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Africa

  • Youssouf Mondoha Assoumani, chair of the African Union permanent representatives' committee, speaking in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday.

    African and Caribbean nations agree move to seek reparations for slavery

    African Union and Caricom members establish global reparations fund and call for formal apologies from European nations
  • A box of CAB-LA medicine.

    South Africa ‘can’t afford’ to pay for new anti-HIV drug, despite cut-price offer

  • Micro-Grid Training for African Women

    Solar energy could power all health facilities in poorer countries and save lives, experts say

  • Stop The Plane protester outside Royal Courts of Justice, London, 2022

    Peers and MPs pledge to block Sunak’s Rwanda plan as Braverman labels it ‘magical thinking’

  • Rishi Sunak behind a lectern that says 'stop the boats'

    UK government to present full law to set aside supreme court Rwanda decision

  • Rishi Sunak

    UK ministers’ efforts to revive Rwanda policy likely to fail, lawyers say

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Americas

  • Presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Javier Milei leaves UTN University after casting his vote in Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Argentina presidential election: far-right libertarian Javier Milei wins after rival concedes

    Victory for TV celebrity turned politician catapults South America’s second-largest economy into an unpredictable future
  • A humpback whale near the coast of Ilhabela, Brazil.

    Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale

  • The wreckage of the plane, which was placed in the mountains in 2022 for training purposes

    Mystery of ‘decades-old’ plane wreck in Canadian backcountry solved

  • A man cools off in the Arara Park favela in Rio de Janeiro.

    ‘Hell de Janeiro’: scorching heat highlights Brazil’s glaring inequality

  • Supporters of Sergio Massa hold posters of their candidate in front of an image of Milei in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires province.

    Argentina holds breath as far-right Milei seizes narrow runoff advantage

  • Taylor Swift singing and playing guitar.

    Taylor Swift postpones Rio concert after fan dies amid heatwave

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Asia Pacific

  • Anthony Albanese

    Albanese accuses China of ‘dangerous, unsafe and unprofessional’ behaviour in naval ship altercation

    Prime minister declines to confirm if he raised incident in his face-to-face meeting with Xi Jinping
  • David Cameron in Sir Lanka in January promoting the China-backed Port City Colombo project.

    David Cameron’s backing of Beijing-funded development raises questions over business dealings

  • Joe Biden speaks at the Apec leaders’ dinner in San Francisco.

    Apec summit ends with unity on WTO reform but not Gaza or Ukraine

  • Earthquake damage in General Santos City, Philippines

    Philippines earthquake: authorities report deaths from falling debris

  • Hou Yu-ih, who would likely be the Kuomintang (KMT) party’s candidate for president if it came out on top of a joint-ticket wrangle with another party, TPP.

    Taiwan opposition parties deadlocked over presidential candidate

  • HMAS Toowomba

    Australian naval divers injured after being subjected to Chinese warship’s sonar pulses

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Australia

  • man watching TV looking at smart TV apps

    Free-to-air group rubbishes claims Australian government wants to ‘control your TV’

    Industry feud flares over proposed smart TV laws that will likely mean free local apps feature more prominently than paid services
  • Gareth Morgan

    From a quadruple hat-trick to not getting a bowl: Gareth Morgan leaves third grade cricket fans hanging

  • Three young people vaping

    Australian retail lobby groups refuse to disclose amount of funding from tobacco and vaping industries

  • NSW Premier Chris Minns speaks to the media during a press conference

    Rift widens between NSW and federal Labor as Chris Minns demands state’s ‘fair share’

  • Optus sign apologising for the outage

    Optus gets some clear air but the ghosts of twin disasters will haunt whoever comes next

  • Richard Marles and Narendra Modi present the Cricket World Cup trophy to Pat Cummins in Ahmedabad.

    Jet trip followed guidelines, minister’s office says – as it happened

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Europe

  • US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin is welcomed as he arrives in Kyiv.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war live: US defense secretary says support will continue ‘for the long haul’ on surprise trip to Kyiv

    Lloyd Austin says Ukraine’s efforts to defeat Russia ‘matters to the world’ and pledges support despite division in Washington over aid
  • Fire in Albanian parliament

    Albania opposition starts fire in parliament during anti-government protest

  • The judges reads the verdicts in the trial of members of the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, in Lamezia Terme, southern Italy

    More than 200 mobsters convicted in Italian mafia ‘maxi trial’

  • A government billboard in Budapest shows American philanthropist Alex Soros and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. It reads: ‘Let's not dance to their tunes’

    Live
    Von der Leyen ‘didn’t bat an eyebrow’ over Hungary government billboards attacking her, spokesperson says – Europe live

  • A camera operator films Pieter Omtzigt speaking while wearing a dark suit

    Pieter Omtzigt: the Netherlands outsider whose politics is firmly in the centre

  • Shakira wearing a pink suit walks with her hand to her mouth next to a man in a dark suit

    Shakira strikes deal with Spanish prosecutors to avoid €14.5m tax fraud trial

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Middle East

  • Egyptian medics stand by with incubators to receive premature Palestinian babies evacuated from Gaza on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing.

    Live
    Israel-Hamas war live: 28 premature babies ‘moved to Egypt’ from Gaza; Israel warns Palestinians to leave Jabaliya refugee camp

    Babies set to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals; IDF ‘expanding operational activities in additional neighbourhoods’
  • The Galaxy Leader docked at the port of Koper, Slovenia

    Yemen’s Houthi rebels seize cargo ship in Red Sea, calling Israeli vessels ‘legitimate targets’

  • A screen grab of a video released by the Israeli army on Sunday that it said showed Hamas militants bringing in a hostage from Israel into al-Shifa hospital in Gaza on the day of the 7 October attack.

    Israeli army says footage shows foreign hostages inside Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital

  • Brett McGurk gestures as he speaks to Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in a meeting room

    Israel and Hamas appear close to hostage release deal, say officials

  • People carrying suitcases past a row of vans next to the Rafah crossing

    Families criticise UK government’s repatriation guidance in Gaza conflict

  • A screen grab from security camera footage released by the Israeli military shows what the army says is Hamas fighters leading hostages into the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 7 October

    Three more journalists killed in Gaza over weekend, relatives say – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • Rescue workers continue the operation at the site of an under-construction tunnel following a collapse, on the Brahmakhal Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarkashi, India

    India tunnel workers may be trapped for another four or five days, says official

    The 41 workers have spent almost 200 hours inside the tunnel as fears for their health and safety mount
  • People and vehicles outside the tunnel at the construction site

    India tunnel collapse: rescue efforts paused over cave-in fears

  • Police holding batons run towards a crowd of people standing by a roadside in Bangladesh

    Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay face brutal violence and threats

  • Workers at entrance to tunnel

    India tunnel collapse: fears rise for trapped workers as some fall ill

  • Nepali women using their mobile phones in Bhaktapur, some 12km southeast of Kathmandu

    Nepal says it will ban TikTok, citing effect on ‘social harmony’

  • Rescuers outside the collapsed road tunnel in Uttarakhand state

    Rescue operation under way in India to save workers trapped after tunnel collapse

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UK

  • Sir Patrick Vallance gives evidence

    Live
    Boris Johnson ‘clearly bamboozled’ and ‘confused’ about science, Patrick Vallance notes reveal – UK Covid inquiry live

    Former chief scientific adviser says it was a ‘real struggle’ to get PM to understand graphs from Covid dashboard
  • OpenAI's Sam Altman appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

    Sam Altman’s OpenAI exit leads to rollercoaster for sector

  • This grab from the UK COVID-19 Inquiry Live Stream shows former chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance giving evidence at Dorland House in London, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, according to his then chief scientific advisor. In keenly awaited testimony Monday to the country’s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated problems getting Johnson to understand the science. (UK COVID-19 Inquiry via AP)

    Patrick Vallance contradicts Rishi Sunak’s evidence to Covid inquiry

  • Rishi Sunak behind a lectern

    Sunak says he will cut taxes ‘over time’ as he reveals new economic priorities

  • Youssef Mikhaiel and Sarah Bradley sitting together in a sports stadium, laughing and smiling, both wearing sunglasses and black and white scarves

    Home Office reverses decision to deport Egyptian student in need of UK medical treatment

  • Jessica and Rikki Webb, the parents of baby Nelly, who died at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in south Wales.

    ‘Systemic failures’ in death of day-old baby at Welsh maternity unit

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US

  • Former president Donald Trump speaks when he exits the courtroom after he testifies in his civil fraud trial

    Live
    Trump legal team and prosecutors face off in court over gag order in election interference case – live

    Trump’s attorneys say the gag order impede on ‘core political speech’ while Justice department prosecutors say its’s crucial for a fair trial
  • This photo provided by The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection shows the “The Resurrection Window” at Resurrection’s campus in Leawood, Kan. (The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection via AP)

    Hundreds more US United Methodist congregations disaffiliate amid LGBTQ+ tensions

  • FILE PHOTO: Trump Organization trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York<br>FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Trump Organization civil fraud trial, in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., October 25, 2023. Dave Sanders/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

    Texas governor endorses Trump for 2024 race at US-Mexico border event

  • Israeli and US flags.

    Rightwing group pressures states to pass pro-Israel resolutions

  • Sam Altman, the former CEO of OpenAI,

    Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

  • Kyle Vogt speaks on stage during the launch of the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle in San Francisco in 2020

    GM’s Cruise CEO resigns amid concerns over driverless car safety

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