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Africa

  • Fishing boats, or pirogues, at Mauritanian port

    At least 89 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania, state news agency says

    Dangerous Atlantic ocean route is gaining popularity because of increased vigilance by authorities in the Mediterranean
  • Karamba Diaby at podium saying Deutscher Bundestag

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

  • 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

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Americas

  • An older Black man in a yellow polo shirt and black pants walks across a tile-floored room with a couch beneath a bamboo roof and open sky.

    Tropical Storm Beryl smashes through Caribbean and heads for Texas coast

    Earliest category 5 hurricane on record is 495 miles south-east of Corpus Christi, with winds near 60mph
  • Debris due to Hurricane Beryl damage in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on 5 July.

    Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Mexico as category 2 storm and expected to reach Texas

  • Older man in a suit.

    Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges

  • A fallen fence

    Hurricane Beryl barrels through Cayman Islands after battering Jamaica

  • 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?

  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

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

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Asia Pacific

  • A worker assembling a car frame that is raised above the floor of the factory

    China to hold hearing into brandy imports as tension grows with EU over tariffs on EVs

    Ministry will discuss investigation into claims that European producers are selling goods below market rates
  • 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

  • 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

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Australia

  • The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, on the phone

    Live
    Australia news live: Albanese calls Starmer to congratulate UK’s new PM on ‘emphatic victory’; de Minaur celebrates ‘lucky’ Wimbledon ride

    Follow the day’s news live
  • Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty argues Aukus is a ‘deeply flawed’ scheme that ties Australia’s future ‘to whoever is in the White House’.

    Book on Aukus ‘fiasco’ says decision to embrace pact will ‘haunt’ Labor for years

  • Chinese students at University of Sydney

    International students left feeling like ‘cash cows’ after Albanese government raises visa fees

  • A Tesla battery in a home

    Tesla won’t free up use of its batteries, leaving owners unable to reap full benefits

  • Rain at the Opera House

    Australia facing ‘prolonged’ wet weather as three separate rain bands and storms hit

  • Police tape

    Woman’s body found at Melbourne waste management facility

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Europe

  • People inside a tent

    Hundreds in Canary Islands protest against influx of migrants

    The Spanish archipelago has welcomed more than 19,000 migrants since the start of 2024
  • A demonstrator in a crowd holds up a placard reading: 'Juive, daronne, ecolo, queer. Je combats le FN-R-Haine depuis toujours'

    French Jewish people conflicted over voting choices amid antisemitism fears

  • Can-can dancers perform in red, white and blue costumes front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret club at night with illuminated signs and windmill sails

    Moulin Rouge in Paris celebrates installation of new windmill sails

  • Journalist Rula Jebreal stands in a garden.

    ‘Defending democracy is paramount’: Rula Jebreal warns against Meloni rule

  • Marine Le Pen is interviewed by Apolline de Malherbe.

    Marine Le Pen says National Rally have ‘serious chance’ for absolute majority despite polls – as it happened

  • Gabriel Attal

    French PM urges calm after assaults in run-up to second round vote

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Middle East

  • Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike on a UN school sheltering displaced people in Nusairat in central Gaza Strip.

    Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 16, say Palestinian officials

    Another 50 injured taken to hospital from the Unrwa-run Al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, central Gaza
  • A group of Palestinian men and young children standing amid the ruins of bombed-out building

    Fears of long war in Gaza as new chapter opens and ‘intense fighting’ eases off

  • A man walks with two children between destroyed buildings

    Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise further as Hamas reportedly backs new proposal

  • Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip.

    Israel-Gaza war as it happened: hopes rise over hostages and ceasefire deal

  • Masoud Pezeshkian headshot

    Masoud Pezeshkian: the former heart surgeon who became president of Iran

  • Iranian reformist presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian greets supporters outside a polling station in Tehran on Friday

    Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election

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South and Central Asia

  • An aerial view of a flooded area of Rangpur district in Bangladesh.

    Bangladesh floods leave at least eight dead amid fears situation could worsen

    Government opens hundreds of shelters for displaced people as heavy rains cause rivers to burst their banks
  • Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on 16 September 2022.

    India PM Modi to meet Putin in first trip to Russia since Ukraine war began

  • People stand behind a white metal fence looking at personal belongings piled on floor coverings

    Relatives of India crush victims accuse authorities of leaving people to die

  • Shoes on the ground with people pictured in the background

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

  • 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

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UK

  • A man walking past an election campaign banner featuring an image of independent candidate Shockat Adam

    Independent Muslim who beat Labour in Leicester says victory was not ‘sectarian’

    Shockat Adam says he is not a single-issue MP, but will fight on NHS and housing as well as Gaza
  • Spectators with umbrellas at Wimbledon

    Heavy rain could disrupt Sunday’s Wimbledon and British Grand Prix

  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference

    Voter turnout at general election was lowest since 2001 – politics live as it happened

  • Keir Starmer chairs his debut cabinet meeting during his first full day as prime minister.

    Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

  • Andy Murray on Centre Court after a presentation celebrating his career last Thursday.

    ‘Andy Murray has changed culture of sport’: Wimbledon reflects on legacy

  • Keir Starmer hosts his first cabinet meeting

    Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

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US

  • Jon Landau<br>FILE - Jon Landau stands for a portrait at the 95th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon, Feb. 13, 2023, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on “Titanic" and the “Avatar” series, has died, announced in a statement Saturday, July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Jon Landau, Oscar-winning Titanic and Avatar producer, dies aged 63

    Titanic became first film to gross $1bn globally, and Landau topped that with Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Joe Biden in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday.

    Biden defends his campaign as swing-state Democrat calls for him to exit race – as it happened

  • Extended Heat Wave Sets In Throughout California<br>PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: People walk through sideway misters as the temperature reaches 119 degrees on July 5, 2024 in Palm Springs, California. The official temperature is 124 degrees at the nearby regional airport.The National Weather Service predicts similar daily high temperatures for the next several days and has issued an Extensive Heat Warning through July 10. Extreme heat is baking most of the state, threatening health and heightening the danger of wildfires. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

    ‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130m across US

  • Yellow police tape around home

    Four killed and three wounded in shooting at Kentucky party

  • White House resists calls for President Biden to drop out of presidential race<br>epa11459186 The White House is seen behind a maintenance worker cleaning up the National Mall during a heat wave in Washington, DC, USA, 05 July 2024. With rising calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race following his debate performance, US President Joe Biden is attempting to reinvigorate his campaign with events in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO

    Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House

  • House Dem Leadership Debt Limit Presser<br>WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - MAY 24: House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at a press conference on the debt limit with Democratic House Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) and Democratic House Conference Chair Pete Aguilar (D-CA) in Washington, DC on May 24th, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on

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