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British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal

Mira Lozi says quiet diplomacy has failed to free Rami Naimi who was first seized in Dubai in 2017

Geneva Abdul20h ago

Netanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims

Israeli PM says allegation that UAE president alerted him more than a week before major offensive is ‘absolute lie’

Peter Beaumont Senior international correspondent 20h ago

Organised crime driving illicit cigarette factory boom ‘in almost every EU state’

Bloc losing €13bn in revenue with one in 10 cigarettes illegal, watchdog reports

Jon Henley, Europe correspondent20h ago

Fourteen men go on trial in Paris over deadliest small-boat Channel crossing

Sinking of inflatable dinghy in 2021 resulted in 31 people dead or missing, including a seven-year-old child

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris 22h ago

Anti-AfD protests sweep Germany as far right closes in on two more states

Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory

Deborah Cole in Berlin22h ago

Houthis strike Saudi Arabian cities in significant expansion of Middle East war

Riyadh says it will retaliate after overnight attacks by Iran-backed Yemen group on oil facilities wound more than 70

Peter Beaumont23h ago

Tokyo tourist hotspot bans short-term rentals amid surge in complaints

Shinjuku ward targets accommodation in residential areas and near cultural sites as locals complain visitors disposing of rubbish improperly and being too noisy

Justin McCurry in Tokyo1d ago

Australians missing in the Nepal floods: what we know so far

There are 35 Australians among the thousands of people missing as rescue efforts continue after deadly flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border

Kat Wong, Nino Bucci, Henry Belot, Cait Kelly and Ima Caldwell1d ago

‘It breaks my heart’: far-right’s big election victory sparks dismay in German state capital

Fears expressed for immigrants and for country’s future after AfD vote hits historic high in Saxony-Anhalt

Kate Connolly in Magdeburg1d ago

Tuesday briefing: What happens next after Germany’s far-right breakthrough?

In today’s newsletter: The AfD’s local election triumph has shocked Europe, and raised questions about how to counter the rising far right

Libby Brooks1d ago

Canada’s retaliatory US tariffs take effect as trade dispute grows

Counter-measures covering several sectors come after Trump announced 50% tariffs on Canadian goods

Maya Yang1d ago

Hijacking pirates exploit regional chaos to return to seas off Somalia

US-Israel war against Iran and political instability in Somalia have led to pirates targeting cargo ships off Horn of Africa

Mohamed Gabobe in Mogadishu and Peter Beaumont1d ago

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds

Nearly half of respondents say spending on personal independence payments should be increased

Patrick Butler Social policy editor1d ago

Friedrich Merz is now on borrowed time. But that’s not why the AfD’s triumph is seismic

The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered, says Jörg Lau, an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zeit

Jörg Lau1d ago

Ukraine war briefing: New political turmoil in Kyiv as prosecutor general resigns

Anti-corruption agencies raid offices and arrest a deputy of Ruslan Kravchenko in case linked to alleged laundering of phone scam proceeds. What we know on day 1,658

Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies1d ago

Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster

Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Kathmandu1d ago

German chancellor vows to stay in office despite AfD triumph in state election

Friedrich Merz said his conservative CDU was shaken ‘to its very foundations’ after far-right victory in Saxony-Anhalt

Deborah Cole in Berlin1d ago

As Azerbaijan and Armenia work towards peace, this film paints a misleading picture

Letter: Günel Salimova of the Azerbaijan embassy responds to a review of the documentary The Black Garden, about lives affected by conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

1d ago

Syrian reactor could have been used for nuclear weapons if completed, UN says

Chief of nuclear watchdog says secret Assad-era facility would have been able to produce fissile material

Guardian staff and agencies in Vienna1d ago

Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame

Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas

Jon Henley Europe correspondent1d ago

Merz says ‘shock’ AfD victory in key German state ‘is an election result we cannot simply move past’ – as it happened

German chancellor says vote for far-right party ‘will have repercussions’ across the country

Jakub Krupa and Martin Belam1d ago