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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>World news | The Guardian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world</link> <description>Latest World news news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</copyright> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:46:02 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:46:02Z</dc:date> <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language> <dc:rights>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/process-raw-materials-in-africa-urges-top-environmentalist-wanjira-mathai</link> <description><p>Few economic and social benefits will come to Africans if processing is all done overseas, says Wanjira Mathai</p><p>Africa must take greater control in the industries it supplies with raw materials to lift its people from poverty and seize its own destiny in a low-carbon world, one of the continent’s leading environmentalists has urged.</p><p>Wanjira Mathai, the managing director for Africa and global partnerships at the World Resources Institute thinktank, said much more of what the continent produced must be processed and made use of close to where it is produced, if the world is to shift to a low-carbon footing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/process-raw-materials-in-africa-urges-top-environmentalist-wanjira-mathai">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/carbon-emissions">Greenhouse gas emissions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/mining">Mining</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/mining">Mining</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-economy">Green economy</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/process-raw-materials-in-africa-urges-top-environmentalist-wanjira-mathai</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7c1b25aa8f401b902cce99cac71e4de4e040308/0_0_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d24448f96b346a8fc492335d3e0cab55"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f7c1b25aa8f401b902cce99cac71e4de4e040308/0_0_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9924c8941d4b5624468f2fed829927bd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Fiona Harvey Environment editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T04:00:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/220-civilians-burkina-faso-human-rights-watch-killings-two-villages</link> <description><p>Human Rights Watch demands investigation into killings in two villages just weeks after Russian troops fly in, amid intensifying conflict</p><p>Burkina Faso’s military summarily executed 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in a single day in late February, according to an investigation into one of the worst abuses by the country’s armed forces for years.</p><p>The mass killings have been linked to a widening military campaign to tackle jihadist violence and happened weeks after Russian troops <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russian-troops-deploy-burkina-faso-2024-01-25/">landed</a> in the west African country to help improve security.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/220-civilians-burkina-faso-human-rights-watch-killings-two-villages">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/conflict-and-development">Conflict and arms</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/burkina-faso">Burkina Faso</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/25/220-civilians-burkina-faso-human-rights-watch-killings-two-villages</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e04dcd546e7c4626f9bee260fa3e75780ecdfcd/375_0_5385_3231/master/5385.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6cb76a7280fa48aa2bb5ad1978f1bd7c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5e04dcd546e7c4626f9bee260fa3e75780ecdfcd/375_0_5385_3231/master/5385.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bbf96b19f66a0d64f3ec9415e504e8bc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Mark Townsend</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T03:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/25/flights-deport-asylum-seekers-rwanda-indefinitely-james-cleverly</link> <description><p>Home secretary visits Lampedusa in Italy as National Audit Office says scheme could surpass £580m by 2030</p><p>Several flights a month will deport asylum seekers to Rwanda “indefinitely”, the home secretary has said, as he argued that the<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/01/rwanda-plan-uk-asylum-seeker-cost-figures"> £1.8m a person</a> cost of the scheme was justified.</p><p>James Cleverly, in his first interview since the government’s plan was approved by parliament on Monday, said he had booked a succession of initial flights and was preparing to order the detention of people seeking refuge in the UK so they could be sent to east Africa.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/25/flights-deport-asylum-seekers-rwanda-indefinitely-james-cleverly">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/james-cleverly">James Cleverly</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/foreignpolicy">Foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/italy">Italy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rwanda">Rwanda</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:01:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/25/flights-deport-asylum-seekers-rwanda-indefinitely-james-cleverly</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/babaacd64ae50d49e7490ba81b2304e20953523c/0_124_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=10db742cb65df2edf5bf4f8f650aeae5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/babaacd64ae50d49e7490ba81b2304e20953523c/0_124_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1f423d3c4c78c3b6cc7ae11ee1965255"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rajeev Syal and Diane Taylor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T23:01:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/barbados-leader-halts-3m-payout-to-uk-mp-for-drax-hall-plantation</link> <description><p>Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax</p><p>The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has halted plans for a multi-million-pound payout to the British Conservative MP Richard Drax for the purchase of 53 acres of the Drax Hall plantation, which he owns.</p><p>As revealed in the Observer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/tory-mp-from-slave-owning-family-set-to-gain-3m-from-sale-of-former-plantation">last Sunday</a>, the payout plan had angered those involved in the Caribbean reparations movement, who<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/12/wealthy-mp-urged-to-pay-up-for-his-familys-slave-trade-past"> said Drax, the MP for South Dorset, should hand over all or part of the 617-acre plantation</a> to the people of Barbados.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/barbados-leader-halts-3m-payout-to-uk-mp-for-drax-hall-plantation">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mia-mottley">Mia Mottley</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/barbados">Barbados</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/reparations-and-reparative-justice">Reparations and reparative justice</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/caribbean">Caribbean</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/slavery">Slavery</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/sugar">Sugar</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:52:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/barbados-leader-halts-3m-payout-to-uk-mp-for-drax-hall-plantation</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5669ff3e9b46a1fb56f0ca662e8ab21397edcae9/263_78_1590_954/master/1590.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d02cb52c5f7dc9eccfd82093bbe86721"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Twitter</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5669ff3e9b46a1fb56f0ca662e8ab21397edcae9/263_78_1590_954/master/1590.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=78825b868215fb2f3a8ee8a329952b12"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Twitter</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Paul Lashmar and Jonathan Smith in Barbados</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T16:52:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/uk-accused-amnesty-destabilising-human-rights-globally-gaza-israel-russia-ethiopia-sudan-myanmar</link> <description><p>Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’</p><p>The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of “deliberately destabilising” human rights on the global stage for its own political ends.</p><p>In its annual global report, released today, the organisation said Britain was weakening human rights protections nationally and globally, amid a near-breakdown of international law.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/uk-accused-amnesty-destabilising-human-rights-globally-gaza-israel-russia-ethiopia-sudan-myanmar">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/war-crimes">War crimes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ethiopia">Ethiopia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/myanmar">Myanmar</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/conflict-and-development">Conflict and arms</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/lgbt-rights">LGBTQ+ rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/amnesty-international">Amnesty International</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/foreignpolicy">Foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/arms-trade">Arms trade</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/international-criminal-court">International criminal court</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:19:56 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/uk-accused-amnesty-destabilising-human-rights-globally-gaza-israel-russia-ethiopia-sudan-myanmar</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/50414cd3014f8152d31b5f816d9a4286a3d3de09/0_65_4693_2816/master/4693.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e3da7f7c2d629ad2bb055b27ad801712"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/50414cd3014f8152d31b5f816d9a4286a3d3de09/0_65_4693_2816/master/4693.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2096a2de58fa90691cdcbad72f939282"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Karen McVeigh</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T11:19:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/sudan-extreme-food-shortages-2023-food-insecurity</link> <description><p>The African country accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globally</p><p>Sudan had the world’s largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023 as conflict and displacement drove food insecurity globally, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).</p><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/22/what-caused-the-civil-war-in-sudan-and-how-has-it-become-one-of-the-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crises">war between rival generals</a> meant Sudan accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5 million people needing urgent help last year, while conflict also plunged Gaza into the world’s most severe food crisis with its entire population facing high levels of food insecurity.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/sudan-extreme-food-shortages-2023-food-insecurity">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/sudan">Sudan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/hunger">Hunger</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/food-poverty">Food poverty</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/poverty">Poverty</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:02:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/sudan-extreme-food-shortages-2023-food-insecurity</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/04b050418b182fe40a825adccd6f784fca5b7edb/0_226_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a229d9d456c234545aafcb56ad0ef7cb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/04b050418b182fe40a825adccd6f784fca5b7edb/0_226_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=60ac9f2e1a46784260cba421fccae244"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: El Tayeb Siddig/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kaamil Ahmed and Sarah Johnson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T10:02:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>New Haiti government sworn in during secret ceremony</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/new-haiti-government-sworn-in-during-secret-ceremony</link> <description><p>‘Transitional council’ takes oath of office after prime minister formally resigns as gang violence continues to rock capital</p><p>Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has formally resigned and a new provisional government has been sworn in during a secret ceremony at the presidential palace, nearly two months after a criminal insurrection plunged the capital into chaos.</p><p>The nine-person “transitional council” was officially established on Thursday during an event at the national palace in Port-au-Prince. As its members took their oaths, Henry, who is in the US having been locked out of Haiti by the gang uprising, announced in a letter that he was stepping down.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/new-haiti-government-sworn-in-during-secret-ceremony">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti">Haiti</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:18:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/new-haiti-government-sworn-in-during-secret-ceremony</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fbf2532c73f2d7172acd7980bfdeef21a1a4e25d/0_154_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=457ea00c47b82fa2914cafeddfe5f059"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fbf2532c73f2d7172acd7980bfdeef21a1a4e25d/0_154_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=939dc86f0ef2420992290c21fad1fa5a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T16:18:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Portugal needs to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/portugal-pay-costs-slavery-colonialism-president</link> <description><p>Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schools</p><p>Portugal needs to “pay the costs” of slavery and other colonial-era crimes, the country’s president has said, in a rare instance of a European leader seemingly backing the need for reparations.</p><p>Portugal has long grappled with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/portugal-grapples-with-legacy-of-colonial-past-slave-trading">calls by campaigners</a> to address its legacy as the European country with the longest historical involvement in the slave trade. During the span of four centuries, nearly 6 million Africans were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/05/portugal-grapples-with-legacy-of-colonial-past-slave-trading">kidnapped</a> and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portuguese vessels.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/portugal-pay-costs-slavery-colonialism-president">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/portugal">Portugal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/slavery">Slavery</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colonialism">Colonialism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/brazil">Brazil</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:58:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/portugal-pay-costs-slavery-colonialism-president</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d36f6b7c26de7ab2808c16b72375720013bf82d7/0_513_8107_4864/master/8107.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=59efd8f198be3d49c1cabf9a984e6ad8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Armando França/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d36f6b7c26de7ab2808c16b72375720013bf82d7/0_513_8107_4864/master/8107.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=18795a166373a241c3b1c2478f2384c9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Armando França/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T14:58:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/honduras-referred-to-un-human-rights-committee-over-total-abortion-ban</link> <description><p>Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped </p><p>Honduras is being taken to a global human rights body for the first time over its total abortion ban, which campaigners say violates women’s fundamental rights and the country’s international commitments.</p><p>The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Honduras-based Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (Center for Women’s Rights, CDM) filed a petition with the UN human rights committee this month on behalf of a woman known as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped and denied an abortion under Honduras’ draconian laws.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/honduras-referred-to-un-human-rights-committee-over-total-abortion-ban">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/reproductive-rights-developing-countries">Reproductive rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/reproductive-rights">Reproductive rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/honduras">Honduras</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/honduras-referred-to-un-human-rights-committee-over-total-abortion-ban</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2642b3c2b24f82b47c45d31ba718ebecb49465ad/0_161_4928_2957/master/4928.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1d34aa0b75b2422b12e4eaf141ca7043"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2642b3c2b24f82b47c45d31ba718ebecb49465ad/0_161_4928_2957/master/4928.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7f2b2d2a64b5fc09f0564d8b8ae9ae59"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Constance Malleret</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T05:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Designer Nancy Gonzalez sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/apr/23/designer-nancy-gonzalez-sentenced-to-prison-for-smuggling-crocodile-and-python-handbags</link> <description><p>Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on commercial flights, receives 18-month sentence </p><p>A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the Sex and the City TV series has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags from her native Colombia.</p><p>Nancy Gonzalez was arrested in 2022 in Cali, Colombia, and later extradited to the US for running a sprawling multiyear conspiracy that involved recruiting couriers to transport her handbags on commercial flights to high-end showrooms and New York fashion events – all in violation of US wildlife laws.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/apr/23/designer-nancy-gonzalez-sentenced-to-prison-for-smuggling-crocodile-and-python-handbags">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/miami">Miami</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia">Colombia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/endangeredspecies">Endangered species</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wildlife">Wildlife</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category 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url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ec147fb9aa27cc3c276d2dbf30b5be5b34350d63/0_538_2000_1200/master/2000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6186c9f9bcbb15d0d682aa8b11410000"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sipa US/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-23T00:24:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/inter-american-court-climate-hearing-hear-from-victims-barbados</link> <description><p>Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change</p><p>Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to catch species such as mackerel, tuna and cojinúa.</p><p>Medina went into business as a young man but was drawn back to his roots, and ended up leading a fishing organisation. For years he has campaigned against the encroachment of fossil fuel companies, pollution and overfishing, which are destroying the gulf’s delicate ecosystem and people’s livelihoods.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/inter-american-court-climate-hearing-hear-from-victims-barbados">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/barbados">Barbados</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:39:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/inter-american-court-climate-hearing-hear-from-victims-barbados</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d9d49885981abcbc68286a132335efb0a59a2b2/0_53_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dcb20bde63329f4790afa6a3f0eb9999"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d9d49885981abcbc68286a132335efb0a59a2b2/0_53_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=25b9971fda3760c57b4e96f761798056"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Isabella Kaminski</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-22T11:39:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Weather tracker: Mexico swelters under season’s first heatwave</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/weather-tracker-mexico-first-heatwave-of-season</link> <description><p>Anticyclonic conditions have allowed temperatures to reach 35-45C across much of the country</p><p>Mexico has been undergoing its first heatwave of the season. The heatwave started on Sunday 14 April, when Mexico City recorded a new date record with a high of 32.9C, surpassing the previous record of 32C from 1998.</p><p>Anticyclonic conditions over the region have been responsible for this heatwave by inhibiting cloud formation, allowing temperatures to rise significantly. These conditions persisted through much of last week, allowing temperatures to reach 35-45C across much of the country.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/weather-tracker-mexico-first-heatwave-of-season">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:37:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/22/weather-tracker-mexico-first-heatwave-of-season</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ddb2383a664438431fe6b1ecf008aea15f4d527f/0_247_6233_3740/master/6233.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5aba3370a5c64a5e74cd800044e966f4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yuri Cortéz/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ddb2383a664438431fe6b1ecf008aea15f4d527f/0_247_6233_3740/master/6233.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=39322a96ec1cf70fdce6b9f9ebc65646"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yuri Cortéz/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Faye Hulton and Claire Jones for MetDesk</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-22T08:37:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/fujikawaguchiko-town-japan-block-mount-fuji-view-overcrowding</link> <description><p>Fujikawaguchiko town official says choice to erect huge barrier is ‘regrettable’ and last resort</p><p>A huge barrier to block views of Mount Fuji will be installed at a popular photo spot by Japanese authorities exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists.</p><p>Construction of the mesh net – 2.5 metres (8ft) high and the length of a cricket pitch at 20 metres – will begin as early as next week, an official from Fujikawaguchiko town said on Friday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/fujikawaguchiko-town-japan-block-mount-fuji-view-overcrowding">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/japan">Japan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travel">Travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/mountains">Mountains</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/heritage">Heritage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution">Pollution</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:45:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/fujikawaguchiko-town-japan-block-mount-fuji-view-overcrowding</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/80eece6bf8adebe33850ee747bd2df2074f9faf6/0_263_7884_4733/master/7884.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0e15a3b076d748984efefa6b62b40c1b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jheng Yao Lin/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/80eece6bf8adebe33850ee747bd2df2074f9faf6/0_263_7884_4733/master/7884.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c981d9136b1ebaf9ab18fec20ecaacf1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jheng Yao Lin/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:45:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Pandabuy: police raid ‘20 football stadiums’ worth of alleged fake goods warehouses</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/pandabuy-police-raid-20-football-stadiums-worth-of-alleged-fake-goods-warehouses</link> <description><p>Arrests as Chinese authorities working with UK police and international trademark agencies seize millions of parcels bound for customers worldwide</p><p>Chinese authorities have targeted a major online sales platform accused of supplying counterfeit goods, raiding warehouses holding millions of packages destined for overseas buyers.</p><p>Earlier this month police raided the Hangzhou office and several warehouses of Pandabuy after reported legal action by 16 brands over copyright infringement. More than 200 public security branch officers, 50 private sector investigators and local police were involved, according to reports.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/pandabuy-police-raid-20-football-stadiums-worth-of-alleged-fake-goods-warehouses">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/intellectual-property">Intellectual property</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:42:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/pandabuy-police-raid-20-football-stadiums-worth-of-alleged-fake-goods-warehouses</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b9850060ac52eb84461a28c921621fcfdbbbb48/240_0_7200_4320/master/7200.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=448afc5b4b7f043c348cc0e7ddf59fb7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pixelci/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b9850060ac52eb84461a28c921621fcfdbbbb48/240_0_7200_4320/master/7200.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4e4f30e54366d7014278333f9875dd46"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pixelci/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Helen Davidson in Taipei</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T05:42:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>China foreign minister tells Blinken relations with the US could slip into ‘downward spiral’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/antony-blinken-beijing-visiit-china-us-relations-foreign-minister-wang-yi</link> <description><p>Wang Yi says recent improvements in ties face ‘disruptions’ amid threats of sanctions over support for Russia’s defence industry</p><p>China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has warned the US that the recent improvements in the two countries’ relations were being jeopardised by “disruptions” which could take them back to a “downward spiral” leading to rivalry, confrontation and even conflict.</p><p>Wang was speaking at the start of a meeting in Beijing with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, at a time of renewed tension in the relations between the superpowers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/antony-blinken-beijing-visiit-china-us-relations-foreign-minister-wang-yi">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/antony-blinken">Antony Blinken</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:15:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/antony-blinken-beijing-visiit-china-us-relations-foreign-minister-wang-yi</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f235676857351709da16803e8621be99bf65de75/0_128_4922_2954/master/4922.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f22eb1a8e0d934678c16b38019d748b9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f235676857351709da16803e8621be99bf65de75/0_128_4922_2954/master/4922.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2e6137850431b27d8f7170db91b708b8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Julian Borger in Beijing</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T03:15:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/indonesia-election-2024-prabowo-subianto-president-legal-challenges</link> <description><p>Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changes</p><p>Indonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.</p><p>Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/minister-linked-to-indonesias-former-dictatorship-ahead-in-pre-election-polls">won a landslide victory</a> in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by state interference and unfair rule changes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/indonesia-election-2024-prabowo-subianto-president-legal-challenges">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/indonesia">Indonesia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:23:50 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/indonesia-election-2024-prabowo-subianto-president-legal-challenges</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd1c357fac683f50a90c989733b7cff4b65d3c23/0_136_4086_2452/master/4086.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94c839c794e294717d4892f13f1bad83"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bd1c357fac683f50a90c989733b7cff4b65d3c23/0_136_4086_2452/master/4086.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aad276ba91a7978dcd3aeb3c7c5ddae6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rebecca Ratcliffe South-East Asia correspondent and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T05:23:50Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Congress passed a TikTok bill. Will the US really ban the app?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/13/will-us-ban-tiktok</link> <description><p>A bill passed by Congress and signed by Biden requires owner ByteDance to sell or face a US ban – it’s its biggest threat yet</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/23/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-will-parent-company-sell">Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it</a></li></ul><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/house-of-representatives">House of Representatives</a> passed a bill that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States. The Senate passed it less than a week later. Joe Biden signed it a day after the Senate voted yes.</p><p>TikTok is facing its biggest existential threat yet in the US. The app was banned in Montana last year, but courts found that prohibition unconstitutional, and it never went into effect.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/13/will-us-ban-tiktok">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/tiktok">TikTok</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-congress">US Congress</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media">Social media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/digital-media">Digital media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:45:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/13/will-us-ban-tiktok</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fe71c26193e817ba4842c939ea05103e9fcf83f/402_831_5017_3010/master/5017.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bad2db84da074e34c1705fda017ab4f0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1fe71c26193e817ba4842c939ea05103e9fcf83f/402_831_5017_3010/master/5017.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d953ad0f468bc30144390c65c143e750"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kari Paul</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T22:45:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Biden signs $95bn foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-signs-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel</link> <description><p>President says legislation is ‘going to make the world safer’ after months of congressional gridlock threatened support for Kyiv</p><p>Joe Biden has signed into law a bill that rushes $95bn in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, a bipartisan legislative victory he hailed as a “good day for world peace” after months of congressional gridlock threatened Washington’s support for Kyiv in its fight to repel Russia’s invasion.</p><p>The Senate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-foreign-aid-bill">overwhelmingly passed</a> the measure in a 79 -18 vote late on Tuesday night, after the package won similarly lopsided approval in the Republican controlled House, despite months of resistance from an isolationist bloc of hardline conservatives opposed to helping Ukraine.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-signs-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden">Joe Biden</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy">US foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/taiwan">Taiwan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:49:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/biden-signs-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ebca65601a0d4a94def8312b30cc2b6fc2817ee1/1058_271_4442_2667/master/4442.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=906b5aa5f3ea332662a8a92af0cdb28a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ebca65601a0d4a94def8312b30cc2b6fc2817ee1/1058_271_4442_2667/master/4442.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=38deb1b62d69cf2c462f47bd1a534d95"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lauren Gambino in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T16:49:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/scott-farquhar-to-resign-as-joint-ceo-of-atlassian</link> <description><p>Co-founder leaving ‘to spend more time with his young family, improve the world via philanthropy, and help further the technology industry globally’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Scott Farquhar, the Australian tech billionaire and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/atlassian">joint chief executive of software company Atlassian</a>, will step down from his role at the end of August to spend time with his young family and focus on philanthropy, the company says.</p><p>Farquhar’s co-CEO, Mike Cannon-Brookes, will lead the Sydney-headquartered company, which has found huge success developing software that allows teams to coordinate resources on complex projects.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/scott-farquhar-to-resign-as-joint-ceo-of-atlassian">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/atlassian">Atlassian</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/business-australia">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/software">Software</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/computing">Computing</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:38:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/26/scott-farquhar-to-resign-as-joint-ceo-of-atlassian</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/264e12d6a569b60d7e3c8b6e918889ba6d647ec8/0_116_4916_2951/master/4916.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75c7c867893d1589f75fba00b4f11a9e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/264e12d6a569b60d7e3c8b6e918889ba6d647ec8/0_116_4916_2951/master/4916.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b8204013cfa3ce97ede952caab181d72"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonathan Barrett</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:38:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Australia news live: Tucker Carlson and Clive Palmer to headline ‘Australian freedom conferences’; PM eulogises Bondi security guard Faraz Tahir</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby</link> <description><p>Homicide detectives begin three-day search for 30-year-old in NSW central tablelands; peak Muslim bodies deny police consulted them in lead-up to Sydney raids. Follow the day’s news live</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-662acb148f080a6bbc5900b7#block-662acb148f080a6bbc5900b7">As we reported</a>, X has provided an update on its legal challenge against Australia’s eSafety commissioner, stating it had complied with a direction to remove content from the Wakeley church stabbing.</p><p>However, underneath the post from the platform’s global government affairs team (which we quoted in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-662acb148f080a6bbc5900b7#block-662acb148f080a6bbc5900b7">our previous post</a>), the video is available to watch in a reply to the post, as of 7.45am AEST.</p><p>The eSafety Commissioner required X to remove posts containing a video of the attack on <strong>Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel</strong>, filmed by an innocent bystander. [The bishop] has expressed his desire for the video to remain online.</p><p>X believes it has complied with the notice issued by eSafety, and with Australian law, by restricting all the posts at issue in Australia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-politics">Australian politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/anthony-albanese">Anthony Albanese</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/labor-party">Labor party</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/peter-dutton">Peter Dutton</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/coalition">Coalition</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/queensland">Queensland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/new-south-wales">New South Wales</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victoria">Victoria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/police-policing-australia">Australian police and policing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-security-and-counter-terrorism">Australian security and counter-terrorism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/sydney">Sydney</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:32:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/49fecdfc6294c066f3dd0199edb02f184ecd7299/0_209_7854_4712/master/7854.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4cfd42ccd0e8f9aa10fae585b14c13a1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/49fecdfc6294c066f3dd0199edb02f184ecd7299/0_209_7854_4712/master/7854.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=871a11208a51a6a41247aa6e76630201"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Emily Wind (now) and Martin Farrer (earlier)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:32:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Australian Muslim leaders call out ‘questionable law enforcement tactics’ that led to arrest of minors</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/sydney-counter-terror-raids-australian-muslim-leaders-call-out-questionable-law-enforcement-tactics-arrests-ntwnfb</link> <description><p>Muslim organisations say they were not consulted before counter-terrorism raids that resulted in arrests relating to a church stabbing in Sydney</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Representatives of the Australian Muslim community have called out what they called “questionable law enforcement tactics” after seven minors were arrested and five of them charged with counter-terrorism-related offences this week.</p><p>Three major bodies, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network, have also demanded the government revise Australia’scounter-terrorism laws, saying they “target specific communities”.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/sydney-counter-terror-raids-australian-muslim-leaders-call-out-questionable-law-enforcement-tactics-arrests-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-security-and-counter-terrorism">Australian security and counter-terrorism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/islam">Islam</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/religion">Religion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/police-policing-australia">Australian police and policing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-federal-police">Australian federal police</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:53:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/sydney-counter-terror-raids-australian-muslim-leaders-call-out-questionable-law-enforcement-tactics-arrests-ntwnfb</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/67a48ca3d902963aa2b6ee1ee709619255de29c0/0_374_7691_4617/master/7691.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75fb12352f7806fcaf81afab4e2e2fe0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/67a48ca3d902963aa2b6ee1ee709619255de29c0/0_374_7691_4617/master/7691.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=66815df8936116f2c12152374c4938d3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Mostafa Rachwani</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T05:53:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Bruce Lehrmann to pay Peter FitzSimons thousands in legal costs</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/bruce-lehrmann-to-pay-peter-fitzsimons-thousands-in-legal-costs-ntwnfb</link> <description><p>Lehrmann will pay the columnist $4,616 to cover cost of producing documents during failed defamation case against Channel Ten and Lisa Wilkinson</p><ul><li><strong>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></strong></li></ul><p>Bruce Lehrmann has agreed to pay the columnist and author Peter FitzSimons’ costs for complying with a subpoena during Lehrmann’s failed defamation proceedings against Network Ten and former Project presenter Lisa Wilkinson.</p><p>Lehrmann<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/16/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-case-what-happens-next-ntwnfb"> lost his defamation case</a> against Network Ten and Wilkinson in the federal court earlier this month. Justice Michael Lee found on the balance of probabilities that Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on a minister’s couch in Parliament House in 2019. Lehrmann has consistently denied the allegation and pleaded not guilty at the criminal trial into the matter which was aborted due to juror misconduct.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/bruce-lehrmann-to-pay-peter-fitzsimons-thousands-in-legal-costs-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-capital-territory-act">Australian Capital Territory (ACT)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/defamation-law--australia-">Defamation law (Australia)</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:14:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/bruce-lehrmann-to-pay-peter-fitzsimons-thousands-in-legal-costs-ntwnfb</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9b3ca3c2943c5c845e3481f41298b01719890363/934_55_3380_2028/master/3380.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0288a84d8807f6862df8294602736913"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Don Arnold/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9b3ca3c2943c5c845e3481f41298b01719890363/934_55_3380_2028/master/3380.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e8d685a6283ff4abb82d2e1e9c7f8397"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Don Arnold/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Stephanie Convery and Amanda Meade</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T05:14:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Urban Rampage banned from using Centrepay to sign up mostly Indigenous customers to credit arrangements</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/urban-rampage-banned-centrepay-centrelink-scheme-indigenous-customers-credit-arrangements</link> <description><p>Asic finds arrangements posed ‘significant risk’ of financial hardship but clothing store says it will appeal ‘racist and paternalistic decision’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>The Australian Security and Investments Commission has permanently banned the clothing store Urban Rampage from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/27/energy-giant-wrongly-received-thousands-from-welfare-payments-of-former-customers-under-centrelink-scheme">using the government’s Centrepay system to sign up mostly vulnerable Indigenous customers</a> to “inherently inappropriate” credit arrangements that place them at risk of financial harm.</p><p>Coral Coast Distributors – which operates 10 Urban Rampage stores in regional and remote locations across Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, selling household items – can no longer sign-up customers into Centrepay credit arrangements.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/urban-rampage-banned-centrepay-centrelink-scheme-indigenous-customers-credit-arrangements">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/indigenous-australians">Indigenous Australians</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:06:10 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/26/urban-rampage-banned-centrepay-centrelink-scheme-indigenous-customers-credit-arrangements</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8815e65af34b1158168961d10c85c1de31a61bb3/0_0_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6ebe3d49af280900715024339336f7a2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8815e65af34b1158168961d10c85c1de31a61bb3/0_0_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0808156d5f3bcc494cb527fa0dcafe1f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lorena Allam and Christopher Knaus</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T05:06:10Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Poverty experts tell Labor jobseeker payments should be lifted to 90% of age pension</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/26/centrelink-jobseeker-payments-economic-inclusion-advisory-committee</link> <description><p>The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee warns that unemployment benefits are still too low </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/26/australia-news-live-stabbing-bondi-junction-terror-attack-wakeley-imams-imams-missing-baby">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Jobseeker payments should be raised to 90% of the age pension and indexed to prevent people going “without life’s essentials”, the government’s poverty experts say.</p><p>The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee released its pre-budget <a href="https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/04_2024/economic-inclusion-advisory-committee-2024-report.pdf">report</a> on Friday, warning that jobseeker and other working-age payments were still “too low” despite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/30/jobseeker-to-rise-by-56-a-fortnight-but-albanese-government-unlikely-to-offer-further-boost">last year’s $40 increase in the base rate</a>.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/26/centrelink-jobseeker-payments-economic-inclusion-advisory-committee">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/unemployment-and-employment-statistics-australia">Unemployment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/welfare-in-australia">Welfare</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-politics">Australian politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/cost-of-living-crisis-australia-">Cost of living crisis</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:32:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/26/centrelink-jobseeker-payments-economic-inclusion-advisory-committee</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d5a2743b792efbde3af211ee903b1aa2890c6054/388_36_2985_1791/master/2985.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1d727b8296eb3eb76119af772f309389"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d5a2743b792efbde3af211ee903b1aa2890c6054/388_36_2985_1791/master/2985.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=67fab992ef6b55bdc2512f983947b528"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Paul Karp Chief political correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:32:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/26/reparations-survivors-wartime-sexual-violence-by-russian-soldiers-ukraine-war-olena-zelenska</link> <description><p>First payments to be made during an ongoing conflict is ‘important step towards restoring justice’, says first lady, Olena Zelenska </p><p>The first reparation payments are to be made in the next few weeks to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/all-wars-are-like-this-used-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine">survivors of wartime rape by Russian soldiers during the invasion of Ukraine</a>, in a move that Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, called “an important step towards restoring justice”.</p><p>Up to 500 Ukrainian survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are being identified and awarded with interim reparations this year, including financial, medical and psychological support.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/26/reparations-survivors-wartime-sexual-violence-by-russian-soldiers-ukraine-war-olena-zelenska">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/sexual-violence">Sexual violence</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/war-crimes">War crimes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/rape">Rape and sexual assault</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ending-sexual-violence-in-conflict-summit">Ending sexual violence in conflict</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/26/reparations-survivors-wartime-sexual-violence-by-russian-soldiers-ukraine-war-olena-zelenska</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/133ba0b70ed889d6ab9d313b8e73820aa3fb2162/0_90_5200_3121/master/5200.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=915eb1734496539e8f441ddc9244b31d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/133ba0b70ed889d6ab9d313b8e73820aa3fb2162/0_90_5200_3121/master/5200.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4fda66b1bb3c6c7ca3ccadebf108a266"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: snapshot-photography/F Boillot/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Weronika Strzyżyńska</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Laurent Cantet, film-maker who tackled diversity and class in France, dies aged 63</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/25/laurent-cantet-film-maker-who-tackled-diversity-and-class-in-france-dies-aged-63</link> <description><p>Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projects</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/laurent-cantet">Laurent Cantet</a>, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and class struggle, has died aged 63 after an illness.</p><p>Cantet was best known outside France for his film <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/27/the-class-entre-les-murs">Entre les Murs</a> (The Class), which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2008. It depicted life inside the classroom of a secondary school in Paris’s diverse 20th arrondissement and the relationship between students – compellingly improvised by non-professional teenagers – and their at times exasperated teacher.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/25/laurent-cantet-film-maker-who-tackled-diversity-and-class-in-france-dies-aged-63">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:25:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/25/laurent-cantet-film-maker-who-tackled-diversity-and-class-in-france-dies-aged-63</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3bb33971f0d3633c272d2e5a8cc78eeab7928a5f/0_127_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f8ae49c40eed9707640b0495c350b12d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3bb33971f0d3633c272d2e5a8cc78eeab7928a5f/0_127_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d1ba6ce99e49c781e6cd35e03e488737"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Angelique Chrisafis in Paris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T17:25:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>MEPs urged to fight far right as they head home to campaign for European elections</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/meps-urged-to-fight-far-right-as-they-head-home-to-campaign-for-european-elections</link> <description><p>European parliament term ends with warnings about dangers of disinformation and authoritarian forces</p><p>The starting gun has been fired on the next European parliamentary elections with more than 600 MEPs departing Strasbourg urged to use their “strength and patience” to fight the far right and disinformation and return a vote across the bloc for democracy.</p><p>There were flowers, tears and cheers on Thursday as Roberta Metsola, president of the European parliament, made her last address and MEPs raced back to their respective countries to launch a six-week campaign for re-election.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/meps-urged-to-fight-far-right-as-they-head-home-to-campaign-for-european-elections">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/european-elections">European elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu">European Union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:45:41 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/meps-urged-to-fight-far-right-as-they-head-home-to-campaign-for-european-elections</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ef9420cb7a1670a5a8627f36b12c435a60c3232/0_0_3604_2163/master/3604.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7f6e877bae3798f54b1e27cccfda7af8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1ef9420cb7a1670a5a8627f36b12c435a60c3232/0_0_3604_2163/master/3604.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d871177915ba904ff0148a29c601e743"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T16:45:41Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Madrid prosecutors ask judge to shelve investigation into Spanish PM’s wife</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/madrid-investigation-begona-gomez-pedro-sanchez</link> <description><p>Pressure group accusing Begoña Gómez of corruption admits media reports allegations were based on may not be true</p><p>Prosecutors in Madrid have asked a judge to throw out a preliminary corruption investigation against the wife of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the pressure group behind the complaint admitted its allegations may be based on incorrect media reports.</p><p>Sánchez, whose socialist party has governed Spain since 2018, shocked the country on Wednesday night by announcing that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/spanish-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-resigning-wife-investigation">he was considering resigning</a> over what he termed a baseless “harassment and bullying operation” being waged against him and his wife by his political and media opponents.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/madrid-investigation-begona-gomez-pedro-sanchez">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/spain">Spain</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pedro-s-nchez">Pedro Sánchez</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:40:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/madrid-investigation-begona-gomez-pedro-sanchez</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dc38ecb92f842f0a653f13b9b4c33db05cf20631/9_39_4669_2802/master/4669.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=617c4e4baa97ebbccaab33c51af2b129"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dc38ecb92f842f0a653f13b9b4c33db05cf20631/9_39_4669_2802/master/4669.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e6fb09e3011408677fd92f61c7db7cfe"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sam Jones in Madrid</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T16:40:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Poland and Lithuania pledge to help Kyiv repatriate Ukrainians subject to military draft</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft</link> <description><p>Strong rhetoric is boost for Ukraine reinforcement drive but it is not clear by which mechanism émigrés could be sent back</p><p>Poland and Lithuania have said they are prepared to help Ukrainian authorities return men subject to military conscription to the country, after Kyiv announced this week that it was suspending consular services for such men who were now abroad.</p><p>“We have suggested for a long time that we can help the Ukrainian side ensure that people subject to [compulsory] military service go to Ukraine,” Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s defence minister, told the television channel Polsat, though he did not elaborate on what mechanisms could be used.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/poland">Poland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/lithuania">Lithuania</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:28:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/poland-and-lithuania-pledge-to-help-kyiv-repatriate-ukrainians-subject-to-military-draft</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b5224ec5697ae5071557d88f20d50259f4ef05bb/0_100_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fa6ad07ca4abac2388b4f1979142e25f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b5224ec5697ae5071557d88f20d50259f4ef05bb/0_100_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=319d0e7e40cfbacd2c34b950ffef7396"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Shaun Walker in Warsaw</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T16:28:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>German MPs break taboo by backing first post-unification Veterans’ Day</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/germany-first-post-unification-veterans-day-taboo</link> <description><p>Annual event in June is designed to make service in volunteer army more attractive amid looming threats</p><p>The German parliament has passed a bill creating the first post-unification Veterans’ Day, breaking with a long-held taboo around veneration of soldiers as the country faces up to new looming threats.</p><p>MPs in the Bundestag lower house approved the proposal to create a memorial day on 15 June each year, after an agreement between the government and the conservative opposition earlier this month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/germany-first-post-unification-veterans-day-taboo">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany">Germany</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:43:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/germany-first-post-unification-veterans-day-taboo</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d1a13e84ba8ffbc06b4f1b8d7b5f8e159c032bd/0_0_5632_3380/master/5632.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=619d217154ae3128992ff03ddb967d73"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7d1a13e84ba8ffbc06b4f1b8d7b5f8e159c032bd/0_0_5632_3380/master/5632.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=48362e02ec51b9bd353a3abceed50aac"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: WPA/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Deborah Cole in Berlin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T15:43:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Middle East crisis live: Egyptian delegation due in Israel seeking to kickstart Gaza ceasefire talks, say reports</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/26/middle-east-crisis-live-egypt-israel-gaza-ceasefire-talks</link> <description><p>Israeli media reports planned visit, citing unnamed officials, in the wake of stalled talks mediated by Qatar, the US and Egypt</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">See all of our Israel-Gaza war coverage</a></li></ul><p><em>Peter Beaumont has this analysis for the Guardian from Jerusalam:</em></p><p>Earlier this week senior Hamas official <strong>Khalil al-Hayya</strong> suggested the Islamic militant group might be willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel, and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/26/middle-east-crisis-live-egypt-israel-gaza-ceasefire-talks">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy">US foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:45:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/26/middle-east-crisis-live-egypt-israel-gaza-ceasefire-talks</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2e84e81f2239c1c94ec319f1b9655a4ea01195a/0_328_4926_2956/master/4926.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4cfde2aeaf7ff6f89438e95b891263da"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2e84e81f2239c1c94ec319f1b9655a4ea01195a/0_328_4926_2956/master/4926.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=936c8f4835bb54cc589402170f0002c6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Martin Belam</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:45:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>US troops begin construction of Gaza aid pier as questions remain over distribution</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/us-military-troops-gaza-aid-pier</link> <description><p>About 1,000 US troops will support the military construction efforts, but Joe Biden has ordered them not to set foot on the Gaza shore</p><p>US troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the territory, the Pentagon has said, but the complex plan to bring more desperately needed food to Palestinian civilians is still mired in fears over security and how the aid will be delivered.</p><p>“I can confirm that US military vessels, to include the USNS Benavidez, have begun to construct the initial stages of the temporary pier and causeway at sea,” Pentagon spokesperson Maj Gen Patrick Ryder told reporters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/us-military-troops-gaza-aid-pier">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy">US foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:06:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/us-military-troops-gaza-aid-pier</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29a97b30da8d11e6528c202aab69544a64fad1b6/0_576_8640_5184/master/8640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d8b2e87f621fbc77f3773a37188a0ccf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29a97b30da8d11e6528c202aab69544a64fad1b6/0_576_8640_5184/master/8640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=be4fb28257c05a781ba60d792dc86825"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Fatima Shbair/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T01:06:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Leaders of 18 countries urge Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/israel-hostages-gaza-rafah-ceasefire-negotiations</link> <description><p>UK and US leaders among those calling for release, as families renew pressure on Netanyahu to restart negotiations</p><p>The leaders of 18 countries including the US and the UK have called on Hamas to free Israeli and dual-national hostages held in Gaza.</p><p>“The fate of the hostages and the civilian population in Gaza, who are protected under international law, is of international concern,” they said. “We strongly support the ongoing mediation efforts in order to bring our people home.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/israel-hostages-gaza-rafah-ceasefire-negotiations">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/benjamin-netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:38:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/israel-hostages-gaza-rafah-ceasefire-negotiations</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5559d4e294c605c416821844b8759c006baaf8af/0_339_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6e623d26a15554011ce4324eba42e1da"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Debbie Hill/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5559d4e294c605c416821844b8759c006baaf8af/0_339_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2dd0d2b38d472b9fe8dc096d91821925"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Debbie Hill/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ruth Michaelson and Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem, and Julian Borger</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T17:38:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/global-heating-and-urbanisation-to-blame-for-severity-of-uae-floods-study-finds</link> <description><p>World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as cause</p><p>Fossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast">recent record flooding</a> in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a <a href="https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/heavy-precipitation-hitting-vulnerable-communities-in-the-uae-and-oman-becoming-an-increasing-threat-as-the-climate-warms/">study</a> has found.</p><p>Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural drainage quickly turned roads into rivers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/global-heating-and-urbanisation-to-blame-for-severity-of-uae-floods-study-finds">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather">Extreme weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding">Flooding</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/united-arab-emirates">United Arab Emirates</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/dubai">Dubai</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/weather/abudhabi">Abu Dhabi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/elnino">El Niño southern oscillation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/weather/unitedarabemirates">United Arab Emirates</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:02:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/global-heating-and-urbanisation-to-blame-for-severity-of-uae-floods-study-finds</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d1400f2c6e4db8ffa81b36538fb5c241a392aa49/0_550_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=13382b7ee7f8eea99a055b6ac0b41d45"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d1400f2c6e4db8ffa81b36538fb5c241a392aa49/0_550_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a725150343bfc8b7beabcece0d4313c5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonathan Watts</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T15:02:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Middle East crisis: US and other countries link ‘immediate ceasefire’ to hostages’ release – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/25/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-white-house-mass-graves-hospitals-khan-younis-rafah</link> <description><p>White House releases joint letter signed with 17 other countries saying such a deal would lead to the ‘credible end of hostilities’</p><p>Here are some of the scenes in <strong>Jerusalem</strong>, where people, including Israeli interior security minister <strong>Itamar Ben-Gvir</strong>, have been worshipping during the Passover holiday.</p><p>Hani Mahmoud, reporting from <strong>Rafah</strong> for Al Jazeera, states that two people have been killed there by drone strikes. He writes for the news network:</p><p>A surge in attack drones flying over Rafah has taken place over the past couple of hours. At least two people have been hit in what appear to be targeted killings – one in the western part of the city and the other in the east. They were killed when the drones fired missiles about half an hour apart. The tragedy keeps unfolding. The destruction is overwhelming. Everywhere you go, you see rubble-filled roads.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/25/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-white-house-mass-graves-hospitals-khan-younis-rafah">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy">US foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:59:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/25/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-white-house-mass-graves-hospitals-khan-younis-rafah</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e824d1a9478c34759ebfeeae69a807ffd9602c61/0_368_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1252c4d20280b6bffa5b0e43cad46dab"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e824d1a9478c34759ebfeeae69a807ffd9602c61/0_368_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c94c4255641545408d29a65b827bdeb1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Martin Belam (now) and Rachel Hall (earlier)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T13:59:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Oil price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns</link> <description><p>Increase in cost of crude could drive inflation up and force central banks to keep interest rates high</p><p>• <a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/business/live/2024/apr/25/bhp-proposes-takeover-anglo-american-mining-us-gdp-ftse-100-business-live">Business live – latest updates</a></p><p>A serious escalation of tensions in the Middle East would push the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/middle-east-conflict-risks-a-sharp-rise-in-oil-prices-says-imf">price of oil</a> above $100 (£80) a barrel and reverse the recent downward trend in global inflation, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/21/world-bank-chief-economist-indermit-gill-g20-debt-relief-mechanism-common-framework">World Bank</a> has said.</p><p>The Washington-based institution said the recent fall in commodity prices had been levelling off even before the recent missile strikes by Iran and Israel – making interest rate decisions for central banks tougher.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/oil">Oil</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/inflation">Inflation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/commodities">Commodities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/worldbank">World Bank</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/global-economy">Global economy</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:31:23 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bee42138c04c79b5074102aa14ed45cbff43716b/0_53_4515_2709/master/4515.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d18da31481d71b450ecb3ba42cffa072"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bee42138c04c79b5074102aa14ed45cbff43716b/0_53_4515_2709/master/4515.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=adae0b1ff753fd379ab261c0cf890f1e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Larry Elliott Economics editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T12:31:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/23/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government</link> <description><p>Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/apr/23/australia-news-live-albanese-future-made-wakeley-bondi-stabbing-esafety-twitter-elon-musk-supermarkets-png-papua-kokoda">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>The south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality">in the country under Narendra Modi</a>.</p><p>Dias, who has been based in Delhi for the ABC since January 2022, said she felt the government had made it “too difficult” for her to continue to do her job, claiming it blocked her from accessing events, issued takedown notices to YouTube for her news stories, and then refused her a standard visa renewal.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/23/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/australian-broadcasting-corporation">Australian Broadcasting Corporation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/australia-media">Australian media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:33:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/23/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc0198dadcff18567ef4087784b1297da1c37309/163_97_1023_614/master/1023.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b6296b1a9fd044b2023bfdb7cb5283b0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: ABC</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc0198dadcff18567ef4087784b1297da1c37309/163_97_1023_614/master/1023.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6bf5ecd55355f826e11e2fcd60ec5aa5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: ABC</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kate Lyons</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-23T06:33:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/narendra-modi-accused-of-stirring-tensions-as-voting-in-india-continues</link> <description><p>Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rules</p><p>India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.</p><p>The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/narendra-modi-accused-of-stirring-tensions-as-voting-in-india-continues">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india-elections-2024">India elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/religion">Religion</category> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:35:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/narendra-modi-accused-of-stirring-tensions-as-voting-in-india-continues</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/343fe14156e38ef3c019e86d48fe259ada017e5a/0_417_4965_2980/master/4965.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f54f55f87bca4573484694457a5a0b8a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/343fe14156e38ef3c019e86d48fe259ada017e5a/0_417_4965_2980/master/4965.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=99a23c35259e60ee314749d467920323"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-22T17:35:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/fighting-rages-at-myanmars-border-with-thailand-as-rebels-target-junta-troops</link> <description><p>Thousands of civilians flee as resistance fighters fight to flush out soldiers holed up at eastern bridge border crossing </p><p>Fighting raged at Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand on Saturday, both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up for days at a bridge border crossing.</p><p>Resistance fighters and ethnic minority rebels seized the key trading town of Myawaddy on the Myanmar side of the frontier on 11 April, a blow to a well-equipped military struggling to govern and facing a test of battlefield credibility.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/fighting-rages-at-myanmars-border-with-thailand-as-rebels-target-junta-troops">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/myanmar">Myanmar</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/thailand">Thailand</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:58:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/fighting-rages-at-myanmars-border-with-thailand-as-rebels-target-junta-troops</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5bd201865219f5490e3576627c4195ee85bf7413/0_471_6408_3845/master/6408.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=723df113501d41ed2710523aaff4947a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Somrerk Kosolwitthayanant/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5bd201865219f5490e3576627c4195ee85bf7413/0_471_6408_3845/master/6408.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c77da54db5a7b25c644cc025240a8558"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Somrerk Kosolwitthayanant/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Reuters in Bangkok</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-20T18:58:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality</link> <description><p>Experts say Indian PM is hoping to be ‘bigger than Gandhi’ as he aims to win a third term in office</p><p>As the distant rumble of a helicopter drew closer, cheers erupted from the gathered crowds in anticipation. By the time India’s prime minister finally stepped on to the stage, bowing deeply while immaculately dressed in a white kurta and peach waistcoat and with a neatly trimmed beard, the chants had reached a deafening pitch: “Modi, Modi, Modi.”</p><p>These scenes, at a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/31/india-opposition-protest-modis-match-fixing-ahead-of-general-election">campaign rally</a> on the outskirts of the Uttar Pradesh city of Meerut, have been replicated across the country in recent weeks as Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) seek to win a third term in India’s election, which begins on 19 April and goes on for six weeks.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india-elections-2024">India elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:08:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/233fd80023d33b7d456ab169af2a4f8490b5635f/0_168_3361_2017/master/3361.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e2952d912393c996bc6e311eb4e002c6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/233fd80023d33b7d456ab169af2a4f8490b5635f/0_168_3361_2017/master/3361.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ce9a5e00264d9783c0c5615be352c5b7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-19T12:08:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Voting begins in India’s election with Modi widely expected to win third term</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term</link> <description><p>First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period</p><p>Voting has begun in India’s mammoth general election, as Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary majority amid allegations that the country’s democracy has been undermined since it came to power 10 years ago.</p><p>India’s elections are the largest democratic exercise in the world, with more than 969 million voters, amounting to more than 10% of the world’s population. The voting began at 8am on Friday, when polling opened at 102 constituencies across the country, and will continue over the next six weeks, in seven phases, until 1 June. All the results will be counted and declared on 4 June.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 02:30:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d24e7fb5c33d951f6d785033a284aab37acb06c4/0_109_5061_3037/master/5061.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ad6da08f68acffcb5c79dae8f426d707"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Idrees Mohammed/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d24e7fb5c33d951f6d785033a284aab37acb06c4/0_109_5061_3037/master/5061.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9afa6d4c5da74202032cdbd71f46973b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Idrees Mohammed/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-19T02:30:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fossil of ‘largest snake to have ever existed’ found in western India</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/fossils-largest-snake-found-western-india</link> <description><p>Scientists estimate <em>Vasuki indicus</em> was up to 15 metres long, weighed a tonne and would have constricted its prey</p><p>Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a mine in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 15 metres in length – longer than a T rex.</p><p>Scientists have recovered 27 vertebrae from the snake, including a few still in the same position as they would have been when the reptile was alive. They said the snake, which they named <em>Vasuki indicus</em>, would have looked like a large python and would not have been venomous.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/fossils-largest-snake-found-western-india">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/snakes">Snakes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/fossils">Fossils</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/animals">Animals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wildlife">Wildlife</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/evolution">Evolution</category> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:46:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/fossils-largest-snake-found-western-india</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d41c9698060a184471c92710c951bce06f688ea3/0_151_3195_1916/master/3195.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2eca72f84fa8d9b219907b082fa8dc67"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d41c9698060a184471c92710c951bce06f688ea3/0_151_3195_1916/master/3195.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8aa0aa22e454e9a2d23586fb49bec388"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-18T16:46:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/26/barclaycard-interest-customers-credit-card-holders</link> <description><p>Credit card holders who make minimum repayments warned they could be in debt for years longer</p><p>Some Barclaycard customers who only make the minimum repayment each month will take an extra decade to clear their debt and pay hundreds of pounds in extra interest after the credit card provider changed its terms.</p><p>Barclaycard – thought to be the UK’s biggest credit card provider – has written to customers telling them it is cutting their minimum payments to give them “more flexibility”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/26/barclaycard-interest-customers-credit-card-holders">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/creditcards">Credit cards</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/banks">Banks and building societies</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/debt">Borrowing & debt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/barclay">Barclays</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/banking">Banking</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/apr/26/barclaycard-interest-customers-credit-card-holders</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a140551fb8cbd73a2d352973d9d2a97c8784847a/0_214_6500_3901/master/6500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bda08332b1dad6d4ab6b28f4e6ee1d5c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: M4OS Photos/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a140551fb8cbd73a2d352973d9d2a97c8784847a/0_214_6500_3901/master/6500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f4d7f46ebf1f83141b1b8da66a6a3b63"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: M4OS Photos/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rupert Jones</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/26/uk-policy-denying-visas-children-care-workers-legal-challenge-migrant</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Action by organisation supporting migrants argues new rules are discriminatory</p><p>An organisation that supports migrant workers has launched a legal challenge against the government’s new policy to bar care workers from bringing children and partners to the UK, warning that it is “tearing families apart”.</p><p>According to Migrants at Work, care workers have to choose between family life with their children and partners or getting a job as a health or social carer in the UK – they can no longer do both.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/26/uk-policy-denying-visas-children-care-workers-legal-challenge-migrant">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/james-cleverly">James Cleverly</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/employment-law">Employment law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/workers--rights">Workers' rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/care-workers">Care workers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/social-care">Social care</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/26/uk-policy-denying-visas-children-care-workers-legal-challenge-migrant</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1a2416ec06a1fe0e0e25fabe6c8f18a7d42cb5ca/0_139_4256_2554/master/4256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7be7bd2df8adc69260bc3444179577ff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elizabeth Livermore/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1a2416ec06a1fe0e0e25fabe6c8f18a7d42cb5ca/0_139_4256_2554/master/4256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f05b6760cd6258d2564b87bca909e531"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elizabeth Livermore/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Diane Taylor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T05:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘We end up with nothing’: east Midlands mayoral candidates say role could transform region</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/east-midlands-mayoral-candidates-role-transform-region</link> <description><p>Those vying for job say it will put region on more equal footing with areas such as West Midlands and Greater Manchester</p><p>The Conservatives are “not taking accountability” for their part in leaving regions such as the east Midlands to suffer with poor infrastructure, growing inequalities and a skills gap, Labour’s candidate for the region’s first mayor said.</p><p>Claire Ward, the former MP for Watford, said there was not enough to keep young people in the east Midlands and that people had “lost hope”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/east-midlands-mayoral-candidates-role-transform-region">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/mayoral-elections">Mayoral elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/localgovernment">Local government</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/localgovernment">Local politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/nottingham">Nottingham</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/derby">Derby</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/derbyshire">Derbyshire</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/east-midlands-mayoral-candidates-role-transform-region</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e685c8313b462fccbc4650e930c8b5289f981bcf/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1cadafe1d954d53611fde6c2d9dbf8ef"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Facebook/X/Richard Townshend</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e685c8313b462fccbc4650e930c8b5289f981bcf/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=82ad60e347890159f4cde8f9e1ef1955"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design/Facebook/X/Richard Townshend</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Just two in five pupils in England always feel safe in school, survey finds</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/26/two-in-five-pupils-in-england-always-feel-safe-in-school-survey-behaviour</link> <description><p>Teachers say behaviour getting worse as survey also shows parents getting less supportive of school policies</p><p>Only two in five children in England say they always feel safe at school, according to a government survey, and teachers from across Britain have told the Guardian they have seen pupils’ behaviour deteriorate over the last two years.</p><p>Teachers said violence and abuse aimed at school staff and other students had increased alongside displays of homophobia, racism and sexism, with women in particular bearing the brunt of aggressive sexual remarks.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/26/two-in-five-pupils-in-england-always-feel-safe-in-school-survey-behaviour">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/pupilbehaviour">Pupil behaviour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/teaching">Teaching</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/exclusions">Exclusions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/department-for-education">Department for Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/wales">Wales</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/26/two-in-five-pupils-in-england-always-feel-safe-in-school-survey-behaviour</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de936f45ebb7987aee09d8a4640586a27290069f/0_0_4266_2560/master/4266.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=543aab90b3865913e6462791de8af5fb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Lopeman/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de936f45ebb7987aee09d8a4640586a27290069f/0_0_4266_2560/master/4266.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=50a24e54f6160c879273ec782c2e2724"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Lopeman/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Richard Adams Education editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialled</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trial</link> <description><p>Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial</p><p>Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently cure cancer.</p><p>Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Currently, surgery is the main treatment although radiotherapy, medicines and chemotherapy are also sometimes used.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trial">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/cancer">Cancer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/skin-cancer">Skin cancer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/drugs">Drugs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/medical-research">Medical research</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/vaccines">Vaccines and immunisation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/universitycollegelondon">UCL (University College London)</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/26/cancer-mrna-vaccine-melanoma-trial</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4f273fddb43a619010e157c8e908d65de1474ab1/0_178_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4c96bfe59472fc98ca07861e14dfcf44"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4f273fddb43a619010e157c8e908d65de1474ab1/0_178_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c8ccd1ea51b30130617c7891bd65919a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Andrew Gregory Health editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Home Office considered antisemitism campaigner for counter-extremism unit</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/home-office-considered-antisemitism-campaigner-for-counter-extremism-unit</link> <description><p>Gideon Falter was in running to be adviser but government’s antisemitism tsar warned against appointment</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/26/who-is-the-caa-gideon-falter-met-police-openly-jewish-antisemitism-row">Who are CAA, the group headed by campaigner in Met police antisemitism row?</a></li></ul><p>The Home Office considered appointing campaigner against antisemitism Gideon Falter as an adviser to its counter extremism unit but was warned against the appointment by the government’s antisemitism tsar.</p><p>The Guardian understands there were strong objections to Falter being offered the part-time civil service role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in 2022 and that John Mann told the then home secretary Suella Braverman he would quit if Falter was offered the post.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/home-office-considered-antisemitism-campaigner-for-counter-extremism-unit">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/suella-braverman">Suella Braverman</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/news/antisemitism">Antisemitism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/26/home-office-considered-antisemitism-campaigner-for-counter-extremism-unit</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/240fa054e6d357199dc23f3c4d7f37fc797edb79/0_0_4345_2606/master/4345.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bdd4871da6e17bf041caff38a890cc17"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/240fa054e6d357199dc23f3c4d7f37fc797edb79/0_0_4345_2606/master/4345.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2307d7ab14bbbcdb93f8fcc0430e3ef1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T04:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas at university protest in Georgia</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/emory-university-protest-arrests</link> <description><p>Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop City</p><p>Police have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.</p><p>On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to Israel, as well Atlanta’s Cop City, a police and fire department training center that is being constructed on a 171-acre plot in a forest south-east of Atlanta.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/emory-university-protest-arrests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-police">US policing</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:41:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/emory-university-protest-arrests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f29a4a4bd661f69a16b0ce24f3ac3d40e12950f1/0_385_3208_1926/master/3208.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=db6abbc2af541ba5f51771fabffad0ad"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f29a4a4bd661f69a16b0ce24f3ac3d40e12950f1/0_385_3208_1926/master/3208.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f95fe6e892da2c380223bde73b6ba320"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Timothy Pratt in Atlanta, Maya Yang in New York and Erum Salam in Princeton</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T06:41:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses - podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/apr/26/us-college-protests-and-crackdown-on-campuses-podcast</link> <description><p>Police have arrested dozens of students across US universities this week after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York</p><p>As the Israel-Gaza war grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, the world’s attention this week was captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities. Pro-Palestine student protesters were arrested en masse by New York City police at the prestigious Columbia University, prompting outrage that spread across other college sites.</p><p>Guardian US reporter <strong>Erum Salam </strong>tells <strong>Michael Safi </strong>that the scene on Columbia’s campus was one of orderly drum circles and organised anti-war demonstrations, not the all-out violent chaos that might have been imagined.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/apr/26/us-college-protests-and-crackdown-on-campuses-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/universities">Universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/higher-education">Higher education</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 02:00:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/apr/26/us-college-protests-and-crackdown-on-campuses-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cf41dc3d5cffc62bb98024dbe0ad19a5fe62e91/0_239_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=480ca97b270b04dbdcafdc64e1cac60f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Andrea Renault/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cf41dc3d5cffc62bb98024dbe0ad19a5fe62e91/0_239_5568_3341/master/5568.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8335a38ea990413a49ce7aa56a475653"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Andrea Renault/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Michael Safi with Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan; produced by Hannah Moore, Courtney Yusuf and Solomon King; executive producer Phil Maynard</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T02:00:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>What does Harvey Weinstein’s New York ruling mean for his California rape conviction?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-conviction</link> <description><p>Mogul’s lawyers say decision in New York will strengthen appeal in Los Angeles but victims confident guilty verdict will be upheld</p><p>Harvey Weinstein was already expected to spend the remainder of his life in prison for crimes in New York when a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault in 2022 and he was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-rape-conviction-sentencing">sentenced</a> to an additional 16 years.</p><p>But on Thursday New York’s top court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction-overturned">overturned</a> Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for two sex crimes and found he should receive a new trial, and the California case has taken on even greater significance.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-conviction">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/metoo-movement">#MeToo movement</category> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:02:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/25/harvey-weinstein-los-angeles-conviction</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b79c05e0d087f78a658bf66fdfe3bfce859db2f3/0_37_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a559f3e6cad5baa8dadfebb647c14986"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b79c05e0d087f78a658bf66fdfe3bfce859db2f3/0_37_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0f14a885554af66ae613c1ebf61e6b1f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-26T00:02:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>USC cancels main commencement ceremony amid Gaza protests</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/usc-cancels-commencement-gaza-protests</link> <description><p>Move made after more than 90 demonstrators arrested on campus and university cancels pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s speech</p><p>The University of Southern California (USC) has canceled its main stage graduation ceremony, citing new safety measures as student protests over the Israel-Gaza war have surged on the campus.</p><p>USC is one of many campuses across the country that have become hubs for student demonstrations against the war, with hundreds of arrests nationwide as tensions escalate. Police arrested dozens of students and activists at USC this week on trespassing charges.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/usc-cancels-commencement-gaza-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:51:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/usc-cancels-commencement-gaza-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d4445fe9151ed78dc5b4a5399a046225ce23f143/0_0_5406_3244/master/5406.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f76aa4649ecdc279db0d4d651876e04e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d4445fe9151ed78dc5b4a5399a046225ce23f143/0_0_5406_3244/master/5406.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=27e5859fd6f0e467821de0b66373bec5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caroline Brehman/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nick Robins-Early</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T23:51:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>ByteDance would shut down TikTok in US rather than sell it, sources say</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/bytedance-shut-down-tiktok-than-sell</link> <description><p>App’s ‘secret source’ algorithm reportedly core to operations of parent company, which sources say make a sale highly unlikely</p><p>ByteDance would prefer to shut down TikTok rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the US, four sources said.</p><p>The algorithms TikTok relies on for its operations are deemed core to ByteDance’s overall operations, which would make a sale of the app with algorithms highly unlikely, said the sources close to the parent.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/bytedance-shut-down-tiktok-than-sell">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/tiktok">TikTok</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media">Social media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/digital-media">Digital media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:32:48 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/bytedance-shut-down-tiktok-than-sell</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6c89ae7298579e1f95e47eacf7e56c7cdf040c78/0_360_5395_3237/master/5395.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6fe433a8e215d4ca2bc577d7bbc012f0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6c89ae7298579e1f95e47eacf7e56c7cdf040c78/0_360_5395_3237/master/5395.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=637f504c7ca74de86231733d779bb509"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Reuters</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T23:32:48Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Microsoft’s heavy bet on AI pays off as it beats expectations in latest quarter</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/microsoft-earnings</link> <description><p>World’s largest public company reports $61.86bn revenue after investing billions into artificial intelligence</p><p>Profits at Microsoft beat Wall Street’s expectations as its heavy bet on artificial intelligence continued to bear fruit in the latest quarter.</p><p>The technology giant has invested billions of dollars into AI in a bid to turbocharge its growth, particularly of its cloud computing services. Its cloud computing revenue surged by more than 20%.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/microsoft-earnings">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/microsoft">Microsoft</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:15:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/microsoft-earnings</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b5ccd398b3f7f5a0da9a94d47c052c519c91e4d/0_159_5353_3212/master/5353.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c826b0ef2ef7d3be729c19126422e2f3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bruna Casas/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0b5ccd398b3f7f5a0da9a94d47c052c519c91e4d/0_159_5353_3212/master/5353.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ad98e3b77afe261f505800676f45cc5f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bruna Casas/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Blake Montgomery</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T22:15:40Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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