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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

  • People wait for a food distribution in a displaced persons camp at the Lycée Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince on 30 September 2024

    Gang violence leaves Haiti facing ‘worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere’

    Half the country’s population now struggling to find food as lawlessness and inflation cause ‘full-blown crisis’, say aid agencies
  • A man wearing a black suit and gray tie speaks at a podium with his hands gestured

    Justin Trudeau survives a second parliamentary confidence vote

  • Four parrots on a cable in the sky.

    Parrots overwhelm Argentinian town with screeching, poo and power outages

  • 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

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Asia Pacific

  • Military guard posts of North Korea, rear, and South Korea, front, are seen in Paju, near the border with North Korea.

    North Korean defector crashes stolen bus in failed bid to return home

    Defectors seeking to cross back into North Korea from the South are rare, though many struggle to adapt to life in their democratic, capitalist neighbour
  • Waves come over a wall onto a road where a car is driving

    Typhoon Krathon: one person killed and two missing in Taiwan

  • Part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki airport.

    Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport

  • Two women and two men play Nintendo games on oversized controls

    Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

  • A man with a t-shirt reading "Kanaky resistance" looks on in the Pierre Lenquette district of Noumea, on 29 September 2024.

    New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister

  • First response teams at the scene of the blaze

    Many children feared dead after fire on school bus in Thailand

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Australia

  • The Victoria premier, Jacinta Allan, speaks during a Cricket Australia Media opportunity at Melbourne Cricket Ground

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    Australia news live: Allan says police ‘have all the powers they need’ after Dutton says premier could stop Melbourne pro-Palestine protests

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  • View of the Sydney CBD skyline on sunny day

    Warm weather forecast for long weekend and rugby league grand finals in Sydney

  • John Ruddick

    Anti-smart cities Libertarians score local council election wins after NSW Liberals’ nomination debacle

  • ACT Liberal Peter Cain

    Canberra Liberal apologises for writing book that paints rosy colonisation picture and skips frontier wars

  • Steven Miles

    Miles promises Queensland households the cheapest power in mainland national electricity market if Labor wins

  • A rent sign outside a house in Canberra

    Australia’s steepest and longest rental surge in history may be nearing end, figures show

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Europe

  • Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday.

    Starmer vows to turn page on UK’s relationship with the EU

    PM promises ‘constructive’ relations, despite resisting talks with the bloc on a proposed youth mobility scheme
  • Silhouette of man looking through steel bars with sea in background

    Migration during adolescence linked to increased psychosis risk, study finds

  • Military police guard the perimeter of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen

    Hand grenades thrown near Israeli embassy in Copenhagen

  • Statues overlooking a crowded St Peter's square in Vatican City

    Vatican bank fires man and woman who flouted staff marriage ban

  • Busy market thoroughfare in Barcelona’s old town

    Spain logs record number of summer visitors amid overtourism protests

  • Salome Zourabichvili speaking at a microphone

    Georgian president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ+ rights bill into law

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Middle East

  • People gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building in Beirut's Bashoura neighbourhood early on Thursday.

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    Middle East crisis live: six killed in Israeli strike on medical centre in central Beirut, Lebanon officials say

    Lebanese health ministry says another seven were injured in attack on district of Bachoura; Israeli military tells residents in some southern neighbourhoods to flee ahead of strikes
  • Joe Biden

    US would not support Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, says Biden

  • People silhouetted against smoke and dust help each other over the rubble of a destroyed building

    After a fortnight of military triumph, what is Israel’s endgame?

  • Smoke rising near the runway of Beirut-Rafic Hariri international airport on Wednesday.

    UK begins evacuating citizens from Lebanon as Israel’s offensive continues

  • Smoke clouds rise in the city

    Eight Israeli soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah in Lebanon

  • A search and rescue operation in Gaza on Wednesday.

    Dozens killed in Israeli strikes and ground operations in southern Gaza

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South and Central Asia

  • Aerial night shot of buildings with homes and offices with more skyscrapers in the distance in Gurgaon

    ‘Life is pretty brutal’: concerns in India over high-pressure corporate jobs

    The death of a young chartered accountant has highlighted a work culture of overworked employees and bullying bosses
  • Chris Martin on stage at Glastonbury

    Indian police investigate ticket resales for Coldplay Mumbai gigs

  • River and mountains around the peak of Everest

    Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers

  • 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

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UK

  • Former prime minister Boris Johnson

    BBC cancels Boris Johnson interview after Laura Kuenssberg mistakenly sends him her briefing notes

    Presenter Laura Kuenssberg says ‘embarrassing and disappointing’ mishap meant it was not right that the interview go ahead
  • An abandoned painted children’s football goal in a playground with peeling paint.

    Rising cost of social services in England putting arts and youth services at risk, say councils

  • One young man and one young woman sit on university steps as the man vapes

    One million people in England vape despite never having smoked regularly, study finds

  • Keir Starmer in Brussels behind a union jack.

    Why official register of MPs’ financial interests is now a must-read

  • James Stevenson police headshot

    ‘Iceman’ crime boss jailed in Scotland over ‘industrial-scale’ drug trafficking

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality

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US

  • beaver with paw on cheek

    Nibi the beaver sees dam of unwavering support as rescuers try to stop her release into wild

    Massachusetts court to decide whether internet-famous, ‘diva’ beaver will stay with rescuers or be released into wild
  • a man in a blue suit and red tie speaks into a microphone

    Special counsel reveals new details of Trump bid to overturn 2020 election

  • JD Vance smiles behind podium on stage

    JD Vance takes victory lap and mocks Tim Walz over debate gaffe

  • a women looking right, and a sign in the air

    Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir

  • U.S. President Joe Biden visits South Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene<br>U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to survey storm damage and meet with officials in the wake of Hurricane Helene, at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in Greer, South Carolina, U.S., October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

    Biden visits North and South Carolina as Hurricane Helene death toll rises

  • Man in jacket and jeans on stage

    Walz says Vance was ‘gaslighting’ public about Trump’s record in debate

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