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Beijing 2022: Athletes warned about speaking out on human rights
Beijing 2022: Athletes warned about speaking out on human rights
By desk team on February 2, 2022
Behaviour by athletes that violates the “Olympic spirit” or Chinese rules could be subject to punishment, a Beijing 2022 official said, after rights groups voiced...
Detained, missing, close to death: the toll of reporting on Covid in China
Detained, missing, close to death: the toll of reporting on Covid in China
By desk team on February 1, 2022
Show caption Police block journalists outside a Shanghai court where journalist Zhang Zhan – who reported on Wuhan's Covid outbreak – was tried in December...
From stand-in stars to tech titans: The Observer’s faces to watch in 2022
From stand-in stars to tech titans: The Observer’s faces to watch in 2022
By desk team on February 1, 2022
Politics Toby Helm Liz Truss In the latter part of 2021, Liz Truss has been everywhere in the media. And as she sets her sights...
Giles’s scattergun broadsides suggest a man who has gone as far as he can
Giles’s scattergun broadsides suggest a man who has gone as far as he can
By desk team on February 1, 2022
Show caption Ashley Giles during a press conference at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Photograph: Jason O’Brien/PA Giles’s scattergun broadsides suggest a man who...
Christ and cocaine: Rio’s gangs of God blend faith and violence
Christ and cocaine: Rio’s gangs of God blend faith and violence
By desk team on February 1, 2022
“Pastor, do you think we could hold a service at my house next Thursday?” the peroxide-haired gangster wondered, cradling an AK-47 in his lap as...

New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances

New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances

By desk team on August 13, 2022

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Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

By desk team on August 13, 2022

75 years of India partition: How tech is opening window into past

75 years of India partition: How tech is opening window into past

By desk team on August 13, 2022

6 members of white supremacist group expected in Idaho court

6 members of white supremacist group expected in Idaho court

By desk team on August 13, 2022

Peace stability at odds with China’s actions

Peace stability at odds with China’s actions

By editor on August 13, 2022

Witnessing Pope Francis’s apology for abuses against my people

Witnessing Pope Francis’s apology for abuses against my people

By desk team on August 12, 2022

Taliban under scrutiny as US kills al-Qaida leader in Kabul

Taliban under scrutiny as US kills al-Qaida leader in Kabul

By desk team on August 12, 2022

TV tonight: Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy is back

TV tonight: Golden Globe-winning comedy Ramy is back

By desk team on August 12, 2022

Sunak defines ‘vilification of the UK’ as extremism in terrorism policy proposal

Sunak defines ‘vilification of the UK’ as extremism in terrorism policy proposal

By desk team on August 12, 2022

FBI find nothing in New Jersey search for missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa

FBI find nothing in New Jersey search for missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa

By desk team on August 12, 2022

New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances
New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances
By desk team on August 13, 2022
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Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida
Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida
By desk team on August 13, 2022
FILE - In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri poses for a photograph in Khost, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri, the top...
75 years of India partition: How tech is opening window into past
75 years of India partition: How tech is opening window into past
By desk team on August 13, 2022
As India-Pakistan tensions hamper visits across borders, Facebook and YouTube help people connect and online projects share oral histories. Growing up, Guneeta Singh Bhalla heard...
6 members of white supremacist group expected in Idaho court
6 members of white supremacist group expected in Idaho court
By desk team on August 13, 2022
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Witnessing Pope Francis’s apology for abuses against my people
Witnessing Pope Francis’s apology for abuses against my people
By desk team on August 12, 2022
Warning: The story below contains details about abuse in residential schools that may be upsetting. Canada’s National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24...