Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Middle East crisis

Headlines

  • A view of the Colorado River looking into Cibola, Arizona, US, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. Photographer: Caitlin O'Hara/The Guardian

    ‘Water is more valuable than oil’
    The corporation cashing in on America’s drought

    In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away
  • a side-by-side image of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller

    Republicans
    Powerful conservative funds hand out millions to pro-Trump far-right groups

  • Man sits in court in navy suit and red tie

    Donald Trump
    Ex-president's historic criminal trial enters second day as jury selection continues

    Trump charged with 34 felony counts over alleged payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal
    • Two men stand with sound booms in a state park in California

      Environment
      World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts

    • Abortion
      Republicans divided over Arizona near-total abortion ban, poll shows

    • Alejandro Mayorkas
      House Republicans to present impeachment articles to Senate

    • America's dirty divide
      New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

    • ‘Hybrid warfare’
      Undersea attacks on cables and pipelines threatens security of billion people, Nato commander warns

    • Scores of emergency workers fight fire at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange

    • US House
      Mike Johnson unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid amid rising pressure

    • Black holes
      Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

In focus

  • Image of green hills and trees overlaid with sound bars

    No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings
    How a haven for nature fell silent

  • a woman speaks against a backdrop displaying her face and "CPAC"

    Analysis
    What does Liz Truss’s book tell us about her American ambitions?

  • A composite image showing faces of two men side by side who share the same name: Mike Lindell

    Wrong number?
    How a US professor is plagued by calls for the MyPillow CEO

    A Seattle emergency preparedness expert has become the go-to guy for fans trying to reach Trump through Mike Lindell

Spotlight

  • Mary Dispenza, former nun and sexual assault survivor who now advocates for those abused by priests and nuns at her home in Bellevue, Washington on April 13, 2024.

    How we survive
    At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

    Mary Dispenza spent years as a nun and working in the church before her buried memories rose to the surface. It was the start of her long journey towards justice and peace
  • Shein shoes at a popup store in New York in 2022.

    ‘Super cute please like’
    The unstoppable rise of Shein

  • Stuart Heritage scratching his bald scalp

    'Thank you, male pattern baldness!'
    Losing my hair made me miserable. Now I’m as bald as an egg, I couldn’t be happier

    I’ve never found it easier to make friends, get ready for a big night or take a good selfie. Thank you, male pattern baldness!
  • Whale trainers

    ‘I’m an endangered species myself’
    The killer whale trainers who still defend captivity

    The 2013 documentary Blackfish turned orca trainers into pariahs in the US. Now some are hitting it big in China
    • 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 2<br>INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 13: (L-R) Gwen Stefani of No Doubt and Olivia Rodrigo perform at the Coachella Stage during the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2024 in Indio, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for No Doubt)

      Coachella 2024
      Women save the day as festival suffers an identity crisis

    • Makenson Rémy in a radio studio

      ‘The city is a jail’
      Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence

    • Counting Boxcars in the Cajon Pass, 2010

      ‘We’d wait all day for a train’
      America by rail

    • Models walk the runway in clothes that are mostly coloured black

      Fashion
      Marlene Dietrich is the muse for feminist retelling of Dior’s story

documentaries
Documentary link

Buried

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

Watch now29.18
Buried Documentary

Opinion

  • Red, white, black and green Palestinian flag in front of the White House

    Civilian deaths in Gaza rival those of Darfur – which the US called a ‘genocide’

    Alan J Kuperman
    In fact, terror attacks and hostage-taking sparked several recent conflicts that US presidents of both parties labeled genocide
  • White man wearing suit and tie sits next to four other people at a table

    Trump used to scold felons who wanted to vote. Now he could be in the same spot

    Sidney Blumenthal
    If criminally convicted in New York, Trump will face legal humiliations of the sort he loves when applied to other people
    • ‘There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get … a projected 1m in the next three to four decades.’

      Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field

      Sierra Solter
    • A giant billboard in central Tehran showing Iranian ballistic missiles

      The Guardian view
      On Iran and Israel: they need to step back from the brink of open warfare

    • Benjamin Netanyahu at a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 14 April 2024.

      Netanyahu faces tough questions on Iran – because we Israelis don’t need any more forever wars

      Dahlia Scheindlin
    • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel April 14, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

      Iran’s missiles were shot down – but they still delivered what Tehran was hoping for

      Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

Sports

  • David Squires

    David Squires on …
    Manchester City looking down on their title rivals again

    Our cartoonist looks back on a dramatic weekend in which the Manchester City machine powered back up to the summit
  • Chinese runner He Jie, Ethiopian Dejene Hailu Bikila and Kenyans Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat cross the line in the Beijin half-marathon.

    Half marathon
    Beijing race hit by controversy as China’s He allowed to win

    Organisers of the Beijing half marathon are investigating the men’s race after two Kenyans and one Ethiopian runner appeared to deliberately allow China’s He Jie to win
    • Nicolas Jackson (centre) and Noni Madueke (right) remonstrate with Cole Palmer as he gets set to take the penalty that made it 5-0 to Chelsea

      Chelsea 6-0 Everton
      Pochettino angry over penalty spat in rout

    • Samuel Eto'o

      Soccer
      Eto’o claims he is victim of Caf 'smear' campaign

    • The 128th Boston Marathon <br>epa11280669 Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia (L) and Hellen Obiri of Kenya hold the Boston Marathon trophy after their win in the men's and women's race, respectivley, during the 128th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 15 April 2024. EPA/CJ GUNTHER

      Boston Marathon
      Repeat champion Obiri and Lemma surge to victory

    • Athletes pose at Nike’s showcase for its Olympic uniforms last week

      Nike’s ‘hoo haa’ uniforms reveal everything, including sexism in sport

      Melissa Jacobs

Cotton Capital: ongoing series

  • Photo of six people sitting in a small open boat look ing over their shoulders at a three-masted wooden ship overlaid on an orange graphic of a woodcut from a slave ship

    ‘Hidden in plain sight’
    The European city tours of slavery and colonialism

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Sites of resistance
    Threatened African burial grounds around the world

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

    Scraping away generations of forgetting
    My fight to honor the Africans buried on St Helena

  • collage of imagery pertaining to Jamaica and slavery: landscapes, statues, postage stamps, vintage illustrations, the flag, plus some abstract figures and shapes

    A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth
    Is there a right way to remember slavery?

Play the Guardian's daily word game and share your score with your friends

Play Wordiply" Play
Wordiply composition

Climate crisis

  • A field of staghorn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef

    Global heating
    Coral reefs pushed toward worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record

  • A bull shark

    Environment
    Climate crisis increasing frequency of deadly ocean upwells, study finds

  • On a sunny urban street, a person rides a scooter past two storefronts, one with a red sign that says 'Checks Cashed' and the other with a blue sign that says 'Payday Loans'.

    'Heat-or-eat conundrum'
    Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows

  • Emissions from three industrial chimneys

    Climate crisis
    ‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief

Across the country

  • Nighttime urban street with people standing in the street and red and blue fire and ambulance lights.

    US crime
    Homicides in major cities falling at ‘one of fastest rates ever’ – report

    Nearly all crime, including violent and property offenses, was down ‘a considerable amount’ in 2023 compared with 2022
  • Court building at twilight

    Idaho
    Supreme court allows state to enforce ban on treatment for trans youth

  • Under-construction 747s at a Boeing facility

    Boeing
    Employees’ use of safety concern service up 500% after panel blowout

  • a woman in a grey suit stands in court

    Rust film set shooting
    Armorer sentenced to 18 months in prison

    • Robert F Kennedy Jr
      Candidate claims Trump had asked him to be running mate

    • Ohio
      Man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

    • Colorado
      Owners of funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud

    • California
      Federal women’s prison plagued by rampant staff sexual abuse to close

    • Nikki Haley
      Republican takes new job at ultra-conservative thinktank

    • Trump Media
      Shares tank after company reveals plan to sell more stock

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Around the world

  • In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, workers extinguish a fire after a Russian attack on the Trypilska plant near Kyiv.

    Live
    Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv says it ‘ran out of missiles’ to stop Russian strike on power plant

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine was able to shoot down weapons early in attack on Trypilska plant but it was eventually destroyed as ‘there were zero missiles’ left
  • A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of the suicide bombing at Kabul airport

    Afghanistan
    US review finds August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport was unpreventable

  • US stock image of a blue postal sidewalk boxes

    Canada
    Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years

  • Buildings are seen along Fraser Street in Clunes.

    Retreat death
    Police examine whether mushrooms used in drink before woman died in Australia

    • Health
      Teasing children about weight increases risk of self-stigma as adults, study finds

    • Italy
      Restaurant offers free bottle of wine to customers who hand in phone

    • India
      Gang members fire at Bollywood star’s home in antelope killing row

    • Georgia
      Lawmaker punches opponent in face in brawl over ‘foreign agents’ bill

    • Lebanon
      Four Israeli soldiers injured by Hezbollah bombs

    • Denmark
      Spire collapses after fire breaks out at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.
The Guardian Newsletters logo

Podcasts

Podcasts

  • Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Grace Dent

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian

  • A marsh tit perched on a rock (Photgraph: Lisa Geoghegan/Alamy Stock Photo)

    Science
    Soundscape ecology: a window into a disappearing world – podcast

  • One hand with finger is pointing right. A second hand with finger is pointing to top left corner

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials? Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 5.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Can millennials unscrew themselves? Part 5 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 3.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials out of affordable education? Part 3 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 2.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials out of affordable housing? Part 2 – podcast

  • Who screwed millennials cover art for website. Episode 1.

    Who screwed millennials?
    Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind, part 1 – podcast

Culture

  • The closed Israeli national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy.

    Venice Biennale
    Artists refuse to open Israel pavilion until ceasefire is reached

    Curators protesting against Gaza conflict say ‘art can wait but women, children and people living though hell cannot’
  • Crazy stunts … a still from Fantastic Machine

    Fantastic Machine review
    Whirlwind history shows how cameras dazzle and deceive us

  • a woman with long blonde hair surrounded by dancers

    Doja Cat at Coachella review
    An electrifying tour de force

  • Todd Howard, director of the Fallout game series, and Jonathan Nolan, director of the Fallout TV show.

    ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’
    Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout

  • Salman Rushdie.

    Knife by Salman Rushdie review
    A story of hatred defeated by love

  • two people in vests that say press

    Civil War is an empty B-movie masquerading as something of substance

    Charles Bramesco

Lifestyle

  • OM Nigel Aubergine Cucumber Yoghurt

    Nigel Slater's midweek dinner
    Rcipe for aubergine, mint and cucumber yoghurt

    A particularly bright and zingy way with roast veg for spring
  • Graphic of people using pound sign as beds

    Give up lie-ins and buy an eye mask
    How to get better sleep

  • Kitchen scales with various sources of protein, including nuts, milk, fish and eggs

    The truth about protein
    How to get enough – at every age

  • Rachel Roddy’s scafata, or spring vegetable stew, with seasoned ricotta and garlic and oil toasts.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for scafata, or Roman spring vegetable stew

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

    Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Gary Barlow portrait

    The boomer pause
    The sign that shows you should really get off social media

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Take part

  • Photographer taking picture of newlywed bride and groom as they leave church.

    People in the US
    Share your ‘modern wedding etiquette’ suggestions

  • Young woman using DSLR camera<br>A young woman using a DSLR camera

    Guardian Weekly readers
    Share your best recent pictures with us

  • a child carrying a tray of food

    Parents in the US
    Are you happy with your child’s school lunch?

  • Tell us about your friendship using the form below.

    Relationships
    Tell us: how did you meet your close friend or partner?

From our global editions

  • A woman receives an anaesthesia injection before an emergency cesarean section at Lagos Island maternity hospital.

    ‘Pregnancy is not a disease’
    Why do so many women die giving birth in one of Africa’s richest countries?

  • Earthworm illustration

    UK invertebrate of the year
    Earthworm crowned by Guardian readers

  • Crowds at the Acropolis

    ‘It’s plain elitist’
    Anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis

  • A candlelit vigil outside St George’s Hall in Liverpool, the day after an inquest delivered the verdict of unlawful killing

    Hillsborough, 35 years on
    The pain of injustice remains raw as ever

In case you missed it

  • man in a suit sits at a desk on stage

    John Oliver on Medicaid mess
    ‘Could the government blindside people with something beneficial?’

  • Alabama state representative Anthony Daniels

    Alabama
    Black voters seek chance to be heard after years of being silenced

    Montgomery, the state’s capital, is included in a new congressional district, and on Tuesday, a runoff will decide who stands in November
  • A robot-powered fast food kitchen.

    ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’
    My dystopian trip to an AI burger joint

    If the experience of robot-served fast-food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant
  • black and white picture of sailors

    He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse
    A hundred years later he may get justice

  • Journalist Salah Al-Ejaili at his home in Sweden

    ‘Correct a black mark in US history’
    Former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

  • An octopus on an underwater mountain off the coast of Chile

    Dragons, sea toads and the longest creature ever seen
    Species found on undersea peaks off South America

  • An anti-missile system operates after Iran launched drones and missiles towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel

    Visual guide
    How Iran’s attack on Israel unfolded

Newsletters

  • Well actually newsletter artwork

    Sign up for Well Actually
    A free weekly newsletter about health and wellness

  • Stay up to date on all of Donald Trump’s trials with Trump on Trial.

    Trump on trial
    Sign up for our free newsletter on all the latest court developments

  • Guardian Headlines US Newsletter

    Guardian Headlines US
    Sign up for a snapshot of the day's headlines and more

  • Jonathan Wilson sign-up page

    Soccer with Jonathan Wilson
    Sign up for a free weekly newsletter from our soccer expert

In pictures

  • man in a suit and tie singing

    From No Doubt to Will Smith
    Big stars and surprise guests at Coachella

    This year’s Palm Springs-based festival brought together some of the industry’s biggest names, from headliners like Tyler, the Creator to Doja Cat, as well as a raft of shock guests, from Olivia Rodrigo to Shakira
  • New Rwandans, from left, Yvan Kambari, Esther Iranzi and

    ‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’
    The new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures

  • Women in matching dresses take part in a rehearsal

    Photos of the day
    Olympics rehearsals and Kim statues

  • triptych crab

    Photo essay
    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise

  • Olivier Awards 2024 at the Royal Albert Hall some members of the cast of Guys and Dolls

    Guys, dolls and an A-list cast
    Behind the curtains at the Olivier awards

  • A woman wearing a headscarf looks out of the side of a truck packed with people

    Global development
    Inside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis

Tip us off
Share stories with the Guardian securely and confidentially

Most popular

Most viewed

What readers are clicking on

  1. Clarence Thomas absent from US supreme court with no explanation

  2. Undersea ‘hybrid warfare’ threatens security of 1bn, Nato commander warns

  3. Wrong couple get divorced after solicitor ‘clicks wrong button’

  4. ‘We’d wait all day for a train’: America by rail – in pictures

  5. Don’t say ‘show a little leg’, Hannah Waddingham rebukes photographer

  6. ‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit

  7. At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

  8. Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years

  9. Retreat death: police examine whether mushrooms used in drink before woman died near Ballarat

  10. Live
    Middle East crisis live: Israel’s war cabinet to meet again to discuss response to Iran’s attack

Deeply read

What readers are spending time with (Learn more)

  1. Ohio man charged with murder over shooting of Black ride-share driver

  2. Beijing half marathon hit by controversy as China’s He Jie allowed to win

  3. How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack and could it cope with a war?

  4. Fake snooze? Trump appears to doze off during first day of hush-money trial

  5. Mike Johnson unveils complex plan for Israel and Ukraine aid as pressure rises

  6. At 50, I had a flashback to a priest abusing me as a child. Then I decided to confront him

  7. Boeing employees’ use of safety concern service up 500% after panel blowout

  8. Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

  9. Roads blocked as thousands protest in US against Israel’s attack on Gaza

  10. Coachella 2024: women save the day as festival suffers an identity crisis