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Africa

  • A man walks through rubble in the aftermath of clashes and bombardment in the Ombada suburb of Omdurman, Sudan.

    Soldiers accused of widespread looting from homes near Sudanese capital

    People living in Ombada district in west of Omdurman say soldiers shot at those who tried to stop them
  • A street in Kenya crowded with motorbikes

    Africa sees sharp rise in road traffic deaths as motorbike taxis boom

  • Zahara in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2012

    Zahara, platinum-selling South African singer-songwriter, dies aged 35

  • Misuzulu Zulu at his coronation ceremony leading a group of people, all wearing traditional costume; he wears a huge black and red feathered headdress and a shaggy black fur cape, and is carrying a spear

    South African court rules government’s recognition of Zulu king was unlawful

  • Denzel Washington as Macbeth

    Denzel Washington’s casting as Hannibal in Netflix film sparks race controversy in Tunisia

  • A man holds up an HIV awareness placard reading #stopstigma and #knowyourstatus in one hand and holds his other hand up in a stop signal

    Activists in Uganda finalise appeal to overturn draconian anti-gay law

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Americas

  • Argentine pesos

    Argentina’s new government devalues peso by more than 50%

    Package of spending cuts introduced in attempt to tackle country’s worst economic crisis in decades
  • Police tape.

    Canada police charge man with 14 counts of murder for mailing poison

  • Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, is crowned as Miss Universe 2023 in San Salvador, El Salvador

    Miss Nicaragua pageant director quits after police accuse her of treason

  • A view of Tijuana, which has the most homicides of any city in Mexico.

    Drug lords hunt corrupt police officers who stole shipment in Tijuana

  • Javier Milei gives his inauguration speech outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires

    Javier Milei sworn in as president in ‘tipping point’ for Argentina

  • The Mexico state governor, Delfina Gómez

    Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico

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Asia Pacific

  • Santa figures on a ship in the main convoy of boats

    Festive cheer for Filipino fishers after supply boat evades Chinese vessels

    Boat from Philippines with gifts for fishers, troops and coastguard in South China Sea slipped past vessels that intercepted festive flotilla
  • Rukchanok Srinork (right) talks to the media as she arrives to hear the verdict in her trial over charges of lese majeste in Bangkok

    Thai MP given six-year prison sentence for insulting monarchy

  • People eating street food in Dotonbori, Osaka in Japan

    Japan chooses ‘tax’ as kanji of the year amid concern over cost of living

  • Rina Gonoi

    Rina Gonoi sexual assault: Japan court finds soldiers guilty in landmark case

  • A man looks at a newly opened Starbucks coffee shop in Forbidden City, Beijing, China

    China overtakes US as branded coffee shop capital of the world

  • A Hokkaido squirrel

    Japan zoo investigates possible mass squirrel poisoning

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Australia

  • AUSTRALIA-WEATHER-CYCLONE<br>A man cycles past a downed tree as inclement weather from Cyclone Jasper impacts Cairns in far north Queensland on December 13, 2023. Tropical Cyclone Jasper hit northeast Australia on December 13, leaving thousands of people in coastal communities without power and preparing for potentially "life-threatening" floods. (Photo by Brian CASSEY / AFP) (Photo by BRIAN CASSEY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ex-Cyclone Jasper: warning of ‘life-threatening’ flooding as storm batters far north Queensland

    More than 36,000 homes without power but BoM downgrades storm to tropical low despite warning of more rain and high winds
  • Members of Greenpeace gather for a photo around a sign that reads "we will end fossil fuels" at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

    ‘The age of fossil fuels will end’: Australia’s Chris Bowen hails Cop28 agreement

  • A cleaner dressed in personal protection equipment sanitising surfaces during the pandemic

    Suppliers of unusable PPE should pay back taxpayer money, Australian peak doctors’ group says

  • Taxi with light on at night

    More than 520 NSW taxi drivers disciplined in six months for overcharging or refusing to use their meter

  • FILE PHOTO: Preparation for World Gas Conference 2022 in Daegu<br>FILE PHOTO: Australia's Woodside Energy Group's exhibition booth is seen at the World Gas Conference 2022 in Daegu, South Korea May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Tan/File Photo

    Greenpeace legal action alleges Woodside lied about climate performance

  • Lisa Wilkinson arrives to the Federal Court of Australia

    Network Ten producer tells Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial he ‘did not have proof’ of some claims in ‘explosive’ Brittany Higgins story

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Europe

  • Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán earlier this year.

    Live
    European Commission unlocks €10bn for Hungary despite criticism from MEPs – Europe live

    Commission says Hungary has fulfilled set of judiciary reforms while critics say funds could have been unlocked to persuade Orbán to stop blocking Ukraine-related decisions
  • The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán addresses the Parliament in Budapest.

    EU leaders hope to face down Viktor Orbán over Ukraine funds veto

  • The pope’s health has declined in recent years.

    Pope Francis reveals he will not be buried in Vatican

  • Medics carry a wounded local resident at a site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv.

    Russia-Ukraine war: scores injured in overnight attack on Kyiv – as it happened

  • Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg look at the camera

    Anger over plan to name Métro station after ‘misogynist’ Serge Gainsbourg

  • Buildings on fire after Russian missile strike in Kyiv

    Debris from Russian missile attack injures more than 50 in Kyiv

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Middle East

  • The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, addressing the general assembly on Tuesday

    Gulf states press for two-state roadmap after UN vote on Israel-Gaza war

    UAE and Qatar say they will not again fund Gaza reconstruction without Israeli concession, as US isolation grows
  • Israeli soldiers, tanks, howitzers and armored vehicles are seen as military mobility continues on the Gaza border

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: Israel says war will continue ‘with or without’ support; 18,600 people killed in Gaza, health ministry says

  • An armed Houthi fighter walks with a cargo ship in the background

    Yemen’s Houthis warn ships in Red Sea to avoid Israel or face attack

  • Israeli soldiers operating at the Shajaiya district of Gaza City.

    Gaza: Israeli commanders among nine soldiers killed in Hamas ambush

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    Benjamin Netanyahu accused of ‘evil’ campaigning at time of war

  • UAE-UN-CLIMATE-COP28<br>COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber (C) applauds among other officials before a plenary session during the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 13, 2023. Nations adopted the first ever UN climate deal that calls for the world to transition away from fossil fuels. "We have the basis to make transformational change happen," COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber said at the UN climate summit in Dubai before the deal was adopted by consensus, prompting delegates to rise and applaud. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

    Cop28: landmark deal to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels agreed – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • A family in a makeshift tent in a rural setting in Nepal

    Nepal earthquake survivors dying in tents as temperatures plunge

    At least 38 people, including a new mother, have died in the month after the earthquake struck, among 40,000 people living under tarpaulin
  • A farmer works at an illegal poppy field in Myanmar’s Shan State.

    Myanmar becomes world’s biggest producer of opium, overtaking Afghanistan

  • Indian paramilitary troopers patrol along a road in Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir

    India’s supreme court upholds decision to strip Kashmir of special status

  • Rishi Sunak (left) and Narendra Modi during the G20 summit in Delhi in September 2023

    No 10 team arrives in Delhi to revive talks over free trade deal

  • The Diamond Lady riverboat rests with smaller vessels in mud at Riverside Park Marina along the parched Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee, last year.

    Weather tracker: Low Mississippi River levels take toll on farmers

  • A tent with an operating table, monitor and anaesthetics inside

    India unveils flatpack field hospital that can be airdropped to disaster zones

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UK

  • Marian Clode smiles at the camera

    Teacher killed by cow when herd ran free on Northumberland bridleway, court told

    Farmer pleads guilty to health and safety breach after Marian Clode, 61, fatally injured on hiking trip
  • Yao Hui Charles Yeo.

    Singapore activist due for Bibby Stockholm ‘would rather die on street’

  • Starmer and Sunak at PMQs

    Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clash over homelessness and the UK economy at PMQs – as it happened

  • Burning gas in water heater furnacePropane flame inside of gas boiler furnace

    UK government backs plan to ban gas and ‘hydrogen-ready’ boilers

  • Mark Drakeford during the Covid crisis.

    Mark Drakeford: a steady operator thrust into the spotlight by Covid

  • Gaynor Lord leaving work at Jarrolds department store in Norwich at about 2.45pm last Friday.

    Gaynor Lord search: police release footage of last sightings in Norwich

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US

  • Rudy Giuliani and Ruby Freeman. Freeman is due to give evidence in the trial on Wednesday.

    Live
    Giuliani’s defamatory claims have ‘significant, negative and long-lasting impact’ on election workers, expert witness says – live

    Ashlee Humphreys, a Northwestern professor, testifies that Giuliani’s claims against plaintiffs have significant effects on their reputations
  • Aerial shot, perhaps taken from an overpass, of a four-lane highway and an exit ramp between deep woods, with various cars zooming past and blurry.

    No more drunk driving? US automakers forced to adopt life-saving tech by 2024

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-ELECTION-TRUMP<br>In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021, Trump supporters battle with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. - President Joe Biden slammed his predecessor Donald Trump Monday in a prerecorded video address to The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) for watching his supporters riot for hours on January 6 while police at the US Capitol suffered through a "medieval hell." (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

    US supreme court to hear January 6 appeal that could affect Trump trial

  • Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. The trial will determine how much Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two Georgia election workers who he falsely accused of fraud while pushing President Donald Trump's baseless claims after he lost the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Rudy Giuliani faces third day of trial for defaming Georgia election workers

  • Demonstrators rally for abortion rights at the Kentucky capitol in Frankfort in April 2022.

    Woman suing Kentucky over abortion laws learns her embryo no longer viable

  • Hakeem Jeffries<br>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meets with reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. The Democratic leader criticized today's Republican censure of Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who triggered a fire alarm last September in one of the U.S. Capitol office buildings when the chamber was in session. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Hakeem Jeffries singles out Republican ‘pro-Putin caucus’ opposing Ukraine aid

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