The Guardian Articles

It was no secret, everyone seemed to know where it was. When asked for directions, the coffee vendor pointed up the hill. “The Captagon factory? Straight ahead.”

On the outskirts of Damascus, just a 20 minute drive away from the centre of the Syrian capital, lay a sprawling industrial complex. …

Keir Starmer has defended his government’s greater openness towards Beijing following revelations about an alleged Chinese spy who forged a close relationship with Prince Andrew, saying it was “important to engage”.

Questioned for the first time about the case, amid

calls from some MPs

Nearly 90% of the UK workforce at the telecoms company Lycamobile have been told they could be made redundant, the Guardian has learned, in an announcement that leaves more than 300 staff fearing for their jobs shortly before Christmas.

The company, owned by the multimillionaire Tory donor and

Ireland’s position on the war in Gaza “should not be seen as a hostile act”, the Irish deputy prime minister, Micheál Martin, has saidafter Israel decided to close its embassy in Dublin.

Israel

ordered the closure on Sunday,

A widespread panic about drones or other unknown low-flying objects has gripped New Jersey in recent days, but many other parts of the US remain cheerfully gripped by another very American mystery in the skies that has had a modern resurgence of interest: UFOs.

At the newly opened

Emma Raducanu arrived in South Korea this September determined to end a complicated season with a strong Asian swing, her favourite time of year. She had started well, winning two matches at the Korea Open, only to suffer an all-too-familiar setback. Raducanu

retired from her quarter-final match

A

new package holiday

That …

Canada’s governing Liberal party will learn just how unpopular it is – or if a unprecedented political turnaround is possible – as voters near Vancouver head to the polls in a byelection rife with plot twists and backstabbing.

The electoral district of Cloverdale–Langley City in British Columbia is up for …

A 12-year-old girl has been charged with manslaughter over the death of an 80-year-old man who died in hospital after being injured in a Leicestershire park in September.

Bhim Kohli died on 2 September after an incident in a park in Braunstone Town, outside Leicester, the previous evening, when he …

The archbishop of York is under pressure to resign over the way he handled a sexual abuse case amid revelations that compound a major crisis in the Church of England.

Stephen Cottrell is due to take over temporary leadership of the church in three weeks when the resignation of the …