CATEGORIES

Is TikTok spying for China?

Western fears that the video platform harvests user data and promotes Beijing’s worldview could lead to a n overhaul of global privacy laws

Police revolt as gang warfare goes unchecked

Masked men raced around Port-au-Prince on motorbikes, firing their guns into the air, blocking roads with burning tyres and bringing the Haitian capital to a standstill.

EU tube Immersive show aims to demystify Eurozone

‘People are looking for someone to blame and itis usually the EU’

Vermeers gathered for blockbuster 'party'- but is it the last?

For once, say its curators, “the chance of a lifetime” may be right: never before have so many works by Johannes Vermeer, the luminous 17th-century Dutch master, been assembled in the same place – and it is highly unlikely they will be again.

Deforestation piles pressure on elusive Chacoan peccary

With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, acommunity conservation effort is fighting for its future

Back to life Could gene editing revive the dodo?

The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to at least a semblance of life if attempts by a gene editing company are successful.

Two years on from coup, junta's airstrikes intensify

It was early evening, and people had gathered at a pandal in Moe Dar Lay village, in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, to prepare for a Buddhist novice ordination ceremony the following day.

Peshawar at the heart of a deadly Taliban resurgence

The bomber struck shortly before afternoon prayers, when the mosque in Pesha-war’s bustling Police Lines district would be at its busiest.

Buildings reduced to rubble as cities sleep

Thousands of people died when an earthquake struck central Turkey and north-west Syria, in one of the most powerful quakes in the region in at least a century.

Supreme leader to pardon some detainees

A limited amnesty is to be offered to many of those detained in the recent Iranian protests, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has agreed.

Protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police

Human rights organisations report an escalation in the brutal treatment of detainees at the hands of security forces

Putin's plans to blackmail Europe over gas supply fail to ignite

The worst-case scenarios piled up over the summer months. Germany’s economic minister warned of “catastrophic” industrial shutdowns, fraying supply chains and mass unemployment.

Behind enemy lines Saboteurs take the fight into Russia

Taras, Vladyslav, and their commander, Olexiy, understand that, if the worst were to happen, the Ukrainian government will deny any knowledge of them. In western capitals, there is a collective shudder at the very thought of them.

Broken Britain Fissures ran deep in the country long before Brexit delivered its blow

There is no joy in it for those who always knew Brexit was a con, but it is finally dawning on more people that leaving the EU was a colossal mistake.

BREXIT

With the vaunted benefits of leaving the European Union still hard to discern, polls now suggest that about one in five leave voters have changed their minds. But could Britain ever go back, ask Michael Savage and Toby Helm The great Brexit deficit

Global report

Headlines from the last seven days

The free way Should US foreign policy demand liberal policy outcomes as well as elections, or is it hiding behind its 'democratic dilemma'?

Whatever else he leaves behind, Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto-whiz charged with multiple counts of fraud, has bequeathed a lasting gift to the publishing business.

The sound of the underground

New Zealand's short-lived counterculture scene threw off conservative constraints and laid foundations for the nation's modern identity

How Colon becamea hub for contraband and cocaine

In the Colón Free Trade Zone, near the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, the dated and glass buildings are with brand names for I Perspex emblazoned electronics, perfumes and textiles.

Trump says he’s angry but can the trick worka second time?

Donald Trump, US president, the former tried to get D his spluttering White House bid off the launchpad last Saturday, declaring himself \"more angry\" than ever as he became the first candidate to hit the 2024 election campaign trail.

Electric shock US car culture must change, warns report

The US's transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs and ecosystem destruction, new research finds.

Lithium sparks a battle for power

The state wants to exploit its lucrative reserves, a key component in producing car batteries but at what price?

Beware the Crocodile, opposition leader urges

Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep eyes on’ President Mnangagwaamid fears of repression in run-up to poll

Third man Young voters swell hope for Obi's shock bid

At a recent campaign stop, Peter Obi responded to regular criticism. Bola Tinubu, a rival candidate in  next month's presidential elections in Nigeria, had called him stingy.

'A reckoning' Debate over colonisation dominates national day

'We need to stop the lying,\" Prof Marcia Langton, a Yiman and Bidjara woman, said last Thursday, as tens of thousands of people attended protest rallies in cities across the country, amid a rising political and social reckoning with the country's colonial history.

Baby blues PM's answer to birthrate crisis is stuck in the same old loop

Fumio Kishida is not a politician given to dramatic pronouncements.

Swift punitive steps pledged against Palestinians

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a series of punitive steps against Palestinians in the wake of the deadly synagogue attack in Jerusalem.

Grief and anger at site of deadly synagogue attack

Calls for reprisals after worst attack by a Palestinian against Israelis since 2008, during spiralling week of bloodshed

Sunak's deficit Tax scandal stops PM from changing the conversation

Rishi Sunak was in his sprawling constituency home in North Yorkshire when just after 7am on Sunday he received the report by Sir Laurie Magnus, his new ethics adviser, on whether Nadhim Zahawi had broken the ministerial code over his tax affairs.

Nadhim Zahawi's extraordinary rise and fall

Nadhim Zahawi’s sacking as Conservative party chair-man last Sunday caps an extraordinary downfall for a man who less than a year ago ran to be Conservative party leader and, with it, prime minister of the UK.