theguardian.comadded August 2026
World news | The Guardianby Sam Levine20d ago
The nearly decade-long case of a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in a controversial illegal voting case will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court...
World news | The Guardianby Patrick Wintour in New York20d ago
The UK foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has met his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, for the first time in New York amid warnings from senior Iranian security officials that the US has four to...
World news | The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon and Chris Stein in Washington20d ago
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to end the US war with Iran, voting 49-50 against a House-passed war powers resolution as the conflict passed the 200-day mark, with 19...
World news | The Guardianby Guardian staff and agency20d ago
A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state supreme...
World news | The Guardianby Guardian staff and agency20d ago
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity – and the total...
World news | The Guardianby David Smith in Washington20d ago
One is an authoritarian who represses the media with a strong allergy to democratic elections. The other is head of the Chinese Communist party.
World news | The Guardianby Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro20d ago
A group of 31 Democratic members of the US Congress has sent a letter to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, criticising the Trump administration over “an apparent effort to interfere with, and...
World news | The Guardianby Andrew Roth in New York20d ago
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a controversial address to the United Nations on Thursday just hours after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said his delegation was “unlawfully” denied visas by...
World news | The Guardianby Jennifer Rankin20d ago
France is leading a push to exclude the UK from the EU’s “Made in Europe” policy that could result in British companies losing out in the race to supply European countries with low-carbon...
World news | The Guardianby Dan Milmo Global technology editor20d ago
A huge datacentre project hailed by the UK government will miss its launch date next year and could be delayed into the mid-2030s.
World news | The Guardianby Alice Speri20d ago
As the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prepared to deliver his speech at the UN headquarters in New York City on Thursday, hundreds of people blocked traffic on the streets outside...
World news | The Guardianby Richard Luscombe and agencies20d ago
An eyewitness has described how two federal immigration agents allegedly beat and badly injured a US citizen in a botched arrest attempt in Illinois, and left the man dazed and bleeding on the...
World news | The Guardianby Gaya Gupta20d ago
US mortgage rates surpassed 7% for the first time since January 2025, according to federal lender Freddie Mac, aggravating a housing market that has endured years of high interest rates and low...
World news | The Guardianby Joseph Gedeon in Washington20d ago
Dr Heidi Overton, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has told senators the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is “safe and effective”, weeks after...
World news | The Guardianby Anna Betts20d ago
Three unidentified people were seen emerging from a manhole in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood early Wednesday before fleeing the area, police said, in an incident that comes as many...
World news | The Guardianby Robert Tait in Washington20d ago
Xi Jingping has called for extensive cooperation with Washington to avoid the “Thucydides trap” that could put the US and China on a military collision course.
World news | The Guardianby Helena Horton20d ago
Rick Wakeman has played to all kinds of people around the globe, but he has now performed to an audience he had never encountered before – an enclosure of 150 bears.
World news | The Guardianby David Batty and agency20d ago
Two companies have been fined a total of £1.3m over health and safety breaches after a coach driver was killed by a falling window pane.
World news | The Guardianby Nick Visser20d ago
It is for birds? Is it for planes? The sleek, rust-coloured saucer settles into the earth, mirroring the surrounding hills.
World news | The Guardianby Benita Kolovos and Bertin Huynh20d ago
A 16-year-old boy was held in conditions akin to solitary confinement in adult prison for 22 hours a day, leading him to have suicidal thoughts, a Victorian ombudsman report has revealed.
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