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Africa

  • Col Assimi Goïita, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, and Capt Ibrahim Traoré (R) salute as they stand to attention at the summit. All are wearing military uniform

    Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the region
  • Man in green and blue T.shirt beside two other men, one in army camouflage jacket, outside building

    Kenyan cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges over 400 deaths

  • Fishing boats, or pirogues, at Mauritanian port

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

  • 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

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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

  • Vehicle-to-grid enabled electric vehicles used in ANU project

    Electric vehicles could help ease Australia’s energy instability by sending power back to the grid

    Researchers say EV models with vehicle-to-grid capability will be a huge and flexible resource able to respond to emergencies
  • Illustration of a computer

    Students under near constant surveillance at Exclusive Brethren-linked schools, insiders claim

  • A gambler checks his mobile phone

    Labor urged to outlaw betting ‘rewards’ luring Australians into gambling

  • A view outside the Cairns district police headquarters

    Concerns over 13-year-old in Queensland watch house ignored days before alleged sexual assault

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    Jacinta Allan’s message is clear: Melbourne airport has missed its chance to fast track rail link

  • Palestinian flag at the Sovereignty Day Rally on the forecourt of Parliament House after they marched over the lake from the city in Canberra this morning. Friday 26th January 2024. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia.

    Who are the grassroots Muslim groups with an eye on Labor seats?

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Europe

  • Gabriel Attal walks out of the Hôtel Matignon holding pieces of A4 paper

    Macron asks Attal to stay as PM for now as France faces hung parliament

    President seeks to ensure stability during transition after green-left alliance’s surprise electoral win
  • Voters in Nantes after the exit poll.

    France: Emmanuel Macron asks Gabriel Attal to stay on as PM for time being amid political deadlock – as it happened

  • People gathered around the collapsed roof and rubble of the children's hospital in Kyiv

    Kyiv children’s hospital evacuated after power and oxygen supplies lost in missile strike; Italy accuses Russia of war crime – as it happened

  • A group of rescuers search a destroyed hospital building

    Kyiv children’s hospital hit as Russian missile attack kills at least 29 in Ukraine

  • The Bank of England headquarters in London last week.

    Bank of England policymaker argues for holding interest rates until inflation pressures ease – as it happened

  • French leftwing campaigners cheer and wave flags on a public monument in Paris that is covered in graffiti.

    Political paralysis looms in France after shock election result

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Middle East

  • Palestinians carry their belongings as the flee

    Thousands of Palestinians flee amid heavy Israeli attack on Gaza City

    Civil emergency service says dozens killed in strikes launched after Israeli military issued evacuation orders
  • A Palestinian boy checks the damage in a house hit by Israeli bombardment in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on 7 July

    Israeli minister says hostage deal with Hamas would be ‘humiliation’ as Netanyahu offered ‘political safety net’ by opposition – as it happened

  • 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

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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

  • Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan

    Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan accused of being ‘serial tax evaders’

    Self-proclaimed misogynist ‘brazen’ about refusing to pay tax on revenue from online businesses, court told
  • Green fields and fences under a blue sky

    Labour’s housing plans will use land twice size of Milton Keynes, expert says

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

    Live
    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – UK politics live

  • Thames Water’s Deephams sewage treatment works. Whitehall briefings termed the company a ‘critical risk’.

    Poor state of Thames Water a ‘critical risk’ to UK, Starmer and Reeves told

  • Emily Thornberry giving a speech after being declared winner in Islington South and Finsbury on Friday.

    Emily Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be given cabinet role by Starmer

  • Scaffolding around new homes under construction

    Labour must resist housebuilders’ pleas to weaken green standards, experts say

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US

  • Joe Biden backstage before the debate against Donald Trump.

    Live
    Biden tells critics ‘challenge me at the convention’ after warning Democrats that talk of replacing him helps Trump – live

    President signals irritation in TV appearance; Biden sends letter to congressional Democrats saying he has no plans to end campaign
  • a man in a suit and tie looks down

    Alec Baldwin attends first day of trial for Rust film set shooting

  • woman's face pictured in shadows

    Gretchen Whitmer says she won’t run as nominee even if Biden stands down

  • a man in a suit speaks into a microphone

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

  • Debris and flood waters from Hurricane Beryl cover the main roadway in Surfside Beach, Texas.

    Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas, killing one and leaving 2m without power – as it happened

  • People walk along the coastline in Matagorda, Texas, on Sunday before the arrival of Hurricane Beryl.

    More than 2 million without power as Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas

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