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‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity
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The Guardian · World

‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows‘Treating children like cattle’: what happens when private equity takes over a UK care home?Nurseries, vets and shops: the sectors where private equity plays a big roleOne pound in every...

Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier , Jessica Murray, Zeke Hunter-Green and Tom Richards
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Fresh hostilities in Gulf suggest US-Iran memorandum was too broadly worded
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The Guardian · World

Fresh hostilities in Gulf suggest US-Iran memorandum was too broadly worded

Document appears to have been subject to conflicting interpretations on key issues of Lebanon ceasefire and strait of HormuzMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesThe sudden eruption of fresh hostilities in the Gulf – just 10 days after Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding to end th...

Patrick Wintour
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Bill Cassidy accuses Trump of treating Congress as ‘merely an appendage’
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The Guardian · World

Bill Cassidy accuses Trump of treating Congress as ‘merely an appendage’

Out-going Louisiana senator’s rebuke over Iran war is rare instance of a Republican politician standing up to TrumpBill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May’s primary, has accused the US presid...

Ed Pilkington
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Body of boy, 15, recovered from Manchester reservoir amid UK heatwave
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The Guardian · World

Body of boy, 15, recovered from Manchester reservoir amid UK heatwave

At least seven people have died in water-related incidents during record-breaking June temperaturesThe body of a 15-year-old boy has been recovered from a reservoir near Manchester, as police renewed warnings about the dangers of swimming in open water during soaring temperatures.Greater Manchester...

Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
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Biden calls Trump ‘a loser’, portraying him as incompetent, corrupt and vain
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The Guardian · World

Biden calls Trump ‘a loser’, portraying him as incompetent, corrupt and vain

Pugnacious speech invokes Trump’s ‘vanity projects’ to makeover Washington and the ‘brazen, blatant corruption’Joe Biden called Donald Trump “a loser” in a pugnacious speech on Saturday that invoked his presidential successor’s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corru...

Ramon Antonio Vargas
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