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Rocky path President's death comes as challenges lie ahead

The death of the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash comes at a time when the country, faced by unprecedented external challenges, was already bracing itself for a change in regime with the expected demise in the next few years of its 85-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Self-fulfilling prophecy? Political violence could benefit far-right parties in EU polls-if we let it

The shooting of the Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, has dramatised the increasingly angry and polarised landscape of European politics.

Alarm bells Behind the rise in violent attacks on Europe's politicians

‘Politicians really need tothink about the rhetoric they use because the fallout can be severe’

Warning signals

The attempt on the life of Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico, exposed divisions in one of Europe's most polarised countries and sent shockwaves across the continent

'Pretendians' Controversy Over Formerly Unheard-Of First Nation

Local chiefs claim Kawartha Lakes group is part of wave of cases in which people falsely claim Indigenous identity

This Is The Emptying Of Rafah

Thousands of displaced Gazans are on the move again, packing their lives into carts and pickup trucks, as Israel's campaign against Hamas rages on

Vast Online Scam Dupes Thousands Of Shoppers

More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.

Why Didn't Netflix Do More To Avoid The Baby Reindeer Furore?

What will happen next in the Baby Reindeer saga? Probably one or more bad things.

Picture this

From the galleries and squats of the 90s London art world to the riches of Covid-era New York, a tale of reunion, fame and fallout

Hit and miss Goths, glory and plenty of gimmicks

It was the most politically charged Eurovision song contest in memory-but it was won by a famously neutral nation. As the glittery dust settles from Saturday night in Malmö, Sweden, here's what we learned

Rose Boyt, daughter of the artist Lucian Freud, sat for her father three times.Now 65, she has written a remarkable memoir based on diaries she kept while being painted

ROSE BOYT'S MEMOIR, Naked Portrait, is, in the narrowest sense, her account of sitting for three paintings for her father, Lucian Freud.

A failure to reckon fully with the Troubles fuels distrust and discord

Fifty years ago, on 17 May 1974, my father, a bus conductor, was out on strike.

Believe it or not

Raffaella Spone was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and subjected to death threats. The problem? The video wasn't fake after all. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story that created headlines around the world, yet nothing was as it seemed...

'HOPELESS AND BROKEN', 'I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE MY CHILDREN ARE INHERITING', 'I AM SCARED I DON'T SEE HOW WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS MESS'

We asked 380 climate scientists what they felt about the future.

Calling time? Garrick vote fuels debate over letting women in

Some of Londor’s last all-male private clubs are discussing female membership while also consulting the lawyers

Massacre and famine fears in besieged Darfur city

At the Abu Shouk camp on the northern fringe of El Fasher, about seven people arrive every day with injuries sustained from clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and groups allied to Sudan's army.

Ghost city

Civilian life on the edge of Russia’s advance

Tug of war

Biden just wants this over, but Netanyahu and Hamas have other ideas

Sanctions

War and rising settler violence could further alienate Israel

Ours is an age of confusion. How should we navigate it? Timothy Garton Ash

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin.

The world according to Jason

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset... Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There's only one way to find out: George Monbiot asked a believer from his home town

From a small step for man to a giant gold rush for mankind

If the 20th-century space race was about political power, this century's will be about money. But for those who dream of sending humans back to the moon and possibly Mars, it's an exciting time to be alive whether it's presidents or billionaires paying the fare.

A bitter pill Inside the anti-doping movement's civil war

Furore over Chinese swimmers has sparked an ugly dispute between organisations that target athletes who use banned substances

Museum of Yoruba life is custommade for Lagos

Opposite the Nigerian National Museum in central Lagos, a swimming pool and a memorial hall once stood as an integral part of the city, a popular congregation point that evoked a sense of pride.

First steps for Nutbush Quest goes on for origin of line dance

For 50 years, Australian primary school students have been learning the steps to a dance that will carry them through social events and weddings and allow them to locate other Australians across crowded nightclubs anywhere in the world.

Press freedom How political attacks are rising globally

Political attacks on press freedom, including the detention of journalists, suppression of independent media outlets and widespread dissemination of misinformation, have significantly intensified in the past year, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Rio reporters risking all to shine light on the city's underworld

A brutal killing in 2018 has inspired journalists to probe the links between police, politicians and mafia

Is great ape tourism to blame for killing off chimps?

Viruses that only cause common colds in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas

Dig for disaster Calls to move to centre or right won't help Sunak out of this hole

As terrible council and mayoral results rolled in for the Conservatives last Friday, was there any part of Rishi Sunak that regretted sealing Boris Johnson's fate as prime minister by resigning as his chancellor less than two years ago?

Heritage lost as Britain's crafts 'face extinction level event'

From rush weaving to kilt making, numbers of artisans are dwindling, but one charity hasa plan to save the sector