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Africa
  • An Italian police officer in front of high walls

    More EU leaders expected to back calls for offshore asylum centres

    Migration to dominate summit as four people including two toddlers die after falling from crowded speedboat off Kos
  • People carry the body of a victim

    Explosion kills scores of Nigerians collecting fuel from crashed tanker

  • Pharaonic statue dramatically lit with others in background.

    Grand Egyptian Museum to open main galleries for trial run to 4,000 visitors

  • A man in uniform with Arabic writing on the back watches a group of young sub-Saharan men on a dock by a boat

    EU unable to retrieve €150m paid to Tunisia despite links to rights violations

  • Paul Biya

    Cameroon bans discussing president’s health as absence fuels speculation

  • Palm trees are flooded in a lake next to the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, south-east Morocco.

    Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century

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Americas
  • Liam Payne

    Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies aged 31

    British musician found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to local police
  • a man in a suit and tie speaks

    Trudeau: India made ‘horrific mistake’ in violating Canadian sovereignty

  • A delicate fungal body being held up to the camera on a piece of bark

    Fungi could be given same status as flora and fauna under conservation plan

  • Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombian president Gustavo Petro at an environmental meeting in Leticia, Colombia, last year.

    Lula and Petro have the chance of a lifetime to save the Amazon. Can they unite idealism and realpolitik to pull it off?

  • Justin Trudeau and Narendra Modi facing in different directions

    UK calls for India to cooperate with Canada’s legal process as row deepens

  • airplane sits against a purple sky with a bright orange sun

    Air India plane makes emergency landing in Canada after bomb threat

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Asia Pacific
  • An employee works on a Louis Vuitton leather trunk with a hammer in a workshop

    Louis Vuitton owner LVMH reports surprise sales drop amid China slowdown

    Shares in LVMH, which also owns Dior, Tiffany and Moët & Chandon, fell by as much as 7%, briefly hitting two-year low
  • David Lammy

    David Lammy urged to raise human rights concerns on China trip

  • A Eutelsat W7 communications satellite being readied before launch

    Taiwan to have satellite internet service as protection in case of Chinese attack

  • A satellite image of Taiwan’s main island, and a line of arrows tracking around it in the shape of a heart, with Chinese script either side

    From China with love: coastguard’s ‘creepy’ message to Taiwan during military drills

  • A screengrab taken from video released by the South Korean defence ministry showing an explosion along a road connecting North and South Korea

    North Korea blows up roads linking it with South, prompting warning shots at border

  • Fan Bingbing surrounded by photographers.

    Chinese film star Fan Bingbing to make comeback after five-year purgatory

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Australia
  • The Australian army is giving its M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine.

    Live
    News live: Australia to give 49 Abrams tanks to Ukraine; business council calls for looser zoning laws

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  • Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli

    Queensland LNP leader criticised for use of phrase considered derogatory term for Aboriginal children

  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

    Albanese’s $4.3m home purchase could increase pressure to change property tax laws, Labor MPs suggest

  • Palestine supporters gathered outside Sydney town hall for a community vigil on 7 October.

    Australia cancels visa of pro-Palestine academic who called 7 October day of ‘considerable celebration’

  • Gary Williamson, the One Nation candidate for Redlands in the 2024 Queensland state election

    One Nation silent on future of Queensland election candidate who likened Covid vaccine to Holocaust

  • Participants take part in the 2024 Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival in Melbourne

    Rival logos go missing in photos of Nike-sponsored Melbourne Marathon festival

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Europe
  • Aerial view of Lisbon, Portugal

    University in Lisbon suspends plans for course on racism taught by all-white staff

    Nova university programme criticised for only having white instructors and for some of its content, such as session on ‘does racism really exist?’
  • Two men wearing pink hoodies at a demonstration against criminalising surrogacy in Italy

    Italy passes law clamping down on surrogacy tourism

  • Paul Watson arriving for a court hearing in Nuuk

    Anti-whaling activist held in Greenland appeals for political asylum in France

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in the Kyiv parliament building

    Zelenskyy lays out Ukraine ‘victory plan’ which Moscow calls an escalation

  • A man walks past the building of the headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow

    West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts

  • Firefighters stand at the fence and look at the destroyed site in Stadtallendorf, Germany.

    Blaze destroys multimillion-euro German fire station that had no alarms

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Middle East
  • Destroyed buildings and debris remain after Israeli airstrikes in Tyre, Lebanon, earlier this week.

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: UN peacekeepers in Lebanon criticize ‘apparently deliberate’ attack by Israeli forces

    Unifil says in a statement that IDF forces fired at watchtower in direct hit; WHO warns of risk of cholera outbreak after case confirmed in Lebanon
  • Rubble and destroyed vehicles after intense Israeli airstrikes hit the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.

    Israeli strike kills Lebanese mayor at meeting to coordinate aid deliveries

  • Mohammed al-Dalou crouched over with hand to his eyes while speaking on the phone

    Family tell of seeing mother and son burned to death in Gaza hospital blaze

  • A Palestinian boy collects spilled flour from the ground at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

    US demands proof that Israel does not have starvation policy in northern Gaza

  • Children sift through waste at a landfill in Khan Younis, Gaza, as US warns Israel over aid access.

    Israel says it will ‘address concerns’ from US after threat to withhold arms funding over Gaza – as it happened

  • Three parked white airplanes.

    Delta pauses flights between New York City and Tel Aviv due to regional conflict

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South and Central Asia
  • A boy looks at Air India airline passenger aircrafts in Mumbai. An Air India flight was escorted into Singapore on Tuesday after a bomb threat.

    Air India flight escorted by Singapore fighter jets after latest hoax bomb threat

    The Air India flight landed at Changi Airport after being escorted by air force F-15SG jets, in what was the third threat to the national carrier in recent days
  • A Biryani vendor in the old city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

    Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants forced to display workers’ names

  • People gather to protest against the killings of coal miners in an attack in south-western Balochistan.

    Tribal clashes in north-west Pakistan kill at least 11 people

  • Coal miners and labourers with the coffins of victims take part in a protest against the killings in the Duki area of Balochistan, Pakistan

    Armed attackers storm Pakistan coal mines, killing at least 21

  • Ratan Tata, who has died at age 86

    Indian tycoon Ratan Tata dies at age 86

  • Omar Abdullah

    Opposition Congress party wins power in Indian-administered Kashmir

UK
  • Rachel Reeves

    Cabinet ministers contest chancellor’s planned cuts to their departments

    Rachel Reeves aims to find £40bn in budget but several ministers have written to Keir Starmer about spending cuts
  • Jürgen Maier

    Great British Energy can become a major power generator, says its chair

  • Lucy Letby

    Lucy Letby gave baby morphine overdose years before first murder, inquiry hears

  • Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Hugo Morris and Wilf Fitchett

    Coroner raises concerns over new drivers taking passengers after north Wales crash

  • Shabir Hussain

    ‘King of curry’ chef Shabir Hussain dies aged 56

  • Peter Kyle walking with a folder outside Downing Street

    More ministers declare gifts after Keir Starmer’s decision to repay £6,000

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US
  • Kamala Harris joined by Republican Trump critics at a campaign event at Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

    Live
    Kamala Harris gives first sit-down interview with Fox News – US elections live

    Vice-president’s interview with rightwing channel to air just hours after Harris’s Pennsylvania rally with senior Republicans
  • a person walks past a sign that reads 'vote here'

    US judge bars Alabama from purging thousands of voters before election

  • A power plant spews pollution into the air.

    US supreme court declines to pause new federal power plant emissions rule

  • police in gear standing outside

    Footage of Arizona police punching and tasering deaf Black man sparks outcry

  • a boy on his phone

    ‘Malicious’ texts sent to Wisconsin youths to discourage them from voting

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks

    Project 2025 ex-director denounces Heritage president’s ‘violent rhetoric’

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