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  • Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, tells the Guardian that he was planning to invite King Charles on a state visit to Ukraine as early as this year

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy reveals he wants to invite King Charles on a state visit to Ukraine – video

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  • In an interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reflected on his country's close ties to the UK since the beginning of the war

    Zelenskyy: Ukraine and UK need each other in the battle against Russia – video

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  • Pope tells parliament that escalating conflict, deepening polarisation and widespread disregard for human rights have pushed the world into a profound crisis, in one of his most expansive political addresses yet

    Pope Leo receives standing ovation in rare papal address to Spain’s parliament – video

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  • A vehicle carrying fireworks caught fire on a highway in Tennessee on Saturday, sparking a spectacular display. Footage from the scene on Interstate 75 near Ooltewah showed a huge cloud of sparks and rockets emerging from a trailer of a truck as a crowd watched from an overpass.

    Truck hauling fireworks catches fire on US highway and sparks explosive display – video

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  • Is the UK really experiencing a Christian revival and to what extent is it being driven by nationalism? To find out, the Guardian visited churches across the country and uncovered a growing schism over how Christianity is being interpreted in modern Britain

    Is the far right driving a Christian revival in the UK? – video

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  • Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues and is deepening divisions across Lebanon. Supporters of Hezbollah call the group “the resistance” and see the conflict as existential. Despite agreeing to a ceasefire, Israel still occupies parts of southern Lebanon and insists Hezbollah must disarm for there to be peace—a view shared by many Lebanese. With communities split over Hezbollah’s future, The Guardian travels across Lebanon to find out how the conflict is widening divisions and affecting life across the country.

    Why Lebanon is divided over the war with Israel – video

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  • Politicians and pundits in the UK are fuelling a moral panic around “the Muslim vote." Once seen as a reliable base for the Labour Party, the Muslim community’s growing support for independent candidates and the Green Party is now being framed as a threat to democracy. As the country heads towards the local elections, Taj Ali investigates whether a singular “Muslim vote” exists, and examines how these divisive narratives around sectarian politics are shaping public debate and impacting communities across Britain.

    The Muslim Vote: Democratic threat or Islamophobic myth? | On the Ground

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  • The Guardian visits Oaxaca, a state synonymous with indigenous culture, where tourism has grown 77% since the pandemic

    'Gringo go home': Mexico’s growing tourism backlash – video

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  • The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. As part of the year-long Against the tide project reporting on the lives of young people in coastal communities across England and Wales, the Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

    Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

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  • Meet Mazyouna, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack on her home in Gaza. She lost two of her siblings in the attack and was denied access by Israel to life-altering surgery abroad for more than six months

    From Gaza to Texas: the race to save Mazyouna’s face - video

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  • Each spring since 2003, Jon Aars, senior scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and his team have conducted an annual polar bear monitoring program on Svalbard - collaring, capturing and taking samples from as many bears as they can across several weeks.By studying polar bears they get a better understanding of what is happening in this part of the Arctic environment. The bears roam over large distances and, being apex predators, provide lots of information about what is happening lower in the food chain and across different Arctic species.The Guardian accompanied Aars on an expedition to the southern end of Spitsbergen island, the largest in the Svalbard archipelago.

    How scientists capture a polar bear – video

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  • Milford Towers is a social housing estate in Lewisham, south London, slated for demolition and described by its residents as 'hell'. The residents accuse the council of ignoring them and deliberately running it into the ground. There are frequent leaks, mould infestations, fires, stabbings and violence – and perpetually broken lifts.

    The London ‘hell’ estate fighting back: murders, fires and broken lifts

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • There are more than one million young carers in the UK – with an average age of 12 – which is the equivalent of two kids in every school class. Do they feel supported? In Walthamstow, east London, we meet a group of carers as they are collected for a rare night off that brings a sense of community and a glimpse of fun for a few hours every few weeks. It's hosted by Satvinder, a tenacious council worker who fights to improve the recognition of young carers in her borough and provides them crucial emotional support

    How do you give Britain's hidden army a break? | Is Mum OK? Documentary

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  • In a time of escalating ICE raids and the ache of uncertainty, 38-year-old Abel has made a radical decision: he's leaving the United States. Not because he has to, but to escape his perpetual limbo and see the world

    Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump's America - documentary

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  • Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak 'Pop' Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand’s critically endangered dugongs. Pop raises an urgent alarm — before Thailand’s dugongs vanish forever

    The influencer racing to save Thailand’s most endangered sea mammal

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  • Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort. Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed.

    Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying - documentary

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  • GLP-1 drugs such as Mounjaro are helping millions of people rapidly lose weight. But the changes happening inside the body go far beyond the number on the scale

    'I've lost my butt': how rapid weight loss can leave you with less muscle and more fat

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  • You’re not imagining it. Smaller portions. Higher prices. Worse service. It is easy to blame inflation, but that’s not the full story

    Why your favourite brands are suddenly failing

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  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates disappearing restaurants on Google Maps with Lauren Leek, a social data scientist, who grew so frustrated with this problem that she decided to build her own.

    How Google Maps is shaping where we eat – video

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  • More than eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 people, the companies, materials and rules that made it possible are still shaping how homes are built, in the UK and around the world

    How the failures that caused Grenfell still exist today

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Explainers

  • What does it actually take to win a World Cup? Talent? Tactics? A functioning democracy? Not necessarily, as Jonathan Wilson explains

    How to win the World Cup – video explainer

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  • Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley breaks down the symptoms and common misconceptions about PCOS, newly named PMOS

    PCOS is now PMOS: common misconceptions about the condition explained – video

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  • Will Christou asks what the future might look like for Lebanon as Israel carries out a bombing campaign and ground invasion

    The ‘Gaza playbook’: what are Israel’s plans for Lebanon? – video explainer

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  • Hannah Ellis-Petersen on Pakistan's role in brokering an 11th-hour deal between Iran and the US

    How Pakistan emerged as a mediator in the Iran conflict – video explainer

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  • As a fierce contest takes shape between Labour, Reform UK and the Greens, John Harris and John Domokos take the temperature in an area of Manchester that feels like a microcosm of Britain - and find voters split between two completely different views of their lives, and the future

    Why this Manchester byelection is a lesson in 21st century politics – video

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  • In last week's byelection in the Welsh constituency of Caerphilly, Reform UK were the hot favourites, and the focus of huge attention. But as John Harris and John Domokos saw close-up, a Reform win failed to happen thanks to a story most of the media didn't see: how online fear and loathing were beaten back by community spirit, facts trumping fury, and everyday empathy 

    The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage – video

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  • After a long summer defined by flags, protests and tensions over asylum, John Harris and John Domokos go back to Liverpool to explore the lives of people dealing with a huge housing crisis, while trying to stop the issue exploding into hate and division

    The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: there's nowhere to live – video

    Video15:25
  • As Nigel Farage's party sweeps to victory in Lincolnshire, John Harris and John Domokos take a road trip through anger, sadness and fear – and, despite Reform's triumph, discover people working on a new politics of hope and common humanity

    From absurdity and anger to hope in Reform UK's new heartland – video

    Video16:33
  • Following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to the heart of affected neighbourhoods to speak with residents who are fighting to defend their community from violence and intimidation

    The occupation of Minneapolis: how residents are resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' – video

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  • In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename 'Operation Midway Blitz', has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests

    How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown - video

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  • Donald Trump's second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the creation of a Trump cryptocurrency, the president has been accused of monetizing the White House while enacting a swath of extreme policy. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel across south Florida, visiting Turning Point's student action summit, meeting the Republican strategist Steve Bannon, and witnessing events at the harsh new detention centre "Alligator Alcatraz".

    Trump’s new gilded age: fearmongering, mass deportations and self-enrichment – video

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  • The world’s richest person has placed his mission to Mars in a low-income county near the US-Mexico border. As a small cluster of voters connected to SpaceX decide to incorporate their own ‘Starbase city', Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet environmental opponents, space enthusiasts and residents who decry the gentrification Musk's expansion has brought

    How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city - video

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Sport

  • Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson, Paul Watson and Sid Lowe to preview Groups E-H

    World Cup 2026 preview: Groups E-H | Football Weekly – video

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  • Whether you call it football or soccer, here's your hassle-free beginner's guide to Australia's Socceroos, and what they'll need to do to get out of the group stage

    How could the Socceroos actually win the 2026 Fifa World Cup? – video

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  • See how New York's mayor maps out the world’s biggest tournament

    Zohran Mamdani plays the Guardian's Bracketology to predict World Cup winner – video

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  • Now that the usually $13 train ticket has been hiked up to $105 for the World Cup, a lot of fans have been wondering whether it's possible to walk to MetLife Stadium from New York City

    Is it possible to walk to MetLife Stadium from New York City? – video

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  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in the asylum backlog, women traumatised by detention and women struggling to find housing. They were all volunteering in their communities, while reckoning with a hostile climate towards refugees and asylum seekers. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain

    Our lives in the UK asylum system: 'the power of fear' – video

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  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale in greater Manchester, who turned the lens on a benefits system that they have seen unfairly penalising vulnerable people in their town. The group of reporters from the Elephants Trail met friends, family and others in the community trying to navigate the system, and consider how they can use those stories to advocate for change across the country. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain.

    Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink – video

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  • The Guardian was working with a community reporting team called the Elephant’s Trail in Rochdale on a series about their town when a byelection was called. The contest quickly plunged into chaos after the Labour party and the Green party withdrew support for their candidates and the canvassing was dominated by smaller parties. But how did this affect the voters? The team hit the streets and found evidence of apathy, concerns about homelessness and a desire for politicians who are committed to changing their community for the better 

    A view from Rochdale: ‘Democracy has gone out of the window’ – video

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  • Homegrown was a grass roots community group that stood in the middle of a new housing development in rapidly gentrifying Tottenham in north London. The group was led by Rose and Emma whose message to the young people they helped was to be their best, and never give up. So when they were told they had to leave, there was only one thing to do: occupy.

    Occupy Tottenham: a community defends its home - video

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