Jerhonda Pace, first witness at the R Kelly sex-trafficking trial, says the singer ‘slapped me and he choked me until I passed out’A key accuser at the R Kelly sex-trafficking trial returned to the witness stand on Thursday, saying he often videotaped …
Even the crisis in Afghanistan can’t break the spell of Britain’s delusional foreign policy | Owen Jones
As MPs lamented the unfolding disaster in parliament, they showed no sign of learning from itIf historians of the future wish to understand the ignorance and hubris that accompanied the decline of the west’s power, this week’s emergency parliamentary d…
Meng Wanzhou: ‘princess of Huawei’ who became the face of a high-stakes dispute
The executive’s case has sent China’s relations with the US and Canada plummeting with accusations of political arrests and ‘hostage diplomacy’Until she was detained at Vancouver airport in December 2018, Meng Wanzhou was not a household name. But the …
Coronavirus live news: Japan reports record cases ahead of Paralympics, New Zealand cluster grows
Critical care beds are reaching capacity in Japan while New Zealand is racing to contain a cluster in Auckland that has grown to 21Jabbed adults infected with Delta ‘can match virus levels of unvaccinated’Japan sees record number of Covid cases days be…
‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemicIn October 2019, a month or so before Covid-19 began to spread from the industrial Chinese city of W…
Grizzly Flats: the California town leveled by the Caldor fire – in pictures
Houses were reduced to piles of ash and cars to twisted metal as the blaze rushed through the El Dorado county town Continue reading…
Britain fears US forces may pull out of Kabul airport within days
Exclusive: Whitehall and security sources worry they will not be able to continue emergency evacuationsAfghanistan live news: latest updatesBritain fears US forces may pull out of Kabul international airport within days, putting it at risk of closure a…
Former Purdue Pharma chair denies responsibility for US opioid crisis
Richard Sackler, 76, says in bankruptcy court he, his family and company are not responsible for epidemicThe former president and board chair of Purdue Pharma told a court Wednesday that he, his family and the company are not responsible for the opioid…
Caldor fire levels California town of Grizzly Flats as dry weather fuels blazes
Two people hospitalized with serious injuries as houses reduced to ash and post office and school destroyedFew homes were left standing in Grizzly Flats, California, the small northern California forest town leveled by the Caldor fire on Tuesday.Street…
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s foreign policy: a lethal vacuum | Editorial
Parochial complacency define the prime minister’s view of the world, leaving him unequal to the crisis in AfghanistanThe prime minister told parliament on Wednesday that Britain was prepared for the fall of Kabul and also that it could not have been f…