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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Adam Gabbatt |Lucy Hough |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli |Elizabeth Cassin
“Border Patrol always had the right to grill people trying to enter the US, right,” Guardian US reporter Adam Gabbatt tells Michael Safi. “But from what we can tell now, Border Patrol agents are now much more likely to basically get into people’s business, so to search people’s devices, particularly mobile phones, and there seems to have been a real spike in the number of people being questioned and now detained.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Libby Brooks |Matthew Pearce |Rudi Zygadlo |Elizabeth Cassin
The Thistle is a new drugs consumption clinic in the east end of Glasgow, which aims to reduce drug-related deaths in the city. It will be open 365 days a year. In 2023, 1,172 Scots died from drug misuse – a quarter of those in Glasgow, which has been named Europe’s drugs death capital. Libby Brooks, the Guardian’s Scotland correspondent, speaks to staff at the Thistle about the services they are able to offer, and why they believe the service is vital in saving lives.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Jon Henley |Eleanor Biggs |Ruth Abrahams |Rudi Zygadlo |Courtney Yusuf
On Thursday, after the US decided to halt military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, European leaders in Brussels agreed to a massive and unprecedented increase in defence spending. The Guardian’s Europe correspondent, Jon Henley, explains to Michael Safi that this €800bn fund marks a new era for the union and will mean tearing up fiscal rules to loosen borrowing. For some member states, such as Germany, achieving this defensive autonomy will require profound constitutional changes.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Luke Harding |Ruth Abrahams |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Courtney Yusuf
This weekend’s fractious Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had much of the world talking. But what do Ukrainians make of the meeting, their president, and a possible Trump-led peace deal? The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding has been in Ukraine for much of the the last three years.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Patrick Wintour |Ruth Abrahams |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli |Sami Kent
It’s the most important international relationship the UK has, and for decades has been referred to as “special”. Since the second world war, the UK and the US have considered themselves the closest allies, working together for shared values, with any resentments, differences of opinion or cross words kept to private channels. But now Donald Trump is back and he seems keen to throw the usual world order of alliances and enmities into chaos.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Shaun Walker |Lucy Hough |Matthew Pearce |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
Last Monday, the Guardian’s central and eastern European correspondent, Shaun Walker,sat down in Kyiv to interview the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The conversation, Walker explains, was dominated by what Zelenskyy hoped to achieve in any upcoming talks on a ceasefire deal in Ukraine.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Felicity Lawrence |Josh Halliday |Lucy Hough |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli | +1 more
Lucy Letby was convicted for the murder and attempted murder of more than a dozen babies. She has been called the worst child serial killer the UK had seen. But even before the trial was over experts had begun raising concerns about her conviction. Then, last week, came a bombshell press conference in which a panel of renowned neonatal experts said they believed not just that Letby’s conviction was unsafe - but that there was no murder or deliberate harm.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli
Since the beginning of the war hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza have had to flee their homes. Many were repeatedly displaced. Then, finally last month, with the announcement of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came the chance to return. A chance to see what has remained of their homes, neighbourhoods and communities.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Shane Harrison |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
The Omagh bombing was the single worst atrocity of the Troubles. As the journalist Shane Harrison explains, it was carried out when hopes were high in Northern Ireland that the country would never experience such violence again – four months after the signing of the Good Friday agreement in April 1998. The car bomb on 15 August killed 29 people, including Aiden Gallagher, a 21-year-old mechanic.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Chris Stokel-Walker |Alex Atack |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent |Courtney Yusuf
When Mark Zuckerberg announced dramatic changes to Meta’s social platforms last week – including Facebook, Instagram and Threads – he admitted: “We’re going to catch less bad stuff.”Zuckerberg said Meta would get rid of factcheckers, overhaul its content moderation and boost political content in users’ feeds – all 3.3 billion of them.
