World news
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President defends controversial practice of separating migrant children from their parents at the border -
Police say no reason for public to worry after shooting in Sweden’s third biggest city
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Almost 730,000 applications were made in 2017, a 44% drop on the 1.3m made in 2016 -
Nearly 40% of all guns are in hands of US citizens, according to report that says rich countries hold more weapons than poorer nations -
Gonen Segev allegedly met Iranian ‘operators’ in hotels and apartments around world -
UN’s hopes of negotiating ceasefire and handover of vital port of Hodeidah appear dashed
Spotlight
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The Trump administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy has led to almost 2,000 children being separated from their families
Around the world
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Street art world remembers men found at Loughborough Junction as local Tory leader condemned over ‘scum’ tweet -
The president’s opportunistic tweets have raised hackles, but no one can deny that Merkel’s coalition is in trouble, says German blogger Alan Posener -
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The photographer behind the viral image that exposed the anguish of Trump’s controversial border policy speaks out -
As data shows one in every 110 people is displaced, UN special envoy Angelina Jolie warns of ‘terrible human consequences’ of Syria’s aid shortfall -
Opinion & analysis
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One oil spill would destroy our territory. So much for the promise to respect indigenous rights -
Erdoğan is running for president, of course, but who else is in the running for control? -
Results indicate that in an electorate with increasingly few swing voters, motivating the base is what matters most -
As the row in her coalition deepens over migration, a once dominant figure is starting to look forlorn
Pictures and video
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The children of migrants and refugees who cross the southern US border illegally are being separated from their families while their parents face legal proceedings
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Audio appears to capture the distressing cries from young children held at a detention facility in the US after being separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border
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French president dresses down a boy who addressed him by his nickname, ‘Manu’. Macron told the boy that he needed to ‘do things the right way’ and even if he wanted to lead a revolution one day he still needed to address him now as ‘sir’ or ‘Mr President’
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Homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, rejects criticism of children of illegal immigrants being separated from their parents on the US-Mexico border.
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A stop-motion film based on a story written and illustrated by students from refugee backgrounds at a Melbourne primary school
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The President wants America to return to the moon and land on Mars
Hidden City: will giving residents land rights transform a Buenos Aires slum?