Middle East and north Africa
US shoots down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier, navy says
Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says
Inside Guardian Weekly
Time to talk? Inside the 6 February Guardian WeeklyFrench magistrate reportedly summons two French-Israelis over ‘complicity in genocide’
Today in Focus
Gaza: Rafah crossing reopens under Israeli restrictions - The LatestHuman Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison
Palestinians hope for more after limited Rafah crossing opening – video
With just weeks left on her Australian student visa, one Iranian woman fears she will be executed if she has to return
Now that Israel has admitted the Gaza death toll is accurate, don’t let apologists move the goalposts
Ben ReiffWar, a Trump-imposed deal or internal regime collapse: for Tehran, none of the options are good
Sanam VakilIran’s president says Tehran ready to pursue ‘fair’ talks with US
Music and dancing signify defiance at celebratory funerals of Iran’s protesters
The long read
Shock, awe, death, joy and looting: how the Guardian covered the outbreak of the Iraq war
Handful of sick and wounded Palestinians allowed through Rafah crossing on first day
First medical evacuee leaves Gaza as Rafah crossing reopens for handful of Palestinians – as it happened
‘A violation of our history’: Palestinian uproar over Israel’s plan to seize historic West Bank site
Hold on to Her review – horrific death of a two-year-old puts immigration crackdown in spotlight
‘Yes, they would execute a child’: the film about a girl who has to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein
Do You Love Me review – exhilarating documentary is ode to the collective courage of Lebanese people
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