Sami Kent

1 day ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Hattie Moir |Tony Onuchukwu |Sami Kent

On Saturday, Pakistan and India agreed a fragile ceasefire. The announcement, reports the south Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen, was made after days of escalation between the two neighbours: drone and missile attacks; cross-border skirmishes; and a world watching on, hoping that these two nuclear states would not go any further. Yet while the US-brokered peace may have reduced the tension, the long-running dispute over Kashmir remains unresolved.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Harriet Sherwood |Eleanor Biggs |Sami Kent

On Wednesday, 133 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the next pope. It is called the conclave and it is one of the oldest election processes in the world. For days – perhaps even weeks – the cardinals in Rome will vote again and again until one candidate wins a two-thirds majority. Then, and only then, will they be named as the successor to Pope Francis. It is, as Guardian journalist Harriet Sherwood explains, an election rich in ceremony and ritual.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Kaamil Ahmed |Eli Block |Tom Glasser |Sami Kent

Zamzam, in Darfur, has been a place of refuge for decades. A sprawling camp in western Sudan, some have estimated that it houses up to 700,000 people – a place of relative safety from the violence that has engulfed the region over the last 20 years. It was also one of the last holdouts in Darfur, one of the few places in the region not yet under the control of the Rapid Support Forces. The paramilitary group has fought a devastating civil war with the Sudanese army since April 2023.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Michael Safi |Sami Kent |Ruth Michaelson |Hannah Moore |Lucy Hough |Joel Cox | +1 more

It has been more than two decades since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became Turkey’s president. Over the years, Erdoğan’s regime has become increasingly authoritarian, eroding press freedoms and removing checks to his power. But in the last week mass protests have erupted. Pouring on to the streets of Istanbul, thousands have defied government warnings and a crackdown by riot police to ensure their voices are heard.

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.