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Ivan Cepeda (left) lost the election to Abelardo de la Espriella (right) by less than a percentage point

Left-wing candidate concedes tight Colombia election

Staff members pose next to Amedeo Modigliani’s 'Nu assis au collier', during a media preview by Sotheby's in London to highlight masterpieces from the Lewis Collection, with an initial estimate of at least 200 million pounds ($267 million)

Modigliani nude sets European record at London auction

Congress passed a largely symbolic resolution calling on US President Donald Trump to end US hostilities with Iran unless lawmakers explicitly authorize military action

Trump seeks $88 bn in extra funding, mostly for Iran war

Map of the Sahel region

In Africa's Sahel

'New rules': life in world epicentre of jihadist terror

Scientists say human-driven climate change is behind the more regular, more intense heatwaves

'We're suffocating'

Europe swelters under record-breaking heatwave

Emmerson Mnangagwa took power of Zimbabwe after a coup in 2017

Controversial constitutional amendments

Zimbabwe Senate approves bill to extend presidential term

The DRC's 17th Ebola outbreak was declared on May 15

Deadly haemorrhagic fever

France detects first Ebola case outside Africa in current outbreak

Bolivia's former president Evo Morales told AFP the new government is stoking civil war

Amid country's economic crisis

Bolivia's government is 'stoking a civil war,' ex-president Evo Morales tells AFP

The MV Hondius hit the headlines after a deadly hantavirus outbreak

Hantavirus outbreak should formally end on July 2: WHO

A biography of Jimmy Lai, 'The Troublemaker' (C), is reportedly at the center of the arrests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong arrests two for allegedly selling 'seditious' material

Hundreds of activists from around the world were detained by Israel during the latest attempt by an aid flotilla to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip

Cracked bones, humiliation, sexual assault

'Inhumane': Gaza flotilla activists recount Israeli detention ordeal

President Bola Tinubu (R) has supported efforts to create state-led police forces in Nigeria

State-level police forces

Major Nigeria police reform edges forward with senate approval

US President Donald Trump (left) had enthusiastically endorsed Colombia's hard-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella (right)

After Colombia election

Trump consolidates rightward shift in Latin America

A tarpaulin covers the facade of the Kennedy Center where President Donald Trump's name was removed

Scaffolding still up

Judge asks why Kennedy Center covering facade after Trump's name removed

A model of the F126 frigate. Berlin has abandoned the project to build the warship

Germany sinks troubled warship project in blow to naval ambitions

Protests have erupted in Kenya against a US Ebola quarantine centre being built in the north for American citizens

US health deals cause trouble for Kenya govt

New cars and SUVs are an increasingly common sight in Havana, where the private sector is fast replacing state enterprises in the supply of food, clothing and fuel

Socialism with a twist or crony capitalism? Cuban reforms spark debate

A new memorial to Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted and murdered by the Nazis has been unveiled in Berlin

Historically overlooked

Berlin unveils monument to Jehovah's Witnesses murdered by Nazis

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Today's most important news in one place

People have taken to the shade to try to beat the heatwave in France

Hotter than ever

Latest developments in Europe's heatwave

Food delivery riders often work 10-hour shifts to earn 30-70 euros per day, depending on the orders

'You have to work': Riders brave Rome heat for survival

Australia's spy chief Mike Burgess said a senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards orchestrated a major antisemitic firebomb attack in Sydney

ASIO Sounds Alarm

Australia spy chief warns of Iran terror threat

A pharmacy sign in Brussels showing the temperature at 44C. Europe's heatwave is putting people's health at risk, said the WHO chief

Need for climate resilience

Heatwave-hit Europe must adapt healthcare: WHO

A KNDS battle tank. The arms maker is aiming to raise cash for its expansion

Launching within weeks

French-German tank maker KNDS fires starting gun on mega-IPO

There has been criticism of the Iranian team by hardliners

Factional divisions

'Pragmatists' vs 'hardliners': Is Iran split over US deal?

Emirates operates the biggest A380 fleet in the world

Emirates and Qantas

Airbus to inspect 16 A380s after cracks found on plane wings

Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori came up against leftist Roberto Sanchez in one of the tightest contests in Latin America's recent history

99.86 percent of ballots tallied

Right-winger Fujimori poised to win Peru president runoff

A Pacific Gull walks on a local beach in Esperance, a town on the south coast of Western Australia, on June 23, 2026. Two H5 bird flu cases have been confirmed in migratory birds found in the state of Western Australia, and officials are now warning of a third infection found hundreds of kilometres (miles) away in South Australia.

'No evidence of infection in poultry'

H5 bird flu detected in second Australia state

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