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  • Passengers board a train at Huddersfield railway station

    Railways
    Labour promises nationalisation within five years of coming to power

    Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership
  • A Trump supporter holds a 'Trump Won' sign at a rally by the ex-president at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on 15 January 2022 in Florence, Arizona.

    US
    Arizona grand jury indicts Trump allies including Giuliani over 2020 fake elector scheme

  • Pro-Palestinian students march and hold signs as they protest Israel’s war on Gaza at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, on 24 April 2024.

    Israel
    Netanyahu calls for end to ‘antisemitic’ student protests in US

    Israeli prime minister terms pro-ceasefire rallies ‘horrific’ as students demand universities divest from weapons makers
    • Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes.

      28 Years Later
      Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes cast in sequel

    • Rwanda scheme
      Flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

    • Nuclear weapons in space
      Russia vetos ban at UN security council

    • Car insurance
      Providers agree to crack down on ‘poverty premium’

    • 'Green industrialisation'
      Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

    • Climate crisis
      Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

    • ‘Are we joking?’
      Venice residents protest against charge for visitors

    • Ratted out
      Chicago’s infamous sidewalk ‘rat hole’ removed by officials

News in focus

  • Orbán with Trump on red-carpeted steps at Mar-a-Lago

    ‘Waiting for Trump’
    Viktor Orbán hopes US election will change his political fortunes

  • collage illustration with Diane Abbott at the centre, surrounded by (clockwise from left): Tony Blair, a Stoke Newington sign, Diane Abbott, Ken Livingston, Hackney Town hall, Child Q protestors, Jeremy Corbyn

    The long read
    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey

    The long read: Britain’s first black female MP faced hostility from the media and political establishment from the start. Nearly 40 years on, she is still not giving up
  • Atacms missile testing at White Sands in New Mexico.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Long-range Atacms already hitting Russian forces

Spotlight

  • Illustration of a librarian holding out a book

    The experts
    Librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

    Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again
  • Jackie Knox standing in a storeroom stocked with food and other products

    ‘He made politics human’
    Birkenhead mourns beloved MP Frank Field

  • Dylan and Ayala in Growing Up Jewish.

    Growing Up Jewish review
    Inappropriately lightweight for our times

  • Huddersfield train station

    Great British Railways
    Labour’s plans were all but set up by Tory government

    Renationalisation announced by shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, comes as most network contracts near expiry
    • Oliver Dowden at PMQs

      Down, down, deeper and Dowden: how can Rishi’s stand-in be so useless?

      John Crace
    • Mondragon Corporation<br>Inside Fagor Arrasate factory, in Mondragon, Spain.

      ‘In the US they think we’re communists!’
      The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living

    • Toby Roberts holds on to a climbing wall with one hand

      Meet Toby ‘The Terminator’ Roberts
      The teenager set for Olympic heights

    • Tourists on Rialto bridge, in Venice, Italy.

      Venice access fee explained
      What is it and how much does it cost?

Opinion

  • members of the royal family on the balcony at Buckingham palace

    King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose

    Norman Baker
    Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024, asks the former Liberal Democrat MP
  • Adolf Hitler with Nazi officials in Munich, 1939

    Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake?

    Adrian Chiles
  • Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending

    The prime minister has promised to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP and to put the arms industry on a ‘war footing’
  • Alter Altar by Jasleen Kaur at Tramway, Glasgow.

    This Turner prize shortlist is one in the eye for petty nationalists

    Adrian Searle
    This year’s globally inclusive lineup is part of a much deeper and longer conversation about what culture is – and who has a voice
    • People under red fabric with shirts saying 'Jews say ceasefire now' and 'Not in our name'

      We need an exodus from Zionism

      Naomi Klein
    • PM Holds Press Conference On Flights To Rwanda<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 22: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives to attend a press conference at Downing Street on April 22, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

      Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

      Henry Hill
    • Adrian Chiles

      I worry that hugging people could come across as creepy. So, from now on, all you’re getting is a handshake

      Adrian Chiles
    • The back of a man's head who is wearing the new England football shirt featuring a multicoloured Saint George’s cross

      Britons don’t like culture wars, but that doesn’t mean the ‘woke mob’ messaging will stop

      Owen Jones

Editorials & Letters

  • Rishi Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, visit an engineering firm in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 25 March 2024.

    The Guardian view
    Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view
    Globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • Families being helped ashore on Dungeness beach after being rescued in the English Channel by the RNLI in 2023.

    Letters
    A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Letters
    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

Sport

Climate crisis

  • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

    Plastics
    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s pollution

  • Dirty liquid spilling from outfall pipe

    Pollution
    Tory duty on Ofwat protects profits over reducing sewage pollution, experts say

  • An oil platform

    Environment
    MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies

  • Police officers stand near activists from Just Stop Oil taking part in a blockade by lying in the road at the Kingsbury oil terminal, Warwickshire

    Environmental activism
    Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests

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From the UK

  • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Berlin<br>BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 24: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (L) hold a joint press conference following their meeting in Berlin, Germany on April 24, 2024. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Defence policy
    Sunak suggests he will not ‘shy away’ from making cuts to hit defence target

    PM has faced scepticism over costing of his commitment to spend 2.5% of Britain’s GDP on defence by 2030
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    Priory
    Father of man who died after neglect calls for investigation into second hospital

  • A school banner advertising a 'good' rating

    Schools
    Ruth Perry family furious as Ofsted single-word ratings are retained

  • A brick wall with FOODBANK and an arrow covering it

    Cancer
    Deprivation linked to recurrence risk among survivors in England

    • Wales
      Girl arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and pupil stabbed

    • Channel
      Three men arrested after five people die in boat crossing

    • Scotland
      Police hunt for convict missing from Edinburgh funeral

    • Weather
      Freezing nights and snow forecast for parts of UK

    • Mental health
      Inquest finds gross failings in care of woman who drank too much water

    • Neotame
      Cake and drink sweetener can damage gut wall, scientists find

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Around the world

  • Pedro Sánchez with his wife, Begoña Gómez

    Spain
    PM considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ as wife faces investigation

    Pedro Sánchez has halted public duties, hitting out at media and opponents after court launched an inquiry into reports of alleged corruption by Begoña Gómez
  • A group of soldiers with weapons sit on the back of a pickup truck

    'Mass atrocities'
    Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group

  • A satellite image shows rows of white tents from above

    Gaza
    Israel thought to be preparing to send troops into Rafah

  • Women being forcefully arrested by the 'morality police'

    Iran
    Women violently dragged from streets by police in hijab crackdown

    • Ryanair
      French strike forces airline to cancel more than 300 flights

    • Meta
      Shares tumble as weak revenue guidance overshadows AI boom

    • Gustav Klimt
      Lost painting sells for €30m at auction in Vienna

    • US
      Rightwing website that spread election conspiracies declares bankruptcy

    • ‘Can you catch it as well?’
      Bird stunt causes flap in European parliament

    • Germany
      AfD politician to run in European elections despite aide’s alleged spying for China

Culture

  • Barenboim has not conducted in the UK since 2019.

    Proms
    BBC unveils 2024 lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco

    The 81-year-old conductor makes a rare UK visit with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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    Taylor Swift
    Tortured Poets Department hits 1bn Spotify streams in a week

  • Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You.

    ‘The writer of Fifty Shades gave me tips’
    Robinne Lee on her bonkbuster The Idea of You

  • Episode 1. Michael Douglas in "Franklin," premiering 12 April 2024 on Apple TV+.

    ‘We were going down fast’
    How Benjamin Franklin saved America

  • Claudette Johnson’s with her portrait of the African American Sarah Parker Remond

    Turner prize
    Claudette Johnson’s art for Cotton Capital nominated for prize

  • Anne Hathaway.

    After coming out as an Arsenal fan, Anne Hathaway's reinvention is complete

    Stuart Heritage
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    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

    Without the van, my husband and I had no urgent reason to live in Wellington. The short European adventure we had planned soon became much more
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    ‘I may be a troll but I’m not stupid’
    Super-stan Harry Daniels on singing loudly at Biden, Dua Lipa and Anna Wintour for clout

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    Time is your most precious commodity
    Can you ever get it back?

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    Consumer champions
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  • An issue of the National Enquirer featuring President Donald Trump.

    ‘The only choice for president’
    How the National Enquirer boosted Trump and smeared his opponents

    A New York court has heard how the tabloid deployed a practice known as ‘catch and kill’ to aid Trump in 2016
  • TikTok logo on a phone in pocket of pair of jeans

    Explained
    Why is US threatening to ban TikTok, and will other countries follow suit?

  • the remains of hundreds of pairs of shoes

    ‘People would never forget these shoes’
    The fight to preserve soles of Stutthof Nazi camp

  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    Plant apocalypse
    How new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

  • A silver logo on the bonnet of a black Tesla in Los Angeles, California

    Explained
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  • Abortion rights activists in Phoenix last week.

    ‘Have you signed yet?’
    Arizona activists battle to overturn near-total abortion ban

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  • It could all have been prevented so easily … Richard Gadd with Jessica Gunning, who plays his stalker, in Baby Reindeer.

    The dangerous fallout from Baby Reindeer
    Should Richard Gadd have been less honest about his abusers?

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