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Monday29 April 2024

News in focus

  • Law academy building on fire in Odesa, Ukraine, after a deadly Russian missile attack.

    Ukraine war briefing
    Russia making gains from slow western aid, says Nato chief

  • A pedestrian walks past a display showing the foreign exchange rate between Japanese yen and US dollar.

    Explainer
    Why has the yen fallen to a decade's low and what does it mean for Japan’s economy?

    The accelerating slide in the value of Japan’s currency could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan who are heavily reliant on imports
  • Friday prayers at Ahmadiyya Mosque, Huddersfield.

    ‘The hot topic is the war’
    West Yorkshire’s Muslim voters feel politically homeless

    Kirklees residents are likely to punish both the Tories and Labour for their stance on Gaza in the 2 May local elections

Spotlight

  • Customers sit at tables at a cafe, some of them drinking coffee, as a TV mounted above a fridge shows Pedro Sánchez delivering an address

    Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse
    Toxic politics in Spain reflect the new Europe

    Pedro Sánchez is not alone in EU in facing ‘harassment through the media and the courts’ aimed at forcing him out of politics
  • Humza Yousaf

    Humza Yousaf’s unravelling tenure shows how short and brutish political lives have become

    John Crace
    Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader’s demise shows Westminster does not have the monopoly on chaos and ineptitude
    • Annie Conlon (Katherine Devlin) and Shane Bradley (Frank Blake) in police uniforms

      Blue Lights recap
      Series two, episode three – sexy, messy affairs

    • Close up of large lorry driving in Sevington Inland border facility

      Brexit
      How UK’s new border controls will affect animal and plant imports

    • a man with dark hair in a suit holds a microphone

      No Jerry Seinfeld, the ‘extreme left’ hasn’t killed comedy

      Stuart Heritage
    • Semi-naked cartoon savages … the Jarvis Mural.

      ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’
      How RIBA is decolonising its HQ

Opinion

  • Humza Yousaf and his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, leave Bute House after he announced his resignation as SNP leader.

    Humza Yousaf’s clumsiness meant he had to jump – but Westminster also gave him a push

    Rory Scothorne
    The SNP leader badly miscalculated his support. But London’s meddling in Scottish politics also played its part
  • Achaz von Hardenberg on the plummeting fortunes of Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf – cartoon

    Cartoon
    Achaz von Hardenberg on the plummeting fortunes of Rishi Sunak and Humza Yousaf

  • Rishi Sunak speaks to employees during a visit to the DHL Gateway port facility at Stanford Le Hope on the Thames estuary in Essex on April 29 2024

    Yes, prime minister, it’s a scandal so many of us are signed off work. Maybe you Tories should stop making us ill

    Zoe Williams
    The UK does not have a sicknote problem. It has a government-couldn’t-care-less problem, writes Zoe Williams
  • Two men clinking beer glasses in a pub.

    Britain has a problem that it won’t face up to: children’s dangerous relationship with alcohol

    Gary Nunn
    With young people in the UK far more likely to drink than those in other countries, it’s clear: we are a nation in denial
    • Close-up of man wearing suit

      What will happen if the ICC charges Netanyahu with war crimes?

      Kenneth Roth
    • Comedian Kiri Pritchard McLean near her home on Anglesey with her pet dog

      Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

      Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    • Salil Tripathi

      With India’s election in full swing, Narendra Modi is getting desperate – and dangerous

      Salil Tripathi
    • Couple on a date<br>A young couple in a coffee shop on a date sitting near coffee shop window

      Outside London, the dating pool may be smaller – but there are fewer sharks

      Elle Hunt

Editorials & Letters

  • Humza Yousaf

    The Guardian view
    Humza Yousaf’s resignation: miscalculation leads to crisis

  • Rishi Sunak

    The Guardian view
    The Tories and Rwanda: speeding up deportations looks desperate

  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Images.

    Letters
    The torture of being trapped by indefinite prison sentences

  • scrabble tiles

    Letters
    One word to describe Ofsted and the government

Sport

Climate crisis

  • Kenyan workers collect plastic waste for recycling in Nakuru. A pile of plastic items, including colourful buckets and pots, dominates the foreground of the image

    Plastics
    Countries consider pact to reduce production by 40% in 15 years

  • Steam rising from cooling towers at Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland, with the rest of the site lit up brightly at night-time

    Fossil fuels
    Taxing big oil and gas firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’

  • A gardener using bowl of washing up water to water garden plants.

    Environment
    Rain gardens and bathwater reuse becoming trends, RHS says

  • Woman with black curly hair and adorned with feathers stares into camera

    Australia
    First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

From the UK

  • Cropped image of schoolchildren in uniform walking together in a row through corridor

    Sextortion
    Teachers warned to be on lookout for victims in schools

    Teenage boys believed to be among most vulnerable to gangs using real and fake images to blackmail victims
  • Jonathan Dimbleby

    Assisted dying
    Jonathan Dimbleby urges MPs to ‘get off the fence’

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    Benefits
    Mentally ill people being used as ‘political football’, campaigners say

  • Bryn Austin holding a stick as he looks across a field at sunset

    ‘The Guardian lights very well’
    How newspaper came to aid of stranded geologist

    • London
      Man admits ‘motiveless’ killing of mobility scooter rider after leaving jail

    • Northern Ireland
      Two army veterans will not be prosecuted over 1971 Troubles deaths

    • Royal Mail
      Fines for ‘fake’ stamps paused after apparent flaw in fraud scanners

    • Hampshire
      Man tried to smother dying mother, 92, in act of ‘unadulterated love’, jury told

    • Buckinghamshire
      Man’s jail suicide recorded as unlawful killing by Milton Keynes inquest

    • Getir
      Delivery firm to quit UK, Europe and US and focus on Turkey

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Around the world

  • Multiple law enforcement officers were shot Monday, April 29, 2024, in east Charlotte, N.C., the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department said. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Task Force were conducting an investigation in a suburban neighborhood when they were fired upon, the CMPD said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. (Khadejeh Nikouyeh/The Charlotte Observer via AP)

    US
    Four police killed and four wounded in shooting at North Carolina home

  • a cat

    'It's a total miracle!'
    Utah cat found in California after being shipped in Amazon box

    • Republicans
      Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor

    • Canada
      British Columbia abruptly drops drug decriminalization after backlash

    • Gérard Depardieu
      Actor to stand trial over sexual assault allegations

    • Spain
      Pedro Sánchez to continue as PM despite ‘bullying’ campaign

    • Russia
      Red Cross decides against suspending branch despite links to Kremlin war machine

    • Elon Musk
      CEO still needs lawyer approval to tweet about Tesla, says supreme court

Culture

  • ‘He loathed injustice and had contempt for bullies’ said his agent … CJ Sansom.

    CJ Sansom
    Author of the Shardlake novels dies aged 71

    The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’
  • Bolt from the blue … Jean Butler and Michael Flatley in Riverdance.

    ‘Michael Flatley appeared like a rockstar’
    How Riverdance gave the jig cool factor

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    What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks

    Peter Bradshaw
  • ‘For all the anonymous outlaws’ … Dean Sameshima, Anonymous Homosexual (2020).

    Police busts, porn cinemas and glory holes
    The wild art of sexual outlaw Dean Sameshima

  • Melanie Cantor, Author, A New Start at 60<br>Melanie Cantor, author, Fuck It, photographed with her dog Mabel in East Stour, Dorset by Millie Pilkington for the Guardian, A New Start after 60

    A new start after 60
    After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

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    The big idea
    What would culture look like without nightlife?

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    Viking trails to vineyard tours
    10 of the best cycle routes in Denmark

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Lifestyle

  • Someone's knees with faces drawn on, which are looking at each other through the corners of their eyes in comedic fashion.

    ‘Don’t push into pain!’
    How to rescue your knees from everything from torn ligaments to injured tendons

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Tiler swift

  • Keza MacDonald and her lutino budgerigar, Brighton Yellow

    The pet I'll never forget
    Brighton Yellow, the budgie that interrupted dinner parties chirping, ‘Right! That’s enough!’

  • A person seen from the waist down adding compost to a garden bed using a spade and wheelbarrow

    Gardening
    ‘Get rid of your green waste bin and let leaves rot into the soil,’ says expert

  • Waiter serving customers at outdoor Parisian cafe

    Pass notes
    Going for gold! Have the Olympics overturned centuries of no-tipping etiquette in France?

  • Rachel Roddy’s chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives.

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken with orange, lemon, marmalade and olives

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  • People gather outside Bute house and watch the resignation of Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf on their phones.

    Scotland
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  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Luxury goods sector
    Tell us: are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • Elections for the Mayor and London Assembly under eased covid lockdown conditions, in Balham, Wandsworth, London, UK, on 06 May 2021.Covid rules and the desire to vote (with plenty of young people in evidence), led to queues at a polling station in Wandsworth.

    Young people in the UK
    How do you feel about voting?

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From our global editions

  • A man in military uniform in a forest clearing

    ‘My example can change minds’
    Roma fighting for place in postwar Ukraine

    Campaigners across Europe call on Kyiv to recognise contribution of marginalised community
  • Greying African man wearing a suit jacket, shirt and tie looks at camera

    ‘Stain on our humanity’
    The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the DRC

  • Stacks of 100-yuan banknotes. China has signalled that it will slow the pace of its transition to a cashless society

    Cash is king — for now
    China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

  • The bar at Ministry of Sound nightclub

    ‘I know my limit’
    How gen Z became Britain’s ‘sober-curious’ generation

  • Alicia Cook and Emerson sitting on a couch

    Australia
    How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured schools

  • A woman holds up a cut diamond to her eye

    Mining
    BHP’s pursuit of Anglo American has a major obstacle: South Africa

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