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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
The article itself was from the AP, so while the statement in question is not globally correct, it was true from the US perspective from which the article was written. It's not the first time that the Guardian has run AP content that was lacking in international context. And it's definitely not the first time that the AP has included US-centric statements without qualifying them as such, despite the fact that publications from all over the world run their content.
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In the UK the Guardian has a bit of a reputation for typos and errors. As well as a regular, lengthy, errors column in the paper itself, its reputation is so cemented that the satirical magazine Private Eye always refers to it as the Grauniad.