Published3 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesFighting is continuing in parts of Sudan despite a 72-hour ceasefire largely holding.Speaking via phone from Omdurman, the adjoining city to the capital Khartoum, t... More »
A senior Conservative peer has urged Rishi Sunak to distance the party from Suella Braverman’s “racist rhetoric” or risk ruining his legacy as the first Asian prime minister.Sayeeda Warsi, the first Asian person to chair the Tory party, said Braverman’s ethnic... More »
Billy Porter is to play American James Baldwin in a film based on the life of the American novelist, critic and activist.The Pose star will co-produce the feature along with Byron Allen’s Media Group Pictures. Porter and Dan McCabe will write the script based ... More »
The UK government has imposed sanctions on the “financial fixers” who have allegedly helped the Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov hide their assets.The sanctions, announced by the Foreign Office on Wednesday, are targeted at what officials... More »
Three times as many people sought to reach the EU across the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2023 compared with a year before, the bloc’s border agency has said, as the UN’s migration arm decried the deadliest first quarter since 2017.Overall, the E... More »
Published1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Yuri Gripas/POOLUS President Joe Biden has said he will emphasise his country's "commitment to preserving peace" in Northern Ireland when he visits Belfast this evening.He will ar... More »
A months-long ground assault on the eastern town of Bakhmut could be stalling in the face of fierce resistance, according to US, Ukrainian and British military experts.Russian forces unleashed a wave of air strikes in the north and south of Ukraine as Presiden... More »
How would Twitter describe its own relationship with the media?With a poop emoji.That was the company’s seemingly on-the-record reply to an emailed question from the Guardian. To be fair, it’s now the automatic reply to any inquiry directed to [email protected]... More »
Ireti Kingibe is not the usual Nigerian politician. Four years ago, the engineer wife of a former minister was considering leaving the country for the US or Britain, or at least going on a cruise.The self-declared idealist was “profoundly disappointed” with ho... More »
‘If there’s American citizens left [after 31 August], we’re gonna stay till we get them all out,’ says Biden; ‘There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country,’ says Taliban officialAfghan ex-president in talks with T... More »