The Guardian Articles

The leader of Germany’s conservative opposition has been backed in his controversial plans to restrict migration by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, in what Olaf Scholz branded “an unforgivable mistake.”

Friedrich Merz was accused by Scholz’s minority government of breaking a longstanding political firewall against the far-right populists. He …

There goes another hidden gem of the UK stock market, and the mini-tragedy in this case is that the deal ought to be structured the other way around. It should be Dowlais, the FTSE 250 company whose main business carries the grand historic UK manufacturing name of GKN Automotive, buying …

Rwanda has put $1bn of global aid under threat by taking part in the invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has said.

He made the direct warning in a phone call to the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, on Sunday after also speaking …

Federal Reserve officials decided on Wednesday to hold interest rates steady as uncertainty over Donald Trump’s impact on the US economy looms and inflation remains above the central bank’s target levels.

This is the first time Fed policymakers have met since the president, who has made clear he wants rates …

A woman is to stand trial after pleading not guilty to displaying a threatening bumper sticker on her car.

Georgia Venables, of Prenton Place in Chester, allegedly had a sticker on her car that read: “Don’t be a cunt.”

She is accused of displaying threatening or abusive writing, or a …

The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has become unavailable for download from some app stores in Italy as regulators in Rome and in Ireland demanded answers from the company about its handling of citizens’ data.

Amid growing concern on Wednesday about how data harvested by the new chatbot could be used …

Nesrine Malik rightly highlights that the United Arab Emirates “is the single biggest player in Sudan’s war” (

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences, 13 January

Owen Jones’s article (

Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too, 23 January

While he condemns the west’s supply of weapons to …

Meta

Analysts will likely ask about Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to spend between $60bn and $65bn on AI infrastructure in 2025. That is up from the $50bn the CEO said he …

Henry Slade believes England have taken significant strides to fix their defensive frailties on the basis that “we know what we’re doing”, with the players adopting a more hands-on approach following

a disappointing autumn

Slade is the first senior player to admit England had difficulties getting up …