Category: The Guardian
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Trump calls Iran’s response to peace plan ‘totally unacceptable’ as ceasefire frays
US president expresses ire at Tehran’s reported demands, as drones strike Gulf nations and Israel warns war ‘not over’Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian response to a US peace proposal as “totally unacceptable”, on a day the month-old ceasefire showe…
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Nobel laureate’s smuggled memoir details beatings and neglect in Iranian prisons
Writing by Narges Mohammadi, arrested 14 times for activism, offers a disturbing insight into treatmentIn an exclusive extract of writing smuggled from prison in Iran, the Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has described the “torture” of solit…
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Body of missing US soldier recovered off coast of Morocco
1st Lt Kendrick Lamont Key Jr was participating in largest military exercise among US, Nato allies and African nationsA search team recovered the body of a US soldier who went missing near a cliff during a training exercise in Cap Draa, Morocco, the US…
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Dozens of people from cruise ship struck by hantavirus leave Tenerife
Britons among passengers and crew taken off vessel and put on flights to 10 countries, while France and US later say two people showing symptomsExplainer: what happens to cruise ship passengers now and will they quarantine?Dozens of passengers and crew…
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US transportation safety agency mulling investigation into fatal Frontier incident
Safety board says it is gathering information about plane evacuation after person on the runway hit in DenverThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is collecting information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines aircraft after the jet st…
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Health advocates warn government’s claims of baby formula safety contradict data
Independent scientists who reviewed the results said most samples were contaminated with Pfas or phthalatesThe Trump administration announced earlier this month that hundreds of baby formula samples it tested for toxic chemicals “meet a high safety sta…
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Research sheds light on GI’s murder of seven-year-old girl in Northern Ireland in 1944
William Harrison, a US soldier stationed in the region, was convicted and hanged for the murder of Patsy WylieOn the afternoon of 25 September 1944, William Harrison, a US soldier stationed in Northern Ireland, visited the cottage of the Wylie family …
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Fifa World Cup matches face heightened terror risk in US amid Iran conflict
Experts warn of ‘soft target’ vulnerabilities and intelligence gaps as federal agencies prepare to secure 78 matches across 11 citiesFifa World Cup matches set to be held across the United States face heightened terrorism risks, with experts warning th…
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‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest
Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoplesThe year is 2025 and far-right coup plotters have annihilated Brazil’s democracy, assassinating the president, closing the nationa…
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Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company’s profits up 26% to £26.9bn in first three months of yearBusiness live – latest updatesSaudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship mi…