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Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:39:26 GMT
Seven-time F1 world champion tours border area and logistics warehouses operated by Egyptian Red Crescent
Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to meet organisations sending humanitarian aid to the territory.
The seven-time Formula One world champion has spoken out about conflict and humanitarian crises in the region, and has called for peace. He has frequently posted on social media about children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and called for a ceasefire.
Continue reading...Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:51:17 GMT
President orders prompt investigation after one train derails in collision in al-Ayyat about 50km from Cairo
Seven people were killed and at least 125 injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials said.
The crash occurred in al-Ayyat district in Giza province, about 50km (30 miles) south of Cairo, when a train travelling to Fayoum province crashed into the rear of a train heading to the southern province of Aswan, according to the transport ministry.
Continue reading...Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:00:39 GMT
See My World, an event highlighting the pan-African thought via film, poetry and dance, builds on momentum sparked by local activists and creatives
African philosophies including exploring how lessons from the past can shape the present and near future have inspired a film festival coming to Manchester.
See My World, a day dedicated to independent creators from across the African diaspora in the north of England, will take place at the Contact theatre on 21 November.
Continue reading...Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:08:43 GMT
Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their families
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult disasters in recent history.
The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes.
Continue reading...Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:48:37 GMT
Former liberation movement’s share of national vote almost 14 percentage points below 2021 result
The African National Congress is on course to suffer a bruising defeat in South Africa’s local elections, with the once dominant party of Nelson Mandela falling to under a third of the vote nationally with more than 80% of ballots counted.
Wednesday’s fragmented vote marks another stage in the decline of the ANC, which has led national governments since the end of white minority apartheid rule in 1994. High unemployment, crime, corruption and poor local service delivery have all contributed to voters turning away from the party.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:50:37 GMT
Remains believed to have belonged to Africans or Afro-Brazilians repatriated after being flown back by diplomats
Two skulls, including that of a man believed to have taken part in Brazil’s greatest slave revolt but whose remains were taken to the United States and used in racist eugenics studies at Harvard University, were repatriated on Wednesday.
The remains had been outside Brazil since the 19th century. One was taken about 190 years ago from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia; the other, about 160 years ago, from Rio de Janeiro – and were welcomed back in moving, subdued ceremonies in both cities.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:00:33 GMT
Leonardo Bertulazzi, 74, awaiting extradition to Italy, reportedly used harness to flee custody
A 74-year-old former member of Italy’s radical Marxist group the Red Brigades has escaped from house arrest in Argentina, the country’s security ministry confirmed on Wednesday, after he reportedly hid his ankle monitor inside a tube of pork and lowered himself from a fifth-floor balcony.
Authorities placed Leonardo Bertulazzi under house arrest in Buenos Aires in 2024, prior to his extradition to Italy to serve a 27-year prison sentence. He had received the sentence in 1987 for joining a subversive association and belonging to an armed group.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:05:45 GMT
Lawyer says Britain wrong to believe in historic doctrine that crown has sovereignty over parts of oceans
Britain should not be permitted to act as a 17th-century colonial power treating the waters around the Falkland Islands as a Dominium maris Britannici, Argentina has told an international tribunal.
Marcelo Kohen, representing Argentina at a hearing in Hamburg, mocked Britain for apparently believing in the historic doctrine that the British crown has sovereignty over expansive parts of the oceans.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:00:52 GMT
Tomás Beltrán was shot dead amid gang warfare that has turned Latin American country into one of its most violent
Tomás Beltrán was manoeuvring his car into his garage on Sunday night when the Ecuadorian journalist was shot dead.
Beltrán ran a Facebook page with news about Calceta, a small city in the province of Manabí, whose Pacific coastline has made it a key flashpoint in the gang warfare over drug trafficking routes that has transformed one of Latin America’s safest countries into one of its most violent.
Continue reading...Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:01:33 GMT
Countries clash over Sea Lion project as Hamburg tribunal risks deepening sovereignty dispute
The people of the Falkland Islands face “devastating consequences” if Argentina is successful in blocking development of its offshore oilfield, the attorney general for England and Wales has told an international tribunal.
Ellie Reeves, representing the British government at a hearing of the international tribunal for the law of the sea (Itlos), said billions of pounds vital to the future of the British overseas territory would be lost.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:33:27 GMT
Capture of man from Java follows reports that hundreds are being recruited from the south-east Asian country as Moscow seeks to boost its war effort
Ukraine says it has captured its first Indonesian prisoner of war, amid what it says is a spike in recruitment by Russia from the south-east Asian nation.
The 49-year-old man from Java was taken to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region to take part in a Russian assault, but managed to reach Ukrainian-held territory after the group came under drone attack, according to Ukraine’s state-run I Want to Live project. He was then captured by the Ukrainians.
Continue reading...Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:08:23 GMT
Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’
China is leading the world in moving away from fossil fuels, and the rest of the globe – including the US – must now follow, the former US secretary of state John Kerry has told the Guardian, as Cop watchers wonder exactly how China is going to approach this year’s climate summit.
As Cop31 opens – this year the climate conference is in Turkey – there is plenty of speculation about whether China will finally step into the leadership role that it has long avoided. In its latest “five-year plan” adopted in March 2026, China for the first time pledged to “actively participate in and lead global climate governance”. Cop31 could provide the first indications Beijing is ready to put that rhetoric into action, something it has historically been reluctant to do.
Continue reading...Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:25:28 GMT
CEO reportedly had close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to Beijing
Nvidia said on Sunday it “is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort”.
The New York Times reported in October that Donald Trump had been briefed last year on intelligence that Huang had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to Beijing.
Continue reading...Sun, 08 Nov 2026 03:00:28 GMT
Activists fear Bangkok will give in to pressure from Beijing despite reports of torture and human rights abuses against the mostly muslim ethnic minority
The deportation of two more Uyghurs to China from Thailand would put their lives in grave danger, activists have said, with one of the men saying he would be “like a slave” if he was sent back.
Last year, Thai authorities forcibly deported 40 Uyghur men to China despite pleas from the men themselves and the UN.
The US and Canada had reportedly offered to resettle them, but Bangkok appeared to want to avoid upsetting Beijing. The UN has said the returnees’ whereabouts remain unknown.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:00:48 GMT
National party will be largest in parliament but ultimate shape of next government won’t be settled for some time
New Zealand could be facing a weeks-long wait to know the shape of its next government, after its nail-biting election failed to hand a decisive victory to either the incumbent rightwing coalition or opposition left bloc.
On preliminary results, the centre-right National party, led by the prime minister, Christopher Luxon, managed to secure enough seats to govern alongside its traditional coalition partners, the libertarian Act and populist New Zealand First parties.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:09:56 GMT
Police called to Lane Cove North on Wednesday after sofa found containing human torso believed to be that of adult man
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New South Wales police have launched a homicide investigation after a human torso was found in bushland on Sydney’s lower north shore.
Police said they were called to Lane Cove North about 2.30pm on Wednesday after receiving reports human remains had been found.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:13:23 GMT
Children’s author and comedian, who wrote the book on which the movie Fing! is based, will also be removed from the publicity tour
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The distributors of an upcoming Australian film based on a book by children’s author and television personality David Walliams have confirmed he will be removed from the film and its publicity run after sexual harassment allegations were made public.
Transmission Films has confirmed that Walliams, a co-writer of the children’s fantasy film Fing!, will no longer appear in the movie or take part in its media campaign before its 14 January cinema debut.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:00:51 GMT
While young people are drinking less across the board, one expert says a small minority are actually drinking huge and damaging amounts of alcohol
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Rising numbers of young people are being hospitalised with severe, irreversible liver disease, as alcohol-related hospital admissions remain above pre-pandemic levels after peaking during Covid lockdowns.
A new Burnet Institute report, commissioned by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (Fare), analysed nearly two decades of Victorian health data to examine the prevalence of alcohol-associated harm.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:00:50 GMT
After a promotion for a ‘Finnish Dinner Date’ went ‘a bit viral’, the Canberra envoy’s next post became an unlikely social media hit
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The embassy of Finland in Canberra was temporarily closed on Tuesday.
Millions of people across the world were, it turns out, quite upset by this.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:57:22 GMT
Australian PM boasts of success in renewables but is criticised for not addressing the nation’s huge coal industry
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Anthony Albanese has said governments have a “solemn responsibility” to act on climate change in a historic speech to the UN’s climate summit, but he failed to mention the fossil fuels driving the crisis.
The Australian prime minister landed in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya on Wednesday morning where the Cop31 talks are being presided over by his climate change minister, Chris Bowen, but hosted by Turkey.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:52:08 GMT
Marshall Islands president warns of worsening floods as UN chief calls for a windfall tax on oil and gas firms
Failure to provide an overwhelming response to the climate crisis means “the world we know is over”, the president of the embattled Marshall Islands has warned, as dozens of leaders gathered in Turkey for the Cop31 climate summit.
Hilda Heine, one of a handful of Pacific Island leaders to make an impassioned speech at Cop31 on Wednesday, told other heads of state that overshooting the 1.5C Paris temperature target would mean waves eating away their shores and floods that destroy towns, schools and hospitals.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:51:02 GMT
Twenty-four-hour stoppage draws high participation weeks before election in which far right could gain power
Millions of people across Spain have joined the country’s first general strike in 14 years, setting up picket lines to protest against soaring housing prices before an election in which the far right could be catapulted into power.
At the centre of Wednesday’s nationwide 24-hour stoppage, singularly called for by tenants’ associations and later backed by workers’ unions, is a pushback against Spain’s deepening housing crisis.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 17:03:43 GMT
US envoys to visit Moscow and Dublin on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectively
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to the “largest prisoner exchange” of the war at their first US-brokered talks since February but made little progress towards a broader peace agreement.
Both sides sent senior delegations to the two-day talks, led by Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, in an effort to find a solution to end the nearly-five-year war.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:08:20 GMT
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Separately, I am also keeping an eye on Italy, with reports that several schools are being evacuated after receiving bomb threats by emails.
According to Rai and Sky TG24, the email was signed by “Mikhail Andropov” – the same name used in several hoax bomb alarms against European flights last week.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 15:40:52 GMT
Far-right populists remain insurgent and pro-EU governments are braced for Trump’s betrayal. But the midterms also showed that democracy can fight back
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“Is Maga dead?” asked Margaret, a Guardian reader in Switzerland, in a live Q&A with our correspondents after the seismic US midterm elections. If Margaret’s query expressed a hope that the Democrats’ blue wave could transform Europe’s fortunes after two years of Maga-induced trauma, she was probably not alone.
The resounding defeat for Donald Trump’s Republicans and the installation of a Democratic-controlled US Congress has been met with understandable relief in European capitals. In the short term however, the worst for Europe is not over. Trump didn’t need congressional approval, after all, to unleash a trade war on his supposed European allies, threaten to invade Greenland, try to stitch up Ukraine or go to war with Iran, an act that has inflated fuel and food prices disastrously.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:47:57 GMT
Regime adviser says Tehran could be forced into pre-emptive strikes if stalemate continues
Senior Iranian officials believe the US is planning either further military strikes or an ever-tightening economic stranglehold that will push Tehran into retaliatory action.
The assessment comes from Mehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:15:44 GMT
Rights groups condemn reported punishment of Kenyan migrant worker as an ‘act of violence’
A Kenyan mother in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been sentenced to 100 lashes after giving birth outside marriage.
Under the Saudi sharia law system, sex outside marriage is a criminal offence. But it is women who are disproportionately targeted, say rights groups, which have condemned the punishment as an “act of violence”.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:11:30 GMT
Bessent, driving force behind US push to cripple Iran’s economy, relocates over alleged threat to his life
The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has relocated from his home in the Washington area to a military base after an Iranian threat against his life, the New York Times has reported.
Bessent has spearheaded a US push to cripple Iran’s economy since the start of the Middle East war, vowing “economic asphyxiation” of the Islamic republic through a web of sanctions.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:00:32 GMT
Charities warn of lack of protection amid health fears for more than 940,000 displaced people living in flood-prone areas
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been left in waterlogged and damaged tents after deadly storms at the weekend, while 150,000 new shelters are held outside Gaza awaiting Israeli approval to enter, aid agencies have said.
At least four Palestinian children and woman were killed as heavy rains and wind battered fragile, leaky tents. Thousands have been left without shelter and sanitation infrastructure has been destroyed, with sewage spewing into people’s tents.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:00:29 GMT
Independent Israeli professor says Hussam Abu Safiya’s life will be at risk until he receives proper medical treatment
An independent professor who reviewed the medical records of a prominent Gaza doctor held in an Israeli prison without charge for nearly 23 months has raised serious concerns about his health.
Hussam Abu Safiya was detained at work on 27 December 2024 and later held in solitary confinement at Rakefet, a notorious underground prison.
Continue reading...Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:57:51 GMT
Former prime minister faces death penalty upon return after being sentenced in absentia over deaths in 2024 uprising
Sheikh Hasina is “confident” she will return to Bangladesh in December, according to exiled members of her party, after the disgraced former prime minister applied for a new passport this week.
Hasina has been living in self-imposed exile since August 2024 when she was toppled from power by a mass uprising against her authoritarian rule. She crossed the border to India, where she has since been allowed to live freely in Delhi.
Continue reading...Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:30:31 GMT
From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution
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Few love stories have been as closely entwined with a nation’s history as that of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. The former’s much-awaited political memoir, Belonging, offers a strikingly candid account of her journey from a small town in Italy to the highest echelons of power in India – all for love, she says.
The veteran Congress party leader has been fiercely protective of her personal world. In Belonging, she opens up for the first time about the extraordinary twists and turns of a life that has largely unfolded in full public view. (The Guardian’s Hannah Ellis-Petersen has a rare in-person interview with Gandhi, and you can read an excerpt from the book here.)
Continue reading...Sun, 08 Nov 2026 06:00:33 GMT
Mumbai facility is part of Reliance Industries, owner of world’s biggest oil refinery and funder of controversial mega-zoo
The Prince of Wales’s Earthshot prize will host its forthcoming annual awards ceremony at a venue owned by the billionaire Ambani family conglomerate, drawing criticism from conservationists over their fossil fuel businesses and their foundation’s controversial mega-zoo.
A spokesperson for the Earthshot prize, which awards £1m to five winners every year to invest in conservation work, confirmed to the Guardian and the news outlet Mongabay that this year’s ceremony will be held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai on 17 November.
Continue reading...Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:24:53 GMT
A previously unseen family archive offers a glimpse into the Indian Nobel prize winner’s artistic process and personal relationships in his final years
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It’s easy to run out of words to describe Rabindranath Tagore. The first non-European to win the Nobel prize in literature, Tagore was a Bengali poet, musician, novelist, philosopher, songwriter, painter, humanist and educator.
Born in 1861, Tagore left an indelible mark on the subcontinent’s literature, music, education and art. Among his enduring legacies are the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Continue reading...Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:00:39 GMT
Guardian and Mongabay reveal approaches to officials and MPs on behalf of Vantara zoo ahead of UK-chaired Cites meeting on endangered animal imports
British government ministers were told not to engage formally with Vantara, the controversial mega-zoo run by the Indian billionaire Anant Ambani, after lobbying efforts by the private animal sanctuary in the run-up to a UK-chaired meeting on the trade in endangered species, according to documents.
This week, the UK heads a 32-country committee meeting in Geneva of Cites, the United Nations body that regulates trade in endangered species. The meeting will examine how India has responded to compliance concerns about imports of endangered animals.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:30:01 GMT
Exclusive: Madeleine Alessandri, chair of the joint intelligence committee, will take on the role of advising No 10 on climate-related national security risks
The UK government has appointed the world’s first special representative for climate security, in the strongest sign yet of fears that climate breakdown will bring chaos to the country.
Prime minister Andy Burnham will announce the move on Thursday at Cop31, the UN climate summit, with the new role designed to advise the government on national security risks from the climate crisis before they spell catastrophe.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:10:26 GMT
Retailer’s management to seek two-week extension of legal protection from creditors in high court
MPs have accused the owner of Poundland of extracting millions of pounds from the budget retailer when it was on a “knife-edge” as it seeks extra time to secure a rescue deal.
The management of Poundland, which employs 12,000 people and operates 600 stores in the UK and Ireland, will seek a two-week extension of legal protection from creditors from the high court on Thursday morning.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:07:36 GMT
Paralympian Richard Whitehead ‘gobsmacked’ at Tory leader’s speech over proposed £36bn welfare cuts
The double amputee marathon runner Richard Whitehead has criticised Kemi Badenoch for “weaponising his sporting success” to justify her proposed £36bn welfare cuts.
The Conservative leader used the example of “double amputees running marathons” in a speech this week to explain the reasoning behind her proposed cuts to disability benefits, which she said were enabling people to “live a life of dependency”.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 19:06:48 GMT
L/Cpl Nicholas Horne, from 4th Battalion of Royal Regiment of Scotland, charged with one count of rape on 23 October
A British soldier has been charged with the alleged rape of a UK army servicewoman in Cyprus.
L/Cpl Nicholas Horne, who serves in the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, also known as The Highlanders, was charged with one count of rape on 23 October, the Defence Serious Crime Command (DSCC) said.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:31:34 GMT
PM wrote to transport commissioner to oppose ‘megashed’ in Astley shortly before he entered No 10
Andy Burnham raised safety concerns about dozens of lorries leaving a “monster” warehouse near a primary school because there was “no safe crossing” for children, a public inquiry has heard.
Concerns about the 18-metre-high “megashed” in the village of Astley, Greater Manchester, are being examined by Britain’s office of the transport commissioner.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:20:10 GMT
Incident occurred at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on day president claimed US ‘did not start war with Iran’ in Veterans Day speech
Some Democrats, out of the 11 who missed the key procedural vote on Tuesday to impeach Pete Hegseth, blamed a traffic jam in Washington DC for their inability to make it to the US Capitol in time.
By a vote of 211-204, Republicans referred the articles of impeachment to the judiciary committee – effectively killing the effort to oust Hegseth.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:59:07 GMT
Move comes as chipmaker reels from reports its CEO was having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy
Nvidia has appointed a leading US law firm to conduct a “thorough and independent” investigation into the relationship between its chief executive, Jensen Huang, and an alleged Chinese spy.
The $4.1tn (£3tn) chipmaker’s board has hired New York-based Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for the investigation, which will be led by the Wachtell partner Joon Kim. The firm’s website describes Kim, a former government prosecutor in New York, as a specialist in areas including internal investigations, white-collar criminal and regulatory defence, and crisis management.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:54:30 GMT
Eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort, which failed by just seven votes
Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage at nearly a dozen of their colleagues for missing a vote Tuesday evening to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, allowing Republicans to defeat the effort.
Eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort, which failed by just seven votes. Some blamed traffic and conflicting events and others accused Speaker Mike Johnson of closing the vote early. Many of those not in the Capitol said they support the effort to impeach Hegseth.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:30:56 GMT
Driver, 61, faces DUI and murder charges after Tuesday crash critically injuring two others in North Hollywood
A driver who reportedly crashed into pedestrians on a Los Angeles corner during Tuesday rush hour, killing three people and critically injuring two more, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and three counts of murder, police said on Wednesday.
The fatal crash took place near a North Hollywood metro station.
Continue reading...Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:21:14 GMT
Death of Javits Frimpong, who moved to the US from Ghana a year ago, has affected close-knit Ghanaian community
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong in the Bronx.
The teenager was taken from his Bronx home for questioning Wednesday morning and brought to the New York City police department (NYPD)’s 42nd precinct. The suspect, whose identity has not been released, faces several charges, including murder, manslaughter, criminal possession of a weapon and other firearm-related offenses.
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