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Byline: Melissa Hellmann, Gloria Oladipo and Adria R Walker In the days leading up to last month's Democratic national convention (DNC), some pro-Palestinian groups and individuals expressed cautious excitement about [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor The UK decision to suspend some arms exports to Israel has bolstered the case for Congress to follow the example of its ally, US campaigners [...]

Byline: Neal Lawson If the Green party can't practise a kinder, more thoughtful politics, who can? Last week, Green party activists in Surrey were summarily expelled from the party for [...]

Byline: Andrew Roth and Robert Tait in Washington Benjamin Netanyahu lauded US support for Israel's war in Gaza but offered few details on ceasefire negotiations with Hamas as he addressed [...]

Byline: Robert Tait Capitol Hill is on high alert for a day of protest from thousands of demonstrators representing a broad coalition of groups voicing opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, the [...]

Byline: Nimo Omer Good morning. Anti-government protests are expected to escalate in Kenya after a month of demonstrations that erupted again across the country on Tuesday calling for the president, [...]

Byline: Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent From influencers to activists, hailing from Spain to Slovakia, the more than 700 newly elected members of the European parliament will gather on [...]

Byline: Alice Herman in Milwaukee A rush of activists, politicians and media bound for the Republican national convention have descended on Milwaukee, less than 48 hours after a gunman fired [...]

Byline: Joan E Greve Four years ago, progressives in the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin were energized about the presidential race, feeling ready and eager to elect Joe Biden and [...]

Byline: Damien Gayle Rachel Reeves talks to business executives. She met some in December, after a £150,000 donation to Labour from a financial services firm. She met more in January, [...]

Byline: Pjotr Sauer in Tbilisi Zuka Berdzenishvili's face was a canvas of rainbow colours, his piercing blue eyes partly bloodstained above a pronounced purple bruise. Berdzenishvili, a prominent activist and [...]

Byline: Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels While attention has focused on gains made by far-right and centrist parties in the European Parliament elections, this term's intake includes an assorted -- and [...]

Byline: Sam Levin in Los Angeles More than 800 faculty and staff at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have called for the chancellor's resignation following attacks by counter-protesters [...]

Byline: Carter Sherman Amy knows that a lot of people hate every candidate on the ballot this November. A nurse who's worked for more than a decade at Bread and [...]

Byline: Martin Kettle Faced with a crisis in its direction and its fortunes, a political party can sometimes change. Labour has managed that since 2019. But parties do not change [...]

Byline: Jon Henley, Europe correspondent, and agencies Western politicians and diplomats have called for a halt to spiralling violence in Georgia after security forces used water cannon, teargas, stun grenades [...]

Byline: Owen Jones Laws that are unjust will inevitably be broken. Here is a basic reading of our history, and indeed how numerous rights and freedoms were secured in the [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman in New York The head of ExxonMobil told to 'eat shit' as he was about to receive an award. A US senator and coal boss called a [...]

Byline: Kiran Stacey Political correspondent The Conservative activist who has accused a Tory MP of making a late-night demand for money has said she is appalled by the party's response. [...]

Byline: Daniel Boffey Chief reporter Leading players in Georgia's national men's football team have come out in support of pro-EU protests sparked by a controversial 'foreign influence' bill criticised for [...]

Byline: Matthew Taylor Environment correspondent Are 200,000 jobs really supported by the oil and gas industry in the North Sea? Campaigners and MPs are questioning the longstanding government claim. Ministers [...]

Byline: Benita Kolovos Police have defended the use of pepper spray at a rally that turned violent outside Victoria's parliament, with two women arrested. The #WomenWillSpeak event, which took place [...]

Byline: George Chidi in Atlanta When wrangling legislation, sometimes it's best to sound out a problem in front of you. In Georgia, it sounds like state senator Colton Moore. But [...]

Byline: Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent, and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince 'Madame, madame. They are putting fire everywhere. I just heard it on the radio.' It was late morning last [...]

Byline: Pippa Crerar Political editor Downing Street has accused the BBC presenter Chris Packham of being 'irresponsible' after he said Just Stop Oil had a right to protest outside the [...]

Byline: Rajeev Syal and Aletha Adu Ministers are considering proposals to ban MPs and councillors from engaging with groups such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Extinction Rebellion and Just [...]

Byline: Alice Herman A last-minute push by anti-war activists to reject President Joe Biden over his unwavering support for Israel far exceeded expectations in the Michigan Democratic party primary on [...]

Byline: Joost de Vries in Guatemala City Thelma Cabrera wraps her tiny body around a large mango tree. It is a warm embrace between old acquaintances: as a girl , [...]

Byline: Aletha Adu Political correspondent The home secretary, James Cleverly, is considering further tightening the law around demonstrations, including a requirement for protesters to increase the amount of notice they [...]

Byline: Emily Dugan A leading Labour politician has said there is no justification for MPs to be targeted in their homes and that public life is 'drowning in hate and [...]

Byline: Stella Creasy It's the thing every MP fears, but it is increasingly becoming an occupational hazard: the brick hurled at the office window, the rape and death threats that [...]

Byline: Ben Quinn Political correspondent A Foreign Office minister has ruled out a prisoner swap for the imprisoned Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British citizen, who MPs have expressed [...]

Byline: Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent Australia must step up diplomatic efforts to 'avert the horror of great power conflict' and reduce the risk of being dragged into [...]

Your editorial ( The Guardian view on Jimmy Lai: this sham trial is another bleak day for Hong Kong, 18 December ) claims that the trial of Jimmy Lai's case [...]

Byline: Samuel Okiror in Kampala Civil society groups in Uganda will meet constitutional court judges this week as they attempt to overturn the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ+ law. The law, which [...]

Byline: Kiran Stacey Political correspondent Bob Stewart, the MP found guilty of racially abusing an activist, is to appeal against his conviction, the Guardian has learned. Stewart was found guilty [...]

Byline: Tom Ambrose A former Tory MP has said he will step down at the next general election after being found guilty of racially abusing an activist. Bob Stewart, who [...]

Byline: Kiran Stacey and Aletha Adu At midday on Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people will gather outside Hyde Park in London for what organisers say will be the biggest [...]

Byline: Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Shaikh Azizur Rahman In Bangladesh, there is no more room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition leaders, [...]

Byline: Sarah Basford Canales and Ariel Bogle The conservative advocacy group 'powering' the no campaign almost doubled its donations to raise nearly $5m in the lead up to the historic [...]

Byline: Andrew Sparrow block-time published-time 9.24am GMT Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, has joined calls for Suella Braverman to be sacked. He said: Rishi Sunak must finally act with [...]

Aditya Chakrabortty describes the attitude of the British media and political class towards the 'worsening conflagration in Gaza' as 'again preparing for the vicarious thrill of war', having 'learned nothing [...]

Byline: Robert Tait in Washington Leftwing US Jewish groups gathered outside the White House on Monday to urge the Biden administration to pressure Israel into dropping its plans for a [...]

Byline: Robert Tait in Washington Joe Biden is facing accusations of betraying a pre-election promise to re-evaluate ties with Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in favour of [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker on the Poland-Belarus border Poland's defence, interior and foreign ministers lined up in front of a tall, metal wall topped with barbed wire. Speaking to assembled television [...]

Byline: Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi When Justin Trudeau stood up in Canadian parliament last week to announce there were 'credible allegations' that agents linked to the Indian government had been [...]

Byline: Tory Shepherd block-time published-time 12.25am BST Singer Kamahl has told ABC television that he didn't realise he was 'setting himself in a trap' when he 'flippantly' decided to vote [...]

Byline: Daniel Hurst, Sarah Basford Canales and Josh Butler A senior Coalition frontbencher has warned fellow no voters against attending anti-voice rallies promoted by a pro-Kremlin activist, arguing the events [...]

Byline: Caroline Davies and agency The Conservative MP Bob Stewart has pleaded not guilty to racially abusing a man he allegedly told to 'go back to Bahrain'. The MP for [...]

Byline: Finn Lau and Tim Loughton We are from two different backgrounds and political traditions -- you'd think we might have little in common. Yet China has sought to silence [...]