🇬🇧 Downing Street applied constant pressure on civil servants to approve the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK envoy to Washington and seemed to brush off security concerns, a sacked official told MPs Tuesday.
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Commuters drive past a large billboard depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei on a street in Tehran on April 20, 2026

File photo shows US President Donald Trump speaking to the press outside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 13, 2026

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇵🇰 US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of having repeatedly violated a temporary truce due to expire by Wednesday, with new peace talks mired in doubt after Tehran said it had not yet sent a delegation ➡️ u.afp.com/SEj7

🇸🇩 Behind The News: Covering Sudan's 'Abandoned' Conflict | AFP

The war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has entered its fourth year, with the UN's top official in the country calling it an "abandoned" conflict. Despite challenges, AFP has kept a presence on the ground

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland (R) heads the ball in front of goal during his side's English Premier League match against Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northwest England, on April 19, 2026

⚽ The spectre of a charging Manchester City haunts Arsenal once more after a 2-1 defeat at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday put a huge dent in the Gunners' hopes of a first Premier League title in 22 years ➡️ u.afp.com/SEz2

🔴 LIVE: UK PM Starmer faces MPs over Mandelson scandal | AFP

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Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk celebrates on the pitch after his side's Premier League win over rivals Everton at Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, northwest England on April 19, 2026

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk (3R) scores their late second and winning goal in the Premier League match against Everton at Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, northwest England on April 19, 2026

⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Virgil van Dijk scored a last-gasp winner against Everton on Sunday as Liverpool strengthened their push for a Champions League spot next season ahead of a Premier League summit meeting between Manchester City and Arsenal ➡️ u.afp.com/SEEb

A combination of photos shows Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola (L) at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on February 14, 2026, and Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta in Milan, northern Italy, on January 20, 2026

⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The destiny of the Premier League title is at stake on Sunday as Arsenal aim to halt an alarming slump and hold off the charge of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City ➡️ u.afp.com/SEET #MCIARS

Infographic on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a vital chokepoint for global oil shipments linking the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 The strategic Strait of Hormuz was again closed on Sunday in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran's powerful parliament speaker signalling a final peace deal remained "far" off despite some movement in negotiations ➡️ u.afp.com/SEbt

File photo shows Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosting social media industry leaders (unseen) to discuss child safety online, at Downing Street in central London on April 16, 2026

🇬🇧 British government ministers on Sunday backed embattled premier Keir Starmer as he struggles to shake off a scandal over long-time Jeffrey Epstein associate Peter Mandelson ➡️ u.afp.com/SEE5

⚽ World Cup fans will have to pay $150 for the 58-kilometer roundtrip train trip between New York and Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey when it hosts eight matches including the final, local officials said. A return rail ticket typically costs $12.90 u.afp.com/SE6V

Attendees pictured during the third international conference on Sudan hosted by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (3rdR) sitting next to Britain's Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper (2ndR) at the Foreign Office in Berlin on April 15, 2026

Men walk past street vendors' stands set up beneath a damaged building in Sudan's capital Khartoum on April 15, 2026, the third anniversary of the start of the war between the army and its paramilitary foes

🇩🇪 🇸🇩 German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Wednesday said more than 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) had been pledged for Sudan at an international aid conference in Berlin

#BREAKING Death toll from Turkey's second school shooting in as many days now stands at nine: interior minister

File photo shows Bournemouth's Spanish manager Andoni Iraola following his side's Premier League match against Sunderland at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, southern England on February 28, 2026

⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇪🇸 Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola will leave the club at the end of this season, the Premier League side said on Tuesday. The Spaniard has been linked with a return to Athletic Bilbao, where he played, and Manchester United ➡️ u.afp.com/SEM4

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Director of IMF Research Department, speaks during an economic outlook briefing during the 2026 IMF and World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026

🌎 📈 The IMF cut its 2026 global growth projection on Tuesday, warning that the world economy could be "thrown off course" by war in the Middle East as the conflict roils commodity markets and sparks higher prices ➡️ u.afp.com/SEMA

Georges Melies's "Gugusse and the Automaton" plays on a screen at the Packard Campus theater of the Library of Congress’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, on April 2, 2026

A technician unspools the reel containing the actual film of Georges Melies’s 1897 short silent film, "Gugusse and the Automaton," at the Nitrate Film vault at the Library of Congress’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, on April 2, 2026

Bill McFarland holds up a photo of his great-grandfather William DeLyle Frisbee at his home in Jenison, Michigan, on March 31, 2026. McFarland found a lost silent-era film, "Gugusse and the Automaton" made by film pioneer George Melies, in a box of films previously been owned by his great-grandfather

A technician views the actual film of Georges Melies’s 1897 short silent picture, "Gugusse and the Automaton," at the Nitrate Film vault at the Packard Campus of the Library of Congress's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpepper, Virginia, on April 2, 2026

🎞️ 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 A lost silent-era film called "Gugusse and the Automaton" -- made by French film pioneer George Melies in 1897 -- has been found inside a battered wooden trunk in Michigan and donated to the US Library of Congress ➡️ u.afp.com/SEc7

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Organisers of a London music festival where Kanye West was to perform in July say the event has been cancelled after the US rapper was barred from entering Britain, following a controversy sparked by his previous antisemitic outbursts.

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Smoke rises following strikes on Tehran on April 7, 2026

Journalists film outside a damaged mosque following strikes on Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on April 7, 2026

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Iran said critical infrastructure, including two bridges, was struck on Tuesday by the United States and Israel, with US President Donald Trump warning "a whole civilisation will die" if a midnight deadline for a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz was not met ➡️ u.afp.com/SbVh

Combination of photos shows US President Donald Trump (L) in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025 and France's President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on February 19, 2025

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Donald Trump's mocking comments about his marriage did not merit a response, calling them "neither elegant nor up to standard" ➡️ u.afp.com/SbXZ

File photo shows Italian Football Federation (FIGC) President, Gabriele Gravina, attending a press conference at the team's base camp in Iserlohn, Germany on June 30, 2024, during the UEFA Euro 2024 football championship

⚽ 🇮🇹 The head of Italy's football federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravina, resigned on Thursday, falling on his sword after the men's national team failed to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup ➡️ u.afp.com/SbXm

NASA image shows (L-R) NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen during a visit to NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 30, 2026

Infographic showing a schematic outline of NASA's Artemis II mission voyage to take a crew of four in the Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth with the launch planned for early 2026

🇺🇸 🚀 🌕 Four astronauts are set to embark on Wednesday on the first crewed journey around the Moon since 1972, an odyssey that aims to launch the US into a new era of space exploration ➡️ u.afp.com/Sbn5

UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) approves the listing of 40 new species for international protection, including the snowy owl featured in the Harry Potter saga

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UN summit in Brazil adds 40 new migratory species to international protection list, including the snowy owl and Hudsonian godwit
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A policeman stands alongside police and private security vehicles outside The Bank of America building in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on March 28, 2026, following an apparent bomb attack attempt

An outside view of The Bank of America building in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on March 28, 2026, showing police and private security vehicles following an apparent bomb attack attempt

🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Police have arrested two more people over an apparent bid to explode a homemade device outside the Paris branch of the Bank of America, the French domestic security service said on Sunday ➡️ u.afp.com/SbGd

File photo shows Tottenham's Croatian head coach Igor Tudor during his side's English Premier League match against Nottingham Forest at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in northeast London, on March 22, 2026

⚽ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇭🇷 Tottenham parted company with coach Igor Tudor by mutual consent on Sunday after just seven games in charge as they battle to stay in the Premier League ➡️ u.afp.com/SbGu

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russian drone hits UNESCO heritage site in Ukraine's Lviv

President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russia's "absolute depravity" after Moscow staged massive drone attacks on Ukraine, killing multiple people and hitting the UNESCO heritage site in the centre of the western city of Lviv

Satellite photo obtained from Planet Labs PBC and dated June 16, 2025 shows an overview of the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 UK minister Steve Reed on Sunday said one missile launched by Iran targeting a joint UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean “fell short” while another missile was "intercepted" ➡️ u.afp.com/SLDY

Britain's Ronnie O'Sullivan plays a shot during the Snooker World Grand Prix in Hong Kong, on February 4, 2026.

🇨🇳 Seven-time world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan made professional snooker history on Friday by crafting the highest break ever of 153 at the World Open in China.
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A view of a Haft-Sin table, an arrangement of seven symbolic items which names start with the letter "S", at the home of an Iranian journalist who has been living in the US for three years, as he marks Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2026

🇮🇷 🪻 Sarvanaz remembers celebrating Iranian new year as a girl under the bombs of the Iran-Iraq war. As Tehran is again shaken by explosions, she said marking the Nowruz festival from Paris -- where she lives now -- has again taken on new meaning ➡️ u.afp.com/SLEp

🇫🇮 😊 Finland the world's happiest country for ninth year in a row: UN report

Finland has been named the world's happiest country for the ninth year in a row, according to an annual UN-sponsored report. The country’s 5.6 million inhabitants generally report low levels of inequality
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Photo provided by the Iranian presidency on August 29, 2023, shows a general view of phase 11 of the South Pars gas field in Asaluyeh port in southwestern Iran's Bushehr province ahead of its inauguration

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US-Israeli strikes hit Iranian facilities at a major Gulf gas field on Wednesday causing a fire, Iranian state television reported. The South Pars/North Dome mega-field is the largest known gas reserve in the world ➡️ u.afp.com/SL8P