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  • Aerial view of Wemmer Pan Road's pits dug by illegal miners, Johannesburg skyline beyond

    Sinkholes, scarred land and scapegoats: the scourge of illegal gold mining in Johannesburg

    There is no end in sight for the drivers of illegal mining, while police action appears ineffective
  • Lana Nusseibeh speaks into a microphone while seated at a UN conference table

    Sudanese diaspora and human rights groups denounce UAE nominee for UN top job

  • Lina Attalah, wearing a red scarf, looks to the side during a panel discussion.She has very short dark hair.

    Egypt fines prominent editor Lina Attalah and shuts independent news outlet Mada Masr

  • A crude map showing countries affected by active Ebola outbreaks at the headquarters of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Abuja, with Nigeria, DRC among others in red.

    Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official

  • Masked paramilitaries stand up in an open-top vehicle while carrying guns

    UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’

  • three people walk on a red carpet

    Canada and EU announce new alliance open to like-minded countries

    Alliance for the Future, unveiled at Montreal summit and open to other countries, conceived for world ‘shaken by new storms’
  • Flávio Bolsonaro facing away from the camera as people pat him on the back.

    ‘Amateur morons’: Flávio Bolsonaro’s short-lived ‘president-elect’ claim met with mockery

  • An aerial view of flooded residential areas and agricultural fields with trees emerging from lakes of brown water.

    Severe rainfall and flood warnings issued for central Greece and western Turkey

  • A musician plays the bass

    Cuts like a knife: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams trolls Trump with new song

  • Close-up of Lula supporter crying tears of joy.

    Brazil’s victory for the planet and democracy: seven lessons from Lula’s win

  • Crypto Billions Stolen In Binance HackIn this photo illustration, the Binance logo is displayed on a phone screen adjacent to an image from a crypto exchange on a laptop on October 30, 2026 in London, England. The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, experienced a $6.3 billion security exploit yesterday, representing the largest digital asset theft to date. The incident occurred when an unauthorised attacker drained funds from the exchange's hot wallets across 10 distinct blockchain networks within a 20-minute window. In response, Binance temporarily suspended all deposits and withdrawals, and co-founder Yi He confirmed that the exchange will fully cover all user losses using company assets.

    Binance says 90% of losses from $6.3bn hack covered as FBI says North Korea behind attack

    Cryptocurrency exchange says withdrawals starting to resume on Sunday as FBI blames North Korean state-sponsored group TraderTraitor
  • Students at a North Korean military school in uniform work on computer monitors

    How crypto hacking funds isolated North Korea’s nuclear programme

  • A Chinese paramilitary policemen stands in front of a rainbow flag.

    Beijing Queer film festival cancelled after harassment from authorities

  • Members of the Politburo Standing Committee including Xi Jinping at the fifth plenum.

    China expels a record number from Communist party amid Xi’s intensified purges of top officials

  • Laity, a farmer, stands on a path between burnt land and banana plants, looking up

    El Niño-driven drought in Papua New Guinea a ‘national crisis’ as rivers dry up and local farms fail

  • Melbourne street art depicting the former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern.

    Jacinda Ardern in Sydney Opera House talk advises politicians to ‘rebuild trust by building financial security’

    Former New Zealand prime minister has moved to Australia and is lecturing at University of Sydney – and from stage of city’s famous landmark
  • Ran Stanton and H Morgan-Harris stand with a dog at a cluttered studio garage entrance

    Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal

  • People walk through the rain in Melbourne

    Storm warnings for Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane as cold front ‘packs a punch’

  • Anthony Albanese speaks to the media. The prime minister will speak with his counterparts in the UK and Canada at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Antigua and Barbuda

    Albanese looks for reset on world stage as ‘spot fires burn’ domestically and likely interest rate hike looms

  • US secretary of state Marco Rubio speaks during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Georgia

    US cancels G20 ‘family photo’ after Australia, UK and others refuse to appear with Russia

  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit

    Former chancellor says leaving European Union has made Britain ‘poorer, weaker and less secure’
  • Migrants in orange life jackets crowd an inflatable boat as a Border Force vessel approaches

    Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended

  • Josephine Schneider's House, a children's home, stands behind a wooden slat fence and gate

    English children’s homes are in crisis. Does Denmark hold the answers?

  • A protester crouches amid flying sparks and fireworks during a demonstration on a city street

    Police clash with masked rioters after largely peaceful protests across France

  • Prime minister Donald Tusk speaks into a microphone with a furrowed, animated expression

    Tusk defends overhaul of Poland’s constitutional court despite protests

  • A delivery rider passes as a huge smoke plume rises near Dubai airport

    Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report

    IISS study questions overreliance on American support and ‘overdependence on expensive, high-end systems’
  • Pople gather around yellow and white jerrycans

    Houthis sending Taiz ‘back to the stone age’, governor of besieged Yemen city says

  • Benjamin Netanyahu frowns at microphones before a large blue backdrop at an election event

    Friday briefing: Israel has a dilemma - can its opposition govern with Palestinian parties?

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  • Benjamin Netanyahu clasps his hands together at an election night rally

    Netanyahu accused of smearing Arab voters to hold on to power

  • JD Vance waves as he boards a plane

    JD Vance letter may offer last chance to avert fresh conflict between US and Iran

  • A man walks near security personnel ahead of a ‘Save Democracy’ march towards Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, India, on Sunda

    Indian forces tighten security in Delhi ahead of big opposition protest

    Opposition says hundreds of thousands of people expected to participate in march demanding election chief resign over voter list changes
  • Marco Rubio and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar shake hands in front of American and Indian flags

    What Marco Rubio’s sidestepping of New Delhi says about the US’s stance on India

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  • Kim Aris holds up a poster that says 'Proof of life is only the beginning: free her' during a Zoom call

    Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘sounds strong’ but is isolated, son says

  • Pill blister packs sit on a wooden table beside banknotes and credit cards

    India slashes cost of cancer drugs after court rules mark-ups are ‘extortion’

  • Aung San Suu Kyi sits at a table speaking on a corded telephone

    Aung San Suu Kyi’s son speaks to detained former Myanmar leader for first time in five years

  • Chief secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds

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    Minister says UK apology over historic role in slave trade won’t lead to financial reparations – UK politics live

    Ahead of a meeting with Commonwealth leaders, Andy Burnham wrote that Britain needed to ‘acknowledge its complicated history’
  • Tommy Robinson, in a suit, is surrounded by men leaving court

    Tommy Robinson conviction leaves far right with leadership void

  • Two white Wayve self-driving cars with rooftop sensors drive along a London street

    Sadiq Khan calls for cap on numbers of robotaxis on London streets

  • Bingo game slot machines at an indoor arcade in Warrington.

    High street ‘slot farms’ could evade budget tax rise through bingo hall loophole

  • Police and army vehicles behind cordon tape during a security operation on a residential street

    Man in Belfast charged with possessing explosives and firearms

  • Two people

    Haley Stevens advised to stay away from Abdul El-Sayed campaign events to limit ‘distractions’

    A public spat has cast Democratic tensions in the spotlight as the close US Senate race draws to a head
  • Donald Trump waves around a small arch.

    Virginia and DC sue to stop Trump’s arch as government looks to start construction

  • A man fills out a voting form in a voting booth.

    More than 50m Americans cast ballots in early voting with three days to go before midterms

  • A disheveled Epstein in a sex offender registry photo.

    Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push

  • Maurene Comey, prosecutor in the Epstein case, looks down while walking outside court

    Maurene Comey ruling offers hope of check on Trump’s assault on rule of law

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