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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

  • ALICE MUNRO

    Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

    Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted her when she was nine, but her mother said she ‘loved him too much’ to leave him
  • A white and gray heron flies over a river beside trees

    Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

  • Security footage shows police apprehending teenagers in Brazil on 3 July.

    Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint

  • 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

  • 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

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Asia Pacific

  • A person walks on the street protecting herself from the sun with a parasol and using a handheld fan in the late of afternoon on 5 July 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The capital of Japan is swept by intense heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in Tokyo.

    Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

    Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995
  • Iwao Hakamada, left, flanked by his sister Hideko, on the day of his release in 2014.

    Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name

  • 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

  • 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

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Australia

  • NSW police said they were ‘very keen’ to speak to a 22-year-old man seen running from the unit.

    Police seek man seen running from Sydney home after woman allegedly stabbed to death

    Woman, 21, found with stab wounds in Kingswood unit as police search for her partner in relation to death
  • NSW police tape

    Police seek Sydney woman’s partner over alleged stabbing death – as it happened

  • Melissa Millar-Hodder, Amber Haigh and Rosalind Wright at Campbelltown train station in 1997

    Amber Haigh showed cousin bruises on wrists she said were from being tied up by Robert Geeves, court hears

  • Climate protester Laura Davy

    Blockade Australia climate activist sentenced to three months in jail over Port of Newcastle protest

  • Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem by artist Philjames

    Artwork featuring Christ overlaid with Looney Tunes characters removed by Sydney council after threats of violence

  • Signage at the Downing Centre district court of NSW in Sydney

    Teenager felt ‘scared and anxious’ before alleged bucks party rape

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Europe

  • Smoke rises over the Kyiv skyline after a Russian missile attack on Monday 8 July.

    Live
    At least five people killed by Russian missile attack in Kyiv, officials say – Ukraine war live

    Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russia fired more than 40 missiles at cities on Monday as Kyiv mayor urges residents to shelter
  • Supporters of the left wing union, New Popular Front, gather at the Place de la Republique on Sunday evening in Paris, France, following the defeat of the far-right in France's legislative elections.

    Live
    French stock market swings to gain after election surprise; Britvic agrees to improved Carlsberg offer – business live

  • white man wearing navy suit and light blue shirt sitting on a light yellow chair looks up with his hand raised

    Biden’s health and threat of a second Trump term loom over Nato summit

  • People gather at the Place de la République in central Paris to celebrate election results

    Live
    France election 2024 live: political deadlock looms after leftwing alliance wins most seats

  • People gather to celebrate at the Place de la Republique after the exit polls.

    Monday briefing: French opposition to the far right comes out on top

  • Voters react as they listen to the announcement of the projected results of the second round of France's crunch legislative elections.

    Leftwing coalition wins most parliamentary seats in France – as it happened

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Middle East

  • A Palestinian boy checks the damage in a house hit by Israeli bombardment in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on 7 July

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: ceasefire deal would be ‘senseless folly’, says Israel’s finance minister

    Bezalel Smotrich, far-right finance minister, says Israel should press on in its military campaign against Hamas
  • a group of Palestinian men walk on the rubble and debris of a school destroyed by an airstrike; other damaged buildings and smoke can be seen in the background under a blue sky.

    Labour expected to drop challenge to ICC over Netanyahu arrest warrant

  • Busy street scene with cars, vans and a young man pulling a cart. A large banner with the Palestinian flag stands above buildings in the background

    ‘I panic when my phone rings’: the plight of Palestinians in Jordan

  • A Palestinian boy looks at the remains of a house hit by Israeli bombardment

    Israeli government accused of trying to sabotage Gaza ceasefire proposal

  • A convoy of army vehicles drives along a dirt road, sending up clouds of dust

    IDF used protocol that may have risked civilian lives in Hamas attack – report

  • Israeli police extinguish a fire lit by anti-government protestors near Shoresh, Israel.

    Hamas ‘waiting for response’ on Gaza deal as Israeli protesters accuse Netanyahu cabinet of ‘total failure’ over hostages – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

    Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

    Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single deposit
  • An aerial view of a flooded area of Rangpur district in Bangladesh.

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

  • 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

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UK

  • Keir Starmer, right, meets with Michelle O’Neill, left, and Emma Little-Pengelly, centre.

    Live
    Starmer holds talks with political leaders in Belfast as he continues tour of country – UK politics live

    Prime minister meets Northern Ireland first minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy first minister Emma Little-Pengelly
  • Bottles of R Whites lemonade, made by drinks company Britvic, on a conveyor belt at Britvic's bottling plant

    UK drinks maker Britvic agrees £3.3bn takeover by Carlsberg

  • Désirée Reynolds

    The radical archives movement making art from forgotten histories

  • Tony Blair waving and Cherie pointing

    Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer’s first week – podcast

  • Keir Starmer talking on speakerphone

    Starmer heads for first Nato summit stressing continued Ukraine support

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US

  • white man wearing blue suit and standing at plane entrance waves

    Democrats to face pressure of revealing if they back Biden as Congress reconvenes

    Senate and House back in session for first time since debate, giving those who want him to quit a chance to rally support
  • File photo of a Boeing 737 Max jet preparing to land in Seattle.

    Boeing will plead guilty to criminal fraud over 737 Max crashes, justice department says

  • Red sign reading 'Stop Extreme Heat Danger'

    Motorcyclist dies from heat exposure in Death Valley as temperature reaches 128F

  • US President Biden attends a church service at Mt Airy Church of God In Christ in Philadelphia

    Biden insists he can reunite US as high-profile Democrats reportedly want him to quit race

  • A message for Beryl is left on a boarded up business, on Sunday, in Rock Port, Texas, as the hurricane moves closer to the Texas coast

    Tropical storm Beryl strengthens into hurricane as it approaches Texas coast

  • US-VOTE-POLITICS-BIDEN<br>US President Joe Biden (L) stands with Bishop Ernest Morris, Sr. during a church service and campaign event at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 7, 2024. Biden is back out on the campaign trail Sunday, desperate to salvage his re-election bid as senior Democrats meet to discuss growing calls that he quit the White House race. The 81-year-old Democrat kicks off a grueling week with two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, before hosting the NATO leaders' summit in Washington. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

    More House Democrats reportedly want Biden to quit race as he pledges to ‘unite America’ – as it happened

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