Lucy Swan

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Artem Mazhulin |Oliver Holmes |Lucy Swan |Laure Boulinier |Arnel Hecimovic

A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed billions of dollars worth of Russian aircraft stationed at bases across the country, including at locations as far away as Siberia, in what Kyiv claims is its longest-range assault of the war. The spectacular operation, dubbed Spiderweb, was prepared in secret over 18 months.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lorenzo Tondo |Manisha Ganguly |Lucy Swan |Laure Boulinier |Elena Morresi

Four people have died as thousands of Palestinians burst into a United Nations warehouse in Gaza, tearing away sections of the building’s metal walls in a desperate attempt to find food. Two people were fatally crushed and two others died of gunshot wounds after the crowd forced its way into the World Food Programme warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday afternoon, health officials said. It was not immediately clear if Israeli forces, private contractors or others had opened fire.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Garry Blight |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons

England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The design of Pentonville was heralded by the fashionable print media of the day.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan

Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Chris Watson |Lucy Swan

Brazil is the biggest exporter of beef in the world, and more than 40% of its vast 240m-cattle herd is raised in the Amazon region. As a result, swathes of the nature-rich rainforest are being cleared and burned to create pasture. This is pushing Amazon destruction close to a point of no return, prompting environmentalists and consumer groups to demand deforestation-free meat products.