Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Karim | History Defined

Burned with cigarettes, nail driven into leg: Gaza toddler tortured by Israeli forces to pressure father’s confession

Israeli soldiers reportedly tortured a one-year-old child in central Gaza. The child, Karim, allegedly suffered burns and puncture wounds. This happened while his father, Osama Abu Nassar, was interrogated. The child was later returned to his family. His father remains in detention. The family seeks international intervention for his release.

The Times of India

A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello review – a profound exploration of the inner life

How are we to account for things that lie outside ordinary language? A woman’s emotions are precisely observed in a novel that brilliantly captures what it means to be human

The Guardian - UK

Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent

Bassem Abudagga losing hope after being told wife must go to visa application centre, of which none remain in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’

Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household

The Guardian - UK

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah audiobook review – coming-of-age saga in Tanzania

Three young people step boldly into their adult lives in this elegantly narrated novel from the Nobel laureate

The Guardian - UK

Coffee And Cash: How Hamas Pays Its Civil Servants In Secret

One of thousands of public servants in Gaza's Hamas-run government, Karim, a public works ministry employee, received what seemed like an ordinary message on his phone: an invitation "for a coffee".

International Business Times

Blind date: ‘I hadn’t been on a date for 10 years – I needed to break the mould’

Liaqat, 51, an artist, meets Karim, 48, a musician

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘When they are at risk they text me’: Gaza academic in UK powerless to rescue family

Nearly three years after accepting a UK scholarship, Bassem Abudagga has watched Gaza’s horrors close in on his relatives, and British bureaucracy fail to help

The Guardian - UK

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial Tanzania

The Guardian - UK

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – a masterclass in quicksilver storytelling

The Nobel laureate’s wonderful new novel connects a trio of east African teens as they come of age, moving from small-scale dramas to wide-ranging social panoramas

The Guardian - UK

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review: tightly-plotted excellence

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

Evening Standard

Wolof Academy app bridges language gap with online courses

With the rise of language learning apps, the Wolof Academy is stepping up to meet the demand by offering online courses and virtual classes of Wolof, the language spoken by almost 80 percent of Senegal's population.

Radio France Internationale

Aga Khan, the leader of Ismaili Muslims, laid to rest in Egypt during private burial ceremony

The Aga Khan IV has been laid to rest in Egypt in a private ceremony

The Independent UK

The Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican review: an exuberant affair exploring cultural and sexual identity

4/5 There are terrific performances, puppets and plenty of shagging in this adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

As US Congress cheered for Netanyahu, protesters gathered to denounce him

Thousands rally in Washington, DC, to call for end to Gaza war and rebuke the Israeli prime minister as ‘war criminal’.

The Guardian - UK

‘If they see a Syrian, they beat them up’: the refugees living in fear in Lebanon

The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating

The Guardian - UK

Choice by Neel Mukherjee review – twisty tales of morals

A publisher and his authors debate the balance of power between reader and writer in a novel comprising three long, loosely linked tales

The Guardian - UK

‘I wish I had never come to the UK’: Palestinian academic despairs of getting visas for family stuck in Gaza

A lecturer doing his PhD on a British Council scholarship in York is frightened for his wife and two small children who are under Israeli bombardment

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

On the midnight express train across Turkey

On the final journey in our long-distance rail series we take the Doğu Express, which runs east from the Turkish capital, Ankara, towards Kars and the border with Georgia

The Times of India

Man caught doing unnatural sex with dog; FIR lodged at Mumbra

MUMBAI: An alert citizen recently caught on camera an elderly man having unnatural sex with a stray dog at Azad Nagar in Mumbra.

Zenger

Israeli Arab Activist Stands Firm After Attack On Flight

A prominent Israeli-Arab social media activist accosted on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv for his unabashedly pro-Israel posts

The Guardian - UK

‘They were earning £10,000 more than me!’ What happens when colleagues come clean about pay

Most employees don’t like to talk about how much they earn. Many are simply afraid to. But breaking that taboo can transform life – especially for women and people of colour

The Guardian - UK

Four arrested in France after deaths of six men in Channel crossing

At least two of detained Iraqis and Sudanese suspected to have links to human trafficking networks

France 24

‘Building bridges’ in a Parisian suburb amid unrest fears

A team of social workers tasked with preventing public disorder in the Paris suburb of Malakoff did the rounds ahead of Bastille Day after weeks of rioting. On a sunny weekend evening, the modus operandi of engaging with the community appeared to have worked.

Pedestrian.tv

Tributes Flow For Sydney Woman Amira Moughnieh As Police Charge 39 Y.O. Man With Her Murder

"She was just trying to start an independent life as a single mother on her own."

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Sydney Morning Herald

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.