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    France
    French prisons hit by wave of attacks after clampdown on drug traffickers

    Terrorism office launches investigation into assaults including gunmen opening fire on entrance to Toulon jail
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    Hungary
    US removes sanctions from Antal Rogán, aide to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

  • woman speaks in front of cameras as people gather behind her, holding signs

    Trump administration
    Judge rebukes Trump officials for not securing return of wrongly deported man

  • Serhou Guirassy and Ramy Bensebaini high-five after pulling another goal back against Barcelona.

    Champions League
    Barcelona sneak through after Serhou Guirassy’s treble gives Dortmund hope

    • Russia
      Russia jails four journalists for alleged links to Alexei Navalny anti-corruption group

    • Sudan
      Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war

    • France
      Woman dies and another in hospital after cryotherapy session at Paris gym

    • Italy
      Italian police arrest 24 suspected mafiosi over Naples parking protection racket

    • Technology
      X’s UK profits collapsed the year after Elon Musk’s takeover

    • Pacific islands
      Tuvalu marks ‘momentous occasion’ with unveiling of its first ATMs

Europe in focus

  • Sumy rocket strikes<br>Locals remove the debris at the street damaged by rocket hits in Sumy on April 15, 2025, Ukraine. (Anastasia Vlasova / The Guardian)

    Ukraine
    ‘It’s sheer terrorism’: Sumy buries dead after Russia’s Palm Sunday attack

  • Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump give thumbs-up gesture to cameras

    Analysis
    Trump’s ‘chosen one’ Giorgia Meloni heads to Washington to play delicate balancing act

    Italy’s PM has demonstrated an affinity with the US president, but also needs to maintain allegiance to her EU partners
  • Lola Hassid Angel surrounded by plants on a sunny terrace

    Holocaust
    ‘I want to tell the world’: Bergen-Belsen survivor recounts horrors of Holocaust

    Lola Hassid Angel can vividly recall the hunger, disease and death at Nazi camp liberated exactly 80 years ago

Spotlight

  • soliders in combat uniform with guns

    Film
    Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

    In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq
  • ‘The machine could read the physicality of the brushstroke’ … Blue Trunks, a 2025 work from the New Pastorals series.

    Painting
    ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

  • people walking

    Analysis
    How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance

    It may be a turning point in the White House’s attempt to gut allegedly liberal universities and punish law firms
  • The town of Portbou in Catalonia, Spain.

    The long read
    The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town

    The long read: On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 years
    • They sit on the steps of a weather-beaten timber-clad home

      Film
      ‘The grief takes your breath away’: how death transformed a loving family – and shaped a remarkable film

    • A composite image showing a person being pushed in a wheelchair and another showing a child going up a flight of stairs

      Well actually
      I can’t go everywhere my daughter goes – and it’s heartbreaking

    • Benjamin Zephaniah in 2019.

      Books
      ‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah

    • A man in a white T-shirt looks troubled as he reclines on a sofa with arms behind his head

      Sexual healing
      Should I stay with my partner – despite the dull, dispassionate sex?

Opinion

  • six women dressed in blue pose and wave in front of white spacecraft

    The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism

    Moira Donegan
    The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness
  • Donald Trump and Conor McGregor at the Oval Office.

    Europe’s race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online

    Johnny Ryan
  • Marina Hyde

    What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

    Marina Hyde
  • Protestors holding up signs

    Why was I deported from Hong Kong? There should be no more ministerial visits until the UK gets an explanation

    Wera Hobhouse
  • Joe Stone

    The love that dare not speak its name: why I’m coming out as a gay man who loves Taylor Swift

    Joe Stone
  • ITALY-FRANCE-TRANSPORT-TRAIN<br>Passengers disembark from a high-speed Frecciarossa train from Paris upon their arrival to the central train station in Milan, as the connections between Paris and Milan resumed on April 1, 2025. The train line linking Paris with the Italian city of Milan has reopened after a 19-month closure forced when a landslide damaged a tunnel in the Maurienne Valley. (Photo by Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP) (Photo by PIERO CRUCIATTI/AFP via Getty Images)

    A train from the UK to Italy? We’ve heard that one before, but I’m on board

    Jonn Elledge
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Climate crisis

  • Residents look at cars piled up after being swept away by floods in Valencia, Spain.

    Europe
    Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

  • Bleached and dead staghorn coral off Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef

    Oceans
    Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds

  • people hold a sign that reads 'a healthy home world is job #1 nothing works without it there is no planet b'

    US
    Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals

  • Blake Scholl with one of Boom’s demonstration aircraft.

    Air travel
    ‘As an environmental scientist, I’m horrified’: Should supersonic passenger planes be making a comeback?

Around the world

  • Workers inspect the damage

    Israel-Gaza war
    One person killed and several wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital

  • a man on the phone

    Peru
    Ex-Peru president Ollanta Humala given 15-year sentence for money laundering

    • Italy
      Italian police arrest 24 suspected mafiosi over Naples parking protection racket

    • France
      France expels 12 Algerian officials as row over alleged kidnapping escalates

    • Gas
      EU mulls plan to let importers break Russian gas contracts without penalties

    • US news
      US claims student’s activism could ‘undermine’ Middle East peace

    • Business
      Trump tariffs will mean world uses less oil this year, IEA says

    • Andrew Tate
      Civil case against influencer Andrew Tate is first of its kind, UK judge told

Culture

  • two women singing

    Music
    Coachella 2025 highlights: a sweaty, star-packed year with thrills for all ages

    Fans braved heat and high prices for Charli xcx, Lady Gaga, Megan Thee Stallion and a surprise by Queen Latifah
  • Olivier Munn Amy Schumer Olivia Wilde composite.

    Culture
    Celebrities criticize all-female rocket launch: ‘This is beyond parody’

  • Akins Subair in Just Act Normal.

    Television
    ‘Charisma in abundance’: why Just Act Normal is the best showcase for new talent since Adolescence

  • Cate Blanchett at the Olivier awards this month.

    Film
    ‘I’m giving up’: Cate Blanchett says she is retiring from acting

  • Sharp … Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story.

    Film
    Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story review – original rude girl is still impossibly cool

  • VE day celebrations in a street with a union flag in the foreground

    Book of the day
    Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

Lifestyle

  • Tess Holliday standing hands on hips in a fashion show in a white dress with block type on it

    Fashion
    ‘Ozempic arrived and everything changed’: plus-size models on the body positivity backlash

    The fashion industry seemed to be inching towards a new era of inclusivity. Then came a wave of weight-loss drugs and the demonisation of ‘wokeness’ …
  • Donna Lu

    Shilajit: male influencers claim it boosts testosterone and libido, but what does the science say?

    Donna Lu
  • Alma Vii, Transylvania, Romania - 27 June 2021: Transylvania tour, cycling on Via Transilvanica<br>2G6365E Alma Vii, Transylvania, Romania - 27 June 2021: Transylvania tour, cycling on Via Transilvanica

    Travel
    ‘A muddy ride into Romania’s dreamy countryside’: cycling the Via Transilvanica

  • Google Pixel 9a laying screen down on a wooden table showing its coloured back.

    Technology
    Pixel 9a review: Google’s cut-price Android winner

  • Jose Pizarro's spring lamb and asparagus rice with saffron and fino.

    Food
    José Pizarro’s recipe for spring lamb and asparagus rice with saffron and fino

  • OM Nigel Salmon Kale Colcannon

    Food
    Nigel Slater’s recipe for salmon, kale and potatoes

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    Comets
    Share your pictures of the Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)

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    Health
    What have you never quite understood about weight loss drugs?

  • Donald Trump signs an executive order implementing new reciprocal tariffs against US trading partners in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.

    Trump tariffs
    Tell us how you might be affected by Trump’s global tariffs

From our global editions

  • A smiling man stands at a table with a chopping board covered in ingredients, with a harbour behind him

    Environment
    The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

    Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry
  • Men carry bags of food in a distribution centre

    Analysis
    EU will struggle to fill gap left by USAID as European countries cut their budgets

  • A human hand clasping a robot hand

    Technology
    ‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

  • A donkey hitched to a harness stands next to a pile of rubble on which can be seen a poster giving information on Safe Havens for Donkeys' free veterinary service

    Global development
    ‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

  • A hand holding a card with a prayer in Spanish and a photo of a priest

    Argentina
    ‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

  • New vehicles seen at a dockside car park at the Port of Richmond, in San Francisco, California.

    Analysis
    Sky-high US-China tariffs are a mutual trade embargo that will hurt both sides

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  • Man in a spacesuit-like jumpsuit stands, hands on hips, in from of hexagonal shapes in a metal tunnel that form part of the James Webb space telescope

    Science
    What I’ve learned after 40 years as the Observer’s science editor

  • An antique stone gateway leads to a wooden door in a stone wall with a bell above it with a small sign on the wall: "Welcome to HM Prison Dartmoor"

    UK prisons
    A Dartmoor village is paying Prince William £1.5m a year for an abandoned prison - and former inmates say it gave them cancer

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    From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system – podcast

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  • At Amarah’s Al-Sadr hospital, medical staff, patients and their families struggle as busy wards overheat and tempers fray.

    Global development
    Faintings, blackouts and violence: Iraq’s scorching emergency – in pictures

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    Music
    Lady Gaga, Green Day and Enhypen: 2025 Coachella festival

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  • An aerial view of the Big Ring, the site of the Expo 2025, in Osaka, Japan.

    Photos of the weekend
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