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28 July 2024

  • Thousands of Venezuelans wait Edmundo Gonzalez to arrive at the closing campaign rally in Las Mercedes, eastern Caracas, Venezuela, on 25 July 2024.

    Venezuela votes in election that could end 25 years of socialist rule

  • A turbo-prop aircraft floodlit behind a high fence, while two figures in the foreground, hidden in darkness, observe.

    ‘Nada cambia’: Mexican drugs lord ‘El Mayo’ has been captured, but does targeting kingpins work?

  • A very old white man with a mostly bald head and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing an orange lanyard and suit without a tie, looks up from his phone and appears to listen to something likely very far away from where he is sitting.

    Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his children over his media empire

  • A Brazilian woman with charred field

    ‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis

  • Professor sacked over abuse claims in rare win for China’s #MeToo movement

  • Western DJs accused of ‘normalising war’ for playing at Russian techno events

  • ‘She is one of our heroines’: reviled, now revered, Winnie Mandela wins over young South Africa

27 July 2024

  • Soldiers, emergency services and civilians at the site where a playground in Majdal Shams

    Israel announces strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon after rocket attack kills 12 in Golan Heights

  • Israeli army reservists Yuval Green, Tal Vardi and Michael Ofer Ziv have revealed their reasons for not returning to military service in Gaza.

    ‘I can’t justify this military operation any more’: the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza

  • JD Vance holds a campaign rally at Radford University on 22 July 2024 in Radford, Virginia.

    From rising star to potential liability: how JD Vance’s fortunes have turned

  • An older white man in a blue suit, white shirt and red tie, speaking and gesturing on a stage.

    Trump tells supporters they won’t have to vote in the future: ‘It’ll be fixed!’

21 July 2024

  • Thomas Devroy, of Arau village, looks out over the Essequibo region. The two countries' growing dispute over the oil-rich land has raised tensions across Latin America.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

    An old territorial claim to part of Guyana rich in oil and gold has proved useful for Hugo Chávez’s successor. But the land grab has sparked outrage among the Guyanese

20 July 2024

  • A pile of rubble on which an IDF soldier sits.

    Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt

    Latest satellite imagery reveals new roads that appear designed to support the long-term presence of Israeli troops
  • Zhan Beleniuk - Ukrainian wrestler and member of parliament - posing for a portrait

    Zhan Beleniuk: ‘I will fight Russians at the Olympics but will I shake hands? No’

    Ukraine’s first black member of parliament tells Daniel Boffey why he returned to wrestling and about preparing for Paris amid war

    • Bangladesh police given ‘shoot-on-sight’ orders amid national curfew

    • Satnam lost his arm and was allegedly left to die on the roadside. This is the horror of exploitation on Italian farms

    • Republicans coalesce as Democrats flail: week that upended US presidential race

14 July 2024

  • A frame full of supporters wearing red hats and holding signs, in front of an older man wearing a red baseball hat gesturing behind a podium.

    Welcome to the Trump show: Republican convention to resemble coronation

    Speaker after speaker will line up in Milwaukee to pay tribute to their nominee – and they’re confident of his chances against Biden
  • Smoke rises during the 1982 invasion in which up to 20,000 died

    Veterans warn of echoes from 1982 Lebanon war as new conflict looms on Israel’s northern borders

    As a terrorist attack, a harsh response and an ensuing invasion strike familiar chords, analysts look for lessons from the war of 42 years ago
  • Joe Biden rallies his supporters after a campaign speech in Detroit.

    Biden hits back at calls for withdrawal as Democrats are locked in battle of wills

    Speculation grows that senior figures including Barack Obama could step in and ask president to throw in the towel
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