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Africa

  • Protesters and Kenyan anti-riot police officers during anti-government protests in Nairobi on Tuesday.

    Thursday briefing: How one controversial bill has Kenya on the brink of disorder

    In today’s newsletter: President William Ruto’s unpopular finance bill has sparked a wave of protests – that have been met with brutality and yet more discord in the country
  • Desert in Namibia

    ‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: building homes from mushroom waste and weeds

  • A crowd of people, many wearing the ANC's colours of yellow and green, attend a march. Some hold their hands out while others hold placards

    Support for democracy in Africa falls amid military coups and corruption

  • Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, casts his vote in the election in Kigali on Monday.

    Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory

  • A group of men stand outside near some trees, some holding bows

    Kidnappings soar in central Africa’s ‘triangle of death’

  • An orange car and a man driving a donkey and cart pass a poster reading, 'Don't let the razorblade be our nation's symbol.'

    MPs in the Gambia vote to uphold ban on female genital mutilation

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Americas

  • A man and a woman look into her destroyed bedroom in a house that is missing its roof

    Caribbean leaders call for ‘Marshall plan’ to help rebuild after Hurricane Beryl

    Three prime ministers write to UK government saying islands cannot sustain debt from repeated rebuilding
  • People sitting at a table in front of flags and a green backdrop

    Colombia gives assurances over UN biodiversity summit after rebels’ threat

  • Women protesting, holding flares and flags.

    Violence against women in Brazil reaches highest levels on record

  • people surround a car with a man driving a woman

    Venezuela: fears of unfair election grow as opposition security chief arrested

  • Graffiti reading 'PCC' is written on a yellow wall in front of a church building

    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • Flooding at Drake's Toronto mansion, captured on his Instagram Stories

    Drake’s Toronto mansion seriously flooded amid record-breaking storms

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Asia Pacific

  • Aerial photo of people standing on the edge of a flooded street as others are carried over the water in the front bucket of a bulldozer

    Weather tracker: Heavy seasonal rain causes widespread flooding in China

    Six people dead, thousands evacuated and transport disrupted after at least 20 floods in major rivers
  • A suited Donald Trump shouting and pointing. He has a bandage on his ear

    Chip stocks fall further after Trump’s remarks on Taiwan defence

  • Selina Cheng

    Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association

  • Plates of food fill a round wooden table

    Cyanide found in teacups shared by six found dead in Bangkok hotel

  • Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend.

    South Korean airport authorities crack down on Trader Joe’s bagel seasoning

  • Screen grab of David Fisk and Lucita Cortez

    Suspect in deaths of Australians at Philippines resort is former pool cleaner allegedly sacked by hotel

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Australia

  • A Coles checkout terminal in Canberra affected by the Windows outage

    CrowdStrike has ‘issued a fix’ to Windows outage – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.
  • A blue error screen on a register is seen at a department store

    Microsoft outage: how Australian airports, banks and supermarkets are affected by a major IT meltdown

  • Microsoft

    IT outage: banks, airlines and media hit by issues linked to Windows PCs

  • A car buried in snow during a blizzard in the Snowy Mountains

    Quickly moving cold front could bring ‘most significant snowfall of the year’, as Australia’s east coast battles bitter winds

  • Cyber crime

    Australians affected by MediSecure hack may never know their personal details have been compromised

  • Anonymous woman holding phone

    Australian abortion provider says new Google policy will make it harder to advertise services

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Europe

  • Tourists look up at the ancient Temple of the Parthenon on the Acropolis hill in Athens

    European heatwave forecast to hit peak as health warnings issued

    Tourists and residents swelter in heat as temperatures rise to 44C in Spain, with forest fires in Greece and Croatia
  • John Healey shaking hands with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    UK will not help Ukraine hit targets in Russia, defence secretary says

  • British Prime Minister Starmer hosts 4th European Political Community summit<br>epa11485271 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) during the Opening Plenary at the European Political Community (EPC) meeting at Blenheim Palace, in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Britain, 18 July 2024. Starmer will host more than 45 European leaders at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, for the European Political Community (EPC) summit. This is the 4th EPC meeting since the grouping was founded in October 2022. EPA/CHRIS RATCLIFFE / POOL

    Zelenskiy to attend UK cabinet meeting in effort to disrupt Russian oil sales

  • Yaël Braun-Pivet applauds the national assembly vote

    Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker

  • France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L)

    Keir Starmer says he is open to processing asylum seekers offshore

  • Keir Starmer points while standing behind a lectern between two union jacks

    Keir Starmer speaks after European Political Community summit – as it happened

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Middle East

  • Israeli police investigate the scene of a drone attack in Tel Aviv

    Live
    Israel-Gaza war live: UK to resume Unrwa funding; Houthis claim Tel Aviv attack

    US now only country not to restore funding to refugee agency; defence minister says Israel will ‘settle the score’ after drone strike
  • Emergency personnel gather on a city street at night

    Yemen’s Houthis claim responsibility for fatal Tel Aviv drone attack

  • Palestinians examine buildings and collect remaining belongings from heavily damaged houses after Israeli attacks on Maghazi refugee camp: a man stands on the edge of a pile of rubble in a scene of devastation in which mattresses, bedding and other household items are seen.

    Gaza conflict could fuel IS and al-Qaida revival, security experts warn

  • A horse car passes through streets flooded with leaked sewage in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. An Israeli blockade and the war has brought infrastructure services in the city to a standstill

    Highly infectious poliovirus found in Gaza sewage samples

  • Screen grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows Itamar Ben-Gvir speaking at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem

    Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque

  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

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South and Central Asia

  • Bangladeshi Students protest demanding removal of quota system in government jobs<br>epaselect epa11485555 Demonstrators clash with police, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League members, during ongoing quota students protests under the slogan 'Anti-Discrimination Student Movement' at Mirpur area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18 July 2024. According to Police, at least 11 people have been killed and several hundred injured following violent clashes between protesting students and police erupted during nationwide student protests over the abolition of quotas in government jobs. EPA/MONIRUL ALAM

    Bangladesh imposes communications blackout as protest violence continues

    Mobile internet access blocked and news broadcasts shut down as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas
  • Protesters clash with police

    Protesters attack Bangladeshi state broadcaster after PM’s call for calm

  • Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan pictured in front his party's flag during an interview in Lahore

    Pakistan’s government seeks to ban party of former PM Imran Khan

  • Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan during an interview sitting in front of the Pakistan flag

    Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi’s unlawful marriage convictions overturned by Pakistan court

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • X screengrab opf Kamran Dawar who was killed in Pakistan

    Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year

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UK

  • Portraits of the two of them in business attire

    Yorkshire Water bosses get huge bonuses after company failed customers

    CEO and CFO given total of £616,000 for a year in which some residents struggled to go about daily lives
  • Two phone boxes in poor state of repair

    ‘Ugly’ phone boxes that blight UK streets should be removed, says thinktank

  • Passengers queueing at London Stansted airport

    ‘Bedlam’ in UK as planes and trains disrupted by global IT outage

  • A sign at a branch of Virgin Money

    Nationwide gets green light for £2.9bn takeover of Virgin Money

  • Laptop computer with high-speed connection.

    Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband

  • A shopper on Oxford Street in London

    Retail sales slump by more than forecast in Great Britain amid poor weather

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US

  • Delayed travelers wait to check in inside Terminal C in Newark airport in New Jersey.

    Live
    Microsoft Windows IT outage: US airlines, 911 services and businesses hit by Crowdstrike disruption – live

    Microsoft says cause of global chaos fixed but services may take days to recover as travelers faced major disruption and Alaska emergency services affected
  • Travellers with their suitcases wait in Terminal 1 for check-in at Hamburg Airport in Hamburg, Germany.

    First Thing: Microsoft outage takes out banks, airlines and businesses

  • Trump on giant screen while Don Jr speaks underneath

    Election denialism front and center at Republican national convention

  • woman stands in front of sign that says RNC

    Trump is desperate to not appear racist. He’s enlisted Black and brown people to help him

  • Evan Gershkovich stands behind glass

    Russian verdict due on US journalist Evan Gershkovich

  • A man wearing a dark jacket looks off to the side

    Musk backs Trump as other social media CEOs shy away from politics

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