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Africa

  • People queuing in a line

    Paul Kagame expected to be re-elected president as Rwanda goes to polls

    Incumbent since 2000 is seeking fourth seven-year term after winning more than 90% of votes in last three ballots
  • A health worker in protective gear, carrying a large checklist, approaches a mother and baby at their door

    War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

  • Kenya Red Cross workers carrying a body bag

    Kenyan police find more female body parts at Nairobi garbage dump

  • Dozens of people gather near a collapsed two-storey building

    Twenty-two students dead after school in Nigeria collapses during classes

  • Protesters in Nairobi call for William Ruto to quit at a rally on 2 July

    Kenyan president sacks cabinet after weeks of deadly protests

  • Jacob the lion as captured by Alexander Braczkowski who is a Griffith Uni student working on ways to monitor Agrican lion numbers.

    ‘Africa’s most resilient lion’ and his brother filmed making 1.5km swim across dangerous African river

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Americas

  • A man wearing a white button-down looks at a crowd and points

    Maduro rival promises ‘government for all’ if he wins Venezuela election

    Edmundo González Urrutia, who has never before ran for office, hopes for a more ‘democratic and peaceful country’
  • File picture of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio campaigning in Quito

    Five jailed over assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

  • police escort two men

    Two French rugby players charged with aggravated rape in Argentina

  • Yellow building with a mauve roof, still standing, surrounded by debris

    Solitary wooden house on Union Island escapes fury of Hurricane Beryl

  • Jair Bolsonaro in yellow with a microphone surrounded by supporters

    Brazil’s spy agency accused of illegally targeting Bolsonaro’s foes

  • Taylor Casey has gone missing in the Bahamas.

    Family of missing woman in Bahamas shielded trans identity over fears of bias

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Asia Pacific

  • Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 11, 2024

    China’s economy growing slower than expected as leaders meet for third plenum

    The world’s second-largest economy is grappling with a real estate debt crisis, weakening consumption, an ageing population and geopolitical tensions
  • A person shops for cooking oil in Beijing.

    App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled

  • Aerial view of a container port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province in June 2024

    China posts record trade surplus as foreign importers rush to beat tariffs

  • Philippine Coast Guard personnel prepare rubber fenders after Chinese Coast Guard vessels blocked their way to a resupply mission at the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea in March 2024.

    Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict

  • Lucita Barquin Cortez and David Fisk.

    Family wants answers after ‘horrific’ deaths of Australian couple and relative in Philippine hotel

  • A Chinese warship navigates on waters near Pengjia Islet in northern Taiwan, in this handout image released May 23, 2024. Taiwan Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

    Chinese warships spotted off Alaska coast, US Coast Guard says

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Australia

  • Elizabeth Struhs

    ‘Wouldn’t bury a bag of bones’: Elizabeth Struhs’ father refused to give her a funeral, court told

    All 14 adult members of Toowoomba sect the ‘Saints’ are on trial for the death of the eight-year-old girl in 2022
  • CFMEU signage in Melbourne

    Union’s response to allegations ‘falls short’, minister says – as it happened

  • File photo of a Queensland police vehicle

    Man charged with murder after partner allegedly stabbed to death in Queensland home

  • NSW criminal courts sign

    Three men found guilty of Newcastle buck’s weekend gang rapes

  • A Victoria police sign is seen in Melbourne

    Police investigate death of woman reportedly found wrapped in plastic in Melbourne’s Maribyrnong River

  • Greyhound racing in Sydney

    Former chief vet speaks for first time since his explosive report alleging animal abuse triggered inquiry

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Europe

  • Kaja Kallas

    Live
    Europe live: Estonia PM Kaja Kallas resigns to take up EU foreign policy role

    Kallas has been nominated to serve as the EU’s next high representative for foreign affairs, succeeding Josep Borrell
  • Keir Starmer speaks at a Nato event.

    Starmer must use EPC forum to offer hopeful vision for Europe’s future

  • People on a boat in Copenhagen.

    Copenhagen offers tourist rewards as other EU nations clamp down

  • Two women pose with bottles of beer in front of ice bucket of beers

    ‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final

  • Turkey fans making the 'wolf salute' with their hands at a Euros 2024 match in Berlin.

    German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign

  • Donald Trump is whisked away by Secret Service after shots rang out at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania

    Donald Trump rally shooting: world leaders condemn political violence

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Middle East

  • View of destruction following an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, Gaza. Follow live for latest updates in the Israel-Gaza war.

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: Deadly weekend of strikes draws condemnation with fate of senior Hamas commander unclear

    Saturday’s attack on Khan Younis that left more than 90 dead draws criticism; Hamas concealing fate of Mohammed Deif says IDF
  • Palestinians walk past the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli military offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza in July 2024

    Clearing Gaza of almost 40m tonnes of war rubble will take years, says UN

  • Dozens of people walking across rubble, with damaged buildings and smoke rising in the background

    Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest attacks on Gaza City, say officials

  • David Lammy is pictured at a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, in January 2024

    David Lammy to call for Gaza ceasefire in talks with Benjamin Netanyahu

  • Smoke rises during the 1982 invasion in which up to 20,000 died

    Veterans warn of echoes from 1982 Lebanon war as new conflict looms on Israel’s northern borders

  • Crowd of people walking amid rubble and smoking ruins.

    Hamas mastermind of 7 October attack target of deadly Gaza strike, claims Israel

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South and Central Asia

  • Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan during an interview sitting in front of the Pakistan flag

    Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi’s unlawful marriage convictions overturned by Pakistan court

    Supporters of former Pakistan PM, who is serving seven years in prison, hope acquittal paves way for release
  • 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

  • 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

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UK

  • Keir Starmer watches the Euro 2024 final in Berlin

    Live
    Starmer faces test of Labour discipline after SNP proposes vote on ending two-child benefit cap – UK politics live

    Party says it will table an amendment to the king’s speech
  • Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth

    Police charge man after human remains found in Bristol

  • Burberry store in London

    Burberry replaces chief executive as it issues fresh profit warning

  • Tattoo on man's leg with the words 'England Euro 2024 Winners'

    England football fan says he has no regrets over ‘winners’ tattoo

  • (Left to right): Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy, Prince George and the Prince of Wales look dejected in the stands after England lost to Spain in the Euro 2024 final

    Labour will be ‘more Southgate, less Gove’ in trying to end division, says Nandy

  • Home Office sign.

    ‘Sheer torment’: Home Office apologises after asylum approvals retracted

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US

  • Supporters of Donald Trump await his arrival in Milwaukee

    Live
    Trump prepares for Republican National Convention following assassination bid – US politics live

    Former president says he has rewritten speech in the light of shooting
  • Election 2024 Trump<br>Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

    Ex-Secret Service agents say ‘massive realignment’ warranted after Trump rally shooting

  • Police officer on floor of convention center

    Trump touches down in Milwaukee as Republican national convention begins

  • Joe Biden at the White House on Sunday night.

    Biden urges US to reject ‘extremism and fury’ after Trump assassination attempt

  • Trump points at his Maga hat while on stage.

    ‘This just isn’t going to add up’: experts warn Trumponomics would hurt US

  • Two zoo workers stand next to an enclosure with two elephants in it

    First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

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