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Africa

  • The Ocean Viking ship

    Armed men jump onboard small boat during rescue near Libya

    Group of armed men approached wooden vessel in dinghies, prompting panic during rescue by charity ship
  • Rishi Sunak's head peeks above a sign that reads 'stop the boats'

    Syrian asylum seeker in UK says he ‘lost everything’ after Rwanda roundup

  • Karamba Diaby at podium saying Deutscher Bundestag

    Germany’s first black African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse

  • Elephants including a calf roaming through the African bush

    Spanish tourist trampled to death by elephants in South Africa

  • Col Assimi Goïita, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, and Capt Ibrahim Traoré (R) salute as they stand to attention at the summit. All are wearing military uniform

    Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

  • Man in green and blue T.shirt beside two other men, one in army camouflage jacket, outside building

    Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

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Americas

  • people fish in a river

    ‘We are going to be left with nothing’: Indigenous communities battle deforestation in Honduras

    Miskito and other groups face a dire challenge as illegal deforestation threatens their ancestral lands and culture
  • A favela in Rio.

    Rio’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close

  • The National Serrania de Chiribique Park, Guaviare, Colombia, 2019.

    Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

  • A grizzly bear in the woods.

    Canada: grizzly bear hunting quietly reinstated in Alberta

  • This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

    US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

  • Former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro attends a political conference at the weekend

    Alleged Bolsonaro-linked crime ring sold official luxury gifts worth $1.2m, Brazil police claim

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Asia Pacific

  • A crate of snakes

    Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers

    Traveller stopped by customs as he sought to slip out of Hong Kong into the border city of Shenzhen
  • The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co outside the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul, South Korea

    Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

  • People sit under parasols on a bench in Tokyo, Japan, amid extreme heat that has seen authorities issue ‘danger’-level safety alerts.

    Japan adds ‘most severe’ category to its heatstroke index amid deadly summer

  • Lonely person standing by the sea, looking out into the distance in Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

    New Zealand’s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages

  • illustration

    Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means

  • Vistors trying out an AI assistant program at the Baidu stand

    Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China

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Australia

  • The site of a fatal house fire at Lalor Park in Sydney’s west, seen on Monday

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    Australia news live: man charged with murder over deaths of three young children in Sydney house fire

    Follow the day’s news live
  • A large chemical fire in Derrimut , west of Melbourne , as seen from the air as designer Kate Case flew into Melbourne. this morning . 10th July 2024. Australia

    Concern over fumes and contaminated runoff as Derrimut chemical factory fire still smoulders in Melbourne

  • Aerial view of housing in Sydney's inner west

    Anger over delay to end of no-grounds evictions in NSW as renters face ‘perfect storm’

  • Australian Defence Force Seahawk helicopter prepares to take off from the deck of HMAS Hobart

    Chinese navy destroyer and helicopter shadowed Australian warship during high-profile standoff, documents show

  • Australian Immigration Minister Andrew Giles

    Andrew Giles released murderer into community detention before NZYQ high court ruling, documents show

  • Woman reading on the beach

    Booktopia will not fill orders and may not issue refunds, say administrators

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Europe

  • Jens Stoltenberg.

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    Nato summit live: Stoltenberg says Ukraine Nato membership is ‘not the question of if, but when’

    Nato secretary general says group will ‘continue to support them on the irreversible path to Nato membership’
  • Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskiy holding each others’ shoulders and smiling.

    UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer

  • An F-16 fighter jet coming in to land

    First F-16 jets heading to Ukraine after months of training and negotiations

  • John Healey, the defence secretary

    UK will be ‘leading European nation’ in Nato, defence secretary pledges

  • The Moscow Times online front page

    Russia bans Moscow Times in crackdown on independent media

  • Emmanuel Macron

    Macron calls on parties to ‘rise to the occasion’ and form coalition

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Middle East

  • A photo believed to be of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon in 2014

    Widow of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi given death sentence by Iraqi court

    Judgement deems one of Baghdadi’s widows complicit in crimes against Yazidi women
  • A view of the heavily damaged school: a man is seen looking through a hole in a stone wall of a building open to the sky and with chunks of rubble and plaster piled around.

    Palestinians told to leave Gaza City as Israel steps up offensive

  • A Palestinian woman hugs her son wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a hospital in Khan Younis.

    Israeli strike on Khan Younis shelter kills at least 31 amid surge in Gaza fighting

  • A truck carries humanitarian aid across Trident Pier, a temporary pier to deliver aid, off the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, near the Gaza coast, 25 June 2024.

    US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days

  • A close-up of Tori Towey wearing a red pillbox hat and white headscarf

    Irish woman charged with ‘attempting suicide’ by Dubai court

  • Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (14446891a) The Meta logo is being displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 23, 2024. Meta Photo Illustrations, Athens, Greece - 23 Apr 2024

    Meta expands hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists'

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South and Central Asia

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

    Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in Afghanistan
  • X screengrab opf Kamran Dawar who was killed in Pakistan

    Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year

  • Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi standing together with their hands clasped; a graphic, illuminated scientific display depicting a giant atomic molecule is behind them.

    Modi and Putin cement ‘bonds of friendship’ despite Ukraine tensions

  • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

    Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

  • An aerial view of a flooded area of Rangpur district in Bangladesh.

    Bangladesh floods leave at least eight dead amid fears situation could worsen

  • Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 16 September 2022.

    India PM Modi to meet Putin in first trip to Russia since Ukraine war began

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UK

  • Shardey sitting on a chair in the street outside his old shop, with the Liver Building towers in the background.

    Home Office U-turn grants Wirral ‘legend’ right to live in UK after 46 years

    Retired newsagent who fundraised £50,000 for legal battle was due to take case to court in autumn
  • general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward in London including monitors and medication in trays; an anonymous, blurred image of a patient in a bed by a blue curtain can be seen in the background

    NHS patients raising safety concerns too often ‘fobbed off’, says commissioner

  • A pregnant woman and a midwife, seen from the shoulders down, stand facing each other

    From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

  • a general view of a prison: two men seen silhouetted as light streams through barred gates, walkways and metal stairways. A sign is seen reading 'this way up at mealtimes'.

    Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

  • Kyle Clifford.

    Bushey crossbow killings: suspect taken to hospital after being located – as it happened

  • A woman carrying a bouquet of flowers on a suburban street

    Tributes paid to three women killed in ‘devastating’ Bushey crossbow attack

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US

  • UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with US President Joe Biden<br>epa11471656 US President Joe Biden speaks during a bilateral meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 10 July 2024. Starmer stated he would publish a roadmap showing how the UK would spend 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product on defense as the prime minister faced calls from the British military and allies abroad to clarify his policy ahead of this week's NATO summit in Washington. EPA/TING SHEN / POOL

    Biden under renewed pressure to step aside as top Democrats make agonized appeals

    Senator Michael Bennet said Trump may win ‘by a landslide’ while two more senators echoed his concerns
  • Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang, founder and head of the private investment firm Archegos.

    Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury

  • People use umbrellas to block the sun

    Las Vegas sets record for number of days over 115F amid its ‘most extreme heatwave in history’

  • Palestinians inspect damage, after Israeli forces withdrew from Shejaiya neighborhood, in eastern part of Gaza city<br>Palestinians make their way as they inspect the damage, after Israeli forces withdrew from Shejaiya neighborhood, following a ground operation, amid Israel-Hamas conflict, in the eastern part of Gaza City, July 10, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    US to resume sending 500lb bombs to Israel while withholding 2,000lb bombs, official says

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

    Democrat calls for congressional leaders to denounce Trump loyalist’s ‘target list’

  • Actor Alec Baldwin arrives for his hearing in Santa Fe County District Court with attorney Luke Nikas, left, Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Baldwin is facing a single charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a cinematographer. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Rust trial prosecutors say Alec Baldwin violated ‘cardinal rules of firearm safety’

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