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Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement
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Escalating US-Iran strikes threaten interim peace agreement

Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversightMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesA new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, a...

Jason Burke International security correspondent
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We look at new details from the controversial defence plan a new PM would inherit.

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We look at new details from the controversial defence plan a new PM would inherit.

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Ministers urged to curb energy costs as Great British homes face 13% bill surge
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Ministers urged to curb energy costs as Great British homes face 13% bill surge

Quarterly Ofgem price cap rises to equivalent of £1,862 a year from 1 July amid growing consumer energy debtMinisters are facing growing pressure to lower energy costs as households in Great Britain face the steepest rise in summer bills in four years this week.The quarterly cap on gas and electrici...

Jillian Ambrose
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French skydiving plane crashes near Nancy, reportedly killing all 11 onboard
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French skydiving plane crashes near Nancy, reportedly killing all 11 onboard

Five pairs of students and instructors dead along with pilot after plane fell suddenly near aerodrome, says prefectA skydiving plane has crashed in north-eastern France, killing all 11 people onboard, according to the region’s prefect.The parachuting-school plane crashed near Nancy at 11am, said Yve...

Guardian staff and agencies
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Good-faith lawsuit? LDS church in fight with podcaster over Mormon name
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Good-faith lawsuit? LDS church in fight with podcaster over Mormon name

Church sues excommunicated member over Mormon Stories podcast but John Dehlin says name free for all to useTrademark changes and copyright infringement disputes take many forms. Dunkin’ Donuts changed its name to Dunkin’ because Donuts did not suggest the vigorous, on-the-go attitude the coffee comp...

Edward Helmore
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Lucy Powell appears to endorse Ed Miliband as Andy Burnham’s chancellor
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Lucy Powell appears to endorse Ed Miliband as Andy Burnham’s chancellor

Labour deputy leader says she thinks energy secretary would be good in Treasury but ‘tittle-tattle’ over cabinet posts is ‘unedifying’Ed Miliband would make a “good” chancellor to Andy Burnham, Labour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said, ahead of the likely next prime minister’s first major speec...

Pippa Crerar Political editor
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Temperature records tumble across Europe as heatwave moves east
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Temperature records tumble across Europe as heatwave moves east

More than 191m people in Europe face temperatures over 35C, with extreme heat warnings from Germany to Hungary‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are braced for record temperatures of over 40C as a heatwav...

Jakub Krupa in Warsaw and Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
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The curious case of the cremation urn left at Newbury racecourse
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The curious case of the cremation urn left at Newbury racecourse

Urn with loving message to a person named as Gary Bonsor to be buried in local churchyard after efforts to find family draw a blankIt is a puzzling story with a still unsolved mystery at its heart: just who is the individual whose cremated remains were left on the counter of a burger van at Newbury...

Esther Addley
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When it comes to taxing the super rich, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel
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When it comes to taxing the super rich, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel

Any new tax on the rich won’t raise much money unless many of the exceptions and loopholes are dealt withIn this new era of rampaging oligarchs, nothing may seem as satisfying as slapping a tax on Elon Musk’s new trillion-dollar fortune. What most bothers Americans about federal taxes is that billio...

Eduardo Porter
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‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point
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‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point

UK is latest country to set minimum age for social media access but big tech is fighting back globally against curbsSocial media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdownArturo Béjar, a former employee turned whistleblower at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, has talked to parents...

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
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Anti-ICE organizers shift focus to defend democracy from Trump assault
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Anti-ICE organizers shift focus to defend democracy from Trump assault

Citizens in Minnesota using lessons learned from migrant crackdown to protect elections from president’s threatsWhen thousands of immigration agents flooded Minnesota earlier this year, a loose network of neighbors sprang into action. They fed each other. They got kids to and from school safely. The...

Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis
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