Volodymyr Zelenskiy: things get serious for Ukraine's Servant of the People - 'Operation Blackout is underway': Russia blames US for Venezuela power crisis - Vladimir Putin to meet Kim Jong-un this week for first time - US toughens stance on Iran, ending exemptions from oil sanctions - FTSE 100 hits six-month high as Iranian sanctions drive oil up - business live - Hong Kong real estate now more expensive for the dead than the living - Tesla investigates video of Model S car exploding - Novice monks and poppy fields: Monday's best photos - Beyoncé rocks, but so did Woodstock | Brief letters - Is Benjamin Netanyahu about to go rogue in Jerusalem? All the signs are there | Mick Dumper - Sri Lanka terrorist attacks among world's worst since 9/11 - Potential bidders circle Thomas Cook as it hires turnaround specialist - China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority – podcast - Mueller’s account of Trump’s world acts as a cautionary tale for UK politics | Will Hutton - Airstrikes hit Tripoli as Haftar steps up assault on Libyan capital - Gaza Christians wait for permits to visit Jerusalem and Bethlehem at Easter - Iraq's oldest Christian town celebrates Easter without Isis - 'No new information': Russia shrugs off Mueller report - Elizabeth Warren calls for Trump's impeachment following Mueller report – as it happened - All the president's men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump - Where is Huawei banned from working on critical networks? - 'Companies are seldom treated like this': how Huawei fought back - Camera firm distances itself from Tiananmen Square advert - Afghan telecoms ministry hit by blast as attackers enter Kabul building - Five key things to look for in the Mueller report - Mind control, levitation and no pain: the race to find a superman in sport - 'I'm having a good day': Trump reacts after release of Mueller report – video - The full text of Robert Mueller's report on Trump and Russia - Mueller report: the key takeaways from the Trump-Russia investigation - The Guardian view on the Mueller report: now we see it. What next? | Editorial - Trump claimed he knew about damaging Clinton emails in advance - Mueller's report would have signaled the end for anyone other than Trump - Mueller report: Democrats round on Barr over 'misleading' Trump exoneration – as it happened - Is Ukraine about to elect a comedian as its next president? – podcast - Mueller report unable to clear Trump of obstruction of justice - The Mueller report shows that bad guys who play dirty, like Trump, always win | Jonathan Freedland - Kim Jong-un to visit Russia to meet Putin for first time - Tunisia holds UN Libya arms trafficking expert in jail - Roger Waters is too simplistic on Israel | Letters - Spacewatch: Israel's private moon mission crash-lands - Facebook and Twitter could be blocked in Russia in data storage row - Justice department discussed Mueller's findings with White House, report says – as it happened - 'Exhausted' polar bear found 700km from home in Russian village - Trotsky to be expelled from France – archive, 18 April 1934 - We Need to Talk About Putin and Putin v the People review – a gut-level patriot - Ukraine elections: actor and comedian poised to win crushing victory - Polar bear found 700km from home in Russian village – video - Kim Jong-un oversees first weapons test since failed US-North Korea summit - Salvini 'crossed red line' with refugee boat policy, says military - Arms cannot end Libya's agony – whatever its would-be strongman claims | Alia Brahimi - Iraq bans popular online games to protect children from 'moral threat' - Boxer Sadaf Khadem cancels return to Iran after arrest warrant issued - Chimerica review – a thrillingly real drama about fake news - 'I lost consciousness': woman whipped by the Taliban over burqa without veil | Haroon Janjua - US deports husband of soldier killed in Afghanistan – then lets him back in - Deutsche Bank faces action over $20bn Russian money-laundering scheme - North Korea nuclear site shows signs of activity - Nearly 180 dead and 800 injured in Haftar's assaults on Tripoli - Labour MP expresses regret over anti-Zionist comment in 2014 video - Labour party is addressing antisemitism issue | Letter - If you believe in human rights, Madonna, don’t play Tel Aviv | Roger Waters - Will Sudan's revolution hold? Inside the 19 April edition of the Guardian Weekly - Unseen Kafka works may soon be revealed after Kafkaesque trial - Iran parliament brands US troops in Middle East as terrorist - US government is 'ignorant of technology', say Huawei bosses - Tiktok: India bans video sharing app - House prices in the south-east of England fall for first time since 2011 -- business live - Jacinda Ardern and Red Cross lock horns over publication of nurse's kidnap in Syria - Russian court jails Norwegian for 14 years on spying charges - Day of the Sun: North Korea marks Kim Il-sung’s birthday - Fighting in Libya will create huge number of refugees, PM warns - Italy's PM and three government ministers face kidnap inquiry - ‘Pompeo has lost his mind’: China denies US claim it's prolonging Venezuela crisis - Longer working hours do not mean higher profits, say economists - Game of Thrones: Chinese fans angry as censorship results in 'castrated' debut - Women to join Taliban delegation for first time in Afghan peace talks - 'Dirt and filth': Russia attacks film about Red Army in Afghanistan - 'We have searched for you all these years': three Red Cross staff missing in Syria – video - New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi, kidnapped in Syria, may be alive, Red Cross says - 15 LGBT refugees say UK Home Office has ‘abandoned’ them to danger in Turkey - Australian Isis terrorist's children reunited with grandmother in Syria - Libya crisis: Egypt’s Sisi backs Haftar assault on Tripoli - Fear and despair engulf refugees in Libya's 'market of human beings' - Europe urged to reject US Middle East plan if it is unfair to Palestinians - Europe must stand by the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine | Letter - Undercover: female football fans in Iran - UK sounds alarm over rising debt levels in poorest countries - Working nine to nine: Chinese tech employees push back against very long hours - One of last four giant softshell turtles dies in Chinese zoo - Defying Chinese censorship: a comic dedicated to nakedness - The big picture: an 18th birthday haircut for a Russian orphan - Palestinians eye Israel’s election: ‘People could make peace … the problem is politicians’ - Publisher fined $29,000 for blog saying Beijing office complex had bad feng shui - World leaders ignore David Attenborough at their peril | Larry Eliott - Trans troops return to era of 'don't ask, don't tell' as Trump policy takes effect - Bring back children of Syria Isis fighters, Save the Children urges Australia - Fearful of what might await Julian Assange in the US | Letters - Kim Jong-un sets conditions after Trump suggests third summit - US's decision to deny BDS movement cofounder entry sparks backlash - Labor candidate Melissa Parke pulls out of Curtin contest over Israel comments - Trump's Iran terrorist designation is designed to lock in endless enmity | Trita Parsi - ICC rejects request to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan - Gregory Craig: former White House counsel for Obama indicted – as it happened - Donald Trump floats idea of third North Korea summit despite failed Hanoi talks - The Trump-Netanyahu relationship is sowing disaster for both countries | Michael Fuchs - ‘We have not managed to land successfully’: Israel's moonshot fails - Benjamin Netanyahu: the enduring hardman of Israeli politics - World Bank boss calls for more transparent lending to poor nations - Millions of Chinese youth 'volunteers' to be sent to villages in echo of Maoist policy - Chinese imports from US slump 28% amid trade standoff - China's trade with US slumps; eurozone factories beat forecasts - business live - Fewer Americans want to serve in the military. Cue Pentagon panic | William M Arkin - Russia passes bill to allow internet to be cut off from foreign servers - Kim Jong-un vows to deliver 'serious blow' over sanctions - Europe split over how to respond to Haftar assault on Tripoli - Netanyahu’s victory means life is about to get worse for Palestinians | Jonathan Freedland - Netanyahu will now feel free to pursue hardline agenda of confrontation | Simon Tisdall - 'The future is dark': Palestinians react to Israel's election - The Guardian view on the Israeli elections: further down the wrong road | Editorial - Israel election: Netanyahu wins fifth term as rival concedes - Trump basks in Netanyahu's victory by highlighting their personal alliance - Steve Bell on Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory – cartoon - Airbnb reverses decision to remove Israeli West Bank homes from website - Pompeo flounders on why annexation is good for the Golan but not for Crimea - Iraq seeks multibillion dollar fee to receive Isis prisoners - World weatherwatch: 'western disturbance' submerges Iran - CEO of Chinese phone company says he'll give £750m bonus to charity - China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority - The most serious threat to emerging economies is a US recession | Barry Eichengreen - Australian fighters have inflicted horror on Syrians. They are our responsibility | Joumanah El Matrah - Putin mocks Mueller report: ‘a mountain gave birth to a mouse’ - Libya crisis: UK officials anxious as blame is laid at doors of Gulf allies - UN postpones Libya national conference amid fighting in Tripoli - India's biggest election ever – inside the 12 April Guardian Weekly - Madonna to perform at Eurovision song contest in Israel - Is there a beautiful, briny solution to the world’s clean water crisis? - Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz both declare Israeli election victory – video - Israeli election: Netanyahu appears on track for victory despite tied result - Who has won the Israel election and what happens next? - Israel election: Netanyahu and rival Gantz tied with 97% of vote counted – as it happened - Iran's MPs don uniform of Revolutionary Guards in protest at US - Standard Chartered fined $1.1bn for money-laundering and sanctions breaches - China's state planning agency seeks to ban bitcoin mining - While the UK dithers over social care, China is starting to deliver - The scale of ambition: China's changing landscape – in pictures - Trump's taxes: Democrats request president's returns from IRS – as it happened - Paul Manafort: Trump's ex-campaign chair handed 47-month prison term – as it happened - 'I believe Putin': Trump dismissed US advice on North Korea threat, says McCabe - Warsaw-Jerusalem tensions rise over ‘Nazi link’ claims - Republican Steve King stripped of assignments amid racism backlash – as it happened - Returning jihadists 'threaten new wave of terror in Europe' - US navy ship ignored sinking migrants' cries for help, say survivors - Australian officials to speak with Indonesians over Israel embassy concerns – as it happened - In the age of noise, silence becomes a political issue | Giles Fraser | Loose canon - Trump: Russia inquiry distracts from running the US 'really, really well' – as it happened - Renowned Russian director Serebrennikov freed from house arrest - Russia violated rights of detained opposition leader, court rules - 'We're frightened': Tripoli braces as fighting reaches suburbs - What does the battle for Tripoli mean for Libya and the region? - Netanyahu rallies right wing in Jerusalem ahead of election - Israel election: voters go to polls as Netanyahu seeks fifth term - King Bibi: can anyone beat Benjamin Netanyahu? - Trump designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as foreign terrorist organization - Woman arrested for Mar-a-Lago breach had device to detect hidden cameras - Malcolm Turnbull says PM must 'deal with' Peter Dutton China allegations - Bill Shorten demands PM force Ian Macdonald to apologise over Wong remark - Hong Kong 'umbrella movement': nine convicted over protests - Pah-La review – fascinating Tibetan drama sets theatre ablaze - The rise of the killer robots – and the two women fighting back - Russia moves to free nearly 100 captive whales after outcry - Libya: UK urges France to condemn Haftar’s assault on Tripoli - Battle for Tripoli escalates as fighting nears Libyan capital - Oil prices rise to 2019 high as Libya civil war threatens supply – business live - Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal would bury the two-state solution - Gaza zoo animals moved to Jordan after starvation deaths - Israelis prepare to go to the polls: here's what we know - The secret of Netanyahu’s success? A simple tale of good versus evil | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Benjamin Netanyahu is racist, says Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke - Bulldozing mosques: the latest tactic in China’s war against Uighur culture | Rachel Harris - Jaguar Land Rover begins Brexit shutdown as sales fall - Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk? – podcast - Trailblazing women of Kabul, Afghanistan – a photo essay - Man poisoned after novichok attack meets Russian ambassador - Libya: international community warns Haftar against Tripoli attack - Rapper Tamer Nafar urges Palestinians not to boycott Israel poll - Trump to Republican Jewish Coalition: Democrats will damage Israel - Netanyahu vows to annex Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank - Netanyahu’s fearmongering is working. Israelis have forgotten how to hope | Uriel Abulof - UK under pressure to return children of Isis mothers - The Observer view on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s elections | Observer editorial - China hails 'progress' in trade talks, but US warns of 'significant' work ahead - America is fueling our age of impunity. Just look at Yemen | David Miliband - Nuclear war and a new arms race | Letters - Michael Cohen says Trump used 'code' language to coach him to lie to Congress - Haftar's advance leaves UN's hopes for Libya settlement in tatters - Trump administration to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terror group – report - Six more towns evacuated in Iran with more floods expected - Revealed: five Australian children trapped in China amid Uighur crackdown - 'Maybe he doesn’t even know who I am': Uighur Australian father separated from his son - Morrison says government will 'cooperate' with Isis fighter families if they get to Australian consulate - Someone Else's War: when your child joins the war against Isis - video - Western Libyan militias vow to confront Haftar advances - Best of the worst? Israel's left looks to Gantz as election nears - Why Israel is quietly cosying up to Gulf monarchies – podcast - Israelis are paragons of healthy eating | Letter - Rising risk of US and China housing slump causing recession – IMF - Letters: Roderick MacFarquhar obituary - South China Sea: Duterte warns Beijing of 'suicide missions' to protect disputed island - 'Can't afford to die': China embraces eco burials as plot prices outstrip housing - China orders party members to celebrate 'political' birthday - Chinese boxer becomes 'queen of the ring' – in pictures - US revokes visa of ICC prosecutor over Afghanistan inquiry - Turkey's purchase of Russian missile system 'defies Nato' - UN calls for food aid for starving North Koreans despite sanctions - The Guardian view on Algeria’s ousted president: what next? | Editorial - UN chief urges restraint as Libyan army leader plans Tripoli assault - Holy Lands review – misjudged Jewish pig-farmer drama - Iran floods: death toll continues to rise - Damage from Trump unilateralism is 'criminal', says former US adviser - Mar-a-Lago security under scrutiny after Chinese woman gained access - Why did Trump say his dad was German? He lies so much he doesn’t know the truth | Richard Wolffe - North Atlantic Pact signed: 'a shield against aggression' - archive, April 1949 - 'Ma’amageddon': secret plans for Queen's nuclear address revealed - Theresa May's failing circus: inside the 5 April edition of the Guardian Weekly - I fought South African apartheid. I see the same brutal policies in Israel | Ronnie Kasrils - Abhishek Majumdar: the playwright fighting death threats with ice cream - Toxic air will shorten children's lives by 20 months, study reveals - Chinese say Dalai Lama is in India - archive, 3 April 1959 - Hong Kong's push to allow extraditions to China prompts protests - Please, Europe – treat the skills of refugees like me as an asset | Hasina Shirzad - Video purports to show British troops firing at Jeremy Corbyn poster - How a 13-year-old Palestinian boy showed me the power of empathy | Tariq Jordan - China cracks down on fentanyl after US pleads Beijing for action on opioids - US woman kidnapped in Afghanistan tells court how she escaped ex-husband - Scott Morrison rules out helping children of Isis fighter Khaled Sharrouf - One of Russia's richest women killed in German plane crash - Kim Jong-nam poisoning trial: last suspect to be released after plea deal - How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam - Mother’s Day card for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe delivered to Iranian embassy - Call for UK to ban patients travelling to China for 'organ tourism' - Mueller’s report is a warning – and Britain won’t listen | Carole Cadwalladr - Enough collusion talk. It's time to focus on Trump's corruption | Michael Paarlberg - I'm the only Australian living in North Korea. Let me tell you about it | Alek Sigley - 'Grave terrorist attack': North Korea condemns raid on its Madrid embassy - Palestinians rally at Gaza border to mark protest anniversary – video - In a destructive decade, why has no one tried to rein in Netanyahu? - Israeli authorities reopen two Gaza Strip crossings - Trump intervenes in case of Navy Seal charged in stabbing of Isis prisoner - 3 faces review – another brave act of cinematic defiance - William Barr to give Congress redacted version of Mueller report by mid-April - Hijacked captain recalls 'horror' in Mediterranean Sea as migrants took over ship - Border protests: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire, officials say - US woman kidnapped in Afghanistan says husband's abuse was just like captors' - Will Rachel Maddow face a reckoning for her Trump-Russia coverage? | Ross Barkan - 'Russia hoax is finally dead': Donald Trump wrongly claims 'total exoneration' at rally – video - 'Like another planet': Malham salt cave is world's longest, say researchers - A Botticelli and the Queen with a carrot: Thursday’s best photos - Gaza braces for anniversary of demonstrations at frontier wth Israel - Conmen made €8m by impersonating French minister - Israeli police - Gaza border protests: 190 killed and 28,000 injured in a year of bloodshed - Prisoner by Jason Rezaian review – 544 days in an Iranian prison - Huawei issues could pose UK security risks, say authorities - Chinese Communist party-linked group not listed on foreign influence register - Australia's mining exports hit $278bn – but bonanza at risk, says report - Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk? - Trump wants to give 62 cents of every dollar to the military. That's immoral | Reverend William Barber, Dr Liz Theoharis and Lindsay Koshgarian - School and hospitals in Idlib were among Assad targets, says Amnesty - Russian troops landed in Caracas for talks, says Venezuela's envoy - Ship hijacked by migrants off Libya escorted to Malta - Rescued migrants hijack merchant ship off Libya - Trump's Golan Heights proclamation is a cynical, dangerous move | Joshua Leifer - Israeli soldiers kill teenage Palestinian medic near Bethlehem - Bohemian Rhapsody's Chinese cut: no homosexuality, no frocks – and no Aids - Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app over US security concerns - US-China soy trade war could destroy 13 million hectares of rainforest - Mike Pompeo urges China to immediately halt detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang - Trump's border emergency declaration stands after House vote falls short - After Mueller, the need for oversight of Trump is as urgent as ever | John Mulholland - Mueller report: why Donald Trump is not yet in the clear – podcast - True love? The Russia investigation's remarkable romance - Spanish court: FBI was offered stolen data by North Korean embassy intruder - Secretive group seeking to oust Kim Jong-un claim North Korea embassy raid - Cheollima: the self-styled 'government-in-exile' fighting to free North Korea - Israel-Hamas relations: a predictable but fatal dance - Alleged victims of Malka Leifer frustrated at testimony of ‘questionable characters’ in Israel - Iran TV station did not break rules over interview praising attack – Ofcom - Macron's mini-summit in Paris is a snub to Trump's trade policy | Larry Elliott - Emmanuel Macron hosts Xi Jinping in attempt to strengthen EU-China relationship - Canadian police find kidnapped Chinese student Wanzhen Lu after three-day search - US efforts to rebuild Afghanistan beset by 'theft and abuse from security forces' - US astounded at magnitude of Bikini explosion – archive, 26 March 1954 - Trump threatens retaliation against 'evil, treasonous' opponents over Russia investigation – video - The Guardian view on the Mueller report: release it in full | Editorial - Martin Rowson on the Mueller report and Russian interference – cartoon - 'Slam and shame the media': Mueller report sparks backlash against press - Democrats demand to see full Mueller report by next week – as it happened - Ex-Trump adviser takes aim at Alexander Downer after Mueller report - Anyone else feeling the Mueller report blues? | Jean Hannah Edelstein - Propaganda, but with graphics: North Korea's news bulletins get a makeover - Refugees report brutal and routine sexual violence in Libya - Israeli military bombs Gaza after rocket strike - Rafi Eitan obituary - The caliphate is over, but Isis will be back in another form | Alia Brahimi - Macron under fire for 'patronising' injured gilets jaunes protester - Stun-gun kidnapping of Chinese student alarms Canada - Xinjiang crackdown must continue, top China leader says - Canadian man stands trial after wife alleges abuse following family's Afghan kidnapping - Nowruz festival marks 100 years of Afghan independence - Mueller report: top Democrats say Barr summary ‘raises as many questions as it answers’ – as it happened - The Mueller report: key findings - Russian military officials arrive in Venezuela to discuss 'training and strategy' - The confusion around Russian ‘meddling’ means they’re already winning | Gabriel Gatehouse - Russia on Mueller report: 'It has proved what we already knew' - Victor Hochhauser obituary - Rocket fired from Gaza hits house in Israel, wounding seven - Brexit and the Iraq war are two stains on the Labour party - 'It will rock your house!' Inside the Iranian electronic underground - The global battle for the internet is just starting | John Harris - 'The country could fall apart': drought and despair in Afghanistan - Mueller report: Trump camp celebrates but danger is not past yet - Congress awaits Mueller conclusions as Democrats push for report's release - Spymaster behind the capture of Adolf Eichmann dies aged 92 - Italy and China in plan for new Silk Road-style trade network - Kurdish forces dispute White House claim Isis is eliminated in Syria - Isis defeated, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announce - John Slatter obituary - What does the Mueller report say and what does it mean for Trump? - Mueller report: special counsel delivers findings of Trump-Russia inquiry - #Muellersgonna: internet mulls special counsel's Friday night plans - What do you want to know about the Mueller report? Guardian reporters answer your questions - Drugged orangutan found in Russian's airline luggage - Mueller report: no new indictments recommended, says DoJ official – as it happened - Israel's Netanyahu to play Trump card in tight election - The rise and fall of the Isis 'caliphate' - Trump provokes global anger by recognising Israel's claim to Golan Heights - Jaguar wins landmark case against Chinese copy of Evoque model - BBC journalists concerned over Tony Hall's Huawei meeting - Italy pulls out red carpet for Xi Jinping in trade charm offensive - Donald Trump and Xi Jinping miss a trick over trade | Jeffery Frankel - Trump to lift 'not necessary' North Korea sanctions, White House confirms - Diarrhoea kills more children in war zones than war itself – Unicef - German journalist who gave birth as hostage in Syria speaks of ordeal - UK will change tack on UN motions criticising Israel, says Jeremy Hunt - Trump says US will recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights - Spacewatch: private Israeli mission on course for the moon - James Comey says he hopes Trump isn't impeached – as it happened - The Journey review – supreme acting elevates a humane hostage drama - Iraq ferry sinking: more than 90 people drown in Mosul - Kachin women from Myanmar 'raped until they get pregnant' in China - The Crossing review – Bai Xue's slowburn gem delivers the goods - Australia's coal bonanza at risk as Chinese import 'ban' spreads - 'Mindblowing' haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China - Dozens killed and hundreds injured in explosion at Chinese chemical plant - Two American service members killed in Afghanistan operation - Democrats bear some blame for the Trump-Kim summit collapse | Richard Beck - UN Libya envoy hopes reconciliation talks will bring stability - Lockerbie investigators ‘question former Stasi agents’ - Hamas violently suppresses Gaza economic protests - A Moon for My Father review – a poetic meditation on body and beauty - US-China trade: Trump says tariffs on Beijing may linger - US airstrikes in Somalia are killing civilians, Amnesty International says - Mueller suspected Trump lawyer may have been acting as foreign agent - Italian authorities order seizure of migrant rescue ship - Gaza: generation blockade - podcast - Kurdish rebels say Kirkuk is set to fall – archive, 20 March 1991 - China clones 'Sherlock Holmes' police dog to cut training times – report - Chinese fishmeal plants leave fishermen in the Gambia all at sea | Hannah Summers - Italy rattles US and EU with likely support for China's Belt and Road - Foreign nationals suspected of Isis links 'not wanted' in Syrian camps - Court in Chechnya banishes human rights activist to penal colony - Meteor blast over Bering Sea was 10 times size of Hiroshima - At home in the remote snow forests of Russia – in pictures - Italian charity ship defies Rome to rescue 50 off Libyan coast - Palestinian attacker kills Israeli soldier and rabbi in West Bank - Why Israel is quietly cosying up to Gulf monarchies - Far-right Israeli campaign ad jokes of 'fascism' perfume - Social workers can do so much more than just pick up the pieces - 'Lewis Hamilton of pigeons' sold for world record €1.25m - Online retail fuelling rapid rise in sales of fake goods, says OECD - China's goths protest after woman told to remove 'distressing' make-up on subway - Baltic states no longer a bridge between east and west, says Latvia - Iran’s threats to BBC Persian staff must be confronted - The Guardian view on Xinjiang’s detention camps: not just China’s shame | Editorial - China's primary school students to learn how to avoid stock market pitfalls - Global stock markets gain as investors predict cautious Federal Reserve – business live - China says it has arrested 13,000 'terrorists' in Xinjiang - Trump is cornered, with violence on his mind. We must be on red alert | Robert Reich - Former Putin adviser had neck fracture at time of death in Washington hotel - Chechnya verdict could mark new purge of human rights activists - Iran sentences US navy veteran Michael White to 10 years in jail - France repatriates five orphaned children of jihadists from Syria - Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth – podcast - Death education and fertility liberation: inside China's 'two sessions' - US to deny visas for ICC members investigating alleged war crimes - Billions pledged to help refugees inside Syria and on borders - Israel-Gaza violence and the struggle for Middle East peace | Letters - Rockets fired from Gaza target Tel Aviv for first time since 2014 - The Guardian view on the Bloody Sunday prosecution: late but necessary | Editorial - Pollutionwatch: China shows how political will can take on air pollution - UN plan for Syria should take priority | Letters - Russian and Syrian airstrikes intensify on rebel-held Idlib - Kim Jong-nam murder trial: prosecutors reject request to free Doan Thi Huong - Spain investigates possible CIA links to embassy break-in - One-state solution gains ground as Palestinians battle for equal rights - US alters Golan Heights designation from 'Israeli-occupied' to 'Israeli-controlled' - Israel criticises Catalan government over Anne Frank tweet - The fall of the Israeli peace movement and why leftists continue to fight - Up to 3,000 Isis children living in 'extremely dire conditions' - A Line in the River by Jamal Mahjoub review – Khartoum, city of memory - Chinese parents storm primary school in rotten food row - Cao Shunli died five years ago. She stood up to China on human rights, and so must we | Frances Eve - China is 'in a league of its own' on human rights violations, Pompeo says - China hits back at US 'prejudice' in human rights tit-for-tat row - Afghan King and Queen visit the UK – archive, 14 march 1928 - Isis releases video of fighters in Baghuz as Kurdish forces advance - Ministers urged to help UK families of foreign fighters in Syria - Syria, Skripal and MH17: how Bellingcat broke the news – podcast - The truth is out about Israel’s lethal actions in Gaza. Will the world listen? | Saeb Erekat - Gaza's generation blockade: young lives in the ‘world’s largest prison’ - Netanyahu is right: Israel is a nation with no interest in equality | Amjad Iraqi - Isis has my kids: I won't stop till I get them home to the US – video - Trump's sheriff? New US ambassador to Australia attacks Chinese influence in Pacific - Xinjiang detention camps may be phased out, governor suggests - The Monlam great prayer festival in Tibet – a photo essay - US begins work on new cruise missile after pulling out of cold war treaty - Shamima Begum was the victim of a cult – she needs help | Lynne Wallis - Surge in prosecutions of British jihadists 'may never happen' – DPP - Syria's neighbours press for help to return refugees - Suspected Isis recruit can return to Ireland, says Leo Varadkar - Shamima Begum's mother asks Home Office to show mercy - Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison - Nikolai Glushkov's daughter appeals for witnesses a year after his murder - 'He's using his last bullet': Israeli Arabs condemn Netanyahu comments - Israel president rejects Netanyahu comments about Arab citizens - The Guardian view on the Israeli elections: Netanyahu debases his office – again | Editorial - Iranian couple arrested after public marriage proposal goes viral - Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh jailed 'for 38 years' in Iran - Andrew Robb blames Turnbull and Joyce for 'toxic' relationship with China - North Korea sanctions: UN investigating possible violations in about 20 countries - Western powers using Christianity to 'subvert' China, says religious official - 'We'll keep fighting': the Afghan women eyeing Paralympic gold | Stefanie Glinski - SDF launches assault on last Isis enclave in eastern Syria - Hunt rejects headline-driven approach to babies like Shamima Begum's - Bolton: Trump would be 'disappointed' if North Korea launches missile test - Kim Jong-nam murder: suspect Siti Aisyah released after charge dropped - Libyan army chief strengthens hand by taking more territory - Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is ‘not a state of all its citizens’ - ‘Cooking is our expression’: the ultra-Orthodox foodies stirring the pot - Babylonian treasure seized at Heathrow to be returned to Iraq - Don't let America turn North Korea into another Iraq | William M Arkin - Kazakh police arrest activist who campaigned for human rights in Xinjiang - 'They took everyone from me': anger lingers 60 years after Tibet crackdown - Ethiopian Airlines crash: carriers ground Boeing 737 Max 8 jets - China database lists 'breedready' status of 1.8 million women - Fugitive Taliban leader lived short walk from US base, book reveals - Syrian camps: vulnerable children of Isis ignored by the outside world - Radicalised former Irish soldier detained in Syrian camp – report - Shamima Begum: Sajid Javid labelled ‘moral coward’ over baby death - Two more women held in Syrian camps 'stripped of British citizenship' - North Koreans go to polls in 'rubber-stamp' election - Those responsible for Syria’s agony must be brought to book, starting at the top - US and China must focus on striking a deal for the sake of both economies - Never mind the hype. 5G is arriving with deeply mysterious baggage - Shamima Begum: baby son dies in Syrian refugee camp - Shamima Begum baby death 'a stain on conscience of UK government' - Defining Zionism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism | Letters - Did pro-Israel lobby funding influence Democrats' responses to Ilhan Omar? - Iran rejects UK claim of diplomatic status for Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Chinese school under fire for buying tracking bracelets for students - 'Alarming' Burkina Faso unrest threatens west African stability - 'Homage to evil': Russian activists detained over Stalin protest - North Korea must give up all nuclear weapons before any sanctions relief, says US - MoD claim of one civilian death in Isis raids ridiculed - Cleric linked to mass executions appointed head of Iran’s judiciary - Foreign Office grants Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection - China warns US of 'all necessary measures' to protect Huawei - If America can find $716bn for the military, it can fund the Green New Deal | Rev William Barber and Phyllis Bennis - Senator Martha McSally says she was raped while serving in air force - 'I was raped by a superior officer': Senator Martha McSally on serving in air force – video - Syrian refugees launch legal bid to try Assad for crimes against humanity - Shamima Begum must be allowed to keep UK citizenship, says father - Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government - North Korea: Trump voices disappointment at missile-site activity - North Korea film focuses on Kim-Trump relationship, not summit breakdown - EU declares migration crisis over as it hits out at 'fake news' - Antisemitism debate exposes new fault lines in US politics - Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic | Peter Beinart - RAF says it harmed just one civilian out of 4,000 enemy fighters in Iraq and Syria - China's women's movement has not only survived an intense crackdown, it's grown | Leta Hong Fincher - Huawei sues US over government ban on its products - Whistleblower charged with exposing alleged military misconduct 'not afraid to go to jail' - Islamic State’s last stand: the Battle for Baghouz – in pictures - UK partnerships moved billions through Baltic to Europe, data shows - Michael Bloomberg rules himself out of 2020 presidential bid – as it happened - Superyachts and private schools: Britain's dirty money problem - Andrzej Krauze on the elections in Ukraine - Five years on from ‘Maidan’, Ukraine’s small successes are its real revolution | Angelina Kariakina - North Korea rebuilds part of launch site it promised the US it would dismantle - Israel's first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie - Bohemian Rhapsody’s release in China is a victory, despite the cuts | Le Fil - Li Xueqin obituary - Forever war in Kashmir – inside the 8 March edition of Guardian weekly - 'Time for the Chinese miracle': Beijing's new English language propaganda push - No-deal Brexit would plunge UK economy into recession – OECD - 'Chilling reality': Afghanistan suffers worst floods in seven years - Aid worker stranded in Syria after British citizenship revoked - How Prince Charles's stately home restoration linked him to Russian money - Banking leak exposes Russian network with link to Prince Charles - Russia suspends participation in nuclear arms treaty with US - Q&A: what is the 'Troika Laundromat' and how did it work? - PM meets father of novichok victim Dawn Sturgess - Russian ambassador to the US warns arms control is 'in crisis' - UK policy on migration 'disconnected and incoherent', MPs warn - Vatican to unseal archives on controversial WWII pope - Israeli soldiers kill two Palestinians after car ramming, military says - Couples separated by Trump's travel ban put hopes in faulty visa waiver system - China accuses detained Canadian of stealing state secrets - China warns of 'tough struggle' as it cuts growth target to lowest since 1990 - UK firms cut staff; Greece launches debt auction - business live - Talking to the Taliban: peace at what price? - The caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire – Isis has nowhere left to go - 'Unusual activity' at Russian embassy before novichok attack - Midnight in Chernobyl; Manual for Survival – review - 'Kim knew': top Republican contradicts Trump over Otto Warmbier's death - Chris Grayling’s terrible cost to the nation | Brief letters - Huawei: Meng Wanzhou sues Canadian government over arrest - China in unfamiliar territory as rust belt cities flatline - 'Two sessions': Beijing locked down for China's greatest political spectacle - UK construction industry shrinks as Brexit hits confidence - business live - Censured by Britain, Hezbollah is bigger than ever in Beirut - Shamima Begum: Dutch husband wants to take teenager to Netherlands - US and South Korea scrap big military exercises to ease tensions with North - Can’t we finally accept that some ‘white saviours’ really want to help? | Barbara Ellen - The Observer view: even Donald Trump’s base must doubt him now | Observer editorial - Benny Gantz: can this Israeli general defeat Benjamin Netanyahu? - Ilhan Omar attacks pro-Israel lobby and critics again call remarks antisemitic - Iran rebukes UK for outlawing Hezbollah's political wing - The big picture: a surreal scene in the Iranian desert - Handing over power may be first steps to change in Sudan - Can China recover from its disastrous one-child policy? - Nessa Carey: ‘The most worrying thing about gene editing is that it’s really easy’ - UK firms' growth at six-year-low amid Brexit and global trade fears - Defiant women and dying children: Isis' desert legacy - Chlorine was used in attack on Syrian rebel town of Douma, watchdog says - Otto Warmbier parents blame Kim for son's death and reject Trump's 'excuses' - 'We aren't dangerous': Why Chechnya has welcomed women who joined Isis - China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of 'social credit' system - Global war on drugs could harm efforts to abolish death sentences - study - UK manufacturers' optimism at 27-year low amid Brexit stockpiling - US commits to aiding Philippines in South China Sea - Weatherwatch: Chinese launch rocketsondes where no balloon can go - Donald Trump asks China to abolish tariffs on US farm produce - Canada approves Huawei extradition process, sparking ire from China - Assad can still be brought to justice – and Europe’s role is crucial | Natalie Nougayrède - Shamima Begum moved from Syria camp after threats, says lawyer - NRA in crisis: how the gun group became ensnared in the Russia inquiry - Trump: I took Kim at his word over Otto Warmbier's torture - Otto Warmbier: Trump says he believes Kim Jong-un was unaware of torture - video - The art of the no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other | Julian Borger - The Hanoi summit collapse reaffirms Trump's amateur hour in diplomacy | Michael H Fuchs - Trump was out of his depth in Hanoi. This failure is his greatest flop yet | Simon Tisdall - The Guardian view on the US and North Korea: Trump’s vanity diplomacy falls flat | Editorial - Trump-Kim nuclear talks in Hanoi break down – video report - 'Remarkable progress': North Korean media paints rosy picture of Kim Jong-un's trip - Kim and Trump finally show their hands after nuclear talks in Hanoi - Manchester Arena attack: relatives want extradition facts - Explained: the case that could bring down Canada's Justin Trudeau - UN says Israel's killings at Gaza protests may amount to war crimes - Experience: I gave birth on the run from Isis - The environment was once a safe space for activism in Iran. No longer | Kaveh Madani - China to remove LGBT scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody - LK Bennett lines up administrators as it struggles to find backer - New fashion award launched amidst industry’s racial missteps - Javad Zarif's resignation: blow for nuclear deal and win for Iran's hardliners - Trump’s Iran summit shows just how far he is from the rest of the west | Simon Tisdall - Wen Hui: Red review – China's Cultural Revolution revisited - What will happen on Trump's super-sized state visit to China? - The Guardian view on Israel and Palestine: escape the past | Editorial - Parents of freed US hostage furious with son-in-law for Afghanistan trip - Amnesty criticises Australian government over Iraq civilian deaths - Cyber expert says GOP operative wanted to expose hacked Clinton emails - The moment a landmark Mosul mosque is destroyed – video - The Guardian view on terror in Kabul and Baghdad: bombed, but they have not buckled | Editorial - Sarah Sanders dodges Trump Foundation questions while attacking FBI over Flynn – as it happened - From liberal beacon to a prop for Trump: what has happened to WikiLeaks? - Book celebrates Vladimir Putin as 'global cultural phenomenon' - North Koreans on their favourite holiday: 'We celebrate even in the bad times' - Trans troops say transitions made them stronger in first congressional testimony - The west must not abandon Crimea and Ukraine to Russian aggression | Jeremy Hunt, Pavlo Klimkin and nine other foreign ministers - Ukraine pulls out of Eurovision as singers quit over Russia row - Michael Cohen's explosive allegations suggest danger for Trump on two fronts - Key moments from Michael Cohen's explosive testimony – video - Michael Cohen accuses 'racist, conman' Trump of criminal conspiracy - US in virtual tie with Russia on global confidence, poll finds - Pete Souza's best photograph: Obama lays into Putin - North Korean media dial up excitement for Trump-Kim summit - The Trump-Kim Vietnam summit – in pictures - Donald Trump hails ‘great leader’ Kim Jong-un at Hanoi summit - Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un meet for second time - video - Trump-Kim summit proves to be more of a remake than a sequel - The Guardian view on Trump in Asia: the crisis is in Kashmir | Editorial - Police investigate apparent break-in at North Korean embassy in Madrid - Kim Jong-un answers question from foreign journalist for first time – video - Steve Bell on Trump and Kim Jong-un's second summit – cartoon - Trump on Kim Jong-un talks: 'Sometimes you have to walk' – video - Vietnam summit: US president blames disagreement over sanctions for no deal - Trump says Kim wanted all sanctions lifted at Vietnam summit – live - Foxtrot review – desert heat sears a family in crisis - Netanyahu corruption charges decision expected today - Did Iran’s foreign minister ‘resign’ just to boost his influence at home? | Mohammad Ali Shabani - Taiwanese game removed from sale after anti-China messages discovered - Infant mortality in Venezuela has doubled during crisis, UN says - Who will pull India and Pakistan back from the edge this time? - The grey wall of China: inside the world's concrete superpower - UK car production falls for eighth month in row as China exports dive - Chinese exports slump worries markets; EU migration to UK hits 10-year low - business live - Not so special agent: FBI struggles to attract new recruits - Michael Cohen to call Donald Trump a 'racist', 'cheat' and 'conman' in first public hearing - Hotel double-booked as Hanoi scrambles to host Kim and Trump - Russian troll farm was shut down by US military on day of midterms – as it happened - Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam: what is on the table? - Trump-Kim Vietnam summit: explosive Cohen allegations look set to overshadow meeting – live - Malka Leifer faces new claim of child sexual abuse in Israel - Labour to accept Hezbollah ban but queries Javid's motives - Gunboat diplomacy can only harm Britain’s relationship with China | Liu Xiaoming - Potential dangers to the Chagos Islands | Letters - Chinese envoy hits back at Williamson's 'gunboat diplomacy' - 'Concrete? It's communist': the rise and fall of the utopian socialist material - Atwood and Roy back call to include women in Afghan peace talks - Afghan women’s voices must be heard in US-Taliban peace talks | Letter - Green zone: the US soldiers fighting for vegan food - ‘Jihadi bride’ doesn’t fit: we need a new language for female militants | Azadeh Moaveni - Russian state TV shows map of potential US nuclear targets - Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipeline likely to go ahead after EU deal - Daughter of Putin spokesman works for ally of Nigel Farage - US negotiating position in disarray ahead of summit with North Korea - Kim Jong-un flanked by aides as he arrives in Vietnam for second summit with Donald Trump – video - Kim Jong-un arrives in Hanoi for Vietnam summit with Donald Trump - Pyongyang to Hanoi express: Kim Jong-un arrives after three days – in pictures - Labour is no longer a force for good in promoting anti-racism | Letter - UK to outlaw Hezbollah’s political wing - Another refugee planned to set himself on fire before Omid Masoumali did, inquest told - Polarisation causes instability in Middle East, Qatari official says - Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif announces resignation - Analysts urge caution over hopes for US-China trade solution - Rising level of corporate debt a risk to global economy – OECD - Concrete chokes our landfill sites – but where else can it go? - Kim Yo-jong holds ashtray for Kim Jong-un on pre-summit cigarette break – video - Puffer train: Kim's cigarette stop en route to Hanoi - Okinawa referendum rejects new US military base but Abe likely to press on - Shamima Begum says she regrets publicising desire to return to UK - 'We are now free': Yazidis fleeing Isis start over in female-only commune - Durty Donald and Kim Jong Yum: burgers mark Vietnam summit - Trump sets more realistic tone ahead of second North Korea summit - Vietnam deports Kim Jong-un lookalike before summit, but not Trump imitator - Say what you will about Trump, but his tactics on North Korea are working - Pro-Israel US group condemns Netanyahu pact with extremists - Omid Masoumali set himself on fire on Nauru after UN officials 'upset' partner, inquest told - GCHQ head: 'UK must be alert to threat from Chinese tech firms' - Donald Trump delays tariff hike on Chinese goods, sending stock markets soaring - Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth - China stocks surge into bull market; US-UK Brexit derivatives deal agreed - business live - Afghanistan: UN says record number of civilians killed in 2018 - Met police kept families of Isis schoolgirls ‘in the dark’ - David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ - War doctor David Nott: ‘The adrenaline was overpowering’ - Mueller: Paul Manafort is hardened criminal who 'repeatedly' broke law - Where Jesus once preached, the holy waters are draining away - Antisemites use the language of anti-Zionism. The two are distinct | Kenan Malik - Kim Jong-un boards train for two-day journey to meet Trump in Vietnam - We can no longer rely on coal for our future prosperity. We must plan for life without it | Greg Jericho - Australia's trade minister raises concerns about China's coal processing delays - How Xi Jinping became a networked authoritarian thanks to his little red app | John Naughton - China says 'preventive' work in Xinjiang detention camps should be applauded - Sheffield flypast pays tribute to US airmen killed in wartime crash - 'We won't be war profiteers': Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract - Civilians leave Isis's final enclave in Syria as 'caliphate' nears end - Shamima Begum: Isis runaway asking for sympathy - video profile - Syria’s Kurds deserve international protection | Letter - Shamima Begum: decision risks 'creating second class of citizenship' - Second Briton says he wants to be allowed back to UK from Syria - 'Even Nixon wasn’t like him': Trump's bid to upend Russia inquiry unprecedented, experts say - Italian MPs demand answers over claims Salvini's League sought Kremlin funding - Vietnam threatens to deport Trump and Kim impersonators before 'sensitive' summit - Okinawa referendum: everything you need to know - What is the truth about Shamima Begum's citizenship status? - Shamima Begum citizenship decision sets a dangerous precedent | Letters - Shamima Begum's family hope to bring her baby to UK - Shamima Begum: I am willing to change to keep British citizenship - North Korea appeals for food aid as regime cuts rations due to drought and sanctions - Israel's first lunar lander blasts into space from Florida - Samsung's $2,000 Galaxy Fold changes the smartphone game - The Guardian view on Britain and China: it’s complicated | Editorial - When multilateralism crumbles, so does our rules-based order | Mark Medish - Fears for Uighur comedian missing amid crackdown on cultural figures - China coal imports: 'no basis' to claims there is a ban, minister says - Mao and Chou put glow on Richard Nixon’s day - archive, 22 February 1972 - US company to stop selling China equipment to build Uighur DNA database - Chronicles should go back to Manx nation | Brief letters - I witnessed the purgatory of people trapped in Syria's Rukban camp | Marwa Awad - What do experts think of revoking Shamima Begum's citizenship? - The Guardian view on Shamima Begum’s citizenship: removing it is not in Britain’s interest | Editorial - 'Let her prove herself': Bethnal Green residents on Shamima Begum - Endgame for the Isis ‘caliphate’ looms in small Syrian town - Russia may be forced to aim weapons at Washington, suggests Putin - North Korea must take 'meaningful' steps to earn sanctions relief, says Trump - North Korea accused of abducting its former ambassador's daughter - Israel to launch first privately funded moon mission - Benjamin Netanyahu strikes deal with hardline parties ahead of Israel elections - The hair-raising hipsters of Baghdad – in pictures - China's former military chief of staff jailed for life for corruption - Roderick MacFarquhar obituary - 'Moment of reckoning': US cities burn recyclables after China bans imports - Chinese port bans imports of Australian coal, sending dollar tumbling - Hammond: UK-China relations 'not made simpler' by Williamson - UK public finances hit record surplus in boost to chancellor - business live - Trump signs space force plan: 'We have to be prepared' - Taking Shamima Begum's citizenship risks making her a martyr | Robert Verkaik - Shamima Begum 'a bit shocked' that UK has revoked citizenship - Shamima Begum: Isis Briton faces move to revoke citizenship - Sharm el-Sheikh locals lament 'wall' going up around resort - Russia moves to mask its soldiers' digital trail with smartphone ban - Palestinians patrol Hebron after Israel ejects observer mission - Labour MP apologises for suggesting Israel funds Independent Group - Shamima Begum and questions of responsibility – hers and ours | Letters - New Zealand former PM denies writing glowing pro-China piece for Beijing paper - China's Forbidden City lights up for lunar new year show – in pictures - Trump's 'bring jihadists home' call gets mixed response in Europe - Final days of the 'Isis caliphate' – photo essay - Send me home: what should happen to the Isis wives? – podcast - Hoda Muthana wants to help US deradicalise others, says lawyer - Syrian Kurdish leader: border force needed to protect us from Turkey - 'I almost died': arms dealer whose poisoning may be linked to Skripals' - Rod Rosenstein, key figure behind Mueller inquiry, expected to step down in mid-March - Why single out Israel for boycott? | Letters - Former school principal Malka Leifer denied bail by Israeli judge - Reporter Jason Rezaian on 544 days in Iranian jail: ‘They never touched me – but I was tortured’ - Daughter of Mao Zedong’s personal secretary boycotts funeral - Chinese surveillance company tracking 2.5m Xinjiang residents - China rejects Australian parliament cyber attack claims as 'baseless' and 'irresponsible' - Chinese province bans app-based homework to save pupils' eyesight - Swedish student fined for anti-deportation protest that went viral - Hoda Muthana 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home - Exclusive: US woman who ‘deeply regrets’ joining Isis wants to come home – audio - Islamist extremism 'is a chronic and pernicious' issue in UK - Russian flag hung on Salisbury Cathedral year after novichok attack - Japan PM refuses to deny nominating Trump for Nobel prize - 'I know what intolerance looks like': Ilhan Omar takes her turn in the spotlight - Israel must not be allowed to use Eurovision as a propaganda tool | Brian Eno - Poland pulls out of Israel visit amid Holocaust row - Petrofac co-founder accused posthumously of paying bribes - Iran's foreign minister says public are losing faith in nuclear deal - UK security chiefs: Huawei risk in 5G can be contained - Jacinda Ardern disputes reports of diplomatic tensions with China - Let Shamima Begum return to UK or risk more terror recruits, says expert - The Observer view on Shamima Begum | Observer editorial - Agonising hunt by US father for children trapped in Isis enclave - Trump: EU must take back 800 Isis fighters captured in Syria - Trump is right, UK must take back Isis fighters – ex-British army chief - Nico Walker: ‘I needed to show how bad Iraq was’ - Without territory or new recruits, Islamic State is in its death throes | Jason Burke - Iran rejects as 'laughable' Mike Pence's accusation of antisemitism - Mike Pence rebukes European powers over Iran and Venezuela – video - The collapse of Isis will inflame the regional power struggle - The Observer view on Gavin Williamson’s Pacific blunder | Observer editorial - Russian minister calls Gavin Williamson 'minister for war' - Hammond's trip to China scuppered by Williamson's 'gunboat diplomacy' - Gavin Williamson at centre of row over chancellor’s cancelled China trip - Angela Merkel criticises US isolationism, urging 'win-win solutions' - Germany rebukes Trump over criticism of Nato spending - Shamima Begum may have criminalised herself, says senior terrorism officer - Toxic black snow covers Siberian coalmining region - Toxic black snow covers streets in Siberia - video - Gavin Williamson: Russia is getting away with murder - Senior Belgian spy accused of sharing secrets with Russia - Trump: Shinzo Abe nominated me for Nobel peace prize - Democratic party elites silence Ilhan Omar at their peril | Trita Parsi and Stephen Wertheim - Donald Trump hints at extension to China trade talks - Shamima Begum was groomed. She deserves the chance of rehabilitation | Michael Segalov - Shahima Begum tells of fate of friends who joined Isis during half-term - Shamima Begum is just a teenager. Britain should take her back | Richard Barrett - Former MI6 director says schoolgirl who joined Isis should be 'given a chance' - The Guardian view on Shamima Begum: return and face the consequences | Editorial - Isis fighters firing at escaping family members, says coalition - Journalist quits over blacklisting of story about 'Putin's chef' - Ukraine deports Orthodox bishop after stripping citizenship - Skripal poisoning: UK team looks into possible Bulgarian case link - Salisbury poisoning: website says it has identified third GRU suspect - Israeli minister suspected of obstruction in Malka Leifer case - Pro-Israel donors spent over $22m on lobbying and contributions in 2018 - After Isis: what happens to the foreign nationals who went to Syria? - Do Netanyahu’s smiles with Arab leaders signal a new era? - Mike Pence chides US allies at Warsaw summit on Iran - Huawei ban: Chinese state media claims tourists avoiding New Zealand - China's most popular app brings Xi Jinping to your pocket - Germany arrests two Syrians suspected of crimes against humanity - London schoolgirl who fled to join Isis wants to return to UK - British Bolshoi dancer held in Moscow over reported drug possession - ‘They would smash your head to death’: escaping homophobia in the Middle East - UK will not put officials at risk to rescue Isis Britons, says minister - Former US air force officer charged with spying for Iran - Iran suicide bomber kills 27 in attack on border guards' bus - Monica Witt: from US intelligence officer to alleged Iranian spy - Pandas could be sent back to China after Fu Ni fails to get pregnant - Sweden investigates its ambassador to China over 'strange' meetings - 'Nothing left in Baghuz': Isis families flee as war enters endgame - Great Firewall fears as Russia plans to cut itself off from internet - US commander says 'little to no change' in North Korea's military ability - Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby | Alex Kotch - In a Time of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt by Emma Sky – review - European powers to present cool front at Warsaw summit - 'I'll talk, but then I have to call Putin': steakhouse at centre of EU spy alert - Huawei tells New Zealand: banning us is like banning the All Blacks - Aid agencies pull out of Idlib in face of new terror threat - What polar bears in a Russian apartment block reveal about the climate crisis - UK and Bulgaria investigate 2015 poisoning of Bulgarian arms dealer - North and South Korea to launch joint bid to host 2032 summer Olympics - Ilhan Omar apologizes after being accused of using 'antisemitic tropes' - Iranians mark the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution – in pictures - Straw men and patriotic cufflinks: Monday's best photos - Iran's president calls Trump 'idiot' as crowds chant 'death to America' - Australia is a 'giant baby', banned billionaire Huang Xiangmo says - Air New Zealand flight's U-turn sparks claims of China tensions - Families of missing Uighurs call for 'proof of life' videos from Chinese government - The Shadow Play review – money worship and gangster capitalism in China - Pompeo in Hungary for Orbán meeting as US reengages in region - ‘The fighting was intense’: witness tells of two-day attempt to kill Isis leader - Revealed: wife of Putin's spokesman faces questions over US tax affairs - Russian islands declare emergency after mass invasion of polar bears - Revealed: 17 Australian residents believed detained in China's Uighur crackdown - Will Chinese company's stake in Reddit normalise censorship? | Emily Bell - 'I have never been abused' says detained Uighur Abdurehim Heyit – video - China releases video of Uighur poet said to have died in custody - China gets its first blockbuster sci-fi film - Afghanistan’s long road to recovery | Letter - Afghanistan‘s Generation Z – a photo essay - US-backed Syrian forces launch attack on final Isis stronghold - Mark Galeotti: ‘We should laugh at Russia more’ - For Surrey’s Koreans, simmering tensions reflect the north-south divide at home - The Observer view on the premature celebrations on the defeat of Isis | Observer editorial - China's treatment of Uighurs is 'embarrassment for humanity', says Turkey - To the Mountains by Abdullah Anas and Tam Hussein – review - Pristine flora of Korean demilitarised zone inspires English garden - Trump says Kim summit will be in Hanoi as envoy hails talks progress - Risk of global recession may be low but we are heading for slowdown - 'The Taliban took years of my life': the Afghan women living in the shadow of war - Isis leader believed to have fled coup attempt by his own fighters - Russian artists invite visitors to donate blood to exhibition - Is progress with North Korea possible under Trump’s style of diplomacy? | Michael H Fuchs - Conflict erupts for control of Libya's largest oil field - Australia’s Eurovision hopefuls and SBS face pressure to boycott event in Israel - Pegasus review – comeback-kid racetrack comedy - NSW Liberals took donations from figure linked to pro-Beijing group and Huang Xiangmo - Australian security services investigate attempted cyber attack on parliament - Jaguar Land Rover posts biggest quarterly loss of £3.4bn - Stanford investigates links to scientist in baby gene-editing scandal - 'Give back my money': banned billionaire Huang Xiangmo hits out at political parties - The US has ruined Afghanistan. It can’t just walk away now | Simon Tisdall - True aims of the Syrian Democratic Forces | Letters - José Mourinho dancing on ice – at last, he’s served up something watchable | Marina Hyde - Questions over lifestyle of Putin's aide and his wife's $10m property empire - Russian jailing of Jehovah's Witness raises persecution fears - US boyfriend of Russian agent Maria Butina charged with fraud - 'Clear him out': Palestinian tenants struggle to rent in west Jerusalem - From Iraq to Yemen: the grubby business of counting the war dead - Huawei security issues will take five years to fix, firm tells Commons - Record numbers from China and Hong Kong applying to study in UK - The Guardian view on Afghanistan talks: hopes for peace, but at what cost? | Editorial - Taliban and Afghan groups find common ground in landmark talks - Trump wants out of America's longest war, but Afghans can't just walk away - US commander says he was 'not consulted' on decision to leave Syria - Escape from Syria: the boys stranded after Isis fall - Russia plans land-based intermediate missiles in two years - Trump and Putin have relaunched the arms race. Hug Europe close, Britain | Rafael Behr - Trump confirms second summit with Kim Jong-un will be in Vietnam within weeks - Trump announces new North Korean summit during State of the Union address – video - The EU’s deal with Libya is sentencing refugees to death | Sally Hayden - House of Palestine: the architectural wonder built by a West Bank oil tycoon - British Isis hostage John Cantlie still alive, UK government says - Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners - Political donor Huang Xiangmo blocked from returning to Australia - North Korea trying to keep its nuclear missiles safe from US strikes, says UN report - Jeremy Hardy, the honorary Jew who held out an olive branch | Letters - US troops do not have permission to 'watch Iran', says Baghdad - A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report - Chinese lunar new year 2019 – in pictures - Milky Way is warped and twisted, not flat - Family of bullied Syrian boy forced to move after threats - 'I want my family with me': Syrian refugee calls for change to UK immigration rules - High-profile Muslims have a right not to expect an inquisition | Nesrine Malik - 'A silent act of resistance': the hidden tattoo studios of Tehran - UK's arms export supervisor attacks NGOs over Yemen deaths - Trump wants to keep US troops in Iraq to 'be able to watch' Iran - The long battle against infectious diseases | Letters - Venezuelan opposition leader urges China to abandon Maduro - The Guardian view on the pope in the Gulf: an important signal | Editorial - The great getaway: Lunar New Year in China - 'If we have to leave, we leave': the downside of life in China's park city - Eleven killed in Aleppo as war-damaged block of flats collapses - Marie Colvin verdict gives meaning to her death - ‘Bullshit’, not lies, is the corrosive influence blighting our public life | Kenan Malik - Yang Hengjun: lawyers denied access to Australian held in China - 'Why can't we get this over?': 9/11 hearings drag on at Guantánamo - Paul Conroy on Marie Colvin: 'Her curiosity overtook any sense of staying alive' - Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from INF nuclear treaty - Russia follows US in suspending nuclear deal - Fake eyelash company fined $1m over North Korean imports - 'Divide and conquer': China puts the pressure on US allies - Damning Yemen report calls on UK to come clean over arms exports - France prepares for return of jihadists after US withdraws - Children and babies die as temperatures plummet in Syria - US court finds Assad regime liable for Marie Colvin's death in Syria - America's Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato | David Graeber - US North Korea envoy says Trump is ready to 'end this war' - Australian jets may have killed 18 civilians in Mosul air strike, ADF admits - Europe sets up scheme to get round US sanctions on Iran - Facebook and Twitter removed hundreds of accounts linked to Iran, Russia and Venezuela - Trump hails China trade talks progress and says he will meet Xi Jinping soon - Blackwater founder Erik Prince to build training camp in China's Xinjiang - 9/11 hearings at Guantánamo delayed after judge flown out for eye surgery - From books to bullets: inside Amazon's push to 'defend' America - Russian MP arrested on senate floor over double murder - Russians leaked Mueller investigation evidence online, prosecutors say - Trump pushes back against US spy chiefs over North Korea and Isis - Iranian state TV anchor returns to Tehran after 10 days in US detention - Wednesday US briefing: Brexit, brain drain and Venezuela's future - Uncaged: saving China's songbirds from the poachers' nets – video - It shouldn’t take Pink Floyd to rescue Isis fighters’ abandoned children | Letta Tayler - How I got inside Mueller's head: the writer of a new Trump-Russia play tells all - New York state security: Manhattan's KGB Spy Museum – in pictures - Libya's oil chief calls for national force to guard petroleum installations - British cultural figures urge BBC to boycott Eurovision in Israel - Israel's ex-military chief launches campaign to unseat PM - The BBC should press for Eurovision to be moved from Israel | Letter - Intelligence chief contradicts Trump on North Korea and Iran - Huawei: China calls US charges 'immoral' as markets slide - The Guardian view on the US case against Huawei: the conflict sharpens | Editorial - Huawei indictments: sanctions busting, industrial espionage and a stolen robot - Huawei's Meng Wanzhou appears in court on eve of US China trade talks - Apple reports first decline in revenues and profits in over a decade - Chinese city seeks young blood: how ageing Nanjing lures new talent - George Galloway censured over Salisbury poisoning claims - Mueller investigation is almost finished, says acting attorney general - Is Oleg Deripaska the missing link in the Trump-Russia investigation? - Kim Jong-un’s edible fashion range: tasty looks for 2019 - Yemen ceasefire: Houthi retreat suffers setback, says UN envoy - Detained writer Yang Hengjun left letter calling for a more democratic China - Chinese activist Liu Feiyue given five years' jail for 'inciting subversion' - US framework deal with Taliban raises hope of Afghan peace - Roger Stone indictment packed with details that may make Trump sweat - Chinese growth lowest in 28 years as Davos gets under way - business live - Russian Orthodox priest rebuked over Gucci Instagram posts - Orange snow transforms eastern Europe into 'Mars' - China's 'war on law': victims' wives tell US Congress of torture and trauma - Labor attacks Malcolm Turnbull over penalty rates – as it happened - UK's 'China-phobia' spells trouble despite Hinkley decision – Chinese media - Barack Obama 'deliberately snubbed' by Chinese in chaotic arrival at G20 - China ratifies Paris climate change agreement ahead of G20 - US nuclear weapons: first low-yield warheads roll off the production line - Peak sneak: daring theft of mountain painting in Moscow proves short-lived - What, no samovars? Roman Abramovich presents a Chekhov for Russia's meltdown - Trump lifts sanctions on firms linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska - Russia denies sending mercenaries to shore up Nicolás Maduro's position - Huawei's problems deepen as western suspicions mount - European shares drift lower ahead of key US-China trade talks – business live - Wang Quanzhang: China sentences human rights lawyer to four years in prison - Australia urges Beijing to obey international law in South China Sea - Trans military personnel uncertain over Trump plan to restrict service - Will corruption, cuts and protest produce a new Arab spring? - Polish far-right trial raises spectre of 'false flag' tactics - Palestinian man killed by Israeli settlers in West Bank - Shenhua coalmine planning works 'could desecrate Indigenous sacred sites' - Justin Trudeau fires ambassador to China after remarks on Huawei case - US-Taliban talks offer glimmer of hope on path to Afghan peace - The Observer view on why Venezuela needs consensus, not conflict | Observer editorial - Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' - Trump agrees to temporarily reopen government after America's longest shutdown – as it happened - Russian mercenaries reportedly in Venezuela to protect Maduro - Roger Stone enters court in handcuffs after being charged in Mueller inquiry - British man and family plead for asylum after hiding in Australia in fear of Russian threats - Who is Roger Stone, the longtime Trump ally caught in Mueller's net? - Empathy needed to end Israel-Palestine violence | Letters - UK to attend US summit on Iran on condition of Yemen talks - American anchor for Iranian TV says she was mistreated during US detention - Vodafone 'pauses' use of Huawei equipment over security concerns - Military buildup in Arctic as melting ice reopens northern borders - Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych found guilty of treason - Israeli teenager charged with manslaughter in stoning of Palestinian car - Global slowdown threatens to worsen impact of no deal Brexit - Chinese movie star Gao Yunxiang pleads not guilty to raping woman in Sydney hotel - 'I misspoke': Canada ambassador to China regrets saying Huawei chief had 'strong case' - George Soros: China is using tech advances to repress its people - The Guardian view on Venezuela: its people deserve better | Editorial - On Her Shoulders review – the heartbreaking life of Nadia Murad, survivor of genocide - Novichok attack board game 'Our Guys in Salisbury' on sale in Russia - Kim Jong-un expresses 'great satisfaction' at Trump letter ahead of talks - Aiia Maasarwe's funeral held in Israel a week after her murder in Melbourne - Protest closes Israel's 'apartheid road' through West Bank - US releases American journalist working for Iranian state TV after uproar - Iran arrested 7,000 dissidents in 'year of shame', says Amnesty - US backtracks on Iran-focused conference in Poland after objections - China blocks Microsoft's Bing search engine - Trump's remarks could stymie US extradition of Huawei CFO from Canada - Russia and key allies vow to stand by Maduro in Venezuela crisis - Yang Hengjun held in China under 'residential surveillance', say Australian officials - Supreme court allows Trump trans military limit to be enforced - 'At last, I can sleep': brothers kidnapped by Isis reunited with mother in Syria - 'Sex trainer' who said she could prove Russia meddled in US election freed - Russian pop star linked to Trump Tower meeting cancels US tour - Drunk man tried to hijack Moscow-bound jet, say Russian police - The Guardian view on Israel’s democracy: killing with impunity, lying without consequence? | Editorial - Like Brexit and Iraq, Suez divided Britain bitterly | Letter - Inside China's leading 'sponge city': Wuhan's war with water - Friends fear Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been detained in China - Hong Kong: bill seeks to make insulting Chinese anthem a crime - 'I'm being watched': Anne-Marie Brady, the China critic living in fear of Beijing - Stock markets slip amid signs global economy is weakening - How the Chinese fell in love with the Highlands - ‘No one can guarantee our safety’: Syrians stuck in squalid exile - Skripal poisoning suspects put on European sanctions list - Striking design: matchboxes from the eastern bloc – in pictures - US man accused of spying in Russia may have had state secrets, says his lawyer - Crimea ship blaze: 10 dead after cargo vessels catch fire in Kerch Strait - North Korea: secret missile HQ uncovered as nuclear summit nears - Only empathy can break the cycle of violence in Israel-Palestine | Simon Baron-Cohen - Missile interception caught on snowboarder's camera in Golan Heights - video - Second woman carrying gene-edited baby, Chinese authorities confirm - IMF reminds US that a China slowdown is a drag for everyone - Pre-Davos survey shows sixfold rise in global CEOs' gloom - Former China envoys call on Xi Jinping to release two detained Canadians - IMF: no-deal Brexit and Chinese slump are biggest economic risks - Xi warns China to maintain political security against 'black swans' of economic volatility - Taliban kill ‘more than 100 people’ in attack on Afghan military base - Somalia: dozens of al-Shabaab fighters killed in airstrike, says US - Turkey offers to take over security in Syrian city of Manbij - Russian activists denied asylum in Sweden: 'We can’t go back' - Letter: Zhores Medvedev obituary - EU support for Libya contributes to 'extreme abuse' of refugees, says study - Pope Francis expresses sorrow after 170 feared dead in Mediterranean - Aiia Maasarwe murder accused Codey Herrmann remanded in custody until June - 'An angel, a diamond': Aiia Maasarwe's Palestinian identity was erased after her death | Jennine Khalik - Israeli military strikes Iranian targets inside Syria - Where are George Clooney and co now that Sudan needs them? | Nesrine Malik - Mount Everest climber numbers face major cut as China starts cleanup - Man arrested at Sydney airport over baby formula crime syndicate allegations - Battlefield moon: how China plans to win the lunar space race - China's economic growth slowest since 1990 amid trade war with US - The Guardian view on Trump and arms: can the doomsday clock be stopped? | Editorial - US airstrike in Somalia kills 52 al-Shabaab fighters, military says - 'Iraq on steroids': senator in Syria warning as Trump receives remains - The oligarch, his ex-wife and their bitter £450m divorce. Enter Interpol… - Donald Trump hails 'incredible' meeting with North Korean envoy - Trump to hold second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un – as it happened - Dinghies with 170 migrants on board missing in Med - America is retreating from world affairs and circling the wagons… - A burst of good news can’t hide the economic hazards ahead in 2019 - Syrian girl disfigured by bomb attack refused US visa under Trump travel ban - Ex-navy Seal and sailor among US victims killed in Syria suicide attack - Anti-Assad activist killed in Germany in suspected axe attack - 'Life is good': Syrian family's new life in remote Welsh town - Trump and Kim Jong-un to meet again at second nuclear summit - Friday US briefing: Trump escalates feud with Pelosi amid shutdown - Libya: reconciliation conference delay could fuel military solution - Cautious consumers feel the pinch as Chinese economy slows - What we don’t talk about when we only talk about Brexit | Jonathan Freedland - Male TV stars' earrings censored on Chinese site, say viewers - Model who claimed to have proof of Russian meddling in US election arrested - Wada retrieves doping data from Moscow but doubts linger over veracity - Facebook removes hundreds of pages 'linked to Russian site' - North Korean envoy may meet Trump to discuss second summit - Trump announces huge expansion of US missile defense system - Israel accuses Malaysia PM of 'rabid antisemitism' over Paralympics ban - Former principal Malka Leifer fit to be extradited to Melbourne, Israeli court told - Israeli museum to remove McJesus sculpture after protests - Home Office refuses to let great-grandparents remain in UK - Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei - Godsend by John Wray review – the girl who joins the Taliban - Four Americans killed in Syria blast claimed by Isis - Putin honours Serbian leader as he attacks west's Balkans role - US to begin nuclear treaty pullout next month after Russia missile talks fail - Putin says US wants to 'assert dominance' in Balkans as Macedonia changes name - Top North Korean officials reportedly set for Washington visit - Bundoora death: Israeli student Aya Masarwe on video call with sister when attacked - Frenzied rejoicing in Iran as Shah leaves - archive, 17 January 1979 - US plans new space sensors for missile defence against 'rogue states' - Iranian ambassador claims Free Nazanin campaign is 'unhelpful' - Iranian state television anchor arrested after flying into the US - China accuses US of suppressing its high-tech companies - Populist leaders face mounting resistance, say global rights experts - First green leaf on moon dies as temperatures plummet - Hong Kong: lawyers and activists march against Beijing 'meddling' - Fears grow for the 16th journalist abducted in Yemen this year - Kim Kardashian and the fashionistas: drop the hammer and sickle - Believe in socialism not sorcery, China tells party members - Syria withdrawal: Republican opposition to Trump's plan grows – as it happened - Displaced Syrian infants dying from lack of healthcare, UN says - Mueller: Manafort worked with alleged Russian agent even after criminal charges - One in three Christians face persecution in Asia, report finds - China unleashes tax cuts in bid to halt economic slowdown - Command and control - inside the 18 January edition of the Guardian Weekly - China expresses 'strong dissatisfaction' with Trudeau as countries spar - China has some of world's most advanced weapon systems, Pentagon warns - It’s not too late for Trump and Turkey to reach a compromise over Syria | Ranj Alaaldin - Trump says 'I never worked for Russia' as attorney general pick vows to protect Mueller - Chechnya: two dead and dozens held in LGBT purge, say activists - UN refugee chief: I would risk death to escape a squalid migrant camp - Moshe Arens obituary - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe goes on hunger strike over being denied medical care in prison - video - China pledges economic stimulus, as German growth hits five-year low - business live - Giant leaf for mankind? China germinates first seed on moon - China's Muslims fear crackdown in ancient city of Xi'an - 'Hostage' diplomacy: Canadian's death sentence in China sets worrying tone, experts say - 'Horrific' death sentence in China prompts Canada to revise travel advice - Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign – podcast - Global economy fears grow as China and eurozone slump - Justin Trudeau lookalike found in Afghan talent show - Gout gags are not funny for sufferers | Brief letters - Trump says he will 'devastate Turkey economically' if it attacks Kurds - Trump: report FBI investigated him as possible Russian agent is 'insulting' - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe health fears over Iran jail hunger strike - Death of an electrician: how luck run out for dissident who fled Iran in 1981 - White House asked the Pentagon for plans to strike Iran – report - Eurozone recession fears grow after industrial production takes a tumble - business live - China's Muslim detention camps - Trump vents fury over Russia stories and again threatens national emergency - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘fearful’ as she prepares for Iran jail hunger strike - In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture - Poland calls for 'joint' EU-Nato stance on Huawei after spying arrest - China mine accident: 21 dead after roof collapse - 'Real risk' of refugees freezing to death in Syria after rains destroy shelters - FBI reportedly opened inquiry into whether Trump was working for Russia - A simplistic story of Israel and Gaza | Letter - Iran should realise jailing Nazanin Zaghari‑Ratcliffe harms its security | Simon Tisdall - The far side of the moon gets its first earthly visitor – video - What are biggest risks to the global economy in 2019? | Kenneth Rogoff - Poland arrests Huawei worker on allegations of spying for China - 'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam - 'A torrent of ghastly revelations': what military service taught me about America – podcast - Has Duterte really ditched the US for Beijing's embrace? - Syria troop withdrawal under way, says US-led coalition - Maggots could be sent to Syria by UK to help clean wounds - Russia accuses BBC of promoting terrorist propaganda - US will expel every last Iranian boot from Syria, says Mike Pompeo - 'Total success': China broadcasts images from far side of moon - US clothing company drops Chinese supplier over Xinjiang forced labour concerns - Don't blame job losses at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford on Brexit | Larry Elliott - Ofo cycle hire firm pulls out of London - Afghanistan bucks global trend with sharp rise in civilian casualties - EU must demand a say in Syria negotiations | Letters - North Korea: will nuclear weapons be used in our region? – Australian politics live podcast - Sgt La David Johnson: soldier at the center of dispute over Trump remarks - Trump digs in over call to soldier's widow: 'I didn't say what the congresswoman said' - Fifteen years on, the Iraq war is still poisoning our national life | Gary Younge - Natalie Portman pulls out of Israel award due to 'distressing recent events' there - Turkey says it will launch Syria offensive if US delays pullout - 'Fireball' over New Zealand was satellite, Russia confirms - When free societies copy Russian media tactics, there’s only one winner | James Ball - Rosenstein, who has overseen Russia investigation, expected to leave DoJ - Patriotic tank film smashes Russian box office record - West 'risks helping political hijack of Libya's peace talks' - Iran confirms it has detained US navy veteran Michael White - Video of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's arrest shown on Iranian state TV - Coca-Cola influences China’s obesity policy, BMJ report says - 'Getting serious': Kim Jong-un's Beijing detour brings a second Trump summit closer - Toe the line: China bans foot fetish videos and political spoofs as censorship tightens - US-China trade war: is the time ripe for peace to break out? | Larry Elliott - China’s ambassador accuses Canada of ‘white supremacy’ in Huawei CFO arrest - Chinese car sales fall for first time in more than 20 years - Erdoğan chides Bolton and calls on US to hand over Syria bases - In former Soviet states, a new tech-savvy resistance is stirring | Barbara von Ow-Freytag - Manafort shared polling data on 2016 election with elusive Russian – Mueller - Russian who attended Trump Tower meeting charged with obstruction of justice - Soldier, spy: more details of Vladimir Putin's past revealed - Refugees at high risk of kidnapping in Horn of Africa, research reveals - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft awarded the Genesis prize - Children 'still being tortured to confess to Isis links' by Kurdish security forces - 'Like LA with minarets': how concrete and cars came to rule Tehran - Iran behind two assassinations in Netherlands – minister - FTSE 100 hits five-week high as US-China trade talks end - business live - China 'to let thousands of ethnic Kazakhs leave Xinjiang' - Markets buoyed as US-China trade talks extended amid signs of progress - 1MDB scandal: China denies it offered to bail out Malaysian fund - Limit prosecutions of army veterans, says top human rights lawyer - John Bolton expected to hold tense talks with Turkey over Syria policy - Netanyahu demands live TV showdown with his accusers - Ten years after the first war on Gaza, Israel still plans endless brute force | Avi Shlaim - Iran digging 'diplomatic grave' over Zaghari-Ratcliffe, says Thornberry - A former hunger striker writes: help give Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hope | Letters - What does 2019 hold for Kim Jong-un and North Korea? - Canadian men detained in China unaware of what charges they may face - Kim in Beijing for Xi meeting as second Trump summit looms - 'Most extraordinary millennial' - why does China focus on Kim Jong-un's age? - US confirms death of Jamal al-Badawi, al-Qaida militant in USS Cole bombing - Pending disaster of US Syria withdrawal | Letters - 'You can feel the love': Syrian who lived in airport on new life in Canada | Kate Hodal - The Guardian view on the Orthodox schism: theology and low politics | Editorial - Trump aides may be in legal jeopardy as Democrats give evidence to Mueller - US and North Korea 'negotiating' on site of next summit, says Trump - Meet Dr Miriam Adelson: the record-breaking Republican donor driving Trump's Israel policy - Bolton: US troops will not leave Syria till Isis beaten and Kurds protected - Baghdad at play: normal life returns to Iraq's capital – in pictures - Baghdad at 10 million: fragile dreams of normality as megacity status beckons - US and China resume trade talks with both eager for compromise - China's moon landing proves it is more than just a paper dragon | Larry Elliott - Shock of the cold: 50,000 Syrian refugees learn to survive -20C in Canada - Two British special forces soldiers injured by Isis in Syria - Some US troops could remain in Syria, Trump official says - Russian espionage arrest: 'My brother is being used as pawn' - Cold snaps: the Siberian city of Yakutsk – in pictures - Russia denies former US marine is being held as a bargaining chip - Ukraine: new Orthodox church gains independence from Moscow - Power politics always drives space conquest. China’s coup is no different | Kenan Malik - China feels the squeeze of Trump’s trade war as more tariffs loom - Fears grow in Africa that the flood of funds from China will start to ebb - To woo China, Apple must learn that it’s not in California any more - Apple and China’s problems show that today’s titans may not rule the world tomorrow | Will Hutton - US court rules in favor of Trump policy on transgender military limits - Hunt warns Russia not to play games with Briton on spying charge - Georges Loinger’s extraordinary life | Letters - US navy Seal pleads not guilty to murdering Islamic State prisoner - China's faltering economy gives US stronger hand in trade talks, Trump says - Donald Trump has a point – the world should start solving its own problems | Simon Jenkins - Assad will remain in power 'for a while', says Jeremy Hunt - Ex-US marine accused of spying in Russia is British citizen - Paul Whelan: ex-US marine held in Moscow charged with spying - Zaghari-Ratcliffe to go on hunger strike in Iranian jail - The space race is back on – and is China in the lead? | Mary Dejevsky - 'Brexit anxiety' holding back British services sector – business live - Chinese rover Jade Rabbit 2 sets off to explore far side of moon - video - 'One giant leap': China's Chang'e 4 rover Jade Rabbit 2 sets off on moon mission - Canada says 13 citizens detained in China since Huawei CFO's arrest - China thinks it can arbitrarily detain anyone. It is time for change | Michael Caster - US warns citizens traveling to China to exercise caution - Apple's woes go far beyond the slowdown in the Chinese economy - What could Chang'e 4 discover on far side of the moon? - iPhone slump: the rivals taking a bite out of Apple - Afghan athletes, who stayed behind after Invictus Games, offered free prosthetic surgery - Death toll rises to 37 in Russian apartment block collapse - Tolstoy rides into the forest to write his will – archive, 3 Jan 1914 - Fragmenting nuclear arms controls leave world in a more dangerous place - US ambassador visits ex-marine held in Russia on spy charges - Russian investigators deny explosives caused deadly building blast - North Korean ambassador to Italy in hiding, South Korean MP says - Chinese arthouse film breaks box office records after viewers mistake it for romcom - 'Dark side' of the moon: China's Chang'e 4 probe makes historic landing – video explainer - Far side of the moon: China's Chang'e 4 probe makes historic touchdown - Apple's shock profit warning sends European shares sliding - Chinese spacecraft to become first to land on far side of moon - Tensions bubble up after Hong Kong's 'Food God' pours scorn on hotpot - US markets start 2019 with a whimper as Trump blames 'glitch' for 2018 losses - The Guardian view on spaceflight: the outward urge - Russia explosion: baby pulled alive from tower block rubble - US man detained in Russia is former marine, says family - Baby found alive in rubble after Russian building collapse – video - If we must look to the past, let’s make it 1989: a year of transformation | John Harris - Israel's opposition alliance disbands months before election - British factories boosted by Brexit stockpiling – business live - Markets dive as China manufacturing weakens in bleak start to 2019 - 'All necessary means': Xi Jinping reserves right to use force against Taiwan - Inside Mother Camp: the woman tackling Afghanistan's drug problem - Trump slows Syria pullout but claims 'hero' status - Tower block collapse in Russia leaves four dead and dozens trapped – video - Kim Jong-un's new year message – video - Kim Jong-un's new year message warns of 'new path' if sanctions stay - Asia and Australia usher in new year with huge firework displays – video - Why Trump’s Middle East peace plan is just a sideshow - Palestinian man jailed for 18 years after killing Briton in Jerusalem - The Foreign Office did not have a hand in my release from Iran | Letter - FTSE 100 tumbles by 12.5% in 2018 – its biggest fall in a decade - The Guardian view on US-China antagonism | Editorial - Preparations for the Harbin ice and snow festival – in pictures - Wall Street's tumultuous 2018 ends with a modest rise - Afghanistan FA president denies allegations of sexual and physical abuse - Russia detains American in Moscow suspected of spying - Two dead after tower block collapses in Russian city of Magnitogorsk - Vladimir Putin sends new year greetings to Donald Trump - Kim Jong-un vows to meet South Korea’s leader frequently in 2019 - Populist leaders to attend Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration in Brazil - Brazil moving its embassy to Jerusalem a matter of 'when, not if' – Netanyahu - 'It was terror': Palestinians decry rise in attacks by Israeli settlers - 'This is the only way now’: desperate Iranians attempt Channel crossing - New Year's Eve 2018: celebrations around the world - live - From 'rice bunny' to 'back up the car': China's year of censorship - Australia under pressure to confront China over detained activists and foreigners - China's Xi Jinping calls on Donald Trump for trade compromise - Trump ally Graham: president 'thinking long and hard about Syria' - Profound respect for Amos Oz’s insights | Letters - Syrian White Helmets try to rebuild lives in Canadian exile - BBC writes to Russia after journalists' details are published online - Beyond Syria: the Arab Spring’s aftermath - Why is the Syracuse man who saved thousands of migrants out of a job? - ‘The world is diminished by the death of Amos Oz, it has narrowed down’ - Syria: Assad has decisively won his brutal battle - China: slowing economy and inequality force new priorities for rulers - In a new year of economic uncertainty, gold is a bright prospect again - From the archive: a glasnost of sorts between American and Soviet war veterans - Royal Mail in stamp blunder after confusing D-day beaches with Indonesia - Trapped in Syria: children kidnapped by Isis who can't go home - ‘Will they forgive me? No’: ex-Soviet spy Viktor Suvorov speaks out - Amos Oz: the novelist prophet who never lost hope for Israel - Amos Oz obituary - Israeli novelist Amos Oz dies aged 79 - German Isis woman let 'slave' girl, 5, die of thirst, say prosecutors - Channel crossings: 'Every day you look for the smuggler and take a chance' - China releases Canadian teacher but others still held in Huawei row - With China, we don’t need a trade war but a truce on tech | Anne McElvoy - The Christmas Channel crossings show how cruelly Britain treats refugees | Ben Smoke - Syrian army takes control of flashpoint Kurdish town threatened by Turkey - List of BBC reporters in Russia leaked online along with their photos - Hackers steal data on 1,000 North Korean defectors in South - Shared goals: Blyth Spartans football team partners with Visit North Korea - Air Force One spotted in Sheffield: how UK enthusiast revealed Trump's Iraq trip - The Guardian view on Donald Trump in 2019: the year of reckoning | Editorial - Trump 'accidentally reveals location and identities of US Navy Seals in Iraq' - Iraqi lawmakers demand US withdraw troops after surprise Trump visit - Hunt: Iran imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for diplomatic reasons - Canadian man to appear in Chinese court on drug smuggling charges - Best photos of the day: darts fans and a tourist hotpot - ‘There was blood everywhere’: the abuse case against the Afghan FA president - Saudi loss is Russian gain under ex-Kremlin chess boss - 'War detectives' get new lead on British dead from Korean war, thanks to Trump - Trump makes unannounced visit to US troops in Iraq - ‘We’re no longer the suckers of the world,' Trump tells troops in Iraq – video - 'I knew my life could be in danger': the girl on a mission to change Iraq – video - Middle East: Saudi Arabia weakened as Iran plans to consolidate gains - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spends 40th birthday in Iranian jail - Dow up more than 1,000 points in biggest one-day gain ever - China's new live-streaming star wins legions of fans thanks to useless inventions - Woman and child die in hospital after being rescued from pool north of Brisbane - Outside the EU, Britain faces a bleak future in Trump’s world | Simon Tisdall - Kate Harris: 'Children can’t understand why we don't make dramatic changes to save the world' - Social media is an existential threat to our idea of democracy - Trump presidency gives Australians a negative view of US, Lowy poll finds - The Siberian tiger protector - in pictures - Rex Tillerson: risk of 'open conflict' if US-China relations continue to grate - Stalin’s Meteorologist by Olivier Rolin review - from hero to gulag - Late-night hosts address Trump's standoff with North Korea – video - North Korea warns Australia that supporting Trump is a 'suicidal act' - Too many have died in Afghanistan already. Trump must not draw us back | Owen Jones - Pound and shares recover after Korea shock and ahead of US GDP - business live - For Trump and the US right, breaking the nuclear taboo has always been thinkable | Paul Mason - Nancy Hatch Dupree obituary - Donald Malarkey, war hero portrayed in Band of Brothers, dies aged 96 - Sima Wali obituary - Anger as Chinese bike sharing firm shuts up office with riders' deposits - The Guardian view on Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain | Editorial - Here’s what Russians think: Brexit is your creature – don’t blame it on us | Alexey Kovalev - Gaza City in the spotlight: hesitant hope in a city where everyone still wants out - We pressed pause the day we had to leave Syria. The shock never goes away | Mouna Ghanem - Which were the most Instagrammed cities in the world in 2017? - The next phase in this unending tragedy could prove even more dangerous | Observer editorial - US military fails to tackle sexual abuse of children by Afghan allies, report finds - Will joint ice hockey team warm up frosty Korea relations? - JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon criticises Trump's tariff plan - business live - Commons Brexit committee publishes government's confidential Brexit impact assessment - Politics live - Police and MI5 to check 14 deaths deemed natural for potential Russian involvement, says Rudd - Politics live - What do the chemical signatures of deadly nerve agents tell us about their origins? – Science Weekly podcast - How Russia’s rich elite spend their billions in London - Putin 4.0: as Russian president prepares for fourth term, what next? - Speaker grants emergency Commons debate on allegations about Vote Leave breaking election spending rules – as it happened - The Guardian view on the Syrian chemical attack: Assad’s crime – the world’s responsibility | Editorial - Eat a falafel, save a life – have I found the only pop-up that deserves to stay popped up? | Rhik Samadder - Syria latest: Theresa May calls strikes 'right and legal' – live updates - Chinese migrants snub Australia's $5m 'golden ticket' visas - China's Xiaomi set to raise $10bn on Hong Kong stock exchange - Iranian director apologises after Isis-garbed PR stunt for film - Q&A: What we know and don't know about the downing of MH17 - Roman Abramovich granted Israeli citizenship - Russia is killing stray dogs. World Cup stars must help stop the slaughter | Chas Newkey-Burden - World Cup: countdown to opening ceremony and the first game – live! - No 10 refuses to deny May's Brexit plan would limit scope for trade deal with US - Politics live - PMQs: Theresa May to make statement on novichok attack – Politics live - Manafort to cooperate with Mueller's inquiry in latest blow to Trump – as it happened - Trade war: Beijing vows to retaliate against Trump's tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods - business live - 'A very meaningful outcome': North Korea agrees to scrap missile test sites – video - Nobel peace prize 2018 won by Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad - live updates - Trump's Russia links, byelections preview and the Brexit bill – Politics Weekly podcast - MSF inquiry indicates Russia was behind hospital bombing in Syria - In an age of autocracy, meet the dissidents speaking truth to power - Netanyahu visit: hundreds protest in Sydney over visit by Israeli PM - Demolishing Dalian: China's 'Russian' city is erasing its heritage – in pictures - The Guardian view on UK’s tax havens: British laws or your own | Editorial - The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss - The Guardian view on Syria: Assad knows he acts with impunity | Editorial - Beauty amid the chaos: a snapshot of Syrian cities through Instagram - In China, the water you drink is as dangerous as the air you breathe | Deng Tingting - China to set up military bases in Pakistan – Pentagon report - 'Do not test Israel's resolve,' Netanyahu warns Iran – video - 15-year-old Russian figure skater wins stunning gold – video - China's Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks - The Guardian view on Instagram’s troll farms: meme warfare | Editorial - Arab League set to readmit Syria eight years after expulsion - The Kurds and Trump’s Syria withdrawal | Letters - Turkish forces will cross into Kurdish-held Syria – foreign minister - The Skripal poisonings: the bungled assassination with the Kremlin’s fingerprints all over it - Rail plan puts North and South Korea on track for closer ties - Plan for Gertrude Bell blue plaque in London sparks controversy - 'My husband is innocent': Wife of detained Chinese lawyer barred from trial - Trump attacks Mattis and complains others 'take total advantage' of US - North Korea ordered to pay $501m in damages over Otto Warmbier's death - Israeli government agrees to hold early elections in April - UK faith leaders warn against division in Christmas messages - British-Iranian academic detained in Iran since April returns to UK - Sadiq Khan calls for release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Tokyo stocks plunge in Christmas rout amid fears over US economy - China refuses to release detained Canadians, despite demands - China cracks down on Christmas celebrations - Kabul gun and suicide attack kills 43 in one of year's deadliest assaults - ‘Every day is a battle’: portraits of US veterans capture hidden toll of PTSD - Trump forces defense secretary Jim Mattis to step down two months early - Turkey masses troops near Kurdish-held town in northern Syria - Race and Russian interference: Senate reports detail age-old tactic - Famine to feast: North Korean defectors awestruck by food choices in South - Christians and Jews pay for 'proxy prayers' in Jerusalem - The Observer view on Donald Trump’s uncontrolled and increasingly reckless behaviour | Observer editorial - Warsaw ghetto uprising fighter Simcha Rotem dies at 94 - US anti-Isis envoy Brett McGurk quits over Trump Syria withdrawal - Chaos at home, fear abroad: Trump unleashed puts western world on edge - Trump’s Syria move pleases dictators and hands initiative to Isis - 'In jail you're a ball of emotion': Syrian swimmer on her refugee rescue - Trump’s Syria withdrawal has handed a huge gift to Islamic State | Janine di Giovanni - Canada demands China immediately release citizens detained in ‘retaliation’ arrests - Canadian former diplomat detained in China denied access to lawyers - The Guardian view on James Mattis’s resignation: a bad day for America | Editorial - James Mattis helped keep Trump in check. The world will miss him | Peter Beaumont - Europe responds with alarm to US defence secretary's resignation - Defense secretary James Mattis resigns and points to differences with Trump - Donald Trump's Syria withdrawal could reverberate for years - Let’s not forget the suffering of Syrians | Letter - Trump is right to withdraw US troops from Syria | Trevor Timm - Russian media regulator to investigate BBC's operations - 'There was a referendum, what can she do?': Putin tells May to fulfil Brexit – video - Putin tells May to 'fulfil will of people' on Brexit - North Korea says it will not denuclearize unless US removes 'threat' - Asylum seeker to sue UK for funding Libyan detention centres - Saudi and US resistance delays UN resolution on Yemen ceasefire - US and UK accuse China of sustained hacking campaign - Australia joins condemnation of 'huge, audacious' Chinese hacking plot - 'Godkiller' and 'Atreexp': the Chinese hackers accused of global attacks - One-third of UK arms sales go to states on human rights watchlist, say analysts - Trump plans to pull thousands of troops out of Afghanistan – report - Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us - Has Isis been defeated in Syria, as Trump claims? - Journalist death toll: retaliation killings nearly double in 2018 - Syria's Kurds decry Trump's troop withdrawal announcement - Trump shocks allies and advisers with plan to pull US troops out of Syria - Isis not defeated in Syria despite Trump claim, says UK - Russian whistleblower died of natural causes, rules coroner - The 50 best films of 2018 in the US: No 3 – Loveless - Former Blackwater guard convicted for 2007 massacre of civilians in Baghdad - China accused of 'tit-for-tat' over detention of Canadian woman - 'The last time I saw Granny Pu': 85-year-old mother of Chinese dissident seized by police - EU cables hack reveals no bombshells but many insights - Michael Flynn sentencing delayed to allow more time for Mueller cooperation - Sealed v Sealed: ruling sheds light on mystery case thought to involve Mueller - Russia, Turkey and Iran reach agreement on Syria committee - Third Canadian detained in China as feud escalates - Hacked EU cables hailed Trump meeting as success (for Putin) - Lyudmila Alexeyeva obituary - Notorious Moscow prison, once home to Solzhenitsyn, to close - In Trump's mind, all deals are private. 'Public interest' means nothing to him | Robert Reich - The 50 best films of 2018 in the UK: No 4 – Loveless - Gilets jaunes: grassroots heroes or tools of the Kremlin? - Russian propagandists targeted African Americans to influence 2016 US election - Labor conference votes for a Shorten government to recognise Palestinian statehood - Airbnb denies U-turn on West Bank settlement bookings - Netanyahu’s son banned from Facebook over hate speech - Huawei arrest may dash Canada's hopes for 'essential' trade deal with China - Xi Jinping: president warns other nations not to 'dictate' to China - Hong Kong tabloid with China links tails visiting US-Australian academic - Japan beefs up defences amid concerns over China's military might - Trump is playing into China's hands by politicizing extradition case | Michael H Fuchs - Laura Ashley to close 40 stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk - 'A torrent of ghastly revelations': what military service taught me about America - North Korea warns US sanctions could derail plans to denuclearise - North Korea marks seventh anniversary of death of former leader Kim Jong-il – video - Arab countries discuss 'Australia situation' after recognition of West Jerusalem - Israeli minister: 'We hope Australia will fix the mistake they made' - video - Israel chides Australia's recognition of West Jerusalem as capital - Scott Morrison: 'West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel' – video - Baghdad's Green Zone reopens: 'The politicians inside are sleeping on money' - UK efforts in Iraq 'hindered by hostile immigration policy' - Canadian officials visit second citizen detained in China - Putin rap: Kremlin should 'take charge' of music not shut it down, president says - Split reaction to Australian recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital - UK university tells Iranian student: go home and get tuition fees in cash - China: seven miners killed after skip plummets down mine shaft - Huawei affair reveals superpowers’ imperial rules of engagement - Uber's 'ghost drivers' scaring passengers out of rides and money - Shimon Peres dies: global reaction to former Israeli leader's death – latest - Anger on streets in China as football team suffer shock defeat by war-torn Syria - China's 'extinct' dolphin may have returned to Yangtze river, say conservationists - Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda buys Dick Clark productions for $1bn - Republican defense community fills Reagan shrine with prayers over Trump - Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum - As a White Helmet I ask for one thing: safe passage for those in Aleppo | Raed Al Saleh - FTSE 100 closes at another record high after US data boosts dollar - as it happened - The science of spying: how the CIA secretly recruits academics – podcast - How Britain did Gaddafi’s dirty work – podcast - Risk of war with North Korea grows each day, says Trump's security adviser - After the liberation of Mosul, an orgy of killing – podcast - Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme? – podcast - The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans – podcast - How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money – podcast - Why we may never know if British troops committed war crimes in Iraq – podcast - The bitter conflict over Poland’s communist history – podcast - BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate – podcast - Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? – podcast - US funds fed corruption in Afghanistan, eroding security fighting Taliban – report - Ukrainian priests rile Moscow with moves to set up independent Orthodox Church - Reasons to worry? Trump endures turbulent week – with signs of worse to come - Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital but holds back on embassy move - World’s first lab-grown steak revealed – but the taste needs work - Mike Pompeo says China should free two Canadians held after Huawei executive's arrest - Briton jailed in Turkey on terrorism charges flees bail back to UK - Kurdish-led fighters take last Isis town in Syria, activists say - Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos - Is the net closing in on Donald Trump? – podcast - Foreign Office denies state funds went to Twitter account attacking Labour - Palestinians call on Muslim states to target Australian exports over Jerusalem embassy - Two Israelis and two Palestinians killed in West Bank violence - China demands developed countries 'pay their debts' on climate change - The Guardian view on China and the US: unlucky Canada is taking the hit | Editorial - US unveils new Africa policy to counter 'predatory' Russia and China - Vogue shoots and bike cemeteries: Lianzhou Foto festival 2018 - Spacewatch: China's moon lander enters lunar orbit - 'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit - Turkey primed to start offensive against US-backed Kurds in Syria - ‘Mr President, did Michael Cohen cover up your dirty deeds?’ a reporter asks Trump – video - An Elephant Sitting Still review – on the edge of despair in the new China - China detains second Canadian citizen, state media reports - Climate change talks lead to renewed pledge to cut emissions - Markets rally as hopes for breakthrough in US-China trade dispute rise - Canada Goose shares slide amid Beijing-Ottawa row over Huawei CFO arrest - Any boost to sterling if the PM survives is not likely to last | Larry Elliott - 'Every time we play is a victory': police crackdown on live music in Russia – video - ‘We’re not scared’: bands defy Russian crackdown on ‘political’ music - The EU’s response to Russia must be bold and unanimous | Norbert Röttgen - Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives – report - Nick Cave: cultural boycott of Israel is 'cowardly and shameful' - Iran sentences three human rights lawyers to prison, reports say - Shenzhen's silent revolution: riding the world's first fully electric bus fleet - Inside the 14 December edition of the Guardian Weekly - Meng Wanzhou: Canadian court frees Huawei CFO on bail - Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig detained in China - It's time to take back your data from Google and Facebook's server farms | Giri Sreenivas - The strange jewellery stealing prank that has gone viral in China - 'Jewellery-stealing' prank takes off in China – video - Japan ends search for five US marines missing after mid-air crash - Coach is a Russian David and Goliath film tale – but twist is in the credits | Richard Williams - Trump's tweets show how rattled he is by Mueller's findings | Jill Abramson - Russia 'paved way for Ukraine ship seizures with fake news drive' - Russian serial killer convicted of 56 more murders - Russian crew to inspect mysterious hole in Soyuz spacecraft - Maria Butina: 'covert Russian agent' will plead guilty over effort to infiltrate NRA - Venezuela welcomes Russian bombers in show of support for Maduro - US imposes sanctions on three top North Korean officials - 'We could smell the boat approaching': the grim truth about animal exports - Baghdad reopens fortified Green Zone a year after Isis ousted from Iraq - Indifference to sexual violence eats away at us all, say Nobel pair - IMF warns storm clouds are gathering for next financial crisis - The Guardian view on surveillance: Australia is giving too much power to the state | Editorial - Huawei: Chinese media says Canada will pay 'heavy price' if CFO isn't released - First two F-35A fighter jets to arrive in Australia amid warning on cost - Australia's silence during climate change debate shocks COP24 delegates - The Guardian view on Donald Trump: the net closes | Editorial - US and Russia ally with Saudi Arabia to water down climate pledge - Trump's China tariffs are a regressive tax on Americans and risk a recession | Robert Reich - 'Hard deadline': US-China must reach trade deal by 1 March, says Lighthizer - China summons US ambassador over Huawei CFO's arrest - Afghan football officials suspended over sexual and physical abuse allegations - US air force missed four chances to stop Texas church shooter from buying guns - Novichok victim Charlie Rowley says poison could still kill him - Farage finds Ukip awful. So what about his more sinister friends? | Nick Cohen - I was a CIA spy in Russia – and now my family is in danger. But Trump can help | Yevgeny Chistov - 'Wise and humane': Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva dies aged 91 - Qasr al-Yahud: a mission to restore faith – and hope - The dramatic arrest that threatens to ramp up trade tensions between the US and China | Will Hutton - China threatens Canada with 'grave consequences' if Huawei CFO not freed - In the Hurricane's Eye review: Nathaniel Philbrick's revolutionary triumph - US military: one of two crew recovered off Japan after mid-air collision is dead - After years in jail without trial or hope, Syria’s hunger strikers fight for justice - What has Robert Mueller told us about Cohen, Flynn and Manafort? - Manafort told 'multiple lies' after agreeing to cooperate, Mueller says - Cohen spoke with Russian to set up Trump-Putin meeting, Mueller reveals - Revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson - Huawei pledges $2bn in effort to allay UK security concerns - Ending ‘golden visas’ for oligarchs is a start – but not a solution | Oliver Bullough - Huawei CFO committed fraud in breach of US sanctions, prosecutors say - Mueller filings could shed light on Trump-Russia collusion - Trump aide's appearances on RT channel are focus for Russia inquiry - Yemen's warring sides agree to prisoner swap as peace talks open - Chinese spacecraft to attempt first landing on far side of the moon - Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign - Huawei: Chinese media accuses US of 'hooliganism' over Meng Wanzhou arrest - Uighur leaders warn China's actions could be 'precursors to genocide' - John Bolton says he knew in advance Huawei executive would be arrested - Panic as the US-China trade war truce lasts less than a week | Nils Pratley - £56bn wiped off FTSE 100 in biggest market fall since Brexit vote - The Guardian view on Huawei: the bigger story | Editorial - Huawei faces catastrophe in the technology cold war - Deadly pig virus could hit US in a year, warn experts - At Christmas time it’s almost impossible to be both poor and ethical | Kathleen Kerridge - China-US feud threatens Canada as Huawei executive due in court - Five missing after two US military aircraft crash off Japan coast - Syrian aid worker who swam refugees to safety freed from Greek jail - EU raises funds to fight 'disinformation war' with Russia - Putin threatens arms race if US dumps nuclear treaty - Putin voices support for Maduro as leader visits Moscow for financial aid - North Korea: secret missile site revealed in new satellite images - Rare suicide car bombing in Iran kills at least two - EU’s dependence on dollar to be reduced under new proposals - Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have brokered peace. It will be sorely tested | Kevin Rudd - China to 'immediately' apply measures agreed in trade truce with US - China demands release of Huawei executive arrested in Canada - Revealed: Disney's £35 Ariel doll earns a Chinese worker 1p - Huawei Q&A: what you need to know about the Chinese phone maker - BT removing Huawei equipment from parts of 4G network - Campaign calling for New Zealand to protect China expert gathers pace - Afghan FA abuse claims: president demands ‘thorough investigation’ - Michael Flynn: Mueller recommends no prison time for ex-Trump adviser - US says it will pull out of INF treaty if Russia does not comply within 60 days - Ukraine's ports partially unblocked by Russia, says Kiev - SBS threatens to sue protestors calling for boycott of Eurovision in Israel - Israeli women protest over domestic violence in nationwide strike - George Bush’s legacy isn’t so peaceful | Letters - China confident of agreeing US trade deal despite Trump's combative stance - US stock markets slide after Trump warns China: 'I am a Tariff Man' - The Guardian view on editing human DNA: a bad idea, and badly executed | Editorial - Gene-edited girls as a Monolith moment | Letter - Defying the Taliban: Afghanistan's secret schools for girls – podcast - US army chief says death toll of Afghan security forces is unsustainable - Why the Russian embassy to the UK should be on Boris Nemtsov Way | Vladimir Kara-Murza - Trump's praise for Roger Stone could amount to witness tampering – experts - MI6 chief urges Russia: 'Do not underestimate our capabilities' – video - The Mueller investigation is closing in on Trump | Jill Abramson - Separated at sea: a Sierra Leonean father's desperate fear for his boy - Why did CNN fire a pro-Palestinian commentator? | Cornel West - Israel begins operation to expose Hezbollah 'attack tunnels' on Lebanon border - Iran missile tests may breach UN resolution, France and UK warn - Ofcom investigates TV station over interview praising attack in Iran - Bush's sordid Saudi ties set template for Trump – he was just more subtle - 'Should we even consider this?' WHO starts work on gene editing ethics - Trump’s trade war truce with China fragile and hurdle-strewn | Nils Pratley - Carnival Night / Hakob Hovnatanyan review – a pair of pre-Christmas Soviet treats - Police recommend indicting Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges - Yemen: injured Houthi rebels to be evacuated, raising hope of peace talks - No houses or cars, please: China calls for end to expensive, 'vulgar' wedding gifts - Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker barred from running in local election - Trump 'likes' North Korean leader and will 'fulfil Chairman Kim's wishes' - Trade war truce: markets jump as Trump says China will halt new car tariffs - Senior Taliban commander killed by US airstrike in Afghanistan, officials say - 'Not forgotten': Filipino second world war veterans fight for US recognition - 'A different command': how George HW Bush's war shaped his work for peace - Putin refuses to release Ukrainian sailors and ships - Russian journalist 'seen behaving suspiciously' at UK military base - Mattis condemns Russia for treaty violations and election interference - Donald Trump: next Kim Jong-un meeting likely in January or February - Inside the chaos and corruption of Tripoli, where militias rule the streets - Durian: the foul-smelling fruit that could make Malaysia millions - Five planned missions to Mars - Donald Trump and Xi Jinping declare trade truce at G20 - Presidents at War review: Michael Beschloss and the Vietnam scoop that wasn't - 'I am worried': Macron's chat with Saudi prince captured at G20 - Trump calls Russia deal 'legal and cool' as Mueller inquiry gathers momentum - The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s credibility: America’s compromised leader | Editorial - Putin and Saudi crown prince high-five at G20 summit – video - Ukraine bans entry to Russian men ‘to prevent armies forming’ - 'Mueller knows a lot': Manafort and Cohen moves put Trump in firing line - North Korean soldier flees to South as Trump talks up second Kim summit - Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK – podcast - ‘You’ve done a fantastic job’: Donald Trump praises Scott Morrison at G20 - Fifa examining claims of sexual and physical abuse on Afghanistan women’s team - Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress over Trump project in Russia - 'Danger never went away': Ukrainian cities feel cornered by Russia - Ukraine-Russia tensions spark historic religious rift - Contact with the Kremlin and lies to 'be loyal': key points from Cohen's plea deal - Michael Cohen deal a critical step for Mueller that exposes Trump to new risk - Railway diplomacy: South Korean trains venture north for first time in a decade - French civil servant charged with treason and spying for North Korea - CNN ends contract with contributor Mark Lamont Hill after speech on Israel - The G20: Donald Trump and the rise of the strongmen - 'Deeply shameful': 258 runners caught cheating in Shenzhen's half marathon - Scientists discover spider species that feeds its young milk - China urged to lead way in efforts to save life on Earth - Dead Souls review – monumental study of China's political brutality - Work on gene-edited babies blatant violation of the law, says China - British G4S employee killed in Kabul attack named as Luke Griffin - Russia has blocked Ukrainian Azov Sea ports, minister says - Stigma means Russia risks HIV epidemic as cases rise - Putin shrugs off Trump’s threat to cancel G20 meeting over Kerch crisis - Trump adviser sought WikiLeaks emails via Farage ally, Mueller document alleges - Putin and Poroshenko motives open to question in Kerch crisis | Simon Tisdall - Trump ally was tipped off about Clinton emails leak, Mueller believes - 'We are desperate': economic crisis hits ordinary Iranians - New Zealand blocks Huawei imports over ‘significant security risk’ - Scientist in China defends human embryo gene editing - Is the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma using AI to create dystopian cities? | Alfie Bown - Can the Communist party get out of China’s bedrooms now, please? | Audrey Jiajia Li - Japan to get first aircraft carrier since second world war amid China concerns - Panama the new flashpoint in China's growing presence in Latin America - AFP investigating Australian soldiers over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan - Taliban carry out deadly attack on G4S compound in Kabul - At least 30 Afghan civilians killed in US air strike in Helmand province - US navy confirms no active shooter at Walter Reed, 'was ad hoc drill' – as it happened - The Guardian view on Ukraine: a forgotten crisis flares up | Editorial - Kerch strait confrontation: what happened and why does it matter? - Putin is profiting from chaos in Ukraine – and the west is letting him | Natalia Antonova - Donald Trump warns China he won't back down on trade tariffs - The Guardian view on the World Chess Championship: not just a popularity contest | Editorial - Gene-edited babies: no one has the moral warrant to go it alone | Katie Hasson and Marcy Darnovsky - Google employees sign letter against censored search engine for China - 'Of course it's not ethical': shock at gene-edited baby claims - Award-winning Chinese photographer Lu Guang detained in Xinjiang, says wife - 'A community in unbelievable pain': the terror and sorrow of Australia's Uighurs - Three members of US military killed in Afghanistan explosion - Syrian refugee stranded in airport for months is granted asylum in Canada - Russia to charge Ukrainian sailors as Kerch crisis deepens - Kerch confrontation puts Crimean crisis back in spotlight - Forget Brexit, war in Ukraine is the biggest threat to Europe | Simon Jenkins - French civil servant 'arrested on suspicion of spying for North Korea' - Startups defy gravity to explore space's commercial frontiers - Fears of 'short-sighted' trade war grow as Trump threatens China with more tariffs - business live - Magnetic levitation: the return of transport's great 'what if?' - China orders inquiry into 'world's first gene-edited babies' - Best-smeller: Malaysia cashes in on Chinese demand for durian fruit - UK pledges £35m to Afghanistan as food crisis worsens - Tear gas and trouble: migrants meet hostility at the US border – in pictures - The nuclear threat is rising. Europe cannot just stand and watch | Wilfred Wan - Nato calls for calm after boats seized in Russia-Ukraine clashes - Ukraine president proposes martial law after Russia seizes ships - Russia seizes Ukrainian naval ships in major escalation of tensions – video - Unesco accepts historic joint Korean bid to recognise traditional wrestling - World’s first gene-edited babies created in China, claims scientist - Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris director, dies aged 77 - Jacinda Ardern urged to protect China critic after 'harassment' - At least 20 police killed in Taliban ambush in Afghanistan – officials - Trump trans troops move pulls supreme court further into political mire - Syrian state TV accuses rebels of gas attack on civilians in Aleppo - Pyongyang calling: we spent a week in North Korea - video - ‘Spend Christmas with us’: Salisbury tempts tourists back after novichok attack - A glimpse of daily life in Pyongyang – in pictures - Fake Adidas and Hello Kitty: a taste of consumerism for North Korea’s elite - Trump versus Xi: China’s best shot at the world title is to box clever - The war on terror continues and still no one counts the costs | Kenan Malik - Trump asks supreme court to fast track transgender military ban cases - Influential Syrian activist Raed Fares gunned down in Idlib - Russia poses greater threat than Isis, new British army chief warns - Zhores Medvedev obituary - The Hell of Good Intentions review: the decline of US foreign policy - Skripal poisoning: further video released of suspects – video - Russian rapper Husky sentenced to 12 days in jail over gig on car roof - Russian military intelligence head's death causes inevitable speculation | Shaun Walker - Moment Russian rapper Husky is arrested after impromptu car roof gig – video - Cyberwar, Network Propaganda review: did Russia or the right do most to help Trump? - Britain must do more to help child refugees | Letter from Rowan Williams - US-Israeli man jailed for 10 years over bomb hoax calls - Somerset man jailed for trafficking fighter jet parts to Iran - Police officers killed in assault on Chinese consulate in Karachi - Dolce & Gabbana vanishes from Chinese retail sites amid racist ad backlash - The Chinese export we really should be worried about: repression | Simon Tisdall - Trump grants troops guarding border authority to use 'lethal force' – report - Trump-Russia is too complex to report. We must turn curatorial journalism | Seth Abramson - Russia's chief of military intelligence, Igor Korobov, dies after illness - US and South Korea scale back major military exercise to aid nuclear talks - Israeli minister dismisses Trump peace plan as 'waste of time' - Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani released from jail - Five killed as car hits schoolchildren in north-east China - Donald Tusk, Russia and the plane crash that changed Poland - Russian firm linked to election meddling sues Facebook over ban - Trump lawyers submit president's answers in writing to Mueller questions - UK should rethink Interpol role if Russian gets top job, MPs say - In Putin’s era it’s crazy to let a Russian lead Interpol. We must prevent it | Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Interpol elects South Korean as its president, in blow to Russia - Putin critics voice alarm at prospect of Russian Interpol chief - Libya: child refugees abused in UK-funded detention centres - Judge orders Trump administration to release Iraqis jailed by Ice - Trump: Saudi Arabia decision about 'America first' – video - Dolce & Gabbana cancels catwalk show amid 'racist' ad row - Case dropped against Chinese journalist who allegedly slapped Tory delegate - The Guardian view on Hong Kong protest trials: a test of freedoms | Editorial - Chinese writer Tianyi sentenced to decade in prison for gay erotic novel - Afghanistan suicide bomber kills scores of Muslim scholars - Trump ready to begin drawdown of troops at US-Mexico border - Mohamad Hafez: the artist using artwork to celebrate Syria's past - Russian Twitter trolls stoking anti-Islamic sentiment in Australia, experts warn - We have a duty to help the children of Palestine | Letters - Q&A panel clash over moving Australia's Israel embassy to Jerusalem - Airbnb to take rentals in Israeli West Bank settlements off website - Jeremy Hunt warns of Middle East 'first world war risk' on Iran visit - Iran will thrive despite US sanctions, says foreign minister - US stock markets drop as tech companies lead losses - Chinese Oscars: Beijing cuts live coverage after winner calls for independent Taiwan - Despite Apec drama, China is winning the fight for the Pacific, step by patient step - Afghan wrestling coach re-opens gym despite losing arm in Isis attack - Russian prosecutors accuse Bill Browder over lawyer's death - North Korea defector: next generation have no loyalty to Kim Jong-un – report - Israeli education minister Naftali Bennett vows not to resign in reprieve for Netanyahu - 'Legend in his own lunchtime': Frydenberg rebukes Pyne over Israel embassy comments - Netanyahu meets with coalition partner to stop government collapse - Hunt in Iran to appeal for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Nine suspected migrants intercepted at Folkestone - Nissan Renault chief Carlos Ghosn ' to be arrested over serious misconduct' - business live - Hong Kong democracy protesters plead not guilty as Umbrella movement goes on trial - Apec leaders unable to agree on communique amid US-China trade tensions - Hong Kong protesters go on trial as fight for democracy continues - US navy hospital ship stokes tensions by giving Venezuelan refugees free care - Chechnya: woman blows herself up at checkpoint in Grozny - European diplomats mount last-ditch effort to stop US ditching INF treaty - Migrants fleeing Libya refuse to leave ship and be sent back to camps - Simon Birmingham says Indonesian trade deal critical amid Israel embassy spat - ‘It’s not justice’: wife of detained Interpol chief faces down China - Apec summit: Mike Pence warns of China's ‘constricting belt’ and ‘one-way road’ - Maldives' new president warns treasury 'looted' during China-led boom - America to partner with Australia to develop naval base on Manus Island - Scott Morrison at Apec summit insists end in sight to US-China dispute - A problem with no nipples in the office | Brief letters - Serhii Plokhy: 'Chernobyl exposed Soviet secrecy' - North Korea expels US citizen who attempted to enter illegally - US to oppose UN motion condemning Israeli control of Golan Heights - Israel set for early elections after cabinet breaks up, source says - The Coalition’s Israel embassy move trashes Australia’s reputation as a serious country | Bob Carr - ‘There’s always hope’: John Kerry on Donald Trump, the US midterms and climate change – video - Trump’s economic war on Iran is doomed to failure | Richard Dalton - Apec leaders at odds over globalisation and free trade - Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie - Spacewatch: landing site for ExoMars mission chosen - Alexei Navalny: arrests in Russia politically motivated, ECHR rules - North Korea's Kim Jong-un supervises test of 'new ultramodern weapon' - Australia's treasurer attacks Malaysian PM Mahathir for 'antisemitic' comments - Embassy move: Frydenberg accuses Malaysian PM of antisemitism – video - 'The China show': Xi Jinping arrives in PNG for start of Apec summit - NZ police investigate after prominent China critic's car 'sabotaged' - Weatherwatch: F-35 fighter's worst enemy could be lightning - Jim Mattis defends deployment of US troops to Mexico border - Eight-legged bus is caught trying to cross vehicle-only bridge in Russia – video - Trial of Russian stage director seen as test for artistic freedom - Libya says Manchester bomber's brother will be extradited this year - Enemies and Neighbours by Ian Black review – Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel - Malaysian PM warns Australia moving Israel embassy would add to terror threat - Morrison 'not aware' Steve Ciobo said there was 'less than a 5% chance' of embassy move – as it happened - Israeli defence chief Avigdor Lieberman quits over Gaza truce - 'People are scared': deadly legacy of Isis continues to shape lives in Iraq - The legacy of Islamic State in Iraq - The Guardian view on returning the Rohingya to Myanmar: don’t make them go | Editorial - 'They didn't give a damn': first footage of Croatian police 'brutality' - Footage shows asylum seekers allegedly beaten by Croatian police – video - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny flies out of Russia after ban lifted - Mueller seeking more details on Nigel Farage, key Russia inquiry target says - Khrushchev sent wine to Irish diplomat after shoe incident at UN - The Guardian view on Gaza: the risk of war is real | Editorial - Morrison to try to rescue Indonesia free trade deal amid Israel embassy friction - Alexei Navalny barred from leaving Russia to attend ECHR hearing - Russian trolls prey on the toxic way we do our politics | Rafael Behr - Rightwing author Jerome Corsi: I expect Mueller to indict me - Russia denies disrupting GPS signals during Nato Arctic exercises - North Korea maintaining more than a dozen missile launch sites, photos show - Italian summit on Libya in disarray as Trump and Putin stay away - Israel and Hamas ignore ceasefire pleas in Gaza - Botched Israeli raid in Gaza sparks violent exchanges - Sinkhole swallows woman in China – video - Campaigners welcome China U-turn on rhino and tiger products - Lest we forget? Many victims of the first world war are already forgotten | Letters - Jin Yong obituary - China’s mass incarceration of Muslims cannot be left unchallenged | Timothy Grose - Trump ditched cemetery visit to avoid causing Paris traffic jams, says Sanders - 'They see no shame': 'honour' killing video shows plight of Syrian women - Theresa May: UK open to 'different' Russia relationship - Italy to host Libyan conference in fresh push for elections - Eight dead in undercover Israeli operation in Gaza - Morrison plays down Israel embassy spat ahead of Indonesia trade talks - 'Can they really pull it off?': the Apec summit comes to Papua New Guinea - Victoria bows to pressure to release Belt and Road deal with China - Student activists detained in China for supporting workers' rights - US airstrikes fail to weaken al-Shabaab's grip on Somalia - Reunited: Syrian refugee and the artist who drew him in Calais - Republican dubbed 'Russia's favorite congressman' loses seat after 30 years - The Observer view on Donald Trump being at bay after the midterms | Observer editorial - China confounds all that western liberals believed about the net | John Naughton - Trump's acting attorney general involved in firm that scammed veterans out of life savings - MoD told to hand over any reports of abuse by US troops in Iraq - Why Silicon Valley is worried about US plan to curb Chinese funds - Russia hosts talks between Taliban and Afghan peace council - Konstantin Kilimnik: elusive Russian with ties to Manafort faces fresh Mueller scrutiny - Vast Nicholas I portrait unveiled as Russians storm palace - Why was Jeff Sessions fired? For being loyal to his office, not Trump | Lawrence Douglas - Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby - I am a refugee in a Libyan camp. Conditions are so bad, people are dying | Thomas Issak - Police accuse Netanyahu relative and confidants of bribery - Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK - World's first AI presenter unveiled in China – video - Chinese actor Yunxiang Gao's lawyer says accuser might have made up story - World's first AI news anchor unveiled in China - Marshall Islands' president accuses Chinese interests of backing opponents - Interpol says no option but to accept China's removal of its chief - 'I did it for every single girl': the first Afghan woman to scale Mount Noshaq - Fight or flight: the veterans at war with PTSD - video - From Brexit to the US election: books that reveal how Russia influences the world - Jeff Sessions firing: top Republicans warn Mueller inquiry must continue - Trump expects to meet Kim Jong-un next year as nuclear talks stall - Get Out producer booed off stage at Israeli film festival for criticising Trump - Three held in Denmark over interview praising terrorist attack in Iran - Hong Kong arts centre cancels Chinese dissident author event - Scott Morrison to reveal $3bn in Pacific funding to counter Chinese influence - A Chinese recession is inevitable - don't think it won't affect you | Kenneth Rogoff - Twist in alleged $1bn art fraud as Russian tycoon detained in Monaco - Russia to face 'more draconian' US sanctions over Skripal poisoning - Royal Mint rejected Roald Dahl coin over antisemitic views - Dutton's department accused of using 'reprehensible' tactics to deny Iraqi Christian's asylum claim - European 'clearing house' to bypass US sanctions against Iran - Urban mountains: Shenzhen's green rooftop project – in pictures - Victorian opposition will make Belt and Road deal with China public if elected - China says UN criticism of human rights record is 'politically driven' - China will be the world’s most visited country by 2030 - The Guardian view on Iran sanctions: not upholding the rules, but overturning them | Editorial - US military rejected White House request to build migrant detention facilities - UK accused of 'abandoning children to their fate' in world's deadliest countries - 'People are despairing': Iranians brace for sanctions to bite - Trump’s sanctions against Iran help the US’s enemies and weaken its friends | Simon Jenkins - China doubles spending on security-related building in Xinjiang – report - Scott Morrison rebukes Victoria for signing up to China's Belt and Road initiative - Why Europe wants to sidestep US sanctions over Iran nuclear might - Air Force's falcon mascot kidnapped and injured in pre-game prank - Trump to meet Putin and Erdoğan during first world war ceremonies - South Korea and US resume military drills ahead of nuclear talks - Iran launches military drill in response to return of US sanctions - Pompeo insists US sanctions will not hurt the Iranian people - Iran braces for fresh US sanctions including oil embargo - UK service sector growth hits seven-month low as Brexit worries mount - business live - Marise Payne talks up ties with China as she heads to Beijing - China's human rights record to be examined in UN review - Xi Jinping promises to open Chinese markets in trade war joust with Trump - Utah mayor killed in Afghanistan while serving with the national guard - The Apprentice review: Trump, Putin and the subversion of US democracy - Millions of Syrians at risk if Idlib truce fails, White Helmets warn - The Observer view on the ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Yemen | Observer editorial - Iran sanctions: Khamenei says world opposes every Trump decision - Sainsbury’s in a stew over mash-up of ‘Persian’ dish - Pussy Riot activists lend star power to campaign for Hong Kong freedoms - Afghanistan: US service member killed in 'apparent insider attack' - US rebuffs Europeans over ensuring Iran sanctions exempt food and medicine - Trump administration to reimpose sanctions on Iran - Israeli ad featuring model ripping off face veil draws criticism - Ma Jian: ‘Freedom can’t be taken for granted. We have to remain constantly vigilant’ - Experts fear impact of China lifting trade ban on tiger and rhino parts - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong producer who found Bruce Lee, dies - China needs to hear from its peers it cannot commit ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang | Frances Eve - US-China trade deal fears and rising rates put dampener on global rally - Antarctic's future in doubt after plan for world's biggest marine reserve is blocked - Bus careers off bridge in China as driver and passenger fight – video report - Pakistan's 'father of the Taliban' killed in knife attack - We can no longer just stand by while children are dying in war zones | Gordon Brown - Does Lena Dunham know more about Syrian refugees than a Syrian writer? | Alia Malek - Team Syria: the side giving hope and purpose to refugees in Coventry | Nick Miller - Investigators bound to scrutinise Arron Banks's Russian links - Russia announces sanctions against senior Ukraine figures - Markets surge after Trump hints at China trade deal – business live - Bus plunges into Chinese river after fight between driver and passenger - Shares soar as Trump hints at possible US-China trade deal - US charges Chinese companies with stealing trade secrets - Trump further stokes immigration fears by saying he'll send 15,000 troops to border - 'Nobody's coming in': Trump prepares to send troops to border to stop migrant caravan – video - 'They considered us toys': North Korean women reveal extent of sexual violence - Arron Banks’s bullyboy tactics will not stop me pursuing the truth | Damian Collins - Russian suicide bomb kills one and injures three in FSB offices - Pittsburgh showed the difference between US and UK antisemitism | Jaclyn Granick and Rebecca Kobrin - Khashoggi murder may be tipping point in Yemen's agony - Scott Morrison and Papua New Guinea's PM agree to joint naval base on Manus Island - Outcry in China after police refuse to pursue father allegedly abusing child on train - 'Our spiritual leader': Chinese villagers appeal for return of 1,000-year-old monk - Jeremy Hunt sets out policy vision for UK’s global relationships - UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims - The Guardian view on Donald Trump: using hate as bait | Editorial - Tory peer declines to give public evidence to MPs over Russian firm - North Korea set to allow inspectors into nuclear test site - Concern over UK-based Iranian TV channel's links to Saudi Arabia - Denmark pushes for fresh Iran sanctions over 'assassination plot' - Beijing's skyline: with and without air pollution – in pictures - 'China's Tolkien': millions mourn death of martial arts novelist Jin Yong - China reveals trade war strain as yuan slides and manufacturing stalls - Chinese spies charged in US with trying to steal jet engine secrets - A chapter closes: last Hong Kong bookshop selling titles banned in China shuts - 'There is no need for women to work': Afghan TV show takes on patriarchy | Ruchi Kumar - Trump accused of stoking immigration fears by sending 5,200 troops to border - Stark east-west divide in attitudes towards minorities in Europe - Morrison brushes off Turnbull’s advice against moving Australia’s Israel embassy - 'We are like robots': Apple investigates Chinese factory using forced student labour - Huawei poses security threat to Australia's infrastructure, spy chief says - Car industry shares rally after reports of China vehicle tax cut - Syrian museum reopening hailed as 'return to normal life' - The remains of Stalin's gulag railroad – a photo essay - Gaza: three boys killed in Israeli airstrike, say Palestinian medics - Markets edgy in worst month since the financial crisis – business live - Yayoi Kusama, revered Japanese artist, hits back at 'malicious' Chinese fakes - Syria summit: call for 'lasting ceasefire' at last rebel-held stronghold, Idlib - Home Office U-turn over Syrian journalist welcomed - Saudi Arabia says it is a beacon of light fighting ‘dark’ Iran - Khashoggi murder undermines stability, Mattis says, as Saudis bemoan 'hysteria' - First private Chinese attempt to send rocket into space fails - Syrian ITV journalist granted visa after Home Office U-turn - UN's outgoing Syria envoy wants regime to stop being obstructive - Russia seeks to capitalise on Brexit after blocking Liam Fox's WTO plan - Karen Pierce, UK ambassador to the UN: ‘We can’t be pushed around’ - The election hackers are back – and they’re starting with the US midterms | PW Singer and Emerson Brooking - Facebook deletes Iran-linked pages over effort to sow discord among US voters - The Guardian view on China’s detention camps: now we see them | Editorial - The human stories that are changing how we see the Middle East - Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to Washington - EU rebukes Putin with human rights prize to jailed Ukrainian film-maker - Libyan wealth fund: frozen assets should not go to IRA victims - Flash flood in Jordan sweeps away school bus, killing at least 18 - Attacks on media in the east and west | Letters - What it feels like to cross the world's longest sea bridge - China dismisses claim it eavesdropped on Trump's iPhone calls - Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda speaks about captivity in Syria - Pencil and paper voting has thwarted Russian meddling – minister - Nuclear escalation must be resisted | Letter - European parties urged to agree Israel boycott tactics are antisemitic - Iran charges five wildlife activists with capital offences - Asia Pacific shares plunge into bear territory amid fears over global economy - Re-education camps for Chinese students | Letters - What is African swine fever and how does it spread? - A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad review – the making of a murderous tyrant - Man faces attempted murder charge after stabbing at Russia's Antarctic outpost - Football fans injured in 'apocalyptic' Rome escalator collapse - US confirms withdrawal from nuclear arms treaty with Russia - Russian banker loses £9m London home in legal fight with Moscow - Trump is creating a nuclear threat worse than the cold war | Simon Tisdall - Japanese journalist says he is safe and well after Syria release - Media briefed on possible Israel embassy move before defence review - Some of the countries leading on climate change might surprise you | John Abraham - Global markets take fright at cocktail of geopolitical risks - 'New trajectory': Abe heads to China as Trump trade threats help bury old tensions - China's appetite for 'stinky' durian fruit threatening endangered tigers - Falling stars challenge sends China head over heels - Stock market investors are finally facing up to global turmoil - Aerial footage of the world's longest sea bridge – video - African swine fever hits Chinese pork industry in run-up to New Year - Normality returns to parts of Damascus after fighting ends - How Russia cyber attacks helped Trump to the US presidency | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Guns and guards to be removed from Korean 'truce village' of Panmunjom - EU warns Trump of nuclear arms race risk after INF withdrawal move - John Bolton says he told Russians 2016 election meddling had little impact - Palestinian security forces routinely torture critics, rights group says - We have been fined for asking Lorde to boycott Israel – but we won’t be silenced | Nadia Abu-Shanab and Justine Sachs - Five things you need to know about the world's longest sea bridge - US throws diplomatic support behind Macedonia name change - Trump promise to leave nuclear deal could be bargaining move, Corker says - Ditching nuclear arms treaty would be dangerous step, Russia warns US - What Israelis and Palestinians think – uncut interviews from the streets - Markets boosted by China stimulus hints and Italian budget hopes - business live - World's longest sea bridge to open ... but only to drivers with a special permit - From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang's camps - Monday US briefing: Europeans demand details of Khashoggi death - Pentagon confirms US general shot in Afghanistan Taliban attack - UK backs Trump withdrawal from Russia nuclear treaty - Trump says US will withdraw from nuclear arms treaty with Russia - Iranian refugee on Manus Island violently assaulted - Moscow bans ceremony honouring victims of Stalin’s Terror - US charges Russian woman with interfering in 2018 midterms - John Bolton pushing Trump to withdraw from Russian nuclear arms treaty - In what universe is voting Liberal in Wentworth about stability? | Katharine Murphy - China moves quickly in bid to counter sharp slowdown in economy - Afghans go to polls amid violence and corruption claims - A surprise package from a spaceman for a prisoner on Earth | Letters - Paul Manafort heads back to court to work out sentencing details - Rod Rosenstein's Wall Street Journal interview prompts Republican outrage - Vladimir Putin takes Egyptian president for spin on race track – video - Pope Francis willing to visit North Korea, Vatican official says - US downgrades consulate for Palestinians into Israel embassy unit - Indonesia warns it will 'adjust' policies if Australia moves Israel embassy - Israeli supreme court overturns ruling barring US student from country - China growth slowest since financial crisis as trade war looms - business live - Interpol ex-chief may be dead, wife fears, after capture by Chinese - Almost 50% of the world is online. What about the other 50%? - Ex-Chinese internment camp detainee denied US visa despite Congress invitation - New Look to pull out of China with closure of 120 stores - Kandahar election postponed after police chief's killing - Top Afghan power broker killed in Kandahar shooting - Missing in Syria: Austin Tice's parents' lonely struggle to find their son - Theresa May to urge EU leaders to take action on cyber-attacks - Ecuador tried to move Julian Assange to Russia, new files confirm - 'Golden passports' firm was consulted by government over investor visas - Multiple casualties after explosion at college in Crimea – video - Revealed: Russian billionaire set up US company before Trump Tower meeting - Israel embassy move: Morrison says there's no evidence 'at this time' of planned violence - Australia's spy agency warned government Israel embassy move could provoke violent unrest - Schnauzer looks foreign to me | Brief letters - Vast archive of tweets reveals work of trolls backed by Russia and Iran - Regime change in Iran is Trump’s real motive for siding with the Saudis | Simon Tisdall - UK retail sales slide as shoppers buy less food after summer splurge - business live - China reflects after woman kills herself and family when husband 'faked death' - Chinese city 'plans to launch artificial moon to replace streetlights' - Chinese search firm Baidu joins global AI ethics body - Airstrike kills 60 Islamist extremist fighters in Somalia, US military says - Crimea college hit by deadly bomb blast - The Skripal Files by Mark Urban review – the Salisbury spy's story - Barnaby Joyce urges caution over any Israel embassy move - Barnaby Joyce says if the Nationals leadership was offered he 'would take it' – as it happened - Wentworth byelection: Jewish voters split over embassy switch to Jerusalem - Australia may follow US and move consulate to Jerusalem – video report - Israel and Nelson Mandela’s moral legacy | Letters - Palestinians accuse Australian PM of jeopardising Middle East peace - Hong Kong train network suffers its worst ever delay – a six-hour signal failure - China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain | David Bandurski - US-China tensions soar as 'new cold war' heats up - Veterans Affairs Lincoln motto is 'exclusionary' to women, petitioners say - 'It's against the law': Syrian refugees deported from Turkey back to war | Shawn Carrié and Asmaa Al Omar - Russian Orthodox Church cuts ties with Constantinople - Moving Australia's embassy to Jerusalem a 'fatal mistake', Middle Eastern envoys warn - Suggesting to move the Australian embassy to Jerusalem is anti-Palestinian partisanship | George Browning - Dave Sharma says Jerusalem embassy move would be no threat to Australia - Australia mulls Jerusalem embassy move: what happened and why it matters - Morrison's desperate embassy stunt is a silly idea designed for him to cling to power | Katharine Murphy - Australian embassy in Israel may be moved to Jerusalem - Jerusalem embassy move a 'sensible' proposal, says Scott Morrison - Internment camps make Uighurs' life more colourful, says Xinjiang governor - Trump: Jim Mattis 'sort of a Democrat' and could quit as defense secretary soon - Lorde concert boycott: New Zealanders fined by Israel raise thousands for Gaza - Wentworth byelection: Dave Sharma 'open' to relocating Australia's embassy to Jerusalem - Israeli high court suspends deportation of US student accused of boycott support - 'You tell me': China ambassador stumped on who aids Trump on trade - Relations with Pakistan remain stable, says China | Letters - The Guardian view on Brexit delusions: diminishing Britain’s standing | Editorial - Hong Kong: thousands protest at plan to build new artificial islands - Donald Trump's 60 Minutes interview: eight takeaways - Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader freed from jail - Archbishop’s defiance threatens Putin’s vision of Russian greatness - Citizen journalists – the fighters on the frontline against Russia’s attacks - Communist challenger exposes cracks in Putin’s grip on power - The Observer view on the west’s reluctance to face up to Riyadh | Observer editorial - The tech giants, the US and the Chinese spy chips that never were… or were they? | John Naughton - 'Sinicisation' of Muslims in Xinjiang must go on, says Chinese official - Cambridge divided over growing number of tourist groups - Reporting on Trump and Putin amid the war on truth - US: Israel, Syria agree to reopen Golan crossing - Six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza protests – officials - Ministry of Defence grounds fleet of 16 F-35 fighter jets - Rocket launches to be grounded while mid-air failure is investigated - Footage from inside Soyuz spacecraft shows crew at moment of failure – video - Israel fines New Zealand women $18,000 for urging Lorde concert boycott - My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid. I see the parallels with Israel | Nkosi Zwelivelile - Katie Boulter and Kyle Edmund fall to defeats in China quarter-finals - Papua New Guinea imports 40 Maseratis to transport Apec delegates - Beaten, terrified and disappeared: China cracks down on faulty vaccine outcry - Why are stock markets falling and how far will they go? - IMF boss defends Federal Reserve after Trump calls it 'crazy' - Don't go to dangerous countries – unless the UK is deporting you - Weaponised AI is coming. Are algorithmic forever wars our future? | Ben Tarnoff - Vladimir Putin sympathises with Nurmagomedov over McGregor brawl - Putin gets away with whatever he wants | Letters - Second world war winners and the appeal of Dad’s Army | Letters - How to deal with fake feminism? Pour cold water in its lap | Zoe Williams - Rocket failure forces astronauts to make emergency landing - Trump angry after South Korea signals it may ease North Korea sanctions - Israel must lift its bar on US student Lara Alqasem | Letters - Climate change will make the next global crash the worst | Larry Elliott - China 'legalises' internment camps for million Uighurs - Senior Chinese official charged with stealing US trade secrets - Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance fits in to a growing trend we must fight | Simon Tisdall - Why are markets plunging and which stocks are worst hit? - Inside the psychiatric hospitals and churches of China – in pictures - World stock markets dive as Trump attacks 'crazy' US rate hikes - Assad's exhausted army in need of reinforcements as Idlib battle looms - Vladimir Putin’s plan to divide Europe is backfiring | Natalie Nougayrède - Putin allegedly gave Skripal poisoning suspect hero's award - Penalty or 11-metre foot kick? North and South Korea work on unified dictionary - US student barred from Israel over alleged BDS to fight case in court - Trump official sought Israeli help to defeat 2016 campaign opponents – report - Chinese authorities launch 'anti-halal' crackdown in Xinjiang - Second Skripal poisoning suspect identified as GRU doctor - Spy agencies are worst at learning from past, say experts - Zurich opera show goes on despite director's Moscow house arrest - Trust in Vladimir Putin declines steeply among Russians, poll shows - Kim Jong-un invites pope to Pyongyang - Walter Laqueur obituary - Stock markets stage sharp sell-off amid fear of Italy-EU budget fight - Jaguar Land Rover to shut Solihull plant for two weeks after China sales slump - Wife of detained former Interpol chief makes emotional appeal – video - Hong Kong leader refuses to explain UK journalist’s visa denial - Fate of former Interpol chief is in hands of China's controversial anti-graft drive - Trump's trade war with China and Europe will hit global growth – IMF - Following the money: where China's $40bn investment in Australia is going | Greg Jericho - Silent fans, black eggs, 90-hour trip: recalling West Brom’s tour of China - Afghan women still jailed alongside murderers for 'failing' virginity test | Fariba Housaini - Russia summons Dutch ambassador over hacking revelations - North Korea: Kim Jong-un expects 'great progress' after Pompeo talks - Sara Netanyahu's fraud and breach of trust trial begins in Jerusalem - China accuses detained Interpol chief of bribery - Chinese state media defend Hong Kong visa refusal for FT journalist - Energy sector's carbon emissions to grow for second year running - Missing Interpol chief resigns as it emerges he is being held in China - Suspected British Isis fighter could face repatriation to Canada - Russian interference goes beyond spying to the very heart of Britain | Nick Cohen - The Observer view on how Putin’s spooks reveal what a dangerous foe he has become | Observer editorial - Pro-Russian Harmony tipped to be Latvia's largest party following election - From Pyongyang with love: defectors find a perfect match with South Korean men - Palestinian shoots dead two Israelis in West Bank, army says - China pumps $109bn into economy as trade war bites on growth - As global poverty declines, we should beware the new class wars | Kenan Malik - Beheadings, roadside bombs and airstrikes: one day in Afghanistan - Russia unlikely to reduce aggressive spying, analysts warn - At a time of permanent cyberwar, the UK must stand firm against Russia | Tim Stevens - Dogs, Russia and Grayling face questions of intelligence | John Crace - Child among three Palestinians shot dead by Israeli army - I was an Isis sex slave. I tell my story because it is the best weapon I have | Nadia Murad - The Guardian view on Russia and hacking: time to tackle our vulnerabilities | Editorial - Why Trump's 'get tough on China' policy is counterproductive | Michael F Fuchs - Heavy price paid for war in Afghanistan | Letters - Visual guide: how Dutch intelligence thwarted a Russian hacking operation - US charges seven Russian spies over cyber-hacking - Idlib hopes ceasefire will hold as deadline approaches - String of own goals by Russian spies exposes a strange sloppiness - Steve Bell on the defence secretary's response to Russian hacking – cartoon - Theresa May’s ideas on austerity and acting in the national interest | Letters - US announces indictment of seven Russia spies – video - How Russian spies bungled cyber-attack on weapons watchdog - Britain wilfully ignored its promise to child refugees. That shame has to end | Stella Creasy - Italian-flagged migrant rescue boat defies anti immigration minister - Libya is a war zone. Why is the EU still sending refugees back there? | Sally Hayden - Nobel peace prize joint winner Nadia Murad's powerful 2016 speech to the UN – video - Nadia Murad carries the fight for traumatised Yazidis - French investigate after Interpol chief Meng Hongwei goes missing - Huge rise in US plastic waste shipments to poor countries following China ban - China planted chips in Apple and Amazon servers, report claims - Mike Pence accuses China of meddling in US elections despite lack of evidence - The fantasy world of pre-wedding photos: inside China's billion-dollar industry - Fan Bingbing’s mysterious disappearance: what it means for China’s elite - A Thousand Girls Like Me review – a brave woman refuses to bow down - Navy vet arrested in connection with suspicious envelopes sent to Trump - ‘I watched my family die’: Shatila refugees' suffering laid bare - Russia 'mounted cyber-attacks on chemical weapons body and Porton Down' - Yulia Skripal chose Salisbury as family home, book reveals - Australian PM accuses Russian military of hacking US Democrats' emails - UK accuses Kremlin of ordering series of 'reckless' cyber-attacks - Nasa casts doubt on Russian theory ISS air leak was sabotage - Kremlin lieutenant elected head of world chess governing body - Vladimir Putin calls Sergei Skripal a scumbag and a traitor - Pompeo backs away from North Korea denuclearisation timeline - May and Dutch PM condemn Russia's 'disregard for global values' - Politics live - Iraqi president names Adel Abdul-Mahdi as next prime minister - Tasmanian Greens leader accused of 'racist dog-whistling' as party split over China - High-speed train brings Chinese border into heart of Hong Kong - Mike Pence to warn against Chinese 'intimidation' in South China Sea - Suspected ricin poison packages found at Pentagon - Go Back to Where You Came From Live is ambitious TV. But does it work? - US Nato envoy's threat to Russia: stop developing missile or we'll 'take it out' - Star Wars: The Last Jedi abuse blamed on Russian trolls and 'political agendas' - Mike Pompeo to visit North Korea for further talks with Kim Jong-un - Malaysian prime minister calls Jews 'hook-nosed' - International court of justice orders US to lift new Iran sanctions - France blames Iran for foiled bomb attack near Paris - Ofcom investigates TV network over interview praising attack in Iran - Fan Bingbing: missing Chinese actor hit with $129m tax bill - Australia concerned over China's 'aggressive tactics' in South China Sea - Shell approves $12bn liquefied natural gas project in Canada - Sergei Skripal initially did not believe Russia tried to kill him – book - Result of Macedonia's referendum is another victory for Russia | Simon Tisdall - Deaths of high-profile Iraqi women spark fear of conservative backlash - The Guardian view on the Vatican and China: an ideological struggle | Editorial - IMF chief warns of economic slowdown on back of trade disputes - Chinese TV reporter 'slaps delegate at Tory conference' – video - Chinese reporter who allegedly slapped Tory conference delegate released by police - Chinese warship sails within yards of US destroyer in 'unsafe' encounter - Japan: US military base critic voted in as Okinawa governor - Multibillion-dollar Macau: a city of glitz and grit – photo essay - F-35 fighter jet crashes in South Carolina on day $11.5bn deal announced - Forget the pledges to act – London is still a haven for dirty Russian money | Oliver Bullough - North Korea will not abandon nuclear weapons if it cannot trust US – minister - Could this be the last day of school in the West Bank's fated Khan al-Ahmar? - War took a heavy toll on her family. Now she is fighting … for Afghan democracy - Rob Goldstone on Trump: 'I think he likes Russia because Russia liked him' - Two children among seven people shot dead by Israel, say officials - China warns US it will not be 'blackmailed' on trade - Russian-US tycoon boasted of ‘active’ involvement in Trump election campaign - The kiss of death for Lancashire County Cricket Club | Letters - Russian MPs pass unpopular bill to raise pension age - 'We got really lucky': how novichok suspects' identities were revealed - Netanyahu claims Israel has found Iran's 'secret atomic warehouse' - 'Iran was like hell': the young refugees starting new lives in Serbia - Hezbollah could be banned in UK in bid to toughen Iran stance - 'We are scared, but we have Jesus': China and its war on Christianity - China and Russia call on UN to ease North Korea sanctions - 'A national emergency': suicide rate spikes among young US veterans - Salisbury poisoning: Russia calls story identifying suspect a fabrication - Pussy Riot's Peter Verzilov leaves hospital following poisoning - Ecuador gave Julian Assange diplomatic role at its Moscow embassy, says MP - Salisbury poisoning suspect identified as Russian colonel - 'All the time in the world': Trump says no rush for North Korea to denuclearise - May calls for global cooperation at UN and chides Trump over Iran - Global leaders must match fine words on migration with urgent action - The Oslo Diaries review – hope and anguish in the Middle East - Education in Iraq is in crisis. UK universities can help | Fran Sutherland - Thanks to Brexit, the British voice counts for less at the UN - Trump to face opposition from allies as he chairs UN security council meeting - Trump is risking more than a war of words with Iran | Simon Tisdall - My career as an international blood smuggler - The strangest moments from Donald Trump's UN press conference – video - Trump accuses China of meddling in midterms, citing Iowa newspaper ad - The truth is that Trump has a point about globalisation | Larry Elliott - Trump accuses China of meddling in US midterm elections – video - Ex-staffer pressures Google over China project ahead of Senate hearing - 'These cities value freedom and democracy’: the Syrian families searching Europe for justice - A remainer who is picture perfect | Brief letters - 'There are no different truths': the last years of Soviet cinema - 'Break the shell of mistrust': Shinzo Abe willing to meet Kim Jong-un at summit - The Mosul historian who risked his life to blog about life under Isis – podcast - 'There will be hell to pay': John Bolton issues warning to Iran's clerics – video - Trump urges world to reject globalism in UN speech that draws mocking laughter - EU, China and Russia in move to sidestep US sanctions on Iran - May tells Rouhani: Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailing raises 'serious concerns' - John Bolton warns Iran not to cross the US or allies: 'There will be hell to pay' - Rouhani condemns 'recklessness of some states for international values' – as it happened - Satellite images show 'runaway' expansion of coal power in China - US arrests army reservist accused of spying for China - Foreign Isis fighters must face trial on home soil, Kurds say - Syria faces perpetual war unless Russia extends ceasefire, France warns - Julian Assange and Russia’s UK embassy | Letter - Trump plans new Kim summit a year after threat to destroy North Korea - May to petition Iranian president over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at UN - Trade war: US is putting a knife to China's neck, says top official - Beijing protests Swedish TV satire about Chinese tourists - ‘Birmingham pharmacist’ held in Syria on suspected Isis links - Russian national arrested in Norway on suspicion of spying - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained again - Tom Watson: UK on frontier of 'new cold war' that Russia is winning - Russian passport leak after Salisbury may reveal spy methods - Iran says response to terrorist attack on military parade will be 'crushing' - Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani: US sympathizes with Iran regime change - Hong Kong has banned a political party but it will never crush desire for independence - New tariffs take effect as China accuses US of 'economic hegemony' - China starts to assert its world view at UN as influence grows - Hong Kong bans pro-independence party as China tightens grip - Child dies as migrant boat capsizes off Lebanese coast - Newly-discovered photographs reveal family life of the Romanovs - The big picture: communal keep-fit in Soviet Russia - US 'won't hesitate' to impose sanctions if North Korea fuel embargo breached - Gazans recycle bomb wreckage to beat the blockade - Iran summons UK, Dutch and Danish envoys over attack on military parade - A long trade war will leave the world feeling its piggy bank was robbed - Hong Kong: first high-speed train to mainland China departs - Vatican signs historic deal with China – but critics denounce sellout - Afghan roadside bomb kills several children in Faryab province - Russian model denies Salisbury poisoning scare was hoax - Is money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank the largest in history? - Rapper MIA urges Australian airlines to refuse forced deportations - Elite Iranian soldiers killed in attack on military parade - Vatican and China sign agreement on bishop appointments - 'Awful abuses': US denounces China's treatment of Uighurs - Britain lets Putin move his dark money with impunity. That has to stop | Oliver Bullough - 'We work with tear gas around us': developing video games in a war zone - Revealed: Russia’s secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK - Newly discovered photographs reveal family life of the Romanovs - If ending Syria’s war means accepting Assad and Russia have won, so be it | Jonathan Steele - Ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn to be sentenced in December for lying to FBI - Kim Jong-un all fingers and thumbs in bid for Instagram diplomacy - The Guardian view on the US and North Korea: warm words, not deeds | Editorial - Global markets shrug off trade war fears - business live - ‘Human impulses run riot’: China’s shocking pace of change – podcast - Pakistan criticises China over treatment of ethnic Muslims - US hits China with sanctions for buying Russian fighter jets and missiles - Rat poison, Prezzo and the Russian model: odd Salisbury subplot begins to unravel - Danske bank chief resigns over €200bn money-laundering scandal - Russian officials call for governor's suspicious election to be annulled - Клуб: the St Petersburg rail factory that became a visionary nightclub - 'Tremendous progress': Trump on North Korea denuclearisation – video - 'Dream come true' for Moon as Korean leaders make mountain pilgrimage - US wants to restart nuclear talks with Pyongyang after North-South summit - Moon Jae-in is gambling with North Korea – and it could upset the US | Michael H Fuchs - Why are Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in’s hugs controversial? – video - Israelis experience Palestinian home life in virtual reality - Foreign Office warns dual nationals not to go to Iran - Yoga ball murder: Man jailed for using poison gas to kill wife and daughter - WTO head offers to mediate between China and US over trade war - Cathay Pacific spells its name wrong on side of plane - Beijing complains as US 'orders Chinese media to register as foreign agents' - China's anti-opium policy: field of beautiful but deadly poppies are gone – archive, 20 September 1911 - Fan Bingbing disappearance highlights ties between Chinese politics and showbusiness - 'Isis will be looking for targets': guns and fear mark Afghan Ashura - 'Fort Trump': Donald Trump considers request for US military base in Poland - Idlib truce: 'We do not trust Russia – but it is better than bombing' - Parallel lives: matching portraits from South and North Korea – in pictures - North Korea still taking baby steps with Kim's missile site offer - Handshakes and high hopes: the inter-Korean summit – in pictures - North Korea agrees to shut down missile test sites as leaders hail 'leap forward' - 'Ashamed': South Koreans chilled by Kim Jong-un's cuddles - Google's prototype Chinese search engine links searches to phone numbers - Ben Jennings on the latest round in the US-China trade row – cartoon - The Guardian view on US-China trade wars: careful what you start | Editorial - China hits back at US with $60bn of new tariffs - Donald Trump's reliance on Chinese restraint is risky - Real wage squeeze deepens as UK inflation hits six-month high of 2.7% – business live - The US-China trade war is unlikely to be settled soon | Nils Pratley - Pakistan's Imran Khan skirts issue of Afghan refugees' citizenship - US to slash refugee admissions to historic low of 30,000, Pompeo confirms - Russia blames Israel after military plane downed by Syrian military - Sajid Javid lodges secrecy application at Russian whistleblower inquest - 'Highly probable' Pussy Riot activist was poisoned, say German doctors - Russia and Turkey to set up Idlib buffer zone to protect civilians - Alexander Povetkin has Russian government behind him, warns Hearn - US accuses Russia of covering up North Korea sanctions violations - Kim Jong-un greets Moon Jae-in as inter-Korean summit starts - Wide smiles and big hugs: Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in kick off inter-Korean summit - video - Preventing Palestine review: a fine history of Israel's negation of a nation - Trump hits China with $200bn of new tariffs as trade war escalates - Pussy Riot member flown to Berlin after suspected poisoning - Moon Jae-in prepares for make or break inter-Korean summit with Kim Jong-un - Kiarostami to Panahi: photographs by Iranian film-makers – in pictures - IMF warns no-deal Brexit could be very costly - business live - Typhoon Mangkhut: landslide buries dozens sheltering in miners' bunkhouse - Amazon investigates claims staff are leaking data for bribes - Violent winds, raging water, mudslides: Typhoon Mangkhut’s path of chaos – video - Crazy Rich Asians is a missed opportunity for Hollywood | Yuan Ren - China accuses Sweden of violating human rights over treatment of tourists - Pakistan's Imran Khan pledges citizenship for 1.5m Afghan refugees - British ex-soldier jailed in Turkey for fighting alongside banned Kurdish militia - Russia is mocking us. First the Salisbury attack, then information warfare. Time to wake up | Carole Cadwalldr - Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport, says Syrian state media - US has no plan for Middle East peace, says senior Palestinian - Iran's embassy in Paris 'attacked by protesters', says Iranian foreign ministry - Typhoon Mangkhut wreaks havoc in Hong Kong – video - Typhoon Mangkhut heads for south China as dozens killed in Philippines - China tells Taiwan to stop spying as TV show details honey traps - China’s pitiless war on Muslim Uighurs poses a dilemma for the west - Typhoon Mangkhut batters northern Philippines as it heads for China – video report - Salisbury reaction: 'It would be comical but for the fact someone died' - 'Sounds ridiculous': Russians question Salisbury suspects' story - Best for Britain leaders barred from Tory conference - Russia’s brazen lies mock the world. How best to fight for the truth? | Jonathan Freedland - Trump and 'collusion': what we know so far about Mueller's Russia investigation - Pussy Riot member conscious again after alleged poisoning - So much more to do and see in Salisbury | Brief letters - Iranian comedies thrive at box office as audiences look to lift gloom - Typhoon Mangkhut: at least three people dead in Philippines - Developing games in a war zone: Chips with Everything podcast - Skripal suspects' account of Salisbury trip does not add up - Skripal suspects display impressive command of Wikipedia | John Crace - Pussy Riot member in hospital after suspected poisoning, says band – video - The Skripals were victims of Russia – but not necessarily of Putin | Alexey Kovalev - Salisbury pair's unlikely story only makes UK's case stronger - UN experts 'caved in' to Russia on North Korea sanctions report – US - Dutch expelled Russians over alleged novichok laboratory hacking plot - Paul Manafort reportedly close to Mueller plea deal to avoid second trial - No 10 calls Salisbury suspects' interview 'blatant lies' - Vostok-2018: Russia launches biggest post-Soviet war games – in pictures - North and South Korea open liaison office as ties warm further - Eurovision 2019 to be held in Tel Aviv instead of Jerusalem - Palestinians still live under apartheid in Israel, 25 years after the Oslo accord | Avi Shlaim - No 10 dismisses Gordon Brown's warning of UK 'sleepwalking into financial crisis' - 'My soul, where are you?': families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence - Dua Lipa fans forcibly removed from concert in Shanghai – video - British Steel plans 400 job cuts and blames weak pound – business live - Customer finds rat in Chinese restaurant's hotpot dish – video - China claims Muslim detention camps are education centres - Rat in a hot pot wipes millions off Chinese restaurant chain's value - Pollutionwatch: hazy air of cities 'reducing solar panel efficiency' - The Guardian view on Xinjiang: China’s secret camps are at last in the spotlight | Editorial - US-led raid of Somali ex-president's home blamed on bad intelligence - Men claiming to be Salisbury suspects say they were only visiting cathedral - Men claiming to be Salisbury novichok attack suspects speak to Russian state TV – video - Pussy Riot activist in hospital after being poisoned, say group - The human price of inaction and action in Syria, Turkey and Libya | Letters - Wajib review – a jokey jaunt through Nazareth - Australia deports Iraqi asylum seeker whose appeal was due next week - Pollution and corruption are choking the life out of Basra | Diaa Jubaili - Fans ejected from Dua Lipa Shanghai concert over gay-rights flags - Suspect in China car rampage that killed 11 wanted 'revenge on society' - Indiana Jones and the Dutch workshop false alarm - Syria conflict: why does Idlib matter and what could happen? - I have seen the bloodied bodies of Syria’s children. Tell me nothing can be done | Samer Attar - Skripal poisoning: suspects are civilians, not criminals, says Putin - Russia linked to 2014 wiretapping scandal in Poland - UK must take lead to protect the people of Idlib | Letters - I'll make a nice juicy steak out of opposition leader, says Putin ally - 'I'll make a nice, juicy steak out of you': Putin ally's bizarre threat to Alexei Navalny – video - New York senate candidate accuses Israeli PM's spokesman of sexual assault - UN head calls for Idlib to be spared 'humanitarian nightmare' - The Guardian view on Idlib: nowhere left to go | Editorial - Concerns missing Chinese actor Fan Bingbing has fallen foul of authorities - US considers sanctions on China over treatment of Uighurs - Russia begins its largest ever military exercise with 300,000 soldiers - Russia main suspect behind illnesses of US staff in Cuba and China – report - Chinese stock market hits 31-month low as Xi and Putin blast protectionism - business live - Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1% - Thousands of Syrians displaced as threat of Idlib attack grows - 'All is calm': Russian cosmonaut shows space station hole - Russian trolls' tweets cited in more than 100 UK news articles - Russia's scramble for influence in Africa catches western officials off-guard - Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? - Trump planning second North Korea summit after Kim's 'very warm' letter - A good time for the next generation to renew Jewish-Palestinian dialogue | Letters - Walter Schwarz obituary - Iran detains pair over A Midsummer Night's Dream production - China cracks down on 'chaotic' religious information online - UK pay growth picks up to fastest rate in three years – business live - China scraps three family planning offices amid push to boost birthrate - John Bolton strongly criticises International Criminal Court – video - 'Crazy accusations': two Pussy Riot members arrested in Moscow - Trump 'almost sent tweet that North Korea would have seen as warning of attack' - North Korean 70th anniversary parade – in pictures - North Korea marks 70th anniversary with massive military parade – video - Masked gunmen storm oil corporation HQ in Libya - 'I want to be a doctor, not a rabbi': how Israeli ultra-Orthodox are being drawn into work - MPs demand inquiry into consequences of UK's inaction in Syria - Migration: how many people are on the move around the world? - Ford will not build new Focus cars in US, despite Trump tariffs tweet - UK growth picks up to 0.6% after World Cup and heatwave boost – business live - John Bolton to castigate ICC in Washington speech - Google pulls YouTube ad by Putin critic Alexei Navalny - Salisbury, six months on: ‘We should not waste a crisis, we should ensure that good comes from it’ - Wealthy Russians in Britain face new visa crackdown after Salisbury - The Observer view on the case against Putin being irrefutable. So charge him | Observer editorial - As Putin incites more atrocities in Syria, Europe is exposed as craven | Nick Cohen - Alleged Russian spy may not have offered sex for job, prosecutors concede - Turkey warns Russia an attack on Idlib will turn it into ‘lake of blood’ - North Korea stages huge military parade to mark 70th anniversary - Trump axes $25m in aid for Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals - ‘Only bones remain’: shattered Yazidis fear returning home - Jailed dual nationals may be victims of Iranian agents' rivalry, row suggests - Adam Liaw's beggar’s chicken recipe - Russia asks Britain for help in identifying novichok suspects - America last: Trump has brought US to irrelevance in Syria - SAS spy's memoir claims he 'probably saved Gorbachev's life' - George Papadopoulos: ex-Trump adviser jailed for 14 days for lying to FBI - Murdered Russian exile survived earlier poisoning attempt, police believe - 'Act of espionage': France accuses Russia of trying to spy on satellite data - 'It's a no-go': Trump won't answer Mueller's obstruction questions, Giuliani says - Boycott Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Israel | Letters - Protesters set fire to Iranian consulate in Basra - Trump threatens new tariffs on $267bn of Chinese goods - Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma to retire, say reports - 'Palau against China!': the tiny island defying the world's biggest country - Kurds renew their claim for Idlib as final battle draws near - Millions of us are trapped in Idlib, facing death. The world must save us | Anonymous - Under the Wire review – fearsome account of war reporting in Syria - From darkness to the light: Syrian families find peace in rural England - 'Lots of evidence' Syria preparing chemical weapons in Idlib, says US envoy - Britain says Brexit will open door to tougher Russia sanctions - UK’s Salisbury claims prompt a Russian rant at UN | John Crace - Russia faces barrage of criticism at UN over novichok attack - Salisbury is a massive neon-advertisement to terrorists for chemical weapons use in cities | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon - Russia’s role not clear in poisonings | Letters - Britain’s reaction to the Salisbury poisonings plays into Putin’s hands | Simon Jenkins - Friend of Alexander Litvinenko sues Russian TV channels for libel - US, Canada, France and Germany back UK over novichok attack - The new Skripal revelations have made the Kremlin look flat-footed | John Lough - Novichok attack: Russia 'has no reason' to investigate suspects - North Korea turns 70: all eyes on missile displays at upcoming military parade - North Korean 'hacker' charged over cyber-attacks against NHS - 'We will get it done together,' says Trump on North Korea denuclearisation - 'Reader, it is glorious': watching Vladimir Putin's own TV show - Iraq: three dead as anti-corruption protests rage on in Basra - US says Syria preparing Idlib chemical attack as Turkey urges restraint - China 'will retaliate' if US imposes new tariffs on $200bn of goods - How two men and a WhatsApp group rescued scores of Afghan heroes - Welcome to 'Tourism Vacation Town': China to build $1.2bn holiday hotspot in Cambodia - 'Washington's sharksucker': Chinese media fires at Britain over South China Sea - Arrest of Syrian 'hero swimmer' puts Lesbos refugees back in spotlight - Syria: Donald Trump says slaughter in Idlib would make US 'very angry' - Planes, trains and fake names: the trail left by Skripal suspects - Guests at hotel used by novichok suspects urged to contact police - Novichok poisonings: what is the GRU and how does it operate? - UK faces tough diplomatic task to challenge Russia after Skripal charges - Visual guide: how the novichok suspects made their way to Salisbury - Ilya and Emilia Kabakov on their return to Russia: 'Our art is universal' - Salisbury attackers were Russian military intelligence, says May - Novichok attackers were Russian military intelligence, says May – video - Boris Johnson racing ahead as Tory members' favourite for next leader, survey suggests - Politics live - Putin is responsible for novichok poisoning, says UK minister - Inside Chechnya's war-scarred capital – in pictures - Russian-led advance on Idlib could displace 700,000 Syrians - PM points to Russia as novichok poisoning suspects named - Rightwing author Jerome Corsi subpoenaed in Mueller investigation - Salisbury council chief criticises Corbyn for 'private' visit to city - Putin signed decree on freelance spies days before Skripal claims - Koreas' Kim and Moon to meet again as Trump nuclear agenda sidelined - Outcry from Israel after Paraguay moves its Jerusalem embassy back to Tel Aviv - The Guardian view on Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour: it must be an anti-racist party | Editorial - Jeremy Corbyn, Labour and the IHRA definition of antisemitism | Letters - Labour’s antisemitism code must signal a new phase of unity for the party | Michael Segalov - Iran accuses Trump of 'bullying' other countries into anti-Tehran stance - ‘Human impulses run riot’: China’s shocking pace of change - The sartorial revolution in China - archive, 6 Sep 1956 - Mobike pulls out of Manchester citing thefts and vandalism - 'My eyes looking Korean': can Asian rappers defeat stereotypes? - China must apologise for 'arrogance', Nauru president demands - China complains over British warship sailing through disputed South China Sea - At least 20 people killed in separate bombings at Kabul wrestling club - Ex-hostage says husband abused her while family held captive in Afghanistan - UN special envoy on Syria warns against bombing rebel enclave - Salisbury novichok poisonings: police name two Russian suspects - Erdoğan raises fears of a massacre in Syria as major assault looms - 'Alone and in fear': ordeal of married gay couple forced to flee Russia - Space station air leak: someone drilled the hole, say Russians - Nerve agent used on Skripals 'same one that killed Dawn Sturgess' - Sydney man accused of North Korea missile dealing faces new charges - I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on | Stanisław Aronson - Labour adopts IHRA antisemitism definition in full - Trump to chair UN security council meeting on Iran - UK companies struggle to hire staff amid Brexit uncertainty – business live - Chinese envoy walks out of meeting after row with Nauru president amid 'bullying' claims - Russian TV launches series following Putin's weekly activities - Tony Blair to meet Salvini to discuss Trans Adriatic Pipeline - Hundreds of prisoners escape from Tripoli jail amid militia fighting - Donald Trump and Middle East diplomacy | Letters - The IHRA definition of antisemitism is a threat to free expression | Ash Sarkar - Crucial week for Labour and Jeremy Corbyn in antisemitism row | Letters - Trump warns Syria, Russia and Iran against 'reckless' attack on Idlib - China defends plans to spend $60bn in Africa over three years - Hong Kong cedes part of rail station to China in secretive ceremony - China visa spat almost derailed Pacific leaders summit in Nauru - Leader of militant Haqqani network in Afghanistan has died, say Taliban - US service member killed in Afghanistan in apparent insider attack - Every Day is Extra review: John Kerry on Vietnam, Syria, Paris, Iran … and Trump - Siberia's forgotten women – a photo essay - US-backed Kosovo land-swap border plan under fire from all sides - Thousands protest in Russia against plans to hike pension age - Trump is dangerous again as his Kim Jong-un ‘breakthrough’ turns sour | Simon Tisdall - Sharp rise in proportion of migrants dying in Mediterranean, says UN - Israel's Arab MPs back Corbyn in antisemitism row - As Palestinian Arab MPs in Israel, we salute Corbyn as a champion of peace and justice | Letter - Philippines' Duterte shops for arms on controversial Israel trip - Steve Bannon: Australia is on ‘frontlines’ of economic war with China - China bans ABC website but says its internet is 'fully open' - Chinese billionaire CEO Richard Liu arrested in US, accused of sexual offence - Microwave weapons suspected in US embassy ailments – report - Study of Portuguese and Spanish explodes as China expands role in Latin America - US military confirms $300m cut in aid to Pakistan - Who will be king? Three-way battle for control rocks international chess - Man jailed for plotting to kill Russian reporter Arkady Babchenko - Papadopoulos: Trump 'nodded' at suggestion of Putin meeting - One little Syrian refugee didn't stop drawing. She gave me this message to show you | Ben Quilty - Russia softens up west for bloodbath it is planning in Syria’s Idlib province - Family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will not ask for more temporary releases - Trump's WTO threats matter – especially to a post-Brexit Britain - China’s lost little emperors... how the ‘one-child policy’ will haunt the country for decades| Mei Fong - Scotland loves the deep-fat fryer. Could Syrians change that? | Ian Jack - Civilians in Syria's last rebel stronghold brace for final battle - Russian airport worker dies and 18 injured after plane careers off runway - Young Russians posting memes face jail for 'extremism' - US ready to boost arms supplies to Ukraine naval and air forces, envoy says - Manafort associate paid Trump inauguration $50,000 in Ukrainian cash - Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko killed in explosion in Ukraine - US confirms end to funding for UN Palestinian refugees - Lana Del Rey pulls out of Israeli festival after backlash - Trump's UN funding move risks damage to Palestine, Israel and US - Don’t let science legitimise Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories | Letters - Alistair Burt visits Iran for talks on jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - 'The story goes so far back': new film attempts to untangle Russiagate - Train project linking North and South Korea stopped in its tracks by US - The Guardian view on Trump’s Palestinian policy: setting fire to the ground | Editorial - Jeremy Corbyn, Jonathan Sacks and the antisemitism row engulfing Labour | Letters - Food, homes – and books – for the 99% - UN Syria envoy offers to negotiate ceasefire in last rebel stronghold - Japan defence ministry seeks record budget over North Korea threat - How animal waste is helping turn China's lakes green - Detention of Uighurs must end, UN tells China, amid claims of prison camps - 'We ​can’t go back': Syria's refugees fear for their future after war - Trump aid cuts hitting Palestinians hard, agencies warn - Putin makes personal plea for Russians to accept pension reforms - Russia to hold biggest war games since 1981 - US may resume war games as North Korea negotiations stall - Siding with the Palestinian struggle is not antisemitic | Ahmad Samih Khalidi - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe collapses in prison after suffering panic attack - Iranian activist jailed over hijab protests goes on hunger strike - Markets lose early gains despite Trump trade deal and ahead of US GDP - business live - The Guardian view on air pollution: it’s time for politicians to clean up | Editorial - Another journalist expelled – as China's abuses grow, who will see them? | Maya Wang - Tom Watson demands answers about alleged Russian Brexit plot - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 30 days - North Koreans at work and play – in pictures - That’s an electric Moskvich 408! | Letters - No turban, no sermon, just books for kids: meet Iran's travelling cleric - North Korea threat remains despite Trump summit, says Japan - China could scrap two-child policy, ending nearly 40 years of limits - Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals - Fentanyl for sale to UK users through Chinese websites - Assad’s Syria recorded its own atrocities. The world can’t ignore them | Sara Afshar - Olga Koch review – from Russia with love and oligarchs - North Korean newspaper condemns 'double-dealing' US after Pompeo trip called off - 'Iraq is dying': oil flows freely but corruption fuels growing anger - Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband praises Hunt's handling of case - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back in prison - China's top ride-hailing firm suspends carpool service after woman is killed - Electric cars exceed 1m in Europe as sales soar by more than 40% - Marise Payne defends 5G ban on Chinese telcos Huawei and ZTE - Uprooted: old tree transplants for China's new cities – in pictures - Chinese leader urges fresh push against 'separatist elements' in Tibet - The Trump-Russia investigation and Stormy Daniels – cartoon - Alexei Navalny detained after call for national day of protest - Russian opposition leader injured following detention - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s super-human struggle to protect her daughter | Barbara Ellen - Don’t be deluded – our Saudi ‘partners’ are masters of repression | Kenan Malik - 'No choice': jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike - 'Rain dancing 2.0': should humans be using tech to control the weather? - Afghanistan: national security adviser quits, sparking cabinet resignations - Donald Trump hits back after attorney general's public rebuke - Trump orders Pompeo to delay nuclear North Korea talks due to lack of progress - Israel claims aid worker shot dead by its troops was Palestinian militant - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe awaits Iran decision on prison return - Investors swoon over Mobike, but can the cycle-hire firm conquer the west? - Chinese resort hotel hit by deadly fire - 50 student activists missing in China after police raid - Hunt rejects request for inquiry into UK non-intervention in Syria - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: elaborate reception for the Germans in Moscow - archive, 1939 - Russian trolls 'spreading discord' over vaccine safety online - Kalashnikov takes on Tesla with retro-look electric 'supercar' - ‘Still brothers’: seven decades of separation fails to fray South Korean family ties - Aquarius: onboard the migrant rescue ship - arriving in Malta - Tired of Canberra's morass? Here's a glimpse of the bright side of life - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed from Iran jail temporarily - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe release suggests Iran is softening stance - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: husband hopeful of full release – video - Markets wary as US-China trade talks end without breakthrough - business live - Yorkshire chippy's Mandarin menu proves popular with Chinese tourists - The Syrian refugee aiming to become an Olympic swimmer - John Bolton meets Russian counterpart in Helsinki summit followup - Defiant Donald Trump accuses Michael Cohen of making up hush money stories - Q&A: what is Donald Trump accused of and what happens now? - 'Our memories have vanished': the Palestinian theatre destroyed in a bomb strike - 'New audio' of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released - US ready to drive Iranian oil exports to zero, says US national security adviser - Markets nervous amid new US-China tariffs and Trump's troubles - business live - Hundreds of thousands displaced as Shenzhen ‘upgrades’ its urban villages - US and China escalate trade war as total sum levied reaches $100bn - China 'ejects' US journalist known for reporting on Xinjiang repression - Bike-sharing firm Mobike threatens to pull out of Manchester - Paul Manafort went to Kyrgyzstan to 'strengthen Russia's position' - Paul Manafort: Trump's ex-campaign chair guilty on eight counts of fraud - Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court - US election meddling: 71% of Russians believe Putin denial, poll finds - Reunions of a lifetime as South Koreans head north – in pictures - North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons, says IAEA - Uri Avnery obituary - Facebook removes 652 fake accounts and pages meant to influence world politics - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'has lost patience' with UK diplomacy - European markets cautious despite new Wall Street record - business live - Taliban to travel to Moscow for peace talks after 17 years of war - Donald Trump says interview with Mueller could be 'perjury trap' - Trump dares 'worst CIA director' Brennan to sue as security row deepens - 'Truth isn't truth,' says Rudy Giuliani. But nonsense is still nonsense - Trump attacks 'disgraced' Mueller and rails against 'phony' obstruction claims - Russian hackers targeting conservative US thinktanks, Microsoft says - When is a dance not a dance? When it’s a geopolitical move by Putin | Natalie Nougayrède - Chechnya attacks carried out by children as young as 11, say officials - Best photos of the day: Korean reunion and the hajj - Pepsi to buy SodaStream for $3.2bn in shift to health-conscious drinks - Jeremy Hunt calls for fresh EU sanctions against Russia - Critically ill refugee child flown from Nauru to Australia with family - UK records biggest July budget surplus since 2000 - business live - Taiwan vows to stand up to China after El Salvador cuts ties - Where are the brown people? Crazy Rich Asians draws tepid response in Singapore - Capitalism alone cannot reverse climate change | Letters - Blasts heard in Kabul during Afghan president's Eid speech - video - Rockets fired at Afghan presidential palace during Eid speech - Britain to axe funding for scheme supporting Syrian opposition - House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger – review - Russian presence divides Czechs 50 years after Prague Spring - Tears as separated North and South Korean families come together briefly – video - Separated South and North Korean families meet in rare reunions - 'Thank you for being alive': South Korean family prepares for what might be a last reunion - Lana Del Rey defends decision to perform in Israel: 'Music is universal' - Kofi Annan obituary - Greeks must reap benefits after their sacrifices, says EU's Mosovici - business live - Xi Jinping calls for 'absolute loyalty' from Chinese army - The Guardian view on China: unease at home and abroad | Editorial - Afghan forces rescue 149 hostages taken by Taliban in bus ambush - Afghan president announces conditional ceasefire with Taliban - It’s time to end America’s war in Afghanistan | Mike Fuchs - Prosecutors urge prison time for ex-Trump adviser George Papadopoulos - Nearly half of Russians ignorant of 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia – poll - Pussy Riot: Riot Days review – it’s impossible to look away - Putin urges Europe to help rebuild Syria so refugees can return - Kofi Annan: a kind statesman and a gifted diplomat - In China, Valentine’s Day is all about designer handbags, not true love | Lucy Siegle - HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier heads to US to carry first aircraft - Syria: US preparing for final stage of anti-Isis push despite $200m funding cut - 'We were astounded by the freedom': my time as a host on Russia's RT TV - This mafia style of government makes Trump a role model for all autocrats | Jonathan Freedland - Anger as Austria's foreign minister invites Putin to her wedding - 'McCarthy-era tactics': ex-spy chiefs round on Trump in Brennan row - BDS has nothing useful to contribute to the Middle East peace process | Letter - Jews and Palestinians are the losers in this pointless political spat | Rachel Shabi - Emerging markets: who's taking the biggest hits and why? - Taiwan bakery chain caught in crossfire of tensions with China - Donald Trump's military parade postponed amid news it could cost $92m - Brennan hits back at Trump and calls denials of Russian collusion 'hogwash' - Fewer barbs across Korean border as South scales back fence - You've got mail, finally: Israel allows 10 tonnes of post into West Bank - It’s time for Jeremy Corbyn to take on his critics with a major speech. Here’s what he should say | Gary Younge - UK playwrights condemn bombing of Gaza theatre - We condemn the destruction of Gaza cultural centre in Israeli airstrike | Letter - Google staff protest against plan for censored Chinese search engine - China is 'rapidly' expanding bomber training, probably for US strikes – Pentagon - Urban oases: green roofs around the world – in pictures - Decriminalisation of domestic violence in Russia leads to fall in reported cases - 'What the hell?' Banksy disavows Moscow exhibition of his work - Kim Jong-nam murder: judge rules there is enough evidence for trial to proceed - EU concerned over detention of human rights lawyer in Iran - Capitalism can crack climate change. But only if it takes risks | Larry Elliott - Diversity of responses to Israel boycott movement | Letters - China to send delegation for US talks to avert trade war - Boris Johnson trip on day of Heathrow vote cost taxpayer £20,000 - Suicide bomber kills 48 after targeting Kabul education centre - Austria rejects Afghan's asylum bid because he 'did not act or dress gay' - Paul Manafort's lawyers conclude case without calling any witnesses - South Korean leader calls for train route to North Korea by end of year - 'Mum, I was tricked': my daughter, the Kim Jong-nam murder suspect - Aquarius: onboard the migrant rescue ship – photographic diary 1 - How prepared is the EU for a future surge in migrant arrivals? - Aquarius migrant rescue ship allowed to dock in Malta - For Corbyn, precision and honesty are the way out of this wreath mess | Jonathan Freedland - Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn's row with Benjamin Netanyahu – cartoon - The Corbyn wreath ‘scandal’ is just an exercise in hypocrisy | Owen Jones - Ex-teacher accused in Australia deemed fit for Israel extradition trial - Senior Chinese monk resigns amid sexual misconduct claims - Zimbabwe ships live elephants to wildlife parks in China - The Guardian view on the US and Israel: late, but necessary | Editorial - Doc Tales: Little Pyongyang – The Story podcast - Trump fails to mention John McCain at signing of defence bill named after him - Niger suppresses dissent as US leads influx of foreign armies - The fallout from Turkey’s crisis will cause damage far beyond its borders | Simon Tisdall - BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate - Home Office shamed for barring writers and artists from festival | Letters - Anti-immigration Norwegian minister resigns over Iran holiday security fears - Iranian female photographer banned from stadium covers match from nearby roof - Gui Minhai: doctors visit kidnapped Hong Kong bookseller in China - Slavia Prague fans fear for future after Chinese investment backfires - The Guardian view on Turkey’s currency crisis: it was made at home | Editorial - Hong Kong activist decries 'colonial invasion' in defiant speech - Very fishy: China rules rainbow trout can be sold as salmon - Beijing blasts 'anti-China forces' for claim of million Uighurs in prison camps - Children pulled alive from rubble after deadly Syria weapons depot explosion - video - Children among dozens killed by explosion at Syria weapons depot – reports - Why US elections remain 'dangerously vulnerable' to cyber-attacks - UN human rights chief: Trump's attacks on press 'close to incitement of violence' - Beaten, not broken: the Russian ex-inmate covering the torture trial of former jailers - Ex-CIA officer faces arrest over alleged Montenegro coup plot - Czech communists confront bitter legacy of Prague Spring - Landmark Caspian Sea deal signed by five coastal nations - China defends 'intense controls' in Xinjiang amid detention claims - More British troops are being sent to Afghanistan – to appease Trump | Simon Jenkins - Taliban hails 'helpful' US talks as boost to Afghan peace process - Face to face with ‘the Beatles’, the Isis torture squad - Banned 21 years ago, yet still the world stands by as chemical attacks go unchecked - Israel's Arab minority rallies against Jewish nation-state law - Crumbling stone in the Western Wall exposes Jerusalem’s religious fractures - US ambassador says UK should join Trump and put pressure on Iran - Space Force: all you need to know about Trump's bold new interstellar plan - Tulsi Gabbard: how a progressive rising star is a paradox for the left - We like to mock Trump, but Britain’s Russia stance is even worse | Jonathan Freedland - Greece accuses Russia of bribery and meddling in its affairs - Saudi Arabia and Israel are killing civilians – and Britain is complicit | Owen Jones - Mike Pence announces US plan to create military space force by 2020 – video - Space Force: Mike Pence launches plans for sixth military service - 'Mars awaits': Trump supporters to vote on logo for space force - Hacked satellite systems could launch microwave-like attacks, expert warns - Steven Seagal is now in charge of Russia-US relations. Is there anything this man can’t do? - Moscow crushes the Prague Spring - archive, July 1968 - Pussy Riot activist defies travel ban to flee Russia for Edinburgh - Why has Trump stayed unusually quiet on US sanctions against Russia? - 'Insulting': North Korea hits out at US for call to enforce sanctions - Shanghai residents sleep in the street amid the heat – in pictures - Arcadia parts company with Chinese franchise partner Shangpin - Afghanistan: dozens dead as Taliban attack Ghazni, officials say - 'A new approach to crisis': how robots are throwing Syrian refugees a lifeline | Kate Hodal - Asma al-Assad diagnosed with breast cancer, Syria says - Brexit fears hit the pound, as Russian sanctions send rouble sliding – business live - Russia blasts new US sanctions as 'theatre of the absurd' - US to impose sanctions against Russia over Salisbury nerve agent attack - South Korean heatwave causes record deaths - 'Terrifying night' as Israel and Hamas trade airstrikes and rocket attacks - Looted Iraqi antiquities return home after UK experts crack cold case - Iran ambassador: Trump's sanctions violate UN security council resolution - Trump’s sanctions against Iran are a clear breach of international law | Gholamali Khoshroo - Bodies in Birmingham exhibition could be executed Chinese prisoners, says doctor - Giant shipload of soya beans circles off China, victim of trade war with US - Huge increase in Chinese aid pledged to Pacific - Paul Manafort's lawyers to question Rick Gates's credibility after explosive testimony - Western allies should stand up for Georgia against Russia | Letters - Trevor Noah: 'Trump gets a vacation, but we don't get a vacation from him' - North Korea leader Kim Jong-un inspects things – in pictures - Labour’s antisemitism code | Letters - Sanctions on Iran are morally wrong – and they won’t work | Afua Hirsch - The Guardian view on Iran and sanctions: the EU stands firm | Editorial - EU foreign policy chief calls on firms to defy Trump over Iran - 'A matter of life and death': Iranians despair as US sanctions bite - Pound hit by Brexit worries; US escalates trade war against China - business live - Manafort ex-business partner Rick Gates testifies they committed crimes together - How the GRU spy agency targets the west, from cyberspace to Salisbury - The Guardian view on the Salisbury poisonings: Russia’s responsibility | Editorial - UK poised to ask Russia to extradite Salisbury attack suspects - Extradition request for Russian suspects has zero chance of success - John Oliver on Donald Trump's defence strategy: 'There's so much wrong there' - The Islamic school that ensures its boys understand the Israeli point of view - The way ahead for Labour on antisemitism | Letters - Trade with Iran and you won't trade with US, Trump warns - EU acts to protect firms from Donald Trump's sanctions against Iran - Pound edges higher while oil rises as Iran sanctions restart - business live - Beijing's crumbling Olympic legacy – in pictures - ‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear - China bans Winnie the Pooh film after comparisons to President Xi - World history seen via a shop window | Brief letters - Head of alleged Syrian chemical weapons facility dies in bombing - Maria Butina’s alleged backer linked to Kremlin-financed bank and Putin associates - Pumped! St Petersburg festival of inflatables - in pictures - The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis – review - Divided Korean families chosen for first family reunions in three years - Shepherds without borders: Israel’s war with Lebanese herders - Populist Jeremy Corbyn is riding the tiger of antisemitism | Letters - North Korea frustrates US as 'maximum pressure' eases on sanctions - 'Five years ago there was nothing': inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand - Trump 'starring in street fighter-style drama of extortion' says Chinese media - Chris Patten: China 'wrong' to try to silence Hong Kong activist - China’s efforts to protect the ozone layer | Letters - Why do millions of Chinese people want to be 'spiritually Finnish'? - Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans have always lived in the age of post-truth. We’re a post-truth species’ - Statue must tell true story of Soviet ‘hero’, say Czechs - Russia appoints Steven Seagal special envoy for humanitarian work - North Korea's nuclear programme has not been halted, says UN - Ai Weiwei's Beijing studio razed by Chinese authorities - Hamza bin Laden has married daughter of lead 9/11 hijacker, say family - Revelations of suspected spy at US embassy in Moscow could be tip of the iceberg - Oleg Sentsov is 82 days into a hunger strike – I and many others are by his side | Jonathan Littell - US still under attack from 'pervasive campaign' by Russia, officials warn - Aftermath of the Russian helicopter crash in Siberia – video - Russian helicopter crash in Siberia kills all 18 people onboard - June Jacobs obituary - Ahed Tamimi wants the world to know what's happening in Palestine – video - Jeremy Hunt vows to do all he can to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - US pledges $300m security funding for south-east Asia - Cracks appear in 'invincible' Xi Jinping's authority over China - China warns of tariffs on imported US goods worth $60bn - 'It's heartbreaking': military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico - Suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow - Russian oligarch in contempt of court over unpaid £453m divorce bill - Little Pyongyang: a North Korean's life in London - North Korea warns of natural disaster as heatwave sears crops - Little Pyongyang - A North Korean in south London - Claims of violence as Israel deports crew of Gaza aid vessel - Iraq’s war-damaged children need specialist help to heal their trauma | Kevin Watkins - Superpowers unite over Iraqi invasion of Kuwait- archive, 3 August 1990 - Chinese dissident in his 80s arrested at home during live TV interview - Myanmar scales back Chinese-backed port project over debt fears - 'All-weather friendship': but is Pakistan relying too heavily on China? - High-profile Chinese monk accused of sexually harassing nuns - Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? - Trump pushes Sessions to end Mueller's Russia investigation 'right now' - If Silicon Valley won't stop fake news, we will | Damian Collins - Russian journalists killed in CAR 'were researching military firm' - Trump thanks North Korea for returning remains of US war dead - MoD appeals for help to identify bodies released by North Korea - Mike Huckabee says he dreams of 'holiday home' in Israeli settlement - Trevor Noah: 'Trump blows hot and cold like one of those psycho boyfriends' - Google 'working on censored search engine' for China - Can Apple pip others to be first with trillion dollar valuation? - Blow for House of Fraser as Chinese firm drops plan to invest - Kazakh court frees woman who fled Chinese re-education camp - Sri Lanka's 'new Dubai': will Chinese-built city suck the life out of Colombo? - Cold war KGB spy cameras sold at auction - in pictures - Macron and the west must not play along with Putin’s Syria endgame | Natalie Nougayrède - Manafort put himself 'above the law' to fund his expensive tastes, court hears - Russian journalists killed in Central African Republic ambush - Facebook deletes accounts over signs of Russian meddling in US midterms - North Korea gave only one dog tag for 55 boxes of war remains, US official says - Israel’s most prolific actor: 'The synagogue of the Zionists was the theatre' - Palestinians in UK assert right to publicly raise issues of injustice - Palestinians in the UK speak out for the right to freedom of speech | Letters - Outcry as coffins crushed in Chinese 'zero-burial' campaign - Germany's 'China City': how Duisburg became Xi Jinping's gateway to Europe - The Guardian view on Jeremy Hunt in China: why wives matter | Editorial - Unsurvivable heatwaves could strike heart of China by end of century - China in Africa: win-win development, or a new colonialism? - Islamic State attacks show group is intent on killing Afghan peace hopes - Nine-year-old child bride reportedly killed by husband in Afghanistan - Refugees, in their own words – books podcast - Syrian government forces seal victory in southern territories - Pussy Riot members rearrested after leaving prison – video - 'Culture of impunity' among MPs over hospitality from corrupt regimes - North Korea: US 'detects new activity' at ICBM factory - Italian ship returned rescued people to Libya, charity says - Britain must sometimes support 'unsavoury regimes', report states - Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy - Ahed Tamimi: 'I am a freedom fighter. I will not be the victim' - The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail – review - Trump offer to meet Iran president Rouhani dismissed by both sides - Australia joins US-Japanese Pacific investment plan but offers no budget details - 37,000 Chinese officials punished for 'frugality code' breaches - 'No Cambodia left': how Chinese money is changing Sihanoukville - #MeToo in China: movement gathers pace amid wave of accusations - Mike Pompeo pledges US 'partnership not domination' in 'Indo-Pacific' region - 'My wife is Japanese - my wife is Chinese,' says Jeremy Hunt - video - Afghanistan attackers take dozens hostage after suicide bombing - Behind the Isis ‘Beatle’ Elsheikh is a story of breakdown and despair | Nesrine Malik - South Korea to investigate North Korean women's 'defection' - What is China's Belt and Road Initiative? - Follow the New Silk Road - UK will seek talks on trade deal with China, says Jeremy Hunt - Jeremy Hunt makes 'terrible' gaffe about his wife in China - Chinese factory builds AI sex dolls – in pictures - Bulk of timber exports from Papua New Guinea won’t pass legal test - Beware China’s role in UK nuclear industry | Letters - Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi released from prison - Beyond the crash | Adam Tooze - Afghanistan: gunmen kill and wound staff at midwife training centre - The age of cyberwar is here. Now, citizens need to have a say | David Sanger - UK waits on legal challenge over death penalty for Isis pair - Vladimir Putin invites Donald Trump to Moscow - Donald Trump denies knowing of Russia meeting and attacks Michael Cohen - Pyongyang's stunning subway stations – in pictures - UK to double aid to Gaza and West Bank in bid to boost Palestinian export trade - Daily Mail publishes front-page apology over Iraqi bomb claim - Family of British man murdered in China fight for custody of his children - Swedish student's dramatic plane protest stops man's deportation 'to hell' - Is execution Britain’s new populist ruse? | Simon Jenkins - Sweida province: Isis knocked on doors then slaughtered families - Syria's White Helmets call on UN to save trapped volunteers - Samantha Bee on Maria Butina: 'The news is starting to feel like a bad movie' - UK university accused of giving platform to Nord Stream 2 lobbyist - Michael Cohen 'says Trump knew about Russia meeting in advance' - Can artists save St Petersburg's crumbling palaces? - US Korean war dead returned on 65th anniversary – video - North Korea hands over remains of US soldiers killed in Korean war - North Korea: US blocks sanctions exemption for sports equipment - Israel responds to fatal knife attack with new settler homes - How should antisemitism be defined? | The Panel - Donald Trump hoping to call Gulf states to Washington summit - Australian PM Turnbull says 'no reason to believe' Trump is planning Iran strike - Senior Iran military chief tells Trump: 'We're ready to stand up against you' - House of Fraser rescue deal faces delay while legal action is settled - China's long game to dominate nuclear power relies on the UK - 10 of the best words in the world (that don't translate into English) - Maria Butina: ties emerge between NRA, alleged spy and Russian billionaire - Donald Trump postpones summit with Vladimir Putin until new year - Trump's 'pay with cash' offer on Cohen tape could spell fresh peril for president - Three Russian guards plead guilty to mass beating of prisoner - North Korea still producing fissile material despite pledge, Pompeo says - Israeli cartoonist fired over 'Animal Farm' Netanyahu caricature - Divided opinion on Israel’s self-determination law | Letters - Reintegrating those who have been radicalised – and executing jihadists | Letters - My cup of brie: is cheese tea as grim as it sounds? - Facebook's China venture fails as record of approval for innovation hub vanishes - Made in China: Trump re-election flags may get burned by his tariffs - Small bomb detonated outside US embassy in Beijing - 'Dozens dead' in suicide attack on Syrian city of Sweida - Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a creaking ship. Don’t fall for the propaganda | Marie Mendras - Erdoğan rebuked for claiming Israeli officials have 'Hitler spirit' - The Guardian view on antisemitism and Labour: not just a problem of perception | Editorial - Israel shoots down Syrian fighter jet that it says entered airspace - It’s not Trump Iranians are worried about – it’s their homegrown crises | Ali Ansari - (Voracious consumption) x (rising population) = planetary crisis | Letters - American Airlines erases references to Taiwan after China demand - China: one in five arrests take place in 'police state' Xinjiang - 'They are devils': China's parents demand answers over vaccine scandal - Facebook sets up subsidiary in China despite website ban - US-Australia alliance 'rock solid', Mike Pompeo says - Dwyane Wade offered three-year, $25m deal by China's Zhejiang Golden Bulls - Swedish plane protester Elin Ersson: ‘I knew I couldn't back down – I had to do what I could' - Could facial hair be coming to the US armed forces? - White Helmets says volunteers fled Syria fearing Assad reprisals - The Guardian view on the death penalty: barbarism by jihadists is no justification | Editorial - Gordon Hillman obituary - Paul Manafort: judge grants immunity to five witnesses in case - North Korea: satellite images show dismantling of missile test facilities - Antisemitism definition continues to divide the Labour party | Letters - This racist new law makes me ashamed to be Israeli | Daniel Barenboim - Woman has close call as 100kg stone falls from Western Wall - Number of women and children who joined Isis 'significantly underestimated' - John Bolton backs Trump's Iran threat: 'They will pay a price' - Iran dismisses Trump's late-night Twitter rant despite market jitters - The Guardian view on Trump’s trade wars: making a bad situation worse | Editorial - From kidnap to torture, the database rigorously logging every Syrian atrocity - Found at last: the magic money tree | Brief letters - Price of peace: calm returns to Damascus as Assad eyes victory - Greece and Russia trade barbs in worsening war of words - Former Trump advisor Carter Page denies working as Russian spy – video - Trump-Russia: FBI believed Carter Page 'collaborated and conspired' with Moscow - Accused spy Maria Butina not mentioned in US readout of Russia call - Deaths at sea expose flaws of Italy-Libya migration pact - Netanyahu will be known as the first prime minister of Israeli apartheid | Aida Touma-Sliman - The Guardian view on Israel’s new law: popular will is being weaponised | Editorial - Where Isis stored weapons, Mosul now has a funfair – in pictures - Trump plays dangerous game with anti-Iran Twitter rant - Trump’s tweet to Iran cannot bully the west away from making peace | Simon Jenkins - Trump says Iran will 'suffer consequences' after speech by president Rouhani - China: outcry over sale of 250,000 faulty vaccines prompts investigation - UK's plastic waste may be dumped overseas instead of recycled - Fighter jet intercepts plane near Donald Trump’s golf club - Hillary Clinton speaks out on Trump and Russian interference - video - US intelligence chief says he meant no disrespect to Trump over Putin comments - 'Trump derangement syndrome': the week America went mad - Was the Putin summit a turning point for Trump? Republicans say 'nah' - Clinton: Trump-Putin a 'mystery', Russia may attack election infrastructure - Russia tells US to release alleged spy Maria Butina after 'fabricated charges' - Just as Rome fell to the Goths, so small players can hurt the mighty in cyberwars | John Naughton - Israel evacuates 800 White Helmets in face of Syria advance - Syrian refugees cling to life on Golan Heights as Assad’s net tightens - Putin holds winning cards as Syrian war nears Idlib showdown - Sri Lankan ‘war criminals’ deployed as UN peacekeepers - Who's wooing who in the Trump-Putin relationship? - Novichok poisonings: police release drone footage of search - Libya rejects EU plan for refugee and migrant centres - Israel launches waves of strikes across Gaza after soldier killed - Assad eyes victory as Syrian rebels poised to leave Golan Heights - South China Sea: UK could send aircraft carrier to back Australian vessels - North Korea: US calls on Russia and China to tackle breaches of oil sanctions - Trump threatens to hit all $505bn of Chinese imports with tariffs - Trump's tariffs threaten global prosperity, warns Angela Merkel - The Guardian view on cybersecurity: trust – but verify | Editorial - Westminster knife attacker Khalid Ali jailed for 40 years - Neil Prakash: Turkish court rejects Australian extradition plea - Edinburgh teen admits racially aggravated stabbing of Syrian - Do Republicans disapprove of Trump's meeting with Putin? 'They couldn't care less' - Putin proposed eastern Ukraine vote to Trump in Helsinki – report - Extinction review – forbidding portrait of a self-proclaimed Soviet country - Claim sunken warship has 200 tons of gold on board triggers frenzy in South Korea - Accused spy Maria Butina met with Russia's former US ambassador - Trump plans to formally invite Putin to US later this year, White House says - Soviet monuments in Poland should be left to rot | Letter - White House urged to give full account of Trump's private talks with Putin - Putin hails Helsinki summit as a success and chides Trump's critics - North Korean economy sees sharpest decline in 20 years as sanctions bite - Will Dennis Rodman and Kanye West's North Korean vacation make America great again? - 'One more racist law': reactions as Israel axes Arabic as official language - The ‘ultimate deal’? For Israel, maybe. We Palestinians will never accept it | Hanan Ashrawi - 'Desperate to find a way out': Iran edges towards precipice - Macau authorities to care for 600 greyhounds after notorious track closes - Australia imports $12bn worth of goods at risk of being made by slaves – report - The Lovers and the Despot review – kidnap in North Korea - MH17: Buk missile finding sets Russia and west at loggerheads - Jobs, wealth and gentrification? What New Chinatown could do for Liverpool - Let’s be clear – antismetism is a hate apart | Howard Jacobson - Hammond suggests Trump's protectionism would damage prosperity - Politics live - Mark Taimanov obituary - Trump press conference: 'sick people' leaked 'fake news' Russia dossier – live - How China tightened its grip on the media during 2016, by IFJ - Snowden claims report Russia may 'gift' him to Trump proves he is not a spy - Terrorists would have used Marine A video clips, say judges - Beijing hit by dirty smog but observers say air is getting better - Trump, Russia and Flynn: ex-adviser clearly has a gripping tale to tell | Simon Jenkins - Passengers move through smoke-filled metro station in St Petersburg – video - Chinese university to open in Oxford despite ideological crackdown at home - Afghan defence officials quit over Taliban attack as Pentagon chief flies in - North Korea: Washington and Seoul pledge 'swift punitive measures' - Why now is the time to talk to Hamas | Tareq Baconi - British jihadi Aine Davis convicted in Turkey on terror charges - Putin punctuates Comey comments with six-goal outburst in hockey match - The Guardian view on Macron and Putin: pressing, not pushing away | Editorial - Otto Warmbier's death is a tragedy. But war with North Korea would be, too | Isaac Stone Fish - The Guardian view on North Korea: burgers not bombs | Editorial - Donald Trump Jr: I would have done things differently – video - South Korea investigating 'abduction' of North Korean defector and TV star - Donald Trump Jr and Paul Manafort to testify before Congress about Russia - The Guardian view on Mosul: the price of revenge | Editorial - What's worse than war with North Korea? War with China | Isaac Stone Fish - Trump threatens North Korea with ‘fire and fury’ – video - North Korea bomb: Trump’s trade threat to China not seen as credible - Memo to Trump and the SAS – send the Afghans fewer bullets and more books | Caroline Moorehead - A North Korean defector-turned-rapper answers your questions - Iran to blame for cyber-attack on MPs' emails – British intelligence - US-Japan arms deals will help counter North Korea threat, says Trump - Trump and Putin chat at Apec summit - video - Dmitri Hvorostovsky obituary - EU leaders complicit in torture of refugees and migrants, Amnesty says - The Guardian view on Putin in Syria: victory and desolation | Editorial - Russian victims of domestic abuse forced to pay perpetrator’s fine - Russian bid to influence Brexit vote detailed in new US Senate report - Russian spy poisoning: Theresa May issues ultimatum to Moscow - Kurdish Afrin is democratic and LGBT-friendly. Turkey is crushing it with Britain’s help | Owen Jones - Pleas for safe passage for civilians trapped in eastern Ghouta - Authorities seize control of bank at center of Malta corruption scandal - The Gaza Strip mourns its dead after protest is met with bullets - G20 summit: US and China ratify Paris agreement in major step for climate change fight - live - Dream of the Red Chamber: a Chinese epic bursts into song - Anger as Chinese media claim harassment is just a western problem - Remember Nixon. US spy agencies are vital to bringing down Trump | Andrew Gawthorpe - Syrian rebels lift years-long siege of two towns after prisoner deal - Craig Kelly apologises for saying Russia's MH17 role should be 'slightly looked over' - Would or wouldn't: how Trump's claim he misspoke unleashed a meme-fest - 'Absurd, crazy': Trump discussed allowing Putin to interrogate US ambassador - Nicola Jennings on the two faces of Donald Trump – cartoon - Maria Butina: accused spy was in contact with Russian intelligence, prosecutors say - Trump says Russia no longer targeting US, contradicting intelligence chief - 'Nothing short of treason': US voters on the Trump-Putin summit - Jimmy Kimmel: 'Our president is a liar and not even a good one' - 'I shouldn’t have wasted my effort,' says man turfed out of Trump summit - Ukraine is the first casualty of Trump’s carelessness. It won’t be the last | Natalia Antonova - Summit critics have Trump derangement syndrome – says Trump - Trump blames Putin for election meddling 'because he's in charge' - All of Trump's backflips on Russian interference – video - Trump says he holds Putin responsible for US election meddling – video - Novichok poisoning: police 'identify' Skripal suspects – reports - Israel adopts controversial Jewish 'nation state' law - Protests spread through cities in Iraq's oil-rich Shia south - Popular cancer drug film prompts China to speed up price cuts - Donald Trump may kill the global recovery - Trump back-pedals on Russian meddling remarks after outcry - Facebook data gathered by Cambridge Analytica accessed from Russia, says MP - Maria Butina, accused Russian spy, poses with politicians and questions Trump - video - How Maria Butina, accused Russian spy, worked her way into top US circles - Are Donald Trump and Theresa May really committing treason? - Helsinki summit: what did Trump and Putin agree? - US voters: what's your reaction to Trump and Putin's meeting? - A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen review – perceptive portrait of Russia - Lights go out on Trump during Russia statement: 'Must be the intelligence agencies!' – video - Donald Trump says there is 'no time limit' for North Korea to denuclearise - Libya migrant centres near breaking point after spike in arrivals - Libyan coastguard accused of abandoning three migrants in sea - Israeli parliament votes to ban state and army critics from schools - UK must take lead on nuclear weapons | Letters - Lawyer 'used sensationalist language in Iraq torture case' - Air China crew grounded after co-pilot's vaping sparked mid-air emergency - Inside the Beijing 'office' inhabited by human guinea pigs - The Trump-Putin statesman show soon turns knockabout - Trump beholden to Putin? Summit does nothing to dispel impression - Trump shows he trusts an ex-KGB agent more than US intelligence - Key moments from the Trump-Putin press conference - video - Trump 'treasonous' after siding with Putin on election meddling - The Guardian view on the Trump-Putin summit: Russia is the winner | Editorial - Martin Rowson on the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki – cartoon - Trump's Putin summit is a slippery slope to a violent, darker world | Michael H Fuchs - Republicans have decided to follow Trump off a cliff of treachery - Will Republicans punish Trump for his performance with Putin? - Trump calls Putin 'very, very strong' in post-summit TV interview – video - 'Putin's poodle': newspapers declare Trump a traitor after Helsinki summit - 'No collusion': Trump and Putin deny election meddling in TV interviews - Putin says Russia has never interfered with US internal affairs – video - Five human rights we should enjoy – while we still can | Van Badham - Putin rejects UK's 'ungrounded accusations' over novichok poisoning - Trump’s surrender to Putin greeted with outrage by Democrats and Republicans - Pussy Riot protesters sentenced to jail for World Cup final pitch invasion - Russian woman charged with spying for Moscow by 'infiltrating' NRA - Dozens of fleeing Syrians turned away from Israeli border - The turbulent life of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq - ICC crime of aggression comes into effect without key signatories - Hong Kong moves to impose unprecedented ban on separatist party - Most expensive Chinese film ever pulled from cinemas after it bombs - China files complaint to WTO over Trump's $200bn tariff plan - Skyscraper collapses in dramatic fashion at box office despite Rock-fuelled hype - France’s victory was a befitting end to a thrilling World Cup - Poland, Russia and monumental distrust | Letters - The Guardian view on the Trump-Putin meeting: good for Vladimir, but not for the rest of us | Editorial - Trump calls European Union a 'foe' – ahead of Russia and China - Pussy Riot claim responsibility for World Cup final pitch invasion - 'Not welcome': Finnish protesters criticise Trump-Putin summit - Trump arrives in Helsinki for meeting with Putin – video - Successful World Cup fails to halt slide in Vladimir Putin’s popularity - Russia must ‘account for role’ in shooting down MH17, says G7 - Pussy Riot claim responsibility for World Cup final pitch invasion - video - North Korea to resume search for US military remains - Trump tells Putin at Helsinki summit: 'I really think the world wants to see us get along' - live updates - Donald Tusk calls on Europe, China, US​​ and Russia to 'prevent global chaos' - All you wanted to know about nuclear war but were too afraid to ask - China files WTO challenge over US tariffs, as its economy slows – business live - Civilian deaths in Afghanistan at record high, UN says - Maryland elections company bought by Russian oligarch close to Putin - Novichok victim's son asks Trump to raise mother's death with Putin - The Observer view on the west’s duty to step in and help the victims of Assad | Observer editorial - Trump responds to Mueller indictments – by blaming Obama - Trump adviser Roger Stone 'probably' American cited in Russia indictments - Will Putin use his good cop, bad cop routine in summit with Trump? - Brothers in nuclear arms? Trump defends Vladimir Putin and 'funny' Kim Jong-un - Israel in turmoil over bill allowing Jews and Arabs to be segregated - Israel launches 'its most painful strike' on Hamas since 2014 - Trump and Putin’s unholy alliance could lead to war with Iran | Simon Tisdall - Liu Xia: free at last but a hostage-in-exile to Beijing’s crackdown - Trump’s trade war makes political sense to his base. Rivals must beware - US indicts 12 Russians for hacking DNC emails during the 2016 election - Russians tried to hack Clinton server on day Trump urged email search - Carefully crafted indictment of 12 Russian spies heaps pressure on Trump - Trump's oily and obnoxious personality sorely tests British diplomacy - Is it really Donald Trump versus the liberal world order? | Letters - Salisbury Journal: 'We don't get murders or stabbings ... this is unprecedented' - China trade surplus with US hits record $29bn high - Assad's forces retake Daraa, birthplace of Syria's uprising - Novichok poisonings 'putting huge strain' on police resources - Moscow refugee tournament throws stark light on Russia’s migrant policy - Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history - Donald Trump is right. Nato is a costly white elephant | Simon Jenkins - The Guardian view on the Trump visit: not welcome in Britain | Editorial - Will the World Cup finally change how Russia is portrayed? | Shaun Walker - Trump touts 'great progress' after North Korea skips repatriation of war dead talks - Pushing the Palestinian ‘right of return’ doesn’t help peace | Tzipi Livni - Felicia Langer obituary - 'Unprecedented unpredictability': UK braces for Trump visit - Markets shrug off trade fears but pound falls on Trump Brexit comments - business live - Risky business: China's snake farmers cash in on global venom market - Trump claims victory at Nato summit after fresh row over defence spending - Syrian refugee stuck in a Malaysian airport for four months: 'I can feel my breaking point' – video - Theresa May urges Trump to raise nerve agent attack with Putin - Greece to expel Russian diplomats over alleged Macedonia interference - Paul Manafort says he's being treated 'like a VIP' in jail - Amesbury novichok victim 'reveals doctors feared he would die' - Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’ - The Soviet shadow that over the Putin-Trump summit in Helsinki | Sofi Oksanen - Germany and Russia gas links: Trump is not only one to ask questions - One in five North Korean children malnourished, says UN chief during rare visit - East Libyan general hands back control of oil ports - Irish senate approves ban on products from Israeli settlements - Boris Johnson has gone, but his vow to free my wife must be fulfilled | Richard Ratcliffe - Global investors rattled as all-out trade war moves step closer - UK must adapt to climate change now | Letters - Canada's Tim Hortons to open 1,500 coffee shops in China - Alan Sugar and Martha Lane Fox among business figures to miss Trump dinner - From eels to anvils: Trump's new China tariffs revealed - Stone tools found in China could be oldest evidence of human life outside Africa - The Guardian view on China and human rights: standing with Liu Xia | Editorial - Germany’s interior minister urged to resign after death of asylum seeker - Angela Merkel hits back at Donald Trump at Nato summit - Russian mining firm puts Trump's face on its asbestos products - No expense spared as England prepares for World Cup semi-final - Judge and jury on the Wiltshire poisonings | Letters - Rocket Man: Trump autographs Elton John CD for Kim Jong-un - I’m a doctor in Lampedusa. We can’t let these migrant deaths go on | Pietro Bartolo - Johnson resignation 'complicates Zaghari-Ratcliffe case' - Chinese dissident Qin Yongmin jailed after 'show trial' - China vows to retaliate as US threatens tariffs on further $200bn of goods - Tesla to open Shanghai electric car factory, doubling its production - Markets rattled as Trump escalates China trade war with tariffs on $200bn of imports - business live - Number of UK troops in Afghanistan to rise ahead of Nato summit - Ready for liftoff? Two flying taxi startups got Pentagon funding - Former Putin adviser has secret investment in US energy firm praised by Trump - Will Trump's tariff war alter the balance of economic power? | Mohamed El-Erian - Liu Xia: Nobel laureate's widow allowed to leave China for Europe - White House close to refusing interview with Russia investigation - England take time to relax after booking place in semi-final - Fly the flag for a nation at peace | Letters - Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times - 'It can be your miracle': Pompeo urges North Korea to follow Vietnam's path - Woman arrested in Iran over Instagram video of her dancing - Chinese bid for Northern Aerospace derailed by security concerns - Mysterious source of illegal ozone-killing emissions revealed, say investigators - China looking to buy stake in UK nuclear plants, say reports - Revealed: Arron Banks met Russian ambassador 11 times - Not coming home – yet: England fans stunned to still be in Russia - North Korea accuses US of 'gangster-like' behaviour after Pompeo talks - Inside the fearful Bedouin village that could decide fate of Palestinian state - Trump’s trade war: what is it and which products are affected? - US service member killed in 'insider attack' in Afghanistan - Taliban reject Afghan government's offer of peace talks - Stanislav Cherchesov winning friends in high places as Russia dreams big - England fans dash to Russia for World Cup quarter-final - Aid cuts show Australia's true attitude to the Palestinian cause | Saeb Erekat - China’s tech funding boom: is Europe asleep on the job? - Australian National University 'hit by Chinese hackers' - What are trade tariffs and who will they affect? - Syrian seeds could save US wheat from climate menace - Moscow using UK as dumping ground for poison, says Sajid Javid - If the novichok was planted by Russia, where’s the evidence? | Simon Jenkins - Homeless hostel in Salisbury evacuated after novichok poisoning - Mike Pompeo to give Kim Jong-un 'Rocket Man CD' during nuclear talks - Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz over US oil sanctions - US and China begin 'biggest trade war' in history with $34bn tariffs - business live - Trump’s trade war could mean bottoms up for small whiskey-makers - Thailand: at least 21 dead after Phuket tourist boat capsizes - China retaliates with tariffs after US begins trade war - Selfies with the Taliban: Afghan women buoyed by ceasefire snaps | Ruchi Kumar - 'Their blankets are the sky': Syrian civilians flee Daraa - Russia denies any involvement in latest UK novichok poisoning - Novichok poisonings: UK points the finger at Russia - Theresa May welcome at England quarter-final, says Russia - Mike Pompeo under pressure to secure nuclear progress in North Korea visit - Fears grow for safety of 270,000 Syrians fleeing fighting in Deraa - Breakthrough made in fight to end virginity testing in Afghanistan - Confessions from A&E: the day Isis burst into my operating theatre – video - Putin will run rings round Trump in Helsinki. Bad news for the rest of us | Natalie Nougayrède - Trump-Russia: more election meddling evidence found, says Senate panel - US and Russian officials hold 'frank' talks before Trump-Putin summit - Mediterranean: more than 200 migrants drown in three days - Israel: Hamas created fake dating apps to hack soldiers' phones - 'They are breaking him': the stateless refugee Australia may never release - Trump makes unfounded claim that Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians - China denies it will be first to impose tariffs on $34bn of US goods - Chinese tycoon Wang Jian dies from fall in France - UK economy picks up speed as service sector growth hits eight-month high - business live - Stern Hu: Australian former Rio Tinto executive released from Chinese jail - Spectacular Chinese mammal fossil exhibition opens | Elsa Panciroli - British same-sex couple granted spouse visas in landmark Hong Kong legal battle - Message to the English: come to Russia and feel the love | Tom Rosenthal - Michael Cohen hints at flipping and says 'first loyalty' is to family – not Trump - Mike Pompeo to visit North Korea this week for nuclear talks - Four Libya oil ports closed amid corruption allegations - MPs press for new inquiry into UK role in rendition and torture - Five ideas from other health systems that could transform NHS - Who is the Iranian group targeted by bombers and beloved of Trump allies? - Diplomat arrested over alleged attack plot on Iranian group in France - UK construction strengthens, but trade war fears hit Chinese yuan - business live - China's aid to Papua New Guinea threatens Australia's influence - The ‘Brownout Strangler’: how a smiling psychopath terrorised wartime Melbourne - A wild night: Russia win and Moscow parties as never before - Russians protest over pension age rise announced during World Cup - Trump: 'possible' North Korea nuclear deal may not 'work out' - Israel deploys border reinforcements as Syrians flee strikes - 'Bulls in a paddock': China-US struggle damaging to Australia, Andrew Robb warns - Outrage over alleged plan to export rare animals from Congo to China - Syria: southern towns surrender to Assad forces after thousands flee homes - EU’s new refugee policy under fire as children stuck in limbo in Niger | Ruth Maclean - Rudy Giuliani calls for Iran regime change at rally linked to extreme group - Protesters stopped as Hong Kong marks China handover - The Observer view on why Britain’s role in torture must be revealed in full | Observer editorial - M16 put questions to prisoner waterboarded 83 times by CIA - Mexican parade at World Cup cancelled after fears of proximity to Lenin's grave - Edward Snowden describes Russian government as corrupt - World Cup plaudits cheer Putin as Russia revels in spotlight - North Korea still secretly enriching uranium, say US officials - Spanish rescuers 'told by Italy to stay away from dinghy in distress' - EU migration deal may force NGOs to rethink, says charity - The EU’s leaders are all smiles, but refugees will continue to drown | Owen Jones - William proves prince of diplomacy in Israel and Palestine - 'Beacon of culture': West Bank's £16m arts centre opens against huge odds - Canada: Syrian children's choir turns down US festival trip over border fears - Italian officials allegedly met with Syria's top military adviser - Lafarge charged with complicity in Syria crimes against humanity - UK nervous over unpredictable Trump's summit with Putin - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to hold summit in July - Kim Jong-nam murder suspects were trained assassins, court told - As Israelis, we call on the world to intervene on behalf of Palestinians | Ilana Hammerman and David Harel - Iraq to execute Islamic State prisoners in revenge for killings - Dying refugee receiving care at Gold Coast hospital after Nauru move - The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown - Marginalised Mattis appears closer to exit as Trump's defence secretary - Ticketless England fans urged to travel to Russia after ID loophole exposed - Trump and Putin to reveal details of first official summit - The Guardian view on the defence budget: be realistic | Editorial - The new John Bolton: Trump ally swaps fire and brimstone for a spoonful of sugar - Syria's role in chemical weapons attacks to be investigated - England fans face tight security as they reach Kaliningrad - 'You have not been forgotten,' Prince William tells Palestinians - Why going to Wales gives you butterflies | Brief letters - Syrian forces' push into east Daraa 'could spark humanitarian crisis' - Two boys fatally stabbed near school in Shanghai - China caps film star pay, citing 'money worship' and fake contracts - China’s social credit system ‘could interfere in other nations’ sovereignty’ - China lifts ban on British beef - China will not tolerate US military muscle-flexing off our shores | Liu Xiaoming - North Korea making 'rapid' upgrades to nuclear reactor despite summit pledges - Bill Speakman, VC obituary - Andrzej Krauze on Putin's World Cup – cartoon - Libya urges UN to block oil sales after clashes between rival factions - Netanyahu wishes Prince William happy birthday during Israel visit – video - Prince William asked to deliver ‘message of peace’ to Palestinian leader - Ruhrtriennale festival wrong to expel Young Fathers over support for Palestinian rights | Letters - SFO to prosecute Monaco-based Unaoil on corruption charges - The Iowa farmers on the frontline of Trump's trade war with China - Imperial Twilight by Stephen R Platt review – lessons for today from the opium war - Huawei wouldn't give Australian users' data to China, says chairman - Life under the Soviets in Moscow and its surroundings - archive, 1928 - UK democracy under threat and need for reform is urgent, says regulator - North Korea scraps 'anti-US imperialism' rally as ties appear to warm - UK on collision course with Russia over chemical weapons vote - Italian minister calls for migrant reception centres south of Libya - The US ambassador to Israel is a boon to the far right. He must be stopped | Jeremy Ben-Ami - Are we too sensitive over criticism of Israel? | Letters - Prince William to meet Israeli PM in historic Middle East trip - Beyond stereotypes: how Iranian art is challenging preconceptions - Iran bans 1,300 imports as economic protest shuts shops in Tehran - Ex-Nato chief refused visa waiver to US because of Iran trips - Yangtze at 100km intervals - a photo essay - Huawei named as top corporate sponsor for MPs' paid travel - US and Canada are most inclusive to immigrant citizens, global study finds - Waste crisis: where's your recycling going now? - How can you condemn Trump but stay silent on British brutality? | Aditya Chakrabortty - Fax machines dusted off as North and South Korean forces start to restore ties - China blocks HBO after John Oliver parody of Xi Jinping - Analysts can pay a price for drilling too deep into Gazprom - You're on your own, US tells Syrian rebels, as Assad goes on offensive - Trump-Putin meeting will follow Bolton trip to Moscow, says Pompeo - Paul Manafort lawyers want mention of Trump banned in Virginia trial - US prepares for North Korea's return of American war remains - Chinese retaliatory tariffs aim to hit Trump in his electoral base - Tit-for-tat tariff battle could spark downturn in global economy – BIS - Scientists aim to stop the devastation of Zika-like pandemics - It would be stupid to think we have moved on from war. Look around | Margaret MacMillan - Dying refugee moved from Nauru to Australia after intense campaign - The US demolished Raqqa when they 'liberated' it. Who will rebuild it? | Molly Crabapple - Syrian barrel bomb attack on rebels jeopardises US-Russia deal - Three Lions Pride shows normal Russian rules don't apply during World Cup - Demagogues and charlatans are stoking fear, says Joe Biden - Donald Trump flips on North Korea, declaring country still an 'extraordinary threat' - Pentagon cancels two more military exercises with South Korea - Cambodia: 33 pregnant women found in raid on child surrogacy ring - UK faces risk from slump in China, warns Bank of England - Why China has banned videos of people whispering - How the US has prepared for nuclear Armageddon – in pictures - Bully-boy Erdoğan is a threat to Turkey – and the world | Simon Tisdall - Questions hang over Nato stability as summit draws closer - Kira Muratova obituary - Nato chief says Trump-Putin meeting would not contradict policy - 'This is how Russia could look': World Cup fans surprised by relaxed policing - 'A wound that never heals': families wait for North Korea to return their war dead - Times article comparing Mike Ashley to Kim Jong-un was fair, Ipso rules - How Russia 2018 is inspiring more women to go to football games - Litvinenko widow threatens to sue RT over 'libellous' claims - Libya turmoil a hurdle for EU's north Africa migration centre plan - Sara Netanyahu charged with fraud over catering allegations - Oil output set to rise by 1m barrels a day in Opec deal – Saudi energy minister - New divides over oil prices as Opec heads for crunch meeting - Iran's female football supporters make history at World Cup stadium screening - China: new rules to prevent sex-selective abortions raise fears - China in turmoil as Boxers rebel -archive, 22 June 1900 - The US withdrawal from the UNHRC is a gift to Xi Jinping and China | Frances Eve - Briton killed in Syria after volunteering to fight Isis, inquest told - Steve Bell's If … Putin dodges Dimbleby's Brexit question - Nato head calls for unity after Trump discord and Russia threat - ‘Ros! Si! Ya!’ Energised Russia is one nation under a World Cup chant - Police investigate video showing England fans making Nazi salutes - Get impregnated by World Cup stars and win free Whoppers, says Burger King - No sign of North Korea dismantling nuclear weapons programme, Mattis admits - Daimler issues profit warning on back of US-China trade dispute - China's Twitter erases John Oliver after scathing Xi Jinping skit - 'Commie cadet' who wore Che Guevara T-shirt kicked out of US army - US migrant arrivals 'slow to a crawl' as cities feel force of Trump policy - How Europe's policies fuel the smuggling trade they are trying to stop - US lobbyist for Russian oligarch visited Julian Assange nine times last year - US forces preparing for North Korea to hand over war dead - EU rebuked for €36bn refugee pushback gambit - US quits UN human rights council – 'a cesspool of political bias' - British Museum shines light on Assyrian 'king of the world' - ‘The fact we exist is huge’: Iran’s women plotting course to world stage - Markets recover as China calls for calm over trade war – business live - Stock markets roiled as US-China trade dispute escalates - Trump drives Australian trust in US to all-time low - Can China kick its animal antibiotic habit? - Kim Jong-un meets Xi Jinping for third time - 'We thought we'd never get out': a refugee from Manus starts life in the US - Europe and North America need to stay united – now more than ever | Jens Stoltenberg - 'Space force': Trump orders new branch of US military - We must have American dominance in space, says Donald Trump – video - Steve Bell's If ... David Dimbleby's Russian state visit continues - Pentagon cancels Freedom Guardian military drill with South Korea - A tour of North Korea's answer to Disneyland – video - John Oliver calls deal between US and North Korea 'close to meaningless' - Antisemitism is well-defined already | Letters - Israel indicts former cabinet minister on Iran spying charges - Less 'bias and bigotry' needed in Australian-Sino relations says China ambassador - Trump threatens new tariffs on $200bn in Chinese imports - Penny Wong warns against 'racial fault lines from past' betraying China ties - Record 68.5 million people fleeing war or persecution worldwide - The G7 has not been dealt a fatal blow – but the summit did damage | Mohamed El-Erian - Malcolm Turnbull says media makes China-Australia relations look bad - Japanese airlines rename 'Taiwan' as 'China Taiwan' on websites - Rudolf Nureyev documentary unearths unseen avant-garde footage - Trump lawyer shrugs off Roger Stone meeting with Russian over Clinton dirt - Gennady Rozhdestvensky obituary - Steve Bell's If … David Dimbleby goes to Russia - Kaliningrad photos appear to show Russia upgrading nuclear weapons bunker - Praise for organisers and friendly Russians in Volgograd - My grandad was captured by Russians in the second world war and kept alive - US and South Korea to announce suspension of 'large-scale' military drill - EU inaction over Mediterranean migrants is criminal | Letters - The Guardian view on Yemen: our complicity lies bare | Editorial - 'The fool builds walls': China takes aim at Trump trade war threats - Taliban refuse to extend truce with Afghan forces - Moscow police investigate taxi crash that injured eight - Why isn’t there greater outrage about Russia’s involvement in Brexit? | Nick Cohen - Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection - Leave. EU faces new questions over contacts with Russia - Diversity fan zone blocked from opening in St Petersburg - Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky dead at 87 - Eight injured in Moscow after taxi mounts pavement - Book clinic: what are the best contemporary Russian novels? - England camp on high terror alert before Volgograd opener - Opec: Saudis keen to pump more oil but cartel's other members not sold - The Observer view on migrants dying because Europe is pandering to populism | Observer editorial - US expected to quit UN human rights panel over perceived anti-Israel bias - The order Trump holds in contempt was once America’s proudest creation | Jonathan Fenby - High risk of food shortages without pesticides, says chemical giant - Amazon supplier in China ‘will tackle illegal work practices’ - How China censors the net: by making sure there’s too much information | John Naughton - Isis claims deadly suicide bombing as Afghans celebrate Taliban ceasefire - Stephen Colbert: James Comey 'wasn't corrupt, just super dumb' - Nigeria game first big test of Russia's resolve to stamp out racism - Paul Manafort: judge sends ex-Trump chair to jail for violating bail terms - Michael Cohen loses bid for restraining order against Stormy Daniels' lawyer - 'I think it'll be all right': England fans begin arriving in Volgograd - Russia inquiry: how Trump's inner circle could bring him down – video explainer - UK visa of Russian oligarch who met Arron Banks under review - Football: it’s a funny old racist, money-grabbing game | Letters - A historic handshake … but what did the Trump-Kim summit really achieve? - Kim Jong-un: The story of the boy dictator who bested the US president - Trump praises Kim on Fox & Friends: 'I want my people to do the same' - What is the current state of the migration crisis in Europe? - Australia rules out moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem - We must define antisemitism to fight it effectively | Letters - China retaliates against Trump's $50bn in tariffs, escalating possibility of trade war - US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader, say officials - Vietnam to prosecute American for 'causing trouble' during protests – state media - US army to return remains of Native American children a century after their deaths - ‘The people should celebrate’: Russian press reaction to rout of Saudi Arabia - Russians enjoy dream World Cup opening in spite of Robbie Williams’ middle finger - Welcome to the World Cup, where national failure unleashes dark forces | Gary Younge - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny freed from jail - Russians and Brits set aside differences for football, humour and pop - World Cup 2018: Russia 5-0 Saudi Arabia – as it happened - 'It barely feels like Moscow right now. People are smiling' - 'Have sex, make babies': Russian MP tells nation to welcome foreign fans - Spacewatch: Japan's new 'spy cam' cuts through the clouds - North Korean TV airs awkward moment between Trump and military official – video - When Trump and Kim shook hands I felt a swirl of emotions | Oak Koo Kim - The two-state solution is dead. Palestine needs a new UN mandate | Mark Seddon - Repression in Iran is getting worse: Trump must share the blame | Simon Tisdall - Chinese defend Einstein's portrait of their people as 'filthy' and 'obtuse' - China to have joint immigration control of new Hong Kong rail terminus - North Korea sanctions to stay until full denuclearisation, says US - US-China trade tensions escalate as Trump approves $50bn of tariffs - business live - Nazi flags and war crimes? Our armed forces need better leadership | Bridget Clinch - US anti-narcotic effort in Afghanistan is a costly failure, official report finds - How Russia won the World Cup - Don't have sex with men from 'different race' during World Cup, warns Russian politician - Trump fixer Michael Cohen to split with legal team, reports say - World Cup opener guest list set to be largely ex-Soviet affair - Donald Trump shrugs off Kim's human rights record: 'He's a tough guy' - Life inside North Korea: the power of Juche explained - video - Mike Pompeo loses temper when asked about North Korean disarmament - From the archive: the latest threats of North Korea's Kim Il-Sung – 14 June 1975 - 'A lot of people have done bad things': Trump waves away Kim's human rights abuses – video - North Koreans in Canada outraged at Donald Trump's praise of Kim Jong-un - Donald Trump, North Korea and the potential global consequences - Trevor Noah: Trump endorsed 'the Freddy Krueger of human rights' - Israel is about to destroy this Palestinian village. Will Britain step in? | David Zonsheine - Indian chess champion quits competition in Iran over headscarf rule - Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested - Iran coach Queiroz demands apology as Nike refuse to supply World Cup boots - Huawei denies being locked out of bidding to help build 5G network - Federal Reserve raises US interest rates again amid trade relations fears - The Guardian view on Albert Einstein: free thinking and hidebound attitudes | Editorial - Nazi flag flown on Australian army vehicle – video report - Nazi flag on Australian army vehicle 'utterly unacceptable', Turnbull says - Gay rights abuses, war crimes and World Cup fever – it’s an ugly mix | Peter Tatchell - 'Much nicer than expected': World Cup fans size up modern Moscow - England World Cup squad told they will be soft targets for Russian hackers - Robbie Williams 'selling soul to dictator Putin' in World Cup gig - The view from Seoul: why the Trump-Kim ‘deal’ worries South Koreans | Hans Schattle - When Trump met Kim: what happened at the Singapore summit – video highlights  - Trump's reality TV diplomacy makes for a good show. But what's the result? | Michael H Fuchs - 'The bromance of the century': Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim | Peter Bradshaw - Trump really has achieved a historic breakthrough – for the Kim dynasty | Jonathan Freedland - The action-movie style trailer Trump says he played to Kim - video - 'We will be stopping the war games', Trump tells media – video - 'We're just trying to survive it': Russian cities brace for World Cup - Kim Jong-un hailed victor in 'meeting of century' by North Korean media - 'Harebrained': National Security Council owns up to widely derided Trump video - Australia says end to South Korea-US war games not a certainty - Senior Republican senator suggests Trump-Kim deal lacks substance - Steve Bell on the Trump-Kim summit – cartoon - Analysts dissect Trump's bizarre summit trailer: 'Perhaps it's a way to bond' - The Guardian view on Trump in Singapore: a huge win – for North Korea | Editorial - Solidarity of heirs on the Trump and Kim surreality show - Italy hits back at French criticism over turning away migrants - China hails its 'indisputable' role in outcome of Trump-Kim summit - Australia supplants China to build undersea cable for Solomon Islands - The Guardian view on the ethics of AI: it’s about Dr Frankenstein, not his monster | Editorial - Missing US air force officer found in California after 35 years - Hanger-on May is no more than a bit player at the G7 summit | John Crace - Profile: Isabel Oakeshott and The Bad Boys of Brexit - Q&A: how damaging was Donald Trump’s G7 blow-up? - The best photos from Kim and Trump's Singapore summit - Moment Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump share historic handshake - video - Motorcades take Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to meeting – video - 'Winning an election isn't about facts': Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore face MPs' questions – live - Before MPs' grilling, 10 questions Banks and Wigmore must answer - Arron Banks' Russia links being examined 'very seriously' by UK - US to suspend military exercises with South Korea, Trump says - 'A scene from a sci-fi movie': what Kim told Trump about their meeting - video - 'Do we look handsome and thin?' Trump asks reporters during lunch with Kim – video - 'A glorified photo op': your responses to the Trump-Kim summit - What have Trump and Kim signed? We read between the lines - Singapore summit: what we learned about Trump-Kim meeting - The most bizarre moments from the Kim-Trump summit - Kim and Trump sign joint agreement at close of Singapore summit - video - The full text of the Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un statement - Dennis Rodman gives emotional interview during North Korea summit– video - Kim Jong-un pledges nuclear disarmament at summit with Trump - The Singapore summit is a global exercise in Donald Trump damage limitation | Richard Wolffe - Dennis Rodman cries as he hails Trump-Kim summit: 'I'm so happy' - A meeting of equals: what we learned from the Trump and Kim handshake - Trump-Kim summit: president says US 'will be stopping the war games' – live - Israel to top up Sea of Galilee after years of drought - North Korea sanctions could be lifted after summit, says China - US de facto embassy in Taiwan reopens as 'symbol of strength' of ties - Australia 'flirting with danger' in debate over China, race commissioner warns - ‘Profound talks’: North Koreans receive first news of Kim-Trump summit - Who is Arron Banks and what do the leaked emails show? - Oleg Sentsov's family ask Putin to free him before World Cup - 'You can't sit with us': how Mean Girls and gifs became part of global diplomacy - North Korea summit explainer: the people, problems and possibilities - Trudeau 'stabbed us in back' on trade, says Trump chief economic adviser - Ben Jennings on the North Korea nuclear summit – cartoon - Robbie Williams to perform at World Cup opening ceremony - The ‘bad boys of Brexit’ have some big questions to answer | Matthew d’Ancona - Trump-Kim summit: US to table unprecedented security deal - Trump’s vulgarity could be the one diplomatic style Kim Jong-un understands | Simon Jenkins - History of US-North Korea deals shows hard part is making them stick - Trump-Kim summit: meet the negotiators - 'Kim Jong-um': the North Korean dictator's doppelgänger - in pictures - Trump and Kim arrive in Singapore for North Korea summit – video - Kim Jong-un and Trump 'to discuss permanent peace-keeping' at Singapore summit - Kim Jong-undercover: North Korean security bars onlookers from snapping leader - Southern mayors defy Italian coalition to offer safe port to migrants - Will Bilderberg still be relevant as the future of war is transformed? - The Guardian view on Trump and the G7 summit: a watershed moment | Editorial - Dying refugee on Nauru barred from coming to Australia for palliative care - One US soldier killed and four wounded in Somalia attack - Vladimir Putin says he is willing to meet Trump at summit - Arron Banks ‘met with Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’ - We want to thrill to the beautiful game, but Fifa’s World Cup is toxic | Nick Cohen - Inside North Korea: a pastel fairyland built to forget - Kim Jong-un arrives in Singapore for summit with Donald Trump - Trump believes the North Korea summit is all about him. But Kim has a plan, too - 'My touch, my feel': Trump shows his contempt for G7 allies - Trump: I'll know whether Kim summit will be successful 'in first minute' - Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s rocky road to Singapore – video explainer - 3,000-year-old sculpture leaves researchers scratching their heads - Underpaid and exhausted: the human cost of your Kindle - Workers not paid legally by Amazon contractor in China - Australian SAS under scrutiny after allegations unarmed Afghan men killed - Taliban leaders declare Eid ceasefire with Afghan forces - UK's Inmarsat rejects takeover approach from US rival EchoStar - Politics, war and Picasso: David Douglas Duncan's life in pictures - 'Russia should be in this meeting,' Trump says ahead of G7 summit – video - Donald Trump calls for G7 to readmit Russia ahead of summit - Paul Manafort: Trump's ex-chair hit with new obstruction of justice charges - Russian museum discovers secret order to destroy Gulag data - Kim-chi and El Trumpo tacos: Singapore feeds pre-summit anticipation - Trump is a useless negotiator, and Kim Jong-un will know that | Jonathan Freedland - UN accuses Libyan linked to EU-funded coastguard of people trafficking - Mother of shot Gaza medic: ‘She thought the white coat would protect her’ - The 'dark fleet': Global Fishing Watch shines a light on illegal catches - China's Beyonce: meet Wang Ju, the pop idol breaking down beauty barriers - Chinese government hackers reportedly stole trove of sensitive US naval data - Universities rely too much on foreign student fees, auditor says - Taliban announces three-day ceasefire over Eid - The boy brought up by hounds: Andrew Kötting on a true shaggy dog story - World Cup: England fans' safety at risk in Russia, say MPs - Putin suggests #MeToo movement is a media conspiracy - All eyes on Ramzan Kadyrov as Chechnya hosts Egypt in World Cup - Kim Jong-un impersonator says he was held in Singapore - May refuses to give 'cast iron guarantee' over customs backstop - Trump says he'd invite Kim Jong-un to White House 'if summit goes well' - Tel Aviv's central bus station: 'There's a society inside the building' - Sheldon Adelson: the casino mogul driving Trump's Middle East policy - Halt UK arms trade with Israel while UN investigates Gaza killings | Letters - Michael Howard confronts Netanyahu over Gaza deaths - China must be ready for 'crisis' with US over Taiwan – Beijing press - Christian Porter defends media against Chinese diplomat's claim of fake news - China's ZTE to pay US $1bn fine in new deal to save company - The new arrivals: the final chapter - Allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan 'being taken seriously' - Police chase stolen armoured vehicle in Virginia – video - Man arrested after taking joyride in tank-like military vehicle - 'Nothing is ours anymore': Kurds forced out of Afrin after Turkish assault - Putin demands Russian consular access to Yulia Skripal - The World Cup 2018 stadiums from the air – in pictures - Rise of far-right in Italy and Austria gives Putin some friends in the west - Paul Ryan says Trump should not pardon himself: 'No one is above the law' - Kim Jong-un begged Trump on his knees to revive summit, Rudy Giuliani says - Beatings, killings, gulags: North Korea rights abuses likely to be ignored at summit - North Korea demolished missile testing facility last month, report says - Why we may never know if British troops committed war crimes in Iraq - Our concerns about the arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran | Letter - Theresa May faces Israeli pressure over Iran nuclear deal - 540m-year-old bug tracks are oldest footprints ever discovered - China's interference will not stop with Qantas. How will open societies respond? | Kevin Carrico - 'Sonic attack' fears as more US diplomats fall ill in China - Turnbull would 'love to see' Facebook's Zuckerberg face Australian MPs - 'I couldn't even scream': survival and abuse inseparable for Kabul children | Pariwash Gouhari - Ukraine's president defends faked murder of Russian journalist - Putin pushes for end to 'harmful' sanctions during Austria visit - Chemical weapons watchdog to hold special session in June - What will be the outcome of Trump and Kim Jong-un's nuclear summit? - Skripal attack: police close in on time poison was used - Iran launches plan to bolster uranium enrichment - Steven Ciobo plays down export delays with China, saying growth is ‘phenomenal’ - Fast-tracked Tasmania resort plan raises fears over Chinese investment - US-China relations deteriorating fast over flashpoint issues - Melania Trump reappears following weeks of speculation about her absence - ‘Precision’ airstrikes kill civilians. In Raqqa we saw the devastation for ourselves | Donatella Rovera and Benjamin Walsby - How London teenager plotted attacks with all-female terror cell - Paul Manafort tampering with witnesses, say Mueller investigators - Can Trump actually pardon himself? Experts weigh in - Trump to meet Kim at 9am Singapore time on 12 June, White House says - John Oliver: 'As infuriating a president as Trump is, he'd be an even worse Moses' - North Korea has taken big steps. Now it's Trump's turn to show goodwill | Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright - Netanyahu on European mission to dismantle Iran pact - Tank Man: what happened at Tiananmen Square? – video explainer - China denies visas to Australian journalists due to 'frosty' diplomatic relations - US 'double agent took $800,000 to spy for China' - Qantas bows to China's wishes on naming of Taiwan as a territory - Menwith Hill campaigners will persist in battle to reveal the truth | Letter - Israel must halt law that could criminalise media | Roy Greenslade - North Korea sacks top three military officials, as nuclear summit nears - Israel's Netanyahu tours Europe to lobby leaders against Iran - Hong Kong independence activists sentenced to four weeks' jail - #Tankman2018: hero of Tiananmen protest remembered across globe - The Guardian view on family planning policies: two kids or too many? | Editorial - Crayfish becomes online hero by detaching claw to escape boiling soup - Eurozone investor confidence slides, as Brexit hits UK construction - business live - Tank Man: hero of 1989 Tiananmen protest stands in front of tanks – archive video - Is Chongqing's 'horizontal skyscraper' the answer to overcrowded cities? - The week in podcasts: Any Stupid Questions?; How Syria Changed the World; The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry - Although we now live in a world of faked murders, the truth is still out there | Peter Pomerantsev - Tchaikovsky and the secret gay loves censors tried to hide - Trump goes it alone: running the White House not like a president, but a CEO - Bashar al-Assad to visit North Korea, state media claims - Trump says the US and North Korea are going to 'have a relationship' - video - The wind in my hair: one woman’s struggle against the hijab - The rust belt is being sold a lie – China has funded US spending - The darker side of Grozny's push to be the Dubai of the North Caucasus - Bill Browder: I found a way to challenge Putin. He's really sore about it - Donald Trump says North Korea summit on 12 June is back on - Citizenship for sale: how tycoons can go shopping for a new passport - Palestinian woman shot dead during protest near Gaza fence - Mattis accuses China of 'intimidation and coercion' in South China Sea - The Guardian view on Trump’s trade wars: who wins? | Editorial - Chinese firms pile in to sponsor World Cup 2018 amid Fifa fallout - Former Taliban captive Joshua Boyle granted bail - Russian pilot found after three decades missing in Afghanistan - Quiz: how well do you know the Russian World Cup cities? - Russia-bashing must stop, says Jean-Claude Juncker - The Guardian view on a journalist’s return: the death was fake, the damage was not | Editorial - Arkady Babchenko: pig's blood and makeup artist helped fake death - video - Arkady Babchenko's fake murder: questions that need answering - Arkady Babchenko tells media he was taken to morgue for staged 'murder' - Kim Jong-un complains to Russia over 'US hegemonism' - Trump expecting personal letter from Kim Jong-un as summit date nears - To ask Corbyn to support Israel is an impossible demand | Keith Kahn-Harris - Spacewatch: all aboard, China's open invitation to boldly go - US spends $250m on upgrade to de facto embassy in Taiwan - Chinese interference in New Zealand at 'critical' stage, says Canada spy report - The refugees who gave up on Britain - The Babchenko stunt may end up feeding the Kremlin spin machine | Shaun Walker - Arkady Babchenko reveals he faked his death to thwart Moscow plot - Ukraine reveals it staged 'murder' of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko - 'Murdered' Russian journalist turns up alive at news conference – video - Kaliningrad: the Russian enclave with a taste for Europe - By faking Babchenko’s murder, Ukraine has smeared itself | Sophie Pinkham - Steve Bell’s If ... on the making of a Russian oligarch - Arkady Babchenko's fake murder 'plays into the hands' of Moscow - Colleagues of 'murdered' Russian journalist react upon seeing he is alive – video - How a Russian journalist plotted his own 'murder' with Ukraine – video - How ex-soldier Arkady Babchenko became an enemy of the Kremlin - US presses North Korea for 'historic' plan to disarm as Pompeo meets Kim aide - Trump approach risks disaster, warns architect of previous North Korea talks - North Korea summit: uninvited guests could foil Trump's objectives | Simon Tisdall - North Korean official's US arrival marks highest-level visit in 18 years - Jeremy Corbyn's views 'could drive Jewish people from UK' - Battle for rebel-held Yemen port may trigger humanitarian disaster - Marise Payne contradicts Steve Ciobo over Chinese bombers in South China Sea - US to hit EU with steel and aluminum tariffs, report says - Landmines made by Isis undo progress made by Princess Diana campaign - 'We’ve lost all hope': the investment scandal wrecking Russian lives - Steve Bell’s If ... on Russian oligarchs' burgeoning economy - Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev - Putin more dangerous weak​​ than strong, says top UK military figure - Kim Yong-chol: the ultimate North Korean regime insider - Constructivist capital: the architectural legacy of Yekaterinburg – in pictures - Russia rejects claim it was behind dissident journalist’s killing - Putin critic Bill Browder released after arrest in Spain - Libyan factions agree to hold elections on 10 December - Hamas says armed groups agree to Gaza ceasefire if Israel reciprocates - Abramovich cannot work in UK if he arrives on Israeli passport, No 10 says - Belgians' anger grows over status of parents of girl killed by police - White House to impose 25% tariff on $50bn worth of Chinese goods - Returning artefacts of empire isn’t so simple | Letters - Chinese firm's promises on Tasmanian dairy farm 'not legally binding' - Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia - We didn’t expect Skripals to survive, says Salisbury poisoning doctor - Moscow gallery to review alcohol sales after attack on painting - No one compares like Londoners | Brief letters - Is Russia killing stray dogs ahead of the World Cup? - North Korea summit: Kim aides head to Singapore and US - The school teaching North Korean refugees how to live in the South - Israeli jets hit militant bases in Gaza after shells fired from strip - US flight instructors kidnapped and tried to deport trainee to China, say police - Maglev trains: why aren't we gliding home on hovering carriages? - Ivanka Trump won China trademarks days before her father's reversal on ZTE - 'Digital wallet’ of Ant Financial captivates China and beyond - The summer I left my black corner of south east London, and never made it back in - HR McMaster on rugby: 'The warrior ethos is what a good team has' - Rudy Giuliani admits 'Spygate' is Trump PR tactic against Robert Mueller - Islamic State 'kills four Russian soldiers in Syria' - Ben Jennings on the Trump-Kim nuclear summit – cartoon - China protests 'provocation' after two US ships sail near disputed islands - My best summer photograph: suckers, sizzlers and surfers - New Zealand's Five Eyes membership called into question over 'China links' - Taliban commander orders closure of opium labs in towns and cities - Famous Russian painting of Ivan the Terrible 'seriously damaged' in pole attack - The unsavoury alliance between oligarchs and London’s top lawyers | Nick Cohen - Moon Jae-in says Kim Jong-un wants denuclearisation – video - North Korea-US summit on track, says Moon, after candid talks with 'friend' Kim Jong-un - North and South Korean leaders meet as US indicates summit may yet happen - North and South Korean presidents meet to discuss the US summit – video - British arms exports to Israel reach record level - Jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘to face new trial’ - Amid Syria’s horror, a new force emerges: the women of Idlib - China is taking digital control of its people to unprecedented and chilling lengths | John Naughton - The Breadwinner review – a girl’s courage on the streets of Kabul - FBI says Russians hacked hundreds of thousands of home and office routers - Putin accuses Britain of blaming 'all their mortal sins' on Russia - Russian oligarch met Cohen at Trump Tower before inauguration – reports - There’s a rat in this Brexit heist movie. Who could it be, Boris? | Marina Hyde - Who, us? Russia is gaslighting the world on the Skripal poisonings | Alexey Kovalev - MH17: Australia and Netherlands accuse Russia of complicity - Martin Rowson on Donald Trump and the North Korea summit – cartoon - Donald Trump says North Korea summit could be back on - Who knew diplomacy with North Korea was so hard? | Michael H Fuchs - The North Korea farce makes it clear again: Trump is dangerous | Simon Tisdall - Israeli intel firm spied on Palestinian-American Linda Sarsour, report says - Ehud Barak on the crisis in Israel: ‘Netanyahu has to resign’ - China shows little appetite for lifting of family size limit - Andrew Hastie's contribution to our China effort? Curious and curiouser | Katharine Murphy - Flight Centre website tweaks on Taiwan 'were not done under Chinese pressure' - Afghan interpreters working for UK army ‘failed’ by government - 'Bad trip': air force members guarding nuclear missiles took LSD, records show - How Britain let Russia hide its dirty money - Yulia Skripal delivered a coded message and it spoke volumes | Angus Roxburgh - Elena Gremina obituary - Kim Jong-un gains stature and gives up little as summit falls apart - North Korea 'destroys' Punggye-ri test site – in pictures - Huge explosions as North Korea 'destroys' nuclear test site – video - On North Korea, Trump should do his homework next time | Richard Wolffe - Donald Trump cancels North Korea nuclear summit - ‘It’s a nightmare scenario’: how Trump’s North Korea spectacle fits his pattern - 'Deal of the day': White House online shop crashes as North Korea coin discounted - The failed Trump-Kim summit: the story of a trainwreck foretold - Trump's letter to Kim Jong-un to cancel summit: read it in full - North Korea leaves door open for 'desperately necessary' Trump summit - Israeli court approves razing West Bank Bedouin village - Gaza ministry removes baby from list of people killed by Israeli army - Iran lists demands for staying in nuclear deal - Canada blocks Chinese takeover of Aecon over national security concerns - Pollutionwatch: Air contamination drops by 30% in China - The Guardian view on the North Korea summit: a crisis foretold | Editorial - China accused of 'dollar diplomacy' as Taiwan loses second ally in a month - Abduction, imprisonment, Taliban: the cartoons keeping it real for kids - Yulia Skripal: 'We are so lucky to have survived assassination attempt' - Trump escalates attacks on FBI as he fights back against Russia inquiry - Russian pranksters discuss Putin and Skripal in call with Boris Johnson - MH17 downed by Russian military missile system, say investigators - World weatherwatch: Spring brings wildfires, storms and ash plumes - Yulia Skripal says her world has 'turned upside down' – video - North Korea 'destroys' nuclear test site as world's media watches - North Korea casts doubt on summit and warns US of 'nuclear showdown' - North Korea must disarm before any economic relief, says Mike Pompeo - Emmanuel Macron plans crunch summit to push for Libyan elections - Iran's leader: US pullout from nuclear deal leaves Trump 'lost in history' - China has been a great driver of our economy – but we can't rely on it | Greg Jericho - Trump says China trade deal is 'too hard to get done' - US issues China health alert after brain injury to consular employee - Western consumers fund extremism by buying talcum powder, claims study - Syrian refugees face new enemy in Canadian apartments: bedbugs - Georgia accuses Russia of war crimes during 2008 conflict - US firm that gave cash to Michael Cohen helped secure millions for Putin-linked oligarch - UK urged to sanction 'top Putin oligarchs' as new powers take effect - Robbie Williams to 'party like a Russian' with Uzbek-born billionaire - Homeland security chief: I haven't seen intel that showed Russia favored Trump - Boris Johnson joins US in criticising Russia to Germany gas pipeline - North Korea presses on with nuclear site closure despite summit doubts - Trump says 'very substantial chance' North Korea summit could be delayed - Shining achievement: is Trump’s celebratory Kim​ Jong-un coin a little premature? - Steve Bell on Abdel Hakim Belhaj – cartoon - The next Homeland? The problems with Fauda, Israel's brutal TV hit - Palestinian minister delivers Israel 'war crimes' referral to ICC - Mike Pompeo claims Iran carrying out 'assassination operations' in Europe - Chinese government 'considering scrapping limits on family size' - 'Presumption of innocence' key in Hastie's allegations, Steven Ciobo says – as it happened - Chinese province introduces 'divorce test' for couples planning to split - Boris Johnson hints at tougher action against Russian oligarchs - Hillary Clinton shows off Russian hat in jab at Donald Trump – video - Russian activity in City of London faces further scrutiny by MPs - Is Abramovich at last paying the price for being too close to Putin? - Roman Abramovich may have to explain source of wealth to get UK visa - Russian broadcaster RT faces three new Ofcom investigations - South Korea's Moon heads for Trump talks to try to keep summit on track - 'Weird, odd, a dumpster fire': Trump's North Korea summit coin ridiculed - North Korea's nuclear test site: is blowing up Punggye-ri just for show? - Tory MP reports Bercow to Commons standards commissioner over 'stupid woman' Leadsom jibe - Politics live - Tony Blair refuses to apologise to Libyan torture victim Abdel Hakim Belhaj - 'They deserve no mercy': Iraq deals briskly with accused 'women of Isis' - There is no justification for firing into crowds of protesters | Jeff Sparrow - Iran told: comply with US demands or face 'strongest sanctions in history' - Toxic mushrooms in Iran kill 11 people and poison more than 800 - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe 'told to expect another conviction' - Chinese-Australian billionaire involved in UN bribery case, MP claims - Activist sentenced to five years in prison for promoting Tibetan language - Julie Bishop raises objections to China's activities in South China Sea - FTSE 100 hits record high as markets digest US-China tariff truce - Russian 'dirty money' is damaging UK security, MPs say - After Trump attacks New York Times, Giuliani tells paper Mueller will be done by September - Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is without a UK visa - FTSE 100 at record high after trade war truce, but pound hits 2018 low - business live - Chinese censors erase online comments as US puts tariffs 'on hold' - China launches satellite to explore dark side of moon – video - China aims to land on dark side of moon via launch of 'Magpie Bridge' satellite - US and China put trade war 'on hold' - Russia uncovered: writers on the World Cup host nation - Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy review – death of the Soviet dream - BP boss's pay may be excessive – but protests won't threaten him - Carved idol from the Urals shatters expert views on birth of ritual art - How Democracy Ends review – is people politics doomed? 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Killing Gazans won’t bring that | Maya Ilany - In America's news headlines, Palestinians die mysterious deaths | Moustafa Bayoumi - An unlikely idea for Middle East peace? | Letters - UN human rights body to hold special session on violence in Gaza - Naked city: lost in Shanghai with Liu Tao – in pictures - Japan plans $400m hit on US goods in response to Trump tariffs - Two-thirds of world population will live in cities by 2050, says UN - Police to issue England fans with guide to ‘sensitive sites’ at World Cup - Putin opens 12-mile bridge between Crimea and Russian mainland - UK government trying to block release of files exposing Gaddafi links - North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit over nuclear demands - Australia supports North Korea-US summit, Julie Bishop says – video - Steve Bell on the deaths of demonstrators in Gaza – cartoon - Calls for inquiry into Israel’s Gaza killings | Letters - 'She prayed she would be martyred': Gaza parents mourn their dead - 'Enough is enough': UN condemns Israel as Palestinians bury their dead – video report - There is a cost to Trump. We are seeing it now in Gaza | Jonathan Steele - The 70th anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day – in pictures - In Gaza, Palestinians feel abandoned to their fate by an indifferent world - Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in Ramallah, West Bank – video - Israel's violent rule increasingly driving liberal American Jews on to the streets - When Jewish Americans uphold occupation, it corrodes our souls | Mariyama Scott - Trump is wrong over Iran, but Europe can’t afford to divorce the US | Bruno Tertrais - EU tells Iran it will try to protect firms from US sanctions - Murder forces women using Chinese ride-hailing app to change profile photos - Seth Meyers: ‘The phrase ‘drain the swamp’ is now devoid of all meaning’ - What are your chances of being sucked out of a plane? - Chinese double amputee conquers Everest on fifth attempt - Taliban launch large-scale assault on western Afghan city - 'I thought they'd take everything away from me': immigration officers enter couple's home at dawn - Billionaire Christopher Chandler denies spy claims - The Guardian view on intelligence cooperation: don’t let Brexit break it | Editorial - The UK’s obsession with the Russian bogeyman doesn’t stack up | Mary Dejevsky - Sergei Skripal briefed European intelligence services, reports say - MI5 chief: Kremlin is 'chief protagonist' in campaign to undermine west - Dismantling of North Korea nuclear site 'well under way', satellite images show - Friends without benefits: how Europe was wrongfooted by Trump over Iran - South Korean companies poised to invest in the North if sanctions relax - Today is Nabka day – I hope I never see another like this one | Manuel Hassassian - Gaza: Nakba day protests as Palestinians bury those killed in embassy unrest – live updates - I love Eurovision, but Jerusalem 2019 will be no cause for celebration | Michael Segalov - Palestinians to bury 58 people killed in US embassy protests - Fatal clashes in Gaza after opening of US embassy – in pictures - Washington praises Jerusalem embassy opening despite Palestinian death toll - Trump threw a match into Jerusalem with no plan to put out the fire | Rachel Shabi - Palestinians killed as US opens embassy in Jerusalem – video report - Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem - Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinians in protests as US embassy opens in Jerusalem – as it happened - Defiance, then death: Gaza suffers most horrific day of violence for four years - The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians | Editorial - Pastor who prayed at embassy opening is 'a religious bigot', says Mitt Romney - Israel is 70 – is hope for a two-state solution gone? | Letters - Turkey's president blames US for returning world to 'dark days' - Supreme court rejects appeal from Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians - Boris Johnson urged to raise Zaghari-Ratcliffe case with Iran counterpart - Iraq's shock election result may be turning point for Iran - By ending the Iran deal, Trump has put America on the path to war | Bernie Sanders - Iraq elections: who is Moqtada al-Sadr? - Julie Bishop defends record on China after former ambassador's call for her to be sacked - Pilot 'sucked halfway out' after windshield blows out at 32,000ft – video - Warning sounded over China's 'debtbook diplomacy' - Airline pilot 'sucked halfway out' when cockpit windshield broke - Gap sorry for selling T-shirt with 'incorrect' map of China - Four Weddings: four alternative nuptials to Harry and Meghan's – video - 'Mean and foolish': North Korea says Japan is stalling peace over cold war abductions - Pompeo: US firms could invest in North Korea and Kim may get ‘security assurances’ - Palestinians killed in protests against US embassy's move to Jerusalem - Ivanka Trump in Jerusalem for embassy opening as Gaza braces for bloodshed - Palestinians do not want to negate Israel. We just want a future | Atef Abu Saif - Al-Qaida leader calls for jihad on eve of US embassy moving to Jerusalem - Israeli football club renames itself Beitar Trump Jerusalem after 'courageous' president - Eurovision 2018: Israel celebrates after Netta Barzilai's win - Cleric who fought US takes surprise lead in Iraq elections - US threatens European companies with sanctions after Iran deal pullout - Inside Shanghai's robot bank: China opens world's first human-free branch - China: security guards assault women attending LGBT event - Trump 'working' with Xi Jinping to save jobs at Chinese company hit by US ban - Life with microcephaly in war-torn Afghanistan – in pictures - What is Canada like for a refugee? - North Korea invites world to watch closure of nuclear test site - The Spy Gone North review – timely Korean spy thriller proves a real nail-biter - Al Walaja: the Palestinian village being slowly squeezed off the map - In the Belhaj case, Britain set aside the rule of law and moral principles | Will Hutton - Abde​​l Hakim Belhaj rendition: ex-minister calls for inquiry - The core Isis manual that twisted Islam to legitimise barbarity - The UK must act to counter Trump’s destructive Jerusalem decision | Alon Liel - The Observer view on Europe’s duty to confront Donald Trump over Iran | Observer editorial - Jaded Iraqis trudge to polls as PM battles anti-Isis heroes - Lenovo, the Chinese giant that plays by the rules … and loses - The Syrian boy who wrote his life story – with the help of his Canadian teacher - Supporting the west? No, Syria's White Helmets are about saving lives | Omar Sabbour - BBC rejects complaints that Newsnight made Corbyn look 'more Russian' - Trump 'embarrassed, frankly' by Mueller investigation, John Kelly says - Jack Straw faces call to give evidence over role in Libyan rendition - Mike Pompeo offers aid to North Korea in exchange for forfeiting nukes - Israel at 70: jubilant US embassy opening masks fevered times - Israel doesn’t want war with Iran – it prefers crisis in Tehran | Anshel Pfeffer - Sunset at Persepolis: Iranians fear Trump has killed tourism boom - Trump approaches geopolitics like The Apprentice – but this is not his show - US faces European backlash against Iran sanctions - Iraq elections become a battleground for Iranian influence - Fat Pigs and Demon Blades: China's nicknames for NBA stars are high art - Eurovision 2018: Who is Jessica Mauboy's toughest competition? - Ash Is Purest White review – Chinese gangster’s girlfriend saga burns bright - Pentagon investigation into lethal Niger ambush finds multiple failures - UK may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding - Vladimir Putin's ice hockey slump continues in five-goal performance - #BlueLivesMatter and Beyoncé: Russian Facebook ads hit hot-button US issues - Trump-Russia: Pence urges Mueller to end investigation – 'Time to wrap it up' - North Korea’s release of US prisoners doesn’t mean peace | Polly Toynbee - Britain apologises for 'appalling treatment' of Abdel Hakim Belhaj - So we’ve apologised for Abdel Hakim Belhaj’s rendition. But who did it? | Richard Norton-Taylor - Renditioned while pregnant: 'I still get nightmares' - The Guardian view on illegal rendition: take the ethical option | Editorial - Libyan rendition: how UK's role in kidnap of families came to light - In defence of the London Israeli Film & Television Festival | Letters - New NRA president says gun control activists are 'civil terrorists' - Israel-Iran conflict is no surprise but implications are unclear - Isis: Trump says five 'most wanted' leaders captured - Only the US can prevent more clashes between Israel and Iran in Syria | Lina Khatib - Iran and Israel have little incentive to hurry down the path to war - Chinese broadcaster loses Eurovision rights over LGBT censorship - House of Fraser slides to £44m loss ahead of Chinese takeover - Robert Mueller investigating payments to Michael Cohen, Swiss drug giant says - Russia shows off military hardware at Victory Day parade – video - Trump welcomes home three Americans released by North Korea - Donald and Melania Trump greet three Americans freed by North Korea - video - Summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump will take place in Singapore – report - North Korea releases three US citizens in run-up to Trump summit - Attorney general's Commons statement on Abdel Hakim Belhaj rendition case - Politics live - Israel retaliates after Iran 'fires 20 rockets' at army in occupied Golan Heights - Steve Bell on EU leaders' lack of influence over Donald Trump – cartoon - The Guardian view on Iran’s nuclear deal: Trump creates a narrative for war | Editorial - Iran deal: how Trump's actions could flare violence in Middle East - Labour accuse Tories of 'shameless capitulation to press barons' after vote against Leveson 2 inquiry - Politics live - Trump’s folly over the Iran deal comes through loud and clear | Letters - Trevor Noah: Schneiderman tried to jail Weinstein 'while abusing women himself' - UK will not follow Trump in ditching Iran deal, Boris Johnson vows - How Trump's Iran deal exit could hit aviation, oil and car industries | Rob Davies - Cannes 2018: Asghar Farhadi demands Iran lift travel ban on Jafar Panahi - 'Theresa May became almost incoherent at times': your best comments today - Israel has hit nearly all Iranian infrastructure in Syria, military claims - Trump’s rejection of Iran nuclear deal may be Israel’s dream moment - Syrian military video shows air defences trying to intercept Israeli missiles - Syrian opposition praises Donald Trump's Iran nuclear deal exit - China's ZTE may be first major casualty of trade war with US - China's anti-spy campaign: cash rewards and warnings of 'dangerous times' - Salisbury attack: police continue to examine home of Sergei Skripal - Life and Fate review – a remarkable epic of Soviet horror and heartbreak - Russia rolls out its military hardware for Victory Day – in pictures - From Cold War to Hot Peace review: Obama ambassador charts path to Trump and Russia - Firm tied to Russian oligarch gave Michael Cohen $500,000, says Stormy Daniels' lawyer - Hey England fans, everything'll be fine in Russia. Probably | John Crace - ​T​he life and times of Steven Seagal​ – from developing aromatherapy oils to attending Putin’s swearing in - Settlement in Abdul-Hakim Belhaj rendition case to be announced - Malta 'fuelling Libya instability' by failing to tackle oil smuggling - Russia shows off new missiles and jets in Victory Day parade - Israel orders Human Rights Watch representative to leave - 'Stubbornly fighting for life': how Arthur Koestler reported the birth of Israel - Israel using culture to mask brutality, say film-makers, journalists and artists | Letters - Jerusalem gives thanks to Trump by naming a roundabout in his honour - Donald Trump breaks with allies over Iran nuclear agreement – video - Trump's decision on Iran is not as black and white as it seems - Trump's team snooped on Obama officials. That's gutter politics | Jill Abramson - EU moves to protect European firms from US sanctions on Iran - Iranian lawmakers set paper US flag on fire – video - What is the Iran nuclear deal? – video - Europe must make Trump pay for wrecking the Iran nuclear deal | Simon Tisdall - Iranian hardliners rejoice over US exit from nuclear deal - What is the Iran deal and why does Trump want to scrap it? - Iran deal: Trump breaks with European allies over 'horrible, one-sided' nuclear agreement - Hopes dim for US prisoners in Iran after Trump abandons nuclear deal - Europe's clash with Trump over Iran nuclear deal is a durability test - By ending the nuclear deal, Trump has handed a gift to Iranian hardliners | Sanam Vakil - Syria says it has downed two Israeli missiles near Damascus - Iran vows to stick with deal after 'pesky' Trump's departure - Obama condemns 'misguided' violation of Iran deal as Republicans cheer move - Donald Trump says US will no longer abide by Iran deal – as it happened - Pompeo makes second visit to North Korea to finalise summit details - Council paints over Taiwanese flag on children's art project ahead of beef expo - US charges former CIA agent with conspiring to commit espionage for China - Kim Jong-un meets Xi Jinping in second surprise visit to China - Cannes 2018: The directors who are banned from attending the film festival - Russia analyst interviewed by ABC a 'blatantly pro-Kremlin apologist' - Vladimir Putin sworn in for fourth term in Kremlin ceremony - 'He's not a populist, he's popular': Nikol Pashinyan becomes Armenian PM - Italy's deal with Libya to 'pull back' migrants faces legal challenge - Paraguay to follow US and move embassy in Israel to Jerusalem - Donald Trump set to reveal decision on Iran nuclear deal - Trump likely to scrap Iran deal, says former White House negotiator – video - Iran deal: prominent backer says he was warned of Trump bid to discredit him - Fox & Friends diplomacy: Boris Johnson urges Trump to stay in Iran deal - Hezbollah makes strong showing in Lebanon elections - Israel intel firm denies it was hired by Trump aides to discredit Obama officials - China sentences former political rising star to life in prison for corruption - Hillary Clinton says China's foreign power grab 'a new global battle' - Youth who fled Taliban held with adults in California amid dispute over his age - Afghan helicopter raid killed or injured over 100, says UN report - Erdoğan vows fresh military action against Kurdish militants - Pro-Kremlin Cossack troops to ‘ensure public safety’ at World Cup - The Guardian view on civilian deaths in war: be honest and investigate | Editorial - Fate of Iran nuclear deal at stake as UK foreign secretary heads to Washington - Iran warns US of 'historic regret' if nuclear deal collapses - Think it's funny that China is cracking down on Peppa Pig? Think again | Phoebe-Jane Boyd - The week in TV: Syria: The World’s War; The Rain; My Year With the Tribe; Mountain - Trump friend Tom Barrack has been questioned by Mueller, sources say - Russia's Alexei Navalny arrested as 1,600 detained nationwide - Alexei Navalny and scores more arrested at anti-Putin rally – video - 'We're not changing any stories': Trump's week of contradiction - Israel fears ‘explosion of violence’ as US prepares to open embassy in Jerusalem - Boris Johnson hopes US visit can save Iran nuclear weapons deal - Donald Trump and Theresa May 'looking forward to UK visit' - Trump’s dirty ops attack on Obama legacy shows pure hatred for Iran deal - The Observer view on Trump’s folly in risking not just peace in the Middle East | Observer editorial - Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal - Journalists’ deaths can only thicken the fog of war over Afghanistan - Trump White House accuses China of 'Orwellian nonsense' - Time for change: North Korea moves clocks forward to keep up with South - 'Great power competition': Nato announces Atlantic command to counter Russia - Stormy Daniels scandal: Trump says Giuliani yet to get his 'facts straight' - Chemical weapons watchdog amends claim over Salisbury novichok - Israel has its first Grand Tour – but will it get people on their bikes? - Israel pulls out of race for seat on UN security council - An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation | Anna Chen - US-China talks end in increased tension and demand for $200bn trade deficit cut - Syria: The World’s War review: Lyse Doucet dissects a brutal and misunderstood conflict - Skripals poisoned by novichok dose of up to 100g, watchdog says - Obama martial law scare was stoked by Russian bots, say ex-director of CIA - Clickbait and Skripal jokes: Russia’s RT thrives online - 'Deny, distract and blame': how Russia fights propaganda war - Revealed: UK’s push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance - Trump tells Pentagon to sketch out South Korea troop cuts – reports - Mahmoud Abbas apologises for Holocaust speech - Lord Temple-Morris obituary - Pentagon accuses China of shining lasers at US pilots in Djibouti - The Uncensored Playlist: how​ ​news​ ​is being turned into​ ​pop to bypass repressive regimes - US trade mission ends with limited progress, China says - business live - A or B review – overwrought thriller gives you no option but to nod off - UK backs down over Afghan interpreters' immigration fees - Guantánamo prisoner released in surprise move by Trump administration - Syria: RAF admits drone strike killed civilian in attack targeting Isis - North Korea denies hacking UN sanctions database - Russian jet crashes after takeoff from Syria airbase killing crew - When America's hottest jazz stars were sent to cool cold-war tensions - Isis attack on Libya election commission kills more than a dozen - UN chief urges Donald Trump not to scrap Iran nuclear deal - If Trump destroys the nuclear deal, Iran will fall to its hardliners | Saeed Kamali Dehghan - Iran arrests British Council employee as she visits home country - China deploys cruise missiles on South China Sea outposts – reports - House of Fraser to close stores as part of restructuring deal - US-China trade talks begin with Trump call for 'level playing field' - business live - Chinese Nobel laureate's widow 'ready to die' in house arrest - Founder of pro-Brexit think​tank has link with Russian intelligence, says MP - No suspects yet in Skripal nerve agent attack, MPs told - Radio Sleepytime brings bedtime stories for Syria's bereft children - Top 10 books about North Korea - It’s right to condemn Mahmoud Abbas for his antisemitic remarks | Jonathan Freedland - Netanyahu accuses Palestinian president of antisemitism - Alleged Australian child abuser to face extradition in Israel this month - Soldiers good, Palestinians bad: Israel's double standards on justice | Peter Beaumont - Netanyahu's theatrics help push Trump towards Iran deal withdrawal - Europeans cast doubt on Israel's claims about Iran nuclear breaches - I’m half Scot, half Iraqi. But in Malmö in Sweden, I felt I belonged | Zaineb Al Hassani - France and Australia can be heart of new Indo-Pacific axis, Macron says - Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land - 'Are you with the tyrants?' Pakistani Che risks all to take on the army - The Guardian view on press freedom: a connective tissue of society | Editorial - The ruins I saw in Syria stand as a rebuke to western inaction | Diana Darke - Leaked questions reveal what Mueller wants to ask Trump about Russia - The Russian reality TV star who ran against Putin: ‘He has been a tsar for years’ - 'Heavy smoker' Kim Jong-un shunned cigarettes during peace talks - Trump winning a Nobel peace prize for North Korea ‘idiotic’, Q&A told - Trump suggests meeting Kim on border as South Korean leader touts Nobel - Christians in Jerusalem's Old City 'under threat' from settlers - The Syrian airbase at the heart of a potential Israel-Iran war - Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Iran lied about nuclear programme' – video - Nuclear deal: Netanyahu accuses Iran of cheating on agreement - Taiwan dumped by Dominican Republic amid pressure from China - The unexpected beauty of China's bicycle graveyards – in pictures - Peppa Pig, subversive symbol of the counterculture, falls foul of Chinese censors - Australia's China relationship being bungled – former envoy - The US and Afghanistan: can’t win the war, can’t stop it, can’t leave - Afghanistan: the 10 journalists who died in deadly day for media - Aftermath of second deadly explosion in Kabul – video - Trump faces Guantánamo Bay decision that could undermine fight against Isis - McDonnell hits back at claims Russian bots helped Labour in 2017 election - How Syrian refugee chef's London kitchen is helping Aleppo hospital - North Korea must take 'irreversible' steps to denuclearization, US warns - MPs call for crackdown on Russian oligarchs using City to avoid sanctions - Russian MMA fighter with links to Trump and Cohen questioned by FBI - Self-radicalised Sydney man stabbed neighbour to avenge US bombings, court told - Missile attack on Syria kills pro-Assad fighters, say observers - 'Sidelined' China seeks to maintain influence as ties between North Korea and US improve - Hand-drawn Beijing: electric cars and imaginary temples – in pictures - Kabul: double suicide bombing kills dozens in Afghan capital - Spies, assassins and strip clubs: death of Alexander Litvinenko adapted for stage - Another News Story review - watching the media watching refugees - North Korea will invite outside experts to observe closing of nuclear test site - As Trump and Macron preen, Ruth Davidson offers a show of elegance | Barbara Ellen - Donald Trump expects to meet North Korea 'in three or four weeks' - North Korea's state media plays down Kim's nuclear pledge - Protesters in Israel call for end to Australian live exports - Three dead as violence flares at Gaza border protest - video - The Deminer review – a gripping tour with a hands-on minesweeper - Oleg Deripaska agrees to cede control of firms hit by US sanctions - Republican-led House panel says no evidence Trump colluded with Russia - Australia sending plane to monitor North Korean ships' 'illicit trade' - 'Cold noodles are peace symbol': summit to savour for euphoric Koreans - North Korea hails 'new milestone' and credits Kim with summit success - Donald Trump: US won't be played in North Korea talks – video - The Guardian view on inter-Korean talks: progress – for now | Editorial - Korean leaders bond over handshakes and 'a lot of pictures' - Key moments from historic Korean summit – video report - Bonhomie on Korean peninsula puts pressure on bellicose Trump - North and South Korean leaders promise 'lasting peace' for peninsula - Libyan general returns to Benghazi after death rumours - Three dead and hundreds injured as Israeli troops open fire on Gaza border - Nine schoolchildren stabbed to death in northern China - US troops are now in Darwin. But questions remain as to why | Nick Deane - The Syria paradox: America drops bombs but 'turns its back' on refugees - Trump administration under fire for not contributing to Syria donors conference - 10m Syrians at risk of forfeiting homes under new property law - Korea summit: leaders vow to 'write new chapter' in peninsula’s history - North and South Korean leaders shake hands at the border – video - Inter-Korean summit's key players: Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in - Parents of US student Otto Warmbier sue North Korea over his death - White House releases pictures of Mike Pompeo shaking hands with Kim Jong-un - Quiz: can you guess the world city from its cold war Soviet spy map? - 'Obscene masquerade': Russia criticised over Douma chemical attack denial - Armenia plans leader elections after shock resignation of PM - At this summit, North and South Korea took a real step towards peace | Mary Dejevsky - North and South leaders meet at Korea summit – in pictures - 'Why has it taken us so long': five things we've learned from Korean summit - Nine teenage hikers killed in Israel flash floods - Putting the antisemitism debate in perspective | Letters - Will the Iran nuclear deal survive Trump’s wrecking crew? - Photojournalist Abbas - a career in pictures - Korea summit: Trump says 'good things are happening' as leaders agree denuclearisation goal - live - Stolen succulents: California hipster plants at center of smuggling crisis - Recycling crisis: federal government to push states for solution - US or China? Australia shouldn't have to choose an imperial protector | Jeff Sparrow - China waging 'psychological warfare' against Australia, US Congress told - The Guardian view on privacy online: a human right | Editorial - Qatari man held for 13 years over links to al-Qaida: I was tortured on US soil - Democrat's paid speech to pro-Assad group thrusts Syria into Ohio primary - Isis trying to foment a wave of migration to Europe, says UN official - Donor conference for Syrian refugees falls $5bn short of UN target - Why are chemical weapons worse than other weapons of mass destruction? | William Schabas - North Korea nuclear test site has collapsed and may be out of action – China study - 'Forever strangers': the North Korean defectors who want to go back - Rehearsals and realism as North and South Korean leaders prepare to meet - Korean summit: everything you need to know - Unjust desserts: dish planned for Korean summit prompts anger in Japan - Rösti reception: the Korean summit menu – in pictures - Ken Loach should be denied doctorate, says Belgian PM in antisemitism row - Israeli police officer jailed over 2014 death of Palestinian teenager - Dancing with death: the murky ethics of filming people in life-threatening danger - The Deminer review – heartstopping tale of heroic bomb disposal expert - British-Iranian academic Abbas Edalat detained in Iran, British officials say - Artificial intelligence: €20bn investment call from EU commission - Ronny Jackson close to withdrawing as VA nominee, Trump suggests - UN warns Idlib could be next Syrian disaster zone in 'marathon of pain' - Armenian protesters take to streets again as talks break down - Trevor Noah on Trump's 'bullshit foundation he built his career on' - Trump calls Kim 'very honourable' and says North Korea wants summit as soon as possible - Macron pitches new Iran deal to sweeten existing agreement for Trump - Iran threatens to withdraw from nuclear weapons treaty - Mummified body found in Iran could be of ex-ruler Reza Shah - 'Deals with the devil always unravel': the UK blind spot for Sudan's abuses | Rebecca Lowe - Mass resignations at Chinese owner of Australia's largest dairy farm cast doubt on investment - Trump sending treasury secretary to China as trade tensions mount - Call to shut Real Bodies exhibition over fears it uses executed prisoners - If only the west’s motives for Syria strikes were more principled | Letters - The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans - Syria: western nations seek to bypass Russian veto at UN - Swiss rösti with a twist: North and South Korea summit menu's diplomacy - US and North Korea expectations over denuclearization appear to collide - When it comes to foreign policy, Congress must rein Trump in | Michael H Fuchs - Student says Peking university trying to silence her over rape claim petition - Kim Jong-un visits survivors of bus crash – video - Hong Kong's 'cardboard grannies': the elderly box collectors living in poverty - China karaoke lounge fire: arson suspect caught after blaze kills 18 - 'Uncontrollable grief' of Kim Jong-un over North Korea bus disaster - Trump says North Korea nuclear crisis 'long way from conclusion' - Goldman prize awarded to South African women who stopped an international nuclear deal - 'Protecting our democracy': DNC chair defends suit against Trump and Russia - Regulation of the media is in clear need of fresh thinking | Paul Chadwick - South Korea silences loudspeakers that blast cross-border propaganda - Palestine files complaint against Israel under anti-racism treaty - The Guardian view on the Gaza protests: a new challenge to Israel’s blockade | Editorial - Macron begins Trump charm offensive with Fox News Sunday interview - 'I love tech boys': Chinese job ads mirror sexist attitudes to women, study finds - World’s newest great ape threatened by Chinese dam - The 'deep state' is real. But are its leaks against Trump justified? | Jack Goldsmith - On Syria, none of us is innocent | Letters - Soviet film posters of the 50s and 60s – in pictures - Pushkin descendant puts Russian poet’s turbulent life on stage for first time - Fragile and under pressure, but Kim Jong-un won’t give up - Trump praises North Korea's 'progress' as expert warns against optimism - Murdered Palestinian engineer was ‘senior member’ of Hamas - Israel celebrates but is war with Iran looming? - 'It will not be very pleasant,' Iran warns, if Trump sabotages nuclear deal - Dragon boat disaster leaves 17 dead in China - Dozens dead in bombing at Kabul voter registration centre - Last Damascus rebels bombarded as Assad presses advantage in Syria - Barnier says Brexit withdrawal deal could still collapse because 25% not yet agreed - Politics live - Why road to Syria peace could begin in a sleepy Swedish farmhouse - The great divide of our times is not left v right, but true v false | Jonathan Freedland - North Korea halts nuclear and missile tests ahead of planned Trump summit - Democratic party sues Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump campaign over election disruption - Karen Dawisha obituary - Israeli forces kill two at Gaza frontier during fourth week of protests - Iran warns Israeli bases are within reach as pair lock horns over Syria - North Korea's nuclear pause: grist for both doves and hawks | Robert E Kelly - No joke: have China's censors gone too far with ban on humour app? - Alarm bells ringing at the IMF | Letters - Inside North Korea, all they will say about Trump is 'he's crazy' - I believe in the UN, but it needs to examine its conscience over Syria | Martti Ahtisaari - Despite Trump rhetoric, US withdrawal from Syria likely to be messy - Rudy Giuliani joins Trump's legal team to help end Russia investigation - Russia spread fake news via Twitter bots after Salisbury poisoning – analysis - Scientists warn of nerve agent potency as Salisbury clean-up begins - Pittsburgh prepares officers for possible riots in case Trump fires Mueller - Pyongyang calling: North and South Korean leaders get hotline as stage set for summit - David Cameron's Libya campaign criticised by commission he chaired - Why Israel’s independence day should not be a religious holiday | Michael Segalov - Don't scrap Iran deal, MPs from UK, France and Germany urge US - Video of Iran 'morality police' wrestling with woman sparks outrage - China accidentally reports two major quakes that never happened - Recycling row: China's ban stokes trade fears amid concerns councils will follow Ipswich's lead - Australian warships 'challenged' by Chinese navy in South China Sea - Jessie J’s cultural revolution: how a Middle-Grade Pop Monster saved China - UK drives into e-vehicle fast lane with 11% sales rise - US grain ships diverted at sea hours after China imposes grain tariff - London 'pollution pods' let you sample the smog in Beijing and Delhi - UK intelligence could be used for unlawful drone strikes, warns Amnesty - Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: a dictator in all but name seeks complete control | Simon Tisdall - The taboo on chemical weapons has lasted a century – it must be preserved | Peter Beaumont - The teachers of Idlib on the impossible struggle to educate their students - Chemical weapons inspectors' security team fired on in Douma - Belgian firms prosecuted over Syria chemical exports - Gone too Tsar: the erotic period drama that has enraged Russia - We were right to bomb Syria | Letters - OPCW rejects Russian claims of second Salisbury nerve agent - RT faces seven new investigations in aftermath of Salisbury poisoning - Kim Jong-un's wife makes first public appearance as first lady – video - North Korea wants total denuclearisation, says Seoul - Kim Jong-un elevates wife to position of North Korea's first lady - North Korea: Trump says he will leave Kim summit if it isn't 'fruitful' - The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Korean diplomacy: progress without purpose | Editorial - If Trump strikes a deal with North Korea, I’ll be delighted. But don’t hold your breath | Jonathan Freedland - 'Haifa is essentially segregated': cracks appear in Israel's capital of coexistence - Time to take a stand on killings in Gaza | Letter - An open letter to the US Congress: don’t let Trump rip up the Iran deal | Richard Bacon, Omid Nouripour and Delphine O - Ayatollah leaves Telegram as Iran prepares to block messaging service - Family of Afghan man tortured by CIA demands US reveal location of his body - What’s Theresa May’s stance on intervention? Even after Syria, nobody knows | Gaby Hinsliff - Syria: US in talks over Arab force to replace American troops - Let's banish the term 'Arab world'. What does it mean anyway? | Neheda Barakat - May revels as Tory MPs shout down trigger-shy Syria sissy Corbyn | John Crace - Destruction in Douma – latest images from the Syria conflict - Syrian medics 'subjected to extreme intimidation' after Douma attack - Government wins Commons vote over Syria military action - The west’s strikes were not for Syrians, whose fate is now sealed | Haid Haid - 'War is too serious to be left only to a prime minister': your best comments today - France to strip Bashar al-Assad of his Légion d’honneur - 'A political volcano just erupted': is the US on the brink of the next Watergate? - Russia opposes western resolution on Syria at UN – video - Why does Syria still have chemical weapons? - 'I don't get confused': Nikki Haley hits back after White House contradicts her on Russia sanctions - Animal welfare group condemns performing bear at Russian football match – video - US and Russian nuclear arsenals set to be unchecked for first time since 1972 - Russia blocks millions of IP addresses in battle against Telegram app - The Guardian view on Facebook’s business: a danger to democracy | Editorial - Has a Russian intelligence agent hacked your wifi? - Like it or not, Russia and the UK need each other – and will have to talk | Andrey Kortunov and Malcolm Chalmers - Nerve agent used to attack Sergei Skripal was liquid, says Defra - North Korea: can Trump succeed where so many others have failed? - North Korea: Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un over Easter, Trump confirms - South Korea considering peace treaty with North - Trump: direct talks with North Korea 'going very well' – video - Choi Eun-hee, actor once abducted by North Korea, dies - The last town in Sovietland – in pictures - Top scientist leaves Iran after crackdown on environmentalists - Two members of alleged Sydney airport terrorist plot arrested in Iraq - US plans to move American detained without charge in Iraq to third country - China defiant after new US security regulations target telecoms firms - China’s gift to Europe is a new version of crony capitalism | Martin Hala - #Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship - Jeremy Corbyn attacks Theresa May over Syria strikes – video - Diane Abbott dismisses criticism of simulated image on Syria tweet - Labour releases advice casting doubt on legitimacy of Syria strikes - 'There's a democratic deficit at the heart of government': your best comments today - Culture committee takes fresh evidence from Cambridge Analytica whistleblower - Politics live - Macron’s bid to look strong on Syria could weaken him in France | Pauline Bock - Syria: Russia says chemical weapons inspectors will be allowed into Douma - If you drop bombs on Syria you should take its refugees, Q&A told - Syria strikes: Theresa May says Britain could not wait for UN approval - Syria strikes: May tells MPs Britain could not wait for UN approval - May serves up lame excuses for not giving MPs a say on airstrikes | John Crace - MPs likely to have given backing before British strike on Syria - The Guardian view on Syria: parliament should have been consulted | Editorial - Australia joins US and UK in blaming Russian-backed hackers for cyber-attacks - Syria: chemical weapons inspectors barred from Douma site - US and UK blame Russia for 'malicious' cyber-offensive - Russian investigative journalist dies after falling from balcony - Migrant-rescue boat Open Arms released by Italian authorities - Syrian claims of missile attack on Homs airbase were 'false alarm' - Israeli snipers’ letter divides opinion | Letters - 'Tonight I'm going to die': the Iraqi women targeted by rapists - Japan publishes list of members of Unit 731 imperial army branch - Abe hopes Trump meeting will bring Japan in from diplomatic cold - Japan offers to lend hand in China's 'toilet revolution' - Labour releases legal opinion saying Syrian air strikes unlawful - Politics live - 'We convinced him' on Syria: Macron says he steered Trump on strikes - Cabinet member says MPs should not be able to veto military action - Syria: May to tell MPs airstrikes were in UK's interest - Syrian strikes boost French president’s action man image - French president Macron claims he guided Trump on Syria - video - Syria exposes the broken state of global governance. How do we respond? | Scott Ludlam - Before and after: satellite pictures of airstrikes in Syria - Ben Jennings on the reconvening of the Commons after Syria – cartoon - May has tied us to Donald Trump. She must face the consequences | Polly Toynbee - Diplomacy, and not bombing, is the way to end Syria’s agony | Jeremy Corbyn - The Guardian view on bombing Syria: a decision for parliament | Editorial - Theresa May will have to convince MPs of case for Syrian airstrikes - OPCW inspectors set to investigate site of Douma chemical attack - Trump's press secretary issues clarification after posting misleading photo - Tomahawk strikes and smouldering ruins – but no real change in Syria - Cyprus government criticised after use of RAF base in Syria strikes - Boris Johnson defends remarks on Russian role in novichok case - 'The best cabaret in Europe' - Nazi prisoners' music premieres, 70 years on - The west’s double standards over the bombing of Syria | Letters - Assad's brutal strategy survives regardless of Trump's victory tweet | Patrick Wintour - China's Weibo reverses ban on 'homosexual' content after outcry - Western bombing won’t save Syria. Non-western diplomacy might | Chandran Nair - Despite Trump's bluster, it's unclear what Syria strikes accomplished - Parliament and UK public split over decision to bomb Syria - Western allies launch diplomatic offensive in wake of Syria strikes - Jeremy Corbyn: we need 'war powers act' to hold government to account - video - Corbyn calls for 'war powers act' as check on military intervention - Donald Trump takes his eye off Syria – cartoon - The Observer view on the Syria missile strikes | Observer editorial - Syria has paid a terrible price for the west’s disastrous policy of doing nothing | Andrew Rawnsley - Defiant Assad praises Moscow as Putin criticises west's strikes - Montenegro votes in first presidential election since joining Nato - The government may want oligarchs out but it can’t bank on City sanctions - The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder review – chilling and unignorable - Syria crisis: trio of allies launch new bid for UN chemical weapons inquiry - It was right to strike, but only bringing Russia to the table can end the Syrian conflict | Lina Khatib - Australian PM blasts Russia over inaction on chemical weapons after Syria airstrikes - Salisbury attack: Russia claims chemical weapons watchdog manipulated findings - Countdown to conflict: how May took the decision to order strikes - Theresa May faces anger over Syria raids as Trump declares ‘mission accomplished’ - Donald Trump praises Syria strikes and declares: 'Mission accomplished' - Mueller has evidence Michael Cohen traveled to Prague, report claims - Allies dispute Russian and Syrian claims of shot-down missiles - 'This is my country': how a Melbourne suburb defied the far-right to welcome refugees - Syria: Trump may bluster but James Mattis is calling the shots - Syria crisis: danger awaits in rush for influence on crowded battlefield - Syria: who are the key players in the conflict? - Why is the far right so against US intervention in Syria? - Missile attack on Syria – in pictures - The Pentagon's 'large body' of evidence that steered Trump to Syria strikes - Turnbull says strikes send strong message to Syria and its backers - Theresa May: we must deter chemical attacks both in Syria and UK – video - Amateur footage shows missiles falling over Damascus as airstrikes begin – video - Limited US action suggests conflict unlikely to escalate - Theresa May's speech on military strikes against Syria – full text - Syrian state TV appears to show aftermath of airstrikes – video - Theresa May refuses to rule out further military action in Syria - How it happened: a week of tensions leads to military strikes in Syria - Theresa May: Syria strikes 'right and legal' option – video - Jeremy Corbyn calls Syria airstrikes legally questionable - The Syria strikes show the west is serious about chemical weapons | Martin Kettle - Syria: US, UK and France launch strikes in response to chemical attack - US-led strikes on Syria: what we know so far - Russia claims Syria air defences shot down 71 of 103 missiles - Vladimir Putin calls US-led Syria strikes an 'act of aggression' - 'Our performances are a mirror': making art out of Ukraine's pain - Syria crisis has brought cold war back with a vengeance – UN - US says it has proof Syria carried out Douma gas attack - 'Slime ball': Trump attacks Comey after new book likens president to mafia boss - Trump and Comey’s hate-hate relationship – video explainer - Police lost key evidence in Russian whistleblower case, inquest told - Director Sergei Loznitsa on Russia: ‘It’s hard to change the mentality of a nation’ - Russia tested nerve agent on door handles before Skripal attack, UK dossier claims - One Palestinian killed and hundreds injured in Gaza protests - Antisemitism and criticism of Israel | Letters - An attack on Syria could be disastrous. But the warmongers won’t be told | Owen Jones - World reacts to overnight strikes on Syria by US, UK and French forces - Syria mediators take centre stage as moment for rapid strike passes - Corbyn accuses May of waiting on Trump over response to Syria crisis - Cabinet backs Theresa May's call for robust response to Syria crisis - Corbyn demands privy council briefing prior to UK military action in Syria - Steve Bell on Trump's Syria tweets – cartoon - Where UK ministers and other key MPs stand on possible Syria attack - Who made Britain the world police? | Brief letters - I’m a Tory MP and former soldier. Bombing Syria would make things worse | Bob Seely - Syria: what is 'deconfliction' and what form might US strikes take? - Trump's tweets run far ahead of US military's readiness to hit Syria | Peter Beaumont - Seafood poisoning suspected in death of Russian whistleblower, inquest told - Retaliatory strikes in Syria: where do various countries stand? - 'The US won't win': Damascenes poised for next move in Syria conflict - Syria crisis: Russia claims Douma chemical attack was staged – live - Moscow court bans Telegram messaging app - Play about silenced 1920s gay poet rivets Moscow theatre audiences - Mike Pompeo confirms he was interviewed by Robert Mueller - Look at Syria, and you can see all the elements that have led to world wars | Simon Jenkins - The Guardian view on arms control: signing up must mean something | Editorial - We were Israeli snipers and are filled with sorrow at Gaza shootings | Letters - Iran reiterates support for Syria in face of 'foreign aggression' - 'It's not my war': the Syrian man who has spent a month living in Kuala Lumpur airport - Trump’s ‘get ready’ threat to Moscow isn’t just careless, it’s dangerous | Peter Beaumont - Turkey's ever-closer ties with Russia leave US lacking key ally on Syria - Russian whistleblower was nervous in days before death, inquest hears - The Conservatives are as split on Syria as Labour. They just hide it better | Katy Balls - Syria attack: nerve agent experts race to smuggle bodies out of Douma - White House struggles to explain Trump's Russia missile tweet – video - Trump dials back rhetoric as he says Syria attack may not happen soon – live updates - Syria 'deconfliction hotline' in use by Russia and US, says Kremlin - Novichok used in spy poisoning, chemical weapons watchdog confirms - GCHQ chief condemns ‘reckless’ Russian attack in Salisbury - Theresa May indicates willingness for military action against Syria - I don't need any help from the Russian embassy – Yulia Skripal - Trump's Russia tweets show how misinformation can lead to global crisis - Trump’s latest tirade suggests he is moving closer to firing Mueller - Israel’s first lady Sara Netanyahu 'appalled' by Australia's live export trade - Libyan military chief Khalifa Haftar severely ill after stroke – reports - David Davis says he has been reassured over his doubts on Syria action - Syria, the west’s response and international law | Letters - 'Day zero' water crises: Spain, Morocco, India and Iraq at risk as reservoirs shrink - Mike Pompeo to tell Senate soft US policy on Russia 'now over' - Big Fish & Begonia review – China's bizarre answer to Studio Ghibli - Sweden charges Tibetan resident with spying on fellow exiles for China - Turnbull says tension with China has risen since foreign influence row - China named 'world’s top executioner' as global rate falls - Baby is born in China four years after parents died in car crash - 'My hair turned white': report lifts lid on China's forced confessions - House of Fraser to push luxury Chinese products in the UK - MPs caution May against Syria action without Commons vote - Parkour amid Syria's war ruins – in pictures - No Douma resolution as UN rejects three separate drafts – video - Steve Bell on Trump's response to gas attack in Syria – cartoon - Conflict displaces almost 700,000 Syrians in deadly first months of 2018 - May is in dangerous territory. This must be about Syrian lives, not Britain’s status | Gaby Hinsliff - Russian who died in UK was fearful of returning home, inquest told - US, France and Britain agree to respond to Syrian gas attack - Merkel tells Putin not to exclude Ukraine from gas pipeline route - Will the Skripals fully recover, and will they get new identities? - UK hypocrisy in Syrian conflict | Letters - France calls for strong and united response to Syria chemical attack - Russian officials warn of possible military clash with US over Syria - Syrian airstrikes could disrupt nearby commercial flights - Trump tells Russia: get ready for US missile strikes in Syria - Syria: 500 Douma patients had chemical attack symptoms, says WHO - Russian activists arrested for sexual harassment protest - US accuses Russia of protecting a monster as UN fails to adopt Douma resolution – video - From the archive, 11 April 1953: Communist spy ring found - Syria chemical attack: US and Russia fail to reach UN agreement as tensions rise - Zuckerberg says Facebook is cooperating with 2016 US elections investigation – video - Trump poised for clash with justice department amid fears he'll fire Mueller - The Guardian view on Syria: don’t blindly follow Donald Trump | Editorial - Traditional antisemitism is back, global study finds - Destroying Syria’s air force is one option for Trump - Israel has misjudged Russia in Syria. The consequences could be grave | Peter Beaumont - Antisemitism: Israeli Labor leader cuts ties with Jeremy Corbyn - Iranian rial hits all-time low as citizens scramble for US dollars - Wife of detained lawyer placed under house arrest in Beijing - Xi strikes conciliatory tone on trade but offers few concessions - IMF boss says world trade system in danger of being torn apart - Yang Fudong's best photograph: seven intellectuals in a boat suspended in the air - Baseless rumours: why talk of a Chinese military installation in Vanuatu misses the point - China does not want a trade war with the US, but it must defend itself | Liu Xiaoming - Trump to decide on US response to Syria gas attack 'within 48 hours' - Syria gas attack: Theresa May condemns 'barbaric' targeting of civilians - Retaliation in Syria: what are May's options? - Trump vows quick and 'forceful' response to Syria chemical attack – video - Syria provides John Bolton with first test as Trump's national security adviser - 'We will be making some major decisions in the next 24 to 48 hours' on Syria, says Trump – video - Dark times for Syria, the UN and the west | Letters - After Douma, the west’s response to Syria’s regime must be military | Simon Tisdall - 'The [Assad] regime and its backers must be held to account' says May on Syria gas attack - video - Assad regime 'assassinated' journalist Marie Colvin, says court claim - What could the US target in Syria and how might Russia react? - Yulia Skripal discharged from hospital after Salisbury attack - Glencore starts cutting ties with Russian oligarch Deripaska - US and Russia trade barbs at UN over Syria chemical attack – video - Trump says Syria decision imminent as Russia warns of 'grave repercussions' - Russia must uphold the chemical weapons convention, says UK – video - Russian firms and rouble hit heavily by Trump sanctions - Video appears to show cheers as Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian - Yasser Murtaja embodied the struggle of Gazans – desperate yet defiant | Yasmeen el Khoudary - Gaza photographer's last video captures brutal crackdown on protests - Israel has launched countless strikes in Syria. What's new is Russia's response - Let grieving wife of dead environmentalist leave Iran, son pleads - Xi Jinping warns against 'arrogance' amid threat of trade war with US - UK interest rates should be raised without delay, says Bank's McCafferty - business live - 'Impossible': China denies planning military base in Vanuatu - Douma inhabitants prepare to leave after deadly chemical attack - Only Assad’s victory will end Syria’s civil war. The west can do nothing | Simon Jenkins - Trump: 'big price to pay' for Syria chemical weapons attack - The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia review – a kleptocracy in the making - Trump official: football fans should 'think twice' about Russia World Cup - Syria will see US price for chemical attack as worth paying | Patrick Wintour - ‘Most of them were going to die’: Syria aid workers tell of apocalyptic scenes - Don’t expect the west to act on Syria’s latest horror | Matthew d’Ancona - North Korea will discuss denuclearization, US official says - Syria and Russia accuse Israel of missile attack on Assad airbase - Chief ICC lawyer calls for end to violence along Gaza border - Criticism of Israel and antisemitism | Letters - Fears parts of world's longest sea bridge are floating away - Pentagon approves 4,000 national guard troops for US-Mexico border - Dozens killed in suspected chemical attack on Syrian rebel enclave - Russia's bear necessities – cartoon - The Observer view on the Salisbury poisonings and a dangerous new world of competing global visions | Observer editorial - What awaits England fans at the World Cup in Russia? - Don’t believe the scare stories. Foreign fans will be protected better than some might deserve - Russian embassy seeks meeting with Johnson over Skripal attack - Entebbe reminds us that we now live in a world without heroes | Nick Cohen - Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian journalist shot in Gaza - Hackers warn Iran: 'Don't mess with our elections' - The stakes aren’t as high, but this cold trade war could be very destructive - Sergei Skripal responding well to treatment, says Salisbury hospital – video - Sergei and Yulia Skripal recovering as UK row with Russia intensifies - What will happen now Sergei Skripal is no longer critically ill? - Boris Johnson has now moved from post-truth to post-shame | Marina Hyde - We must get justice for gay and bisexual men murdered in Chechnya | Letters - UK and US given case file on 'nerve agent made in Russian lab' - Jimmy Kimmel escalates feud with Sean Hannity after Fox News host calls him 'despicable disgrace' - Trump administration hits 24 Russians with sanctions over 'malign activity' - Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza border protests – video - Reunited after 24 years: rare happy ending for China's broken families - President Trump threatens extra $100bn of tariffs on Chinese imports - US stock markets sink on China trade war fears - The Guardian view on US-China trade: lower the threat level | Editorial - 'If our countries were safe, we wouldn't leave': the harsh reality of Mexico's migrant caravan - Yulia Skripal's cousin injects unpredictable element to spy poisoning case - The Guardian view on the Skripal case: a long battle for values | Editorial - Yulia Skripal says she is recovering but disoriented - Spy poisoning: we want transparency in investigation, says Russian ambassador – video - Russian TV broadcasts 'call from Yulia Skripal' – video - Alice in Wonderland and Midsomer Murders: Moscow's alternative theories for Skripal case - Owen Jones goes on a Russian dirty money tour: 'We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets' - Sergei Skripal's cat and guinea pigs die after police seal house - Salisbury nerve agent attack: Russian demand for joint investigation rejected - Israel warned by UN as protesters head for Gaza demonstrations - Time for peaceful resistance, says Gaza's new movement - Antisemitism on the left and Jeremy Corbyn | Letters - Boris Johnson fails to understand that intelligence means doubt | Gaby Hinsliff - 'We go deeper': the artists spearheading the boom in Iranian art - 'It’s been 1,000 days': wife of jailed Chinese lawyer on march for answers - In the debate around foreign interference, Chinese-Australians suffer | Jieh Yung-lo - Echo Falls winemaker sold to private equity firm with eye on China - Donald Trump considering new $100bn tariff on Chinese goods as trade feud escalates - Trump plans to send national guard to protect Mexico border 'immediately' - White House clarification only adds to confusion over Syria withdrawal - Russia dismisses UK claim that it was to blame for Salisbury attack as 'fairytale' - Politics live - Why a statue to Milošević? It’s all part of Russia’s Balkan bromance | Ivor Roberts - Spy poisoning: minister defends not sharing full intelligence with Corbyn - Russia seeks to discredit UK with special meeting of UN security council - Jeremy Corbyn questions Boris Johnson's claim on Russian-made novichok – video - 'Absolutely categorical': Boris Johnson insists novichok was made in Russia – video - Salisbury attack: what has the UK said and what evidence does it have? - Skripal poisoning: deleted Foreign Office tweet leads to awkward questions - Trump not considered criminal target in Mueller's Russia inquiry – reports - Russian counter-propaganda exploiting UK weaknesses over spy poisoning - North Korea soon likely to have missiles that could reach UK – MPs - Cities at war: how Gaza is bracing for the next blow – video - How a US-China trade war would hurt us all | Linda Yueh - China and US jockey for tariff concessions in tit-for-tat trade standoff - Steve Ciobo says Australia has permanent exemption on US tariffs - Trump plays down US-China trade war concerns: ‘When you’re $500bn down you can’t lose’ - Made in China policy at centre of tariff war with US - Royal Court dropped Tibet play after advice from British Council - US and China playing a gigantic game of chicken | Larry Elliott - Trump says US military will guard border with Mexico - Anti-Isis alliance in doubt after Trump's vow to pull US troops from Syria - Labour criticises Boris Johnson over his novichok claims - Politics live - Once again, Boris Johnson is a liability to Britain. Why is he still in the job? | Ellie Mae O’Hagan - Russia must cooperate with chemical weapons watchdog, says EU - UK urged to counter 'disinformation' from Russia over novichok - Facebook removes more than 100 accounts linked to Russian troll factory - Russian postal drone crashes into wall on maiden flight – video - 'Getting along with Russia is a good thing,' says Trump - Porton Down experts unable to verify precise source of novichok - Poetic gifts from Russia, with love | Letters - Russian city cancels elections in move to oust maverick mayor - No 10 tries to calm Russia row amid cold war rhetoric - Memo shows Mueller explicitly tasked with Manafort-Russia collusion claims - North Korea makes rare apology for banning press from K-pop concert - Andrzej Krauze on Nicolas Sarkozy and Libya – cartoon - Israeli authorities block airport ads urging women to refuse to give up seats - Man Booker prize reverses nationality decision on Taiwanese author - China retaliates to Trump tariffs with new levies on US products - Golf carts to soybeans: products targeted in US-China trade war - US plans tariffs on $50bn in Chinese imports to protest alleged tech theft - Chinese taxi driver finally finds daughter after 24-year search - Will China turn Taiwan into the next Crimea? - David Miliband calls for leadership on refugee resettlement in the EU - Russian ambassador lashes out at Australian media's 'disgraceful' coverage - Australia blind to Russian power in Asia Pacific, expert warns - Salisbury attack sites face months of decontamination - Trump invited Putin to White House during congratulatory call last month - Israel suspends plan to resettle African asylum seekers despite deal - The Gaza march is a wake-up call to the world | Tareq Baconi - Man Booker prize criticised for changing Taiwanese author's nationality - US stock market slides as China retaliates to Trump tariffs - Afghan woman shot in face builds new life in Canada after US rejection - Rebels strike deal to leave eastern Ghouta, say Assad media - Anna Campbell’s father: ‘I don’t think I had any right to stop her fighting in Syria’ - What do Russian trolls fear most? Transparency | Paul Chadwick - Graham: John Bolton has 'very healthy skepticism' on North Korea - South Korean K-pop stars perform for Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang - Israel rejects UN and EU calls for inquiry into Gaza bloodshed - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Iranian detention reaches two-year mark - How to solve the aid sector crisis? Don’t employ expats | Emma Nicholson - Tiangong-1 crash: Chinese space station comes down in Pacific Ocean - China retaliates against Trump tariffs by targeting US food imports - Chinese space station expected to fall to Earth within hours - Chances for progress towards a nuclear-free world | Letters - Senator Warren says Trump diplomacy has been a 'terrible mistake' - Foreign Office considers Russian consular access to Yulia Skripal - Seek UN support for more sanctions| Letters - British soldier Matt Tonroe killed by a bomb while fighting Isis in Syria is named - Jihadist 'Beatles' complain they will not be given fair trial - 'Heavy burden': Russian governor resigns over Siberia mall fire that killed 64 - Australians in Russia warned to brace for possible 'anti-western sentiment' - This week in 1953 | From the Observer files - Nerve agent attack has violated our city: Skripals at centre of Holy Week - Pope Francis delivers Easter plea for peace after Gaza deaths - Gaza-Israel border calm one day after deadly protests – video - UK archaeologists help Iraqis restore their Isis-ravaged heritage - 'Dialogue of the deaf'? Iran deal talks persist as Trump looks poised to kill it - Simon Tisdall | Will clashes over Gaza cause a wider Middle Eastern conflict? - 'Splendid' fireball: China's Tiangong-1 space lab to hit Earth on Monday - PM-in-exile urges Tibetans to make Dalai Lama's return 'a reality' - Trump's border wall: US military is as unlikely to pay for it as Mexico - British soldier killed by explosion in Syria - Syrian rebels deny Russian deal to leave eastern Ghouta - Two Australian diplomats to be among 59 expelled by Russia - Russia expels more British diplomats over spy poisoning row - Russian retaliation part of perilous pas de deux whose end is unclear - North Korea to take part in Tokyo Olympics, IOC chief says - Palestinians hold day of mourning after 773 ‘shot with live ammunition’ - Gaza deaths: UN secretary general calls for 'transparent' investigation - Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza protest – video report - Labour, antisemitism and criticism of Israel | Letters - Vatican and Beijing near deal on bishop appointments after 67-year rift - North Korea smuggling: dozens of ships and companies blacklisted by UN - China 'environment census' reveals 50% rise in pollution sources - FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally - Russian protesters kick up a stink about landfill – but not against Putin - Russia expels diplomats in tit-for-tat action over Salisbury attack - Yulia Skripal no longer in critical condition, say Salisbury doctors - Putin spokesman describes Weinstein accusers as 'prostitutes' - Ecuador’s patience with Assange has run out – and he has himself to blame | James Ball - Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme? - Palestinians march to Gaza border for start of six-week protest - The Guardian view on North Korea and China: three in this relationship | Editorial - FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter - Russia will hit back against countries expelling diplomats, says Johnson - Senior Tory MPs accused of accepting money from former Soviet states - Skripals poisoned from front door of Salisbury home, police say - Trump lawyer discussed presidential pardons for Flynn and Manafort – report - Russian officials accuse opposition of exploiting shopping centre fire - Iraq is a reminder that totalitarianism didn't start with Trump | Ajay Singh Chaudhary - Australian military says allegations it killed civilians in Iraq are credible - Fourth plinth review – 'My heart is in my mouth' - Kim Jong-un agrees to meet South Korea president at summit on 27 April - So what was the point of Kim Jong-un’s mysterious trip to China? | Mary Dejevsky - Displaced Ukrainians and Battle Against Stigma – in pictures - Donald Trump floats using military budget to pay for border wall - May considers banning City of London from selling Russian debt - Sergei and Yulia Skripal have slim chance of survival, says niece - Julie Bishop calls Russian ambassador in for a 'public dressing down' – as it happened - New Zealand's claim it has no Russian spies is perplexing. Why is it isolating itself? | Paul G Buchanan - Russia's ambassador denies Kremlin has spies in Australia - May wants west to develop long-term response to Russia - The Guardian view on expelling Russian diplomats: spies and collective strength | Editorial - As novichok unites Europe, Brexit seems more absurd | Natalie Nougayrède - Stephen Colbert on Stormy Daniels and Trump: 'The least surprising story ever' - Mordechai Vanunu gets 18 years for treason – archive, 28 March 1988 - The hidden lives of gay men in the Middle East – in pictures - Kim Jong-un paid 'unofficial' visit to Beijing, Chinese state media confirms - Kim Jong-un's visit to China fails to hide strain in relations - North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets with China's Xi Jinping - video - China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN - New Zealand says it would expel Russian spies ... but it can't find any - Russian Spy Assassins: The Salisbury Attack review – as stunning as a le Carré thriller - Theresa May: ‘largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in history’ – video - Clowns to the left, jokers to the right and Labour centrists stuck in the middle - More than 130 people could have been exposed to novichok, PM says - Russian stereotypes hurt ordinary people – and play into Putin’s hands | Viv Groskop - Expulsions of Russians are pushback against Putin's hybrid warfare | Patrick Wintour - Russia retaliates with vow to expel dozens of western diplomats - Siberian mall fire: CCTV shows fire erupting – video - Australia expels two Russian diplomats over 'brazen' UK nerve agent attack - Putin blames criminal negligence for death toll in Kemerovo fire - Kristina Keneally announces Senate inquiry into stillbirths – as it happened - Russia to 'respond harshly' to US expulsion of diplomats - Western allies expel scores of Russian diplomats over Skripal attack - Spy poisoning a 'disgraceful' assault on rule of law, says Australian PM – video - The Guardian view on Labour and antisemitism: a leader must lead | Editorial - Labour’s response to rising antisemitism | Letters - Fourth plinth: how a winged bull made of date syrup cans is defying Isis - North Korea: Kim Jong-un in China for 'unannounced state visit' - Kim Jong-un and the mystery of the 'special green train' in China - FTSE 100 and European markets rise after Wall Street surge - business live - Did North Korea's Kim Jong-un ride in this mystery train to China? - video report - How clean indoor air is becoming China's latest luxury must-have - Tiangong-1 crash: everything you need to know - The Guardian view on surveillance: make your number unobtainable | Editorial - Afghan clerics in talks with Isis to break polio myths - 'Why we’re paying the rent for a million Syrian refugees' - Fire in Siberian shopping mall leaves at least 64 people dead - Pyongyang Style? South Korea wants pop star Psy to play in the North - Tamimi verdict divides opinion | Letters - Rising from the rubble: 'If we don't rebuild Mosul, maybe Isis will come back’ - Markets edge higher on hopes US and China can resolve Trump tariff row - business live - Asian shares battered by trade war fears but US signals willingness to talk - ‘The biggest game changer in 100 years’: Chinese money gushes into Sri Lanka - Paper tigers? US and China in dispute over tariffs but trade war looks remote - Rights groups vow to fight Trump's 'transphobia masquerading as policy' - Kremlin: UK's accusations over Skripal poisoning 'border on banditry' - Oligarchs, courtiers and roubles move through the City - Kremlin denies claim Sergei Skripal asked Putin for pardon - 'People here believe all journalists are biased': reporting from Putin's Russia - ‘My crew saved 218 migrants from drowning – so why are we the enemy?’ - Gholam review – Shahab Hosseini mesmerises as Iranian exile in London - The Observer view on the danger John Bolton poses to world peace | Observer editorial - White House announces ban on transgender people serving in military - Australia condemns Syria at UN and pushes back against Russia - ‘Thousands could die’: female British fighter urges support for Syria's Kurds - Tumblr says Russia used it for fake news during 2016 election - Nerve agent was used in 1995 murder, claims former Soviet scientist - The Guardian view on Brexit and Russia: a fatal flaw | Editorial - Ceasefire deal agreed in Syria's eastern Ghouta - Boris Johnson’s Nazi Olympics gaffe is a step too far | Letters - Officers remove bench in Salisbury where Skripals fell ill - North and South Korea schedule talks at Panmunjom within days - Bombs away: John Bolton's most hawkish views on Iran, Iraq and North Korea - Markets rattled again by trade war fears after Chinese retaliation - Labour urges crackdown on Russian money laundering through Scotland - Nikolai Glushkov inquest adjourns pending further investigation - Media boycotts Russian parliament in sexual harassment row - A splash, an op-ed and a full-page ad: News Corp tabloid gives property lobby a megaphone | Weekly Beast - Police swab items at Skripal home for clues to nerve agent attack - Theresa May welcomes EU backing on Russia spy attack response - EU recalls ambassador from Russia as leaders back May over Salisbury - Russian criminal tattoos – in pictures - Gangster’s paradise: how organised crime took over Russia - Syrian rebels and families begin exile from besieged Ghouta - Steve Bell on Putin and the Russia World Cup – cartoon - Does Eton teach this inexact science? | Brief letters - 'I love the president': John Dowd quits as Trump lawyer in Mueller investigation - Vince Cable humbled as liberal EU prime ministers disown his Brexit referendum claim - Politics live - Judge gives permission for blood samples to be taken from the Skripals - Boris Johnson's Hitler remarks unacceptable, says Russian envoy - Nicolas Sarkozy denies 'crazy, monstrous' Libya funding allegations - Israel-bound plane flies over Saudi Arabia for first time - EU may offer credit to firms trading with Iran if Trump pulls out of nuclear deal - John Bolton: foreign policy radical who backs war with Iran and North Korea - US trade war: global shares plummet as China signals tariff retaliation – business live - Global markets plunge as China reacts to Trump’s steel tariffs - Have a Nice Day review – elegantly animated gangster lowlife - Dutton's department denies delaying Chinese student visas for political reasons - Trump's China tariffs risk 'tit-for-tat protectionism' that threatens world economy - US imposes sanctions on China, stoking fears of trade war - Congress unveils $1.3tn spending bill in bid to avoid government shutdown - Trump praising Putin is no surprise, but Juncker should know better | Jonathan Freedland - Shell company frontmen could be jailed under UK property transparency plans - England winning World Cup would be best response to Russia, says minister - Europe needs a collective defence strategy to counter Russia | Guy Verhofstadt - ‘It’s got me’ – lonely death of Soviet scientist poisoned by novichok - Syrian rebel victory in Afrin reveals strength of Turkish-backed force - UK to ask EU leaders to expel Russian spies from own countries - Trump defends his call to congratulate Putin on Russia election victory - Lack of US election auditing raises fears of Russian vote meddling in 2018 - Russia says Boris Johnson 'poisoned with hatred' after comparing World Cup to Hitler's Olympics – as it happened - Boris Johnson compares Russian World Cup to Hitler's 1936 Olympics - Glushkov family 'devastated' after Russian's murder in London - Chemical weapons inspectors begin work at scene of Salisbury attack - Russia accuses UK of hiding evidence in Skripal case - 'They could be twins': photos appear to show Russians voting twice in election - Israeli production company to launch undercover #MeToo reality show - Palestinian Ahed Tamimi accepts prison term plea deal - Shirin Neshat on the video art that reconnected her with Iran - The Start podcast - China state media merger to create propaganda giant - There is only one China, and Taiwan is an inseparable part of it | Letter from Zeng Rong, spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in the UK - Views are the pits: welcome to China's quarry hotel - Australian critic of Beijing refused entry to China and deported - Rocket attack kills 35 in Damascus shopping district - 'I gave birth after my husband's death': the Syrians who wed foreign fighters | Hussein Akoush and Ellen Ioanes - Trump congratulates Putin, saying he will meet him 'in the not too distant future' – video - Russian oligarch in London fatalistic about his safety from attack - Rees-Mogg criticised over firm's Russian bank investment - Corbyn says Labour has team to win election as Formby appointed general secretary – as it happened - The Seth Rich lawsuit matters more than the Stormy Daniels case | Jill Abramson - When Putin won in 2012, Russians took to the streets. Why not this time? | Anastasya Manuilova - ​It shouldn’t take a nerve agent attack before UK scientists are supported - Andrzej Krauze on the Skripal attack - cartoon - If you talk about Russian propaganda, remember: Britain has myths too | Afua Hirsch - Trump breaks ranks to congratulate Putin on landslide election victory - Trump and Juncker under fire for hailing Putin election victory - Senators release election security recommendations to deter meddling - What if God was one of us? You asked Google - here’s the answer | Jack Bernhardt - 'Peace-loving' North Korea claims credit for thaw with US - Nicolas Sarkozy: ex-president faces second day of questioning over Libya case - Israel confirms it carried out 2007 airstrike on Syrian nuclear reactor - A Woman Without a Name review – true tales of crime and punishment in Iran - Turning cities into sponges: how Chinese ancient wisdom is taking on climate change - Chinese dissident and official trade barbs at UN human rights meeting - Belgian police examine claims Russian art show was 'full of fakes' - Corbyn: I would still do business with Putin despite Skripal attack - Russian Roulette review: as Joe Biden said, 'If this is true, it's treason' - Martin Rowson on Vladimir Putin's election victory – cartoon - The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: mixed-up messages | Editorial - In dealing with Russia, May has shown herself a politician not a statesman | Letters - Computers that give people a bad name | Brief letters - Europe sharply divided over Vladimir Putin's re-election - No sign of forced entry at Nikolai Glushkov’s home, police say - The Great Wave review – gripping mystery of North Korea kidnap scandal - K-pop stars to perform in North Korea for first time since 2005 - India confirms death of 39 men kidnapped by Isis in Iraq in 2014 - Malka Leifer to stay in jail in Israel while awaiting extradition outcome - Mahmoud Abbas: US ambassador to Israel is a 'son of a dog' - Xi Jinping warns he is ready to 'fight bloody battles' against China's enemies - China's radical plan to limit the populations of Beijing and Shanghai - 'I've never been to school': child waste pickers living on Pakistan's streets | Haroon Janjua - Waging Peace: Vietnam's anti-war exhibition brings GIs and Viet Cong together - Anna Campbell’s death in Syria was futile, but her passion was admirable | Simon Jenkins - British woman killed fighting Turkish forces in Afrin - Kurdish militia vows to make Afrin 'an ongoing nightmare' for Turks - Rebels in Syria's eastern Ghouta discussing ceasefire with UN – statement - The Cambridge Analytica exposé shows the UK needs better data protection | Liam Byrne - Vladimir Putin: 'Nonsense' to think Russia would poison ex-spy before election - video - Vladimir Putin secures landslide victory in Russian election - Vladimir Putin: 'nonsense' to think Russia would poison spy in UK - Ben Jennings on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Russia – cartoon - Russian voters go to the polls – in pictures - Questions and theories on the Salisbury nerve agent attack | Letters - Sergei Skripal possibly poisoned through car's air vents, say US media - If Corbyn wants to be prime minister, he has to get real about Putin’s Russia - 'I worry for my family': Russian exile's safety fears after Glushkov death - Russian voices in western media leave regulators with new type of headache - Boris Johnson: 'We have evidence that Russia has been creating and stockpiling novichok' – video - Kim Jong-un has committed to denuclearisation, says South Korea - Pound jumps on hopes of Brexit transition deal - Politics live - Pussy Riot protest against Putin election with new song - UK must prove Russian role in spy poisoning or apologise, Kremlin says - Russian election footage appears to show vote rigging - video - Vladimir Putin secures record win in Russian presidential election - Israel arrests French consulate employee on arms smuggling claims - Israeli security guard stabbed to death in Jerusalem - The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control? - China urges US to 'correct mistake' on Taiwan - Trump is on path to full-scale trade war: first China, then Europe - Cranks have turned the world upside down – it’s time to fight back | Nick Cohen - Britons back May over Corbyn to handle Russia row, poll finds - Russian spy poisoning: police release picture of Skripal's BMW - Among the refugees: a filmmaker’s epic journey from Syria to sanctuary - Turkey claims Afrin city centre under 'total' control - Syria’s new exiles: Kurds flee Afrin after Turkish assault - Threat of Russian cyber reprisal puts UK finance, power and water on high alert - Russia goes to the polls to elect Vladimir Putin for fourth term - Corbyn’s cross-eyed attitude towards the Kremlin doesn’t inspire confidence | Andrew Rawnsley - Nato must improve defences against a 'more aggressive' Russia, says chief - Australian foreign minister backs chemical weapons inspections for Russia - Vlad the improver still first election choice for Putin generations - Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university - Theresa May’s response to Vladimir Putin’s campaign against Russian dissidents living in Britain | Observer editorial - Boris Johnson seeks EU support for tough line on Russia - Stay focused Brexiters – Russia is not the enemy | Stewart Lee - Russia has stockpiled nerve agent over past decade, says Johnson - 'There is no kosher meat': the Israelis full of zeal for going vegan - Little Baghdad: a chance to break bread with Iraqi refugees fleeing war and trauma - White House firings signal Trump's most hawkish era yet on North Korea and Iran - Child’s tears spark weightlifting protest that raises bar for Iran’s sportswomen - Trump and trade tariffs: big lies founded on small truths | Yanis Varoufakis - The new helmsman: Xi Jinping's re-election brings comparison with Mao - China reappoints Xi Jinping as president with no term limit - Turkey claims to have encircled Afrin, besieging up to 200,000 - Police confirm that Nikolai Glushkov was murdered. But why? - Martin Rowson on Jeremy Corbyn and Russia – cartoon - Kremlin says accusing Putin of ordering spy attack is 'unforgivable' - How absurd to boycott World Cup when Russia is so bound up in our economy | Barney Ronay - Russian spy poisoning: chemist says non-state actor couldn't carry out attack - Skripals may have received nerve agent in liquid form, says expert - We have to see through Putin’s fog of lies, and take action now | Jonathan Freedland - Skripals poisoning: what we know so far - 'We should see the evidence': public react to spy poisoning - Inaction over clean air zones and bottled water cannot continue | Letters - This is how to curb Putin: stop welcoming Russian kleptocrats | Margaret Hodge - 'The climate is disturbing': Russians in London unsettled by Skripal affair - 'Overwhelmingly likely' Putin ordered spy attack, says Boris Johnson - 'No questions ... or are there?': how RT is reporting the spy scandal - Sergei Skripal: Russia expels 23 British diplomats as row deepens - Police launch murder inquiry over death of Nikolai Glushkov - Russian police put the squeeze on election observers before vote - Russian elite must reveal how they paid for UK property, say MPs - Russia investigation may turn to Ivanka Trump as Mueller empire - Airstrikes kill dozens in eastern Ghouta as exodus continues - Allies back UK to condemn Russia over Salisbury nerve agent attack - Trump: 'It looks like' Russia was behind poisoning of former spy – video - Mueller subpoenas Trump Organization for documents related to Russia – report - Trump Organization 'negotiated with sanctioned Russian bank in 2016' - Responding to Russia – Politics Weekly podcast - The Salisbury attack was appalling. But we must avoid a drift to conflict | Jeremy Corbyn - Jeremy Corbyn defies critics and calls for calm over Russia - US accuses Russia of cyber-attack on energy sector and imposes new sanctions - Russia row: Labour MP calls for debate on World Cup move - Irkutsk in the spotlight: the leak in Putin's watertight system? - Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity | Timothy Snyder - After the Skripal attack, talk of war only plays into Vladimir Putin’s hands | Simon Jenkins - ‘Whatever happens, happens’: how Britons in Russia see diplomatic row - Human rights body faces cash crisis after clash with Russia - All that litters? Tonnes of gold strewn across runway after falling out of Russian plane - Police contact 131 people over Salisbury nerve agent fears - UK's claims questioned: doubts voiced about source of Salisbury novichok - North Korean minister's Swedish visit fuels Trump-Kim expectations - Wizard’s Wilson beats Rover’s Alf | Brief letters - US military helicopter crashes in Iraq near Syrian border, fatalities feared - Russia, nerve agents and a quest for the truth | Letters - Saudi crown prince warns it will build nuclear bomb if Tehran does the same - Civilians without hope, a leader without a country: call this a victory? - A Hero Born by Jin Yong review – the gripping world of kung fu chivalry - Novichok: nerve agent produced at only one site in Russia, says expert - Russian exile's death in London is suspicious, friends claim - Russian spy poisoning: investigation extends to Dorset town - Boris Johnson confirms government not backing boycott of Russia World Cup – Politics live - Eastern Ghouta: up to 50 civilians killed as bombing continues - Nia Griffith joins Labour figures breaking with Corbyn over Salisbury - Luke Harding picks five books that expose the secret world of spies - Spy poisoning: Russia's smug response shows their guilt, says Boris Johnson - I’ve followed England around the world, but Russia is too risky | Philip Cornwall - UK not interested in the truth, says Russian UN ambassador – video - Who to believe on UK spy attack: official condemnation or Trump's equivocation? - Russians’ view of spy poisoning: ‘We are the world’s scapegoat’ - Australian PM Turnbull roundly condemns Russia over spy poisoning scandal - Spy poisoning: allies back UK and blast Russia at UN security council - Russia should be held accountable for attack, says US – video - Corbyn under fire from own MPs over response to PM's Russia statement - Theresa May transforms into cold war colossus by not being Jeremy Corbyn - Blood, bullets and contraband vodka: female artists on life in Baghdad after the US invasion - Iran sentences Tehran professor to jail for 'anti-state propaganda' - Trade war fears weigh on markets as Trump's new adviser blasts China - business live - Chinese crackdown separates Pakistani husbands from Uighur wives - Pressure builds in 'powderkeg' Kabul as refugees return home - Syrian man jailed in Turkey for murder of Assad critic and her daughter - UK's effort to rally allies over Sergei Skripal poisoning may fall short | Patrick Wintour - Trump says US will condemn Russia if found to be behind Skripal poisoning – video - May is right: Russia is testing whether the west’s ties still bind | Gaby Hinsliff - No love lost between the UK and Russia | Letters - Russian broadcaster RT could be forced off UK airwaves - Steve Bell’s If ... MI6 biochem men enter the Skripal nerve agent fray - Spy poisoning: why Putin may have engineered gruesome calling card - Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov found dead at his London home - Despite the Salisbury attack, Britain can’t cut off all links with Russia | Tony Brenton - The harsh reality: Donald Trump does mean Europe harm | Natalie Nougayrède - The UK sanctions imposed on Russia by Theresa May - Police home in on five key locations in Skripal attempted murder case - Russian spy attack: Britain calls for urgent UN meeting - Russian spy attack: PM prepares reprisals as deadline passes - UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning - Politics live - 'They have just one week to leave': Theresa May expels 23 Russian diplomats – video - May expels 23 Russian diplomats in response to spy poisoning - 'I didn't fancy being stuck in North Korea': the stormy thriller by a Japanese Ulsterman - The Guardian view on Trump and Tillerson: he’s fired. What next? | Editorial - Fears grow for future of Iran nuclear deal in wake of Tillerson's removal - Trump and Tillerson: the end of a rocky relationship – video - Chinese reporter’s dramatic eye-roll goes viral, then gets censored – video - Australia's kerbside recycling system in crisis following China ban - Chinese reporter's spectacular eye-roll sparks viral memes and censorship - Married couple discover photo of them both from 11 years before they met - War games: the patriotic clubs training young Americans – in pictures - US proposes new Ghouta ceasefire at UN and signals readiness to act on its own - 'Highly likely' Moscow ordered attack on former Russian spy in UK – Politics live - Theresa May: highly likely Russia is behind Salisbury spy attack – video - Russian state TV accuses UK of plotting spy attack - 10 possible British responses to Russia over the Sergei Skripal affair - Tory links to Russia and Saudis run deep. So where’s the outrage? | Owen Jones - 2017 was the deadliest year of Syrian war for children, says Unicef - Steve Bell's If ... the most notorious nerve agent of all: 'cake' - Russian spy attack: UK encouraged by support from allies, says Johnson - Russia demands nerve agent samples in standoff with UK over poisoned spy - Sergei Skripal scandal has sent UK-Russia relations tumbling. What next? - House committee led by Trump ally says campaign did not collude with Russia - Palestinian PM unharmed after explosion hits convoy - Israeli rabbi will not supervise Malka Leifer if she's given house arrest - China unveils shake-up of bank regulation to rein in credit spree - Army veteran who killed three women 'hero who clearly had demons' – mayor - Manchester Piccadilly and London King's Cross stations hit by protests - Salisbury MP 'convinced' residents are safe from nerve agent - Salisbury spy attack: May likely to blame Russia, Tory MP says - Steve Bell’s If ... MI6 cracks Corbyn's nerve agent code - Nicola Jennings on the Tories and Russian donations – cartoon - Salisbury spy attack: moral equivalence and the defence of the realm | Letters - Litvinenko widow warns Tories over Russian donations - 'Russia Today goes beyond objective journalism,' says John McDonnell – video - Trump under pressure over chaotic approach to North Korea nuclear talks - BBC urges UN to act over harassment of journalists in Iran - British dual citizen sentenced to six-year jail term, Iran reveals - The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia and Yemen: Britain’s shame, Britain’s duty - Bike wars: Chinese bike-share giants wheel out UK expansion plans - 'Shameless naysayers': Chinese media hits back at questions over Xi Jinping's power grab - Nearly half of US arms exports go to the Middle East - Xi Jinping set to be president for life after scrapping term limits – video report - US navy carrier's Vietnam visit signals closer ties amid China tensions - The car’s the scar: photographs of US veterans’ interior lives - Thanks but no tanks: Trump's military parade will not include heavy vehicles - Dogs trained to sniff out ancient treasures looted from Syria - Syrian forces attacking eastern Ghouta ‘have surrounded rebels in Douma’ - Zizzi diners told to wash clothing after nerve agent traces found - Russia tries to entice voters to polls to prop up Putin's legitimacy - Labour MPs should not appear on Russia Today, says John McDonnell - Russia says it has successfully launched powerful new missile - Softly-softly isn’t working. Time to play hard with wealthy Russians in UK | Oliver Bullough - Fake news according to the Russian bear - cartoon - Sergei Skripal: who was behind the Salisbury poisoning? - Sergei Skripal: Russia links attempted murder to deaths of Kremlin enemies - Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims - The Observer view on talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un | Observer editorial - North Korea talks: Trump praises own role but Washington frets over details - Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: question over delay in return of jailed British-Iranian - Trump tariffs: China warns trade war would be 'disaster' - 'Every place you go, you are being watched': reporting from Xi's China - Peter Navarro; the economist shaping Trump's economic thinking - 'This could destroy China': parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life - Gunman and three hostages found dead at US veterans' home - Russian spy attack: Rudd calls emergency Cobra meeting - How Salisbury case went from local drama to international incident - Putin: The New Tsar review – a portrait of a lonely lying narcissist - Guardian view on the Russian spy attack: Sergei Skripal and the sowing of discord | Editorial - 'The snow caused more panic': Salisbury shrugs off attack - Empty threats won't worry Russia. Britain needs a better approach | Mark Rice-Oxley - Russia's Lab X: poison factory that helped silence Soviets' critics - Dennis Rodman on Trump-Kim meeting: I said doors would open - Australia must retain sanctions on North Korea, Turnbull says - Trump-Kim talks: US signals hardline stance as it scrambles to define position - Nicola Jennings on proposed talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un – cartoon - The Guardian view on Trump and Kim: jaw-jaw not war-war – but with care | Editorial - A Trump ‘deal’ with Kim Jong-un would only help a despicable regime survive | Jasper Becker - Soju and jokes: how ‘rocket man’ Kim boosted chances of meeting Trump - 'Trump’s too thick to understand foreign power plays': your best comments today - There’s one hero of Entebbe who deserves his own film. I remember him well - Meet Donald Trump’s twin: Benjamin Netanyahu | Jonathan Freedland - China’s authoritarian streak | Letters - Russian spy poisoning inquiry widens after medics treat 21 people - Nerve gas in Salisbury, drones in Syria: is there a moral difference? | Simon Jenkins - Paul Manafort pleads not guilty to Mueller's fraud charges - Yulia Skripal: from suburban Moscow life to nerve agent mystery - A female doctor in east Ghouta challenging patriarchy - video - Former Australian prime minister Keating says Trump ‘surprisingly’ good at foreign policy - North Korea talks: Where will Donald Trump meet Kim Jong-un? - North Korea must 'match words with concrete actions', says South – video - South Korea and White House on talks with North: full transcript - North Korea's Paralympic presence raises eyebrows as winter games open - Russian state TV warns 'traitors' not to settle in England - Skripals' condition still serious, says Amber Rudd on Salisbury visit - Slump in UK housebuilding drives construction to a near six-year low - business live - Trump meeting Kim Jong-un is a half-baked idea – and a dangerous one | Richard Wolffe - Kim Jong-un to meet Trump by May after North Korea invitation - Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un believe they are winning – and the risks of that are epic - 'Shocking, incredible': what the experts say about a Trump meeting with Kim - Why social workers are demanding release of Palestinian rights defender - Malka Leifer must be held in police custody, Israeli court rules - Widow of jailed wildlife expert prevented from leaving Iran - Trump kills off steelworker's father during chaotic tariffs announcement – video - Chinese panda park to be twice the size of Yosemite - China likely to greet Trump-Kim talks with hope and trepidation - Scientists unsure where Chinese space station will crash to Earth - Sweden criticises China's 'unacceptable' behaviour in detaining bookseller - Россия еще не оправилась от травмы сталинской эпохи - CCTV shows Sergei Skripal shopping days before he collapsed - BBC journalist accuses Russian politician of sexual harassment - Ghouta aid convoy postponed amid chemical attack fears - ​Eastern Ghouta cut in two as Syrian army seizes ground - North Korea wants nuclear talks but does Trump know what he wants to say? - Russian spy: new photo shows police without protective clothing - Condition of police officer who helped Russian spy Sergei Skripal improves - Sergei Skripal: former Russian spy poisoned with nerve agent, say police - Sergei Skripal case: what do nerve agents do and how hard are they to make? - Why has football become a spitfest? | Brief letters - Malka Leifer's alleged victims angered by plan to release her from custody - David Shalev obituary - Iranian woman who removed headscarf jailed for two years - MAR Taleghany obituary - China promises 'necessary response' to US tariffs as trade war fears grow - Russia suspected of using 'dumb' bombs to shift blame for Syria war crimes - Boris Johnson: UK will respond robustly if Russia poisoned spy - Russian spy mystery: police release CCTV footage – video - This much-needed fund will let Jo Cox’s ideas and values shine on | Alison McGovern - 'People are angry': aid trucks forced to flee eastern Ghouta without unloading - Russia has yet to recover from the trauma of the Stalin era | Sergey Parkhomenko - Andrzej Krauze on Vladimir Putin's lack of election challengers – cartoon - Suspected Skripal poisoning: who might have ordered it and why? - Salisbury, scratchcards and sausage: the quiet life of Sergei Skripal - Counter-terrorism police take over Sergei Skripal 'poison' case - Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's comments about Russia – cartoon - Britain would not win a spy showdown with Putin | Richard Norton-Taylor - Russian military plane crash in Syria kills 39 - Boris promises a bloody nose in response to poisoning | John Crace - Sergei Skripal: does revenge for treason lie behind harm to ex-spy? - Who is the Salisbury spy Sergei Skripal? – video explainer - 'It would be funny if they arrest me' – Sam Nunberg's TV interview disaster - Trump ‘may have done something’ with Russians during US election, says ex-aide – video - US says North Korea assassinated Kim Jong-nam with chemical weapon - Reformer or rogue? Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman – video profile - Netanyahu attacks Iran and says Trump still set to abandon nuclear deal - Louvre show opens in Tehran as cultural diplomacy thrives - China’s influence looms as Sierra Leone goes to the polls - USS Lexington: aircraft carrier scuttled in 1942 is finally found - Underwater footage of sunken aircraft carrier USS Lexington –  video - Russian former spy's daughter is second victim, reports say - live updates - Woman in Russian spy mystery identified as Sergei Skripal's daughter - Kremlin says it has no information about mystery illness of former spy - Poisoned umbrellas and polonium: Russian-linked UK deaths - Former Russian spy critically ill in UK 'after exposure to substance' - José Mourinho joins RT as World Cup pundit - Former Trump aide says president 'may have done something illegal' - Who is Sergei Skripal, the ex-spy exposed to 'unknown substance'? - From Britain to Ukraine, the far right is thriving on shared emotion | Natalia Antonova - 'Bigger than Watergate': Trump attacks Obama over Russia meddling response - 'They'll think I'm a traitor': North Korean defector makes Winter Paralympics debut - Kim Jong-un wants to 'write new history' with South Korea - Trump says 'I may' attend opening of US embassy in Jerusalem - Argentina's ex-president Fernández to face trial over alleged bombing cover-up - Iran's foreign minister accuses Europe of appeasing Trump - Aid convoy enters besieged Syrian enclave - Syrian government forces capture villages of eastern Ghouta - Putin: Russia will 'never' extradite 13 nationals indicted by Mueller - South Korean delegation arrives in North for historic nuclear talks - Returning to Haifa review – disturbing drama is a plea for peace - Saudi crown prince embarks on foreign tour to woo leaders - The tyranny of algorithms is part of our lives: soon they could rate everything we do | John Harris - China told to follow the leader Xi Jinping in thought, word and deed - Trump aides defend tariffs move as Europe and China decry 'trade war' - Trump praises Xi's dictatorship plans saying 'maybe we'll give that a shot' – video - Dozens of fighters killed in Turkish airstrikes in Afrin - Russians pressured to attend Putin’s star-studded election rally - Xi Jinping’s power play: from president to China’s new dictator? - Why is the world at war? - Jaguars killed for fangs to supply growing Chinese medicine trade - 'Maybe we'll give that a shot': Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping's power grab - Eight signs that Xi Jinping was planning to cement his grip on China - Xi’s wretched turn to despotism is born of frailty. Dictatorship will begin to crumble | Will Hutton - Syria attacks: 'There can be no justification' for bombing civilians, Australia tells regime - Señor K: Russia and Argentina split over mysterious drug smuggling case - Kraken? Russians get mythical in contest to name nuclear weapons - Republican-led committee says Russia funded 'useful idiot' environmentalists - EU citizenship for sale as Russian oligarch buys Cypriot passport - Victoria Lomasko: the brutally funny artist no gallery in Russia will touch - UN security council must act to uphold the ceasefire in Syria | Letters - Putin's nuclear slideshow reveals Russia's naked ambitions - Eastern Ghouta death toll casts doubt on Russia’s truce plans - Putin’s new arms race is all about his need to be taken seriously | Mark Galeotti - Purim: the Jewish holiday in pictures - Erase and Forget review – real-life Rambo finally gets his own movie - Two Russian journalists accuse politician of sexual harassment - Putin's missiles are pointing at Tampa Bay but local mayors take laidback view - Hey, that’s my hometown! How it feels to have Putin target your birthplace - Seoul to encourage thaw by sending envoy to North Korea - Police question Benjamin Netanyahu over third corruption case - The videos that show alleged Melbourne child sex abuser living 'normal, healthy' life in Israel - Prince William to make first official royal visit to Israel and Palestine - Reactions to US steel tariffs - Steel and aluminum tariffs trigger sharp stock market sell-off in US and Asia - Kenyan conservationists protest as Chinese company starts work on railway - A munching cow and storm Emma: Thursday's best photos - Russia 'on wrong side of history' over Syria chemical weapons – US - Hope Hicks admits she tells 'white lies' for Trump but not about Russia inquiry - Raghad Haddad: 'Music is a home in our heart, where we can be safe' - Vladimir Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles announcement - Facebook finds no substantial evidence of Russian meddling in EU referendum - Lost music of Nazis’ prisoners to be heard at concert in Jerusalem - 'Damn the whole world': eastern Ghouta's rescuers struggle to cope - 'A cynical PR exercise': critics round on $3.5bn plan to allay Yemen suffering - Afghan boy launches UK legal challenge against refugee policy - The Guardian view on the war in Afghanistan: give peace a chance | Editorial - Feras Fayyad: 'I never thought as a film-maker that I would feel endangered' - Russian husbands help with chores and carry the shopping – archive, 28 February 1961 - Putin concludes 'no price to pay’ for Russia cyber attacks, says NSA chief – video - Robert Mueller drops many charges against ex-Trump aide cooperating in Russia inquiry - NSA chief: Trump 'has not ordered disruption of Russia election meddling' - Syria is a moral defeat for Europeans | Natalie Nougayrède - North Korea sent Syria missile and chemical weapon items, says UN report - Envoy's resignation leaves void at head of Trump's Korea diplomacy - Israeli court delays extradition decision for woman accused of Australian sex crimes - Heather Raffo: the Iraqi-American playwright challenging stereotypes - Ce*sored! China bans letter N (briefly) from internet as Xi Jinping extends grip on power - Afghan president offers to recognise Taliban to end war - Syria: Putin orders five-hour daily ceasefires in eastern Ghouta - Fighting resumes in eastern Ghouta despite 'humanitarian pause' - Russian millions laundered via UK firms, leaked report says - So-called ceasefire in Syria has barely led to a lull | Martin Chulov - Russia rues ban as OARs deliver nation’s worst Winter Olympics gold medal haul - Women should not have to dress modestly | Letters - Xi Jinping: what is behind the Chinese president’s power grab? - Have we reached peak English in the world? | Nicholas Ostler - 'Ensuring happier lives': Chinese media defends move to make Xi Jinping all powerful - The Guardian view on China’s leadership: strong but not stable? | Editorial - 'Beast from the east' brings snow and frosty weather across Europe - 'See the facts': top Democrat defends Russia memo as Trump fumes - Syria's return to bombing-as-usual is down to Russia | Simon Tisdall - Ben Jennings on the Syria ceasefire – cartoon - North Korea is a bigger cyber-attack threat than Russia, says expert - Rude awakenings ahead as Pyeongchang 2018 draws to a close - Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 2018: 'the Games of new horizons'? | Sean Ingle - Jerusalem: thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend rabbi's funeral - Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church closes in tax protest - Syria: fresh fighting in eastern Ghouta despite UN-ordered ceasefire - Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining Isis - 'Dictator for life': Xi Jinping's power grab condemned as step towards tyranny - Directorate S review – masterly study - Syria death toll over 500 as eastern Ghouta bombing continues - Controversial North Korean general mobbed by media and protesters on visit to South - Golden goal lifts OAR to Olympic men's hockey title over Germany in classic - The Long Hangover by Shaun Walker – review - The Observer view on the UN failure to stop slaughter in eastern Ghouta | Observer editorial - UN security council votes unanimously for month-long Syria ceasefire - Mueller investigation: Manafort accused of secretly funding European pro-Russia group - Nissim Baruch Black: the rapper who gave up bling for Jewish redemption - One million birds killed illegally every year at a wildlife site in Iran - Waiting for Putin and Assad to run out of people to kill. Is that our plan? | Ian Bond - Moscow mired in Syria as Putin’s gameplan risks a deadly ending - Xi Jinping to cement his power with plan to scrap two-term limit - 'I miss her so much': Australian man pleads for wife's release from Chinese prison - Prisons fail us all – policy has to change | letters - The Syrian teenager tweeting the horror of life in Ghouta – video - ‘We can change this reality’: the women sharing news of war in Ghouta - Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin? | David Graeber - Ex-Trump chair Paul Manafort vows to fight 'untrue' charges as Gates cuts plea deal - UN security council fails to agree on Syria ceasefire after second day of talks - Why Finland allied itself with Nazi Germany | Letter - Police foil cocaine ring at Russian embassy in Buenos Aires - Ivanka Trump calls for 'maximum pressure' on North Korea - North Korea sanctions: Donald Trump announces 'largest ever' package - US brings forward Jerusalem embassy opening to May - Chinese government takes over troubled insurance giant Anbang - Medical crisis in east Ghouta as hospitals 'systematically targeted' - Russian bots are on the march, taking over democracy. Take cover, quick! | Thomas Frank - Football fans clash ahead of Athletic Bilbao v Spartak Moscow match – video - What's the difference between a troll and a sockpuppet? - Robert Mueller files 32 new fraud charges against ex-Trump aides - Russia blocks UN resolution on eastern Ghouta ceasefire - New Russian stealth fighter spotted in Syria - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained in Moscow - Ivanka Trump gets red-carpet welcome for Winter Olympics visit - North Korea’s graphic artistry – in pictures - European Union MPs call on Xi Jinping to release Gui Minhai - My staff are trying to save lives in the rubble of Ghouta. Who will help us? | Raed Al Saleh - Ghouta's desperate civilians say they've been abandoned to their fate - Remember this: Sheffield United never win at Chelsea | Brief letters - The slaughter in Syria should outrage us. Yet still we just shrug | Jonathan Freedland - Bombs continue to pound eastern Ghouta as UN pleads for ceasefire - Mueller files new charges against ex-Trump aides Manafort and Gates - After Kim Jong-un's sister, South Korea prepares for Ivanka Trump visit - Israel foiled alleged plot to blow up plane from Sydney, Benjamin Netanyahu says - The Guardian view on eastern Ghouta: the powerful compete, Syrian civilians pay | Editorial - 'A very scary movie': how China snatched Gui Minhai on the 11.10 train to Beijing - Blue-sky thinking: how China's crackdown on pollution is paying off - China is no threat to Australia, Turnbull says before visit to US - We need aid that helps locals, not multinationals and bloated NGOs | Antony Loewenstein - Eastern Ghouta is another Srebrenica, we are looking away again | Simon Tisdall - Trump-Russia inquiry: lawyer who worked with Manafort pleads guilty to lying to FBI - Russia admits ‘several dozen’ of its citizens killed in Syria fighting - Fresh strikes kill civilians in Syrian rebel enclave - This is eastern Ghouta, where hundreds are being killed and injured by Assad's forces - Bodycam footage shows children being rescued from rubble in eastern Ghouta, Syria – video - North Korea cancelled Mike Pence meeting last minute, White House says - Study reveals North Korean cyber-espionage has reached new heights - Democrats beware: the Russia investigation isn't the path to power - Netanyahu aide agrees to implicate PM over corruption claims – reports - Europe is facing a potential crisis in the Balkans. It has to act soon | Ivan Krastev - Trump and Turnbull meeting: regional security to be key topic - 'I want to empower Afghan women': female prosecutor on a lonely mission - 'It's not a war. It's a massacre': scores killed in Syrian enclave - Turkey warns Assad not to intervene in Kurdish enclave - Welcome to Comrat, Moldova's relic Soviet city – in pictures - Top Democrat suggests proof of Trump-Russia collusion still to come - The hypocrisies of our democracies | Letters - Polski sklep-stick – is Brexit Britain ready for eastern European standup? - Trump-Russia inquiry: Manafort under pressure after reports that Gates has flipped - UK revives aid scheme halted over alleged payments to Syrian jihadists - Profile review – Skyping-with-Isis thriller dials up the suspense - North Korea could co-host 2021 Asian Games with South, official says - Former US military commander warns against 'bloody nose' strike on North Korea - 'Kim Jong-un is hitting on us!': my night out with Dear Leader (sort of) - Extent of UK cooperation with Gaddafi revealed - After Darkness: Mosul emerges from Isis control – in pictures - Israeli police name Netanyahu associates in corruption inquiry - 7 Days in Entebbe review – Rosamund Pike hostage drama never gets off ground - The Guardian view on Holocaust responsibility: Poland cannot wholly escape blame | Editorial - The conductor smashing Iranian taboos over women, and music - US role in Syria alarms Turkey and could dent prospect of peace deal - MP accuses British overseas territories of undermining US North Korea sanctions - Chinese and US officials scuffled over 'nuclear football' during 2017 Trump visit - UK under pressure over Afghan asylum seekers amid civilian deaths - The Guardian view on Russian trolls: democracy is much too easy to hack | Editorial - Five people killed in Dagestan church shooting - Russian curler fails Winter Olympics drug test - Homophobic video warns Russians of dangers of not voting - Some are more equal than others in Finland | Letters - Israel ready to act against ‘dangerous’ Iran, Netanyahu warns - China calls on US to punish Terracotta warrior thumb thief - Afghan provincial governor defies president’s order to step down - Putin’s quest for lost glory | Shaun Walker - The Observer view on Donald Trump’s Russian connections | Observer editorial - Senior Trump adviser says Russian election meddling 'beyond dispute' - US national security adviser on Russian election meddling: 'evidence is incontrovertible' – video - Putin’s chef, a troll farm and Russia's plot to hijack US democracy - Keira Knightley to star in ‘forgotten’ story of Iraq war whistleblower - Israeli jets strike Gaza after soldiers injured by Gaza bomb - Iran plane crash in south of country kills all 66 on board – reports - Amid the chaos of Syria, will Israel and Iran launch an all-out war? - Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi review – elegant satire - China’s great leap forward in science - Jokhang temple: fire engulfs ancient 'heart' of Tibetan Buddhism - Welcome to Limassolgrad: the city getting rich on Russian money - Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians strikes at the heart of the meddling matter - Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Trump - Ten key takeaways from Robert Mueller's Russia indictment - Russian oligarchs fight mine battle in London court - Russia’s archives still open for business - ‘It was heartbreaking’: the bleak truth behind Bafta-chasing migrant drama - The ICC must hold the US accountable for crimes in Afghanistan | Katherine Gallagher - US wasting billions on nuclear bombs that serve no purpose and are security liability – experts - Families ask Kremlin to admit Russian mercenaries killed in Syria - Fifteen years after Iraq war protests, peace is further away than ever | Emily Thornberry - Traditional Chinese new year is changing – and the UK needs to catch up | Yuan Ren - Dongguan in the spotlight: hi-tech comeback for 'factory of the world'? - Admiral warns US must prepare for possibility of war with China - There must be easier fads to follow than teaching Mandarin | Emma Brockes - ‘Unspeakable numbers’: 10,000 civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan in 2017 - Pakistan asks Trump to help fund border fence with Afghanistan - Former British soldier in court for terrorism offence of fighting Isis - Trump's military parade could cost $30m – White House budget chief - UK blames Russia for NotPetya cyber-attack last year - Fifteen Russian security staff killed in Syria explosion - House Russia investigation has 'abundance' of evidence against Trump, says top Democrat - Has North Korea’s week at the Winter Olympics diminished the nuclear threat? - Israel orders new psychiatric test for Australian in child sex abuse case - Netanyahu’s shamelessness is corrupting Israel | Peter Beaumont - Donor conference pledges $30bn to help Iraq rebuild after Isis - Iran urged by UN to respect environment activists after wildlife campaigner death - 'You don't sound American', TV host tells Muslim blogger from Oklahoma - China confirms first ever human case of H7N4 bird flu - Ai Weiwei: The artwork that made me the most dangerous person in China - Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast - Taliban publish letter calling on US to start Afghan peace talks - Faulty speed indicators suspected as cause of Russian plane crash - Scores of Russian mercenaries reportedly killed by US airstrikes in Syria - Russian watchdog orders YouTube to remove Navalny luxury yacht video - Shipping first as commercial tanker crosses Arctic sea route in winter - Rex Tillerson reaping whirlwind of Trump's disruptive Middle East policies - Netanyahu says police report on fraud claims 'like Swiss cheese' - Benjamin Netanyahu: Israeli police recommend indicting prime minister - June Rose obituary - Iranian intellectuals call for referendum amid political unrest - Treatment of Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to torture, say family - 'You are our lucky star': Chinese media in overdrive on Xi Jinping's New Year tour - Britain trying to headline grab in South China Sea, says state media - UK record just as poor as that of US on Afghan interpreters | Letters - Arms shipment to Bosnian Serbs stokes EU fears - North Korea's cheerleaders amaze and appal at Winter Olympics - Kim Jong-un praises 'sincere, impressive' South Korea - North good, south bad? Time to shed the Korea stereotypes | Min Jin Lee - Meet North Korea's Winter Olympics cheerleading squad – video - Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi's trial begins behind closed doors - Israel will 'look into' extraditing Malka Leifer to Australia on child sex abuse charges - Israel and Iran consider next move after Syrian clash crosses red line - Vatican agreement with China could 'deal blow' to Catholic church - Britain to sail warship through disputed South China Sea - Disconnect between US and South Korea grows amid rapprochement with North - House Democrats to 'clean up' Trump-Russia memo in bid for release - Debris from crashed Russian plane found 50 miles from Moscow – video - Russian passenger plane crashes outside Moscow, killing 71 - Iranian academics demand answers over death of jailed activist - Hassan Rouhani proposes referendum to heal Iran's divisions - Enter the dragon: how Australia became China’s gateway to Hollywood - Calls grow for Isis ‘Beatles’ to face UK trial - The epic failure of our age: how the west let down Syria - Winter Olympics was hit by cyber-attack, officials confirm - Social media firms must tell users exposed to Brexit propaganda, MP says - Kim Yo-jong might have charmed South Korean media, but the glow won't last - Korea’s united Olympic squad: symbol of hope or mere political stunt? - Poland’s Jews fear for future under new Holocaust law - Israeli fighter jet crashes after being shot at by Syrian air defences – video - UK plans video campaign to deter African migrants - Chinese media claims bookseller Gui Minhai offered national secrets to foreign groups - Hong Kong bus overturns, killing at least 19 people - Put 'Beatles' Isis fighters on trial, victims' families say - 'Quest for justice': former Isis hostage on capture of ‘Beatles’ – video - Russians arrested for 'mining bitcoin' at nuclear facility - Winter Olympics 2018 day one: speed skating, luge and more – live! - Kim Jong-un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang - South Korean president meets Kim Yo-jong - video - Winter Olympics begin with powerful message of peace - Winter Olympics 2018 opening ceremony – in pictures - Israel launches 'large-scale attack' in Syria after fighter jet crashes - The jihadist 'Beatles': Britons who became the face of Isis cruelty - The Guardian view on Syria: the suffering grows and the world turns away | Editorial - Bookseller Gui Minhai surfaces in Chinese custody to deliver staged confession - May turns to Chinese billionaire Jack Ma for post-Brexit trade ideas - Senate hit over priorities as budget deal proposes military spending hike - Nicola Sturgeon rejects calls to clarify US military Prestwick use - ‘The Beatles’ are dead or captured. But how to deal with Britain’s Isis fighters? | Mary Dejevsky - YouTube: we've found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit vote - East Ghouta ‘drowning in blood’ after third day of bombing - Bush on Russian interference in US election – video - More than 100 Assad fighters killed in clash with US in eastern Syria - George Bush: 'Pretty clear evidence Russia meddled' in US election - Kim Jong-un's sister heads North Korea's Winter Olympics delegation - video - North Korea's Kim Yo-jong visits South in historic first at Winter Olympics - Iran furious as athletes miss out on Winter Olympics smartphones - Al-Hudood: the Onion-style website poking fun at the Middle East - British Isis fighters known as 'the Beatles' captured in Syria - While Trump eyes Latin America with malign neglect, China sees opportunity - Atia Abawi: 'There were lifejackets everywhere. People died trying to live' - The bird market of Kabul – in pictures - Steve Bell on Donald Trump's wish for a military display – cartoon - Scottish government criticised over US military use of airport - Reigning parades: military showpieces Trump might want to copy - Trump’s desire for a military parade reveals him as a would-be despot | Jonathan Freedland - As Vladimir Putin steals the Russian election, our leaders are shamefully silent | Simon Tisdall - 'Protocol headache' for Winter Olympics as Mike Pence and Kim Jong-un's sister arrive - Daughter of Swedish bookseller snatched in China fears he faces years in jail - Life drains from Little Africa as China dream fades for its fortune seekers - Donald Trump orders Pentagon to plan grand military parade - UN outrage at Syrian suffering: ‘We can no longer stay silent’ - Kim Jong-un's sister to attend Winter Olympics opening ceremony - Winter Olympics bring peace to Korean peninsula – for now - 'Bombs are still falling': Syrian refugees at risk of forced return home - 'Russia wants to hack the Oscars': smear campaign targets Syrian nominee - Biggest airstrikes in a year hit Syria after rebels shoot down Russian jet - 2018 election is no problem for Putin – but what about 2024? - Trump: Schiff and senior Obama intelligence figures are 'liars and leakers' - Russian police accuse Navalny of assaulting officer during protest - Turning Red Square white – snowfall in Moscow in pictures - Israel minister says Poland cancelled his visit amid Holocaust law dispute - Polish law denies reality of Holocaust | Letters - Security forces pursue Palestinian after bus stop stabbing of Israeli - Photos show Beijing’s militarisation of South China Sea in new detail - Hong Kong activists have jail sentences overturned - Sweden condemns China's 'brutal' detention of bookseller Gui Minhai - Very hot tea can raise risk of oesophageal cancer, suggests study - US's new nuclear policy 'a blueprint for war', Nobel peace laureate says - Real patient or suicide bomber? The perils of being a Kabul ambulance driver - Nunes memo 'a political hit job on FBI' in service of Trump, top Democrat says - Trump’s rhetoric threatens peace-making in Korean peninsula - North Korea to send head of state to Seoul for first time in years - Unified Korean women's ice hockey team play debut match - Mike Pence to stop North Korea 'hijacking' Winter Olympics, aide says - North Korea criticises Trump's 'sinister' State of the Union address - Iran accuses US of 'shamelessly threatening' Russia with nuclear weapons - Afrin offensive: seven Turkish soldiers die in Syria - 'A hellish nightmare': how Trump's travel ban hit a Syrian refugee family - The Observer view on the Winter Olympics and tensions with North Korea | Observer editorial - What is the Devin Nunes memo about and how does it affect Trump? - Russian warplane shot down in north-west Syria - North Korea’s Berlin embassy used to acquire nuclear tech, says spy chief - From the Observer archive: this week in 1947 - Enemy of the state? Agnes Chow, the 21-year-old activist who has China worried - London’s Royal Court theatre in row over shelving of Tibet play - The big picture: Afghanistan’s largest state school for girls, Herat, 2009 - New wave of Afghans seek a way out as fear grips Kabul - Syrian Kurds outraged over mutilation of female fighter - Anti-Isis fighters gather in Dorset for funeral of UK sniper Jac Holmes - Who is Carter Page, the Trump ex-adviser at the center of the memo furore? - Memo release is Trump's scramble to torch threats to himself – and his circle - Antony Beevor: why did Ukraine ban my book? - Trump releasing the Nunes memo is Nixonian – but today's GOP won't resist - Warnings as Trump administration hardens nuclear policy against Russia - 'Nunes memo' published after Trump declassifies controversial document - Peter Baird obituary - Build cultural bridges to counter propaganda | Letters - North Korea supplied arms to Syria and Myanmar, UN sanctions report finds - Theresa May softens stance on migration and foreign students - Theresa May, I fear that both of us will have to get used to disappointment | Marina Hyde - The Guardian view on May in China: the ‘golden era’ has lost its lustre | Editorial - Chinese Eden Project to feature world's highest indoor waterfall - How China really perceives ‘Auntie May’ | Yuan Ren - Theresa May's China visit offers little to silence critics at home - What John Major said in China – and what Theresa May did not - Guantánamo: Bush-era officials warn keeping prison open may be $6bn error - The refugee crisis isn’t about refugees. It’s about us | Ai Weiwei - Russia to offer tourists spacewalks for $100m – with discount for first taker - Russians hail 'triumph of justice' as IOC doping bans are overturned - Migrant boat capsizing: 90 feared dead off coast of Libya - US missile defense test failed in Hawaii, officials say - Israel using tourism to legitimise settlements, says EU report - Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women - May will not sack Brexit minister over claims of civil servants' bias - 'There was a weird smell': Eyewitness on burning van that struck Shanghai pedestrians – video - Shanghai: 18 injured as van ploughs into pedestrians - China commends Theresa May for 'sidestepping' human rights - Theresa May presses Xi Jinping on plastic waste at Beijing talks - Nobel peace prize: US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong protesters - Climate change threatens half of US bases worldwide, Pentagon report finds - Afrin residents say Syrian 'curse' has arrived as war hits Kurdish enclave - Trump to allow 6,900 Syrians to remain in US temporarily - Russia World Cup could be ruined due to locusts on the pitch, officials fear - Russian billionaire's ex-wife seeks record UK divorce payout - The Guardian view on Trump’s State of the Union: platitudes, few plans and plenty of division | Editorial - Inclusion on Forbes rich list 'now seen as toxic' by Russians - Donald Trump describes escape by North Korean defector – video - Palestinian girl arrested by Israel sent to Gaza Strip – where she'd never been, activists say - Blue Planet gift from Theresa May to remind Beijing of plastic waste - No deal for EU citizens coming to UK during Brexit transition – PM - Theresa May’s vision of a global Britain is just a Brexit fantasy | Martin Kettle - Theresa May sidesteps backing $900bn Silk Road project of China - Russia-backed Syrian peace talks agree deal on new constitution - In this age of propaganda, we must defend ourselves. Here’s how | Natalie Nougayrède - US 'name-and-shame' list of Russian oligarchs binned by top Trump official – expert