NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps Timeline: Sudan’s two years of war and its devastating toll Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction […]
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Spring sunshine boosted spending on gardening, DIY and food products, but households are still ‘prudently budgeting’ as bills rise Warm weather in March helped give a lift to retailers despite a late Easter, with sales of gardening, DIY, food, and health and beauty products getting a boost from the spring […]
Actor and dwarfism charity founder Samantha Davis suffered cardiac arrest after surgery complications, coroner concludes The actor and campaigner Samantha Davis, the wife of Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, died after suffering a cardiac arrest hours before a hospital was planning to discharge her, an inquest has found. Davis, who […]
Firm in race against time to get key materials as business secretary says no guarantee it will get what it needs British Steel is to deploy emergency measures in a race against time to save the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe, as the business secretary refused to guarantee the plant could […]
Exclusive: Government is weighing up security concerns against economic benefits of closer ties with Beijing The government could target parts of China’s security apparatus under new foreign influence rules, the Guardian has learned. Ministers are considering including parts of the Chinese state accused of interference activities on the enhanced tier […]
Northern Irishman shot 73 before playoff Secures first major since 2014 PGA Championship Rory McIlroy, Masters champion. Four words that belie what this remarkable Northern Irishman achieved on a spine-tingling afternoon at Augusta National. They ignore, too, the torturous process McIlroy endured to realise this lifetime goal. Did he win […]
Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in Peru Interview: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’ Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom […]
Volodymyr Zelenskyy decries attack on ‘ordinary city street’ while people were going to church for Palm Sunday At least 34 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday, […]
Special powers granted to prevent the collapse of British Steel’s Scunthorpe works Emergency legislation allowing the government to instruct companies to keep loss-making steel operations in England open, or face criminal penalties for their executives, were passed yesterday during an extraordinary sitting of parliament. MPs and peers trooped into Westminster […]
Senior Kyiv economist describes latest postion of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown. US and Ukrainian officials met on Friday […]