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What impact will Andy Burnham have on Zack Polanski and the Greens?

Voters disillusioned with Starmer’s Labour were tempted by the Greens – but Polanski’s party fears the affable, left-leaning Burnham could win them backThe shift was notable. A week after Keir Starmer said he would resign, YouGov polling showed Labour up two points and the Greens down by the same am...

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Burnham will change No 10 ‘boys club’ briefing culture, says Lucy Powell

Deputy Labour leader says No 10 needs to become more meritocratic and has asked Burnham to commit to 50/50 gender split for ministers and staffAndy Burnham will change a “boys club” culture of factional briefings at No 10 which silenced critics, according to the deputy leader of the Labour party.Luc...

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent 1 month ago

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Washington DC’s Fourth of July parade canceled due to soaring temperature

National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as high temperatures have paralyzed the east coastOrganizers of Saturday’s Independence Day parade in Washington DC abruptly canceled the event late on the eve of the event, with sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital and on the east c...

Edward Helmore 1 month ago

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Three-year-old injured in UK crocodile enclosure faces ‘long rehabilitation’

Boy who was allegedly thrown into the area at a Cambridgeshire zoo has undergone five surgeriesA three-year-old boy left seriously injured after being allegedly thrown into a crocodile enclosure has undergone five surgeries and faces a long “rehabilitation journey”.His family, who provided the updat...

Sammy Gecsoyler 1 month ago

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German riot police clash with protesters hoping to block far-right AfD conference

Thousands of police deployed to Erfurt in central Germany as AfD holds conference on key Nazi dateRiot police have clashed with opponents of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party on the streets of Erfurt in Germany, where thousands met to block roads and prevent AfD delegates from at...

Donna Ferguson 1 month ago

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Mayfair casino facing legal action after former waiter says he did not get fair share of tips

Former worker at Metropolitan on Park Lane in London says he had to share tips with managers and other staffA Mayfair casino is facing legal action from a former waiter who says he was not given a fair share of tips.The former worker at the Metropolitan Mayfair – part of the Metropolitan Casinos gro...

Sarah Butler 1 month ago

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Third of disadvantaged white pupils in England leave primary school without being able to read properly

Exclusive: Analysis finds lower reading fluency than children from other ethnic backgrounds and richer peersA third of disadvantaged white pupils in England leave their primary school unable to read well enough to access the secondary curriculum, leading to disengagement and school absence, accordin...

Sally Weale Education correspondent 1 month ago

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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over Stargate UK project

Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the...

Aisha Down 1 month ago

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How the 1986 Mexico World Cup was almost cancelled after a devastating earthquake

Guardian reports after the disaster told of 5,000 deaths, much of the capital being razed, and doubts about Mexico hosting the finalsMexico last hosted the World Cup in 1986, but the competition was almost cancelled several months before the start when an earthquake struck the capital, Mexico City,...

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‘The situation is terrible’: aid workers on life in Sudanese city pummelled by drone strikes

El Obeid becomes key battleground in war between Sudan’s armed forces and their paramilitary enemies, the RSFFatima is losing count of the number of drone attacks on the besieged city of El Obeid in Sudan, but says the attacks this past weekend were the most violent so far.The drones hit schools and...

Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi 1 month ago

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Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project

Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platformThe Merlin bird ID app will allow users to feed real-time bird identifications into one of the world’s biggest citizen-science biodiversity projects in an update it is hoped will aid conservation of...

Sandra Laville 1 month ago

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‘Emotional connection’: Wonderwall becomes England’s World Cup anthem

Oasis tune has been sung from Texas to Massachusetts and soon in Mexico City – and the players have joined in tooIt has become England’s World Cup anthem more three decades after it was first released, being belted out by fans from Texas to Massachusetts.Wonderwall by Oasis will soon be heard in Mex...

Kevin Rawlinson 1 month ago

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UK woman, 21, arrested in Thailand after allegedly stabbing boyfriend to death

Officers found the body of a 34-year-old man in a luxury rental home in the Pattaya area, local media saysA 21-year-old British woman has been arrested in Thailand after allegedly fatally stabbing her boyfriend, according to local media reports.The Bangkok Post reported that on Thursday morning loca...

Natasha May in Bangkok 1 month ago

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Labour should win next election under Burnham after work already done, Starmer says

Prime minister holds no ‘personal animosity’ toward Burnham and emphasises success at improving NHS waiting lists and ‘stabilising economy’Labour “should go on to win the next election” under his likely successor, Andy Burnham, Keir Starmer has said, based on what he has achieved while in power.In h...

Morgan Ofori 1 month ago

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‘Trump accounts’: Wall Street-backed investment funds for children to go live

Savings plans for children born between January 2025 and December 2028 launched as president seeks electoral boostTrump accounts, a savings vehicle named after the US president and authorized by congressional Republicans, are set to go live on Saturday, offering American parents a new way to save mo...

Chris Stein in Washington 1 month ago

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British Medical Association could axe up to a third of its staff amid cash crisis

Exclusive: Anger at union’s decision to put 200 of its 600 staff in England at risk of redundancyThe British Medical Association is threatening to axe up to a third of its entire workforce to help it tackle a significant cash crisis.The doctors’ union has placed 200 of its 600 staff in England at ri...

Denis Campbell Health policy editor 1 month ago

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Crowds gather as six-day funeral for former Iranian supreme leader begins

Up to 30 million people expected to attend delayed events for Ali Khamenei, killed at start of war with US and IsraelThe funeral of the former Iranian supreme leader has begun as the gates of the sprawling Grand Mosalla mosque in central Tehran let in thousands of mourners who had been waiting throu...

Patrick Wintour in Tehran 1 month ago

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Labour MPs call on water firms to save Britain’s lost lidos

Group, whose constituencies have derelict or at-risk pools, are campaigning to make outdoor swimming available for allCooling, blue expanses of water have been a lifesaver for many lucky enough to live near a lido during the recent UK heatwave.Now, a group of 20 MPs, along with the Fabian Society, a...

Helena Horton 1 month ago

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Overseas education project for women and girls axed by UK after two years

The programme, aimed at keeping 1m girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, withdrawn after aid cutsA leading higher education programme, aimed at keeping 1 million girls in school across Africa, Asia and the Middle East, has been axed by the British government just two years after i...

Sarah Johnson 1 month ago

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‘My childhood stopped’: woman sues CPS after taking stepfather to abuse trial

Annie’s lawyers argue that prosecution was so badly executed it breached her human rightsAt her kitchen table, in a village in southern England, Annie* sits with a blue folder stuffed with court documents, witness statements and correspondence relating to the trial of her stepfather, whom she had re...

Hannah Al-Othman 1 month ago

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Pull an all-nighter? How parents, schools, fans and police plan to cope with England’s 1am kick-off

Popular national pastimes of drinking and football will make post-Mexico Monday a day of sore heads and sleepy childrenEngland are through to the round of 16 in the World Cup and, as is customary in the run-up to a major international footballing fixture, the country may be losing its mind.Because p...

Jamie Grierson 1 month ago

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Brexit rule change means British teens in EU face soaring student fees for UK degrees

Brexit means ‘home fee’ qualification ends in 2028, leaving those hoping to study in UK not now eligible for loansBritish teenagers living in the EU could be priced out of UK universities in two years’ time as a Brexit rule change means they face the double whammy of paying costlier international fe...

Sandra Haurant 1 month ago

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UK and Ireland leaders fear for union’s future under Farage-led government

Politicians across Celtic nations braced for constitutional turmoil if Reform continues to riseThe rise of Nigel Farage has prompted political leaders across Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to game the unthinkable: the break-up of the United Kingdom.Unionists who wish to save the union...

Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll in Belfast 1 month ago

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Trump launches America’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack

In a speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening, the US president claimed a resurgent ‘communist menace’ posed a severe threat the countryDonald Trump has kicked off America’s 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on what he called the “communist menace” in America, framing it...

David Smith in Washington 1 month ago

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