Guardian

‘This is not a ballad,” says Prudencia Hart early on in David Greig’s dizzyingly funny play. The driving snow, the midwinter setting and the relentless rhyming scheme suggest otherwise. The more this academic protests, the more she becomes…
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The Conservatives have been plunged into controversy after a video showed a minister grab and manhandle a protester who disrupted the chancellor’s Mansion House speech. Police began looking into the incident on Thursday night after footage…
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Record numbers of people have been forced from their homes by conflict in a crisis that has received “pitiful” international attention, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. A total of 41.3 million people were living in a…
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A close ally of the rightwing activist Tommy Robinson is facing a possible police investigation after fights broke out during an European election campaign event in Warrington. Two people needed hospital treatment as trouble flared shortly…
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Who has the answers? The UN? Scientists? Entrepreneurs? Nation states? “Ordinary” people? There is another subset of power, agency, ideas and progress that often gets overlooked in the search for solutions to the world’s problems. There are…
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The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has said 'the time to fight has come', in a televised address surrounded by his military high command. Maduro gave the warning following clashes in the past two days after the opposition attempted a…
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On the opening morning of the sporting trial of the century, Caster Semenya ran unnoticed through Lausanne’s old town to clear her mind. Then, knowing her career was potentially on the line, she stood up at the court of arbitration for…
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Recordings obtained by the Guardian show Republican state representative Matt Shea and several associates telling an audience to arm themselves for a looming civil war. The audio was taken in a remote north-eastern religious compound in…
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CCTV video shows two suspected attackers in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings carrying backpacks into the Shangri-La hotel in the capital, Colombo, before the blast. The bombings, which killed 359 people and injured 500, shattered the…
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Millions of hectares of pristine tropical rainforest were destroyed in 2018, according to satellite analysis, with beef, chocolate and palm oil among the main causes. The forests store huge amounts of carbon and are teeming with wildlife,…
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