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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Yerushalmy |Tom Bryant |Vicky Graham |Amy Sedghi |Hayden Vernon |Maya Yang | +9 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAccording to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the UN security council emergency meeting on Friday over Israel’s strikes on Iran will take place at 7pm GMT (8pm in the UK, which is currently on BST). The newly appointed commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Pakpour, threatened to open “the gates of hell” in retaliation for Israel’s attacks that killed his predecessor Hossein Salami.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Lucy Campbell |Lauren Aratani |Dan Milmo |Faisal Mohammed Ali |Michael Sainato | +1 more
New Pentagon spokesperson promoted antisemitic conspiracy theory last yearThe US department of defense, which has held just one news conference this year, announced on Friday that it has a new press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, who has repeatedly shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory promoted by neo-Nazis.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Sarah Bertram |Laure Boulinier |Mathilde Poncet |Faisal Mohammed Ali
Just two days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria last December, Israel launched a sweeping offensive, seizing the Golan Heights and carrying out hundreds of airstrikes across the country. Israel has remained militarily involved in Syria, declaring regions near their shared border a demilitarised zone and carrying out frequent attacks, patrols and raids.
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2 months ago | 
geeska.com | Andrew Harding |Faisal Mohammed Ali |Shreya Parikh
Curiously, among the first people to take the brochure’s promise of an old-fashioned, “open-armed” welcome at face value were two tall, prodigiously talented Americans. Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were, and remain, basketball royalty. The pair had just won America's NBA championship title for their team, the Milwaukee Bucks. They could have chosen to visit almost any city, in any country in Africa.
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2 months ago | 
geeska.com | Nuruddin Farah |Faisal Mohammed Ali |Andrew Harding
Nuruddin Farah needs no introduction for most of Geeska’s readers. He is the most prominent Somali novelist of the 20th and 21st centuries (so far) and has written some of the most significant works of literature for those seeking to understand postcolonial Somalia and its social, political, and religious challenges.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Yohannes Lowe |Tom Ambrose |Erum Salam |Chris Stein |Sam Levine |Faisal Mohammed Ali | +1 more
Department of Education’s 'final mission' starts with laying off nearly half its workforce, secretary says “As part of the Department of Education’s final mission,” the new education secretary, Linda McMahon, announced on Tuesday evening, “the Department today initiated a reduction in force (RIF) impacting nearly 50% of the Department’s workforce.” On social media, McMahon, the former chief executive officer of World Wrestling Entertainment, shared posts praising the move, including one by a...
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Philip Wen |Caroline Davies |Martin Belam |Hamish Mackay |Maya Yang |Faisal Mohammed Ali | +6 more
Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatens to quit over ceasefire dealIsrael’s extremist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has threatened to resign from prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if the cabinet ratifies the ceasefire deal. Ben-Gvir, in a press conference, said his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) party will leave the coalition if the deal, which he described as “reckless”, is approved.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Hamish Mackay |Tom Ambrose |Kate Lamb |Coral Murphy Marcos |Faisal Mohammed Ali |William Christou | +2 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureSyrian PM says government ready to "extend its hand" to oppositionSyrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said in a video statement that the government is ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government. “I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Jalili said, as reported by the Associated Press.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Martin Belam |Hamish Mackay |Fran Lawther |Léonie Chao-Fong |Chris Stein |Maya Yang | +13 more
Pentagon officials discuss what to do if Trump were to attempt to deploy the military domestically, CNN reports
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Ashifa Kassam |Faisal Mohammed Ali
At least 95 people have died in Spain after torrential rains triggered the country’s deadliest floods in decades, unleashing a deluge of muddy water that turned village streets into rivers, destroyed homes and swept away bridges, railways tracks and cars. An unknown number of people remain missing, while thousands of others are without electricity or phone service.
