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  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

    Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll
  • Portrait of a man sitting in a car

    Londoner continues epic trans-Africa run after release from South Sudan jail

  • Dried-out ground on the edge of the Gaddara Dam, where water levels have dropped

    ‘Whack-a-mole situation’: Algerian officials wrestle with water shortage anger

  • Two children suffering from malnutrition sit on an emaciated donkey next to a line of people

    Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say

  • William Ruto makes a speech while standing at a lecturn

    Kenyan president scraps bill to raise taxes after violent protests leave 23 dead

  • The arms and legs of an African child covered by small fluid-filled blisters

    Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die

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  • In 2007 Redux, Canada's Oil Heartland Is Running Ferociously Hot<br>The TC Energy headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, June 20, 2022. Calgary, surrounded by fields of oil, natural gas, wheat and barley that make Canada a global exporting powerhouse, is at the epicenter of a post-Covid economic expansion. Photographer: Gavin John/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

    British Columbia investigates claims that energy company ‘dramatically’ influenced climate policy

    Inquiry into possible violations of provincial law after TC Energy executive claims company influenced government
  • Bolivia's sacked army head Gen Juan José Zúñiga Macías is arrested after an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce.

    Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup

  • TOPSHOT-CANADA-WILDFIRE<br>TOPSHOT - Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire envelops Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on August 18, 2023. Wildfires bore down on Canada's Yellowknife and Kewlona August 18, 2023, with firefighters in the west bracing for another

    Canada’s 2023 wildfires created four times more emissions than planes did last year – report

  • man wearing suit and sunglasses holds a notebook and sits on a tan sofa

    ‘We cannot deny history again’: Brazil floods show how German migration silenced Black and Indigenous stories

  • Bolivian authorities arrest Gen Juan José Zúñiga (Photo: 
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    Bolivia’s president sees off attempted coup after urging citizens to take to streets

  • A middle-age man in suit and tie grimace-smiles.

    Ex-president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years in US prison for drug trafficking

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  • Li Shangfu in military uniform, sitting at a table at an event

    Chinese Communist party expels two ex-defence ministers for corruption

    Li Shangfu, who vanished from public life last year, and Wei Fenghe accused of accepting gifts and facilitating benefits
  • People stand in a line outside the High Court in London

    NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules

  • A large illuminated display reading 'Shein' with clothes rails in the background

    Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation

  • Incheon airport in Seoul

    Rubbish-filled North Korea balloons prompt closure of Seoul airport

  • A container carrying the world’s first samples from the far side of the moon.

    China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe returns world’s first samples from far side of the moon

  • An aerial view of collapsed buildings

    Weather tracker: southern China hit by floods as north suffers from drought

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  • Power lines leading to Liddel coal-fired power plant

    Nuclear more costly and could ‘sound the death knell’ for Australia’s decarbonisation efforts, report says

    Analysis from Bloomberg says even if nuclear is successfully implemented it would be ‘at least four times’ more expensive than average cost of renewables
  • RAAF Base Amberley

    Fire ants could be spreading on Australian military bases due to ‘massive surveillance failure’, experts say

  • The Minister for NDIS and Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten with his "waste website" in his office in Parliament House this afternoon.

    Labor-led committee raises human rights concerns over NDIS bill as Shorten blasts delays

  • artist’s impression of train station at Melbourne airport

    Melbourne’s airport rail link hits more turbulence after mediation falters

  • Tim Crakanthorp

    Teenager charged with planning terrorist attack after allegedly entering NSW MP’s office with ‘intention to kill’

  • NDIS minister Bill Shorten launches his ‘waste website’ at Parliament House in Canberra.

    Shorten says NDIS ‘too important for political games’ after bill blocked – as it happened

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  • Olivier Faure, Jordan Bardella and Gabriel Attal

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    French PM and far-right leader clash in heated TV debate – Europe live

    Macron’s allies trailing at 21% as Bardella, Attal and Faure take part in televised debate before Sunday’s poll
  • Zelenskiy stands between Michel and von der Leyen. They hold folders with the EU logo and stand in front of a blue wall the says 'European Council'

    Zelenskiy says Russia’s recent offensive shows pressure on Kremlin ‘not enough’

  • Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella

    Le Pen claims far right will win majority and take over some military decisions

  • Fatiha Zeghir

    ‘Here I found respect for who I am’: the French citizens who choose to leave

  • Giorgia Meloni

    Italian PM criticised by opposition after fascist chants by party’s youth wing

  • A poster of French President Macron on a news stand in the rain as people walk by

    Global wave of elections could hit UK financial system, warns Bank of England

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  • A mother hugs her young son

    Critically ill children leave Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing

    Sixty-eight minors, five with cancer, allowed to enter Israel before travelling to Egypt and elsewhere for treatment
  • US secretary of defence Lloyd Austin and Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant meet in Washington.

    Israel-Gaza war: Israel warns it could take Lebanon ‘back to the Stone Age’ – as it happened

  • Benjamin Netanyahu<br>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Nahalat Yitshak Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. The ceremony marked the annual memorial for people killed in Israel’s Altalena affair -- a violent clash between rival Jewish forces that nearly pushed the newly independent Israel into civil war in 1948. (Shaul Golan/Pool Photo via AP)

    US Congress faces growing calls to withdraw Netanyahu invitation: ‘a terrible mistake’

  • police clash with protesters

    Efforts to sell ‘Anglo neighborhoods in Israel’ at LA synagogue erupt in protests

  • Labor Senator Fatima Payman

    Labor group praises Fatima Payman for upholding party ‘principles and policy’ to cross floor

  • Masoud Pezeshkian flashes victory signs at a campaign rally

    Javad Zarif, negotiator of Iran nuclear deal, backs reformist presidential candidate

  • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

    India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

    Rights groups protesting at Modi government’s view that criminalising sexual assault violates ‘sanctity’ of marriage
  • A mural showing a woman in a blue headscarf looking away and holding up her hands defensively.,

    Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’

  • Arundhati Roy sits at a protest with a sign saying 'Free the press' attached to her shirt

    Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy

  • Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.

    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  • Aydos Sadykov

    Popular Kazakh opposition figure in hospital after being shot in Kyiv

  • Workers unload water bottles from a truck

    Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave

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  • A still from covert footage of Andrew Parker, standing outside talking to someone while wearing a Reform UK rosette

    Reform UK activist filmed making racist comments about Rishi Sunak

    Andrew Parker, who is canvassing in Clacton, also described Islam as ‘a cult’ and suggested asylum seekers should be shot
  • Wes Streeting gesturing while sitting in a room

    Managers who silence whistleblowers ‘will never work in NHS again’, vows Streeting

  • Three bar staff serve drinks at BrewDog Waterloo

    BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in bar

  • PM again declines to say whether he told Craig Williams in advance about his decision to hold the election in July

    Sunak cites ‘confidential’ inquiry as he refuses to answer questions over aide and election date bet – as it happened

  • Jonathan Reynolds speaking at the conference in London: he is standing in front of a backdrop with logos of firms including Aviva, Drax, Heathrow and Microsoft, with his hands raised in a gesture; he is in his 40s with close-cropped receding hair and a greying beard, and wears a dark suit with white shirt and tie.

    Labour to seek ‘stable position’ with Europe rather than reopen Brexit debate

  • Gareth Jenkins walks to the inquiry wearing a short-sleeved shirt and backpack

    Ex-Fujitsu engineer apologises at Post Office inquiry over ‘bandwagon’ claim

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  • Man in suit in front of flag

    Rightwingers’ push to recall Wisconsin Republican speaker fails again

    Bipartisan election commission finds rightwing activists failed to submit sufficient signatures in recall petition
  • An overhead of a Spanish colonial-style house surrounded by greenery

    Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles home named a historic cultural monument

  • Sinkhole in alton soccer pitch

    Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

  • Litter and police tape on a grass lawn.

    Baltimore police employees face punishment over 2023 mass shooting response

  • In this image provided by the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Oregon. smoke rises from a wildfire on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in La Pine, Ore. The wildfire near the popular vacation destination of Bend, is growing rapidly. Officials on Wednesday urged the continued evacuations of hundreds of homes in the area best known for its microbreweries, hiking, river rafting and skiing on nearby Mount Bachelor. (Capt. William Bailey/Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Oregon via AP)

    Wind-driven wildfire spreads near popular Oregon vacation spot

  • People in pro-RFK Jr shirts and signs saying 'Let Kennedy debate!'

    RFK Jr claims Republicans, Democrats and CNN conspired to exclude him from debate

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