The reaction to the Washington DC shooting shows that Americans are swinging between outrage, exhaustion and numbness In the early hours of Sunday, I awoke to check the time on my phone and learned that there had been a shooting – apparently, an assassination attempt – at this year’s White ...
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Middle East crisis live: Iran says it needs guarantees against attacks before Gulf can be stableMiddle East crisis live: Iran says it needs guarantees against attacks before Gulf can be stable
Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stability US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz Iran’s deputy defence minister, Reza Talaei-Nik, has been quoted by state media as having said that Iran is ready to share its defensive weapons capabilities ...
Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023
Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources during the invasion of ...
What is the latest Palestine Action court case – and what is at stake?What is the latest Palestine Action court case – and what is at stake?
Government appeal against high court ruling could have implications for right to protest and lead to other groups being proscribed The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, will have her appeal against the high court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action was unlawful heard in the court of appeal this week, ...
‘If your wife asks you to change diapers, change your wife’: Lebanon’s hit show parodying the patriarchy‘If your wife asks you to change diapers, change your wife’: Lebanon’s hit show parodying the patriarchy
The female-created YouTube sketch series Smatouha Minni (You Heard It From Me) uses satire to confront misogynistic attitudes In Beirut’s Gemmayzeh neighbourhood a rented flat has been transformed into a film set: bright studio lights in a cosy living room. At its centre is Maria Elayan – though she is ...
Giorgia Meloni clung to her relationship with Trump – now it’s starting to look like a liability | Riccardo AlcaroGiorgia Meloni clung to her relationship with Trump – now it’s starting to look like a liability | Riccardo Alcaro
The Italian PM has walked a tightrope between Europe and the US. But the Iran war – and Trump’s attacks on her – have changed everything The news last week that the Trump administration sounded out Fifa, world football’s governing body, about replacing Iran with Italy at this year’s World ...
‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship‘I don’t want to be part of a dictatorship’: the Americans queueing up to renounce their citizenship
Severing ties with the US can take more than a year and cost thousands of dollars. But Paul, Ella, Margot and thousands of others feel they have no choice When Margot went to renounce her US citizenship earlier this year, she wasn’t able to do it in the UK, her ...
Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels?Logging, murder and money: can Mexico’s ancient forests be saved from the cartels?
In the Sierra Tarahumara, gangs ‘disappear’ those who resist their lucrative illegal tree-felling operations Decades ago, the children of Rochéachi village in the Sierra Tarahumara – pine-covered mountains of north-west Mexico’s Chihuahua state – would run through the forest by night. In the rainy season, they would collect fireflies whose ...
Ashes and memories: one family’s return to the site of Hong Kong’s worst fire in decadesAshes and memories: one family’s return to the site of Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades
Yip Shun-Ting Carbon returns for the first time to his apartment to salvage belongings after last year’s fire that killed 168 people, including his mother The Yip family once imagined moving to a country house, all three generations under the same roof, with their own vegetable garden and away from ...
Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotypeAsian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
A certain image of the tiger mom – strict, cold and demanding – is ubiquitous in popular culture. Why? In January 2011, the English-speaking world was introduced to a new kind of villain. She arrived in the form of a viral Wall Street Journal article with the headline “Why Chinese ...