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Iran denies involvement and says Rushdie is to blame for own stabbing

Sir Salman is in critical condition after being stabbed nearly 10 times on stage

Russia pledges to ‘expand’ ties with North Korea

PM Modi pledges to make India developed country in 25 years

Three people shot outside Six Flags Great America park

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Middle East

Iran squirms over Rushdie attack, praising knifeman but denying role

Iran denies involvement and says Rushdie is to blame for own stabbing

At least 41 killed and 45 injured as blaze rips through Egypt church

Eight injured as gunman opens fire at bus in Jerusalem

Qatar’s World Cup legacy has to go beyond a spectacular vanity project

Gunman who held up Lebanon bank to withdraw own money arrested

US

Sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Salman Rushdie stabbing

FBI calls threats to law enforcement ‘reprehensible’

Manti Te’o: How did a college catfishing scandal become a Netflix hit?

Manti Te’o fake girlfriend saga was even weirder than you thought

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Trump says FBI stole his passports during Mar-a-Lago raid - live

911 calls shed light on altercation involving Lauren Boebert’s husband

Kemp will hand out up to $1.2B in cash to poorer Georgians

Europe

14-year-old Briton dies after swimming in pool at Turkish hotel

World champion ski mountaineer, 26, plunges to her death on Mont Blanc

Freya the walrus put down by Norwegian officials

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Lamiat Sabin Complaining to partner about a bad day brings you closer, says study

David Harding Italy’s largest lake wilts in Europe’s heatwave

Ukraine says it has taken out bridge impacting Russian supply lines

Germany urged to cap heat in offices this winter to save gas

One dead and dozens injured after stage collapses at Spanish festival

Africa

84 men in court accused of gang raping eight women in South Africa

Clothes mountain washed up on Ghana beach show cost of fast fashion

Largest pink diamond in 300 years found in Angola

Egyptian TikToker held in Saudi Arabia for ‘immoral’ video

Lizzie Dearden Rwanda cannot stop migrants leaving and attempting new journeys to UK

Simon Speakman Cordall Tunisia prepares to vote in referendum seen as a threat to democracy

Methanol found in bodies of 21 teenagers who died in South Africa bar

An attack on a military base in Somalia shows al-Shabab’s deadly power

Asia

Modi sets out 25-year timeline to make India a developed nation

The city that withered and burst back to life again

Cutting edge of tradition

A new sport that is flying high

A green revolution

Foreign companies in Shanghai recover from Covid woes

Ceramic artist moulds cultural interaction

Carbon trading programme shows worth at anniversary

Wall Street of the empire

Stuti Mishra How tackling India’s hidden carbon could save 400,000 lives a year

Aung San Suu Kyi handed six more years in prison on corruption charges

Afghan ex-president fled to avoid ‘humiliating’ surrender to Taliban

How UK’s broken promises have left Afghans living in terror for a year

Pakistan PM pledges urgent action amid economic and political turmoil

Australasia

Australian motorcycle gang boss extradited from Turkey

Shweta Sharma Chinese police officers could be embedded in Solomon Islands’ force

Why New Zealand has told its MPs to delete ‘security risk’ TikTok

Australian senator calls the Queen a coloniser in parliament

New Zealand fully reopens borders since onset of pandemic in 2020

Maroosha Muzaffar Meet the man who believes he’s solved a decades-old Australian mystery

New Zealand PM’s partner gets ‘confidential sum’ by media network

Climbers buried by avalanche survive by digging a cave in New Zealand