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9 March 2025

  • The coffins of 34 Belgian resistance fighters executed by the German army

    ‘You are free again’: farewell letters of executed Belgian resistance fighters found, 80 years on

  • Sepideh Gholian

    Crumble, cookies and madeleines – recipes of hope for Iran’s jailed women

  • Masoud Pezeshkian and Abdolnasser Hemmati in the Iranian parliament.

    Iran is riven with conflict. Donald Trump’s offer of talks won’t ease it

  • Students marching in Athens on Friday with placards stating 'I Have No Oxygen' as MPs debated a vote of confidence over the Tempe rail disaster.

    Grief and anger over rail disaster brings protests back to Greece’s streets

8 March 2025

  • Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble of destroyed buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on 1 March.

    Dread haunts Gaza as airstrikes dent hopes of renewed ceasefire

  • The village of Ilulissat, with a population of about 4,000, sits among glaciers and snow-covered hills in Ilulissat, Greenland.

    ‘It’s very unpredictable’: divided Greenland prepares to vote amid Trump-inspired existential crisis

2 March 2025

  • The team of the Al-Tahera church (Upper Monastery) reconstruction

    ‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins

    City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace

1 March 2025

  • A Palestinian family walks in a tent camp adjacent to destroyed buildings in Gaza City.

    Gaza ceasefire talks stall, as Egypt proposes long-term reconstruction plan

    Israel had agreed partial troop withdrawal by 9 March, but start of second phase of truce hits impasse
  • Elias Maalouf, owner of Chateau Rayak, surveys his vineyard in the Bekaa valley in central Lebanon.

    ‘The grapes won’t wait’: Lebanese winemakers fight to survive as war rages

    Owners of vineyards in the Bekaa valley are focused more on Israeli air strikes than this year’s vintage. How are these family-run businesses coping?
  • Multistorey hotel block by sunny tourist beach

    Holidays at a one-time Communist luxury beach haven? Yugoslav resort built for Tito to rise from ruins

    Revolutionary leader’s derelict Adriatic getaway is on verge of a new life after starring in Kate Winslet film and hit Mr Beast YouTube video

February 2025

  • Chair for Ray Alexander, created from 1990 to 1992 Sue Williamson A Chair for Ray Alexander 1990-1992 Wood, colour laser copies, fabric, enamel paint, vinyl, archival Ink on archival paper,& All Our Mothers, Ray Alexander edition 2/6 Chair: 86 x 51.5 x 57 cm (33.9 x 20.3 x 22.4 in.) Six framed Copies: 44 x 32.7 cm (17.3 x 12.9 in.) Unframed: 42 x 29.7 cm (16.5 x 11.7 in.) Unique

    ‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa

  • CDU leader Friedrich Merz, centre, clasping his hands, at an election rally in a stadium full of people in Oberhausen, Germany, on Friday.

    German voters head to polls facing world of change as far right waits in the wings

  • US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.

    Steve Witkoff: from property developer to global spotlight as Trump’s tough-talking troubleshooter

  • Debutant dancers line up for the first dance during the annual Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria

    Waltz this way: rival venues in Vienna compete to celebrate Johann Strauss’s 200th birthday

  • ‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients

  • How a faded New York hotel became a lethal political battleground

  • ‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India

  • Athens resists as investors swoop on the city’s ‘neighbourhood of the gods’

  • Kosovo goes to the polls as the shadow of Trump looms large

  • ‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools

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