My longread on ‘The Mountain’ - Palestinian journalist Wael Al Dahdouh, and the killings of Palestinian journalists and their families in Gaza. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

"I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else": the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh, by Nesrine Malik theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just the start of his heartbreaking journey theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Canada's deputy foreign minister has publicly accused India's home minister Amit Shah of being behind a recent series of plots to murder Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. Who is Amit Shah? Read this definitive profile to find out theguardian.com/world/article/…

The most read piece from our archive over the past week: How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels, by Kate Lyons theguardian.com/environment/20…

Has poppymania gone too far? by Samira Shackle theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

Over the past 20 years, the symbol of remembrance for the war dead has become increasingly ubiquitous – and a culture of poppy policing has grown with it theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

From our archive: The terror of living under siege as a child, by Zarlasht Halaimzai theguardian.com/world/2023/oct…

Inside the Paris attacks trial, by Emmanuel Carrère theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Emmanuel Carrère inside the Paris attacks trial: 'A man stood up and said: "Stop it. What are you doing?" One of the killers shot him' theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

On 13 November 2015, 130 people were murdered in Paris by Islamist extremists. Six years later, the trial began. Emmanuel Carrère attended court every day to try to understand the killers and hear from those whose lives had been irrevocably changed theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank, by Simon Parkin theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

this makes for painful reading--but it should be read. thank you to Longreads for continuing to provide such important essays, articles, memoirs.

During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

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