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Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa fails in effort to flee country

Airport staff reportedly block departing president from using VIP lane to board flight to DubaiThe Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has made a failed...

Uber paid academics six-figure sums for research to feed to the media

High-profile professors in Europe and the US were engaged as part of lobbying campaign, leak showsUber paid high-profile academics in Europe and the US...

The Uber whistleblower: I’m exposing a system that sold people a lie

Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’Mark MacGann, a career lobbyist who led Uber’s...

Uber hired oligarch-linked Russian lobbyist despite bribery fears

Leak shows firm made effort to court several billionaires and state officials allegedly aligned with Vladimir PutinUber secretly hired a political operative linked to...

Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals

More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the GuardianFiles expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George OsborneEmmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber...

South Africa: 15 dead after gunmen open fire at bar in Soweto township

South African police investigate reports group of men arrived in taxi and opened fire on patronsA mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto...

Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt enter Conservative leadership race – UK politics live

Follow all the political developments as more candidates join the race to succeed Boris Johnson as Tory party leader and prime ministerMore to come...

Sri Lanka protests: thousands storm president’s residence in Colombo

Demonstrators break in shouting slogans against Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has been moved for his safetyThousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo, have...

Shinzo Abe’s body taken to Tokyo as election campaign resumes in shadow of killing

Politicians vow not to let assassination of their longest-serving PM stop democratic process, as tributes continue to pour inThe body of Shinzo Abe has...

Man arrested for murder after fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe

41-year-old tells police he was ‘frustrated’ with former Japanese PM and had ‘intention of killing him’A 41-year-old man has been arrested for murder after...

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