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Africa

  • Dikembe Mutombo was known for his infectious personality

    Dikembe Mutombo, NBA Hall of Famer and humanitarian, dies at 58

    Dikembe Mutombo, whose towering presence dominated basketball on and off the court, has died from brain cancer at the age of 58
  • Two police vehicles in front of crime scene tape outside a small house on

    Seventeen killed in two mass shootings in South African town

  • A woman holds a photo of her sister

    British army to investigate conduct of troops in Kenya amid rape and murder claims

  • Mohamed al-Menfi addressing the United Nations general assembly

    Libya central bank deal could resolve ‘all political issues’, says head of state

  • Smoke over the Khartoum skyline

    Sudan’s army launches push to retake ground in capital

  • Mlungisi Makhanya with traditional headgear

    Eswatini opposition leader in critical condition after alleged poisoning

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Americas

  • Four parrots on a cable in the sky.

    Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages

    Birds outnumber residents in Hilario Ascasubi, after deforestation leads them to seek food, shelter and water
  • ARGENTINA-POLITICS-ECONOMY-BUDGET-MILEI<br>Argentina's Vice President Victoria Villarruel listens to Argentina's president Javier Milei (out of frame) during the presentation of the 2025 budget proposal to Congress in Buenos Aires on September 15, 2024. (Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Do they take us for fools?’: Argentina vice-president lambasts Falklands pact

  • The flooded South Fork New River in Boone, North Carolina, on Friday.

    At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene devastates south-eastern US

  • Cars under a hill of mud.

    At least 22 reported dead as storm John weakens over Mexico

  • A man sleeps on the ground in front of a government palace with a large Argentinian flag waving in the wind.

    Poverty in Argentina soars to over 50% as Milei’s austerity measures hit hard

  • a smiling man is surrounded by supporters

    São Paulo election ‘a horror show’ as candidates trade blows and insults

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Asia Pacific

  • First response teams at the scene of the blaze

    Many feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand

    Up to 25 students and teachers feared dead after blaze that reportedly started after burst tyre caused vehicle to crash
  • Bereaved people react outside the Seoul western district court in Seoul where three police officers were given jail sentences but Yongsan city ward officials were acquitted over the Itaewon crowd crush

    Seoul crowd crush police sent to jail for deadly failings in Itaewon disaster

  • Hong Kong’s court of final appeal in Central district

    British judge Nicholas Phillips steps down from Hong Kong court

  • Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a press conference in Tokyo.

    Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports

  • Participants in a crowd wave flags and punch the air as a man on stage lifts a framed certificate

    New Zealand reclaims world record for largest mass haka

  • Women try beauty products in a store in Seoul

    Promise of ‘glass skin’ drives surge in sales of K-beauty products in UK

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Australia

  • Queensland Premier Steven Miles

    Controversial Queensland mayor labels Steven Miles’ move to oust him a ‘political hit job’

    Premier issues show cause notice to Troy Thompson as investigation into the Townsville mayor’s military service record continues
  • Police vehicle outside Alice Springs police station

    Woman killed in NT town’s second suspected DV death since July

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his wife Stella Assange

    Assange says he is free because he ‘pled guilty to journalism’ – as it happened

  • Protesters march during a pro-Palestine rally for Gaza and Lebanon in Melbourne on Sunday. Some marchers carried Hezbollah flags and portraits of leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli attack.

    Burke accuses Dutton of trying to ‘throw kerosene’ on public debate over Middle East

  • Juvenile sub-Antarctic fur seal on a beach

    Investigation launched after baby seal found with spinal injuries on Victorian beach

  • Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli in parliament, and premier Steven Miles disembarking a bus

    LNP signals extension of coal power on day one of Queensland election race

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Europe

  • A sandy beach beside the Desna River.

    ‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning

    Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife
  • Putin inspects a drone

    Russia to raise defence budget by 25% to highest level on record

  • Marine Le Pen faces a line of police officers and reporters holding microphones towards her

    Marine Le Pen and other RN figures go on trial over EU fake jobs allegations

  • Chairman and top candidate of Austria’s Freedom party, Herbert Kickl (centre), celebrates news of the expected election results last night

    Wilders and Orbán congratulate Austria’s far-right Freedom party on poll success – as it happened

  • FPÖ leaders and supporters celebrating election win under Austrian flags

    Austrian parties to begin talks on forming government after far-right win

  • Moscow city court

    American man pleads guilty in Moscow court to charge of fighting for Ukraine

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Middle East

  • Phil Shiner outside the high court in central London in 2013.

    Former human rights lawyer admits fraud over Iraq war claims

    Phil Shiner sought up to £200,000 of legal aid funding to represent clients including Khuder Al-Sweady
  • Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburb.

    US secretary of defence warns of ‘serious consequences’ for Iran if it attacks Israel or exploits tensions – as it happened

  • Smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs after an Israeli airstrike.

    Israeli military says it is carrying out ‘limited’ ground operation targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon

  • Smoke rising over Beirut.

    UK charters flight from Lebanon as governments prepare evacuation plans

  • Smoke from explosions rises over houses in a mountain town

    Israel has begun ground attacks on Hezbollah inside Lebanon, says US

  • Sadiq Khan walking on a London street with Metropolitan police officers

    Sadiq Khan fears rise in UK hate crime linked to Middle East violence

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South and Central Asia

  • River and mountains around the peak of Everest

    Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers

    River erosion has pushed the mountain upwards and added an extra 15 to 50 metres over the past 89,000 years
  • A woman walks through muddy water

    More than 200 dead in Nepal floods, as parts of Kathmandu left under water

  • A man in deep flood water

    More than 100 killed and 64 missing as flooding and landslides hit Nepal

  • An aerial view shows houses partially submerged in flood, after rise in water level of river Ganges.

    Dozens of children drown in India during Hindu festival

  • Three women sitting in front of a bank of microphones

    Pakistan says police orchestrated killing of doctor accused of blasphemy

  • Meryl Streep and Asila Wardak at a UN women’s rights event in New York this week.

    Taliban to be taken to international court over gender discrimination

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UK

  • Irwin the emu

    Search for missing emu Irwin amid fears bird fell into Wiltshire river

    People in Malmesbury asked to keep eye out for Irwin, who vanished from animal sanctuary on Monday
  • Robert Jenrick addressing an event at the Tory party conference on Monday.

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    Tory leadership rivals turn on Jenrick over claims SAS ‘killing, not capturing, terrorists’ – UK politics live

  • Greggs store

    Greggs says it has no plans for more price rises as sales slow

  • A maintenance worker stands in front of a burst water main in London

    Calls for failing English water firms to be taken over using special administration

  • An ambulance drives past Westminster academy

    Girl, 14, sustains potentially life-changing injuries in ‘acid’ attack at London school

  • Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service emergency services attend to a lorry that has fallen off a bridge

    Lorry plummets 18 metres from a bridge on M6 in Cheshire

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US

  • Tim Walz and JD Vance will go head to head in TV debate.

    Live
    US elections: Tim Walz and JD Vance to face off in VP debate – live updates

    Vice-presidential candidates will go head to head in New York City in a crucial contest weeks before the US general election
  • People look at a tank as it emerges from smoke plumes on a hilltop

    First Thing: Israel launches invasion into southern Lebanon

  • plume of smoke in sky above street and row of trees

    ‘Pattern of negligence’: a chemical plant fire in Georgia forces tens of thousands to take shelter

  • an overhead shot of a road damaged by hurricane with debris scattered about

    Determined dad walks 30 miles after Helene to walk daughter down aisle

  • A combination picture shows J.D. Vance and Tim Walz

    The attack dog and the folk hero: Vance and Walz gear up for debate showdown

  • Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs in Los Angeles, California.

    Las Vegas radio stations ban Green Day after frontman calls city ‘the worst shithole in America’

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