Roe, Wade and America

The conservative-dominated US supreme court is considering a case that could lead to the reversal of the 48-year-old ruling on a woman’s right to choose. What damage would such a verdict do to the nation – and how did it come to this?

Unsettlers

As attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank worsen, Donald Macintyre and Quique Kierszenbaum speak to farmers, settlers and Israeli human rights activists – and the mother of a three-year-old boy injured in a raid

‘No standing down, no giving up': resistance to junta grows

Last Sunday morning, a small group of protesters walked together in Kyimyindaing township, Yangon , waving bunches of eugenia and roses. They carried a banner reading: “The only real prison is fear and the real freedom is freedom from fear.”

The world is ignoring Tigray's year-long nightmare of war

On 4 November 2020 the world was occupied with the US election. For myself and many others with family and friends in Tigray, however, that day marked the beginning of a continuing nightmare. And it’s one that the world has, mostly, ignored.

Lockdown protests turn violent as restrictions get tougher

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Global predators are circling a weak and unstable continent

Is Europe entering a dangerous new age of instability? Not since the height of the cold war with the Soviet Union has it looked so vulnerable to hostile forces.

Can they kick it?

A year from now, the tiny, super-rich Gulf nation plans to send a message to the world by hosting world football’s showpiece event. But the jury is still out over whether the message is one of real change, or just image projection

Action pledge after English cricket says sorry to Rafiq

English cricket has issued an unreserved apology to Azeem Rafiq, saying the racism he experienced is a blight on the game, before promising to take swift measures to restore trust.

‘We'll never forget' Wanjiru's family still seek justice

Allegations that a British soldier confessed to a Kenyan woman's murder in 2012 have deeply affected relatives in her hometown

Without alternatives, ditching coal is impossible

It was a dramatic 11th-hour decision, portrayed by some as a devastating blow to the success of Cop26.

Tennis player missing after sexual assault accusation

Feminist groups and tennis stars raised concerns over the whereabouts of the former doubles pro Peng Shuai after she accused the former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault.

Fortress Europe: EU policies have turned migrants into a resource to be exploited

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Cold comfort: The lucrative route from the Middle East to Minsk

Travel agents and migrants who have reached Poland describe how thousands are making the journey

BELARUS/POLAND: Human collateral

Belarus's despotic leader has created a migrant crisis to goad the EU. But what happens next may be at the whim of Vladimir Putin

A fragile agreement Inside the final hours of Cop26

A sweary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde last Saturday, few realised what a mountain they still had to climb.

#FreeBritney Why a band of superfans are carrying on the fight

The liberation last week of Britney Spears from her nearly 14-year conservatorship was a landmark moment for the pop star.

Dozens dead after renewed gang violence in prison

At least 68 prisoners were killed and 25 injured in a jail in the city of Guayaquil after bloodletting between rival gangs broke out last Friday, the attorney general’s office said.

Biden and Xi warn each other over future of Taiwan

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has warned Joe Biden in a virtual summit that Beijing was prepared to take “decisive measures” if Taiwan makes any moves towards independence that cross his country’s red lines.

To avert climate disaster, we need resilient societies built on love, not just technology

When things look especially bleak for humankind, it’s worth reminding ourselves who we are – what makes us such a special species.

The royal we Queen's rest reveals a roadmap to succession

With the 95-year-old monarch taking a break on doctor’s orders, a potentially fraught transition of duties has begun

Urdu phrase in fashion ad sparks ire of nationalists

Released just as festival season was kicking off across India, it looked like your average advert for celebratory attire. Models posed, resplendent in red and gold, showing off the newest collection by Fabindia that was said to “pay homage to Indian culture”.

World leaders agree deal to halt deforestation

Historic declaration at Glasgow climate conference commits countries to ending major cause of CO2 emissions

High and dry

The Middle East is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, but oil spoils keep its regimes in power. Can the Gulf states find a way to transition away from fossil-fuel exports and thus avoid their own self-destruction?

With infections rising, , the Tories are running a deadly experiment

A pandemic is a political event. It exposes who is vulnerable and who can afford to escape, who is prioritised for treatment and who is neglected. The politics of a pandemic are both large-scale and intensely personal. How we behave towards each other, what balance is struck between safety and freedom, how blame is distributed, what a country considers an acceptable level of illness and death: questions that may once have been philosophical have become frighteningly real.

“Thanks, I rented it! Why fashion rental is hotter than Balenciaga

Backstage after one of the London fashion week shows, I complimented the editor of a glossy magazine on the trouser suit she was wearing. She thanked me, and added - raising her voice a notch, glancing around - "It's rented, actually.” Then she said that my dress was very pretty, too. To which I was, thankfully, able to respond while possibly raising my voice just a smidgen - “This is rented, too.”

Don't send the'wrong signals', China warns Biden

China has urged the US to "avoid sending any wrong signals” after President Joe Biden for a second time in three months said the US would come to Taiwan's defence if it was attacked.

Lock him up! Report says Bolsonaro faces jail for Covid deaths

Jair Bolsonaro should be charged with crimes against humanity and jailed for his "macabre” reaction to Covid outbreak that has killed more than 600,000 Brazilians, including a disproportionate number of indigenous citizens, a congressional inquiry found last week.

Cultivating peace

George Orwell's love ofgardening inspires a volume that should appealto both the green-fingered and politically keen reader

Why is Jeff Bezos losing the billionaire space race?

The Amazon founder’s firm has galaxies of cash but is plagued by safety concerns and a toxic workplace culture

Washington tells London to placate Paris after sub snub

The US has urged Britain to follow its example and try to repair its relations with Paris in the wake of the row over France’s loss of its submarine contract with Australia.