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Africa

  • Screen grab from a video shows Sudanese soldiers celebrating

    Sudan’s army recaptures presidential palace in major battlefield gain

    Compound was last bastion in the capital, Khartoum, held by rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
  • Two older men from the Horn of Africa sit at a conference table

    Power struggle leads to coup in Tigray as war looms between Ethiopia and Eritrea

  • Kirsty Coventry looks on as she is elected the new president of the IOC

    Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe routed in vote

  • Two M23 rebels

    M23 rebels capture strategic mining hub of Walikale in eastern DRC

  • A woman wearing a snakeprint turban takes a selfie in a fabric shop

    Women in business held back by mobile data’s cost in developing world – report

  • African penguins at the colony on Robben Island, near Cape Town.

    Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

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Americas

  • Three photos of young Venezuelan men proudly showing their tattoos

    ‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

    US claims tattoos prove membership of Tren de Aragua gang but relatives describe tributes to God, family and Real Madrid
  • water emerges from a pipe

    US rejects Mexico’s request for water as Trump opens new battle front

  • Word KINDNESS written in small wooden cubes

    Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020

  • a person holds up a sign reading 'Volverán a casa!!'

    ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims

  • a man walking

    Foreign minister ‘strongly condemns’ China’s executions of four Canadians

  • Police vehicles

    Ontario’s police force using ‘growing ecosystem’ of Israeli spyware – report

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Asia Pacific

  • Australia from space

    Major-power conflict ‘no longer unimaginable’, Australian intelligence review finds

    Independent assessment, which was handed to government before US election, warns of ‘global geopolitical and economic fragmentation’
  • Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki during a volcanic eruption

    Flights leaving Bali cancelled after volcanic eruption shoots ash plume 8km into sky

  • A wooden bridge, covered in mud on the road to Waisai, surrounded by rainforest, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Indonesia<br>2GDJ106 A wooden bridge, covered in mud on the road to Waisai, surrounded by rainforest, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Indonesia

    West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

  • A Baby Three doll in Vietnam, with a marking on its cheek that some say resembles the shape of China's so-called nine-dash line in the disputed South China Sea, in Hanoi. Sales of the doll halved in the first 10 weeks of 2025.

    Sales of Vietnamese doll plunge over face marking like China’s ‘nine-dash line’

  • Indonesian Special Forces personnel march during anniversary celebrations at the National Monument complex in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 5, 2024.

    Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government

  • Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong

    Australia in discussions to avoid ‘devastating consequences’ of US aid cuts for Pacific nations

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Australia

  • Bob Brown stands in front of foliage

    Bob Brown urges Greens to punish Labor at election if Albanese amends law to protect salmon farming

    PM’s pledge to protect Tasmanian industry will weaken laws already failing to protect natural sites and at-risk species, environmentalists say
  • Guardian Australia reporter Stephanie Convery with her Quill award

    Quill Awards 2025: Guardian journalist wins Melbourne Press Club award for reporting on disability

  • Trains on a bridge at Clayton station, Melbourne.

    Victorian government urged to prepare ‘exit strategy’ for Suburban Rail Loop as report finds benefits ‘overstated’

  • Coles and Woolworths

    Coalition and Greens urge Labor to introduce powers to break up Coles and Woolworths duopoly

  • In a screenshot captured from a 7News broadcast

    Teenager who allegedly tried to force way on to Jetstar flight in Victoria charged with attempted hijacking

  • Personnel in hazmat suits have swarmed a property in Sydney's inner west during a Border Force operation

    Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table

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Europe

  • British soldiers hold gun artillery on top of armoured vehicles

    Military prepares to support Ukraine by ‘sea, land or air’, says UK government

    Thousands of troops needed to support Ukraine if ceasefire or agreement reached to end war with Russia
  • Burned-out buildings and debris in a street

    Russia continues strikes on Ukraine as drones hit Odesa overnight

  • Arve Hjalmar Holmen looking at the camera

    Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

  • Alexander Skobov is surrounded by security officers as he arrives for a court hearing last year

    Soviet-era dissident given ‘draconian’ jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views

  • Micheál Martin and Donald Trump shaking hands

    US-EU trade war could cost Ireland more than €18bn, says report

  • A court sketch shows lawyer Maxime Tessier (left) and the accused, Joel Le Scouarnec, during his trial at the criminal court in Vannes, Brittany

    French investigators seek further victims of paedophile surgeon

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Middle East

  • Israeli soldiers walk through Gaza Strip

    Israel to ‘seize more ground’ and warns Hamas it will annex parts of Gaza

    Defence minister issues threat as IDF intensifies offensive with ‘non-stop’ overnight attacks across territory
  • Ronen Bar sitting in a row of people

    Netanyahu disputes court order freezing decision to fire Shin Bet chief

  • Ronen Bar looking to the side

    Who is Ronen Bar, the sacked chief of Israel’s Shin Bet security service?

  • A woman in sunglasses hugs another person.

    Two men convicted of murder-for-hire plot against Iranian American journalist in New York

  • An injured Palestinian boy waits to be treated at Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza

    Israeli strikes on Gaza add to soaring child death toll

  • Olivier Grondeau sitting in a plane after being freed by Iran

    Iran releases French citizen imprisoned for more than 880 days

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South and Central Asia

  • Artist's impression of the Aramco Stadium in the eastern city of Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

    First migrant worker dies building a World Cup stadium in Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Arshad, from Pakistan, was a foreman building Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, one of 11 new venues for 2034
  • Two men smile at each other and shake hands

    X sues Modi's government over content removal in new India censorship fight

  • Peter and Barbie Reynolds

    British couple held by Taliban due in court on unknown charges, family say

  • Peter and Barbie Reynolds

    Life of British man, 79, imprisoned by Taliban is in serious danger, say family

  • Members of Pakistan’s security forces provide security at Quetta railway station in Balochistan after the attack on the Jaffar Express train.

    Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring militant terror group after train hijacking

  • Raphael Satter in Washington, dressed in grey T-shirt and powder blue blazer

    US journalist sues Indian government after losing his overseas citizenship

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UK

  • A sign on the London Underground telling people not to travel to Heathrow

    Heathrow shutdown raises questions about back-up systems for Europe’s biggest airport

    Airlines and passengers likely to face days of disruption after fire at substation causes travel chaos
  • A bomb disposal unit van and officers outside hospital

    Man who planned to bomb Leeds hospital jailed for at least 37 years

  • Planes at Heathrow airport in 2016

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    Heathrow closure: airport plans to resume some flights today and hopes for full Saturday service - live

  • Stephen Lawrence

    Stephen Lawrence killer’s ‘admission’ could offer breakthrough, police believe

  • Rachael Maskell stands on a medieval stone wall

    ‘I want us to get it right’: Rachael Maskell on becoming Labour’s reluctant rebel

  • British soldiers training in Romania earlier this year

    UK politics: ‘Nothing off the table’ over potential UK troop deployment for Ukraine, says No 10 – as it happened

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US

  • Donald Trump and US defense secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.

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    Hegseth says Musk did not see China war plan as Trump announces new jet fighter program – US politics live

    Defense secretary says Musk was at Pentagon to talk about efficiencies; president says new F-47 jet has state-of-the-art stealth technology
  • a man in black clothes looks off to the side

    Musk visits Pentagon for briefing on unspecified military matters

  • a collapsed bridge on a ship

    Baltimore bridge was 30 times above acceptable risk of collapse, officials say

  • four people sit on stage and listen to an audience member

    Democrats’ US tour gathers support in fight against Trump: ‘Get angry, man’

  • An octopus rides on a shark.

    Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back

  • a man in a suits sits at a desk while another man in a suit stands next to him

    Trump awards Boeing contract to build next-generation US fighter jet

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