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Starmer's first polls

Local elections test UK's main parties as hard right rises

More than 50,000 officers were deployed on May Day in Istanbul

Over 50,000 officers

Police arrest more than 400 in Istanbul May Day showdown

Tens of thousands of UK children have written to World War II veterans ahead of VE Day celebrations

Teaching 'memory and meaning'

Thousands of UK children write to WWII veterans ahead of VE Day

Following text scandal

Trump axes NSA Waltz after chat group scandal, nominates him for UN ambassador

India blames Pakistan for the gun attack that killed 26 people on April 22 in Indian-administered Kashmir, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his military

After deadly attack

Religious schools close in Pakistani Kashmir as tensions rise with India

Spain mourns iconic fan

'Manolo' dies aged 76 after four decades of support

Flames engulf vegetation during a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh on April 30, 2025

Firefighting teams still at work

Israel brings fire near Jerusalem 'under control', reopens roads

Workers from Pakistan's Civil Defence Department give first aid training for schoolchildren as tensions rise with India over a deadly attack in disputed Kashmir

Children learn emergency drills as Kashmir tensions rise

Several Bangladesh political parties plan to hold rallies over the next three days

Drumming up support

Bangladesh begins three days of mass political rallies

Afghan children receive food aid from a local charity in Mazar-i-Sharif on March 2, 2025

Missing out on vital care

Millions of children to suffer from Trump aid cuts

Flames engulf vegetation during a forest fire near the central Israeli town of Bet Shemesh on April 30, 2025

Israel reopens key roads as firefighters battle blaze

The EU parliament has three separate far-right groups

Europe far-right surge masks divisions

A handout sketch received from the Supreme Court of Victoria on April 29, 2025 shows Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three people with a toxic mushroom-laced meal. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Triple murder trial

Australian mushroom meal victim 'hunched' in pain, court hears

Myanmar's magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 3,800 people

Myanmar junta lets post-quake truce expire

A dragline excavator operates in an open-pit titanium mine in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine in February 2025

Long-term investment

Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv

People are evacuated on a recovery vehicle at a highway during a forest fire

'National emergency'

Israel's Netanyahu warns wildfires could reach Jerusalem

Taksim Square is a place of 'huge symbolic significance for the Turkish trade union and workers movements', Amnesty said

Restricted access

Istanbul lockdown aims to prevent May Day marches

Bolivia's former president Evo Morales is intent on running for a fourth term as president, despite being charged with trafficking of a minor and being barred from seeking re-election

Barred from seeking fourth term

Morales vows no surrender in bid to reclaim Bolivian presidency

Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British rule in 1947

'Credible evidence'

Pakistan says India planning strike after deadly Kashmir attack

Gulf of America hats are set on a table as US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with his Cabinet on April 30, 2025

Everything is fine: Trump's cabinet shrugs off shrinking economy

Members of Syria's Druze community wave flags and chant slogans during the funeral of people killed during clashes with Syrian security forces on April 30, 2025

Worsening situation

Syria reports Israeli strikes as clashes with Druze spread

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, seen here in 2015, is being tried in Turkey on two separate charges

Still awaiting terrorism verdict

Swedish reporter gets suspended term over Erdogan insult

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher (C) arrives for a visit to the Just for Afghan Capacity and Knowledge (JACK) Mobile Healthcare Centre in Kunduz Province

Reeling from brutal aid cuts

Despite war's end, Afghanistan remains deep in crisis: UN relief chief

South Africa's last white president, FW de Klerk (right), made submissions to the commission led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Claims of deliberate delays

South Africa sets up inquiry into slow apartheid justice

A man inspects the wreckage of a building destroyed in Yemen by a strike on a migrant centre attributed to the US

Blamed on United States

Migrants' dreams buried under rubble after deadly strike on Yemen centre

Supporters of Burkina Faso's junta rallied in the capital after the government said it had uncovered a 'plot' to overthrow it

Thousands gathered in demonstration

Burkina junta rallies supporters after claimed coup 'plot'

Executions are once again surging in Iran

Confession obtained through torture

Iran hangs man as Israeli spy after 'unfair' trial: activists

The International Court of Justice is the top United Nations court

Week of hearings ongoing

US official tells UN top court 'serious concerns' over UNRWA impartiality

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