The US and Iran have offered conflicting messages over the likelihood of a deal being reached imminently Morning and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. The US and Iran have offered conflicting messages over the state of negotiations to end the war, with ...
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Woman jailed in Somalia for peaceful protest ‘stripped, kicked and beaten’Woman jailed in Somalia for peaceful protest ‘stripped, kicked and beaten’
In an exclusive interview from prison, Sadia Moalim Ali, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, tells of her treatment after being arrested for demonstrating against the government A woman being held in prison in Somalia for taking part in peaceful protests has described how she was tortured by her guards. Sadia Moalim ...
Revealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddlingRevealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling
Exclusive: Documents obtained by consortium of journalists show role of Moscow university in training operatives in military intelligence Last April, Vladimir Putin visited the campus of Bauman Moscow state technical university, set on the banks of the Yauza River in the east of the city and home to some of ...
Tame the water or let it flow? New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided riversTame the water or let it flow? New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided rivers
Intervention for farming and flood risk changes the unique systems as communities grapple with how to live alongside the vital waterways When British settlers started building Christchurch city 170 years ago, they largely ignored the nearby Waimakariri River, which twists from the South Island’s alps towards the eastern shore. But ...
‘Somehow you become the chicken’: inside the film about people-smuggling told through the eyes of a hen‘Somehow you become the chicken’: inside the film about people-smuggling told through the eyes of a hen
Eight birds play the lead in Hen – one for running scenes, one for pecking, one for staying still. And there’s even a cockerel love interest. Director György Pálfi explains why it’s his most normal movie yet If oppressive regimes inadvertently give rise to striking artistic works of resistance, then ...
Do women need to exercise differently from men – and ease up on cardio after 40?Do women need to exercise differently from men – and ease up on cardio after 40?
A lot of fitness advice is based on research into people who don’t have periods, give birth or go through menopause. How much of it should be modified – or even thrown out? I can’t remember when I first became aware of the phrase: “Women are not small men.” But ...
Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuaryRewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary
Julie, once a circus elephant, and Kariba, from a Belgian zoo, are to be moved to a former ranch in Portugal Europe’s first large-scale elephant sanctuary, which is opening to offer a more natural environment for some of the 600 animals still held in captivity across the continent, is to ...
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship on way to Canary Islands after three evacuatedHantavirus-hit cruise ship on way to Canary Islands after three evacuated
A British man is among three evacuees sent to the Netherlands after displaying symptoms while aboard the MV Hondius. ...
UAE’s ruling royal family benefits from more than €71m in EU farming subsidiesUAE’s ruling royal family benefits from more than €71m in EU farming subsidies
Al Nahyans’ control over farmland in Europe has meant they receive proportion of payments to farms The United Arab Emirates’ ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A cross-border investigation by DeSmog and shared ...
JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’
Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that’ Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has declined to attend an upcoming literature festival in Israel, writing a excoriating letter to organisers citing the country’s “genocidal campaign” in Gaza, stating: ...