The Guardian world news
All the breaking news and latest world news from The Guardian, with Twitter search trends.
Twitter Search News Trending
-
Opposition candidate Bobi Wine claims ‘massive ballot stuffing’ as Uganda goes to polls
Wine calls for voters to ‘reject the criminal regime’ on tense day of voting as some poll stations remain closed for hours
Uganda’s most prominent opposition presidential candidate has accused the government of ballot stuffing and arresting and abducting his party’s officials during Thursday’s general election, which took place against against the backdrop of an internet
... -
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
The controversial US-funded study on hepatitis B vaccines among newborns in Guinea-Bissau has been halted, according to Yap Boum, a senior official at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“The study has been cancelled,” Boum told journalists at a press
... -
Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Somalis in US
Critics condemn ‘bigoted attack’ as Trump bids to revoke citizenship of naturalized immigrants convicted of fraud
The Trump administration is terminating temporary protected status (TPS) for Somalis living in the United States, giving hundreds of people two
... -
Quarter of developing countries poorer than in 2019, World Bank finds
Global growth ‘downshifted’ since Covid pandemic and sub-Saharan Africa particularly affected, report says
A quarter of countries in the developing world are poorer than they were
... -
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accuses Lagos hospital of negligence after son’s death
Lawyers for Adichie and her husband serve Euracare hospital with legal notice after death of 21-month-old
The Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accused a Lagos hospital of negligence after the death of one of her 21-month-old twin boys.
Nkanu Nnamdi died on 6 January after a brief illness. He was one of twin boys born to Adichie and Ivara Esege, a doctor, in 2024 by
... -
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act over protests in Minneapolis – US politics live
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem says she spoke to Trump about invoking Insurrection Act, saying ‘that certainly is within the president’s constitutional authority’
Donald Trump is in Washington
... -
Trump to discuss Venezuela’s future with Machado after Maduro’s capture
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel prize winner had been sidelined by White House after US seized Maduro
Donald Trump will host María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel peace prize winner, at the White House on Thursday for a
... -
Why big oil giants may not rush to buy into Donald Trump’s Venezuelan vision
It may well be safer, easier and cheaper for US companies to procure whatever oil the US economy needs at home
There are a few reasons that Donald Trump – now self-anointed acting president of Venezuela, as well as the United States – might be so
... -
Venezuela regime claims release of political prisoners is sign of new era
NGOs estimate that there are still close to 1,000 political prisoners in Venezuela despite claims by new leaders
Venezuela’s acting president has claimed that the regime’s release of political prisoners sent a “very clear message” that the country was “opening up to a new political moment”, days after the seizure and rendition of the dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Delcy Rodríguez also
... -
Quebec premier François Legault resigns from post in surprise move
Legault’s abrupt resignation follows months of chaos that has rocked the governing Coalition Avenir Québec party
Quebec’s premier, François Legault, has announced his resignation as leader of the province, in an abrupt departure for the polarizing figure whose embattled government faces the prospects of an electoral wipeout in the
...