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The week around the world in 20 pictures

18 avril 2025 à 19:33

Russian airstrikes in Sumy, a paediatric hospital in Gaza, Holy Week processions in Spain and Rory McIlroy winning the Masters: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

  • Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
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© Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images

Federal judge blocks Musk team’s effort to shutter top consumer agency

Order comes a day after the ‘efficiency’ team sent out orders to lay off 1,500 of the agency’s 1,700 employees

A federal court has blocked the sweeping termination of staff at the top US consumer protection agency, a day after the Trump administration moved to axe around 1,500 of the agency’s 1,700 workforce, while officials investigate whether the action violated existing judicial orders.

The ruling from judge Amy Berman Jackson put a legal hurdle in front of mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Thursday, which came after a federal appeals court modified – but did not eliminate – an injunction limiting the agency’s ability to terminate employees.

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© Photograph: Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Gina M Randazzo/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Robbie Williams says he feels ‘panic’ when fans approach in public

Pop star posts on Instagram about his fright and ‘discomfort’ when asked for photos and autographs

Robbie Williams has spoken of the “discomfort” and “panic” he feels when he is approached for photos and autographs by fans.

In a post on Instagram, the pop star said he was able to “mask” the reality that social interactions frighten him.

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© Photograph: Brittany Long/Publishd/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Brittany Long/Publishd/REX/Shutterstock

‘It was very overwhelming’: wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks out

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, gives interview after learning he’s alive

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported to El Salvador, on Friday expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him.

“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview.

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© Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/EPA

© Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/EPA

The Guardian view on Sudan’s third year of conflict: a war against civilians | Editorial

18 avril 2025 à 18:23

The ambitions of two generals and the interests of other states have led to the massacre of adults and children already forced to flee their homes

Sudan has begun its third year of civil war in the bleakest manner imaginable: mourning the massacre of hundreds of civilians and relief workers in displacement camps in Darfur. What began as a power struggle between generals has led to the killing of tens of thousands of people and widespread sexual and ethnic violence. The International Rescue Committee says the result is the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded: 640,000 people face catastrophic hunger. Basic services and infrastructure, already woefully inadequate, have been destroyed.

“One thing that has been consistent since day one,” the Sudanese activist and commentator Dallia Mohamed Abdelmoniem observed this week, “[is that] it’s a war on civilians. Now, I think we’ve become so desensitised to it, that doesn’t make much of a difference any more. There’s no impact.”

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© Photograph: Reuters

© Photograph: Reuters

Brownhill edges Burnley towards promotion with win at nine-man Watford

18 avril 2025 à 18:15

For vast swathes of this match – the first half, in particular – any spectator would have been hard-pressed to identify the Premier League-destined team on the cusp of an all-time Football League clean-sheet record.

Not only did Watford find a route past James Trafford – a rare occurrence in just 14 of Burnley’s 43 Championship matches – but the England goalkeeper endured a torrid afternoon preventing the hosts from becoming the first team to score two goals against him in the Championship this season.

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© Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

© Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

18 avril 2025 à 18:11

Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces

Cocktail in hand and puffing on a celebratory cigar onboard her superyacht, reportedly somewhere in the Bahamas, JK Rowling celebrated on social media after this week’s UK supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

“I love it when a plan comes together,” she posted on X, borrowing the catchphrase from the popular 80s TV series The A-Team.

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© Photograph: @jk_rowling/X

© Photograph: @jk_rowling/X

More people aged 65+ are trying out cannabis. Here’s what to know about the risks and benefits

18 avril 2025 à 18:00

US adults in the age group are using cannabis to treat pain and poor sleep – and they’re a fast-growing market

Polls suggest Americans aged 65 and older are trying cannabis for the first time more than any other group in the country. This trend is propelled by decreased stigma and increased legalization, with 24 states and the District of Columbia allowing recreational use (in the UK, recreational use is still illegal).

But there’s something else too. Getting older comes with its challenges, physically and emotionally. Some people are betting on cannabis as a way to navigate these hurdles. Research indicates older adults primarily use cannabis for health-related issues, like poor sleep, pain and mental health concerns such as anxiety.

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© Photograph: Anastasia Samoylova/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine

© Photograph: Anastasia Samoylova/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine

Manchester United’s crazy comeback was inspirational – and a reality check

18 avril 2025 à 18:00

Emergency strike duo reeling in Lyon was electrifying while also showing deep flaws in Ruben Amorim’s squad

Bedlam, pandemonium, ecstasy and simply wow: Manchester United’s three-goal, six-minute (and 34 seconds) blockbuster extra-time comeback from 4-2 down is one for the ages, and a thrilling advertisement for the heart-stopping drama football can generate.

Yet if the Harry Maguire header that KO’d Lyon was a last, heroic act of a pell-mell, childhood-like jumpers-for-goalposts victory, it should also clang alarm bells for the fragile unit Ruben Amorim oversees, and cause a serious reality check.

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© Photograph: Matt West/REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Matt West/REX/Shutterstock

Arsenal v Lyon: five key factors in the Women’s Champions League semi

18 avril 2025 à 18:00

Joe Montemurro and Renée Slegers are reunited but can they find a way to stop each other’s array of attacking talent?

The former Arsenal manager Joe Montemurro, who left the club at the end of the 2020-21 season, returns to the Emirates Stadium when Arsenal host the eight-time European champions Lyon on Saturday in their Champions League semi-final first leg. Montemurro, who led Arsenal to a first Women’s Super League title in seven years in 2019, was previously back in N5 in 2023, where his Juventus team lost 1-0 in the Champions League. Arsenal look very different, on and off the pitch, to the club he left. They upped their investment in and commitment to the women’s side after a review towards the end of Montemurro’s tenure, but a face familiar to him sits in the home dugout. While with Arsenal Montemurro was paired with Renée Slegers on the Uefa coach mentor programme in the early stages of the former Netherlands international’s coaching journey. Montemurro describes her as “a perfect fit for Arsenal”: “She really has brought back a level of belief in the squad and who they are. It’s a reflection of her. She’s very confident in what she does. She’s very strategic in how she goes about things. I’m so happy for her, happy she was given the opportunity and took it because it’s a very big job but she seems to be handling it well.” He said with a laugh: “I must have taught her well.”

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© Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA

© Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA

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