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Airbnb guests freed from chores involving ‘significant effort’ under new global rules

Accommodation platform acts after long-standing guest complaints over doing dishes, taking out rubbish and stripping beds

Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter2d ago

North Korea prepares to restart propaganda loudspeakers as ties sour with South

Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, issues warning after inspecting border fortifications against backdrop of rising tensions

Raphael Rashid in Seoul2d ago

Bukang-i is back: shark returns to canal in South Korea hours after being coaxed out to sea

Animal attracted 1.6m visitors after getting trapped in September, now a new attempt to free it is under way

Raphael Rashid in Seoul with agencies2d ago

Ukraine war briefing: New peace proposals lack ‘substance’, says Kremlin after Witkoff-Putin meeting in Russia

US envoy Witkoff presented Putin with proposals drafted by Zelenskyy and European leaders in Oslo earlier this week. What we know on day 1,702

Guardian staff and agencies2d ago

Putin orders release of jailed American as he meets Trump envoy for Ukraine talks

Russia frees Stephen Hubbard after US request while Steve Witkoff praises Putin, wanted by ICC as war criminal, as a ‘humanitarian’

Pjotr Sauer2d ago

Macron accuses Trump and other foreign leaders of ‘stupid comments’ about France unrest

Leaders criticised for spreading misleading information as France prepares for further protests this weekend

Jon Henley in Paris2d ago

‘Cut the umbilical cord’: Bougainville’s bid to break away from Papua New Guinea faces reckoning

MPs in PNG to decide on ratifying a 2019 referendum in which Bougainvilleans voted overwhelmingly in favour of independence

Ben Doherty2d ago

Pope will not need further cancer treatment, doctors say

Medics indicate pontiff’s tumour had not spread, but doubts remain about planned trip to South America next month

Nadeem Badshah2d ago

Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack

US photojournalist describes ‘protective shield’, vows to return to work in West Bank and criticises Netanyahu comments on incident

Julian Borger and Quique Kierszenbaum in Petah Tikva3d ago

‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die

Steve Witkoff’s flattery of the Russian leader could be just the start of a mendacious stratagem from a US president who says Moscow ‘has been fine on Ukraine’

Andrew Roth in Kharkiv3d ago

John Staley obituary

Other lives: Field director for Oxfam in India who went on to be a lecturer in development studies in Birmingham

Ralph Staley3d ago

Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

Melody Schreiber3d ago

Stephen Pound: I used to sit with him outside his flat in Northolt while he sipped his favourite brandy, drew on a good cigar and recalled his displacement from the Basque country during the Spanish civil war

Stephen Pound3d ago

Taiwan charges five men over plot to run over comedian for his Xi Jinping jokes

Person named ‘K’ from China paid five defendants to injure Huang Yi-hao, New Taipei prosecutors say

Guardian staff3d ago

Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movement

Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka spent a week in jail after defying restrictions on protests in Delhi amid government crackdown

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi3d ago

Thousands march in Greece over public education failures as Macron blasts ‘stupid’ commentary on French protests – as it happened

Students, teachers and civil servants demonstrate across Greece as Macron blasts ‘stupid’ commentary on French protests

Jakub Krupa3d ago

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World stories

Airbnb guests freed from chores involving ‘significant effort’ under new global rules

North Korea prepares to restart propaganda loudspeakers as ties sour with South

Bukang-i is back: shark returns to canal in South Korea hours after being coaxed out to sea

Ukraine war briefing: New peace proposals lack ‘substance’, says Kremlin after Witkoff-Putin meeting in Russia

Putin orders release of jailed American as he meets Trump envoy for Ukraine talks

Macron accuses Trump and other foreign leaders of ‘stupid comments’ about France unrest

‘Cut the umbilical cord’: Bougainville’s bid to break away from Papua New Guinea faces reckoning

Pope will not need further cancer treatment, doctors say

Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack

‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die

John Staley obituary

Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

Letter: Paco Robles obituary

Taiwan charges five men over plot to run over comedian for his Xi Jinping jokes

Indian court orders release of two leaders of Cockroach movement

Thousands march in Greece over public education failures as Macron blasts ‘stupid’ commentary on French protests – as it happened

Poland’s parliament votes to ease abortion ban but faces likely veto from president

Booking.com under investigation by EU regulators over fake listings and scams

Europe’s far right seizes on protest violence to push authoritarian anti-immigration agenda

Europe stands by Ukraine – but how long can that last?

Besieged Yemeni city on verge of ‘unmanageable’ crisis, aid workers warn

Ramaswamy accuses Acton of ‘lying’ about attack ad, but court records contradict mother’s claim – as it happened

Red Roses suffer back-to-back defeats for first time in a decade as Canada make statement

Rubio tells Cubans ‘now is the time’ to act to see political change

Andy Bloke appears vaguely normal on Gogglebox – but Kemi dodged a bullet