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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