"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."

Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.

Ukraine’s president was in New York as part of his diplomatic effort to build international support for his country’s grueling 4½-year fight against Russia’s invasion.

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Israeli soldiers' Gaza testimony causes backlash across much of the country's political establishment.

Technologies from Israel have turbocharged surveillance by ICE, Border Patrol, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The United Nations’ human rights watchdog has found that two U.S. strikes likely constitute war crimes.

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home

Israel removed 11 million U.S. tons of debris likely holding human remains and evidence of war crimes, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says

Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them

There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case Two pro-democracy activists who were put on trial for organising an annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil in Hong Kong have been sentenced to seven years in jail, in one of the city’s most significant national security cases. Chow Hang-tung, 41 and Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, were found guilty in August of incitement to subversion. The court found they had “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power”. Continue reading...

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

Many don’t see relief in sight amid increased U.S. sanctions and longtime economic and financial troubles.

The United ​States launched ‌a strike on ​a ​vessel operating along "narco-trafficking ⁠routes in ​the ​Caribbean", killing three people, U.S. ​Southern ​Command said in ‌a ⁠post on X on ​Wednesday.

Funding cuts in 2025 left women, children, older and displaced people hard hit, with 64m fewer people receiving aid The humanitarian aid system is crumbling as funding shrinks, pressures increase and governments not only fail to protect civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer people received aid last year. With aid contributions cut by 30% between 2022 and 2025 and thousands of aid workers losing their jobs, the humanitarian system has suffered one of its biggest contractions since being formed in the post-second world war era, according to the State of the Humanitarian System 2026 report. Continue reading...

Some 11,000 die, with India accounting for nearly 60 percent of the fatalities.

Far-right parties, Maga ideology and Kremlin money are conniving to suffocate liberal idealism for another generation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Mainstream politicians express alarm while lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes congratulations from Elon Musk * AfD wins key German state election but falls just short of majority Mainstream politicians around Europe have expressed alarm after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) swept to a historic state election victory in Germany, while nationalist figures cheered the result as a mandate for change. While falling just short of an absolute majority, the AfD surged into first place in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, exit polls ⁠showed, putting the far right within reach ​of power at ‌the state level for ‌the first time since the second world war. Continue reading...

The 2017 killing of anticorruption journalist shocked Europe and set off a political firestorm in Malta.

A Belarus woman is asking a court to order her release from ICE detention, claiming she has gone months in a detention center without adequate lifesaving medicine.

President Donald Trump's administration has ​issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during ‌an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader's second term in the White House.

It is believed to be one of the largest mass kidnappings in Haiti in recent years, and one gang leader is threatening to kill the hostages if authorities kill any gang members as they try to secure the community nestled in the hills above Port-au-Prince.

Joe Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute lobbies to make sleeping outdoors a crime. Under Trump, the federal government is listening.

An autistic woman has confessed to frequently fantasising about making enough money to survive, sources have claimed. Certified freak Paige Thomas, 28, becomes extremely aroused whenever she imagines…

Global heating is an outrage, not a tragedy. We deserve the facts about the climate crisis – I choose the Guardian because it’s one of the few places left to share them honestly