In his speech to his party’s youth wing on Saturday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) clearly distanced himself from the far-right AfD and stressed the importance of Europe and the European Unio...

The US president has said he backs US lawmakers efforts to release the files, ahead of an expected House vote this week

U.K. officials vow to “get on the front foot” as populist Brexiteer Nigel Farage picks his next target: the European Convention on Human Rights.

As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes

Chile’s former labor minister Jeannette Jara and far-right leader Jose Antonio Kast will face a presidential run-off after leading Sunday’s first-round vote, provisional results showed. With 82.97% counted, Jara had 26.71% and Kast 24.12%. The campaign has been dominated by rising violent crime blamed on foreign gangs.

Supreme court ruled ‘rape shield’ laws to limit intrusive cross-examination may breach men’s right to fair trial Scotland’s most senior law officer has moved to reassure victims of sexual abuse that they will be protected after a supreme court ruling warned that Scottish laws designed to limit intrusive cross-examination could be breaching men’s right to a fair trial. In a strongly worded statement, the lord advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, said: “I would like to make clear that I understand sexual abuse inflicted upon women and children to be the single greatest challenge our justice system faces. Continue reading...

Treasury select committee calls for higher duties on most addictive forms, such as high-street slots and online games

The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

Campaigners claim AI algorithms are behind hefty increases in renewal quotes for home and car cover

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—In the shadow of the towering mesas of Western Colorado, an uninvited guest has taken up residence. The Aedes aegypti mosquito,

The mountains have always been part of our lives. But now they pose a new threat and we need to take action. This is Saúl’s story

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action | Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at

Funeral for fossil fuels held as part of ‘Great People’s March’ calling on governments to step up climate efforts

Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have turned to concepts from polymer physics to better understand a central feature of Alzheimer's disease: the formation of tau protein fibrils. Their work revealed that these fibrils do not appear suddenly. Instead, they emerge...

Photographer and film-maker Sean Gallagher documents the increasing tide of rubbish washing up on beaches and riverbanks

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?