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  • Afrikaner refugees hold small American flags on arrival, a woman carrying a toddler in yellow

    Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad

    Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights
  • A student holds a glowing candle at a vigil, wearing a "We Say Enough" shirt

    South African leader urges men to speak up on gender-based violence after series of killings

  • officers in black uniforms stand in a row on tarmac in front of cars as a plane marked 'eastern' with an american flag logo behind them

    Burundi agrees to receive ‘third-country’ migrant deportees from US

  • A medic in a yellow protective suit being sprayed with disinfectant at a health facility, with medical supplies visible in the foreground

    DRC politician beaten to death after radio appearance about Ebola outbreak

  • People stand in the street near an area cordoned off by police.

    At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

  • A street vendor sells campaign flags of presidential candidates Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who is running for reelection in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

    The Bolsonaros…they’re back! Brazil heads to the polls – podcast

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  • Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the first plenary session of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC.

    Brazil attorney general says meddling ‘cannot be tolerated’ after Trump funding plans revealed

  • An image of Venezuela’s former president Hugo Chávez in Mario Silva’s home studio in La Guaira

    ‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump

  • Mighty Sparrow - calypso singer

    Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91

  • US Hawaii Extreme Weather NoloFire Captain Lui Sales of the Hawaii Fire Department looks for residents to help as rainwater from nearby Hurricane Nolo flood a section of Mamalahoa highway Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, near Naalehu, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Hurricane Nolo still threatens Hawaii as Mexico’s Baja braces for Hurricane Polo

  • Jaan Roose balances on a highline rope high above the sea, raising his fist and smiling

    Daredevil Jaan Roose completes slackline walk high above central Seoul

    Estonian completed first of two attempts to navigate narrow ribbon, 160 metres long and 120 metres high, near the city’s famous Gyeongbokgung palace on Thursday
  • A police van outside Thames House, headquarters of Britain's MI5

    MI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universities

  • British and Chinese flags hanging on the side of a building in London's financial district

    MI5 warns UK universities over ‘theft of tech secrets by Chinese front company’

  • Tsuda Kenjiro, in a black shirt and jacket, looks off to the side at a red carpet event

    AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

  • Rival guard posts beside barbed wire topped metal border fence

    South Korea calls for apology from North Korea after mine injures three soldiers

  • Commuters during wet weather in Melbourne on Friday, October 2, 2026

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    Australia news live: Melbourne soaked by wettest day since 2024; Jackie O’s $80m legal fight with KIIS FM owner delayed

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  • Three men charged over the alleged home invasions in Sydney were due to face court on Friday.

    Women hospitalised and three men charged with assault and choking after separate home invasions in Sydney

  • A court sketch of Beau Lamarre-Condon who has denied murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in early 2024.

    Beau Lamarre-Condon asked police investigator about murder of Lilie James day before shootings, court hears

  • A student walks past buildings at the University of Sydney

    Labor targets ‘visa hopping’ international students in crackdown on ‘permanently temporary’ migration

  • A pharmacist holds several medicine boxes and papers in both hands

    Underlying causes of recurrent bacterial vaginosis identified by Australian scientists

  • A woman after dunking her head in a fountain.

    May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future

    EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average
  • Kanye West on a red carpet

    Kanye West’s sold-out Russia concerts cancelled, organisers confirm

  • Objects ablaze outside Voltaire high school in Paris

    France school protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ as PM calls crisis cabinet meeting

  • Closeup of a black nozzle at a diesel pump at a petrol station in London, with green petrol nozzles behind it.

    Britain in talks with European allies over release of emergency diesel stockpiles

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin

    Putin says ‘all weapons at disposal’ if there’s an attack on Russia – as it happened

  • A silhouetted man sits on a rooftop at dusk, overlooking a lit-up city skyline

    NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza

    Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems
  • Israeli passenger Yaniv Hayoun, with blood stains on his shirt, who was aboard a flydubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, is welcomed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv.

    Co-pilot in flight stabbing had ‘Islamic radical indoctrination’, says Netanyahu

  • An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural depicting a warrior and burning ships

    Crude oil exports from strait of Hormuz largely return to pre-war levels

  • People visiting the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem.

    Israelis divided as vote that could oust Netanyahu only weeks away

  • Aerial views of Al-Mawasi, Rafah, show farmland in 2023 replaced by dense housing by 2026

    New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza

  • Jagtar Singh Johal, in a blue turban and red polo shirt, walks outside after release on bail

    British Sikh activist released from Delhi jail after nine-year detention

    Indian government issued with warning it would be in contempt of court if it failed to release Jagtar Singh Johal
  • A protester holds up a placard saying: 'Protect your daughter, educate your son'

    ‘We want justice’: series of rapes trigger mass protests at Indian universities

  • A woman's solemn face appears behind a "Stop Violence Against Women" sign, lit by candlelight

    From Jamui to Delhi, the burden of safety from sexual assault cannot fall on women

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  • An aerial shot of shipping containers stacked across a road, with traffic held up in the foreground

    Pakistan locks down Islamabad as Imran Khan’s party vows to march on capital

  • Anant Ambani, in wedding outfit, presses his hands together

    Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University

  • Enter Shikari singer performs on stage, arms outstretched, against a colourful graffiti backdrop

    Enter Shikari announce indefinite hiatus from 2027: ‘We don’t think we’re splitting up’

    The rock band will still tour the UK, Europe and US over the next 12 months, but say decision to ‘fall dormant’ feels ‘liberating’
  • A woman in red stands on a staircase amid ferns inside the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's restored palm houses

    Falling glass and ‘decapitated’ plants: the race to protect Edinburgh botanic garden’s plants

  • A woman shows a tablet to a boy and girl in airline seats

    UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children

  • Andy Burnham smiles holding a scarf while reaching toward a hand holding a phone outside a stadium

    How success of Manchester City helped put Andy Burnham in power

  • Exterior of the Job Centre Plus in Finsbury Park, London.

    Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes

  • President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House.

    Trump doesn’t rule out sending ICE to polling sites; US supreme court to review policy to detain immigrants challenging deportation – as it happened

    Justices will consider whether immigrants have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation
  • A stop sign stands before grassland, with Grand Teton national park's jagged mountains beyond

    Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash

  • Woman in glasses and blazer speaks into microphone.

    Letitia James appointed special prosecutor in alleged gang-rape at Cornell

  • Woman in astronaut suit and helmet waves and smiles.

    SpaceX flight led by first Black female commander sets US speed record

  • people playing with dogs

    New Washington DC law bans landlords from imposing dog breed restrictions

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