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Women hold Iran's national flags during an anti-US and Israel protest in Tehran

Locked in war since February

Trump says 'clock ticking' for Iran as peace negotiations stall

Striker Jordan Ayew (L) captains 2026 World Cup qualifiers Ghana.

Qualifying draw

World Cup duo Ghana, Cape Verde not among AFCON top seeds

Manchester City winger Antoine Semenyo (C) bursts between two Chelsea defenders during the FA Cup final at Wembley.

African players in Europe: Daring Semenyo wins final for City

The Giant African Harvester Ant is among the prized by collectors around the world

Kenya's new poaching problem: smuggling Giant Harvester Ants

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faces a lomming funding crisis and an Ebola epidemic in the DR Congo

WHO kicks off annual assembly amid hantavirus, Ebola crises

The driver of a train that collided with a bus in Bangkok was charged with negligence causing injury and death

Tested positive for drugs

Train driver charged after deadly Bangkok bus collision

The government-run cargo and passenger vessel MV Kalighat sails across the waters at Teressa island in Nicobar

2,500km from mainland

India's lifeline ferry across strategic archipelago

File photo of a man with the Sentinelese tribe aiming his bow and arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter as it flies over North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands

'Eyes on, hands off'

Encroaching world threatens India's last 'uncontacted' tribe

Local residents sit o Old Shastri Nagaram Beach on the outskirts of Campbell Bay on Great Nicobar Island

Great Nicobar Island

India's strategic $9 bn megaport plan for pristine island

The first person to die from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship had spent 48 hours in Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego, leading to speculation he contracted it there

In Tierra del Fuego, a hunt for the rodent carrier of hantavirus

Morning Roundup

Final school exams start, Trump warns Iran, and Luxembourg's Eurovision future to be decided

A worker moves a red hot steel bar in a steel casting workshop in Lianyungang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province

Domestic activity slump

China's April consumption, factory output growth slowest in years

France's Desire Doue has shone for PSG in the Champions League

Who could be the 2026 World Cup's breakout star?

The Middle East war has unleashed a deluge of AI-generated visuals on X

Muddying the waters

He said, she said, AI said: Wall Street sex scandal rivets and confounds

The tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu has taken the lead in pressing for climate change accountability

'Ultimately about survival'

UN General Assembly to take up climate change 'obligations' resolution

Three weeks of intense hearings

Four takeaways from Musk vs OpenAI trial

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in the front row of the courtroom on Thursday, May 14, 2026 as lawyers presented their closing arguments in the case pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI

Founding mission abandoned?

Jury to decide fate of Musk's blockbuster suit against OpenAI

Christian worshippers gathered in the shadow of the Washington Monument for a weekend 'National Jubilee of Prayer' in the nation's capital

State-church separation who?

White House mass prayer event seeks to reclaim US Christian roots

Rescue teams in the Maldives searched for a third day for the bodies of four missing Italians following the country's deadliest diving accident

Country's deadliest diving disaster

International dive group joins Maldives search for missing Italians

Iran's Islamic republic authorities have been using executions to punish people it links with January protests demanding an end to their rule

Highest since 1981

'Staggering' Iran toll drives up global executions: Amnesty

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Choukine

Talks a 'dead end'

Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill 7 as Hezbollah condemns talks

A case has been confirmed in the major eastern DRC city of Goma controlled by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia

High risk of spread

WHO declares international emergency as Ebola outbreak kills more than 80 in DR Congo

Thousands gathered at the call of the city's mayor to 'unite against those who want to divide and sow hatred'

Eight people wounded

Italian PM meets victims of Modena car incident

William Osula's double plunged West Ham closer to relegation

Penultimate game

West Ham on brink of Premier League relegation, Man Utd seal third

A researcher holds a preserved specimen of a Graomys chacoensis rodent at the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences in Cordoba, Argentina

Aboard the MV Hondius

Canadian cruise passenger confirmed positive for hantavirus

Police said around 60,000 attended Saturday's Unite the Kingdom event

Tommy Robinson, pro-Palestine marches

UK police detail arrests after far-right rally and counter demo

Critics fear the proposed civil code will entrench discriminations

Rare wartime demonstration

Kyiv residents protest 'dangerous' civil code, call for LGBTQ rights

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has gone on the offensive, after US President Donald Trump suggested that arms sales to Taiwan could be used as a bargaining chip with China

Amid US arms sales comments

Taiwan's leader says island will not be 'traded away'

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