World

A remarkable and horrific audio archive of survivors’ stories documents individual upheavals and collective trauma

The Netherlands’ massive new photographic museum showcases art and celebs – but it’s the images of occupation and hunger that won’t let you look away

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has just released a new penal code. The rules it sets out are relentlessly brutal and backward

We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care

The US and Israeli assault on Iran has the potential to escalate into a broader international conflict. Not only that, but Trump has put the entire global economy in danger

The experiences of Iraq and Libya show what happens when the west attacks but has no plan.

Trump wants to decapitate the Iranian regime. But the danger now is a proliferating conflict that runs out of control

The idea emerged at a time very different to our own, and now the Silicon Valley tech bros have revealed what was true all along – that the notion of ‘progress’ is riddled with contradictions

Photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli’s photographs of Afghanistan go beyond the cliched bullets and burkas to challenge our perceptions of the country

In Pakistan, the courts are no longer there to administer the law – they have become extensions of the security state. It is a worrying indicator of where the US may be heading

Four years after the all out invasion, Ukrainians want more than just warm words. They want real help to end this war. Trump isn’t going to give it – so it’s down to us

Governments across the continent must borrow to spend on defence. If they do not, then Gen Z will end up going to war

After four years of war, Putin isn't winning. So why does the president insist he is?

If the Kremlin has to spin defeat in Ukraine as a victory, it might need other, quick victories to distract from its losses. That means a beaten Russia will be just as dangerous

A quarter of a million Rohingya people have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh. In the camps there is almost unimaginable suffering, danger and a longing for another life

An extraordinary tech surge is underway. At its core are female founders solving the untouchable problems

Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator

News reports that emerged from outside Iran put the number of dead protesters in the tens of thousands. Iranians inside the country, who took part in the demonstrations, tell a very different story

In the Kenyan mountains, a collection of colonial-era party houses is slowly rotting away. What should a nation do with the remains of its imperial past?

Gustavo Petro went to the White House as Trump’s South American enemy No 1. But things turned out a little different than expected

In a major essay, a historian of contemporary Russia describes the deep networks of global power and political corruption that Epstein exploited to make his fortune

Her confrontation with Pakistan’s military rulers was rooted in a lifetime of activism that began in childhood and never wavered

It’s the one lesson that power-mad authoritarians always forget – and nowhere embodies that truth more than Afghanistan

Thieves have been stealing sacred artefacts in Nepal which have turned up for sale in western galleries. Now we want them all returned

One neighbourhood in Nairobi is now so commercially successful that it has become a regional trade hub

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

A strange alliance has sprung up between indigenous New Zealand nationalists and the US and US hard right. But they both believe in the same, very dangerous idea

A civil war has been raging in the country for three years. But at the shoreline, looking at the clear blue water, the war seemed to fade. For a moment

Now’s not the time for Britain to give up nuclear arms. The leader of the Greens made a bad mis-step by suggesting otherwise

Twenty-four hours inside the velvet rope reveal the president’s thoughts on the issues of our time: Nato, windmills and the works of Michael Bay

The country held out for years against the violence and the gangs. And then along came cocaine

In comparison to Macron, Carney and Newsom, Trump and his team of sycophants looked out of touch, cringe-worthy – like yesterday’s men