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  • Ukrainian troops fire rockets towards Russian forces near a front line in Donetsk.

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    Russia-Ukraine war: Putin rules out attacks on Nato countries

    Kyiv’s forces shoot down 26 drones overnight as Russian president says suggestion of attacks on nearby Nato states is ‘drivel’
  • Emissions from an oil refinery

    Climate crisis
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  • Palestinians gather to inspect damage of the destroyed building belonged to the Dhaheer family, after an Israeli attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

    Live
    US?and Israel in talks to revive Washington trip to discuss Rafah

  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the Brazil-France economic forum in S?o Paulo on Wednesday

    Emmanuel Macron
    French president calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’

    • For Women Scotland
      Transgender judge seeks leave to intervene in court case over legal definition of ‘woman’

    • Women's health
      Hormone medication could increase risk of brain tumours, French study finds

    • UK economy
      Blow for Sunak as revised figures confirm UK did go into recession last year

    • Assisted dying
      UK?membership of Dignitas soars by 24% as Scotland moves closer to approving bill

    • London
      Man?seriously injured in stabbing on train

    • Daniel Kahneman
      Renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner dies at 90

Europe in focus

  • A wolfdog under trees in the snow

    ‘We’d like to shoot them all’
    Growing army of wolfdogs raises hackles across Europe

  • Donald Tusk

    Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

    Anne McElvoy
    Donald Tusk is working on a great transformation, but it is a hugely difficult project, says writer and broadcaster Anne McElvoy
  • The Olympic Games: Mirror of Societies exhibition wall featuring blown-up pics of athletes over the decades

    ‘Sport is never just sport’
    Olympics exhibition in Paris reflects 20th century’s highs and lows

Spotlight

  • A woman checks the scent on her wrist.

    The experts
    Perfumers on 20 ways to make you, your house and your laundry smell fabulous

    From picking a perfect fragrance to spraying your radiators and getting rid of the worst stinks, here is how to make sure your life always smells sweet
  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • Mykhailo Mudryk, Jude Bellingham and Florian Wirtz

    Euro 2024 power rankings
    A?look at the 24 teams going to Germany

    Our writers break down all 24 teams that have qualified for this summer’s European Championship
  • Nick Cave

    ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’
    Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons

    The musician and artist discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning
    • The medieval Swiss town of Gruyères

      Rail route of the month
      Cheese, chocolate and a magical ride to the Swiss town of Gruyères

    • A meat stall at a Christmas market in Frankfurt

      The planetary health diet
      ‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken from them’

    • Joris Hoefnagel 
Allegory for Abraham Ortelius

      ‘Every single work is a masterpiece’
      The?once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the greatest Flemish drawings

    • A shelf of DVDs for sale

      ‘Rental places will surge back’
      Readers on the fight to preserve physical media

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Buried

Annina van Neel's life is forever changed after encountering a vast burial ground - one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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  • White man wearing blue suit and red tie speaks into microphone

    Want to make it in the Republican party? Pledge allegiance to the Big Lie

    Robert Reich
    After a Trump-backed purge of the RNC this month, promoting the 2020 stolen election lie has become a litmus test for loyalty
  • Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Sam Bankman-Fried in 2022.

    Sam?Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration of woman with pram passing homeless person

    Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

    Gordon Brown
  • Golborne Road street on Saturday market day with flea market stalls Notting Hill district London England UK Europe<br>C8BB5D Golborne Road street on Saturday market day with flea market stalls Notting Hill district London England UK Europe

    ‘Neighbourhood restaurants’ – really? These Instagrammable imposters are nothing of the sort

    Lauren O'Neill
  • ‘Please know, you aren’t a failure.’

    I?didn’t learn to drive until I was 30 – here’s why

    Coco Khan
  • Evan Gershkovich

    The Guardian view
    Evan Gershkovich’s year behind bars: Moscow should free him now

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    'Generations of forgetting'
    My?fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

  • Annina Van Neel Hayes laying lilies outside the door of a brick building

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    'Perpetuating a lie'
    British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa

  • Slave revolt in Jamaica from 1832, and a British West African Squadron war ship from 1827

    It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery

    Ella Sinclair
  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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    Documentary
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

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    Environment
    Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds

  • Illustration shows a mother and child looking out on a scene of environmental destruction, pollution, rain and other issues.

    ‘Everybody has a breaking point’
    How?the climate crisis affects our brains

  • A German floating liquid natural gas terminal

    ‘罢辞苍别-诲别补蹿’
    Fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

  • People walk on a dried-out riverbed

    Extreme heat
    Summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures

  • Kenya police patrol the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, March.12, 2024. Kenya agreed in October to lead a U.N.-authorized international police force to Haiti, but the Kenyan High Court in January ruled the plan unconstitutional, in part because of a lack of reciprocal agreements between the two countries. Kenya and Haiti signed agreements Friday, March 1, 2024 to try to salvage a plan for the African country to deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence that has surged to unprecedented levels. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

    ‘It’s mission impossible’
    Fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti

  • Close-up of man wearing suit and shirt

    Joe Lieberman
    Former US senator and vice-presidential nominee, dies at 82

    • Assisted dying
      UK?membership of Dignitas soars by 24% as Scotland moves closer to approving bill

    • Spain
      Luis Rubiales faces possible 30-month jail sentence for Jenni Hermoso kiss

    • Angela Rayner
      Deputy leader of UK's Labour party denies wrongdoing over council house sale amid police review

    • France
      PM?backs school head who faced death threats after Muslim veil row

    • India
      Country summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister’s arrest

    • Moscow concert hall attack
      Fear death toll higher after reports of up to 100 missing

  • Glorious movie debut … Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

    Mary Poppins review
    Disney’s entertainment sugar rush possesses thermonuclear brilliance

    Manic, magic, madcap … Julie Andrews is superb in the role of the flying nanny, in a film filled with amazing songs
  • A cow with the sun blazing between its horns.

    Book of the day
    Choice by Neel Mukherjee review – parables for our times

  • Author Wycliffe Hill and his ‘plot genie’ device for coming up with storylines.

    The deep roots of AI
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  • Adorable and cynical … Po (Jack Black) and Zhen (Awkwafina) in Kung Fu Panda 4

    Kung Fu Panda 4 review
    Jack Black and Awkwafina in hurricane of slapstick more miss than hit

  • Heidi Dawson inside the control suite for Studio 11, at Quay House, Salford.

    ‘Know your audience’
    BBC?5 Live chief on the station’s staying power

  • An American flag flying at Guantanamo Bay.

    Best podcasts of the week
    Guantánamo gets the Serial treatment

  • Airbnb advertises its city breaks but in Toronto it was not quite the experience hoped for.

    Consumer champions
    Airbnb host increased price by 39% after booking

    We were forced to cancel when the host wanted thousands extra, but were still charged a fee
  • A young woman looking at dresses in a vintage clothing store.

    Vintage fashion
    Wearing a secondhand outfit these days is something to brag about, not whisper

  • Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped, 1924.

    Shock of the old
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  • Jade Angeles Fitton on the isle of Lundy, off the Devon coast

    A moment that changed me
    My?partner drove off and left me – and in solitude I found my self-confidence

  • A bowlful of avgolemono soup, with shards of chicken, and bits of carrot, leeks and dill

    How to cook the perfect ...
    Greek avgolemono soup – recipe

  • Close-up image of a cocktail being poured into a glass by a bartender at Neon Cactus in Leeds.

    An alternative guide to Leeds
    A?UK city with an independent spirit

Take part

  • Mykhaylo Mudryk and Maksym Talovierov celebrate after the match between Ukraine and Iceland in Wroc?aw, Poland.

    Football
    Ukrainians: share your reaction to your country qualifying for Euro 2024

  • Sewage foam on the River Thames by Marlow Weir in Buckinghamshire.

    People in the UK
    Tell us about your local river and the environmental issues affecting it

  • Houria Ayadi / Ed Alcock / MYOP<br>The 129-apartment building where Houria Ayadi (63 yrs) has lived in Saint-Ouen, a northern suburb of Paris, since 1973, and that is due to be demolished in an effort to improve on security in the neighbourhood. She hopes to be re-lodged in one of the apartments currently under construction for the Olympic Village, where athletes will be housed during the Paris Olympics of 2024. Photo ? Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023 L'immeuble de 129 appartements où Houria Ayadi (63 ans) vit depuis 1973 à Saint-Ouen, dans la banlieue nord de Paris, et qui doit être démoli pour améliorer la sécurité dans le quartier. Elle espère être relogée dans l'un des appartements actuellement en construction pour le village olympique, où seront logés les athlètes lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris en 2024. Photo ? Ed Alcock / MYOP 25/9/2023

    Young Europeans
    Tell us about your housing situation

  • The aurora borealis, commonly known as the northern lights, are seen in the sky above Kiruna, Sweden.

    Northern lights in Europe
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  • a child dragging a basket of stones at a construction site in India

    India’s sandstone industry
    How?child labour makes the paving stones beneath our feet

    The long read: Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, inspects fortifications during a visit to Sumy oblast on Wednesday

    Ukraine war briefing
    ‘Russian terror’ as guided bombs hit Kharkiv

  • A white hand pops a white pill into another white hand.

    ‘It’s maddening’
    Women who used abortion pills on US supreme court mifepristone case

  • Man wearing suit and tie looks directly at camera

    ‘Old-fashioned embezzlement’
    Where did all of FTX’s money go?

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    Economy
    How?a viral $22 burrito explains inflation in the US

  • A white man is seen from the back, blurry in the foreground, wearing a black jacket, baseball hat and glasses, as he surveys a wash between two stands of twos, with damaged homes, vehicles and land caked in mud.

    America's dirty divide
    A?Kentucky mining disaster killed dozens and destroyed homes. Will a lawsuit bring change?

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