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The assault on Rushdie is an attack on those who speak out against all forms of extremism

Street-side signs in the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, the ancestral home of the suspect in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, bear posters of Iran's former supreme leader Khomeini who in 1989 issued a fatwa calling for the author's death. The logo of Lebanon's Iran-armed Hezbollah group adorns small monuments…

Analysis: Although the fatwa against Rushdie was issued more than 30 years ago, the threat never went away

Collection of writings on India at 75 also released; Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri among contributors 

Hadi Matar appeared to become withdrawn and isolated after a trip to the Middle East to visit his father in 2018, his mother says

The online safety bill in the UK is shaping up to be a censor’s nightmare, but we need to take this debate seriously, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

In first official remarks, Tehran rejects responsibility for attack on author even as it heaps scorn on him

Rushdie’s words, written before last week’s attack in New York, are aired in a new anthology alongside other leading authors

THIS is an anniversary of a humiliating debacle: the chaotic withdrawal by the US and its allies, including Britain, from Afghanistan. As Robert Fox points out on this page, the withdrawal itself was an unedifying scramble and this was in keeping with the way the war in and occupation of…