The Guardian Articles

Omar El Akkad grew up believing in an idealized America. Born in Egypt, raised in Qatar, and transplanted as a teenager to Canada, the writer saw the west for its freedoms – a place where, unlike at home, he could check out a William S Burroughs book from the library …

Each year Stab, a surf media outlet with a cult online following, pulls together a video edit of the best waves of the past 12 months. “Best” is of course a subjective measure but the compilation typically features some of the best surfers in the world pulling big turns, big …

America’s biggest

annual gathering of conservatives

Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence, was recently named by …

Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” has been accused of setting off a political firestorm in India after it claimed that the US government had been sending millions of dollars to support the Indian elections.

In a

list published on Musk’s social media platform X last week

In the final days of an election campaign dominated by migration, the likely new chancellor of Europe’s biggest polluter sought to assure voters that its economy ministry would not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, conservative lead candidate Friedrich Merz posted on social media that it would be led by “someone …

Mike Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for punching a man to the ground.

Amesbury, who was

suspended by the Labour party

About 7,000 people have died in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels started renewed advances in January, the DRC’s prime minister has said.

At a high-level meeting of the UN’s human rights council in Geneva on Monday, Judith Suminwa Tuluka also …

A former leader of Reform UK in Wales agreed to receive money to make statements “benefiting” the Russian narrative on Ukraine while serving as an MEP, a court has been told.

Details of the allegations against Nathan Gill, who served as a member of the European parliament for Ukip and …

Free speech is in permacrisis – or so some would have you believe. Complaints that freedom of speech is under attack come mostly from the political right, from public figures who appear to the naked eye to be

extremely

The burning of Ukraine’s forests at unprecedented rates over the past year has helped push the total greenhouse emissions from the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion to almost 230m tonnes, analysis shows.

The

study