The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …

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Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stability

We shouldn’t celebrate a falling population, according to this persuasive debunking of demographic myths

Donald Trump's lunch meeting with Pakistan's military chief and other tensions in the U.S.-India relationship, after decades of flourishing ties, have cast a shadow in trade negotiations.

De-dollarisation is not a threat to global stability. Countries are simply questioning the rules of a game long rigged in Washington’s favour

Caricom summit gives ‘broad support’ for request to Charles as region steps up campaign for justice

Army chief’s effusive welcome in Washington hints at strategic recalibration amid Middle East turmoil

Israel has eliminated many of the brains behind Tehran’s nuclear programme. But don’t expect the regime to back down, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s interventions have infuriated India, which has emerged from conflict not as triumphant as it had hoped

Between his tariffs and his regressive ‘big, beautiful bill’, the president is wreaking havoc – and he never learns

The US has brought the two sides back from the brink before, but the mood is very different with Trump

Experts warn of slowing economy after score based on Americans’ financial outlooks fell by 32% since January

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps * Timeline: Sudan’s two years of war and its devastating toll Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country’s civil war enters its third year. Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, hundreds of people were feared to have died in RSF attacks on refugee camps in the western Darfur region in the latest apparent atrocity of a war marked by its brutality and wide-scale humanitarian impact. Continue reading...

In outback Queensland, an area four times the size of the UK has been inundated with torrential rain, leaving many cut off or forced to abandon homes

YouTube video by Graham Hughes

Editorial: The arrest of vice-president Riek Machar takes the country closer to a second civil war