar es Salaam<br>epa11620829 Two protesters are detained by police at the start of a banned rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 23 September 2024. Tanzanian police arrested supporters of the main opposition party Chadema for participating in a banned protest to demand an end to alleged political abductions and killings. According to police, 14 people were arrested, including Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and vice-chairman Tundu Lissu, for defying a prohibition on the protests. Leaders of the opposition have accused Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan of cracking down on democracy ahead of elections in November 2024 and in 2025. EPA/ANTHONY SIAME

    Tanzania opposition leaders arrested amid crackdown on dissent

  • The remains of a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, after fighting last month.

    UN chief calls on Sudanese paramilitary leader to end siege of North Darfur city

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Americas

  • close-up of man wearing grey suit and tie

    Canada’s Tories target Trudeau as they seek seismic shift in political landscape

    Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to introduce motion of non-confidence in long-shot bid to force an election
  • MEXICO-WEATHER-HURRICANE-JOHN<br>A Mexican flag is pictured under the rain after the passage of hurricane John in Acapulco, Mexico on September 24, 2024. At least two people were killed in southern Mexico by the passage of Hurricane John, now downgraded to tropical storm, authorities reported. (Photo by Francisco ROBLES / AFP) (Photo by FRANCISCO ROBLES/AFP via Getty Images)

    Two die in mudslide as Hurricane John makes landfall in Mexico

  • Michael Kovrig

    Michael Kovrig: detention by China amounted to psychological torture, Canadian says

  • A lifeguard wearing red swim trunks and carrying a flotation device walks along a cloudy beach

    Hurricane John poised to slam Mexico’s Pacific coast with 100mph winds

  • An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping centre in Brasilia.

    Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X

  • man in yellow uniform stands against backdrop of burning forest

    ‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

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Asia Pacific

  • CHINA-ECONOMY<br>Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, speaks to reporters during a press conference at the China's State Council Information office in Beijing on September 24, 2024. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP) (Photo by ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images)

    China unleashes boldest stimulus in years to boost ailing economy

    People’s Bank of China announces support measures including a cut in interest rates but some experts fear they may not be enough
  • FRANCE-OVERSEAS-NCALEDONIA-POLICE-SECURITY<br>A French gendarmes controls a man at a roadblock, in Saint Louis on the way to Mont-Dore, in France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on September 23, 2024. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Old tensions in New Caledonia: curfews and colonialism resurface on anniversary of French takeover

  • Kim Yeji of South Korea at the Paris Olympics

    Viral South Korean Olympic shooter Kim Yeji scores first acting role – as an assassin

  • Brodie Ryan and Nathan Buckley

    AFL stars walk Brownlow medal red carpet – as it happened

  • The front of a house leans forward into the waters of a swollen river

    Weather tracker: Extensive flooding in Japan after ‘unprecedented’ rainfall

  • A local resident struggles to walk in mud on the street following floods caused by torrential rain in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan September 22, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN

    Japan floods: six dead after rain pounds region still recovering from earthquake

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Australia

  • Wind turbines near Goulburn in New South Wales

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    Australia news live: renewable rebound adds 7GW to grid; new search for Samantha Murphy

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  • Anthony Albanese

    Gambling lobby pushes Labor to consider age verification to block minors from betting

  • A demonstration in support of Palestine and Gaza at University of Sydney

    Campaign demanding University of Sydney vice-chancellor resigns is ‘dangerous’, Jewish Council warns

  • Person wearing a black t-shirt sits on a wooden park bench

    A police strip-search left Mysa feeling dehumanised. New data reveals the extent of the practice in NSW

  • Australian environment minister Tanya Plibersek

    Tanya Plibersek approves three coalmine expansions in move criticised as ‘the opposite of climate action’

  • A magpie sitting on a branch

    Suspected poisoning of 30 magpies in Cootamundra under investigation

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Europe

  • Keir Starmer, Joe Biden and David Lammy sit at a table

    Keir Starmer heads to US for summit at UN as aides seek meetings with Harris and Trump

    PM to give speech on international issues as team hopes to set up talks with both presidential candidates
  • Zelenskyy at the UN security council

    Zelenskyy appeals to global south to help ‘force Russia into peace’

  • A painting of Giorgia Meloni in the restaurant

    Meloni-themed restaurant opens near asylum-seeker camp in Albania

  • The ‘Sarco’ capsule is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

    Swiss police make arrests over suspected death in ‘suicide capsule’

  • Viktor Orbán

    Outrage as Hungary presides over EU talks on democratic standards

  • A view of rescue efforts from inside an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike in Kharkiv.

    Thousands of lives will be lost if Kyiv denied permission to use western weapons in Russia, Zelenskyy says – as it happened

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Middle East

  • Smoke billows from the sites of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon's southern plain of Marjeyoun along the border with Israel on 24 September.

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    Middle East crisis live: Iran says Israeli strikes in Lebanon ‘can’t go unanswered’; UK readies troops for potential evacuation

    Iran president Masoud Pezeshkian addresses UN after wave of strikes; UK moving 700 troops in case of Lebanon evacuation
  • Smoke billows above a cityscape

    UK moves 700 troops to Cyprus ready to evacuate Britons from Lebanon

  • A man stands on the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in the southern village of Akbieh, Lebanon

    Israel escalation based on risky belief it can bomb Hezbollah into a ceasefire

  • António Guterres standing at a lectern with raised hands

    UN chief calls Middle East crisis ‘nightmare’ amid push for Lebanon ceasefire

  • A plane flies over Beirut

    Airlines suspend more Lebanon flights amid Israeli airstrikes

  • People stand in the rubble of a badly damaged building

    Israeli strikes on Lebanon continue as Iran says Hezbollah ‘cannot stand alone’

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South and Central Asia

  • Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) and Jayantha Jayasuriya greet each other by pressing their palms together in front of their chests

    Anura Kumara Dissanayake: who is Sri Lanka’s new leftist president?

    JVP leader has positioned himself as opposite to political elites but not all have greeted his win with optimism
  • Anura Kumara Dissanayake among supporters

    Sri Lankan leftist candidate Dissanayake claims presidential election

  • Pakistan police badges

    Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect

  • The face of Jagtar Singh Johal, who in 2017 was bundled into a car by police and tortured, according to Reprieve.

    British activist denied bail after years in Indian jail without trial

  • A young child receives a vaccine shot while their sibling waits behind them. The healthcare workers are covered head to toe in burkas.

    Afghanistan risks polio outbreak as Taliban restricts women from delivering vaccines

  • People stand on their doorsteps as a rescue boat moves along a flooded street

    Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe

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UK

  • Michael Wheeler

    Five held on suspicion of murder of missing Yeovil man

    Avon and Somerset police say disappearance of Michael Wheeler, 37, is being treated as a murder inquiry
  • John Apter

    Former police leader allegedly made sexual remark about widow of PC Andrew Harper

  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria

    Keep the faith, Starmer urges as he vows to build ‘a new Britain’

  • Joe Lycett in Victoria Square

    Brummies celebrate inaugural International Day of Birmingham

  • Labour Party Annual Conference, Day 3, Liverpool, UK - 24 Sep 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI/REX/Shutterstock (14737429i) Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his Party Conference speech at the Labour Party Conference 2024 in Liverpool on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Labour Party Annual Conference, Day 3, Liverpool, UK - 24 Sep 2024

    Starmer needs the public’s trust to be able to make the hard choices to come

  • Liverpool town hall.

    Parents of babies attacked by Letby ‘kept in the dark’, inquiry told

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US

  • Donald Trump holds campaign event in Savannah, Georgia.

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    Judge in federal Trump election interference case to allow special counsel to file hundreds of pages of evidence – live

    180-page brief could contain new evidence in January 6 case and comes in wake of supreme court ruling regarding presidential immunity
  • Side-by-side portraits of Tanya Chutkan smiling, Donald Trump scowling, and Jack Smith speaking

    Special counsel can file oversized motion in Trump election-interference case

  • Clouds over Havana skyline

    Biden declares emergency as Florida braces for Tropical Storm Helene

  • woman wearing black glasses, purple shirt and grey suit looks forward

    Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years after serving as star witness against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried

  • A man in a suit and tie gestures while speaking at a podium in front of a crowd

    Trump scapegoats migrants again at Georgia event meant to discuss economy

  • Diddy performs onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music awards in Newark, New Jersey.

    Woman accuses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of assault and recording it 20 years ago

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