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'Heartbroken' Muslim mayor takes stock of Wilders' win

Soon after news broke that the populist Geert Wilders and his anti-Islam Party for Freedom (PVV) had won the most votes of any party in the Dutch elections, Ahmed Marcouch found himself comforting his distraught eight-year-old.

Why young Europeans are turning towards the far right

Housing, health and economic fears, not cultural factors, are pushing many younger voters towards political extremes

The classic children's books that Putin could not destroy

There it is, on a wintry morning: charred masonry, gnarled metal, glass shards, rubble and dust.

Families reunited as hostages return home from Gaza

Pornsawan Pinakalo's three great aunts would not have missed his return for the world.

'We just wish to be killed' Fear returns as truce ends

Last Friday morning, Reham Shaheen had a rare chance to talk to her husband, Muhanad, who had been sheltering with their family in Deir al-Balah, in the southern half of Gaza, shortly after Israel's military restarted its campaign of bombing.

Will Israel win the battle but lose the war against Hamas?

The scene is one familiar from many conflicts.

Oil and water? Sultan Al Jaber, the host fanning flames of the fossil fuel debate

Cop28 is taking place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates - one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas.

Dubai's net zero gains

The city-state is offering the UN's global climate conference access to its oil-industry networks in the hope of boosting its soft power brand. But who stands to benefit most?

Captured And Freed How The Hostage Release Deal Was Done

Anetwork that established a link between President Biden and Hamas was at the heart of talks that led to freeing of captives

World Is On Frontline Of Disaster, Says UN Climate Chief

Leaders urged to stop dawdling’ and take action, as crucial summit on tackling climate crisis opens in Dubai

A country road to redemption

The genre-swapping singer Jelly Rollis up for aGrammy, having broken acycle of jailtime and drug abuse. He discusses how he turned his lifearound

With rights in peril, women have to fight just to stand still

Brainwashed by a homicidal policy\" is how the man just elected president of Argentina described supporters of women's abortion rights. The far-right libertarian Javier Milei has pledged to hold a referendum to ban abortion, just three years after Argentina became the largest Latin American country to legalise it, and the country's feminists are gearing up for a big fight to protect their reproductive rights.

My patient refused all treatment. After her death, I learned why

'Every time I talk to you, I feel more distressed.” Tears stream down my patient’s face as she claps her palms over her ears to shut me out. I am stunned to my core by this completely unexpected office version of a devastating domestic diatribe from which you wonder how you will recover. In my small office, the distance between us feels suddenly uncrossable.

A triple inequality lies at the heart of the climate emergency

Stare at a climate map of the world that we expect to inhabit 50 years from now and you see a band of extreme heat encircling the planet's midriff. Climate modelling from 2020 suggests that within half a century about 30% of the world's projected population - unless they are forced to move - will live in places with an average temperature above 29C. This is unbearably hot. Currently, no more than 1% of Earth's land surface is this hot, mainly uninhabited parts of the Sahara.

"Try not to look at them with pity'

WE HAVE ALL MET A YOUNG MAN LIKE DANIEL MELNYK, this open-faced, sunny 21-year-old with a broad grin.

First person singular

Uncoupled doesn't have to mean incomplete. Writers from Annie Lord to Joan Bakewell celebrate sex toys, freedom and being alone as its own destination

Pit start Plutonium production is on the rise.But why?

On New York's Staten Island the US army corps of engineers began last month to remove the radioactive remnants of Robert Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bombs that ended the second world war.

The sleepy town that won a place on Unesco's food map

'Вatdambng mean avei chhnganh? Anything delicious in Battambang?\" crooned popular Cambodian singer Sinn Sisamouth in his song of the same name. For Cambodians, everything is delicious in Battambang and now, much to their delight, Unesco agrees.

Deep sea bubbles The rise of underwater champagne

You might think that 1,500 years after the first bottle was drunk there wasn't Y much more innovation left to be had in the rarefied world of champagne. You would be wrong. The next big thing in the $7.5bn-a-year industry is: undersea ageing.

Flood fallout Missing migrants' families still wait for news

Relatives fear they may never know what happened to their undocumented loved ones in Derna when Storm Daniel hit

King's estate changes investment policy after revelations

King Charles’s estate has announced it is transferring more than £100m ($126m), including funds collected from dead people under the archaic system of bona vacantia, into ethical investment funds after an investigation by the Guardian.

Home truths Berlin shows how private renting can work better

When Bex Burch swapped the choppy world of private renting in the UK for a new life in Berlin, “it was a weight off my shoulders”, she said. After spells in at least 10 rentals in London and Brighton over 15 years – and two evictions – she discovered having somewhere to live need not be so stressful.

Dutch dismay Wilders triumph continues the rise of Europe's far-right parties

Geert Wilders’ shock victory in the Dutch general election confirms the upward trajectory of Europe’s populist and far-right parties, which – with the occasional setback – are continuing their steady march into the mainstream.

Violence, race and the end of the 'Irish welcome'

The police had reclaimed O’Connell Bridge and were preparing a baton charge on the south side of the River Liffey, but the rioters and bystanders on Westmoreland Street did not want to lose their view of the fires.

Soft power What is behind Qatar's role as a mediator?

Qatari minister Lolwah Al Khater visits Gaza

Inside a nation in crisis

Jonathan Freedland talks to survivors, displaced people and senior political and military figures about life in Israel before and after 7 October, and considers what might happen next

The royal treatment

From stage to screen, regal dramas are now everywhere - with scant regard for accuracy. As The Crown returns, Mark Lawson asks if this is the TV show's legacy

We must see the true nature of Hamas-and of Netanyahu

Know thine enemy - and know thine ally, too. Too many of those pushing for one outcome or another in the war between Israel and Hamas misjudge the parties involved.

Trump and Bolsonaro hail Milei's victory as far right rejoices

Luminaries of the global far right are in raptures over Javier Milei's thumping election victory in Argentina, which experts predict will turn Buenos Aires into a new stomping ground for the populist radical right.

Disrupted Figurehead's exit plunges Al sector into chaos

The blog headline was anodyne - \"OpenAI announces leadership transition\" - but the consequences for Silicon Valley were seismic.