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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the world desk.
Guinea-Bissau has recorded seven confirmed and 46 suspected mpox cases since declaring an outbreak on July 4, with children comprising half of reported patients and no deaths recorded.
A rain-triggered collapse at a large waste dump in Guinea’s capital killed 30 people and injured 22 others, according to the government.
A fast-moving wildfire expanded beyond 13,000 acres near Reno on August 23, forcing about 42,000 people to evacuate and prompting a Nevada state of emergency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected calls for an election while the war continues, arguing that voting under current conditions could split the country while leaving room for a poll under secure and democratic conditions.
A newly highlighted company letter records 324 Africans carried to British Guiana in 1847, evidence author Malik Al Nasir says shows illegal trafficking by Sandbach, Tinne and Company decades after Britain banned the slave trade.
A long-nosed fur seal found dead in South Australia tested positive for H5 bird flu, marking the first confirmed mainland Australian mammal death linked to the spreading strain.
Tropical Storm Moke was approaching Hawaii on August 22 with forecasts of heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and mudslides, days after Hurricane Lala damaged the Big Island.
Seven people, including two police officers, were killed in an early-morning collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough on August 22, 2026, prompting an investigation by Britain’s police watchdog.
