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  • Houses engulfed in flames with a palm tree bending in strong winds and smoke filling the air

    Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study

    ‘Megafires’ in California, Canada, South Korea and Europe in 2025, but changes to farming slowed spread in parts of Africa
  • A health worker at the Evangelical Medical Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

    WHO calls for community cooperation to contain Ebola outbreak in DRC

  • Antoinette Lukeba holds her hands aloft beside flowers at a vigil for Yves Sakila on Henry Street, Dublin.

    Death of Congolese man renews scrutiny of race relations in Ireland

  • a man and a woman lie in bed together

    Bound by blood: new film highlights Jamaica’s outlawed obeah belief system

  • A deacon helps a parishioner wash his hands with water from a green bucket

    WHO puts Ebola outbreak death rate at ‘huge’ 30-50% as chief arrives in DRC

  • Abelardo de la Espriella gestures triumphantly to supporters

    Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff

    Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks
  • An election campaign billboard for Abelardo de la Espriella is displayed in Bogotá, Colombia

    Colombia goes to polls in election pitting outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates

  • Two people kneel holding candles while two others hold a banner of the journalist Mateo Perez Rueda's portrait during a nighttime vigil

    Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

  • A woman speaks into a microphone with large Mexican flag in the background.

    Alarm at Mexico bill allowing elections to be annulled for ‘foreign interference’

  • DC: President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 27 May 2026Mandatory Credit: Photo by Samuel Corum - Pool via CNP/Shutterstock (16900685g)
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaks during a Cabinet meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA,. Trump is holding the meeting with members of his Cabinet as a the U.S. and Iran get closer to a deal.
DC: President Trump Holds a Cabinet Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia, USA - 27 May 2026

    Lula says Brazil will not be treated like ‘tinpot country’ after US designates gangs as terrorists

  • Pedestrians carrying umbrellas walk past hydrangea flowers in Tokyo

    Typhoon Jangmi threatens Japan as Europe swelters

    Powerful winds and rain expected in parts of Japan and Australia, while temperatures in Spain could hit 40C
  • Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's defence minister, addressing a conference

    Japan defence minister rebuffs claims of ‘new militarism’ levelled by China

  • Australian defence minister Richard Marles

    New Aukus drone tech to protect critical undersea cables as Marles warns: ‘seabed is a battlefield’

  • One of the seven trapped men emerges from the cave.

    Four more men freed from flooded Laos cave in hazardous rescue mission

  • Hong Qi

    Chinese dissident says he was berated by ‘pro-regime’ interpreter for UK police

  • Pauline Hanson speaks at a lectern in a parliamentary chamber, wearing a bright blue jacket

    Labor to highlight ‘risk’ of One Nation to cost of living in bid to dent Pauline Hanson’s popularity

    Labor MP Mike Freelander says party must continue to help under-pressure workers, including considering further income tax cuts
  • Police tape

    ‘Imminent threat’: charges laid against 13-year-old who allegedly planned attack on Queensland school

  • Queensland police badge

    Queensland police shoot pet dog after running it over as distressed residents watch on

  • Andrew Hastie.

    Hastie says falling house prices might not be ‘all that encouraging’ for recent buyers – as it happened

  • The treasurer, Jim Chalmers

    Jim Chalmers says budget changes allowing first home buyers to ‘have a crack’

  • The oil tanker, with a navy personnel's head in the foreground

    Macron says French navy has boarded Russia-linked oil tanker in Atlantic

    French president says it is ‘unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions’, adding operation took place with support of UK
  • People letting off fireworks and smoke rising above the crowd

    French police arrest 780 after violent clashes as PSG fans celebrate Champions League win

  • A waterfront terrace at dusk with people seated along a floating platform beside illuminated buildings

    Germany’s embattled nightlife scene welcomes plan to reclassify clubs

  • Kanye West on stage

    Kanye West concert in Italy cancelled over ‘public order and safety issues’

  • Completely snowy mountain top on a clear day.

    Three climbers die and one rescued after fall on Alaska’s Mount McKinley

  • A drone view shows Kuwait City.

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    Middle East crisis live: Kuwait condemns Iranian missile and drone attack as Trump claims war will ‘all work out well’

    Strikes undermine efforts towards de-escalating conflict, says Kuwait, as US president hits out at ‘chirping’ critics and says they should ‘sit back and relax’
  • A US F/A-18E fighter jet landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln last week

    Iran targets American base in region after US strikes Iranian air defences

  • People leave the Dahiyeh district in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday

    Netanyahu orders Israeli bombing of southern Beirut

  • Israeli ground forces conducting a military operation in the Beaufort Ridge, southern Lebanon.

    Israel seizes strategic castle in deepest incursion into Lebanon in 26 years

  • A GI throwing his combat jacket over a fence at a Vietnam war demonstration in Washington DC.

    Could Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?

  • A view of eastern Kabul.

    Eighteen people killed in Afghanistan truck crash, including 10 children

    Truck was carrying Afghan families returning Pakistan when it overturned, official says
  • A social media complaint about problems in India’s final school year exams has spiralled into a national controversy.

    Exam fail: Indian students complain en masse about marking errors in key final exams

  • Buffalo with yellowish-blond hair being led by two people holding tethers

    Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed ‘Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice

  • Aerial view of the chemical plant

    Indians protest over ‘forever chemicals’ after relocation of scandal-hit Italian factory

  • Concerned family members, including children, hold a sheet of paper with a photograph of human rights activist Jagtar Singh Johal, accompanied by text explaining his situation

    Starmer urged to intervene in ‘rigged’ Indian prosecution of British human rights activist

  • Peter Mandelson, pictured in April

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    No 10 braced for ‘excruciating’ revelations as messages between Mandelson and ministers to be released – UK politics live

    Sources predict ‘toe-curling’ revelations as more than 1,000 pages of documents relating to his appointment as US ambassador to be published
  • People walking on a bridge over the River Wharfe.

    Water-related deaths in UK heatwave hit 15 after girl, 13, dies and boy goes missing

  • Rasika Samarasinghe taking a selfie with his wife and three children, in front of rolling hills

    Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK

  • A performer in a sequined outfit sings on stage, backed by musicians and singers in purple and red lighting

    Young Britons feel disconnected and locked out of creative arts, charity says

  • EasyJet aircraft at Berlin Brandenburg airport

    EasyJet says US takeover bid would be ‘highly opportunistic’

  • People hold signs that read 'kick ice out'

    ‘We want fans to know the risks’: US immigrant rights groups mobilize across World Cup host cities amid ICE fears

    More than 120 groups issued warning to 10 million visitors about ‘serious rights violations’ under Trump
  • A man speaks with people

    ‘Our democracy is run by two private clubs’: can a pro-hunting Democrat lead a blue wave in Iowa?

  • Kane Parsons, a young man with curly brown hair in a dark blazer and light blue shirt, poses for a photo

    Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms

  • stock image of police officer conducting traffic stop at night

    US man named Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years for shooting at police officers

  • Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis pictured in New York City in 2004.

    Jamie Lee Curtis announces death of actor sister Kelly aged 69: ‘My first friend and lifelong confidant’

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