Consulate targeted in sanctions spat has unusual diplomatic status that clashes with Israel’s ambitions to fully annex the city Israel’s attempt to close the British consulate general in Jerusalem was primarily designed to deter London from imposing sanctions on settlements in occupied Palestine. But it also served the current government’s ...
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The Guardian view on Ethiopia’s return to conflict: civilian catastrophe and a spiralling regional polycrisis | EditorialThe Guardian view on Ethiopia’s return to conflict: civilian catastrophe and a spiralling regional polycrisis | Editorial
The escalating violence reflects deep domestic rifts – but is fuelled by broader geopolitical power games When the Nobel peace laureate is announced on Friday, the committee will be hoping that its choice ages better than 2019’s. Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, won the prize for ending the 20-year border conflict ...
Israel promotes film that mimics NAZA documentaryIsrael promotes film that mimics NAZA documentary
Embassies post links to hastily produced online film echoing style of real Guardian documentary about mass killings of Gaza civilians The Israeli government is promoting an online film project that mimics the style of NAZA, the award-winning documentary that details Israel’s mass killings of civilians in Gaza, in an attempt ...
Not since 9/11 has the UK faced such a security crisis – and threat to our liberal principles | Gaby HinsliffNot since 9/11 has the UK faced such a security crisis – and threat to our liberal principles | Gaby Hinsliff
The combination of Iranian, Russian and Chinese aggression is deeply worrying: just how much more concerned about security should the country be? The first time the window-rattling roar of a B-1 bomber woke me up this summer, I thought for one crazed second we were under attack. By the second ...
The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape artThe woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art
A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change? In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue mattress weighing 23kg around her university campus. The ...
An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘nowhere left for people to go’An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘nowhere left for people to go’
According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes To say that Maria Zamudio and her team have been busy lately would be a gross understatement. Every Monday at 9am, the phone lines at the downtown clinic ...
The fashion industry wants women to wear bras again – but is underwire the answer?The fashion industry wants women to wear bras again – but is underwire the answer?
From Charli xcx and Rihanna to Victoria’s Secret and Prada catwalks, the fashion industry is keen to move on from the comfy, wire-free bras popularized in lockdown It’s a trend which might have been expected to be kept under the radar – or at least under a T-shirt. But high ...
Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’
The director talks about what she learnt from her mother, working with a rookie Tim Burton, and 20 years of her cult classic Marie Antoinette Hello, I’m Cherry, I’m 14 and an aspiring film-maker. I love how your films capture what it feels like to be a young girl growing ...
‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid‘System is rigged’: Democrat Sherrod Brown puts datacenter danger at heart of populist Senate bid
Ohio former senator attacks Republican rival as the ‘face of datacenters’ as he wraps AI concerns into pro-worker message Send us your questions on how the US economy is shaping the midterm elections Sherrod Brown, the Democratic former senator from Ohio hoping to return to office in November’s midterm elections, ...
Trump’s latest attacks on the press exude desperation | Margaret SullivanTrump’s latest attacks on the press exude desperation | Margaret Sullivan
Trump seems to invent ugly new variations on his press-bashing theme almost every day When you hate the mainstream press as much as Donald Trump does, nothing gets in the way of the punishment fantasy. Not court rulings. Not public opinion. Not even the dreadful consequence of less media coverage. ...