world news
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Italian government official says no sensitive information was compromised in attack belieed to have lasted more than four months last year
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Judges upheld order issued last week to prevent 90-day travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries and 120-day freeze on US admission of any refugees
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Referendum to be held after president approves bill on constitutional changes that could allow him to rule until 2029
spotlight
around the world
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UKUKCounter-terrorism unit arrests man arriving at Gatwick from IraqScotland Yard officers had stopped 44-year-old man from Hertfordshire under schedule 7 of Terrorism Act as he left plane
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EuropeEuropeIreland to legalise cannabis for specific medical conditionsPatients with multiple sclerosis, severe epilepsy, or undergoing chemotherapy could be given drug despite safety fears
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Major funding commitment to help ‘virtually bankrupt’ country shake off legacy of dictatorship, as President Adama Barrow promises better life for Gambians
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An initiative sending teams into isolated communities to X-ray patients and give treatment is improving diagnosis rates, in a country where TB is one of the leading causes of death for people aged 15-49
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opinion & analysis
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US leader has softened on a range of issues. Is he a bully who relents when challenged, or is he learning the limits of his power?
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For the supreme court to strike down the temporary restraining order on Trump’s travel ban, one of its four liberal-leaning justices would have to break ranks
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Major attacks on westerners and supposed plots receive blanket coverage, but the vast majority of deaths are among Muslims
pictures and video
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Reaction as a panel of judges rule to uphold a temporary restraining order that is blocking the enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the US
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The Observer photographer David Newell Smith visited Iran in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran from exile in Paris, ending the Shah’s rule. On the revolution’s anniversary, the Guardian’s Iran correspondent, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, chooses a selection of his photos
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The White House press secretary is questioned by Sirius XM radio reporter Jared Rizzi on why the president tweets about, for example, his daughter’s fashion line being dropped from a clothing store, but not the Quebec mosque attack
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The US president suffered a further legal blow when appeals court judges refused to reinstate his travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries
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Pete Souza, the former chief photographer for Barack Obama in the White House, appears to be attempting to troll Donald Trump on Instagram
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Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson says appeals court ‘granted everything we sought’ in upholding suspension of Donald Trump’s travel ban
Hundreds of whales die in mass stranding on New Zealand beach