Justices deny president’s effort to rescind Trump programBlow to Biden as trio of liberal justices dissent in 6-3 rulingThe US supreme court on Tuesday denied Joe Biden’s bid to rescind an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump…
Afghanistan: G7 leaders to seek unity on Taliban as deadline for evacuation looms
Group of world leaders expected to discuss fraught evacuation deadline, sanctions and human rightsAfghanistan – latest updatesG7 leaders will be under pressure to present a united front at an emergency summit on Afghanistan on Tuesday despite public di…
Kamala Harris accuses Beijing of ‘coercion’ and ‘intimidation’ in South China Sea
In major speech delivered in Singapore, US vice president says America stands with its allies in the Indo Pacific in the face of threats from ChinaUS vice president Kamala Harris has delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the South Chi…
My children have had their first taste of competitive sport – and they love it | Emma Brockes
At school in New York, any whiff of competition is firmly avoided. Not so at my six-year-olds’ summer tennis campThere’s a game I play with my children that we never tire of, in which I share details – outlandish, unimaginable – of how things were in t…
‘I’m a citizen with no country:’ Mark Sanford on turning against Trump and his party
Former South Carolina governor talks about his memoir that links his decision to lessons learned from an extramarital affair in 2009 and his attempt to cover it upMark Sanford is not the first Republican to turn against former US president Donald Trump…
Afghan guard killed in Kabul airport gun battle
One dead in firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guardsA firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guards at Kabul airport has left one Afghan guard dead and three wounded, underscoring the fragile secur…
Hundreds clash in Portland as Proud Boys rally descends into violence
Running street battle ends in gunfight after ‘Summer of love’ protest in a parking lot of a former Kmart store A rightwing protest in Portland on Sunday has culminated in a gunfight, when antifascist demonstrators returned fire at a man who shot at the…
Why the west will learn no lessons from the fall of Kabul | Nesrine Malik
From Sudan to Iraq to Afghanistan, self-righteous US and UK policies have more to do with power than peopleIn August 1998, two weeks after a little-known terror outfit called al-Qaida announced itself to the world with bomb attacks on the American emba…
Tennessee floods death toll rises to 22 as Biden offers help
Record rainfall fueled flash floods in rural town of WaverlyGovernor surveys devastation as families seek missingAt least 22 people were confirmed dead on Sunday as rescue crews searched desperately amid shattered homes for dozens still missing after r…
Johnson to urge Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport after 31 August
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will personally lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders summit, No 10 said on Sunday night, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end o…