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Africa

  • People walk and ride horse-drawn carts carrying their belongings

    Tens of thousands flee camp in Sudan after attacks by RSF paramilitaries

    Concerns grow that Darfur is facing another genocide as Rapid Support Forces besiege city of El Fasher
  • Three men stand inside a police van and one stands just in front of them. Two of the men are waving to crowds off-camera. Police officers stand facing the men with their backs to the camera.

    Greek police detain nine Egyptians despite dismissal of shipwreck charges

  • A medic almost off-camera gestures at a child's soft toy lying on a hospital bed amid rubble and wreckage from an airstrike

    Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report

  • People grieve the death of a teenager who was killed by a stray bullet

    Kenyan special forces police to arrive in Haiti to help combat gang violence

  • One of nine Egyptians who was on trial waves to the media as he leaves court.

    Charges dropped against nine Egyptians over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece

  • The Adriana, an ageing fishing trawler, is seen illuminated in the dark at a port with people crammed onto its decks and even onto the roof of its cabin. It is painted blue with large patches of rust on its hull.

    Mediterranean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers

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Americas

  • Codrington College, an Anglican theological college in St John, Barbados.

    Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy

    Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop
  • A smiling young couple embrace each other.

    Haiti gang kills US politician’s missionary daughter and her husband

  • a man in a suit and tie speaks

    Canada to restore right of citizens born abroad to pass citizenship to children also born outside country

  • Ont-Uoft-Encampment, Toronto, Canada - 23 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock (14504996s) A pro-Palestinian encampment set up at the University of Toronto is photographed in Toronto, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Ont-Uoft-Encampment, Toronto, Canada - 23 May 2024

    University of Toronto gives pro-Palestinian activists 24 hours to end encampment

  • A man wearing a brown plaid shirt, jeans, and a baseball hat poses in front of a cityscape.

    Peruvian reporter is target of smear campaign after taking on political elite

  • Paramedics in hi vis evacuate one of the injured people on a stretcher

    Stage collapses at Mexico campaign rally leaving nine dead

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Asia Pacific

  • A scientists compares vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice and ordinary rice in Manila, the Philippines.

    ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

    Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn
  • An injured person is carried on a stretcher after a landslide in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, on Friday

    Papua New Guinea landslide: rescue convoy heads to remote village as scores feared buried

  • Views Of Maidenhead Park Where Royal Marine On Spy Charge Was Found Dead<br>MAIDENHEAD, ENGLAND - MAY 22: Police stand next to a welfare tent in an area cordoned off in Grenfell Park on May 22, 2024 in Maidenhead, England. Ex-Royal Marine Matthew Trickett, 37, was found dead in Grenfell Park on Sunday afternoon. Police are treating his death as "unexplained". Trickett was on bail accused of assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service at the time of his death. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

    Beijing accuses UK of making false allegations against Chinese citizens

  • Composite image of the Grand Mosque of Shadian before and after sinicisation

    Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes

  • People searching among mud and rocks

    More than 300 dead in Papua New Guinea landslide, local MP says

  • A man walks past a burnt vehicle in Magenta Tour district in Noumea, New Caledonia, earlier this week.

    New Caledonia unrest continues as police shoot man dead – as it happened

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Australia

  • Queensland premier Steven Miles

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  • Queensland police member Bradley Rix in 2017

    Couldn’t ‘help myself’: Queensland police officer shares sexist post weeks after ‘formal guidance’ over social media use

  • Screenshot from Australian government's new national consent campaign

    ‘Parents need to step up’: Labor to launch $40m sexual consent campaign to combat ‘confusion’

  • UK’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

    Coalition’s brave nuke world a much harder sell after new CSIRO report

  • Stock photo of police tape at a crime scene

    Man, 63, fatally shot friend of ex-wife before killing himself at home in Perth’s west, police say

  • Brumbies or Feral Horses on the plains above Kiandra in the Kosciuszko National Park . Wednesday 17th April 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

    More than 5,000 feral horses culled in Kosciuszko national park since aerial shooting resumed

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Europe

  • Firefighters stand in front of an ‘Epicentr K’ hypermarket after a Russian air attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

    Ukraine war: Russian strikes on Kharkiv DIY store kill six and injure 40

    President Zelenskiy says attack on Ukraine’s second largest city is ‘terrorism’ and pleads for more air defence systems
  • Nicki Minaj at the Met Gala earlier this month.

    Nicki Minaj’s Manchester show postponed after Netherlands arrest

  • The last dinner enjoyed by French president Sadi Carnot, before he was assassinated by an Italian anarchist in 1894.

    ‘History is written at the dining table’: what 4,000 menus tell us about royals, politicians and society

  • Radosław Sikorski

    Polish foreign minister calls for long-term rearmament of Europe

  • Photographers and TV cameras focus on Ilaria Salis in court

    Italian anti-fascist goes on trial in Hungary accused of attacking neo-Nazis

  • Four people diving into river with Eiffell Tower in the background

    Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine

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Middle East

  • Masses of people chanting, marching and holding Israeli flags.

    Israel-Gaza war: protesters in Tel Aviv demand end to war – as it happened

    This blog has now closed. You can read our latest report on the Israel-Gaza war here and all our coverage on the conflict here
  • Mashallah Karami’s son, Mohammad Mehdi Karami speaking during his trial.

    Iran jails father of young man executed over 2022 protests

  • Syrian activists holding placards showing faces of victims of torture

    French court finds three Syrian officials guilty of crimes against humanity

  • A protester draped in a Palestinian flag holds up a sign at a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza

    Israel-Gaza war: Netanyahu rejects genocide claims as ‘false and outrageous’; Palestinian Authority welcomes ICJ ruling – as it happened

  • An IDF soldier aims a shoulder-mounted weapon on a rooftop in Rafah

    US and UK to back Israel over ICJ ruling after blurring their Rafah red lines

  • Members of the international court of justice stand in a line

    UN’s top court orders Israel to immediately halt Rafah offensive

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South and Central Asia

  • Dan Paterson, 40, on his way to Mount Everest

    British climber and Nepali guide feared dead after reaching Everest summit

    Dan Paterson and Pastenji Sherpa went missing during descent after landslide of snow and ice on mountain
  • Firefighters at the scene in Rajkot in the western state of Gujara

    At least 27 people killed in huge fire at amusement park in India

  • A Pakistani security official offers cold drinks to people in Karachi.

    Weather tracker: Pakistan heatwave continues wild changes in weather patterns

  • Ahmad Farhad posing for a photograph at an event

    Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife

  • A schoolgirl covers her face with a scarf on a hot afternoon

    Delhi orders schools to close early for holidays as temperatures hit 47.4C

  • Narendra Modi holds a microphone as he speaks to Mark Zuckerberg while seated on stage

    Revealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence

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UK

  • UK army cadets on parade

    Sunak promises to bring back national service for 18-year-olds

    Labour lambasts youth policy as ‘desperate and unfunded’ and designed to make youngsters fix government-created problems
  • Kamari Johnson.

    Teenager, 17, arrested over fatal stabbing of 16-year-old boy in London

  • David Nicholls at the Hay festival

    David Nicholls warns readers against trying to visit novel’s locations

  • Rishi Sunak (centre) meeting veterans at a community breakfast in his constituency in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, while on the General Election campaign trail.

    Rishi Sunak uses Tory donor’s helicopter to fly from North Yorkshire

  • Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Tories’ tax pledges were reminiscent of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget

    Rachel Reeves slams ‘desperate and reckless’ Sunak over £64bn tax pledges

  • A Spitfire in flight

    Pilot dies in Spitfire crash in field near RAF Coningsby base in Lincolnshire

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US

  • Biden speaks at a lectern at West Point.

    US president warns new army officers to be ‘guardians of American democracy’

    President entreats graduates at commencement to ‘hold fast’ to oath to US constitution in veiled reference to Trump’s threat to democracy
  • The Caribbean spiny lobster leaves the reef at night to feed.

    ‘Knight in spiny armor’: could lobsters help save Florida’s dying corals?

  • High-rise windowed building in urban area.

    California hospital hosts wedding so ailing dad can walk daughter down aisle

  • Older white man with white hair, wearing black T-shirt and olive bomber jacket, smiles and gives peace sign as he walks through parking lot among cars.

    Trump would ‘absolutely’ rehire Peter Navarro despite prison sentence

  • Kristalina Georgieva, Janet Yellen, Chrystia Freeland and Christine Lagarde against a backdrop of a lake and mountain

    Hopes grow of G7 deal to support Ukraine with $300bn in frozen Russian assets

  • Donald Trump wearing black jacket and red tie

    Trump ‘unified reich’ video reportedly traced to Turkish designer’s template

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