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Africa

  • The president of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunisia in front of a huge picture of Kais Saied

    Tunisia’s president wins landslide second term after cracking down on opponents

    Kais Saied secured 90.7% of the vote in election on a turnout of just 27.7%, after detaining rival Ayachi Zammel
  • John Crace

    Suddenly, all MPs know where the Chagos Islands are and what’s best for them

    John Crace
  • Planes at the military base on Diego Garcia

    Lammy defends Chagos deal, saying it saves important UK-US military base

  • The US secretary of state Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with the Angola president, João Lourenço, in New York

    Biden to visit Angola as global powers vie for African influence

  • Woman raises her hands in apparent joy after casting her ballot at a polling station

    Democracy campaigners criticise President Saied as polls close in Tunisia

  • A nurse administering mpox vaccine

    Mpox vaccination begins in DRC after 859 die this year

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Americas

  • the X app on a smartphone

    Brazil lifts ban on X after Elon Musk complies with court demands

    Social platform was blocked after tech billionaire failed to name local representatives and pay fines
  • A man standing on a ladder fixes boards over windows of a house as another holds the foot

    Floridians warned ‘you are going to die’ if they don’t evacuate as Milton nears

  • People standing next to flowers, candles and a large photographic portrait of Alejandro Arcos Catalán

    Anger and disgust in Mexico over beheading of newly sworn-in city mayor

  • Stephen Doughty

    UK ‘resolutely committed’ to its overseas territories, says foreign minister

  • Smoke rises from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 in the High Level Forest Area<br>An image taken through a window shows smoke rising from mutual aid wildfire HTZ001 in the High Level Forest Area, which originated from the Northwest Territories in 2023 but flared due to strong winds, near Indian Cabins, Alberta, Canada May 10, 2024. Alberta Wildfire/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe

  • two men examine a gun inside a room with a table covered with guns

    US supreme court will rule on $10bn suit Mexico filed against US gun makers

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Asia Pacific

  • Missing man Tom Phillips and his three children have been seen in bushland in New Zealand’s Waikato

    Fugitive father filmed with children in NZ wilderness three years after disappearing

    Pig hunters captured video of Tom Phillips and his three children in camouflage walking in rugged terrain in the Waikato region
  • José Ramos-Horta

    Ramos-Horta says $74bn Timor Sea gas project could begin within months if Australia signs treaty

  • A man (out of focus) walks past bottles of Martell-branded brandy on a supermarket shelf

    China puts tariffs on EU brandy in escalating trade row with Brussels

  • Team of surgeons at work

    Scientists create surgical stitch to aid healing by electrical stimulation

  • The lawyer Mark Christopher Tolentino with Apollo Quiboloy’s candidacy papework.

    ‘Son of God’ pastor registers from jail to run for Philippines senate election

  • People walk past shops in the popular shopping area of Ueno in Tokyo

    Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff

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Australia

  • Independent senator Fatima Payman at an anti-genocide press conference at Parliament House in Canberra yesterday

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  • Jacob Hersant outside court.

    Prosecutors seek jail time for far-right extremist Jacob Hersant over Nazi salute

  • Troye Sivan Performs At The OVO Arena Wembley<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 27: Charli XCX joins Troye Sivan on stage during the Something to Give Each Other Tour at OVO Arena Wembley on June 27, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Redferns)

    Brat summer down under: Charli xcx to headline 2025 Laneway festival lineup

  • Patricia Karvelas who will be taking over Radio National Breakfast from long-time host Fran Kelly. Radio National ABC. Australia

    Patricia Karvelas to leave ABC’s Radio National Breakfast after three years as host

  • Participants at a pro-choice rally in Brisbane on 27 September

    Crisafulli under pressure as second LNP MP foreshadows winding back Queensland abortion rights

  • University of Melbourne

    Australian universities tumble in world rankings as some record worst result ever

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Europe

  • Joe Biden speaking about the response to Hurricane Helene and preparations for Milton on Tuesday

    Zelenskyy ‘victory plan’ summit in doubt after Joe Biden pulls out

    US president prepares for landfall of Hurricane Milton as German chancellor says meeting will be rescheduled
  • Paula Badosa in action against Coco Gauff at the China Open earlier this month.

    Spanish tennis star Paula Badosa apologises after being accused of racism

  • Viktor Orbán

    Viktor Orbán would celebrate Trump victory with ‘bottles of champagne’

  • Christian Brückner arriving at court in Braunschweig

    Prosecutors to appeal after Madeleine McCann suspect acquitted in separate rape trial

  • Interpol released images of 'The girl with the 10 pence coin' found France in 1982, Rita Roberts, a British woman found 31 years ago in Belgium and identified through the appeal, and 'The woman who wasn’t alone', found in a hotel room in Spain in 1999.

    Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases

  • A Tesla Cybertruck on a street.

    Tesla Cybertruck ‘too big and sharp’ for European roads, say campaigners

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Middle East

  • Smoke billows over Beirut southern suburbs.

    Middle East crisis: Lammy to visit Bahrain and Jordan – as it happened

    This blog has now closed. You can see all our coverage of the Israel-Gaza war here, and our latest report on Israel’s attacks on Lebanon here.
  • Blue sky can be seen through a hole in a ruined building

    Israeli military deploys fourth division in Lebanon ground offensive

  • Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian shaking the hand of Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud

    Could Saudi-Iran talks prevent Lebanon from turning into a second Gaza?

  • Selfridges department store

    Saudi wealth fund buys 40% stake in Selfridges department store

  • Delegates stand at the opening of the 54rd UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 September 2023

    ‘A slap in the face to victims of abuse’: UN urged to reject Saudi Arabia’s bid to join Human Rights Council

  • a woman speaks at a podium as a man looks on

    Kamala Harris pays tribute to victims of 7 October attacks on first anniversary

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South and Central Asia

  • Omar Abdullah

    Opposition Congress party wins power in Indian-administered Kashmir

    Narendra Modi’s BJP loses first election since stripping the region of its autonomy and statehood
  • Medical students and doctors attend a protest in August after the rape and murder of a doctor

    Indian police charge man over doctor’s rape and murder in Kolkata hospital

  • People walk amid wood and other debris strewn across the ground next to some collapsed huts

    Myanmar military kills dozens in heaviest airstrikes since 2021 coup

  • Fay Manners amid snow-covered mountains

    Mountaineers who were stranded in Himalayas describe loss of their gear

  • People under a motorway bridge holding flags and placards demanding the release of Imran Khan and 'our abducted chief minister'

    Pakistan bans Pashtun group as government cracks down on dissent

  • Paramilitary soldiers stand guard on a road by the site of an explosion

    Two killed in explosion near Karachi airport targeting Chinese nationals

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UK

  • the EE sign reflected in shop glass

    UK advertising watchdog cracks down on misleading broadband price ads

    ASA says telecoms firms must scrap ads that do not give enough prominence in marketing to mid-contract rises
  • Emma Pinchbeck

    Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

  • A food bank worker carries a basket of tinned tomatoes

    More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds

  • Daniel Khalife

    Ex-soldier Daniel Khalife, accused of helping Iran, wanted to be MI6 ‘double agent’

  • Rachel Reeves

    Reeves to press ahead with plans to borrow billions for investment

  • A pair of black glasses with blue lenses sitting on a black surface

    AI glasses to anticipating falls: firms vie to win £1m for dementia technology

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US

  • People prepare for arrival of Hurricane Milton

    Hurricane Milton intensifies to category 5 again as Biden warns storm could be worst in over 100 years – as it happened

    National Hurricane Center announces sustained winds of up to 165mph, as US president says his team is doing everything ‘to save lives’. This blog is now closed.
  • cars at near standstill on a highway

    Traffic and trepidation as Floridians scramble to flee Hurricane Milton’s path

  • Water flowing down the Klamath River where the Copco 2 dam once stood in Siskiyou county, California.

    Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change

  • Joe Biden at the White House press briefing room in Washington DC on 4 October.

    Biden sets 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes

  • Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris participates in media interviews in New York<br>Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris reacts, as she appears on ABC's "The View" in New York, U.S., October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

    Kamala Harris tells Howard Stern Trump is a ‘sore loser’ in interview blitz

  • Man in ball cap loads cat in hard plastic carrier into front of pickup truck.

    US south-east reels from ‘unspeakable tragedy’ of Helene as new storm looms

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