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Africa

  • Uganda's opposition leader Bobi Wine and his wife Barbara Itungo prepare to vote in Kampala on Thursday.

    Opposition candidate Bobi Wine claims ‘massive ballot stuffing’ as Uganda goes to polls

    Wine calls for voters to ‘reject the criminal regime’ on tense day of voting as some poll stations remain closed for hours
  • a person holding a vaccine

    Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled

  • a woman speaks at lectern and points finger

    Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Somalis in US

  • Dry landscape, large white food bags and crowds of people

    Quarter of developing countries poorer than in 2019, World Bank finds

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accuses Lagos hospital of negligence after son’s death

Americas

  • A member of law enforcement gestures near protesters in north Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Live
    Minnesota governor calls on Trump to ‘turn the temperature down’ after Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act – live

    Tim Walz urges US president to ‘stop this campaign of retribution’ as thousands of federal agents remain in Minneapolis after the fatal shooting of Renee Good
  • close-up of person wearing white suit

    Trump to discuss Venezuela’s future with Machado after Maduro’s capture

  • illustration of back of person's head facing ocean

    Why big oil giants may not rush to buy into Donald Trump’s Venezuelan vision

  • Relatives of political prisoners maintain vigil in Caracasepa12647774 Relatives of political prisoners continue to wait in Zone 7 for updates on their detained family members in Caracas, Venezuela, 13 January 2026. EPA/MIGUEL GUTIERREZ

    Venezuela regime claims release of political prisoners is sign of new era

  • a man speaking

    Quebec premier François Legault resigns from post in surprise move

Asia Pacific

  • Train carriages overturned next to shrubland as rescue workers try to help passengers.

    At least 32 killed as crane collapses on train in Thailand

    Crane in use on high-speed rail project hits passing train, causing it to derail
  • Chinese 100 yuan note with a US banknote in the background

    China reports record trillion-dollar trade surplus despite Trump tariffs

  • A large protest in South Korea against the then-president, Yoon Suk Yeol

    South Korean prosecutors demand death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol

  • BTS pictured performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2017.

    BTS announces return with new world tour in 2026 and 2027

  • Labubu toys on a display in a shop

    Workers at Chinese factory that produces Labubu toys are being exploited, says NGO

Australia

  • Jarvis Cocker of the British band Pulp performs during the Corona Capital music festival in Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

    British indie band Pulp agree to play Adelaide festival after boycott U-turn

    The band pulled out over treatment of Randa Abdel-Fattah but delayed revealing their decision before confirming 27 February gig
  • A teenager poses holding a mobile phone displaying a message from TikTok

    More than 4.7m social media accounts blocked after Australia’s under-16 ban came into force, PM says

  • Bottles of Dr Schwartz Hand Sanitiser, which has been recalled in Australia

    Person taken to hospital after ingesting hand sanitiser supplied by Australia’s largest privately owned hotel chain

  • New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman

    Jewish American columnist Thomas Friedman says he was uninvited from 2024 Adelaide writers’ week over ‘timing’

  • Independent member for Wentworth Allegra Spender at Bondi beach on 15 December last year.

    Teal MPs call out Coalition over stance on hate speech laws – as it happened

Europe

  • Visitors look at Las Meninas by Velázquez in the Prado.

    Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief

    Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like Louvre
  • Vlaardingerbroek speaking at a lectern on which a label says '2024 CPAC Hungary'

    Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek appears to lose right to UK visa-free travel

  • 17th-century painting of a large brown and white bull with pointed horns standing next to a tree, another cow which is lying down and is golden-brown with a white face, a ram, female sheep and lamb, and a grey-bearded farmer in a broad-brimmed hat who is leaning against the tree.

    ‘Bigger and lower’: bull in Dutch painting once had much larger testicles

  • A jogger runs along a rain-battered Barcelona promenade on the coast

    Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns

  • Houses in snow next to sea with military vessel on it

    Greenland’s defence is ‘common concern’ for Nato, Danish PM says as European troops fly in

Middle East

  • Protesters participate in a demonstration in support of anti-government protests in Iran.

    Live
    G7 threatens more sanctions for Iran amid ’high level of reported deaths and injuries’ - live

    G7 members ‘remain prepared to impose additional restrictive measures if Iran continues to crack down on protests and dissent’
  • Members of the Iranian police stand guard at a protest in Tehran, Iran.

    Trump says Iran has told him ‘killing has stopped’ as he pulls back from strike threats

  • A man looking down on a river which has dried up in patches with sand showing through.

    How ‘day zero’ water shortages in Iran are fuelling protests

  • A member of the Iranian community holds a poster of Iran's exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, and Donald Trump outside the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania.

    Iranian airspace reopens – as it happened

  • Protesters gather around a fire in Tehran

    US and UK military withdraw some personnel from Middle East amid Iranian threats

South and Central Asia

  • A herd of wild elephants

    Search for single-tusked elephant after 22 killed in India rampage

    Eastern region on high alert as authorities try to track animal tearing through villages in Jharkhand after apparently becoming separated from herd
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin with India’s prime minister Narendra Modi.

    Russia working to circumvent sanctions to ensure India oil imports continue

  • Khalistan movement protesters outside the Indian high commission in London

    Sikh activist in UK told to increase security over Hindu nationalist threats

  • Volunteers set up an electronic voting machine at a polling station un Yangon, Myanmar, 10 January 2026.

    Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

  • Harjeet Singh

    Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign

UK

  • Damien Egan wears red Labour rosette and carries red file in a local street

    Ofsted does snap inspection of Bristol school criticised for cancelling MP’s visit

    Visit by Damien Egan, Labour Friends of Israel vice-chair, was called off after opposition from pro-Palestine group and union
  • Rober Jenrick and Nigel Farage

    Live
    Jenrick joins Reform UK and claims Labour and Tories ‘broke Britain’ as Farage rules out any more defections after May – politics live

  • Robert Jenrick at a Reform UK podium

    Robert Jenrick defects to Reform UK after Conservative party suspension

  • A selection of Mounjaro drugs and KwikPens used for injecting laid out on a grey surface

    Regular spending on weight loss drugs ‘could affect size of mortgage you can get’

  • A woman holds a picture of Kamran Ahmed in the air at the demo

    Did Palestine Action hunger strikers achieve their goals?

US

  • people with signs

    Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act in Minnesota in response to ICE protests

    Protests continue across state and governor urges peace one week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good
  • people holding signs

    California refuses to extradite doctor over abortion pill: ‘Not today. Not ever’

  • one man and two women

    More Democratic lawmakers say Trump DoJ is investigating them over military video

  • an oil tanker

    US military seizes Venezuela oil tanker under Trump sanctions

  • smoke in the air

    Boeing knew of engine defect on UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky, report says

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