10 h. ago 'This is a perfect recipe for a civil war', expert warns as Hamas fighters take to the streets amid fears of violence

Some 7,000 gunmen have been called on by Hamas to reassert control over areas of the enclave that were vacated by Israeli forces during the two-year-long war.

Events

26 h. ago A Myanmar town lies in shambles as both sides in civil war vie for control

Kyaukme, a once-thriving town in Myanmar’s Shan State, is in shambles, targeted by both sides in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war because of its strategic location at a key junction on the trading route to China

Events

60 h. ago Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns of ‘civil war’ amid spiraling US debt, global turmoil and wealth inequality

Hedge fund investor compared current issues to those of 1937 or 1938, as the US steered itself out of the Great Depression and the world prepared to go to war

Economics

8 d. ago Synagogue attacker's surgeon father said 'we will sip Arabic coffee and watch' the end of Israel in online posts that also praised Hamas

Syrian-born Faraj Al-Shamie, father of 35-year-old Islamist attacker Jihad Al-Shamie, has posted regularly on social media since before the Syrian civil war, often referencing Israel.

Politics

1 week ago Myanmar's military says it has recaptured a key central town from ethnic rebels

Myanmar’s military claims it has taken back control of a major district capital in northern Shan State more than a year after losing it to an armed ethnic minority rebel group

Events

2 w. ago How Scottish Government funding is allowing those in Sudan to rebuild from catastrophic civil war

Help is finally getting to the hundreds of thousands affected by the crisis in Sudan.

Politics

2 w. ago Labour delegates are strangers to sound economic sense as an alcoholic is to sobriety. That's why they'll lap up the Burnham blueprint, writes ANDREW NEIL

As it gathers for its annual conference in Liverpool this weekend Labour is in the grip of a civil war which threatens to erupt in the coming months into open hostilities, ripping it asunder.

Economics

2 w. ago Labour leadership war rages as Cabinet minister praises 'fantastic' Andy Burnham amid challenge to Keir Starmer... and poll shows Manchester mayor is party's best option

On the eve of Labour 's annual conference in Liverpool, Andy Burnham has stirred up a civil war within the party's ranks following his bold pitch for the leadership.

Politics

2 w. ago Now Keir Starmer's allies dub rival Andy Burnham the 'Liz Truss of Labour' as party's civil war intensifies

Just days before Labour's annual conference, and following weeks of speculation, Andy Burnham accused the Prime Minister of creating 'alienation' within Labour.

Events

2 w. ago My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende audiobook review – portrait of a fiercely independent young woman

Sent from San Francisco to report on the war in late-19th century Chile, a young writer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in this tale of love, loss and liberationSet in the late 19th century and inspired by the Chilean civil war which ravaged the country in 1891, Isabel Allende’s historical drama tells of a young woman born illegitimately in San Francisco’s Mission District. Emilia del Valle’s surname comes from her Chilean father, an aristocrat who seduced her mother when she was a novice nun and left before their child was born. Emilia owes her fiercely independent spirit to her liberal-minded stepfather Francisco Claro, whom she calls Papo, who encourages his stepdaughter to think for herself.In her late teens, Emilia writes a series of successful pulp fiction novels under the male pen name Brandon J Price. By the age of 23, she is a columnist at San Francisco’s Daily Examiner; still writing as a man, she longs to do more serious work. Eventually, she is commissioned to tra...

Culture

2 w. ago Kindred spirits: the exhibition exploring our endless fascination with ghosts

Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel charts how spooks and ghouls in artworks reflect shifting anxieties about everything from technology to sexWhat do ghosts smell like? Should we fear them? Do they talk – or are they limited to wails and the occasional shriek? These questions and more are pondered in Ghosts: Visualising the Supernatural at Kunstmuseum Basel, a spooky and consistently curious exhibition that unpicks our obsession with spirits loitering in limbo and shows how artists, pseudoscientists, conmen and enthusiasts have imagined them over the past two-and-a-half centuries.Ghosts have morphed from being creepy cameos in fireside tales to the star act. The exhibition opens with a montage of clips from cinematic chillers – from the slime-spewing wraiths of Ghostbusters to the unsettled phantoms of the Spanish civil war in The Devil’s Backbone. European auteurs have a particular fondness for apparitions and manifestations. Recently, 2023’s All of Us Strangers blen...

Politics

2 w. ago Darfur cholera cases rising at an 'alarming' rate as death toll in Sudan tops 3,000, says WHO

The number of reported cholera cases is increasing in Darfur and over 3,000 people in Sudan have died in the past 14 months of civil war, according to the World Health Organization

Events

3 w. ago Scottish bid to end Your Party civil war by writing to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

The Scottish branches of the new left-wing party say leadership must show unity in the face of the rising far right.

Events

3 w. ago Look to Myanmar for a vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall

The brutality and repression there highlight the failings of a dysfunctional world order. Unless we do better, this is the futureThe children were sleeping when death came from the air. A military warplane dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on their boarding school, witnesses said. Imagine, if you can, the carnage and the horror. At least 18 died. Others suffered life-changing injuries. The ruling regime claims to be fighting terrorists. Yet more often than not, it is defenceless, blameless civilians who are killed, maimed and displaced. No, this isn’t Gaza. It isn’t Ukraine. It’s Myanmar, where appalling atrocities, including crimes against humanity, often go unreported and unpunished. That doesn’t render them any less heinous or less deserving of universal condemnation.Myanmar, formerly British-run colonial Burma, where civil war has raged since an army coup overthrew the elected government in 2021, is a microcosm of today’s fractured world. National leaders gathering at the UN gener...

Culture

3 w. ago Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this African city is still rising

People fleeing the rising waters around Lake Tanganyika in Burundi are fighting for space and humanitarian care with refugees escaping civil war. Donald Trump’s slashing of international aid money has made a dangerous situation even more perilous. World affairs editor Sam Kiley investigates

Events

4 w. ago Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive

Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan viewsFor those unfamiliar with the dark days of the Tbilisi war in the early 1990s, watching this documentary could feel like diving into the deep end of history. Composed from a wealth of archive audiovisual material available on the internet, Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze’s film is at once passionate and clear-eyed. Apart from reconstructing the chain of events through editing, the directors keep the found footage as it is, with no voiceover added, interviews, or digital manipulation. Their only visible intervention is to categorise the source of each video with small white text that reads “Pro-Government Camera”, “KGB Camera”, “Pro-Opposition Camera” and so on. These labels emphasise how records of history are rarely without bias. Presented with this plurality of viewpoints, we as viewers are granted the power to create our own interpretati...

Events