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Africa

  • Protesters from the Maxaquene neighbourhood prepare to burn the flag of the Mozambique Liberation Front party during a demonstration in Maputo on 24 October.

    Death toll rises as protesters rage against Mozambique election result

    Police accused of killing at least 11 unarmed bystanders since 24 October, amid claims poll was rigged
  • People cheer in the streets in the early hours wearing T-shirts with the UDC logo and Duma Boko's face

    Botswana president concedes defeat in election after party’s six-decade rule

  • People walk with belongings along storm damaged path with vehicles swept to the side

    Weather tracker: More rain forecast in Spain as storms push in

  • A person holds a sheet of paper titled 'Live radio broadcast of the sentencing of Dominic Ongwen' with a photograph of Ongwen

    Not one government has paid into fund for victims of Uganda warlord, says ICC

  • People walking near the open air enrance to what may be a compound with UNHCR banners on either side of the entrance

    Almost two dozen countries at high risk of acute hunger, UN report reveals

  • People sit by the side of a dirt road next to tents

    Sudan militia accused of mass killings and sexual violence as attacks escalate

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Americas

  • Bolivian police walk by a flaming roadblock.

    Supporters of Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales take about 20 soldiers hostage

    Morales and current president are locked into a standoff for ruling party’s nomination in next year’s presidential contest
  • Marielle Franco’s family react to the verdict in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

    Marielle Franco murder: ex-police jailed for decades over crime that shook Brazil

  • National Guard patrol while standing out of car roofs in a procession and driving down the road

    Authorities in Mexican state warn residents to avoid Halloween costumes

  • a silhouette of an IV bag

    Canada judge halts medically assisted death of woman in rare injunction

  • A woman wearing a mask

    UN rules forcible sterilizations of women in Peru ‘crime against humanity’

  • Fossil of world's oldest tadpole, in Buenos Aires<br>A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

    Scientists discover oldest ever giant tadpole fossil in Argentina

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Asia Pacific

  • A female performer sings Karaoke songs on the banks of the Love River during the Lantern Festival.

    Karaoke and Kong-rey: Taiwan sings through biggest typhoon in decades

    A ‘typhoon day’ has come to mean one thing for many – a chance to indulge their favourite pastime
  • Antony Blinken with Cho Tae-yul at a press conference

    About 8,000 North Korean soldiers at Ukraine border, says US

  • Yellow police tape in front of a white car with tree on top of it in urban setting

    Typhoon Kong-rey: biggest storm in decades wreaks destruction in Taiwan

  • Composite showing Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Anthony Albanese against a backdrop of the White House and an nuclear submarine

    How will the outcome of the US election affect Australia, Aukus and our region?

  • Temu logo on a smartphone

    EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products

  • A passerby in Seoul watches news footage of a North Korean missile test.

    North Korea missile test reaches record height and duration, says Japan

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Australia

  • Students sit on the lawn near the Faculty of Law building at The University of Sydney

    University graduates to save $5,500, on average, in Albanese plan to wipe 20% of student debt

    Federal government overhaul to remove close to $20bn of student debt for 3 million Australians
  • Victoria police

    Police search for attacker after man shot dead in busy nightlife area in Melbourne

  • Anthony Albanese

    University graduates to save $680 a year, on average, as Albanese announces increase to Hecs threshold

  • Members of Queensland's truth-telling and healing inquiry, Ivan Ingram, Vonda Malone, Joshua Creamer, Cheryl Buchanan and Roslyn Atkinson

    Queensland truth-telling inquiry chair says premier ‘hugely disrespectful’ to demand work cease via media

  • The New South Wales fire brigade conducts a hazard reduction in Sydney in July 2024. Fire dangers are predicted on Sunday for parts of NSW, including Sydney.

    Fire danger in southern Australia as weather bureau warns of ‘damaging winds’ and soaring temperatures

  • A man gambling at a poker machine seen from behind

    NSW pokies club promoted rewards scheme on first day of gambling harm awareness week, emails show

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Europe

  • Soldiers in street cleaning away mud.

    Spain floods disaster: 5,000 more troops drafted in to deal with aftermath

    Pedro Sánchez orders largest ever peacetime troop deployment to deal with flooding that has killed 211 people
  • Sheep look for water in a dry pond amid a parched landscape

    ‘Welfare for the rich’: how farm subsidies wrecked Europe’s landscapes

  • Warm light at the Wadden sea dike in the Netherlands

    Revealed: the growing income gap between Europe’s biggest and smallest farms

  • Rescue service workers picking through rubble

    Roof collapse kills at least 14 people at Serbian train station

  • The Wagner group emblem and a armed fighter inside a vehicle

    Man jailed for claiming he had fought for Wagner group in Ukraine

  • Man lifting tall Christmas tree into back of van

    Imported Christmas trees cost more thanks to post-Brexit checks

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Middle East

  • Mohammed bin Salman, Gianni Infantino and Vladimir Putin sitting in a row in a football stadium

    ‘It’s created an internal shitstorm’: turmoil at UK law firm accused of ‘whitewashing’ Saudi World Cup report

    Sources say key people at Clifford Chance were not consulted, as it emerges another company refused job due to reputational concerns
  • Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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    Middle East crisis live: Iran threatens Israel and US with ‘crushing response’

  • Rescuers in Beirut sift through the debris of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.

    Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon and Gaza kill dozens as rockets are fired into Israel

  • Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday

    Middle East crisis: North Gaza situation ‘apocalyptic’ with whole population at risk of ‘imminent death’, say UN chiefs – as it happened

  • Rubble and wrecked homes in Gaza

    Israeli assault has caused ‘apocalyptic’ situation in northern Gaza, UN warns

  • The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday morning

    Lebanon’s PM denies US asked him to declare unilateral ceasefire with Israel

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South and Central Asia

  • Pollution is the biggest health threat in India, with a report saying Delhi residents lose up to 8.5 years of life.

    ‘More toxic than ever’: Lahore and Delhi choked by smog as ‘pollution season’ begins

    As air pollution hits toxic levels, one proposal is to introduce a ‘smog diplomacy’ initiative between Pakistan and India
  • A police commando stands guard in front of a restaurant in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka.

    Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay in shock after terror threat to Israeli tourists

  • a man in front of a microphone

    Putin calls for alternative international payment system at Brics summit

  • People playing cricket on Arugam Bay beach.

    Israelis told to urgently leave Sri Lankan tourist areas after terrorist threat

  • Sikh protesters cut up an Indian flag outside of the Consulate General of India.

    Tuesday briefing: Canada puts India ‘on notice’ as row over alleged killing of Sikh activists escalates

  • a panoramic shot of the skyscraper across the City of London's skyline

    Regulators urged to examine UK business dealings with Bangladeshi ex-minister

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UK

  • Kemi Badenoch, sitting next to Robert Jenrick on one side and her husband, Hamish, on the other, who is jubilantly clapping and wildly grinning.

    Hard to overstate challenges Kemi Badenoch faces as leader of the opposition

    There are questions over whether new Tory leader can hold splintered party together, or even piece together a worthy shadow cabinet
  • Robert Jenrick congratulates Kemi Badenoch on winning the Conservative Party leadership contest.

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    Tory leadership election live: Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader

  • Badenoch delivers a speech

    Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

  • A female teacher in a classroom with pupils

    UK schools boost maternity pay to stem exodus of female teachers in their 30s

  • A sea eagle preying on a fish.

    ‘You have to disguise your human form’: how sea eagles are being returned to Severn estuary after 150 years

  • Comic Janey Godley with her dog Honey in 2020

    Scottish comedian Janey Godley dies aged 63

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US

  • A Hawaii beach with a surfer walking.

    Shark bites off surfer’s leg in Hawaii

    A 61-year-old man was surfing on Friday morning when a shark bit him, completely severing his leg
  • Donald Trump during a campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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    US election live: ‘improbably tight’ polls questioned by experts as race enters final days

  • FILE - Grandparents of victim Libby German, Becky Patty, left, and her husband Mike Patty, speak during a news conference for the latest updates on the investigation of the double homicide of Liberty German and Abigail Williams on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Ind. (J. Kyle Keener/The Pharos-Tribune via AP, File)

    Indiana prosecutors claim man confessed to killing two teens on hiking trail in 2017

  • students sit at a high school

    US students score win in push for fossil fuel divestment by private high schools

  • Elon Musk in Maga cap.

    Elon Musk’s canvassing operation sued in California for alleged labor law violations

  • 2024-11-02-trail

    2024 US presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

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