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Africa

  • Namibia’s high court building

    Namibia high court overturns law banning gay sex

    Victory for LGBTQ+ campaigners who say ban contributes to discrimination and violence by police
  • Renaldo Gouws

    South Africa’s Democratic Alliance suspends MP for racist comments

  • Soldiers lined up around blast area

    Multiple deaths reported after fire causes explosion in capital of Chad

  • Cyril Ramaphosa holds his hand up to his chest taking an oath

    South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa warns of ‘toxic cleavages’ at inauguration

  • Three small children sit on the floor, while a man hands them food from a small plate.

    EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

  • Migrants climb the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco as police and border forces armed with truncheons stand on the other side

    Moroccan authorities pushed asylum seekers into ‘death trap’, NGO claims

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Americas

  • Green avocados hang from a tree

    US inspections of Mexican avocados to resume after suspension over assault of inspectors

    US agricultural department employees were attacked and detained earlier this week in Michoacán state
  • Anne Lee Dozier bought the vase on the right for $4 at a thrift store in Maryland – and it turned out it was an ancient Maya relic, at least 1,200 years old, which she has now returned to Mexico.

    Ancient Mayan vase purchased by US woman for $4 returned to Mexico

  • Brain scan

    Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down

  • Wolf Ruck sits in his garden, which has tall grass, with a pair of binoculars

    The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn

  • Donald Sutherland.

    Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88

  • Close-up of female hand packing cardboard boxes

    DS Smith’s £5.8bn takeover by US rival going ahead despite competition

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Asia Pacific

  • Chinese soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing

    China threatens death penalty for Taiwan independence ‘diehards’

    Beijing ramps up pressure over ‘crime of secession’ while Taipei says China has no jurisdiction over Taiwan and urges its people not to be intimidated
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy pictured in Brussels in February.

    Russia-Ukraine war: EU to open enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week – as it happened

  • The Russian president, Vladimir Putin (left), and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, smile after talks in Pyongyang

    US ‘incredibly concerned’ over Putin’s threat to supply weapons to North Korea after Asia tour

  • a plane taking off

    New Zealand woman takes boyfriend to disputes tribunal because he didn’t take her to the airport

  • People walk by the sea in Auckland, New Zealand

    ‘It felt like bad news after bad news’: why record numbers are leaving New Zealand

  • Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election, Yuriko Koike (L) and member of the House of Councillors Renho.

    Tokyo election: demographic crisis the top issue as two women vie for job of governor

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Australia

  • Construction work on the UK nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C

    Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say

    Coalition proposal would cost a minimum of $116bn – the same as Labor’s plan for almost 100% renewables by 2050, the Smart Energy Council says
  • Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers and prime minister Anthony Albanese

    Families set to pocket more than $60 a week from stage-three tax cuts

  • Power station billows smoke in Victoria

    US official warns against dropping 2030 climate targets after Dutton refuses to commit to 43% emissions cut

  • General view of the Westmead hospital in Sydney

    Man charged after allegedly slashing staff at western Sydney hospital

  • Bruce Lehrmann

    Network Ten requests Bruce Lehrmann pay $200,000 security against cost of appeal

  • Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton vows to override state nuclear bans as he steps up attack on PM

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Europe

  • A rescue worker with a dog search for victims in a damaged apartment building after it was hit by Russian air bomb in Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Russian bomb attack on Kharkiv kills at least three and wounds 52

    President Zelenskiy calls for ‘bold decisions from our partners’ following aerial assault on Ukraine’s second city
  • A view of terracotta tiled roofs on villas leading down to a harbour

    Thirteen arrested after fireworks from yacht spark forest fire on Greek island

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits a construction site in York last week.

    Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

  • Protesters gather in Dublin in solidarity with Natasha O'Brien

    Thousands protest across Ireland after soldier who attacked woman walks free

  • A crowd of tourists at the ticket office at Beverello pier in Naples

    Tourists kept away from Capri as water emergency turns island dry

  • Nigel Farage, during his Panorama interview with Nick Robinson, raises a finger to point; an image of Vladimir Putin is projected on a screen behind him

    Farage doubles down on claim west provoked Ukraine invasion

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Middle East

  • A Muslim pilgrim prays at dawn on Mount Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage.

    Egypt to prosecute travel agents for ‘fraudulent’ hajj trips

    PM orders 16 companies to be stripped of licences amid hundreds of deaths, many attributed to extreme heat
  • People walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in al-Shati in Gaza City on Saturday

    Dozens killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City

  • Toomaj Salehi holds up four fingers as he poses for a photo against a mountain backdrop

    Iran court overturns death sentence of rapper Toomaj Salehi, lawyer says

  • A woman and a girl cry after a deadly attack hit a tent encampment in al-Mawasi, Gaza

    At least 22 Palestinians killed in shelling near Gaza office of Red Cross, agency says

  • Dr Tsvi Sheleg talks to a patient in the trauma unit with curtains and an Israeli flag

    ‘All day you hear bombs’: on Israel’s northern border as war with Hezbollah looms

  • Pilgrims in Mecca circle the Kaaba with buildings behind

    One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat

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South and Central Asia

  • Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.

    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

    Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agenda
  • Aydos Sadykov

    Popular Kazakh opposition figure in hospital after being shot in Kyiv

  • Workers unload water bottles from a truck

    Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave

  • Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

    Indian suspect in plot to kill Sikh separatist pleads not guilty in US court

  • Narendra Modi

    Consensus or division? How Modi will manage Indian coalition government

  • A stocky beige-coloured horse with an erect mane standing on a open grassy plain

    Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries

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UK

  • Michael Gove

    Betting scandal as bad for Tories as Partygate, says Michael Gove

    ‘It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,’ the levelling up, housing and communities secretary suggests
  • Morden Wharf

    ‘Labour can’t have their cake and eat it’: housing crisis will force party into planning rows

  • HMS Victory in Portsmouth, against a slightly cloudy sky, with tourists in shorts walking towards the gangplank

    Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle

  • Parkfield school in Dorset viewed through a fence

    Flagship free school that cost £35m closes due to lack of pupils

  • A walker taking shade beneath an umbrella as they walk beside The Serpentine during hot weather

    Heat health alert for most of England as temperature set to soar

  • Keir Starmer speaking to the media in London

    Reopening Brexit debate would bring ‘turmoil’, says Keir Starmer

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US

  • A young middle-aged white man with blue eyes and a trim blond beard with some gray looks directly at camera.

    Justin Timberlake tells fans ‘it’s been a tough week’ after drunk-driving charge

    Singer addresses crowd at first concert since being arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated
  • Closeup of a purple-gloved hand holding a chunk of metal.

    US family sues Nasa for $80,000 in damages after space debris hits home

  • A fat sunbather on the beach, covered in tattoos.

    New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves

  • A bullet-scarred window and a police officer.

    Families, grocery workers hid in freezer to survive Arkansas mass shooting

  • A very strange looking dog, very small and very fluffy with a very long pink tongue.

    Eight-year-old pekingese Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest

  • sperm cells under a microscope

    Research reveals toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ accumulate in testes

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