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Sadiq Khan condemned Rishi Sunak for failing to call out “racist, anti-Muslim and Islamophobic” remarks by a senior Tory MP, following an address by the prime minister last Friday in which he criticised political extremists. In a blunt response to Su

The future of Haiti’s government appeared increasingly uncertain early this week, after armed gangs attacked the country’s international airport and freed more than 3,800 prisoners last weekend in what appeared to be a coordinated effort to topple th

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The tumours that kept growing in her chest were cut out three times before Noor Saimun, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, was tested for cancer. By the time it was diagnosed, the cancer had spread from her breast throughout her body. Saimun now spend

It has been more than six years since Myanmar’s military launched a campaign of massacres that killed about 7,000 Rohingya in a single month and compelled 700,000 to flee for the Bangladeshi border. Since the first major military operation against th

Even as dehydration was getting to their passengers, the traffickers using boats to carry hundreds of Rohingya away from refugee camps in Bangladesh thrust phones into their hands and demanded they ask their relatives for money. It was only after 28-

Across Myanmar, the young and middle aged, both men and women, are desperately searching for ways to flee their homes, after it was announced the military junta will impose a mandatory conscription law from mid-April. The law, which would force peopl

A few weeks before his death, Bilal el-Essi took a photo of a man’s body, sprawled under a women’s bike in a Gaza City street, a child’s pink backpack fallen from the basket. The man was killed trying to find food for his family, Essi told friends an

Last week, Joe Biden said he believed that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas could soon be reached. But while talks continued this week, there was no respite in Gaza. Still, hopes remained that an agreement could be finalised before the

China held its most high-profile annual political gathering this week as thousands of delegates arrived in Beijing for the Two Sessions, a closely observed series of meetings that laid out the government’s policy blueprint for the year ahead. The gat

An extraordinary leak of an online call involving Germany’s air force chief and three subordinates emerged last Friday, in which they discussed whether it might be possible to persuade a reluctant chancellor Olaf Scholz to approve giving the long-ran

The claim by a former government minister last week that parts of London and Birmingham with large Muslim populations are “no-go areas” has highlighted the enduring myth that there are UK neighbourhoods and towns unsafe for white people. Paul Scully,

Alexei Navalny lay in an open casket in a Moscow church last Friday under a bed of roses, carnations and chrysanthemums, his face pale in candlelight, surrounded by grieving relatives and supporters. Despite appearances, it was anything but a normal

Influencers such as Andrew Tate have become bywords for “toxic masculinity”, attracting huge audiences of young men and boys with a mixture of quasi-motivational pep talks, fast cars and demonstrations of sexual prowess. But what about the other side

If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the high seasons, limited funds, materials, electricity a

Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in Sudan, can feel like two cities in one. There are mass graves, abandoned armoured vehicles and homeless children, but also new restaurants, bustling markets and factory-fresh Toyotas, nicknamed Kenjcanjia

When the Ugandan musician turned politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns by Yoweri Museveni’s regime. Since the election, Bobi Wine – whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – and his wife, B

Japanese audiences could have been forgiven for bracing themselves when Disney announced Shōgun, a 10-part adaptation of James Clavell’s classic 1975 novel. With few exceptions, Hollywood depictions of Japan and the Japanese have relied on one-dimens

Feeling lost and angry over the death of his father, Lucas Sykes started vaping in 2021 after his friends suggested it would help the grieving process. He was 10. What started as a “dumb move” developed into a nicotine addiction, Lucas said. Although

The US supreme court’s decision last month to hear Donald Trump’s claims that he cannot be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election marked the court’s direct entry into the 2024 presidential election. The decision to hear the case and

THE OPENING bars of the Cossack March rang out from the platform speakers at Zaporizhzhia-1 train station, jaunty trumpets transitioning into a rousing military march, heralding the departure of train number four, the 17.53 to Uzhhorod. Carriage atte

LAST AUTUMN, CHRISTA, A 32-YEAR-OLD FROM FLORIDA with a warm voice and a slight southern twang, was floundering. She had lost her job at a furniture company and moved back home with her mother. Her nine-year relationship had always been turbulent; la

Who is behind the most notorious “deepfake” app on the internet? Trying to answer that question these past few months, for a new Guardian podcast series, Black Box, has been like wandering through a hall of mirrors. The app, ClothOff, has hundreds of

There’s a flaw in the plan. It’s not a small one: it is an Earth-sized hole in our calculations. To keep pace with the global demand for food, crop production needs to grow by at least 50% by 2050. In principle, if nothing else changes, this is feasi

There is a joke in the first season of the HBO show Hacks, pitched by Hannah Einbinder’s gen Z character, Ava, to her boomer employer, Deborah Vance: “I had a horrible nightmare that I got a voicemail,” she says. Ha – gen Z hates voicemail; boomers d

There has been a lot of talk about George Galloway in recent days, much of it negative and almost all of it true. But one charge thrown at the new member for Rochdale – winner of a byelection victory last week as sweeping as the triumph he recorded i

Midway through my interview with Annie Clark, AKA the critically lauded, Grammy-winning, art-rock experimentalist St Vincent, a thumbs up emoji appears next to her head. We are talking on Zoom, and Clark is waxing lyrical about her emotionally lacera

It is unusual for authors to announce that they can’t wait for the day when their book is rendered obsolete. But the researchers behind 100 Women: Architects in Practice hope that its title will ultimately sound as strange as a book about 100 left-ha

‘It ended how I wanted it to end,” says Edward Enninful firmly, speaking a few days after his final issue as editor-in-chief of British Vogue hit the shelves. The parting cover is a paean to Enninful’s past, and his achievements at the magazine, but

In an extended dialogue between Marilynne Robinson and Barack Obama, published a few years ago in the New York Review of Books, Obama homes in on the dimension of Robinson’s writing that makes her so unusual as a 21st-century literary figure. “You’re

Fried aubergines guzzle up so much oil. Here are the alternatives. “Frying aubergine isn’t a bad thing, and oil isn’t a bad thing,” says Balkan cook Spasia Pandora Dinkovski, founder of Mystic Burek and author of Doma (out in April). When it comes t

Prep 25 min Cook 50 min Set 30 min+ Serves 4 GLUTEN FREE 150g polenta600g mushrooms – I use button or small chestnut, but any will do6 tbsp olive oil1 carrot, finely diced1 onion, peeled and finely diced2 celery sticks, finely diced, or a bulb of fin

London, England, UK Before the deciduous trees come into leaf, walking underneath them is dizzying. It is like moving through a large, deconstructed nest – one that expands from tree to tree. Without leaves, the nest is airy and flooded with light, m

5 Northern peninsula (11) 7 Skating arena (4) 8 Cut of meat on bone – old puppet (4,4) 9 Horizon arc (7) 11 Hot (temper?) (5) 13 Straightforward (5) 14 Capital of Lithuania (7) 16 High voice (8) 17 Trio (anag.) (4) 18 Stab (someone) in the back (6-5)

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Last week’s solution