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A man reads a copy of the draft constitution in front of the presidential palace in Santiago, as Chileans prepare to approve or reject it in a plebiscite on 4 September. A constitutional convention has spent a year creating the document, to replace t

The justice department has asked a judge not to release the affidavit that gave the FBI probable cause to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, worsening distrust among top Trump aides casting about for any insight into the intensifying criminal i

Keir Starmer has put a beefed-up £8bn ($9.6bn) windfall tax on energy company profits at the heart of a new plan to stop people having to pay “a penny more” on fuel bills this winter. The Labour leader confirmed that under his plan the energy price c

Sail of the centuries Fishers look on as the vessel Shabab Oman II, a full-yrigged training ship of the Royal Navy of Oman, arrives into Portsmouth harbour. The ship is a blend of the traditional and modern with state-of-the-art computerised communic

Departing his small, unshowy home state of Delaware, Joe Biden roared into the sky aboard Air Force One, borne aloft by jet fuel and a dramatic uplift in his political fortunes. More than 1,500km away, some unexpected guests arrived at the opulent Fl

A handful of Republican governors have criticised the “outrageous rhetoric” of their party colleagues in the US Congress, who accused federal law enforcement officers of a politici sed attack on former president Donald Trump after a court-approved se

The US passing its first climate legislation will prove a pivotal moment in history that will help bring to an end the era of fossil fuels, according to Al Gore, the former US vice-president. Joe Biden’s signing of a $370bn package of clean energy sp

SALMAN RUSHDIE Shock and anger after attack on novelist Last Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie shone a light on where Pakistan and India, both now 75 years old, share common ground. Amid worldwide outrage, both governments were conspicuous by their s

It was an embrace that held 74 years of pain and longing. As Sikka Khan, 75, fell into the arms of his older brother Sadiq Khan, now in his 80s, the pair wept. More than seven decades had passed since the brothers, torn apart by partition, had seen e

Salman Rushdie ’s life was “ normal again” and fears of an attack were a thing of the past, he told an interviewer two weeks before he was stabbed on stage in New York last Friday. The novelist, who remained in hospital early this week, was knifed se

When Salman Rushdie wrote his novel The Satanic Verses in September 1988, he thought its many references to Islam might cause some ripples. “I expected a few mullahs would be off ended, call me names, and then I could defend myself in public,” Rushdi

Sitting on a thin mat, with a plastic tarpaulin propped above her head to shield Kabul’s summer sun, Sabsa Gul is reading women’s palms. She mostly gives marriage or job advice though, lately, discussion topics have changed, she said. “Women are now

‘A city with a Russian history,” proclaim billboards across the Ukrainian city of Kherson, occupied by the Russian army since the first days of March. Others display the Russian flag, or quotes from Vladimir Putin. Over the past five months, Moscow h

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said his forces would target Russian soldiers who shoot at or from Europe’s largest nuclear power station, amid warnings that the Kremlin may falsely claim Kyiv has directly struck the site. The Ukrainian president said anyone

Anti-racism activists who secretly filmed private beaches on the Côte d’Azur are planning legal action, claiming discrimination on the French Riviera. SOS Racisme sent couples of different ethnic backgrounds to exclusive coastal hot spots and used hi

In places, the Loire can now be crossed on foot; France’s longest river has never flowed so slowly. The Rhine is fast becoming impassable to barge traffic. In Italy, the Po is 2 metres lower than normal, crippling crops. Serbia is dredging the Danube

South-east England could be tipped into severe and devastating drought without above-average rainfall this winter, while current water use restrictions in London and surrounding areas are expected to last until the new year even if rainfall returns,

On a stopover in Mali on his way to Libya, Bakary Jammeh abandoned plans to board a boat to Italy. He had a brother there, but Jammeh became convinced he should put their reunion on hold and turn back in search of gold. Jammeh had met a Senegalese ma

There is an elaborate bird rescue mission under way in the town of Walldorf. As one of the last homes of the ground-nesting crested lark in Germany, the local district is eager to protect the three remaining breeding pairs. Consequently, residents ha

Just like double denim, it seems some trends never really die. After flaming out in spectacular fashion last year, the meme stock frenzy of 2021 has made a return. The share price of troubled US retailers Bed Bath & Beyond, GameStop and the cinema ch

Moritz Hochschild was constantly on the move. In the early 1930s, he could be found in the grand hotels of London, New York or Paris, or on the back of a mule, following rough mountain trails in search of mineral seams in the Bolivian Andes. It was o

Having presided over a grand celebration of the party’s centenary and suppressed mass Covid outbreaks last year, President Xi Jinping told his countrymen and women in his 2022 New Year address that Chin a was “making confident strides on the path tow

A long time ago – 7 December 1992, to be exact – I was backstage at a Toronto theatre, taking off a Stetson. With two other writers, Timothy Findley and Paul Quarrington, I’d been performing a medley of 1950s country and western classics, rephrased f

It was summer 2021 and Nick Mayhew-Smith pressed into the bosky depths of ancient woodland outside Hastings. When he got to the centre, he undressed and perched on an accommodating mossy log. Slowly, he recalls, nature started to quicken around him.

Serena Williams announced her impending retirement from professional tennis in Vogue magazine last week. As we celebrate her greatness and all that Williams has achieved on the court – the 23 major singles titles, the four Olympic gold medals, the 31

Nothing could possibly be longer than this Conservative leadership race – not even the final minute of your washing machine cycle. Every promise made in it should be treated with the same deference you’d reserve for the claim that the tab closure on

There was a time when the performance artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti was persona non grata. In her late teens, when she was still Christine Newby, her father threw her out of the family home and cut off all contact. Later, as leading lights of

Perched on a hillock in Hydra, Jeff Koons’s Apollo wind spinner is hard to miss. The gargantuan sun sculpture welcomes visitors at all hours, its golden rays and face a vibrant (if lurid) reminder that art is alive and well on this Argo-Saronicisle.

Edward Wilson-Lee ends this exhilarating book wondering how it is that, as the world becomes global, the people in it have become insular. Indeed, he suggests, the further we travel, the more anxious and even aggressive we become when encountering th

Flowing rivers, gorgeous trees, bountiful crops, birds and animals to spare: Jim Crace’s latest novel is set in a lowercase, scrupulously mapped version of the Garden of Eden. There, some time after the expulsion of Adam and Eve, peace of a stilted k

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I always make my own hummus, but what other Middle Eastern dips should I try? Jo, Merseyside “The whole idea of dips and meze is that you can use whatever you have in the fridge,” says Eran Tibi, chef-owner of Bala Baya in south London. And a good te

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