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1 week 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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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Alex Atack |Rudi Zygadlo |Elizabeth Cassin
Israeli anti-war activists Yehuda Shaul and Michael Sfard, who formerly served in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), discuss the war in Gaza. Shaul is the founder of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli NGO which publishes testimonies of IDF soldiers. Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer who has brought hundreds of cases challenging the demolition of Palestinian homes and the construction of new settlements, and pushed for investigations into alleged Israeli war crimes.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Gary Younge |Courtney Yusuf |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
“We have people who can write about this,” the journalist Gary Younge remembers an editor once telling him about a column he had written on Bosnia. “Can you add an ethnic sensibility to this?”For Younge, being one of the few black columnists in the British press has not been easy; rather, it has been a constant struggle, he explains, to avoid being pigeonholed as a journalist only ever interested in race.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Nesrine Malik |Eleanor Biggs |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent
On Monday, Keir Starmer announced the government’s latest proposals to reduce immigration. The plans included restricting visas for students and skilled workers, tightening up English language requirements and – perhaps most drastically – aiming to end all overseas recruitment of social care workers by 2028. Yet maybe more notable than the policies was the language Starmer used to introduce them.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Catherine Pepinster |Hannah Moore |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli
Pope Francis was working until the end. On Easter Sunday, the 88-year-old head of the Catholic church offered an Easter greeting to the crowds in St Peter’s Square who had gathered for mass. By the next morning, after months battling pneumonia and bronchitis, he had passed away. From the beginning, the first Latin American pope wanted his papacy to be different.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Catherine Pepinster |Rudi Zygadlo |Homa Khaleeli
Pope Francis was working until the end. On Easter Sunday, the 88-year-old head of the Catholic church offered an Easter greeting to the crowds in St Peter’s Square who had gathered for mass. By the next morning, after months battling pneumonia and bronchitis, he had passed away. From the beginning, the first Latin American pope wanted his papacy to be different.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 3, 2025 | 
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.
