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Middle East crisis

Headlines

  • Rishi Sunak speaking at a podium

    Brexit
    Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

  • black and white image of ranch-style home under trees

    Chris Pratt
    Actor draws ire for razing historic 1950 LA home for sprawling mansion

    • Oxford
      University shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher

    • Ukraine war briefing
      Kyiv claims bomber shot down at 308km range after crash in Russia

    • Solomon Islands election
      PM Sogavare retains seat as count continues

    • Harry Styles
      Stalker jailed for sending singer 8,000 cards in a month

    • Sweden
      Police shoot man after three women attacked in Vasteras

    • Athletics
      Beijing half marathon winner thrown out after trio slowed to let him win

News in focus

  • Moas medics with a wounded soldier

    ‘ICU on wheels’
    24 hours with Ukraine’s combat medics in Donbas

  • Women from Geneina in a refugee camp in Adré, Chad, in November.

    Sudan’s Hotel Rwanda
    The man who saved scores of people during Darfur violence

    As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border
  • Narendra Modi addresses a crowd on Independence Day. He is looking towards the right and appears to be speaking, with one arm in the air. He is wearing a red turban and white kurta.

    ‘Messianic spell’
    How Narendra Modi created a cult of personality

    Experts say Indian PM is hoping to be ‘bigger than Gandhi’ as he aims to win a third term in office

Spotlight

  • Illustration of book titled Liz Truss: 49 Days to Make a Mess with a grotesque yellowy-green caricature of Liz Truss

    ‘Five-year-old on acid’
    Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, digested by John Crace

    Sketchwriter’s take on memoir of PM who screwed up catastrophically and quickly but thinks there’s still work to do
  • Oceania Pro Wrestling. Erika Reid aka "The Dreamtime Voodoo Witch" holds aloft her winner's belt after defeating Lizzy Evo in the OPW Women's Championship. Selkirk Stadium. Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. 12 April 2024.

    ‘We’re the main attraction’
    When women’s pro wrestling came to Australia

    Professional wrestling is normally at home in American stadiums, but for one night in regional Victoria, Australia’s female wrestlers took centre stage
    • View of coast of Achill island

      Literary love affair
      Why Germany fell for a windswept corner of Ireland

    • Ravioli made with Solar Foods’ solein

      Eating light
      Finnish startup begins making food ‘from air and solar power’

    • Rose Matafeo.

      ‘It’s been a thrill!’
      My first time at the Melbourne’s mind-boggling comedy festival

    • An illustration of a man with crossly folded arms, with a seated female figure in the background.

      Ask Annalisa Barbieri
      My friend ranks his friendships in a league table – and it worries me

Sport

Opinion

  • A billboard poster depicting missiles, Tehran, Iran, on 19 April.

    In this shadow war between Iran and Israel, the outline of a different future is visible

    Jonathan Freedland
    Both seem keen to limit hostilities, and key Arab states are ready to resist Tehran. But real change will require new Israeli leadership, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • Military personnel at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility. Israel’s aim was apparently to send a message about what it could do, not to cause significant damage now.

    The Guardian view
    Escalation in the Middle East: calculation does not equate to safety

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    Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • A floral tribute featuring photos of the victims in Saturday's knife attack

    Is violently terrorising a community ‘terrorism’? It’s an uncomfortable debate to have

    Karen Middleton
  • NYPD police officers arresting students

    Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

    Moira Donegan
  • Donald Trump, an older white man with orangey skin and poofy hair, holds up what appears to be a pile of print-outs, with a picture of himself visible on the top one.

    The death of the Republican party is not a tragedy to be celebrated

    Robert Reich
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Climate crisis

  • EasyJet and Ryanair aircraft are parked at Luton Airport

    Airline industry
    UK airline emissions on track to reach record high in 2024

  • Beef cattle in a field

    Exclusive
    UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts

  • A researcher pours a PFAS water sample into a container

    Environment
    EPA moves to make US polluters pay for cleanup of two forever chemicals

  • an Exxon gas station

    ‘Wake-up call’
    Pipeline leak exposes carbon capture safety gaps, advocates say

Around the world

  • smoke rises above high-rise buildings seen at a distance.

    Ukraine
    US citizen who fought with pro-Russia separatists reported dead

    Russell Bentley, 64, reported killed in Moscow-occupied Donetsk by Russian state media and confirmed by his battalion
  • Close up of Gerhard Schindler

    Germany
    Kremlin spy suspect arrests may be tip of iceberg, says former intelligence agency chief

  • The Iuventa in port

    Italy
    Crew of migrant rescue boat acquitted after seven-year ordeal

  • Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announces involuntary manslaughter charges against three Alameda Police Officers for the in-custody death of Mario Gonzalez, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Oakland, Calif. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

    California
    Officers charged in killing of man they held face-down for five minutes

    • Spain
      Thousands protest against Canary islands’ ‘unsustainable’ tourism model

    • Iceland
      Bid to secure spot for glacier in presidential race heats up

    • US
      Rise in pregnant women turned away from emergency rooms, papers show

    • Hacking campaign
      FBI chief says Chinese have infiltrated critical US infrastructure

    • France
      PM accused of recycling far-right ideas in teenage violence crackdown

    • 'Forever chemicals'
      Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Two Black women stand in front of a house beyond a massive oak tree.

    'The overall goal is to run us all out'
    They’re fighting polluters destroying historically Black towns – starting with their own

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

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Culture

  • Yellow and orange silk strips hanging vertically and diagonally in a large space.

    ‘No death in Venice’
    Israel-Gaza tensions infiltrate biennale

    Protests erupt outside Israel pavilion, official Israeli artist pulls out, and Ukraine team puts up posters showing maps of nearest bomb shelter
  • Malala Yousafzai and Jennifer Lawrence, co-producers of Bread & Roses.

    ‘Why the silence? Why the inaction? It breaks my heart’
    Malala and Jennifer Lawrence take on the Taliban

  • Claudia Winkleman

    Claudia Winkleman on swearing, success and secrets
    I had to sign a contract promising not to sing

  • Hicks, looking superficially like Prince Harry, is mobbed by girls taking selfies with him

    ‘It taught me about brainwashing’
    How reality show stars fell for a fake Prince Harry

  • Monument Valley 2.

    ‘I was trying to create the sound of a really warm hug’
    The poignant story behind Monument Valley 2’s music

  • Jimmy Carr on stage

    Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer review
    A moral vacuum laughing at his own jokes

Lifestyle

  • Zapote's Zapote 70.

    Cocktail of the week
    Zapote’s Zapote 70 – recipe

    A margarita using both mezcal and tequila, with a hint of sweet almond for added depth
  • Benjamina Ebuehi's mango semifreddo with a Tajin finish.

    The sweet spot
    Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for mango and Tajín semifreddo

  • Samoana Matagi at a desk with recording equipment on it and a green wall behind it

    Experience
    I lost my hands after being electrocuted by 14,400 volts

  • Common Crane (Grus grus) in flight against sunset cloudy sky and trees, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland, Europe

    ‘A water world teeming with wildlife’
    Readers’ favourite national parks in Europe

  • Judge 20th April - WEB

    You be the judge
    Should my sister help me challenge our brother’s sexist views?

  • A field of Blue Agave in Jalisco, Mexico. A field of Agave tequilana, commonly called blue agave (agave azul) or tequila agave, is an agave plant that is an important economic product of Jalisco, Mexico. In the background is the famous Tequila Volcano or Volcán de Tequila

    Fiona Beckett on drinks
    Tequilas and mezcals you will want to savour, not slam

Take part

  • children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica<br>G2P4GJ children at prep. school gate Falmouth jamaica

    Teachers
    Tell us about moving from abroad to a school in England

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

  • Elections for the Mayor and London Assembly under eased covid lockdown conditions, in Balham, Wandsworth, London, UK, on 06 May 2021.Covid rules and the desire to vote (with plenty of young people in evidence), led to queues at a polling station in Wandsworth.

    Young people in the UK
    How do you feel about voting?

  • Bridal couples pose on Trolltunga rock formation in Ullensvang Municipality, Vestland county, Norway.

    Wedding photography
    Share your experiences

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From our global editions

  • A stubbed out cigarette butt

    New Zealand
    How smoking ban got stubbed out – and what the UK can learn from it

    Big tobacco ‘working in the shadows’ blamed for killing off NZ’s pioneering plan to protect future generations
  • A blood donation in Lodwar town, Turkana county.

    Kenya’s ‘blood desert’
    Can walking donor banks and drones help more patients survive?

  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants
    How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

  • Pastel sketch of glowering man with lips pressed tight together.

    Hush money trial
    A silent Trump glowers and stares during third day of criminal trial

  • The audience at the Complexe Culturel Leopold Sedar Senghor watches the film in Pikine, Senegal.

    Moving pictures
    Travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal

  • A visual representation of bitcoin

    Explained
    What is bitcoin halving – and will it affect the price?

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    Analysis
    Iran and Israel playing with fire as old rules of confrontation are torn up

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’
    The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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    ‘I was severely stalked and severely abused’
    Richard Gadd on the true story behind Baby Reindeer

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Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Recovering former art dealer Orlando Whitfield

    Weekend
    Weekend podcast: the extraordinary story of the biggest art fraud in American history, plus Zoe Williams on Liz Truss

  • Illustration: Dakarai Akil/The Guardian/Getty/Timestamp Media

    The Audio Long Read
    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast

  • A woman and child hold hands as they walk on a street in the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland, with red buildings, the sea and snowy mountains in the background

    Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

  • Bayern Munich v Arsenal - UEFA Champions League - Quarter-Final - Second Leg - Allianz Arena<br>Bayern Munich's Harry Kane celebrates with team-mate Eric Dier at the end of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final, second leg match at the Allianz Arena, Munich. Picture date: Wednesday April 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Arsenal. Photo credit should read: Nick Potts/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.

    Football Weekly
    Manchester City and Arsenal crash out of Champions League – Football Weekly Extra

  • James Magnussen celebrating a win in swimming

    Science
    Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast

  • Close-up of a person smoking a cigarette

    Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Kylian Mbappé

    Football Weekly
    PSG and Dortmund thrill in two classic Champions League quarter-finals – Football Weekly

In pictures

  • The volcano in Grindavik erupts beneath the northern lights.

    Art and design
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

    War in Gaza, floods in Dubai, the knife attack in Sydney and the Grand National at Aintree: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
  • Los Angeles, US Uma Thurman and John Travolta

    Photos of the day
    Go Phish and Gold Beach sunrise

  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    The week in wildlife
    A hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

  • Eddo Hartmann, Netherlands, Winner, Professional competition, Landscape, Sony World Photography Awards 2024

    Nuclear fields and insect feasts
    The Sony World Photography awards

  • Ellen Geddes, a wheelchair fencer

    Photos of the day
    Record-breaking ballet dancers and protesting farmers

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    Partying with an 8ft pink panther
    Ibiza in the 70s and 80s

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