theguardian.comadded August 2026
World news | The Guardianby Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent21 Aug 2026
The number of banknotes in circulation in the EU is increasing despite widespread smartphone payments, new data shows, with wildfires ripping through parts of Europe fuelling demand for an...
World news | The Guardianby Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad20 Aug 2026
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was briefly taken to a hospital in the country’s capital on supreme court orders after weeks of uproar about his deteriorating health.
World news | The Guardianby Jason Burke20 Aug 2026
The Israeli military admitted on Wednesday its troops had opened fire on a car carrying five-year-old Hind Rajab and six family members in Gaza in 2024, saying it had ordered a criminal...
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press20 Aug 2026
North Korea has launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, South Korea’s military said, a day after Pyongyang shrugged off Donald Trump’s order to scale back US military...
World news | The Guardianby Jonathan Yerushalmy20 Aug 2026
Donald Trump has announced a new campaign to isolate Iran’s economy, threatening “tremendous economic consequences” on any country that helps or does business with Tehran, a move that could set up...
World news | The Guardianby Eromo Egbejule in Cotonou and news agencies20 Aug 2026
More than 100 people have died after an artisanal goldmine at a small village in western Central African Republic (CAR) caved in due to a landslide, local officials and aid workers said on...
World news | The Guardianby Associated Press19 Aug 2026
Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and the state department.
World news | The Guardianby Stephen Burgen in Barcelona19 Aug 2026
The Spanish government has U-turned and said it will allow 500 migrant children in Ceuta to relocate to the mainland.
World news | The Guardianby Tiago Rogero South America correspondent19 Aug 2026
A senior adviser to many of Latin America’s new wave of far-right leaders has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the attempted murder of his girlfriend.
World news | The Guardianby Tiago Rogero South America correspondent19 Aug 2026
In the week before Colombia’s presidential election, Beto Coral, a well-known activist living in the United States, travelled to Florida to persuade fellow Colombians not to vote for the far-right...
World news | The Guardianby Uwa Ede-Osifo19 Aug 2026
Canada has temporarily avoided a bruising 50% US tariff, reaching a Tuesday-evening agreement with Trump administration officials hours before a hike that would have affected $20bn worth of goods...
World news | The Guardianby William Christou18 Aug 2026
Syrians have protested over the death of a man who was arrested and allegedly beaten by security forces, sparking widespread anger at a practice thought to have ended with the fall of Bashar...
World news | The Guardianby Nadeem Badshah and Rachel Savage17 Aug 2026
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the deadliest in the country’s history, with at least 2,325 people dead, according to government data, surpassing the toll from the...
World news | The Guardianby Tom Phillips in São Bernardo do Campo16 Aug 2026
Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has launched his campaign for a historic fourth term and vowed that as long as he lived he would not allow the “shameless” right to return to...
World news | The Guardianby Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent16 Aug 2026
A man has received threats from the Taliban after his work for the Afghan police was revealed by a Ministry of Defence leak and the UK refused his application for resettlement.
World news | The Guardianby Jason Burke15 Aug 2026
The Taliban in Afghanistan have launched a diplomatic effort to end their isolation as major regional and international powers show a readiness to engage more closely with the repressive regime...
World news | The Guardianby Geneva Abdul12 Aug 2026
Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK has gone on trial on trespassing charges for refusing to leave a diplomatic residence after being unceremoniously locked out of the embassy in 2021.
World news | The Guardianby Patrick Greenfield11 Aug 2026
On 31 July, “Umit” – which means hope in Kazakh – was released into a nature reserve on the edge of Lake Balkhash after more than a decade of careful planning to return the caspian tiger to the...
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