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Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Committee, June 2, 2026 in Washington

Latin America / 3 June 2026

Brazil’s Lula slams Rubio as an ‘enemy of Latin America’

3 June 2026

Firefighters work on the site of a burning building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2, 2026

Russia-Ukraine / 2 June 2026

Massive Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 11 people

2 June 2026

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Lebanon / 1 June 2026

Israel orders attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs

1 June 2026

Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia, Congo, May 28, 2026

Healthcare / 29 May 2026

Africa CDC director-general warns ebola outbreak could spread to 12 countries

29 May 2026

The 3M chemical manufacturer's building is seen in a suburb of Sydney, May 28, 2026

Australia / 28 May 2026

Australia launches billion dollar lawsuit against US based 3M

28 May 2026

Rescue workers try to put out a fire at a residential building after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, May 24, 2026

Russia-Ukraine / 25 May 2026

Russia attacks Ukraine using the hypersonic Oreshnik

25 May 2026

Police officers at a checkpoint stop cars at the entrance to the Liushenyu coal mine facility in Qinyuan county in Changzhi, northern China's Shanxi province on May 24, 2026

China / 24 May 2026

Rescuers race to find survivors after Chinese coal mine blast kills at least 82

24 May 2026

Republican People's Party or (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel gestures to party members during his speech during a CHP convention, in Ankara, April 6, 2025

Turkey / 22 May 2026

Turkish court ousts leader of main opposition party

22 May 2026

Exterior view of the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, February 18, 2019

World / 21 May 2026

The International Court of Justice rules in favour of the right to strike

21 May 2026

The Asian Katra cargo ship (top left) arrives in Havana Bay in Havana, Cuba, May 18, 2026

Cuba / 19 May 2026

Humanitarian aid ship from Mexico docks in Havana

19 May 2026

Long Island Rail Road workers walk on the picket line outside of Penn Station on the first day of their strike, May 16, 2026, in New York

United States / 18 May 2026

Talks to end Long Island train strike set to continue

18 May 2026

Barakah nuclear power plant

Nuclear power plant attack / 17 May 2026

Drone strike sparks fire near UAE’s nuclear power plant

17 May 2026

A person is seen inside a burning vehicle as men attempt to put out the fire after an Israeli air strike hits a car in the coastal town of Barja, south of Beirut, Lebanon, May 13, 2026

Middle East / 15 May 2026

Direct peace talks take place between Lebanon and Israel

15 May 2026

Cargo ships, including bulk carriers and general cargo vessels, sit at anchor offshore as a small motorboat passes in the foreground, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4 , 2026

Middle East / 14 May 2026

Ship reported seized off the coast of the UAE

14 May 2026

A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 2, 2026

Fossil Fuels / 11 May 2026

Saudi oil giant Aramco sees profits jump by 25%

11 May 2026

Medical personnel in hazmat suits wait for patients, evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 6, 2026

Healthcare / 7 May 2026

Dozens disembarked from hantavirus-hit cruise without contact tracing

7 May 2026

Rescue workers stand next to a damaged car that has crashed into several people in Leipzig, Germany, May 4, 2026

Germany / 5 May 2026

Driver kills two in a shopping area in Germany

5 May 2026

In this aerial drone photo taken in the early hours of May 5, 2026, rescuers work on site after an explosion at a fireworks plant in Guandu Town of Liuyang, central China's Hunan Province. Photo: Chen Sihan/Xinhua via AP

China / 5 May 2026

26 dead in China fireworks factory explosion

5 May 2026

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrives for the EU Summit in Nicosia, Cyprus, April 24, 2026

Middle East / 28 April 2026

Calls escalate for release of missing German journalist in Syria

28 April 2026

Members of the Samsung Electronics labor union shout slogans during a rally demanding higher bonuses at its computer chip complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, April 23, 2026

South Korea / 23 April 2026

Thousands of South Korean Samsung workers threaten strike action for higher pay

23 April 2026

A child searches for reusable items at a landfill beside a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, April 16, 2026

Gaza / 21 April 2026

Gaza needs tens of billions over the next decade for recovery, says report

21 April 2026

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (right) speaks with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a Spain-Brazil summit in Barcelona, Spain, April 17, 2026

Diplomacy / 17 April 2026

Lula and Sanchez meet ahead of progressive leaders' gathering in Spain

17 April 2026

China's President Xi Jinping (third left) and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (third right) attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 14, 2026

Southeast Asia / 16 April 2026

Vietnam's To Lam meets Xi in four-day trip to China

16 April 2026

Boats carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza reposition in the port during a symbolic send-off as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, in Barcelona, Spain, April 12, 2026

Gaza / 15 April 2026

Aid flotilla sets sail from Spain for Gaza

15 April 2026

China's President Xi Jinping (third left) and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (third right) attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 14, 2026

International Diplomacy / 14 April 2026

Xi and Sanchez vow to safeguard multilateralism

14 April 2026

Patients receive treatment at a hospital in Damaturu after Nigerian Air Force strikes targeting jihadi rebels hit a local market Saturday in northeastern Nigeria, April 12, 2026

Nigeria / 13 April 2026

At least 100 dead in Nigeria after ‘misfire’ on market

13 April 2026

Residents remove a torched tractor that, according to the Palestine Red Crescent, was torched by Israeli settlers, alongside tents and cars in the West Bank village of Tayasir, near Tubas, March 31, 2026

West Bank / 12 April 2026

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian man in the West Bank

12 April 2026

Vehicles pass under a banner showing Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, in Sanaa, Yemen, March 31, 2026

Yemen / 8 April 2026

Yemen's teachers pushed to the brink as salaries fail during war

8 April 2026

A man rides a scooter past a burned tree and charred debris following an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, April 1, 2026

Middle East / 2 April 2026

Hezbollah claims drone and rocket attack on north Israel

2 April 2026

An aerial view of a Rohingya refugee camp, home to over a million of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya minority, covers the land in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, November 25, 2025

Bangladesh / 1 April 2026

Food assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

1 April 2026

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, holds a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026

Middle East / 30 March 2026

Israeli police prevent Catholic leaders celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in key Jerusalem church

30 March 2026

Children displaced from Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh shelter from the rain inside their tents along the coast in Beirut, Lebanon, March 26, 2026

Middle East / 27 March 2026

Israel presses ahead with plans to invade and occupy southern Lebanon

27 March 2026

Demonstrators protest outside Manhattan federal court before a pre-trial hearing in former Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's drug trafficking case, March 26, 2026, in New York

World / 26 March 2026

Maduro held in ‘jail inside a jail’ officials reveal as the Venezuelan leader to appear in court

26 March 2026

Kenya / 25 March 2026

Dozens of bodies, mostly infants, found in Kenyan mass grave

25 March 2026

Supporters of the ‘No’ vote celebrate the outcome of a constitutional referendum that will cancel a justice reform approved by Parliament, in Rome, March 23, 2026. Placard reads ‘No, thank you’

Italy / 24 March 2026

Rebuff for far-right Meloni as Italians reject judicial reform

24 March 2026

Relatives of victims of the Tempi train crash wait for the trial at the court in Larissa, Greece, March 23, 2026

Greece / 23 March 2026

Trial opens in Greece over train crash that killed 57

23 March 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva applauds during a ceremony announcing outgoing Finance Minister Fernando Haddad's candidacy for governor of Sao Paulo state in the October elections, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, March 19, 2026

Brazil / 22 March 2026

Brazil's Lula slams ‘interference’ in previously colonised countries

22 March 2026

Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, May 2023. Photo: Henry Wilkins/VOA/CC

Central Africa / 20 March 2026

Chad warns Sudan it will retaliate after drone attack kills 17 mourners

20 March 2026

This picture, released by SOS Humanity on March 16, 2026, and taken on February 3, 2026, shows rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the deadliest migration routes in the world. Photo: Barbara Sartore/SOS Humanity via AP

Mediterranean Sea / 17 March 2026

Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean, say rights groups

17 March 2026

A woman castes her ballot during the first round of France's municipal elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, March 15, 2026

France / 16 March 2026

Gains for the left and far right in French municipal elections

16 March 2026

Sudan / 13 March 2026

Drone strike near Sudan’s border with Chad kills 4

13 March 2026

Leo Brent Bozell III appears before a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on his pending nomination to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of South Africa, on Capitol Hill, October 23

South Africa / 12 March 2026

South Africa summons new US ambassador over domestic policy interference

12 March 2026

An aerial view of a container terminal in seen in Shanghai, March 10, 2026

China / 10 March 2026

China's exports surge despite plummeting trade with the US

10 March 2026

Istanbul Mayor and Republican People's Party candidate Ekrem Imamoglu addresses supporters outside the City Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, April 1, 2024

Turkey / 9 March 2026

Istanbul’s mayor goes on trial in alleged corruption case

9 March 2026

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a press conference on the sideline of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the media centre, in Beijing, Sunday, March 8, 2026

Diplomacy / 8 March 2026

China’s Wang says ‘might does not equal right’ as he calls for an end to Iran war

8 March 2026

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies during a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing of the Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2026

US / 6 March 2026

Trump sacks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

6 March 2026

People wait to take public transportation during a blackout in Havana, March 4, 2026

Cuba / 5 March 2026

Blackouts hit millions in Cuba

5 March 2026

Patients are seen at a hospital run by Medicines Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Old Fangak in Jonglei state, South Sudan, December 28, 2021

South Sudan / 4 March 2026

Two dozen Doctors Without Borders workers still missing in South Sudan after a month amidst fighting

4 March 2026

US Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino walks with federal agents outside a convenience store in Minneapolis, January 21, 2026

United States / 3 March 2026

Minnesota launches investigation into federal immigration officers’ conduct during crackdown

3 March 2026

A ferry boat navigates across Havana Bay as it passes Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port as it leaves Casablanca, Cuba, February 26, 2026

Latin America / 27 February 2026

Cuba in dialogue with US over fatal boat shooting

27 February 2026

The Mexican Navy ship Papaloapan arrives, carrying aid according to the Mexican government, at Havana Bay, Cuba, February 12, 2026

Cuba / 26 February 2026

Cuba thwarts an armed infiltration

26 February 2026

Displaced Palestinian children walk through a rain-soaked tent camp following heavy rainfall in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, February 24, 2026

World / 25 February 2026

Aid groups petition Israel's Supreme Court as Gaza and West Bank ban nears

25 February 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the Korea-Brazil Business Forum in Seoul, South Korea, February 23, 2026

Brazil / 24 February 2026

Indigenous protests force Lula U-turn on waterway decree

24 February 2026

Kim Jong Un (centre) claps hands as he was re-elected to the top post of the ruling Workers’ Party, during the party's Congress in Pyongyang, February 22, 2026

East Asia / 23 February 2026

Kim re-elected general secretary of North Korea's Workers' Party

23 February 2026

Protesters rally during a march by trade unions and opposition groups against a labor reform bill proposed by President Javier Milei's government in Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 19, 2026

Argentina / 20 February 2026

Milei’s attack on Argentinian labour rights advances

20 February 2026

An Extinction rebellion flag at The New Lawn, Nailsworth

United States / 19 February 2026

Extinction Rebellion says it is under FBI investigation

19 February 2026

People walk past an informational panel at President's House Site, August 19, 2025, in Philadelphia

United States / 17 February 2026

Trump administration ordered to restore George Washington slavery exhibit

17 February 2026

The Pentagon, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, is seen from the air, September 20, 2025, in Arlington, Va.

United States / 16 February 2026

US military boards tanker in the Indian Ocean to enforce illegal oil sanctions

16 February 2026

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa smiles before the State of the Nation (SONA) address in Cape Town, February 12, 2026

South Africa / 13 February 2026

Ramaphosa prioritises mineral wealth for economic transformation

13 February 2026

People walk at a ruined city market following a Russia's attack in Odesa, Ukraine, February 12, 2026

Eastern Europe / 12 February 2026

Russian missiles hit cities as more US talks expected ‘soon’

12 February 2026