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Straw polls The populist challenge to Europe's institutions
The shape of three European governments could be decided by the performances of or populist, anti-establishment far-right parties in elections in the coming weeks, as the continent's fractured political landscape continues to splinter.
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September 22, 2023
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At the ready Two nations' different responses to natural catastrophe
Two disasters struck this month: the earthquake in Morocco and devastating flooding in Libya. At least 2,900 people are known to have died in the 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck in Morocco's High Atlas mountains on 8 September, and the authorities say the toll will rise.
3 min |
September 22, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Falling apart The climate crisis met a failed state-and disaster ensued
When the climate crisis meets a failed state, the outcome is the kind of disaster that has unfolded in Derna.
3 min |
September 22, 2023
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'I expected to die'
Journalists on the ground in Derna say reporting on the flooding disaster has been a harrowing experience and one that has deeply affected people
4 min |
September 22, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Tangled up in blue
A former minister exposes the 'shameful state' of Britain's Tory administration in this brilliant account of dysfunctional rule
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Is Elon Musk really the guiding force the world needs right now?
When Elon Musk posted a personally crafted 280-character “ peace plan ” for the war in Ukraine last October, a Ukrainian diplomat offered a carefully considered review. It ran to two words: “ Fuck off”.
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Les mots perdus
Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote In search of a passage among the French writer's voluminous work, I turned to AI to help me find it. The results were instructive - just not about Proust
10+ min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'Something happened'
FIRST THERE WERE THE BEWILDERING DNA TEST RESULTS, THEN THE LONG-FORGOTTEN FERTILITY BLOG-AND A DISCOVERY THAT WOULD CHANGE THE LIVES OF TWO FAMILIES FOR EVER
10+ min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Activists hail abortion ruling but warn of lack of access
Human rights activists in Mexico have welcomed a historic ruling by the country's supreme court that decriminalises abortion, but warned that the historic decision will not automatically make terminations accessible for all Mexican women.
3 min |
September 15, 2023
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Swing shift Can workers' gains lift Biden's poll fortunes?
David Coxistryingtopersuade his union members that Joe Biden has done more for working-class Americans than any president he has seen in his decades as a construction worker and organiser in eastern Ohio.
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Waste not...Can lab-grown fruit ease food insecurity?
In the face of growing food security concerns due to climate change, scientists in New Zealand are attempting to grow fruit tissue in labs.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
How El Niño is putting world rice supplies in jeopardy
Normally by this time of year Thongpoon Moonchan-song's fields are submerged in still waters, with scattered rice plants reaching up to her knees. The waters are usually so abundant that if you plunge a net into the fields, you can draw out fish and crab to eat.
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
The rule that saved my little boy's life
Australian protocol giving patients and relatives the right to a second medical opinion may soon be adopted in the UK
5 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
A cry for help from the traumatised teachers living in fear
South Korea's teachers know why a colleague killed herself after being subjected to abuse from parents, according to Park Seo-yoon*. \"We've all had similar struggles,\" she said.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Rubiales quits A victory for feminism but questions still remain
News that Luis Rubiales had resigned, three weeks after his unsolicited kiss and defiant refusal to step down sparked outrage around the world, was welcomed as a win for feminism even as questions swirled about his decision to make the announcement in an English-language interview.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'Into battle' New generation of Indigenous activists rises
The medicine man flashed a mischievous grin as he dabbed his warriors' eyeballs with a feather soaked in malagueta pepper and watched them grimace in pain. \"They're going into battle and this will protect them,\" José Delfonso Pereira said as he advanced on his next target with a jam jar of his chilli potion.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Business beats a path to Labour's green door
Labour is turning away business leaders who want to attend events at its party conference in Liverpool next month because too many have applied in the belief that Keir Starmer will form the next government.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'A good week' Starmer's core team sets course for No 10
Labour is hotly tipped to win the next election. Can the reshuffled shadow cabinet deliver?
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Diplomatic win Biden defers to Modi on Ukraine in sign of India's growing influence
It took Indian diplomats 200 hours of non-stop negotiations, 300 bilateral meetings and 15 drafts, but in the end the G20 countries reached a consensus on the war in Ukraine - one that largely retreated into generalised principles rather than the specific condemnation of Russia that the same group of leaders agreed upon when they met in Bali a year ago.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'The war came to us': the Danube ports in the firing line
With Odesa out of action, Izmail and Reni are now the only places vital grain and sunflower oil can be exported
4 min |
September 15, 2023
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Fading hopes Offers of help flood in amid desperate search efforts
Select foreign aid and rescue teams joined desperate efforts to find any remaining survivors high in Morocco's Atlas mountains this week, as the death toll passed 2,800 people after a powerful earthquake that rendered many villages inaccessible.
1 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'Everything is gone' Despair in villages reduced to rubble
As the dirt roads leading to some of the areas worst hit in last Friday's earth quake in Morocco were gradually cleared, the full extent of the disaster was being revealed, including whole villages destroyed in Al-Haouz province.
4 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
'Bad' Apple? Smartphone ban may signal wider backlash against US tech
China's government last week reportedly expanded its ban of iPhones to local government workers and state-owned companies, soon after it had emerged central government employees were forbidden from bringing the devices to work.
2 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Red alert Too few jobs, not enough tax receipts and a weak safety net
When finding a job feels as unlikely as winning the lottery, playing the actual lottery may seem like a more productive use of time. In the first half of 2023, faced with a struggling economy, Chinese consumers spent 273.9bn yuan ($37bn ) on lottery tickets, an increase of more than 50% on the same period in 2022.
3 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Have we reached Peak China?
The world's second-biggest economy has long seemed set on an everupwards path. But amid a slowing economy and jobs market, the outlook may be changing for the country's people-and its leaders
4 min |
September 15, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
The graduate
She was a TV child star - then became a pop phenomenon. With her new second album, the singer is trying to make sense of her young life
10+ min |
September 08, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Politicians, not curators, are to blame for the British Museum's woes Charlotte Higgins
I can't help thinking of the title of that old David Lodge novel, The British Museum is Falling Down
3 min |
September 08, 2023
The Guardian Weekly
Alabama under fire for 'human experiment' on death row
Kenneth Smith is one of two living Americans who can describe what it is like to survive an execution, having endured an aborted lethal injection during which he was subjected to excruciating pain tantamount, his lawyers claim, to torture
3 min |
September 08, 2023
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Quake fear A century on, Tokyo braces for the next Great Kantō
The earthquake that struck the Tokyo region two minutes before noon on 1 September 1923 was so powerful that it destroyed the Central Weather Bureau's seismometers
3 min |
September 08, 2023
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The battle to staunch the deadly rise in youth crime rates
In the small Swedish city of Örebro, guns are so easy to come by that social services say most of the high-risk young people they work with in relation to youth crime could get hold of one in a day
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