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<p>The Russian army's multiple rocket launcher Solntsepyok fires towards Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region</p>
Europe

Ukraine is facing 50,000 Russian troops in Kursk – can they hold out?

Experts tell Andy Gregory and Tom Watling that the real question is how much Kyiv’s troops are able to inflict casualties on the Russians as the price for taking the territory back

<p>Police, military and volunteers continue with cleaning operations in the flood-hit municipality of Paiporta</p>
Europe

Thousands in Spain yet to return home as rain brings fresh flood risk

<p>Attendees arrive for the day at Cop29</p>
News

Argentina’s Milei withdraws delegation from UN climate talks in Baku

<p>File. Monkeys feast on fruits and sweet snacks during the Lopburi Monkey Festival on 27 November 2022</p>
Southeast Asia

Town sterilises hundreds of monkeys after years of menacing behaviour

Just in

<p>File: South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, 10 Jan 2024</p>
East Asia

South Korea’s opposition leader convicted of violating election law

<p>Commuters ride along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore</p>
South Asia

Anger in Pakistan after politician leaves country amid air emergency

<p>Li Ziqi </p>
China

Popular Chinese influencer Li Ziqi returns after 3-year hiatus

<p>An artisan depicts a landscape on a porcelain vase </p>
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Porcelain’s glories shine forever on

<p>Two students from Wellington College in Shanghai try a classical Chinese musical instrument</p><p></p>
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Gaining a competitive edge

<p>A fridge magnet featuring the phoenix coronet of Empress Xiaoduan from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)</p>
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Fridge magnets prove hot sales items at museums

<p>Consumer products on display at the seventh China International Import Expo in Shanghai </p>
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Country’s openness creates more opportunities

<p>Visitors and performers pose on 5 November at the China Pavilion of the World Travel Market London in the United Kingdom. The three-day event, one of the most influential tourism exhibitions in the world, ended on 7 November </p>
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Chinese tourists return to global markets

<p>Vladimir Putin listens to Donald Trump during a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018 </p>
Europe

Putin and Trump are deluded about each other, and Kyiv will pay for it

Europe

Putin and Trump are deluded about each other, and Kyiv will pay for it

<p>Vladimir Putin listens to Donald Trump during a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018 </p>
<p>Rescuers search for bodies in the Torre neighbourhood in Valencia</p>
Europe

Valencia chief rejects calls to resign over handling of Spain floods

APTOPIX Lebanon Israel
Europe

Top Iranian official holds talks in Lebanon on Israel-Hezbollah war as U.S. pushes for cease-fire

<p>Ukrainian soldiers fire a 2S1 self-propelled 122mm howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine </p>
LiveEurope

Putin’s troops disguised as Ukrainians in assault on key city

<p>Fans argue on stands during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between France and Israel at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis</p>
Football

Israel and France fans clash during football match

<p>Fans argue on stands during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between France and Israel at the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis</p>
Football

Israel and France fans clash during football match

Europe

Mapped: Where are severe weather alerts in force in Spain?

<p>The Russian army's multiple rocket launcher Solntsepyok fires towards Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region</p>
Europe

Ukraine is facing 50,000 Russian troops in Kursk – can they hold out?

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Middle East

<p>Thick smoke and flames erupt from an Israeli airstrike on Tayouneh, Beirut</p>
Middle East

Iran backs Lebanon in ceasefire talks as Israel intensifies strikes

<p>Displaced Palestinians flee amid a military operation in Jabalia on 23 October</p>
Middle East

Israel accused of war crimes for forced displacement of Palestinians

<p>Palestinians displaced from shelters in Beit Hanoun cross the main Salaheddine road into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip </p>
Middle East

US says Israel has not breached laws on blocking aid supplies in Gaza

<p>Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Aid groups say Israel has missed US deadline to boost aid into Gaza

<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives to meet then prime minister Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street in London, on 7 March 2018</p>
Middle East

Saudi crown prince says Israel committing genocide in Gaza

<p>Fellow minister said Israel planned to discuss expansion with ‘our friends in Washington’ </p>
Middle East

Israeli minister says Trump win means it is time to annex West Bank

<p>Palestinians line up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Aid groups say Israel has missed US deadline to boost aid into Gaza

<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives to meet then prime minister Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street in London, on 7 March 2018</p>
Middle East

Saudi crown prince says Israel committing genocide in Gaza

<p>Fellow minister said Israel planned to discuss expansion with ‘our friends in Washington’ </p>
Middle East

Israeli minister says Trump win means it is time to annex West Bank

<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu </p>
Middle East

Netanyahu confirms he okayed Lebanon pager attacks that killed 40

Middle East

Netanyahu confirms he okayed Lebanon pager attacks that killed 40

<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu </p>
<p>A Palestinian man carries away an injured child from a home that was hit in an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

At least 17 dead in Israeli strike on single house in northern Gaza

<p>Qatar has pulled out of key Gaza ceasefire talks </p>
Middle East

Qatar pulls out as broker of key Gaza ceasefire talks

<p>An inflatable dinghy carrying around 65 migrants crosses the English Channel on 6 March 2024 in Dover, England</p>
Home News

Hunting ‘The Scorpion’: My mission to track gangs smuggling migrants

<p>Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate the northern part of Gaza flee </p>
Middle East

Besieged north Gaza looks like Stalingrad, warn aid officials

<p>Displaced Palestinians ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate the northern part of Gaza flee </p>
Middle East

Besieged north Gaza looks like Stalingrad, warn aid officials

<p>A Palestinian woman looks on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis</p>
Middle East

Nearly 70 per cent of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says

Israel Knesset
Middle East

Israel passes law to deport the families of Palestinian attackers

US

US politics

Trump’s Cabinet tracker: Here’s the White House appointments so far

<p>Many have left the Twitter/X platform in recent weeks(Yui Mok/PA)</p>
Tech

How users can leave Twitter / X – and what are the alternatives

<p>President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, speaks with Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, at the America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-A-Lago</p>
LiveUS politics

Senators skeptical of Trump’s MAGA cabinet picks: Live updates

<p>Jose Ibarra listens through an interpreter during a hearing over the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley </p>
US Crime News

Here’s what we know about the suspect in Laken Riley’s murder

<p>Donald Trump has made several controversial picks for key roles in his adminstration. It could be blowing his political capital before he even takes office </p>
US politics

Trump’s latest cabinet picks could echo a major Bush-era blunder

<p>Rep Matt Gaetz speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland in February. The House Ethics Committee abruptly canceled its meeting despite growing calls for the panel to release its report on Matt Gaetz </p>
US politics

House ethics panel delays meeting as Congress argues over Gaetz report

<p>A person was rescued from the rubble after a construction site accident in Kentucky </p>
Americas

Crews rescue worker who was trapped under the construction rubble

<p>Consumers continue to spending, according to a report on October retail sales by the Commerce Department. That is despite economic concerns being a major factor during the election </p>
Americas

Americans continue to spend despite, consumer report shows

<p>Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, is on trial for the murder of Laken Riley </p>
US Crime News

Laken Riley killer ‘hunting for females’ on day of murder, trial hears

US Crime News

Laken Riley killer ‘hunting for females’ on day of murder, trial hears

<p>Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, is on trial for the murder of Laken Riley </p>
<p>Alex Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after he was ordered to pay the families of Sandy Hook victims more than $1.5 billion in defamation damages </p>
US politics

Judge could pump the brakes on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars

<p>Donald Trump is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office</p>
Americas

Georgia jail where Trump was booked is condemned in scathing report

<p>Laken Riley was killed when she went for a run </p>
US Crime News

Everything we know about the Laken Riley murder trial

<p>Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14 in Palm Beach, Florida. Iran sent a secret message to the US last month promising not to kill the president-elect</p>
US politics

Iran sent note to the White House promising not to kill Trump

<p>Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14 in Palm Beach, Florida. Iran sent a secret message to the US last month promising not to kill the president-elect</p>
US politics

Iran sent note to the White House promising not to kill Trump

<h5>Matt Gaetz and Robert F Kennedy Jr attend the America First Policy Institute gala. Republicans are expressing skepticism about getting Gaetz’s nomination confirmed </h5>
US politics

GOP senators don’t sound hopeful over Gaetz’s confirmation hearings

<p>Bodycam footage allegedly shows Antwione Williams during the riot </p>
US Crime News

Ex-NFL’er charged for role in Capitol riot

Europe

<p>Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system intercepts missiles launched against the country</p>
Europe

Greece in talks with Israel to develop its own ‘Iron Dome’

<p>A self-propelled howitzer of Ukraine's 57th brigade fires in the direction of Russian positions on the outskirts of Kupiansk</p>
Europe

Ukraine says it has stopped Putin’s forces advancing on key city

<p>Ukrainian soldiers fire a 2s1 self-propelled 122mm howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine </p>
Europe

Mapped: Where has Russia made advances on the frontline in Ukraine?

<p>Those arrested are also facing charges of facilitating the Naples-based mafia Camorra and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra by investing their profits in VAT fraud</p>
Europe

Police arrest 43 and seize 520m euros in Europe-wide mafia probe

<p>Malaga streets turn to rivers as floodwaters sweep through Costa del Sol towns.</p>
News

Video: Malaga streets turn to rivers as floodwaters sweep through town

<p>Protestors take part in a rally against the ‘Israel is Forever’ gala organised by Franco-Israeli figures to raise funds for the Israeli military in Paris on 13 November 2024</p>
Europe

France steps up security for Israel match after Amsterdam violence

Climate COP29 Energy
Europe

For 3rd straight year, no improvement in Earth's projected warming

France Israel Soccer Match
Europe

Thousands of police officers but few visiting fans for France-Israel soccer match after attacks

France Mideast Tensions
Europe

Protests erupt in Paris over pro-Israel gala organized by far-right figures

Europe

Protests erupt in Paris over pro-Israel gala organized by far-right figures

France Mideast Tensions
Trump Musk
Europe

Elon Musk says he and Trump have 'mandate to delete' regulations. Ethics laws could limit Musk role

<p>People clear mud from a flooded house in Algemesi in October; there are fears a new weather front could bring more devastation </p>
Europe

Fresh storms in Spain deluge streets and force residents to flee

<p>The remains of a car that exploded in Sevastopol, killing Valery Trankovsky </p>
Europe

Senior Russian naval officer killed in Crimea car bombing

<p>A view of a landslide next to Brienz, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland</p>
Europe

Swiss villagers given deadline to evacuate as rockslide edges closer

<p>A view of a landslide next to Brienz, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Brienz-Brinzauls, Switzerland</p>
Europe

Swiss villagers given deadline to evacuate as rockslide edges closer

Niger Acted
Europe

Niger junta bans French aid group amid tensions with France

<p>A demonstrator calling for Mazon to step down </p>
Europe

Anger grows over Valencia chief’s long lunch on day of floods

Africa

South Africa Miners Trapped
Africa

South Africa says it won’t help 4,000 miners stuck inside closed mine

Africa

South Africa says it won’t help 4,000 miners stuck inside closed mine

South Africa Miners Trapped
Ethiopia Electric Vehicle Challenges
Motoring News

It was the first country to ban petrol car imports. Is it working?

<p>Frustration over the cost of living crisis has led to several mass protests in recent months</p>
Africa

Children face death penalty for protesting against cost of living

<p>Laila Soueif, 68, stands next to her daughter Sanaa Seif in London holding signs calling for the release of Alaa Abdel Fattah </p>
Africa

Mother of jailed Egyptian-UK activist on hunger strike over his case

<p>A view on felucca boats on Nile river in Aswan at sunset</p>
Africa

Ten countries agree Nile water-sharing deal despite Egypt opposition

<p>A view on felucca boats on Nile river in Aswan at sunset</p>
Africa

Ten countries agree Nile water-sharing deal despite Egypt opposition

<p>There are 36 confirmed cases of the disease that manifests like Ebola</p>
Health

Marburg virus deaths rise to 11 as source still being investigated

<p>Sex workers listen to a briefing on mpox Wednesday, September 4, 2024 in a bar in Kamituga, eastern Congo</p>
Africa

Sex workers hit by mpox outbreak say only option is to keep working

<p>Representational. An instant porridge brand in South Africa has been taken off shelves following death of three children </p>
Africa

Porridge brand withdrawn in South Africa after three children die

Africa

Watch: Farmer on trial charged with attempted murder of Black boy, 6

<p>Shirley and Roland Cherry were on a dream holiday when the hippo attacked their canoe</p>
Africa

British man nearly killed after hippo dragged him into river in Zambia

<p>Rare heavy snowfall batters South Africa’s coast</p>
News

Rare snowfall hits South Africa forcing major highway closures

<p>People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria</p>
Africa

Hundreds of inmates escape after floods pull down prison walls

<p>Kenyan Aviation workers strike over planned 30-year lease to Indian based company</p>
Africa

Flights grounded at Kenya’s main airport as workers protest

<p>Three men accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs, from right to left, farm-owner, Zachariah Olivier, supervisor, Adrian Rudolph de Wet and employee, William Musora appear in court Polokwane, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024</p>
Africa

Farmers accused feeding women to pigs in case that shocked country

<p>Killing 723 animals including 83 Namibian elephants will help offset the effects of this year’s drought, the government says</p>
Africa

Namibia to kill more than 80 elephants despite conservation warning

Asia

<p>Rows of yurts are a highlight at a Naadam celebration in Xiliin Gol League in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region in 2023 </p>
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Yurt culture continues to stand the test of time

<p>A motorcyclist drives through a thick layer of smog in Delhi, India, on 15 November 2024</p>
News

Delhi shuts all primary schools as hazardous smog worsens

<p>Sri Lanka’s president and National People’s Power (NPP) party leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake gestures as he leaves after casting his vote</p>
South Asia

Sri Lanka president’s party wins landslide victory in snap elections

<p>Kim Jong-un inspects tests of drones designed to crash into targets, at an undisclosed location in North Korea</p>
East Asia

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un orders mass production of suicide drones

<p>A resident reinforces the roof of his house in Santa Ana in Cagayan province of northern Philippines as they Usagi approaches on 14 November 2024</p>
News

Usagi weakens over Philippines but Taiwan braces for severe weather

<p>A blanket of air pollution seen over Delhi in northern India on 14 November </p>
India

Delhi smog visible from space as air quality ranked ‘severe’

<p>Kim Jong-un inspects tests of drones designed to crash into targets, at an undisclosed location in North Korea</p>
East Asia

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un orders mass production of suicide drones

<p>A resident reinforces the roof of his house in Santa Ana in Cagayan province of northern Philippines as they Usagi approaches on 14 November 2024</p>
News

Usagi weakens over Philippines but Taiwan braces for severe weather

<p>A blanket of air pollution seen over Delhi in northern India on 14 November </p>
India

Delhi smog visible from space as air quality ranked ‘severe’

<p>A man offers flowers outside the Zhuhai People's Fitness Plaza where a man rammed his car into people exercising at the sports center</p>
China

China censors outrage and shuts down memorial after car ramming attack

<p>Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake leaves a polling station after casting his vote in the parliamentary election in Colombo on 14 November 2024</p>
South Asia

Why Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election today matters for its future

<p>Activists of the anti-discrimination student movement hold national flags and protest against the Awami League party in Bangladesh</p>
South Asia

Bangladesh recovers thousands of guns looted during revolution

<p>File. A bridge is swept away by a lake outburst at Hassanabad village of Gilgit-Baltistan region, Pakistan </p>
South Asia

Newlywed couple among 14 dead as bus plunges into Indus river

<p>File Chittagong Port in Bangladesh</p>
South Asia

First-ever cargo vessel from Pakistan docks at Bangladesh port

<p>Passengers look at an electronic board displaying cancelled flights after the nearby Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano catapulted an ash tower </p>
News & Advice

Flights resume to Bali after cancellation due to huge volcanic ash

<p>A resident wades through a flooded street caused by heavy rains from typhoon Toraji in Ilagan City, Isabela province, northern Philippines on Tuesday, 12 November 2024</p>
News

Hong Kong closes schools as Typhoon Toraji triggers warning

<p>Chinese aircraft carriers Liaoning and Shandong carry out an exercise in the South China Sea in October 2024</p>
China

China releases new map to firm up claim over South China Sea area

Australasia

Australasia

Couple returns from work to discover koala in their bedroom

Australasia

Couple returns from work to discover koala in their bedroom

<p>Roy's Peak Lake Wanaka New Zealand</p>
Australasia

New Zealand may start charging visitors to iconic tourist sites

<p>File: Australian husband sentenced to four and a half years in jail for leaving her wife stranded in Sudan without a passport</p>
Australasia

Man convicted for abandoning wife in Sudan for ‘exit trafficking’

<p>A male emperor penguin dubbed Gus, stands on a beach near Denmark, Australia, on Nov. 1, 2024 </p>
Australasia

Lost emperor penguin found waddling up Australian beach

<p>Flowers and gifts are laid at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre</p>
Australasia

It took Bondi attacker three minutes to stab 16 people, inquest hears

<p>Flowers and gifts are laid at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre</p>
Australasia

It took Bondi attacker three minutes to stab 16 people, inquest hears

<p>New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon, centre, stands in silence ahead of making a ‘formal and unreserved’ apology</p>
Australasia

New Zealand delivers historic apology to victims abused in state care

<p>File. India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar </p>
Australasia

Canada denies claims of banning Australian diaspora outlet

<p>Koala on tree </p>
Australasia

‘Roadkill hotspot’ sees 150 endangered koalas die every year

<p>Worker killed after being crushed by fan blade at wind farm construction site. Screengrab</p>
Australasia

Man crushed to death by falling fan blade at Australian wind farm

<p>Workers check the runway near where a grass fire occurred at Sydney International Airport on 8 November</p>
News & Advice

Qantas emergency landing sparks grassfire after engine failure

<p>Ian Botham was recently saved by Merv Hughes after he accidently fell into crocodile-infested waters in Australia</p>
Australasia

Ian Botham injured after fall into crocodile-infested waters

<p>A ‘tar ball’ seen on a Sydney beach </p>
Science

Gross origin of mysterious black balls washed up on beaches revealed

<p>Emperor Penguins</p>
Australasia

Emperor penguin lands in Australian town 21,000 miles from icy home

<p>Tim Smartt, the lawyer for Jacob Hersant, arrives at Melbourne Magistrates Court in Melbourne, Australia, 8 Nov 2024</p>
Australasia

Man, 25, becomes first person jailed in Australia for Nazi salute

<p>Representational </p>
Lifestyle

Australia proposes landmark ban for children under 16 on social media

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