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Africa

  • ‘A watershed’: Meta ordered to offer mental health care to moderators in Kenya

    Trauma experienced by staff at Nairobi Facebook hub recognised in legal ruling that may have global implications

  • UK government under fire for investing overseas aid in fossil fuel firms

  • Sudan officials fear for historical artefacts threatened by fighting

  • Sudan fighting escalates after breakdown in ceasefire talks

  • Killer of three Israeli soldiers was Egyptian border police officer, says army

  • Uganda says 54 African Union peacekeepers killed in Somalia by al-Shabaab militants

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Americas

  • Canada’s wildfires are part of our new climate reality, experts and officials say

    Canada is on track to experience its most severe wildfire season on record, and it’s part of a trend experts say will intensify

  • ‘Out of control’ fires burn across Canada as poor air quality expected to persist

  • At a glance: what you need to know about Canada wildfires and smoky US skies

  • Tens of millions under air quality alerts in US as Canada fire smoke drifts south

  • What’s the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them

    Kenneth Mohammed

  • Election of Delfina Gómez as governor of Mexico state signals decline of PRI

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Asia Pacific

  • Chinese communist party ‘accessed Hong Kong protesters’ TikTok data’

    Ruling party accessed user data including Sim card ID and IP addresses, former executive alleges in legal filing

  • ‘We torment others’: the dark side of South Korean school life

  • Australian man arrested over alleged drunken rampage in Indonesia freed from jail

  • China begins drilling one of world’s deepest holes in hunt for discoveries deep inside the Earth

  • Studio Ghibli to release Hayao Miyazaki’s final film with no trailers or promotion

  • Trump-era officials under fire as nuclear fund for Bikini islanders is squandered

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Australia

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  • ‘Beyond the evidence’: media reports overhype ketamine’s use as a depression treatment, review finds

  • Paul Keating sent explosive email to Labor cabinet two hours before attack on Aukus, FOI documents reveal

  • $15,000 more a year: homeowners brace as interest rate hikes bring ‘mortgage cliff’ closer

  • Major newspapers could face a $40m hit if governments follow Victoria in abandoning print advertising

  • New data reveals growing gap between specialist fees and Medicare coverage

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Europe

  • UK provided £3m to Turkish border forces to stop migrants, FOI reveals

    Investigation shows Home Office funds ‘return and reintegration assistance’ and provides equipment and training to Turkish police

  • Russia-Ukraine war: counteroffensive not yet launched, says senior official; UK ‘cannot yet say Russia responsible for dam destruction’ – as it happened

  • Fields of southern Ukraine could ‘turn into deserts’ after dam destruction

  • Nato members may send troops to Ukraine, warns former alliance chief

  • Devastation from Kakhovka dam collapse could take decades to heal

  • EU states refusing to host migrants may have to pay up to €20,000 a head

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Middle East

  • UN climate talks might avoid fossil fuel phase-out, says Cop28 official

    Majid Al Suwaidi says governments not in agreement yet over whether issue should be on agenda

  • ‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

  • Iran’s claims to have created hypersonic missile alarm Israel

  • Three-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers dies in hospital

  • Yemeni activist who revealed Houthi sexual abuses ‘detained by Saudi Arabia’

  • Brent crude price rises after Saudi Arabia agrees to cut oil output

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South and Central Asia

  • Indian train crash: police open criminal negligence case

    Ministers accused of trying to shift blame for Friday’s disaster in which 275 people died

  • Nearly 80 primary schoolgirls believed poisoned in Afghanistan

  • India train disaster: signal fault identified as cause, says minister

  • The Myanmar junta kills … and the rest of the world looks away

  • ‘Wailing for help’: passengers and bystanders tell of India train crash horror

  • Modi has spent billions modernising India’s trains but safety is biggest need

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UK

  • Labour ‘should fix social care with better pay and free short-term support’

    Fabian Society report calling for national care service to be set up and changes to funding

  • Mind-reading tech ‘must include neurodivergent people to avoid bias’

  • Nearly a third of food in UK shops’ baby aisles ultra-processed, research finds

  • Novel about 18th-century black Briton Charles Ignatius Sancho wins RSL prize

  • Fleabag star Andrew Scott to bring one-man Uncle Vanya to West End

  • Long Covid can impair quality of life more than advanced cancers, study says

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US

  • Media organizations push for release of sealed records of US priest accused of abusing children

    The Guardian, the Associated Press and state prosecutors contend that there’s legitimate public interest in documents dealing with Lawrence Hecker

  • Canada wildfires smoke: climate change ‘accelerated conditions’, says New York mayor as Canada battles more than 400 blazes – as it happened

  • Trump’s lawyers told he is target in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation

  • Self-driving Waymo car kills dog amid increasing concern over robotaxis

  • Mike Pence: ‘Trump asked me to choose him or the constitution - I chose the constitution’ – as it happened

  • Jodie Comer stops stage performance because of New York air: ‘I can’t breathe’

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