The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections? One week before the local elections in South Africa, the pavements and roads of the Johannesburg township Alexandra were filled with piles of rubbish, rotting in the heat. At the JukskeiContinue Reading

With the far right resurgent in Germany, experts are divided as to whether the dictator’s former mountaintop retreat is better restored or left a ruin One of the last structural relics of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship was conceived to project indomitable power. Last month it was destroyed in a suspected arsonContinue Reading

The MV Odyssey was billed as the ultimate escape from Donald Trump. Instead, the oil shock caused by his war has left passengers unceremoniously dumped in Cambodia The idea was a never-ending retirement at sea, a continuous voyage around the globe. The promise to the passengers of the MV OdysseyContinue Reading

The opposition can’t win unless they join forces with Arab parties. Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and will use every ruse to stay in power It’s less an election result than a philosophical puzzle: what happens when a win contains a loss, a loss contains a win and the two collide?Continue Reading

As thousands of datacentres are constructed across Europe, the Guardian and Investigate Europe have uncovered disturbing evidence that some workers building them are exposed to dangerous conditions and living in fear of speaking out Sandu* checked his watch. He was winding down the last 15 minutes of his shift atContinue Reading

With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy results The Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia. But a 90-minute phone call this week to Vladimir Putin by the leaders ofContinue Reading

As John Lewis reports a 96% rise in searches for CD players, music fans share their reasons for ditching streaming CDs appear to be having a resurgence. John Lewis said searches for CD players are up 96% since July, while another report on trends in music and film this yearContinue Reading

Some EU leaders courted the authoritarian Vučić regime – they must offer this reborn democracy a future within the union As polling stations closed across Serbia on Sunday evening, riot police were deploying around the presidency in Belgrade. Many of us feared the worst: massive electoral fraud, a refusal toContinue Reading

Families of passengers involved in Spain’s deadly train collision are providing DNA samples to help identify victims as audio recordings raise questions about conflicting instructions issued by rail controllers before the crash that killed at least 69 people and injured dozens. The collision occurred shortly before 09:00 local time onContinue Reading