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Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’ Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage…

Eid, Nowruz, Passover and Easter each tell their own story, but all are bound by generosity, memory and hope • Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast Spring has a way of bringing us together. Light stretches into the evening, markets brim with green shoots and, across kitchens, tables…

Every home is missing someone, every person is carrying grief. We went not to celebrate but to sit with the bereaved Eid al-Fitr is meant to bring release. It comes at the end of Ramadan, after a month of fasting and prayer, and in Gaza it has always carried its own kind of joy. The day begins with…

Eid al-Fitr celebrated amid political furore over claims public Ramadan prayers an ‘act of domination’ On Friday morning, little space remained in Baitul Futuh mosque as thousands of people poured in to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The south London mosque, one of the largest…

Under the shadow of war in the Middle East, Muslim worshippers around the world unite to celebrate the breaking of the fast Continue reading...

Palestinians say the move is part of a wider Israeli strategy to leverage security tensions to tighten restrictions For the first time since 1967, al-Aqsa mosque – Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site – was closed at the end of Ramadan on Friday, with tensions rising among Palestinians as Israeli…

Hundreds of Muslims gathered outside the walls of the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem for Eid al-Fitr prayers on Friday after Israeli authorities closed al-Aqsa mosque. Israel said the closure was part of security measures linked to the country's escalating war with Iran, but Palestinians said…

Exclusive: Richard Hermer, who is Jewish, says Tory leader and shadow minister seem ‘to only have an issue with Muslim events’ Richard Hermer, the attorney general, has challenged Kemi Badenoch to say whether she would object to Jewish prayer in public, after the Conservative leader backed one of…

Thousands of people come together at one of Australia’s biggest mosques to mark the end of Ramadan Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke heckled by protesters at Lakemba mosque ‘Joy in the midst of much grief’: Australian Eid and Nowruz celebrations overshadowed by war in the Middle East Continue…

‘So many people that I love and care about are worried about the survival of people they love overseas,’ Inaz Janif says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Inaz Janif would ordinarily attend prayers at the mosque for…

Conservative leader says debate not about freedom of religion, but its expression in shared public space UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has backed her shadow justice secretary, Nick Timothy, after he claimed that Islamic prayers taking place in public are intimidating and…

Suhoor – the pre-dawn meal – is typically shared at home. But in Sydney customers also queue outside food trucks, restaurants and cafes with extended trading hours It’s just after midnight in an industrial courtyard in Auburn in Sydney’s west and a glow of string lights and the constant sizzle of a…

I am, like millions of others, dutifully fasting from dawn to dusk this month. My faith does not define me. It refines me Nazir Afzal is chancellor of the University of Manchester and a former chief prosecutor As Ramadan begins, Muslims across Britain prepare for a month of fasting, reflection and…

Fasting while working long hours is physically demanding. But gratitude is less abstract when hunger has been felt Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life Iftar isn’t just eating, it’s synchronisation. Everyone waits. Everyone eats…

I mourn the vibrant life we lived before. But though our faces anxiously turn to the sky, our hands are joined in a solidarity that rises above hunger Every year, Ramadan comes as a sanctuary for the soul. For Muslims like me, it is a sacred pause in the chaos of life. But this year, as a woman…

More than one million people are expected to visit the month-long night markets in south-west Sydney, where ‘everyone is happy’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The steps at Lakemba mosque on Thursday night hum with a contented quietness, and the smell of sweet bread…