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Africa

  • Bowls of fruit and vegetables at a market stall

    Move over, Med diet – plantains and cassava can be as healthy as tomatoes and olive oil, say researchers

    Findings from Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro region indicate traditional eating habits in rural Africa can boost the immune system and reduce inflammation
  • Three members of the Hawks South African police unit standing around a car in helmets and bulletproof vests

    US pastor kidnapped during sermon in South Africa rescued after shootout

  • Protesters in the street outside the Foreign Office in London.

    UK conference on Sudan fails to set up contact group for ceasefire talks

  • An Algerian flag flies at the embassy in Paris.

    France expels 12 Algerian officials as row over alleged kidnapping escalates

  • A woman holds a toddler while a measuring tape is placed around the child's upper arm. Other women and young children wait in the background.

    Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war

  • Activists carrying banners and Sudan flags march along a road. One banner reads 'Sanction UAE for funding Sudan genocide' while another says 'hands off Sudan'.

    Leaked UN experts report raises fresh concerns over UAE’s role in Sudan war

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Americas

  • Liberal leader and prime minister Mark Carney, left, shakes hands with Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre following the French-language federal leaders' debate, in Montreal, with Yves-François Blanche of the separatist Bloc Québécois in the background.

    ‘Who is going to face Mr Trump’: Canada leaders’ debate dominated by US crisis

    Mark Carney’s Liberals have surged in the polls since Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada, scuppering Conservative calls for change after Trudeau era
  • a man surrounded by microphones

    US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García

  • men with their hands up walking through an airport corridor

    US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations

  • a man in a suit speaks

    Canada’s Green party removed at last minute from election debates

  • a woman walks in a crowd

    Ecuador’s VP accuses president of ‘violating democracy’ in election win

  • Man is mobbed by political supporters

    Trump effect leaves Canada’s Conservatives facing catastrophic loss

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Asia Pacific

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Putin’s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail – but Russia has wider ambitions

    Russia remains a key arms supplier in South-east Asia, and Trump’s unstable leadership is providing more opportunities to make inroads
  • people walking

    The mysterious firing of a Chinese professor has Asian students on edge: ‘Brings chills to our spines’

  • An aerial view of the British Steel plant, with large cooling towers in the foreground

    China accuses UK politicians of ‘arrogance’ in British Steel row

  • Bridget McKenzie

    Bridget McKenzie admits she was wrong to claim Russia and China want Albanese to win election

  • A laptop keyboard and Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen

    Nvidia expects to take $5.5bn hit as US tightens AI chip export rules to China

  • Britain's energy secretary Ed Miliband sits at a table with UK and China flags

    China to snub UK energy summit amid row over infrastructure projects

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Australia

  • The leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening

    Climate scientists, environmentalists, Labor and Greens condemn opposition leader for comments at Wednesday election debate
  • Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull

    Turnbull says negative gearing ‘examined by every government’ – as it happened

  • Zoe Daniel

    Zoe Daniel says team had nothing to do with Climate 200-backed robocall criticised by Coalition

  • Jagadish Chennupati

    Australia to woo US’s ‘smartest minds’ disfranchised by Trump research cuts

  • Parents of Harper Atkinson, Leah Pitman and Dustin Atkinson.

    Sydney hospital where two children died recently is at risk of failure, scathing report finds

  • Aerial view of houses in an Adelaide suburb

    Adelaide becomes fifth Australian capital where median house value exceeds $1m

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Europe

  • (from left) Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz at a meeting in Riyadh in February.

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    Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff in Paris to meet European ministers about Ukraine – Europe live

    US state secretary and White House envoy expected to meet French president Emmanuel Macron, along with ministers from the UK, France and Germany
  • A Yodel van making a delivery in Cornwall

    Polish parcel locker network InPost buys UK delivery firm Yodel for £106m

  • A person walks past burnt-out buildings

    US officials to meet European leaders in Paris to discuss Ukraine war

  • a man clapping in a crowd

    Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia

  • Tourists take pictures on the Rialto bridge with the canal in the background

    Venice’s €5 tourist fee returns – and will double for last-minute day-trippers

  • Emmanuel Macron

    Ringleaders of attacks on French jails will be punished, Macron says

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Middle East

  • People with yellow water containers stand surrounded by white tents

    No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister

    Israel Katz says blocking aid is ‘one of the main pressure levers’ on Hamas while military announces it has turned 30% of Gaza into buffer zone
  • Gideon Sa'ar speaks as he stands behind a lectern

    Israeli minister met David Lammy on ‘private’ visit to UK, Foreign Office says

  • A young woman in a hijab walks among the rubble of Jabalia's destroyed buildings

    Members of leading British Jewish body condemn Israel’s latest actions in Gaza

  • Back view of man with newspaper

    Trump envoy demands Iran eliminate nuclear programme in apparent U-turn

  • Workers inspect the damage

    One person killed and several wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital

  • Red Crescent workers digging in sand

    The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline

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South and Central Asia

  • Tulip Siddiq

    Tulip Siddiq decries Bangladesh arrest warrant as ‘politically motivated smear’

    Former City minister denies allegations she received land illegally from her aunt, the ousted PM Sheikh Hasina
  • Tulip Siddiq

    Arrest warrant issued in Bangladesh for UK MP Tulip Siddiq

  • A man carries a sack on his shoulder in front of signage of a woman drinking from a green bottle

    Weather tracker: early heatwave sweeps northern India

  • Peter and Barbie Reynolds.

    Elderly British couple ‘interrogated 29 times by Taliban’ since imprisonment

  • people light candles at a memorial showing photos of deceased people

    US extradites Canadian citizen to India for alleged role in deadly Mumbai attacks

  • A woman grips a pink iPhone that is part of a display of three phones

    Apple said to be flying iPhones from India to US to avoid Trump tariffs

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UK

  • Campaigners celebrate outside the supreme court on Wednesday.

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    Gender ruling ‘a victory for common sense, but only if you recognise trans people exist’, says equalities watchdog – live

    Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission says trans people ‘have rights, and their rights must be respected’
  • For Women Scotland members speaking to the media after the supreme court’s ruling on Wednesday.

    New rules for public bodies expected ‘by summer’ after UK gender ruling

  • A Sainsbury's worker stacks shelves in a store

    Sainsbury’s joins UK retailers’ £1bn profits club but warns of flat year ahead

  • Mishal Husain

    Mishal Husain criticises ‘bombastic’ presenting after BBC departure

  • A group of primary school students in red uniforms sitting in class, shot from the back

    A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

  • A woman sits on a sofa while talking to a doctor

    GPs in England will be able to claim £20 for every time patient is not sent to hospital

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US

  • Students on campus at Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live

    President says university should lose government research contracts after it refused demands to accept outside political supervision
  • A woman looks at an online shop on her phone as she sits before a coffee table with an open package on it

    Temu and Shein warn of US price hikes from next week due to Trump tariffs

  • People walk up steps towards a door

    Trump official threatens Harvard foreign student admissions as more universities rally in support

  • White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt answers questions in Washington.

    Trump press secretary attacks Maryland senator for traveling to El Salvador – as it happened

  • Dutch angle shot of a man in a green and black checked shirt and a red cap standing in front of a bookstore receiving a book from someone to his right and passing a book to someone on his left.

    ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

  • Elon Musk flashes a black T-shirt that says "Doge" outside at night

    Doge tried to embed staffers in criminal justice non-profit, says group

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