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Africa

  • Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    Family call on UK to ensure British activist goes free from Egyptian jail

    Alaa Abd el-Fattah is due to complete five-year sentence over social media post but family fear further charges
  • Tanzanian police prevent banned opposition rally to take place in Dar es Salaam<br>epa11620829 Two protesters are detained by police at the start of a banned rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 23 September 2024. Tanzanian police arrested supporters of the main opposition party Chadema for participating in a banned protest to demand an end to alleged political abductions and killings. According to police, 14 people were arrested, including Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and vice-chairman Tundu Lissu, for defying a prohibition on the protests. Leaders of the opposition have accused Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan of cracking down on democracy ahead of elections in November 2024 and in 2025. EPA/ANTHONY SIAME

    Tanzania opposition leaders arrested amid crackdown on dissent

  • The remains of a livestock market area in al-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, after fighting last month.

    UN chief calls on Sudanese paramilitary leader to end siege of North Darfur city

  • A mock-up of a giant stadium that resembles a tent.

    Football-mad Morocco dreams of a World Cup final in its own ark

  • Aslam Longton, Jamil Longton and Bob Njagi.

    Missing Kenyan anti-government protesters resurface as police chief appears in court

  • An EU flag flying from an office building seen through a fence topped with barbed wire

    Europe has questions to answer over migrant abuse in Tunisia, say MEPs and activists

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Americas

  • Michael Kovrig

    Michael Kovrig: detention by China amounted to psychological torture, Canadian says

    Former diplomat Michael Kovrig, who was taken into custody in December 2018, says he spent months in solitary confinement and was interrogated daily
  • A lifeguard wearing red swim trunks and carrying a flotation device walks along a cloudy beach

    Hurricane John poised to slam Mexico’s Pacific coast with 100mph winds

  • An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping centre in Brasilia.

    Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X

  • man in yellow uniform stands against backdrop of burning forest

    ‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

  • a car burns on a street

    Violent protests erupt in Martinique over high cost of living with 14 injured

  • Alexandre de Moraes

    Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block

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Asia Pacific

  • CHINA-ECONOMY<br>Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, speaks to reporters during a press conference at the China's State Council Information office in Beijing on September 24, 2024. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP) (Photo by ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images)

    China unleashes boldest stimulus in years to boost ailing economy

    The People’s Bank of China announces a host of policy support measures but some experts fear they may not be enough
  • FRANCE-OVERSEAS-NCALEDONIA-POLICE-SECURITY<br>A French gendarmes controls a man at a roadblock, in Saint Louis on the way to Mont-Dore, in France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, on September 23, 2024. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Old tensions in New Caledonia: curfews and colonialism resurface on anniversary of French takeover

  • Brodie Ryan and Nathan Buckley

    AFL stars walk Brownlow medal red carpet – as it happened

  • The front of a house leans forward into the waters of a swollen river

    Weather tracker: Extensive flooding in Japan after ‘unprecedented’ rainfall

  • A local resident struggles to walk in mud on the street following floods caused by torrential rain in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan September 22, 2024, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN

    Japan floods: six dead after rain pounds region still recovering from earthquake

  • Māori flag

    Māori language ‘at risk’ as a result of government policies, commissioner says

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Australia

  • Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Michele Bullock speaks during Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, February 15, 2023. AAP Image/Lukas Coch via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. AUSTRALIA OUT. NEW ZEALAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NEW ZEALAND. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN AUSTRALIA.

    No cuts in ‘near term’ as RBA leaves Australia’s official interest rate unchanged at 4.35%

    RBA decision was in line with economists’ forecasts as economy endures persistent inflationary pressures
  • Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock

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    Australia news live: RBA ‘didn’t explicitly consider’ hiking interest rates, governor says; teenager fatally stabbed at Melbourne food court

  • Hannah McGuire

    Mother of alleged murder victim Hannah McGuire confronts ‘vile’ man who stole $64,000 from fundraiser

  • The silhouette of a pedestrian with the sun peeping out from behind him on a street in Melbourne

    Cold front to bring cooler weather to eastern Australia

  • Moira Deeming

    Moira Deeming should have known she was ‘walking into a disaster’ by attending rally, defamation trial hears

  • Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Dutton ‘diminishes’ Australia on world stage, Wong says, after vow to abolish First Nations ambassador

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Europe

  • Satellite overview of the launch site after the failure of a Russian RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.

    Russia’s new Sarmat ballistic missile ‘blows up during test launch’

    Analysis of satellite images show 60-metre crater at silo suggesting a ‘catastrophic failure’ after ignition
  • The necklace, which resembles tasselled curtain tie-backs

    Necklace worn at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation could fetch £2m at auction

  • The real Brad Pitt promoting his latest work earlier this month.

    Spanish police arrest five people over fake Brad Pitt scam

  • A suited Bruno Retailleau carrying his smartphone and a book called 'Conseil des ministres' in the rain

    French interior minister vows to ‘restore order’ as critics warn of shift to right

  • Giorgia Meloni meets Elon Musk in Rome in June 2023

    Elon Musk to present Atlantic Council global citizen award to Giorgia Meloni

  • Woman with auburn hair wearing white scarf and sunglasses walks by camera

    I too may have been assaulted, says ex-partner of Dominique Pelicot co-defendant

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Middle East

  • Smoke from heavy Israeli air raids on Hezbollah targets billows in southern Lebanon on Monday.

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: Israel launches further attacks on Hezbollah after almost 500 killed in Lebanon

    Israeli airstrikes on ‘dozens’ of alleged Hezbollah targets comes amid fears tensions could escalate into a wider regional war
  • Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.

    Tuesday briefing: How to make sense of the new wave of violence in the Middle East

  • LEBANON-ISRAEL-CONFLICT<br>An image grab taken from an AFPTV video taken on September 23, 2024, shows smoke billowing over the southern suburbs of Beirut after an Israeli strike. The Israeli army said it had conducted a "targeted strike" on the Lebanese capital on September 23, with a Lebanese source saying "an Israeli drone targeted one of Hezbollah's top operatives". (Photo by Mohamad AL GHANDOUR / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMAD AL GHANDOUR/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Nearly 500 killed in Israeli strikes, Lebanon says, as fears of escalation grow – as it happened

  • Children and adults walk past market stalls on a road lined with the wreckage of destroyed buildings

    Benjamin Netanyahu considering mass clearance of northern Gaza

  • Smoke billows from the top of a hill covered in blocks of flats

    Israeli strikes kill 492 in heaviest daily toll in Lebanon since 1975-90 civil war

  • Mural of Imad Mughniyeh, Hassan Nasrallah and Qassem Soleimani next to a damaged building.

    New military conflict between Israel and Hezbollah would follow 40 years of shadow war

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South and Central Asia

  • Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) and Jayantha Jayasuriya greet each other by pressing their palms together in front of their chests

    Anura Kumara Dissanayake: who is Sri Lanka’s new leftist president?

    JVP leader has positioned himself as opposite to political elites but not all have greeted his win with optimism
  • Anura Kumara Dissanayake among supporters

    Sri Lankan leftist candidate Dissanayake claims presidential election

  • Pakistan police badges

    Police in southern Pakistan shoot dead blasphemy suspect

  • The face of Jagtar Singh Johal, who in 2017 was bundled into a car by police and tortured, according to Reprieve.

    British activist denied bail after years in Indian jail without trial

  • A young child receives a vaccine shot while their sibling waits behind them. The healthcare workers are covered head to toe in burkas.

    Afghanistan risks polio outbreak as Taliban restricts women from delivering vaccines

  • People stand on their doorsteps as a rescue boat moves along a flooded street

    Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe

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UK

  • Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

    UK weather: commuters face travel disruption after heavy rainfall

    Thirty-five flood warnings in place across England after some areas get more than 100mm of rain in 48 hours
  • Tiny baby in white hat

    Hospital where baby died from infected feed had ‘entirely unsafe system’

  • Lisa Nandy

    Lisa Nandy: Tories’ ‘violent indifference’ to the arts damaged access to culture

  • Painting of Christopher Marlowe

    Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

  • HMP Brixton buildings on the other side of a tall wire fence with barbed wire at the top

    Nearly half of prisoners at HMP Brixton tell watchdog it is easy to obtain drugs

  • A boulder on a manicured lawn outside of a large house

    Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ discovered under Thomas Hardy’s home

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US

  • Trump speaks at rally

    Trump tells supporters at campaign rally ‘if we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing’ – as it happened

    Republican nominee, at Pennsylvania event, criticizes Kamala Harris over border stance and promises to cut taxes
  • Trump points at rally crowd

    Pennsylvania crucial to White House hopes, Trump says at campaign rally

  • two handcuffed men wearing orange tops and face masks stand in courtroom with other people standing around them

    Tennessee man testifies that he and another man killed rapper Young Dolph

  • A man wearing a gray suit and blue tie speaks as he gestures his hands

    Kerry gives scathing rating on climate action: ‘Is there a letter underneath Z?’

  • The FBI seal outside of a building with tree shadows

    FBI confirms US murders declined in 2023, contrary to Republican claims

  • A man wearing a black turtleneck speaks onstage as he folds his hands together

    Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces new crackdown on illegal content after arrest

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