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  • Young women use handheld fans while walking through a crowded street

    Japan swelters through rising heat – in pictures

    Rising temperatures have caused heatstroke deaths and impacts on crop yields across the country
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  • person shades under an umbrella in japan on hot day

    Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree heat

  • Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is detained by police in New DelhiIndian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is detained by police during a sit-in protest outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence, demanding accountability for police action against students, in New Delhi, India, July 21, 2026. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

    India’s Rahul Gandhi briefly detained as cockroach protests rock Delhi

  • The main opposition leader is driven away in a bus during protests in Delhi

    Rahul Gandhi detained and pulled on to bus after calling for PM Modi to resign – video

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  • A large crowd gathers on a street as police officers manage a Cockroach Janta Party protest march with people recording on phones in India

    India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

  • A damaged building beside rushing flood water, surrounded by debris and rescue workers

    Rescuers in Afghanistan search for missing and dead after flash floods destroy homes

  • Chinese, Philippine personnel clash in the South China Sea

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  • A two-story white building with external blue metal stairs leading to an upper level entrance

    Nauru
    Australia spent more than $9m for each asylum seeker held on Nauru last year – so why can’t they afford to buy food?

  • Brown skua

    New Zealand
    Fears for New Zealand’s native species as first bird flu case emerges

  • A policeman stands at the entrance to the Have A Nice Stay independent bookstore after the officers raided the premises and arrested employees in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

    Hong Kong
    Five arrested in Hong Kong bookstore raids in ‘seditious’ materials crackdown

  • A black bear in Iwate prefecture, northern Japan

    Japan
    Japan officials hunt bear that raided couple’s fridge amid string of break-ins

  • Crowd of protesters stood on knocked-over yellow barricades

    India
    Who are India’s Cockroach Janta party and why are they staging protests?

  • A large crowd of protesters pushes against yellow police barricades with security forces facing them

    India
    Tens of thousands of Cockroach movement protesters defy police with Delhi march

  • Labourers work on top of a building as the sun sets during a heatwave in Srinagar.

    Extreme heat
    ‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers

  • Abhijeet Dipke, head of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), holds the hand of Sonam Wangchuk, an Indian education reformer, who has been on hunger strike

    India
    Indian activist linked to Cockroach party moved to hospital after 20-day hunger strike

Pictures & video

  • Dam Breach Prompts Mass Evacuations In South China's GuangxiNANNING, CHINA - JULY 07: Houses and trees are submerged in flood waters after typhoon Maysak caused the Liulan Reservoir dam to breach on July 7, 2026 in Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. Recent extreme rainstorms triggered by Typhoon Maysak, the 10th typhoon of the year, have caused severe flooding in parts of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Photo by Xie Feiyu/VCG via Getty Images)

    Typhoon, tornadoes, landslides: deadly weather ravages China – in pictures

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