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More than three dozen Congress Democrats – including representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker and a key Joe Biden ally – signed a letter to the president and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, urging a halt to weapons transfers to I

William Wragg, the Conservative MP who divulged colleagues’ personal phone numbers to someone he met on a dating app as part of a parliamentary sexting scandal, has stepped down from two Commons roles. Wragg has resigned as chair of the Commons’ publ

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Late one night in March, Ahmed Abu Jalala rose quietly, trying hard not to wake his family, sleeping around him on the floor of a UN-run school in northern Gaza. The 54-year-old father knew his six children needed food, but after months of war there

For Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the first week of April has perhaps been the worst since the Hamas attack on 7 October, six months ago, that triggered the current war in Gaza. Protests against the leader by hostage families and the o

In the biggest Ukrainian onslaught inside Russian territory since Vladimir Putin’s fullscale invasion two years ago, Ukraine has in recent weeks carried out a series of drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and ports. On 2 April, it hit a refinery

For Nina Huang, it was the shaking that jolted her awake. “The first thing I did when I woke up was to hold the cupboard next to my daughter. I was afraid that it might fall down on her,” she recalled. Then her phone buzzed with a warning about a tsu

Cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) pictured in the sea near Chuao, Aragua state. Thousands of the animals have filled the turquoise waters off the northern coast, raising concerns among fishers that they are blocking nets. Meanwhile tourism

Battersea powerstation offered no prospect of luxury living when Tony Belton became a local councillor in 1971. The coal-fired behemoth was nearing closure after 40 years of belching soot over London, and would spend almost as long in dereliction and

It was a “bonkers gig”, pairing heavy metal with a pipe organ – a musical curiosity that the bands thought would surely seldom be repeated, if ever. But Pantheïst and Arð, the doom metals bands who performed the concert at Huddersfield town hall last

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Tineke Menalda sits in the sun on her front step, nursing a cup of coffee and idly plucking out the odd weed. Three years ago, the front of her terrace house in Amersfoort was completely paved. But now, sitting in a lush garden of trees and green, sh

Homeowners in the UK are being urged to be extra vigilant of Japanese knotweed growing on their properties after the invasive species emerged six weeks earlier than usual this year after unusually warm weather. The distinctive red stems were spotted

A few years ago, as age began to take its toll, Rosa Velásquez decided it was time to retire from her restaurant in the coastal town of Cabo de la Vela and move back home. However, when she returned to her tiny rural community of Jotomana, on the ari

Gliding down pristine, mountain runs, Olga Shpalok said she was “getting 100% satisfaction”. After a full day of skiing, the designer from Vladivostok relaxed with a visit to her hotel’s well-equipped spa and sauna. Shpalok was part of the first grou

In the heart of Addis Ababa, the historic, ramshackle district of Piassa once teemed with shops and cafes. People would come from across Ethiopia’s capital city to buy anything from jeans to jewellery. Today it lies in ruins. Its distinctive stone ho

Last summer I took my family on a walk through the wood-lands around the hamlet of Ebernoe, in West Sussex. My children clambered on fallen trees, my partner and I hunted for mushrooms, and all the while we were being hunted by creatures more ancient

For once showbusiness royalty – Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, Lea Michele and Mindy Kaling – was not the main attraction. Instead it was a trio of US presidents that enticed people to pay up to half a million dollars for New York’s

When trade ministers gathered in the Moroccan city of Marrakech 30 years ago this month to sign the agreement creating the World Trade Organization (WTO), the mood was celebratory. The Berlin Wall had come down only recently, communism had collapsed,

“AFTER THE GENOCIDE, PEOPLE CAME TO APOLOGISE,” says 70-year-old Liberatha from the Karongi district in Rwanda, where nine out of 10 Tutsis were murdered, including her family. “I said, ‘I will never forgive you.’ I never expected to exchange a word

There is a tiny new elite at the frontier of money-making and they are known as the centibillionaires. These titans of the universe have personal assets of at least $100bn, and there are now 14 of them in the world – up from six last year. You will f

There is a difference between being shocked and being surprised. I thought of that as I read the news that disabled children had been “erased” from their class photo in a primary school in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. A photographer is said to have tak

For many people reading this, the analogy will seem ludicrous, but hear me out: if the Conservative party was one of your friends, you’d be very worried about them. You can maybe imagine it: a privately educated pal from university, perhaps, who see

IN 1972, WHEN ANA TORRENT was six years old, a man came to her school and asked her to be in his film. “He had a beard,” she recalls now, from her home in Madrid. “And I told him I didn’t like men with beards.” The director said his film was about Fr

On the first track of Beyoncé ’s new album, she seems to state the impetus behind the project: “They used to say I spoke too country / Then the rejection came, said I wasn’t country ’ nough.” That rejection is assumed to be her performance of her son

The city itself is the star of all great London novels, and plays whatever role is required by the tale or the times. It was a semi-sentient organism in Dickens’s Bleak House, wrapped in fog and thick with mud. It was rancorous and gone to seed in Pa

In the 14th century, King Charles VI of France suffered from a curious delusion. He believed his body was made entirely of glass. A relatively new material, both fragile and transparent, glass captures the hypochondriac’s acutest fear – brittle vulne

I’ve often read about cooking meat briefly over high heat to sear it and “seal in the juices”, but I suspect this is unscientific because, as I understand it, high heat constricts the meat fibres and squeezes out the juices. Norman Kliman, Spain Ther

Prep 20 min Cook 30 min Serves 2 VEGAN DAIRY FREE 130g self-raising flour2 tbsp pankobreadcrumbsA pinch each of salt and ground white pepper180ml cold sparkling water½ cauliflower, cut into bite-size pieces470ml vegetable oil 1 tbsp tamarind paste4 t

With six buzzards and a pair of red kites circling over the relatively small stand of trees that I call Badger Town 2, there is likely to be great competition here for both nesting facilities and food. The wood is a mixed stand of thoughtfully plante

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Not long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernible in the background was the outline of eight black parachutes dropping US aid in precisely the same neighbourhood. It w