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Africa

  • Karamba Diaby at podium saying Deutscher Bundestag

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

    Karamba Diaby’s announcement he wants to spend time with family comes after bullet and arson attacks on his office
  • Image of the nearly complete skeleton from fossils recovered in Namibia of a giant salamander-like creature

    Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia

  • Mohamed Ould Ghazouani standing in a car waving to supporters.

    Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

  • A brass sign reading Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office shows a reflection of a brick building.

    From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

  • Commemoration held for people who lost their lives in the clashes that broke out across the country after the police opened fire on anti-tax protesters.

    At least 39 killed in Kenya’s anti-tax protests, says rights watchdog

  • Women carrying children queue outside a clinic

    Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

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Americas

  • CANADA-POLITICS-TRUDEAU<br>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 3, 2024. The Prime Minister was asked multiple times by media about the recent loss the Liberal Party of Canada suffered in Toronto-St-Paul's, a historic Liberal stronghold. The media also pressed the Prime Minister on his future with the party and if he would call a caucus meeting with his party. (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    After nine years in office, is it time for Justin Trudeau to go?

    After a shocking electoral upset the public is growing increasingly weary of his tenure – and of his Liberal party
  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

  • Palm trees sway as the wind and rain from Hurricane Beryl pass through Kingston, Jamaica.

    Hurricane Beryl hits Jamaica after leaving ‘Armageddon-like’ trail in Grenada

  • Tall barefoot Black men in T-shirts and shorts look out over a harbor, with a dozen boats crammed together in the water.

    Why Hurricane Beryl foretells a scary storm season

  • Devastation caused by Hurricane Beryl in St Vincent and the Grenadines

    ‘Please send help’: Caribbean reels from Hurricane Beryl devastation

  • Ann Wilson performing in 2015.

    Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer

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Asia Pacific

  • West Japan Railway has introduced a 12-metre high robot mounted on a truck to perform maintenance work on rails, including trimming tree branches and painting.

    Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

    The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes
  • A faded cave painting with a large pig visible in the middle.

    Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting

  • home affairs minister Clare O’Neil

    Australia to strike new funding deal with Papua New Guinea to manage transferred asylum seekers

  • a temu logo and smartphone screenshot of its online marketplace

    EU plan to impose import duty on cheap goods could dent Shein and Temu

  • Lawyers and supporters of victims of forced sterilisation carrying a banner demanding apologies and compensation march towards the supreme court of Japan in Tokyo

    Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations

  • A child looks towards China's Xiamen city from the coast in Kinmen with fortifications along the beach

    Taiwan demands China returns fishing boat seized by coastguard

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Australia

  • General view of signage on the exterior of the St Vincent's Private Hospital in Melbourne

    Thousands of patients facing healthcare price hikes after negotiations break down between St Vincent’s and NIB

    Australian Medical Association is urging both parties to reach an agreement for the sake of patients
  • Senator Fatima Payman

    Fatima Payman’s decision to quit Labor party will ‘empower opponents on far right’, Wayne Swan says

  • Fatima Payman on Thursday announced she would quit the Labor party but continue to sit in the Senate as an independent.

    Senator says PM’s office planted seed about crossing floor – as it happened

  • A general view at the scene of a fatal collision involving a stolen car at the intersection of Warrigal Road and Highbury Road, in Melbourne, Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

    Teen accused of driving stolen Jeep in fatal Melbourne crash faces court as three males remain on the run

  • Parliament House protest

    Four pro-Palestine protesters arrested after scaling roof of Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners criticising Gaza war

  • Jie Shao outside the Downing Centre district court in Sydney in 2021

    Woman who performed fatal illegal breast augmentation in Sydney to spend at least 30 more months behind bars

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Europe

  • A woman wearing white with black hair and eyeliner stands behind a man wearing white seated

    Critic sues after bottom-flashing incident on stage at French theatre

    Angélica Liddell, who describes herself as an ‘irresponsible artist’, also referred to Stéphane Capron as a ‘bastard’
  • French prime minister Gabriel Attal.

    Live
    French PM says ‘no place for violence and intimidation’ after candidate attacked putting up election posters – Europe live

  • People on the beach at Marbella

    Costa del Sol council denies plan to fine people peeing in the sea

  • Olympic Qualifier Series - Budapest<br>BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - JUNE 22: Aleksandra Kalucka of Polland celebrates after winning the women's speed climbing finals with second place Niu Di of China and third place Rajiah Sallsabillah of Indonesia on June 22, 2024 in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by David Balogh/Getty Images)

    Climber Ola Kalucka claims ‘bittersweet’ Olympic place by beating her twin sister

  • Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth in a busy courtroom

    Italian court upholds murder convictions of two Americans over death of police officer

  • People queue beneath a giant picture of Ismail Kadare wearing sunglasses, marked with his life dates, 1936-2024

    Thousands of Albanians honour author Ismail Kadare in Tirana

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Middle East

  • An injured Palestinian child in hospital following the Israeli attack on Gold Market (Qissariya Market), at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: Israel studying new Hamas response to ceasefire proposal

    Mediators including Egypt, Qatar and the United States have been trying for months to secure a ceasefire and the release of 120 remaining hostages
  • Palestinians ride a cart past near buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

    About 90% of people in Gaza displaced since war began, says UN agency

  • Displaced Palestinians in east Khan Younis.

    Israel reportedly kills senior Hezbollah commander in drone strike – as it happened

  • Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis, walk after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighbourhoods. Follow live for latest updates in the Israel-Gaza war.

    Fresh strikes on Khan Younis as UN secretary general says ‘no place safe in Gaza’ – as it happened

  • Palestinians carrying belongings cross road in front of vehicles

    Palestinians flee Khan Younis as eight reported dead after Israeli strikes

  • A motorbike drives past buildings destroyed during previous Israeli military fire on the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab, near the border with northern Israel.

    Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official

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South and Central Asia

  • Shoes on the ground with people pictured in the background

    India deadly crush blamed on huge overcrowding as death toll passes 120

    Police report says 250,000 people had gathered at a Hindu event in Uttar Pradesh that had a capacity of 80,000
  • A wall mural on a street in Kabul shows protesting women. The foremost woman has her arms raised, but her open mouth has been spraypainted black. Writing in Arabic reads: 'Afghan women will not be silent anymore'

    Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail

  • An ambulance at the Sikandra Rao hospital in Hathras.

    At least 116 killed in crush at Hindu gathering in northern India, say officials

  • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

    India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

  • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

    Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

  • Arundhati Roy sits at a protest with a sign saying 'Free the press' attached to her shirt

    Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy

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UK

  • Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer head to their local polling station.

    Live
    General election live: party leaders join millions across the UK casting their votes

    Polling stations opened at 7am, with voting taking place until 10pm on Thursday night
  • From left: the Lib Dems’ Ed Davey, the Conservatives’ Rishi Sunak, Labour’s Keir Starmer, the Greens’ Carla Denyer and Reform leader Nigel Farage

    From exit poll to swing seats: 10 key moments to watch as election results roll in

  • Blurred people walking past a in-focus ‘polling station’ sign.

    Polling stations open across UK for general election

  • Archie Routledge and his dad Mark watch a film together whilst in GNCH

    Nine-year-old boy youngest in UK to undergo rare pancreatic surgery

  • A design showing coloured dots, with different colours beneath them to represent tactical voting.

    UK elections: what is tactical voting and how does it work?

  • Chinese bowl with flower design

    Chinese ‘broken pots’ found in Lincolnshire attic sell for £166,000

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US

  • Farm worker wearing green top hoes field

    US set for sweltering Independence Day with 137m people under heat alerts

    Temperatures set to soar on Thursday and into weekend, with record highs possible and little chance of relief
  • Bag of coffee beans

    Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body

  • Joe Biden speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House in Washington on 3 July

    First Thing: Biden says ‘I’m not leaving’ as cracks appear in support

  • Sean Combs pictured in 2022.

    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of grooming and coercing woman into sex work

  • Two men in suits with woman in light blue jacket

    Biden wins crucial support of Democratic governors to continue campaign: ‘We’re going to have his back’ – as it happened

  • a black man wearing suit, white woman wearing light blue suit, and white man wearing black suit all with hands folded stand in front of microphones

    Governors admit worries but rally behind Biden after meeting: ‘We have his back’

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