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Africa

  • A painting showing men in 18th century clothing gathered around talking

    Lloyd’s Register apologises for its role in trafficking enslaved people from Africa

    The maritime group, founded in 1760 by merchants and underwriters, issued the apology after commissioning research into its links to slavery
  • Man in military beret

    Libyan general released after arrest in Turin on ICC warrant for alleged war crimes

  • An image purported to be of Tiger (James Neo Tshoaeli) who was arrested in after rescue operation in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illegal gold mine.

    South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’

  • Firefighters extinguishing the remains of a fuel tanker after an explosion

    Seventy killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes

  • a child cries while receiving a vaccine as a person holds them

    Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

  • Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrives at Beijing Capital international airport before a summit in September 2024.

    US imposes sanctions on Sudan’s army chief over tactics in deadly civil war

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Americas

  • a man hugs someone, family members smiling around him

    Families fear for Cuban prisoners after Trump reneges on release deal

    US president reinstates Cuba on terror list despite Biden deal to release prisoners jailed over demonstrations
  • A car driving alongside a forest fire

    Brazil fires consumed wilderness area larger than Italy in 2024 – report

  • a group of people wait in line outside

    Trump’s blitz of new policies gives anti-immigration beliefs a troubling platform

  • US President Donald Trump (C) and first lady Melania Trump (R) speaking to India's prime minister Narendra Modi (L) during a visit to India in 2020.

    ‘Now it’s our turn to shine!’ How world leaders greeted Trump’s inauguration

  • migrants are apprehended near a border fence

    Trump declares national border emergency in immigration crackdown

  • Donald Trump.

    Trump claims to be ‘peacemaker’ as he vows to ‘take back’ Panama canal

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Asia Pacific

  • Margo Neas holds her cat Mittens at her home in Melbourne, Australia

    Cat becomes accidental frequent flyer after being left on a plane by mistake

    Mittens made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia after she was not spotted in cargo hold
  • Vladimir Putin sitting at a desk looking at a video screen showing Xi Jinping.

    Putin and Xi hold video call in show of unity hours after Trump inauguration

  • Yoon Suk Yeol sitting with head bowed in court

    South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol denies ordering troops to ‘drag out’ lawmakers

  • Hong Kong’s chief justice, Andrew Cheung, speaking from behind a lectern at the ceremonial opening of the city's legal year

    Hong Kong chief justice claims overseas judges have left due to ‘orchestrated harassment’

  • A schoolchild has a free meal at an elementary school in Indonesia

    Food poisoning outbreak mars Indonesian president’s flagship free meal program

  • In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang

    Australia exposed to modern slave labour imports and many businesses ‘ignoring the facts’, commissioner warns

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Australia

  • ABC executive Chris Oliver-Taylor

    ABC executive who sacked Antoinette Lattouf departs broadcaster

    Exclusive: Chief content officer Chris Oliver-Taylor’s role was substantially downgraded by Kim Williams
  • Medlow Dam in the Blue Mountains, NSW

    ‘Drinking PFAS’: water providers call for broad ban on ‘forever chemicals’ amid proliferation fears

  • Jo Haylen

    Threat of more Sydney train chaos lingers despite government’s pay deal hopes

  • Composite image featuring logos for Penguin Random House and Text Publishing

    Australian independent publishing stalwart Text acquired by global giant Penguin Random House

  • NSW police badge

    Sydney man arrested over Newtown synagogue fire

  • A house under construction in Sydney.

    Housing completions fall behind accord target – as it happened

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Europe

  • Donald Tusk addresses the European Parliament on Wednesday

    Live
    Tusk tells Europeans ‘keep your heads high’ but warns ‘time of comfort is over’ – Europe live

    Leader of Poland, which holds the EU presidency, tells parliament that conflict and uncontrolled technological progress is creating challenges for bloc
  • Firefighters working to extinguish the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel at night

    Dozens dead as people jump from windows to escape fire at Turkish ski resort hotel

  • Musk gestures inside Capital One arena on Trump's inauguration day in Washington<br>Elon Musk gestures at the podium inside the Capital One arena on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Segar

    ‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute

  • Soldiers prepare to fire a howitzer on the battlefield in Ukraine

    Zelenskyy says Russia-Ukraine peace deal would require 200,000 allied troops

  • Múte B Egede speaks at a press conference

    ‘We don’t want to be Americans,’ says Greenland prime minister – as it happened

  • Crowds outside the Avignon courthouse, one holding up a sign reading: 'Merci pour votre courage, Gisèle Pelicot'

    France needs ‘clearer’ rape laws that include consent, report finds

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Middle East

  • An aid convoy makes its way past destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza town of Rafah

    Qatari, US and Egyptian negotiators set up Cairo hub to shore up Gaza ceasefire

    Communication lines open 24 hours intended to avoid breakdown over reported violations and other issues
  • Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik

    Middle East crisis: US pick for UN affirms rightwing view on West Bank; UN chief urges Israeli forces to exercise ‘maximum restraint’ – as it happened

  • Woman looks at camera during hearing

    Trump UN nominee backs Israeli claims of biblical rights to West Bank

  • Houthi supporters rally in Sana’a.

    Strike Houthis while Iran is weak, UN-backed Yemeni government urges west

  • Herzi Halevi listening to an officer

    Israel’s top general resigns, citing ‘terrible’ 7 October security failures

  • Israeli army vehicles parked on a street as people walk by while pushing a bicycle

    Israeli security forces launch operation in West Bank city of Jenin

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South and Central Asia

  • Climbers at the Mount Everest base camp

    Nepal increases permit fee for Mount Everest climbers by 36%

    Cost of scaling world’s tallest peak rises for first time in nearly a decade to $15,000
  • two men hug amid a crowd

    Two Americans freed from Afghanistan in prisoner swap for Taliban figure

  • A Kolkata police officer runs alongside a prison van carrying Sanjay Roy

    Indian police volunteer gets life sentence for raping and murdering trainee doctor

  • In this file photo from 2017 smoke billow from Myanmar's Rakhine state. \

    Myanmar airstrike on detention camp kills dozens, armed opposition group says

  • Sheikh Hasina

    UK MPs withdraw report criticising current Bangladesh regime over ‘bias’

  • People shout and raise their hands and hold placards

    Indian court finds police volunteer guilty of rape and murder of trainee doctor

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UK

  • Prince Harry outside the high court in London In June 2023

    Prince Harry settles legal claim against Sun publisher

    NGN apologises to royal ‘for phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators’
  • Kyle Clifford.

    Kyle Clifford admits murdering Carol Hunt and daughters in crossbow killings

  • Keir Starmer says the technology is there to set up age-verification checks for buying knives online and it must be used.

    Live
    Starmer announces plan to end ‘shockingly easy’ teenage access to knives online – UK politics live

  • Drax power station

    Burning wood for power not necessary for UK’s energy goals, analysis finds

  • Mike Osman dressed as Donald Trump

    ‘When I’m not Trump, I’m just Mike’: UK impersonator enjoys re-election boom

  • Rachel Reeves at Davos

    UK to review visas to entice more AI and science workers, says Reeves

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US

  • An Israeli military vehicle operating in Jenin on Wednesday

    Live
    Middle East crisis live: Israel presses on with Jenin raid as Jordanian minister warns West Bank could ‘explode’

    Further shooting and explosions reported after 10 killed yesterday as Ayman Safadi tells Davos meeting of fears for territory
  • Donald Trump speaking on Tuesday

    Live
    Trump threatens China sanctions and puts diversity staff on leave – US politics live

  • Portrait of David Miliband wearing a suit and tie against a backdrop of a bridge over a river

    David Miliband warns rise of ‘alternative facts’ threatens global vaccination drive

  • Donald Trump gesticulates as he speaks at a podium

    US federal diversity staff put on leave as Trump orders end to schemes

  • Episcopal bishop speaks at pulpit

    Bishop calls on Trump to ‘have mercy’ on migrants and LGBTQ+ people

  • people wave US flag in the dark

    Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders among January 6 prisoners released by Trump

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