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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Feb 10, 2025 | 
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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Feb 3, 2025 | 
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.
