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Africa

  • The arm size of a Sudanese child suffering from malnutrition is examined at a refugee camp in Chad.

    Europe: Sudan war ‘world’s worst child displacement crisis,’ Paris conference told – as it happened

    Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, says ‘every life counts equally, whether in Ukraine, in Gaza, or in Sudan’
  • Young men in civilian clothes with guns pose with soldiers in uniform in Monrovia, Liberia

    Liberia senate votes to establish war crimes court

  • a woman carries water back to her village

    Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns

  • Semi-uniformed men fire their AK-47 assault rifles in the air in a city

    UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

  • A Sudanese refugee child receives medical treatment in the Adre transition camp, on the border with Sudan in Adre, Chad, 05 April 2024 (issued 07 April 2024).

    Sudanese refugees in Chad unable to access medical care for war injuries

  • An unidentified purported Russian military trainer speaks to the media next to an airplane

    Russian military trainers arrive in Niger as African country pulls away from US

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Americas

  • US stock image of a blue postal sidewalk boxes

    Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years

    Patrice Runner, 57, of Canada was convicted in June of multiple counts of defrauding ‘millions of older and vulnerable Americans’
  • rocky beach on an island

    Canada hands ‘long-overdue’ title over more than 200 islands to Haida Nation

  • Rally to demand 'maximum sentence' for former US diplomat Victor Rocha<br>epa11267799 Members of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance hold placards during a rally demanding the 'maximum sentence' for former US diplomat and alleged Cuban spy, Victor Rocha, in front of the Federal Court Wilke D. Ferguson Jr., in Miami, Florida, USA, 09 April 2024. Former US diplomat of Colombian origin, Victor Manuel Rocha, was arrested in Miami in December 2023, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba's government for decades. EPA/CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH

    Ex-US ambassador sentenced to 15 years in prison for serving as secret agent for Cuba

  • Canadian and Chinese flags.

    Canada spies under pressure over foreign meddling reports

  • People gather to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the attack on the AMIA community center in Buenos Aires<br>People hold up portraits of victims of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) community center as they gather to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2018. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Argentina court blames Iran for deadly 1994 bombing of Jewish center

  • dry banks of reservoir with low water levels

    Colombians told to shower with a partner as drought hits capital water supplies

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Asia Pacific

  • Warner Bros Discovery Announces Plans To Close Newshub In New Zealand<br>AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 28: In this photo illustration the Newshub homepage is displayed on a laptop, alongside a news article on the networks pending closure on an iPhone on February 28, 2024 in Auckland, New Zealand. Warner Bros Discovery announced plans to close Newshub in June with consultations to take place until a final decision is made in April. (Photo illustration by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

    Newshub: parts of axed New Zealand media outlet to continue in new deal

    Newshub owner Warner Bros Discovery strikes deal with Stuff to provide bulletins amid concerns over the country’s shrinking media market
  • Olaf Scholz attends an event with students at Tongji University in Shanghai, China

    German chancellor urges Chinese industry bosses to play fair in EU market

  • Wang Quanzhang, left, and his wife Li Wenzu with their son in 2015

    China continues to persecute family of dissidents unlawfully, finds report

  • Manasseh Sogavare

    As Solomon Islands’ election looms, China’s influence on the Pacific country draws scrutiny

  • A fishing cat in Peam Krasop wildlife sanctuary

    ‘We found 700 different species’: astonishing array of wildlife discovered in Cambodia mangroves

  • Chinese top official Zhao Leji meeting with his North Korean counterpart Choe Ryong-hae

    China reaffirms ties with North Korea in high-level meeting

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Australia

  • Police forensic officers searching for evidence outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church, where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was attacked on Monday night

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    Australia news live: Dutton ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with PM after Sydney church stabbing; Lehrmann withdraws from ‘presumption of innocence’ conference

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  • Anthony Albanese

    Bondi Junction stabbing: Albanese offers citizenship to French man who confronted attacker with bollard

  • Palestinian tent camp

    Palestinians were refused Australian visitor visas due to concerns they would not ‘stay temporarily’

  • Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci

    Senate supermarkets inquiry threatens to hold Woolworths boss Brad Banducci in contempt

  • Screenshot of livestream video of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanual being allegedly stabbed

    Sydney church stabbing: police treating as terrorist attack the alleged stabbing of bishop during livestreamed mass

  • Police at the Christ the Good Shepherd church in Sydney’s western suburb of Wakeley

    Crowds clash with police after bishop allegedly stabbed during mass in Sydney

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Europe

  • Young middle-aged man with coifed, graying brown hair, tortoiseshell glasses, dark suit and red tie.

    Mike Johnson unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid as pressure rises

    Speaker rejects pressure to approve package sent over by Senate, leaving its path to passage deeply uncertain
  • Woman drinks wine sat at a table

    Restaurant in Italy offers free bottles of wine to customers who hand in phones

  • Mamuka Mdinaradze is punched in the face by opposition MP Aleko Elisashvili.

    Georgian MP punches opponent in face in brawl over ‘foreign agents’ bill

  • Seine River Water Quality Alarming Before Olympics - Paris, France - 10 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blondet Eliot/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock (14428281o) A view of the Seine River, with Notre Dame cathedral in the background, as it is overflowing in Paris, France on April 10, 2024. A nonprofit focused on waterway conservation has voiced concern about contamination in Paris's Seine River ahead of open-water swimming events to be held there at the Olympic and Paralympic Games starting in July. The Surfrider Foundation said Monday that testing at a bridge, the Pont Alexandre III, between September and March regularly turned up higher, and sometimes much higher, levels of E. coli and enterococci bacteria than the recommended threshold, which can be an indication of fecal matter. Seine River Water Quality Alarming Before Olympics - Paris, France - 10 Apr 2024

    Paris Olympics opening ceremony could move if threat detected, says Macron

  • Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) leaping on upstream migration

    Record number of river barriers removed across Europe in 2023

  • Lightning over Mecca's clock tower

    Weather tracker: Gulf braced for thunderstorms

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Middle East

  • A view of heavily damaged car as Jewish settlers reportedly set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles in Qusra town in Nablus, West Bank

    Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians in West Bank, officials say

    Violence is reported to have escalated after a 14 year old Israeli shepherd went missing in the West Bank on Friday
  • Protesters call for end to violence in Gaza

    Roads blocked as thousands protest in US against Israel’s attack on Gaza

  • Lt Gen Herzi Halevi at the head of a table with other members of the general staff

    IDF chief of staff says Israel will respond to Iran missile attack

  • An anti-missile system in action during Iran's attack on Israel.

    France joins western allies in calling for Israel to avoid escalation after Iran attack – as it happened

  • Demonstrators carry flags and banners during a protest in Amman, Jordan, in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas

    Jordan faces difficult balancing act amid row over role in downing Iranian drones

  • Rishi Sunak speaking in the House of Commons

    Sunak says ‘all sides should show restraint’ after Iranian attack on Israel – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • Women and young children pull luggage as they queue to board a plane

    Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

    Families of those who helped British forces could be deported from Pakistan despite promise to resettle them in UK
  • Emergency workers use a boat to evacuate people in floodwater

    Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate tens of thousands amid worst floods in decades

  • Members of the Karen National Liberation Army and the People’s Defence Force collect weapons after they captured an army outpost in the southern part of Myawaddy township in Myanmar on 11 March

    Blow for Myanmar’s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border town

  • Rajnath Singh, India’s defence minister, attends Horse Guards Parade in London on 9 January 2024.

    India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan

  • Protesters marching with banners supporting the opposition National Unity Government.

    Myanmar opposition carries out drone attack on capital

  • Saleem Rehmani being detained in 2010

    Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim

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UK

  • Closeup of children's feet wearing plimsolls in a PE class

    Teasing children about weight increases risk of self-stigma as adults, study finds

    Research reveals ‘long-lasting effects’ caused by pressure from parents, families, bullies and the media
  • Laura Farris.

    Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

  • Rishi Sunak with Rwanda's president Paul Kagame on the steps of 10 Downing Street on 9 April.

    Sunak to give Rwanda £50m if deportation bill passed into law

  • Card dedicated to Baby Callum

    Woman charged with murder of baby found in Warrington woodland in 1998

  • Vivienne Groom looks into camera

    Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer

  • A person walks past the entrance to the Garrick Club in London

    High court judge removed from case in part due to his Garrick membership

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US

  • a federal prison

    US federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

    Since 2021, eight employees of Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, charged with assaulting female prisoners
  • Man sits behind table with lawyers in courtroom

    Trump’s hush-money trial: key takeaways from the first day

  • Donald Trump

    Court adjourns after first day of Trump’s historic criminal trial – as it happened

  • Lo-Letha Hall in dashcam footage.

    Ohio man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

  • Robert F Kennedy Jr waves to supporters during a campaign event on Saturday, 13 April 2024, in West Des Moines, Iowa.

    Robert F Kennedy Jr claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

  • The funeral home in Penrose, Colorado.

    Owners of Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud

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