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Africa

  • A member of the Islamic State waves the group’s flag

    Islamic State is primed to be thorn in the side of incoming Trump administration

    The terrorist group has been looking to be active this holiday season, with online chatter about attacks increasing
  • Bob Geldof, wearing a t-shirt that says 'Feed The World' and Midge Ure in a patterned shirt.

    As Band Aid marks 40th anniversary critics take aim at Africa stereotypes

  • Benjamin Netanyahu and Viktor Orbán stand behind chairs in front of the flags of their respective countries

    Hungary invites Netanyahu to visit as world leaders split over ICC arrest warrant

  • A young giraffe interacts with her mother

    US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for first time

  • Rokia Traoré.

    Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium

  • Terence Holohan

    British mining executives held in Mali freed after $160m deal to settle tax dispute

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Americas

  • Man speaks into microphone with woman on stage

    Nicaragua: Ortega and wife to assume absolute power after changes approved

    Loyalist lawmakers give green light to constitutional amendment as authoritarian president, 79, tightens grip
  • people excavating an archeology site

    4,000-year-old canals used for fishing by Maya predecessors discovered in Belize

  • a police officer stands on a road

    Smugglers convicted after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border

  • a cyclist rides in a bike lane

    Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows

  • two men and a woman stand for a photograph

    Haiti summons French ambassador after Macron called its leaders ‘morons’

  • a man pointing up

    Canada denies it has evidence linking Modi to killing of Sikh separatists

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Asia Pacific

  • People on boats on a river with shelters on the bank and rocky mountains in the background

    Laos government ‘profoundly saddened’ by deaths of tourists in Vang Vieng

    Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker hotspot
  • people hold up signs calling for an end to fossil fuels

    Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis

  • Vice-president Sara Duterte holding a microphone while speaking at a briefing

    Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s deputy vows to have him assassinated if she is killed

  • Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones who are fighting for their lives in Thailand after a suspected methanol poisoning in neighbouring Laos

    Teammates tie ribbons as community mourns Melbourne teens after suspected methanol poisoning

  • Vladimir Putin, left, and Kim Jong-un hold documents

    Seoul says Russia sent air-defence missiles to North Korea in return for troops

  • A person places flowers for the victims of a car-ramming incident, at the entrance to the Zhuhai sports centre in Zhuhai, China.

    China reels from spate of suspected ‘revenge against society’ attacks

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Australia

  • Michelle Rowland

    Labor dumps misinformation bill after Senate unites against it

    Communications minister Michelle Rowland will also not unveil any gambling ad ban legislation in the last sitting week of the year
  • Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones

    Parents of teenagers who died in suspected Laos methanol poisoning hope deaths ‘not in vain’

  • Australian Scott Rush, right, talks to his father, Lee Rush, left, through the bars at court cell before his trial in Denpasar district court, Bali, Indonesia, Jan 23 2006

    Parents of surviving Bali Nine inmates ‘quietly hopeful’ as minister confirms talks under way to return them to Australia

  • Wildflowers at Boorhaman reserve, north of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

    Spiky blue devils and chocolate lilies: Victorian grassland bursts with wildflowers after ecological ‘reset’

  • Canada's heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge,

    Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season

  • Rescue site of a man who’s leg was amputated after he became trapped between rocks while on a rafting trip on the Franklin River in Tasmania, Australia.

    Man’s leg amputated in near 20-hour effort to free him from rocks in Tasmania’s Franklin River

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Europe

  • Pat McFadden, whose portfolio includes cybersecurity, in Westminster

    Russia ‘aggressive’ and ‘reckless’ in cyber realm and threat to Nato, UK minister to warn

    Pat McFadden will tell cyber summit that Russia ‘won’t think twice about targeting British businesses’ and danger to Nato must not be underestimated
  • Ukrainian service members attend a military exercises in Chernihiv region.

    Moscow claims advance in Ukraine’s east has ‘accelerated’ – as it happened

  • Woman looks at sheet of paper she is holding with several people around as red BBC microphone is held close by

    Masked gang broke into home of Conor McGregor accuser, Dublin court was told

  • Keir Starmer.

    Starmer seeks to hire EU negotiator in pursuit of relations reset

  • The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meets with service members of the Ukrainian Air Force beside the undercarriage of an aircraft carrying missiles

    Will the Ukraine missile crisis change the course of the war?

  • Kristina Kenda smiling

    Slovenian girl, 12, saves project aiming to reintroduce cicadas to New Forest

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Middle East

  • Two people hug in front of graffiti portraits of Gaza-held hostages on a wall in Jerusalem

    Hamas says Israeli female hostage killed in north Gaza combat zone

    Group’s armed wing says unnamed woman’s death established after long break in contact with her captors
  • Benjamin Netanyahu looking reflective, standing with his chin in his hand

    Palestinians hail Netanyahu arrest warrant as landmark moment in fight against occupation

  • Rescue workers and others search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, early on Saturday

    At least 20 killed and 66 wounded by Israeli bombing of Beirut homes

  • Saudi Arabia placecard

    Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text

  • Two women wearing headscarves hold a scroll of paper with a camera operator wearing headphones out of focus in the background.

    ‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29

  • Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

    Middle East crisis: Netanyahu thanks Orbán for invite after ICC warrant, saying Hungary on ‘side of justice and truth’ – as it happened

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South and Central Asia

  • Police officers stand guard beside a road next to armoured vehicles

    Hundreds flee deadly sectarian violence in north-west Pakistan

    About 300 families relocate after fresh violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims kills 32 people
  • Simone White in a black rollneck jumper smiles at the camera.

    Tributes paid to ‘kind and loving’ British tourist who died in Laos

  • Police checkpoint on a highway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

    More than 40 killed in north-west Pakistan in gun attack on Shia convoy

  • Man speaks into microphone

    Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot

  • Harshita Brella photographed beside a railway

    Family of woman found dead in car in London accuses police of failing to protect her

  • Keir Starmer surrounded by advisers

    Keir Starmer to restart UK-India talks after previous negotiations stalled

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UK

  • FILE - Former President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

    Trump depends on the EU and UK to act as peacemakers more than he thinks

    The US doesn’t need to spend more on Ukraine. Britain can bring funding to the table – and help Trump reboot alliances
  • A name sign outside RAF Mildenhall includes the names and logos of the Royal Air Force and United States air force

    Unidentified drones spotted over three UK airbases, US air force confirms

  • Black man reaches over to a tree hung with labels reading 'My dying wish is…' (one says: 'To be able to decide for myself when and how to die peacefully with opportunity to say goodbye to those I love')

    ‘One conversation really changed my mind’: the personal stories driving MPs’ decisions on assisted dying

  • Shabana Mahmood in Downing Street

    UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’

  • People standing inside a fenced-off area inside the migrant processing centre

    Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre

  • Passengers outside Euston station

    Police carry out controlled explosion at London Euston station

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US

  • Woman in blazer points and speaks at podium

    Trump picks Brooke Rollins to lead Department of Agriculture

    Choice of president of America First Policy Institute completes top cabinet picks for president-elect
  • An older man in a Trump-style suit and tie.

    John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka

  • An illustration of a grouping of Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.

    Nine people hospitalized in listeria outbreak linked to South Carolina food processor

  • Row of mannequin legs in green yoga pants

    Couple accused of stealing nearly $1m of Lululemon products from stores

  • A bicyclist passes a college tour group outside the Baker Library at Dartmouth College

    Dartmouth sorority and two fraternity members charged over death of student

  • Man in suit

    Trump’s pick for budget head worked on Project 2025 – and wants to bypass the US Senate

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