China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, is due to visit the UK next month for talks with the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, the Guardian has
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Scores killed in hospital attack in Sudan’s besieged El Fasher, says WHO
About 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the head
Tension and defiance in Panama after Trump threatens to ‘take back’ canal
From a modern control room high above the canal expansion – overlooking the Cocolí locks, then lakes, rainforest canopy and, eventually, the Atlantic ocean –
At least six people seriously injured on flight from Nigeria to Washington DC
Multiple people were injured on a United Airlines flight heading from Lagos, Nigeria, to Washington DC last week. In a statement released on Friday, the
Rwandan army ‘ready to invade DRC’ and help rebels seize city
Large numbers of troops from Rwanda have been pouring across the border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help rebels seize the
Ontario premier Doug Ford to call snap election to fight Trump tariff threat
The Ontario premier, Doug Ford, has said an early election is needed in the Canadian province in order to fend off an income “attack” from
Belize removes Queen Elizabeth’s image on banknotes as ‘step in decolonisation’
Belize has taken a “significant step” toward removing the remnants of colonialism by replacing the image of the late Queen Elizabeth on its dollar bills
Scientists point to Andes potato pathogen as origin of Irish famine
It was a disaster that killed about 1 million people, devastating 19th century Ireland, but while the potato disease linked to the Irish famine is
How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal
World leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement this week, in response
UN alarm as M23 rebel group closes in on Goma in eastern DRC
António Guterres has voiced alarm over the M23 rebel group’s advance towards eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city, in a renewed insurgency that