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The week around the world in 20 pictures
ByJim Powell December 26, 2025

Christmas in Kyiv, destruction in the West Bank, the funeral of Mani and the winter solstice at Stonehenge: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading…

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The best of the long read in 2025
ByMiddle East and north Africa | The Guardian December 23, 2025

Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the yearVictor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sell…

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The week around the world in 20 pictures
ByJim Powell December 19, 2025

The Bondi beach terror attack, the Brown University shooting, ICE in Chicago and a fallen Statue of Liberty: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Continue reading…

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Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens
ByPatrick Wintour in Tripoli December 16, 2025

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in…

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Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest at Israel taking part in 2026
ByLisa O’Carroll December 11, 2025

‘Clear conflict’ between Eurovision ideals of ‘inclusion and dignity for all’ and decision to let Israel compete, says 2024 winnerNemo, the Swiss singer who won the 2024 Eurovision song contest, has said they are handing back their trophy in protest ov…

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Animalia review – megaflood strikes in haunting, eerie debut about liberation and the unknown
ByCath Clarke December 9, 2025

A pregnant woman’s journey becomes a surreal exploration of class, gender and spiritual transformation in Sofia Alaoui’s striking debutThis film’s tagline tells only half the story: “A young pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.”…

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‘It went gangbusters’: the play about the Iraq war – told through the eyes of a starving Baghdad zoo tiger
ByArifa Akbar December 8, 2025

As bombs fell on the capital, a Bengal tiger was left all alone – until a US marine shot it. Rajiv Joseph explains why he brought the beast back from the dead for his Pulitzer-nominated dramaA play that dramatises the thoughts of a tiger on the bombed-…

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Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
ByPeter Bradshaw December 3, 2025

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Re…

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Cover-Up review – atrocity exposer Seymour Hersh, journalist legend, gets a moment in the spotlight
ByPeter Bradshaw December 3, 2025

Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Re…

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TV tonight: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells the story of her Iranian prison ordeal
By December 3, 2025

She recounts the shocking experience in this excellent documentary. Plus: the investigation into the Sycamore Gap tree. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two“My child was not even two when I left her … She was nearly eight when I came back.” Fo…

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