Former MP and his brother shot dead on live TV in India
Atiq Ahmed, jailed since 2019, was in police custody and taking questions from journalists when attackers struckA former Indian MP convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges has been...
View ArticleProtests show depth of mistrust in Israeli government, says Rothman
Architect of Israel’s judicial changes doubles down for next round of legislative battle when Knesset reconvenes in MayThe vicious fight in Israel over the government’s proposed judicial changes...
View ArticleSuspected IS fighters kill 26 desert truffle hunters in Syria
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says latest attack brings the number of foragers killed since February to 200Suspected Islamic State fighters killed at least 26 people in Syria on Sunday, a war...
View ArticleHungary and Poland provide model for Israel’s assault on judiciary
Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions remind many of first steps taken by ‘illiberal’ governments in Budapest and WarsawAt the height of the protests in Israel over Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial changes...
View ArticleChina’s defence minister and Putin vow to strengthen military cooperation
Li Shangfu travelled to Moscow where he said ties between the countries ‘surpass military-political alliances of the cold war era’Vladimir Putin and China’s defence minister Li Shangfu have vowed to...
View ArticleJapan’s PM gives G7 security pledge after pipe bomb attack
Security tightened ahead of summit in Hiroshima next month after incident on SaturdayJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has vowed to ensure the safety of politicians and officials attending this...
View ArticlePenny Wong and Paul Keating spar as minister warns against ‘frenzied’ Taiwan...
Wong also hits back at former prime minister saying his comments diminish ‘his legacy and the subject matter’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPenny Wong has...
View ArticleIndia heatwave: temperatures hit 40C
Indians warned to stay vigilant during spell of very hot weather. Elsewhere, sandstorms plague ChinaThe heatwave that has been plaguing the states of West Bengal, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh in India is...
View ArticleMohamed Hamdan Dagalo: the feared ex-warlord taking on Sudan’s army | profile
Commonly known as Hemedti, the general of the Rapid Support Forces rose through ranks of Janjaweed in 2003-05 warThe story has it that Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – known universally as Hemedti or “little...
View ArticleSudan violence escalates as rival factions reject ceasefire calls
Neither side shows any willingness to heed appeals from US, UK, African Union and Arab states as death toll nears 100Explainer: why is there fighting in Sudan?Rival government factions in Sudan have...
View ArticleAlabama shooting: 16-year-old girl says brother was killed saving her life
Alexis Dowdell pays tribute to older brother Phil, 18, who was shot dead on Saturday night along with three other teenagersA teenage boy who was killed in a mass shooting that erupted at his sister’s...
View ArticleOklahoma officials recorded making racist and threatening remarks
Residents demand resignations after sheriff and officials recorded discussing desire to murder journalists and lynch Black citizensA sheriff and several officials of a rural Oklahoma county are under...
View Article‘Buckets of tears’: mother of Black teen shot after going to wrong address...
Cleo Nagbe says son Ralph Yarl has been mentally replaying shooting ‘over and over’ after last week’s attack by white manThe mother of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot by a white man after...
View ArticleGirl’s teddy bear with recording of late mom’s heartbeat mistakenly donated...
Four-year-old’s father dropped off the stuffed bear at a Tennessee Goodwill, after which it was quickly soldA heartbroken four-year-old girl’s lost teddy bear, containing a recording of her late...
View ArticleChris Christie derides Ron DeSantis for being outfoxed by Disney
Florida governor’s campaign against entertainment giant shows he is no conservative, says former New Jersey governorRon DeSantis’s attacks on Disney and his struggles to bend the entertainment giant to...
View ArticleFox News v Dominion: defamation lawsuit over election lies goes to trial – live
Trial could see Rupert Murdoch and other Fox executives testify in $1.6bn case in DelawareExplainer: what’s at stake in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuitSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing...
View ArticleArrest of SNP treasurer overshadows Humza Yousaf’s policy relaunch
Colin Beattie arrest announced as new first minister prepared to set out ‘fresh vision’ to MSPsAttempts by Scotland’s new first minister, Humza Yousaf, to stamp his authority on his already beleaguered...
View ArticleRishi Sunak’s wife’s stake in childcare firm not mentioned in six ministerial...
Exclusive: No 10 urged to explain as lists of interests since 2019 do not refer to Akshata Murty’s sharesOpposition parties have called on Downing Street to provide answers over Rishi Sunak’s family...
View ArticleHarry Styles, Cleo Sol and Inflo top nominations for 2023 Ivor Novello awards
British songwriting awards also acknowledge Florence + the Machine, Wet Leg, Central Cee and moreHarry Styles, Little Simz, and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner are among the 72 nominees for this year’s...
View ArticleChannel 4 announces Partygate the True Story docudrama
Broadcaster says programme will contrast revelry in Downing Street with hardship across rest of UKPartygate, the scandal that helped bring down Boris Johnson and may yet cost him his parliamentary...
View ArticleTories pushing for tougher migration bill could make ‘tactical retreat’
Hardliners may instead lobby for a commitment in next manifesto to use as a dividing line with LabourConservatives who want to railroad through measures to curb small boat crossings by pulling the UK...
View ArticleWhy Rishi Sunak may be the most socially conservative PM of his generation
Portrayed as a Cameronite liberal, Sunak is in fact deeply conservative on everything from trans rights to refugeesIt was one of the many strange quirks of the summer Tory leadership contest: that Liz...
View ArticleUN ready for ‘heartbreaking’ decision to pull out of Afghanistan
Officials say it will leave in May if Taliban cannot be persuaded to let local women work for organisationThe UN is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it...
View ArticleNorthern Irish man dies and Indian man missing on Annapurna climb in Nepal
Noel Hanna died during descent of world’s 10th highest mountain, say expedition organisersA Northern Irish climber has died and an Indian climber is missing after falling into a crevasse in separate...
View ArticleChina ready to broker Israel-Palestine peace talks, says foreign minister
China is positioning itself as a regional mediator after brokering the restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi ArabiaChina’s foreign minister told his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts his...
View ArticleUK imposes sanctions on art collector accused of financing Hezbollah
Nazem Ahmad, who has owned works by Picasso and Warhol, suspected of laundering money for militant groupA high-profile art collector has been put on a Treasury sanctions list and charged in the US over...
View ArticleRevealed: how Cypriot firm helped the ‘Orthodox oligarch’ after he was placed...
Konstantin Malofeyev, accused of aiding pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, appeared to continue moving money through the global systemLeak reveals how Roman Abramovich funded Chelsea’s successThe family...
View ArticleSpain’s former king to return from self-exile for sailing regatta
Juan Carlos is promised a warm welcome by mayor on visit to boating competition in GaliciaSpain’s self-exiled former king, Juan Carlos, who abandoned the country almost three years ago after a series...
View ArticleIndia and Russia in ‘advanced talks’ over free trade agreement
Deal would build closer economic ties as most western states push to isolate Moscow over UkraineIndia and Russia have entered “advanced negotiations” over a free trade agreement that aims to build...
View ArticleAbsolut vodka exports to Russia discontinued after outcry in Sweden
Firm’s owner, Pernod Ricard, faced calls for boycott and political pressure after resuming some exports in AprilThe maker of Sweden’s Absolut vodka has said it is ceasing all exports to Russia after...
View ArticleRussia-Ukraine war live: Putin and Zelenskiy visit troops near frontline
This blog has now closed, you can read more of out Ukraine war coverage hereYou may have seen that we are testing a new feature across some of the Guardian’s live blogs, including the Ukraine live...
View ArticleCaught short at 35,000ft: plane forced to turn back after toilets malfunction
Five of eight toilets broke down on Austrian Airlines flight carrying 300 people from Vienna to New YorkAn Austrian Airlines plane had to return two hours into a flight from Vienna to New York after...
View ArticleAged care sector warns Albanese government’s planned $4.8bn spend not enough...
Growing demand and ageing population expected to drive up costs by 23% in fifth-largest area of government expenditureGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe...
View ArticleChinese-Australians face fewer racist insults than at height of diplomatic...
Lowy Institute poll indicates one in five Chinese-Australians were called offensive names in 2022, down 10 points from 31% in 2020Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...
View ArticleRural Australia and Tasmania to receive almost no benefit from stage-three...
‘It’s arse about face … giving nothing to the people who are screaming for assistance,’ Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...
View ArticleAlbanese government urged to include pay rise for all childcare and aged care...
Labor downplays delivering on women’s taskforce wishlist all at once but promises to ‘build upon’ investments in future budgetsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...
View ArticleStudents left with $13 a day as youth allowance falls behind rent rises,...
Homelessness Australia report shows that after paying rent young people have little money to cover food, transport and utilitiesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news...
View ArticleEPA’s water testing after Menindee fish kill was flawed and insufficient,...
NSW environment agency took almost a month to release full results of six water samples taken from Darling-Baaka River five days after eventSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural...
View ArticleFBI arrests two New Yorkers accused of running covert Chinese police station
The station, in New York’s Chinatown, was allegedly run by Beijing’s ministry of public security to track Chinese dissidents The FBI has arrested two men accused of running a covert station for China’s...
View ArticleUK should not ‘pull the shutters down’ on China, says James Cleverly
Exclusive: British foreign secretary says failing to engage ‘closely and regularly’ with Beijing would be ‘really counterproductive’Britain should not “pull the shutters down” on China, as it would be...
View ArticleCanada’s CBC ‘pauses’ Twitter use after government-funded media label
Justin Trudeau has accused a rival of taking advantage of the decision by Twitter to attempt to defund the networkPrime minister Justin Trudeau has waded into a feud over Twitter’s decision to label...
View ArticleArrest of Chihuahua migration chief spotlights abuses in Mexican system
Last month’s fatal fire in Ciudad Juárez is latest in a series of deaths and injuries dogging the country’s militarized migration agencyMexican authorities have arrested the head of migration for the...
View ArticleScientists discover pristine deep-sea Galápagos reef ‘teeming with life’
Diving to 600m, researchers find reefs full of octopus, lobster and fish, raising hopes for corals’ survival amid rising sea temperaturesScientists operating a submersible have discovered deep-sea...
View ArticleCanada shuts baby eel fishery after string of attacks on harvesters
Officials announce 45-day ban on harvesting elvers in provinces of Nova Scotia and New BrunswickCanada has temporarily shut down its baby eel fishery following a string of attacks on harvesters, as...
View ArticleUK company mining gold in Amazon on disputed land
London-listed Serabi Gold extracting gold without approval of Brazilian land registry and Indigenous communitiesA London-listed company has been mining gold in the Amazon rainforest without approval...
View ArticleUkraine criticises Brazil’s peace efforts and invites Lula to see invasion’s...
Kyiv accuses Brazilian president’s initiative for giving equal weight to ‘the victim and the aggressor’Ukraine’s government has criticised Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for his efforts to broker a peace...
View ArticleOpposition party leader is latest critic of Tunisian president to be arrested
Ennahdha party’s Rached Ghannouchi, 81, is at least the 20th person to be held in recent months in crackdown by Kais SaiedRached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda political party and one of the...
View ArticleBlinken warns Sudan’s rivals as US diplomatic convoy comes under fire
Secretary of state condemns apparent attack by fighters linked to paramilitary RSF after days of deadly clashesExplainer: why is there fighting in Sudan?A US diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan...
View ArticleTunisia bans meetings at opposition offices after detaining leader
Police close headquarters of main opposition coalition as fears mount party will be bannedTunisian authorities have banned meetings at all offices of the opposition Ennahda Islamist party and police...
View ArticleHumanitarian aid ‘impossible’ as fighting in Sudan traps millions
Hopes of 24-hour ceasefire to evacuate civilians and wounded after US secretary of state intervenesA major aid organisation says it is nearly impossible to provide humanitarian services in the Sudanese...
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