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The 79th United Nations general assembly opened on Tuesday amid a massive bombing campaign in southern Lebanon that has brought Israel and the Shia militant group Hezbollah closer than ever to all-out war, despite fevered diplomatic efforts to de-esc

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol211 | Issue№ 13 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the

Keir Starmer tried to cast off the gloom that has dominated his early days in power and pledged to “build a new Britain” as the Treasury examined tweaking fiscal rules to allow more capital spending. Sources said the government could use next month’s

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The Lebanon-based militant Shia Islamist organisation Hezbollah said it had entered an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war. In a significant escalation of the con

So serious were the exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah last weekend, it is hard to be sure that the two sides have not already crossed the threshold of “all-out” war. Israel’s air force said it struck 290 targets in southern Lebanon last

The Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, in what was viewed as a widespread rejection of the old political elite who are blamed for the country’s ongoing economic woes. For the first time in Sri Lanka’s h

When she saw them at the checkpoint, Marie sensed the situation might turn ugly. Four officers in the combat green of Tunisia’s national guard. For weeks Marie had traversed the Sahara, travelling nearly 5,000km from home. Minutes from her destinatio

Giant pandas Yu Ke and Yu Ai at Chongqing zoo. The animals are classified as vulnerable, with a population of 1,800 in the wild. They face threats such as the climate crisis, which could destroy more than 35% of their bamboo habitat in the next 80 ye

Like so many of Sheikh Hasina’s political rivals, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister fled Bangladesh. Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National party (BNP), had been picked up by police three weeks earli

Residents of Mazan were appalled that their picturesque village in Provence was being referred to in the media as “the village of the rapists”. France was shaken to its core last week by the trial of Dominique Pelicot, a former estate agent, who had

Jack Geerlings crouches down at the shoreline to sift through a bed of stones. He picks up a small rough rock and turns it over. “This one is too coarse,” he said, flicking it back to the pile. Geerlings is after something more interesting. Slowly, h

It is tricky in modern Britain to defend the existence of hereditary peers, but the Earl of Devon will have a very good go. The 49-year-old earl – Charles Peregrine Courtenay, an affable, 1.98-metre-tall intellectual property lawyer who lives in a me

Last week in London, Lara Maiklem climbed down to the foreshore of the River Thames at low tide to spend several hours gently scrabbling at its surface in pursuit of a 20-year obsession. Known on social media as the London Mudlark and the author of t

There is no one at reception when I arrive at the hotel in a small town about 50km from Dublin, so I go to the bar and, as instructed, ask for the duty manager. “Miša, do you know where James is?” the young waiter calls to a colleague – in Slovak. I

With its glass frontage and portico, Fuchū prison could be mistaken for a municipal government office. But stepping through a heavy, guarded door reveals that this is unmistakably a place of incarceration. Its walls house 1,700 inmates, including a l

In 2008, two years after Ebenezer Smith graduated from high school with no means to go on to university, he ventured into Ghana’s culinary industry hoping to become a world-renowned chef. For years, life moved at a slower pace than he had envisioned.

In 2013, US robotics company Boston Dynamics revealed its new robot, Atlas. Unveiled at the Darpa Robotics Challenge, the 1.88 metre humanoid could walk on uneven ground, jump off boxes, and even climb stairs. It was like a vision frequently depicted

The queue down the centre of the Rose Goute Creole restaurant on Springfield’s South Limestone Street is halfway out the door. It’s been like this ever since former president Donald Trump falsely accused immigrants in the Ohio city of eating cats and

The last time the Commonwealth Games was staged, two years ago in Birmingham, the BBC was so worried about enough big names showing up that it put in an unusual clause in its contract with the organisers. An insider said: “It was loosely worded, but

ORNA GURALNIK AND CHRISTINE met on the docuseries Couples Therapy in 2022. While they both live in New York, Orna, the programme’s couples therapist, is Israeli, and Christine, who participated in the series, is Palestinian. They kept in touch, and s

ON A BALMY FRIDAY AFTERNOON earlier this month, the most feared group of people in Europe breached the 13th-century defensive walls of Wrocław and poured into the town square. Some wore blue berets, others cowboy hats, straw boaters and, in one insta

Last week, I started a 3,000km, two-day journey back from the other end of Europe, where I witnessed Ukrainian resilience against Russian terror in the besieged city of Kharkiv. A university lecturer told me that from a 12th-storey balcony in a north

What a great feeling it is when a study by actual scientists comes along and validates something you’ve been saying for years. A team from the behaviour and health research unit at the University of Cambridge has recommended that the traditional Brit

When I heard about the death of the 94-year-old billionaire businessman and former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed last year, my response wasn’t exactly charitable. Good riddance, I thought, to my one-time employer who had presided over a workplace rif

CHAPPELL ROAN ONCE STARTED A BAR FIGHT. A man was talking down to a server and she called him out. He squared up to her, one thing led to another and her friends ended up brawling with him. “If you’re an asshole, I’m gonna be like: ‘Yo, fuck off.’ Yo

Adam Lowe has created extraordinary replicas of great works from around the world, including one of Tutankhamun’s tomb and a full-size bronze replica of Dippy the diplodocus at the Natural History Museum in London. But he has now taken on a very diff

It all started – or stop-started, perhaps – with some tiny pterodactyls. As 1924 drew to a close, Marcel Delgado was putting the finishing touches to 50 model dinosaurs. For months, the sculptor had been meticulously constructing a range of Tyrannosa

If any few pages of Sally Rooney’s fourth novel blew through the streets on an autumn wind, many a chance reader would be sure who wrote them. They’d recognise the sentences precision-engineered for weight distribution like wide-span bridges. They’d

There is a sense of poetic justice in seeing Diane Abbott back in the UK’s parliament after the 2024 election. She is now Mother of the House – the title given to the longest serving female MP – and all those who plotted to block her from standing mu

Besides steaming them open, what else can you do with mussels ? And what’s the best sauce or side to accompany them? Liz, London, England, UK It’s so tempting to default to steaming, but there’s so much more you can do with mussels. One option is to

Prep 5 min  Cook 45 min Serves 6 • VEGAN 300g frozen cherries, defrosted1 orange, zest finely grated, then juiced to get 2 tbsp150g caster sugar150g plain flour1½ tsp baking powder¼ tsp fine sea salt140g whole oat milk½ tsp vanilla paste120g unsalted

There are four lynx species on Earth: Canadian; North American bobcat (the most abundant, with a population of possibly 1.5 million); Eurasian, the largest species, with males in some Asiatic populations weighing as much as 35kg; and the Iberian, the

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