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  • The mural in Tahrir Square was designed by volunteer youth group Rasmt Basma with the help of AI.

    Row erupts over Cairo mural depicting Tutankhamun and Nefertiti with dark skin

    Artwork created in Tahrir Square for Chinese president’s state visit to Egypt is painted over amid allegations it revived Afrocentric claims about Pharaohs’ origins
  • 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

  • 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

  • Lula da Silva holds up a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida at a campaign rally

    ‘No one disrespects Our Lady’: fears for Brazil’s patron saint grip country ahead of election

    Speculation that Flávio Bolsonaro will try to strip Our Lady of Aparecida of position could become deciding factor in run-up to Sunday

  • 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

  • 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

  • Open AI logo

    OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia

    Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday
  • Sophie McNeill

    Activists plan legal action against police ban on entering security zone near Perth weapons expo

  • Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

    Shoebridge pledges Greens members will ‘have a say’ in next leader – as it happened

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

    Beau Lamarre-Condon trial: victim’s family cries as double murder trial hears triple-zero call

  • File photo of police tape at a crime scene at night

    ‘Excessively violent’: three men charged with assault and choking after Sydney home invasions

  • A police officer stands next to the burn-out entrance of Roger Verlomme secondary school following a blockading action by protesting students

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    400 French schools closed on Friday as protests escalate into ‘urban violence’ – Europe live

    Dozens of schools have been damaged and nearly 3,000 teenagers have been detained since the start of the tensions
  • Cars on a petrol station forecourt

    UK is not facing diesel shortage despite fears of Trump export ban, minister says

  • A man rides a bicycle with an umbrella during heavy rain in downtown Barcelona, Spain

    Eastern Spain braces for torrential rain and flooding

  • 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

  • Kanye West on a red carpet

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

  • Smit Machchhar and Narendra Modi composite

    ‘I was fighting for my life’: Indian pilot hailed as hero recalls flydubai cockpit attack

    Smit Machchhar says in video call with Indian PM that he realised if he did not get up then ‘passengers would lose their lives’
  • The diverted FlyDubai plane sits on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport at dusk

    Friday briefing: How we covered the flydubai incident as it unfolded

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  • 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

  • Israel flags flying as passengers walk past bank of photographers.

    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

  • 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

  • Feeld, a location-based online dating app, in App Store on an iPhone.

    Kinky dating app Feeld pays founders record £3.8m after sales jump

    UK app ‘for the curious’ says users outside the UK account for nearly 90% of its revenues
  • Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative party

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    Badenoch claims Labour is preparing for a general election in May 2027 – UK politics live

  • A large crowd gathers on a grassy slope on Garvaghy Road, watching a performance below

    Drumcree talks break up without agreement on fifth day of standoff

  • Martha Dalton

    Recent lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM

  • A man walks past the Teva Pharmaceuticals logo sign in Jerusalem

    Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company

  • a woman in a red prison uniform

    Calls grow for US death penalty halt after ‘torturous’ botched execution of Christa Pike

    Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’
  • a woman stands with her hands pressed together and head bowed

    Tennessee suspends executions as Christa Pike’s lawyer says failed lethal injection leaves her in critical condition

  • Woman in astronaut suit and helmet waves and smiles.

    ‘An amazing ride’: SpaceX flight led by first Black female commander sets US speed record

  • 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

  • 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

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