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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Nosheen Iqbal |Emma Graham-Harrison |Eli Block |Natalie Ktena |Olivia Lee |Joel Cox | +1 more
Israel faced growing international pressure earlier this month as hundreds of starving people in Gaza were killed as they tried to reach aid distribution sites. Since Israel launched its attacks on Iran on Friday, however, that diplomatic outcry has largely disappeared.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Andrew Roth |Eli Block |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
It started with a tweet. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” wrote Elon Musk. Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill was a “disgusting abomination”. What followed was a remarkable – and remarkably public – feud between the world’s richest man and the US president: insults were traded, threats were made, shares in Musk’s publicly traded companies plummeted. It was quite the turnaround for the pair. Last year, Musk had given Trump’s re-election campaign more than $280m in donations.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Nino Bucci |Eli Block |Hattie Moir |Elizabeth Cassin |Sami Kent
Last week, in a trial followed all over Australia and across the world, Erin Patterson took the stand. She is accused of three counts of murder, and one of attempted murder, allegedly by poisoning her relatives with deadly mushrooms inside four separate dishes of beef wellington. As the Guardian Australia justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci explains, Patterson has always denied the charges.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Andy Hunter |Alex Atack |Eli Block |Elizabeth Cassin
“I was just coming towards the end of writing what was a positive, upbeat overview of the whole day,” Andy Hunter, a Guardian football correspondent based in Liverpool, tells Helen Pidd. “Wrote about how they were memories that would last a lifetime. And then just as I was finishing that and about to send it, I got a call from the desk to say, have you seen what’s just happened?
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Eli Block |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Elizabeth Cassin | +1 more
“We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous.”Last week, the words of British foreign secretary, David Lammy, in the House of Commons on Israeli cabinet ministers’ calls to “purify Gaza” marked a shift in the UK’s position on Israel’s offensive. Lammy announced that Britain would be suspending negotiations with Israel over a new free trade deal.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Eli Block |Joshan Chana |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury
For a long time the appendix was considered disposable. After all, millions of people have theirs removed each year and go on to live healthy lives. But as Heather F Smith, a professor of anatomy at Midwestern University tells Ian Sample, researchers are increasingly understanding what this small worm-shaped organ may be bringing to the table in terms of our health.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Kaamil Ahmed |Eli Block |Tom Glasser |Sami Kent
Zamzam, in Darfur, has been a place of refuge for decades. A sprawling camp in western Sudan, some have estimated that it houses up to 700,000 people – a place of relative safety from the violence that has engulfed the region over the last 20 years. It was also one of the last holdouts in Darfur, one of the few places in the region not yet under the control of the Rapid Support Forces. The paramilitary group has fought a devastating civil war with the Sudanese army since April 2023.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Libby Brooks |Eli Block |Tom Glasser |Natalie Ktena |Joel Cox | +1 more
On paper it does not sound like something that would spark nationwide interest. Last week the UK supreme court gave its judgment on a case brought by a women’s group against the Scottish government over the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018. But its judgment – that the word “woman” in equality law refers only to biological sex – has upended years of legal interpretation. And the news of the ruling led to celebrations, protest and an outpouring of emotion.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Eli Block |Priya Bharadia |Courtney Yusuf
Just after midnight on Tuesday, EDT time, the wall of tariffs Donald Trump announced last week came into effect. The new system upends decades of precedent from the world’s strongest economy and has sent global markets reeling. The Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington, explains to Michael Safi the dynamics of a market crash and a trade war and how together they may contribute to the onset of a global recession.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Richard Partington |Homa Khaleeli |Eli Block
Donald Trump is on a mission to Make America Wealthy Again. Speaking outside the White House, he said for too long the country had been ‘looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike’. Now that would come to an end, he said, as he slapped eye-watering tariffs on countries around the world. The Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington, explains why Trump has taken such action and how it could affect the global economy.
