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‘Political Thunderstorm’: Inside Trump’s Attacks on the Somali Community Thousands of Workers Flee Cambodia Scam Centres, Officials Say United Arab Emirates Plans to Bankroll First ‘Planned Community’ in South Gaza UK Supermarkets Push for Amazon Soy Safeguards After Traders Abandon Ban South Korea’s ‘World-first’ AI Laws Face Pushback Amid Bid to Become Leading Tech Power Budapest Mayor Charged Over His Calls for People to Defy Hungary’s Pride Ban Pikachu and Pals Go Wild: Pokémon Theme Park Opens in Tokyo ‘We Didn’t Make It for a White Audience’: How Black Theatre Took Centre Stage in Australia ‘You Feel Obligated’: African Workers on the Pain – and Pride – of the ‘Black Tax’ Taliban Birth Control Ban: Women ‘Broken’ by Lethal Pregnancies and Untreated Miscarriages The Arts of War: Can Europe’s Artists Embrace the Idea of ‘Armed Pacifism’? ‘No Other Option’: Inside the Refugee Camp for Trans Americans Fleeing Trump Canada Separatists Accused of ‘Treason’ After Secret Talks With US State Department The Revolutionary Women of Rojava Are in Grave Danger. That Has Consequences for Us All All-Night Concerts Bring Fleeting Normalcy in a War-Ravaged Nation Why Japan’s Leader Won’t Enter the Male-Dominated Sumo Ring Despite Trump’s Words, China and Russia Are Not Threatening Greenland A City Where Every Step Outside Risks Death by Drone 430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found A 200-Year Mystery: Finding the Missing Portrait of Scotland’s Top Poet

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January 23, 2026

• Smuggled to Suburbia: No End to Danger for Ethiopians Looking for Better Life in South Africa
• ‘Why Was It Me?’ Mon Rovîa​ on Going From War-torn Liberia to US Folk-pop Stardom
• Colombian Ex-paramilitary Leader Jailed for Crimes Against Indigenous Groups
• UK to Hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius Despite Trump’s Taunts, No 10 Says
• Indonesia Takes Action Against Mining Firms After Floods Devastate Population of World’s Rarest Ape
• ‘Exclusively for the Elite’: Why Mumbai’s New Motorway is a Symbol of the Divide Between Rich and Poor
• Vienna Closes Museums and Cuts Opening Hours as Part of Austerity Drive
• Trump Threatens 25% Tariff on European Allies Until Denmark Sells Greenland to US
• Inside the Magic and Chaos of the Africa Cup of Nations
• Chinese Tourists Shun Japan in Wake of Taiwan Invasion Row
• ‘We Need to Fight’: Trump Greenland Threat Brings Sense of Unity in Denmark
• ‘Island of Peace’: Israeli-Palestinian Restaurant in Berlin to Close – but Live on as TV Series
• ‘Treated Like Shirkers’: German Unions Cry Foul Over Merz’s Sick-note Crackdown
• The Best of the Long Read in 2025
• ‘We Played to 8,000 Mexicans Who Knew Every Word’: How the Whitest Boy Alive Conquered the World
• ‘Brazen’ Political Influence of Rich Laid Bare as Wealth of Billionaires Reaches $18.3tn, Says Oxfam
• Sweet Thing: a Personal Look at a Photographer’s Cuban Slavery Heritage – Photo Essay
• ‘A Grenade Under Her Pillow?’: the Filipino Journalist Jailed for Six Years Without Trial
• Kennedy Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies is Blocked
• What Are the Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia Base?
• Thousands Evicted From the 19th-Century ‘Venice of Nigeria’
• 36 Hours in Mexico City
• Judge Recommends U.S. Issue Visa to Student Who Was Deported in Error
• A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
• No Beer for You: How British Pubs Fought a Tax Increase

• Rights Groups Hail Acquittal After Seven Years of Aid Workers Prosecuted During Greece Refugee Crisis
• ‘It’s Not the 90s Any More’: the All-women Team Reinventing Abortion Advice for the TikTok Age
• The Dangerous Rise of Buddhist Extremism: ‘Attaining Nirvana Can Wait’ – Podcast
• Cloth Wraps Treated With ‘Dirt Cheap’ Insecticide Cut Malaria Cases in Babies
• ‘We’re in Danger of Extinction’: Can Bolivia’s ‘Water People’ Survive a Rising Tide of Salt and Migration?
• Brutal, Vibrant and Creative: Capturing the Soul of Latin America in 100 Photographs
• Cymbal of Unity? South Korea and Japan Leaders Bash Out K-pop Hits After Summit Talks
• Trump Administration Says Deporting College Student Trying to Surprise Family Was a ‘Mistake’
• Country Diary: a Palace of Sunlight on a Short Winter’s Day
• What Do People in Greenland Think of Trump’s Threats? – Video
• Explainer BTS Named Their New Album Arirang. What is so Striking About Their Choice?
• ‘Garden of Eden’: the Spanish Farm Growing Citrus You’ve Never Heard of
• Spain’s Meteorologists Subjected to ‘Alarming’ Rise in Hate Speech, Minister Warns
• How Demand for Elite Falcons in the Middle East is Driving Illegal Trade of British Birds
• Ferraris for All and Wine on Tap: Satirical Candidate Shakes up Portugal’s Presidential Election
• Is It the End of the Line for One of India’s Most Distinctive Garments?
• U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments
• 36 Hours in Sapporo, Japan
• Beijing Won Its War for Blue Skies, but Villagers Are Paying the Price
• Why China is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty
• Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World
• Trump Says London is Unsafe. Its Murder Rate Just Hit a Historic Low.
• Archaeologists Find Large Roman Villa Under Deer Park in Wales
• No Amazon, No Gmail: Trump Sanctions Upend the Lives of I.C.C. Judges

January 9, 2026

January 2, 2026

• ‘Freedom is a City Where You Can Breathe’: Four Experts on Europe’s Most Liveable Major Cities
• Strike a Pose: Vogue Balls Go Mainstream in New Zealand
• ‘Yamagata is Ramen’: Japan’s City of Noodle Fiends Revels in ‘Capital’ Status
• From Tourism to Wine, Syrian Businesses Flounder in Post-Assad Cultural Flux
• 52 Places to Go in 2026
• Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows
• Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution Jawbones and Other Remains, Similar to Specimens Found in
• In Lagos, December is Time to Get Down and ‘Detty’
• Days After U.S. Strikes in Nigeria, Gunmen Kill Dozens of Villagers
• Buy Greenland? Take It? Why? an Old Pact Already Gives Trump a Free Hand.
• ‘Hard to Say Who’s Winning’: China and Australia Battle for Influence in Solomon Islands Policing
• Cremation Pyre in Africa Thought to Be World’s Oldest Containing Adult Remains
• Women Behind the Lens: Six of Our Most Striking Images From 2025
• Two Weeks On, Questions Linger Over Targeting and Impact of US Airstrikes in Nigeria
• ‘We Live With War Over Our Heads’: the Romanian Villagers Threatened by Russian Drones
• ‘Magical Place’: Tourists See Another Side of Papua New Guinea’s Most Troubled Region
• Country Diary: a Palace of Sunlight on a Short Winter’s Day
• ‘Our Minerals Could Be Used to Annex Us’: Why Canada Doesn’t Want US Mining
• ‘The Pressure is Too Much’: Lesotho’s Garment Workers on the Frontline of Trump Tariffs