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The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:16 (2 days ago)

Women in developing countries hardest hit by rising debt burden, UN research finds

Study warns women face job losses and increased unpaid care duties as debt and conflict-driven turbulence force spending cuts

Women are hit hardest when the debt burden in developing countries rises, a trend expected to worsen as the war in the Middle East continues, UN research shows.

A report by experts from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), based on data from 85 countries gathered across three decades, shows women are disproportionately affected when debt repayments increase significantly.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:15 (2 days ago)

Could Iran’s escalating economic crisis weaken negotiating position with US?

War has combined with battered economy to leave Tehran wondering how hardline it can afford to be

Iran may not be choking like a stuffed pig as Donald Trump predicted, but its economy is in serious difficulty as a combination of a massive war-damages bill, inflation, currency devaluation, unemployment and a contraction in oil revenues combine to leave the political elite worrying how hardline they can afford to be with their US negotiators. One estimate circulating in Iran’s media suggests the damage to the economy from the US-Israeli attacks is nine times the value of the Iranian budget last year.

The UN Development Programme has estimated that 4.1 million more Iranians could fall into poverty.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:15 (2 days ago)

Sketches of Spain at arms: Sim, the anarchist illustrator who drew the civil war from the frontline

José Luis Rey Vila’s powerful sketches of street battles and wearied soldiers brought the conflict to the world. A new show in Barcelona celebrates his overlooked legacy

Pablo Picasso may be the artist most famously associated with the Spanish civil war, but as the rifles fired in revolutionary Catalonia, it was those on the frontlines who first captured the conflict. One of the most important was José Luis Rey Vila, whose sketches brought the rhythms of war to life in bold, blocky lines with splashes of intense colour.

Full of urgency and movement, many of his sketches document anarchist militias engaged in street battles; others depict more sanguine scenes after the fighting stopped. In charcoal and watercolours, Rey Vila produced arresting portraits of red-capped volunteers, nurses tending the wounded, and the women of the milicianas raising their fists on the move. His work travelled far at exhibits and in widely reproduced booklets, raising international awareness before Picasso’s cubist horrors relayed the destruction of Guernica to the world.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:14 (2 days ago)

Mummy, is this a video game? The dangers of showing kids art on a screen

The rise of multisensory installations like Frameless are an inspiring way for children to interact with art – but do they risk making the real thing seem less exciting?

You know Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights? That psychedelic triptych chock-a-block with creatures real and imagined and the monstrosities of hell? Well, my toddler and I are in it. To be precise, we’re slap-bang in the middle of the cosmic central panel, which is projected on to the wide walls around us, as well as the ceiling and the floor. There are naked men and women riding bareback on ducks and deer and horses. Camels and cattle. Butterflies and birds. Pale legs lolling from a shell.

This is our first trip to Frameless, an immersive art experience near Marble Arch in London that bills itself as a place “where art breaks free”. Call me a traditionalist, but digital art isn’t usually my thing. I enjoyed David Hockney at the Lightroom, where I also took my son to see the dinosaurs – the day we went, the audience was almost exclusively made up of tots and their adults. But I prefer paintings to be still rather than animated. I like to concentrate on a canvas rather than watch it deconstruct and dissolve. I want art to be meaningful and long-lasting. Tangible. Real.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:14 (2 days ago)

Yes, the king's US visit will go down in history: it marked the death throes of an old era | Nesrine Malik

Both nations are tarred by irreconcilable crises that could unravel democracy itself – sanity and stability have never felt further from reach

A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you expect to see in a school history book, or a documentary many years from now. Here is King Charles’s 2026 state visit to the United States, right between the chapters on the war on Iran and the global energy crisis. Here is an image of the entire constellation of Trumpland, dining on spring-herbed ravioli and dover sole. Look at this interesting antiquity of the time: the gold plates, the universal sign of a regime at the peak of excess. And there you see the foreign dignitary, making a speech that at the time felt like bold truth-telling, but as we all now know was little more than naive theatre while the whole world teetered on the precipice.

The cast of characters behind the era-ending crisis were present, helpfully concentrated in one place to illustrate to those in the future how it came to this, and by whose hands. The money men, the Lord Haw-Haws, the nepo babies, the quislings. Seven guests from Fox News, seven members of the Trump family, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and – a little treat for golf-loving Trump – the Masters champion, Rory McIlroy, who the president made stand up to show off, breaking away from his state address to say: “Congratulations! Very proud of you.” If you wanted a snapshot of the forces that underpin the Trump administration, indifferent to its colossal violations, here it was – billionaire-funded corporate media, big tech, private equity and stars just happy to be so close to so much power.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-04 01:00:13 (2 days ago)

Spring soup and bean and cheese quesadillas: Thomasina Miers’ Mexican-inspired seasonal recipes

Mexican spring soup followed by black bean and three-cheese quesadilla

I have always loved the evident (though not proven) link between how foodie a country is and its love of soups. In Mexico, where nose-to-tail eating is a given, broths maintain a steadying presence in any self-respecting cantina, and soups are commonplace on most menus. We don’t eat a crazy amount of meat at home, but having homemade stock in the freezer is an ingenious fast track to flavour and goodness. Here, whether your stock is chicken or vegetable, homemade or shop-bought, the joy is in the gentle spicing, a scattering of herbs, zingy tomatillos and some lovely spring leaves.

Fox News - Video

2026-05-04 00:55:17 (2 days ago)

Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy - Sunday, May 3

FNC, equality in america, iran nuclear threat, comey charged, us national debt

Fox News - Video

2026-05-04 00:46:07 (2 days ago)

Cancer patient beats survival odds with new chemo medication: 'I'll take it'

Dave Nitsche, 57, was initially given just 12 to 24 months to live – but an experimental drug has helped him surpass that timeframe by several years.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-05-04 00:45:52 (2 days ago)

Detained Gaza aid flotilla activists arrive in Netherlands

Two activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived in the Netherlands after being released from Israeli custody.

New York Times - World News

2026-05-04 00:45:37 (2 days ago)

DeepSeek’s Sequel

China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win.

Globo News - Mundo

2026-05-04 00:45:15 (2 days ago)

Ataque a tiros em festa deixa pelo menos 12 feridos em Oklahoma, nos EUA

A polícia isolou as proximidades do boulevard S. Air Depot em Edmond, Oklahoma, após um tiroteio em um acampamento no Lago Arcadia, no sábado, 3 de maio de 2026. AP/Alonzo Adams Pelo menos 12 pessoas foram levadas a hospitais após um ataque a tiros em uma festa no Lago Arcadia, em Edmond, em Oklahoma, segundo a polícia local. Até o momento, ninguém foi preso. A porta-voz da polícia de Edmond, Emily Ward, disse que as autoridades receberam vários relatos de disparos contra um grupo de jovens perto do Lago Arcadia por volta das 21h. “Esta é obviamente uma situação muito assustadora e entendemos a preocupação do público e dos envolvidos. Estamos trabalhando intensamente para encontrar os suspeitos”, disse Ward. Ela disse que, além das 10 pessoas incialmente levadas para hospitais, outras podem ter dirigido até o local por conta própria. Ela afirmou que as vítimas estavam em "diversas condições". Já segundo um porta-voz do sistema hospitalar, nove feridos foram encaminhados ao Integris Health Baptist Medical Center, em Oklahoma City, e três ao Integris Health Edmond Hospital. Todos ainda passavam por avaliação até o fim da noite. Embora a polícia não tenha dado detalhes sobre a festa, um panfleto publicado nas redes sociais sugeria que um evento chamado Sunday Funday estava programado para ocorrer perto do lago naquela noite. O Arcadia Lake fica a cerca de 21 quilômetros ao norte de Oklahoma City e é um reservatório artificial usado para controle de enchentes, além de ser um local popular para lazer, com atividades como pesca, passeios de barco e camping. A área pertence à cidade de Edmond, que tem cerca de 100 mil habitantes. Há 40 anos, Edmond foi palco de um dos piores massacres em locais de trabalho da história dos Estados Unidos. Em 20 de agosto de 1986, o funcionário dos correios Patrick Sherrill matou 14 colegas antes de tirar a própria vida. *Com informações da Associated Press. Vídeos em alta no g1

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-05-04 00:34:07 (2 days ago)

Cheaper durians for China, Hong Kong helpers camp in tents: 5 weekend reads you missed

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Durian Express? China brings in cheaper fruit with new Southeast Asia train 2. ‘Structural shift’: new routes for Middle East freight to bypass Hormuz 3. ‘Nowhere to go’: helpers pushed out of parks spend day off in tents at bus terminus 4. Why Beijing now wants its spies executed in Taiwan back...