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An insurgent right-wing movement of digital natives is fueling a social media campaign to get conservative Brazilian candidate Flavio Bolsonaro to clinch victory in the runoff presidential election

Right-wing Brazil influencers on 'mission' to seal Bolsonaro win

A Mexican soldier and a member of a search team look for a missing person in Tepotzotlan in Mexico State in March 2026

More than 134,000 people

Using AI to help find Mexico's legions of missing children

A man throws tear gas during a demonstration in Buenos Aires against budget-slashing Argentine President Javier Milei's education spending

Budget-slashing Milei

Argentine demonstration over education cuts ends in clashes

Anthropic said its Claude chatbot leads more than a quarter of its research and development work

Until risks in control

New York City pension fund asks Anthropic to delay IPO

Corentin Tolisso opened the scoring for Lyon

'Very disappointing return'

Lyon down Palace in Europa League, Sunderland leave it late

Director Mike Leigh takes part in a Q&A following a 'Tender Loving Care' BAFTA Screening at AMC Lincoln Square Theater in September 2026 in New York City

Diagnosed with myositis

Ailing UK director Mike Leigh wishes he could make '100 more films'

Houthi attacks have targeted airports and oil facilities as well as other civilian infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Saudi military operations 'headquarters'

Houthis launch deadly attack on presidential palace in Yemen's Aden

Relatives carry coffins for the funeral prayers of students killed after a roof collapsed at a school in Peshawar

School roof collapse kills 32 children, teacher in Pakistan

Trump said he believed the public execution would be a deterrent to potential terrorists, but that the plan faced strong opposition

Canceling contentious plan

Trump scraps plan to livestream execution after fierce backlash

Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is moving Somalia towards elections

To be held next year

Somalia sets May presidential election despite insecurity

Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores are being held at a Brooklyn jail as they await US trial

Pleading not guilty

Venezuela's Maduro denies US torture charges as 'false accusations'

Can Gianni Infantino secure re-election as FIFA president despite facing months of criticism for his now-aborted plan to allow private investment into the World Cup?

'Nothing has shifted'

Infantino offers apology but 'no answers' at FIFA meeting over World Cup plan

Berlin campaigned against a planned EU ban on combustion-engine cars

Scaling down emission rules

France, Germany reach deal on future of car industry

Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed Al Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, has been accused by more than 150 women

Sprawling network of exploitation

Al-Fayed survivors say UK police missing 'bigger picture'

One of six women

Russell Brand was 'monster-like', alleged victim tells UK court

Leo urged 'courage in negotiation' and compromise to put an end to war in Europe

Recovering in hospital

Pope's cancer operation already reshaping papacy

Police detain a protester during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana on October 15, 2026, as protests continued for a third consecutive day over university conditions and demands for the resignation of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. The latest rally follows two nights of violence in the capital, during which protesters and riot police clashed, police used water cannons and tear gas, and demonstrators damaged government offices and shops and set fire to several buildings.

Thousands of demonstrators

Albanian PM condemns 'chaos' as violent unrest spreads

As the torrential rains eased, Istanbul began a massive cleanup operation

Three dead as Istanbul sees heaviest rainfall in 80 years

Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said Turkey should be included in the EU's 'Made in Europe' plan

Don't exclude Turkey from 'Made in Europe' plan: minister to AFP

A diver swims above a mass of bleached staghorn coral, its pale and white branches a sign of stress after prolonged exposure to abnormally warm ocean waters, off the coast of Key Biscayne, Florida

Record ocean temperatures

El Nino a 'terrifying' threat to coral reefs: UN biodiversity expert

Ukrainian-owned cargo ship Chelsea 3 was hit by three aerial drones, according to Bulgaria

Suspected fallout from Ukraine war

Seven missing off Romania after latest Black Sea drone attacks

US gasoline and diesel prices have rocketed since US-Israel strikes on Iran in February sparked a broader war in the Middle East

Wholesale inflation

US producer prices see biggest jump since 2022 in added challenge to Trump

An aerial photograph shows a person walking over a dried up stream beside sun scorched grass at Richmond Park, in London in August

'Unprecedented period of extreme weather'

'Severe drought' declared in parts of UK

A first complaint against Iglesias was shelved in Spain in January

Veteran crooner

Spanish prosecutors back abuse probe into Julio Iglesias

The teenager used buckshot in the attack in the southern town of Aubagne, near Marseille

Wounded principal and teacher

France charges teen shooter citing revenge for bullying in school

Thick haze from Indonesia wildfires has spiked air pollution domestically and in neighbouring countries

Wildfires cause air pollution crisis

Haze turns Indonesia skies orange, shuts schools in East Timor

Flooding near the Budhi Gandaki river swept away 200 houses and five bridges and is the latest in a series of recent natural disasters in Nepal

After latest Nepal flood, survivors fear for future

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz do not see eye to eye on the next seven-year EU budget

Biggest clash yet

EU leaders clash over budget as spectre of French elections looms

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