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  • Two maps side by side, one showing Africa as it appears on the traditional world map, and the other showing it much larger.

    UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

    Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
  • Man in grey suit gestures with hand as he speaks.

    Spain’s PM says no evidence ‘whatsoever’ Morocco behind Ceuta border breach

  • Sharpeville Massacre 1960South Africa. Transvaal, now part of Gauteng. Sharpeville. Protesters flee for their lives after police opened fire on a peaceful crowd at the Sharpeville Massacre on 21st March 1960. After a day of demonstrations, a crowd gathered around the fence securing the police compound. The South African police opened fire on the crowd, killing 69 people and injuring 180 others. The casualties, most of whom were shot in the back as they fled, included 29 children. While sources disagree about whether the people were rowdy or not, all agree that they were unarmed and protesting peacefully. In present-day South Africa, 21 March is celebrated as a public holiday in honour of human rights and to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre. 1960.

    ‘We continue to suffer’: victims of apartheid-era Sharpeville massacre demand compensation

  • Gen Horta Inta-A Na Man holds up his hands at a polling station

    New constitution in Guinea-Bissau will undermine democracy, opponents say

  • A farmer wearing a green face covering sprays pesticide on his sesame field in Burkino Faso

    Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find

  • Argentina's President Javier Milei delivers a speech in which he said the "winds of change" favoured Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands.

    President Javier Milei says ‘winds of change’ support Argentina’s claim to Falkland Islands

    President cites Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might reconsider US support for British sovereignty, and threatens swifter sanctions on British oil interests
  • Maria Corina Machado speaks passionately into a microphone with a raised fist at a rally

    Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal

  • Protesters holding hand-painted signs and wearing white masks that say 'go home;

    Apocalypse prep or pure pragmatism: what is behind Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina?

  • Venezuelan and US flags overlaid on an image of a Venezuelan oil refinery

    The US and Venezuela: a century-old relationship drenched in oil

  • a composite image shows a poster with Lake America on the left and a maps app with Lake America on the right

    Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order

  • The city skyline seen from the Tokyo metropolitan government building observatories in 2022

    Yen soars as Bank of Japan tipped to raise interest rates

    Jump lifts currency to highest level against dollar in a month, while global markets remain jittery
  • Aerial view of floating solar panel arrays on ponds within farmland in Chongqing

    China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed

  • Narrow roads with no centre lines or pavements are a common sight in crowded Japanese cities, with data indicating that children and older people are at particular risk of being involved in a fatal or serious accident.

    Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets

  • Hong Kong teenage student leader Joshua Wong, left, pictured outside the Hong Kong magistrates' court in 2015.

    Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

  • Waiting journalists take photos of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier off Laem Chabang port, near the city of Pattaya in Thailand after more than 270 days at sea.

    USS Abraham Lincoln arrives at Thai port after gruelling 270 days at sea

  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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    Australia news live: Anthony Albanese extends ‘deepest condolences’ to Nepal’s PM after deadly floods; total fire ban for greater Sydney on Saturday

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  • Charles Perrottet

    Charles Perrottet denies asking brother as premier to appoint cabinet minister, Icac hears

  • Not much snow at Mt Buffalo in July 2026. Victoria. Australia

    Australian ski resorts to close up to a month early due to global heating and El Niño

  • A general view of EV charging and infrastructure in Sydney, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

    EV sales outpace petrol cars for first time as Australians dodge soaring fuel costs

  • A Corrective Services truck carrying Daniel Billings arrives at Orange courthouse on Friday. Billings murdered Molly Ticehurst in 2024.

    Molly Ticehurst’s killer called woman he’d met on Tinder after stabbing and said ‘I’m sorry I murdered her’, court hears

  • Wrapped cargo pallets on carts sit near an Antonov cargo plane at a German airport

    Europe weighs solutions to curtail Russia’s growing hybrid warfare

    Governments now moving faster to impose costs on Moscow for its increasing attacks over support for Ukraine
  • Delegates vote during the federal congress of Generation Germany, the youth organisation of the AfD, in Magdeburg.

    ‘This could just be the beginning’: minorities fear first far-right win in German state election

  • A protester in a grim reaper costume stands in front of fellow demonstrators against proposed job cuts by Volkswagen

    Volkswagen announces it will cut 100,000 jobs by 2030

  • A Serbian flag waving above a large crown of protesters in Belgrade.

    Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’

  • Daphne Caruana GaliziaFILE - Flowers and a candle lie in front of a portrait of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a vigil outside the law courts in Valletta, Malta, Oct. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Jonathan Borg, File)

    Sabotage, leaks and political ties: the story of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder trial

  • Two Palestinian women embrace amid a group of grieving women

    Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village

    Troops escort settlers into al-Mughayyir and raze village outside Hebron as ethnic cleansing of West Bank continues
  • People lean down to fill plastic containers and jerry cans with water

    Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza

  • people in uniforms carry a flag-draped casket out of a plane

    US commerce secretary erroneously said no Americans have died in Iran war, Trump claims

  • A woman crosses a Tehran street past a mural depicting a fallen Statue of Liberty

    Iran targets US bases as Israel warns sanctions could drive Tehran to ‘desperate steps’

  • A woman paints a young girl's face with a Palestinian flag in the shape of heart as others behind her wait their turn

    Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

  • Rescue workers dig through mud inside a hydropower tunnel after floods in Nepal

    Dozens of trapped hydropower tunnel workers in Nepal could still be alive, official says

    About 46 people believed to be trapped in ‘room-like’ structure inside hydro plant tunnel on Nepal-Tibet border
  • Steam and smoke billows from a power station seen from across a wide river with small boats on it and trees on the far bank

    Barclays faces complaint over backing for power plant near world’s largest mangrove forest

  • An aerial view shows the aftermath of flooding along the Bhotekoshi River, near Syabrubesi Bazar, Rasuwa, Nepa

    Relief as five Australians missing in Nepal-Tibet flood disaster found alive

  • People looking a photographs and lists of names covering two walls of a cubicle

    British aid worker mistakenly identified as a survivor of Nepal-Tibet disaster

  • An aerial view shows buildings and a car damaged and covered in mud near Trishuli River following deadly flash floods and a mudslide, in Betrawati Bazaar in Rasuwa district, Nepal, 30 August, 2026.

    Nepal-Tibet flood deaths pass 1,000 as police ask relatives for DNA to identify victims

  • A British Army Warrior armored vehicle with soldiers drives through a field, kicking up mud

    British army told to halt non-essential training exercises to save money

    Collective training exercises for UK-based units to be suspended for most of this year amid budget pressures
  • A dried and damaged ear of corn in a cornfield

    UK has not done enough to prepare for shocks to food supplies, says watchdog

  • Fawley oil refinery's smokestacks and tanks emit smoke and steam

    Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England

  • The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, looking serious

    Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battle

  • Nigel Farage poses with a tea towel merchandise during the first day of Reform UK’s annual conference at the NEC in Birmingham.

    Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film

  • A ballot drop box in Washington state

    Trump administration asks supreme court to intervene over judge’s ban on USPS mail-in voting restrictions – as it happened

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  • Missouri Candidate Drug ChargeFILE - The Missouri Capitol is seen Feb. 9, 2026, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

    Missouri state legislative candidate accused of trying to plant cocaine on opponent

  • Trump Army SecretaryIn this image provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle speaks April 13, 2026, to announce action to complete the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir Project, in South Bay, Fla. (Brigida I. Sanchez/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via AP)

    Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following departure of Dan Driscoll

  • The unresolved charges center on the killing of Cornelius Garrison, who prosecutors said was cooperating with the FBI.

    Split verdict in New Orleans murder trial tied to staged-wrecks scheme

  • Mule deerCatalina Island, CA - October 31: A mule deer doe walks through a hillside behind the Descanso Beach Club in Avalon, Catalina Island Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Catalina Island residents formed Coalition Against the Slaughter of Catalina Deer and are trying to stop the Catalina Island Conservancy from proceeding with a plan to have all 2,000 mule deer on the island shot and killed. These residents believe there are other less violent ways to deal with the deer such as culling herds, and sterilization. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    Judge rules 2,000 Catalina Island deer can be killed to save native plant species

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