Thousands rallied in the capital behind the far-right populist but polls suggest his presidency is coming off the rails ahead of next year’s elections André Meneses made a gun sign with his hands to convey what he thought should happen to those who opp…
Biden surveys Hurricane Ida damage and warns ‘climate change was here’ – live
Biden to tour neighborhoods affected by last week’s huge stormAbbott says ‘election integrity is now law in the state of Texas’Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email 7.41pm BST Joe Biden toured one of the neighborhoods in Manville…
Taliban name all-male Afghan cabinet including minister wanted by FBI
Country will once again be officially known as an Islamic emirate, as at least two people killed in protestsThe Taliban have announced an all-male caretaker government including an interior minister wanted by the FBI, on a day when at least two people …
Tory MPs urge Priti Patel to return migrants who attempt to enter UK illegally
Suggestion to home secretary condemned as breach of UN convention on human rightsConservative MPs have urged the home secretary, Priti Patel, to send back immediately anyone including children who boards an illegal crossing of the Channel from France.T…
El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment goes live – as president offers tech support
Nayib Bukele tweeted advice as the cryptocurrency became legal tender – not entirely smoothly – but critics call it a big distractionOn the day El Salvador adopted bitcoin as legal tender, its president spent the morning providing technical support fro…
Animals ‘shapeshifting’ in response to climate crisis, research finds
Warm-blooded animals are changing beaks, legs and ears to adapt to hotter climate and better regulate temperatureAnimals are increasingly “shapeshifting” because of the climate crisis, researchers have said.Warm-blooded animals are changing their physi…
Judgment day for Afghanistan: the ‘raw’ legal drama trying Britain for war crimes
The conflict lasted two brutal decades. Now a people’s tribunal – of actors, human rights experts, witnesses and citizen judges – is staging a trial of the invasion. Tony Blair has been invitedTwenty years after the start of the coalition invasion of A…
Myanmar opposition announces ‘defensive war’ against junta
Acting president of self-declared government calls on civilian armed groups to target military that seized power in February coupMyanmar’s self-declared parallel government, which was set up by pro-democracy politicians, has announced a “defensive war”…
Merkel urges Germans to back her party’s choice of successor
Outgoing chancellor implores public to pick Armin Laschet over his surging centre-left rivalAngela Merkel has used what is likely to be her last speech in the German parliament to make her most impassioned intervention in the electoral race so far, urg…
‘This is still here’: Bess Wohl’s story of seduction in a Nazi summer camp
The US playwright’s new drama, at the Old Vic in London, is a tragicomic romance amid swastika-shaped flowerbeds. She talks about finding a dark past on a trip to Long IslandIn May 2020, the playwright Bess Wohl rented a house in Bellport, Long Island,…