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Weather tracker: Heatwave breaks June temperature records across Europe
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Weather tracker: Heatwave breaks June temperature records across Europe

UK provisional high of 37.7C shatters previous record by huge margin, while Germany experiences all-time high of 41.7CLast week’s heatwave across western Europe broke national records for June maximum temperatures as well as setting new all-time highs. The UK recorded a provisional high of 37.7C at...

Magdalena Shopova
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US heatwave threatens 250th anniversary events and World Cup
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US heatwave threatens 250th anniversary events and World Cup

Weekend’s high temperatures and humidity ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, researchers sayThe scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, researchers have found, warning that the high temperatures could threate...

Dharna Noor
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Burnham’s funding gap: what state are UK finances in for the PM-in-waiting?
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Burnham’s funding gap: what state are UK finances in for the PM-in-waiting?

Given pressures on the public purse, the Makerfield MP may have to look at autumn tax rises to fund his ‘new direction’An economy rattled by a global energy shock, jittery bond markets and rising spending demands. As Andy Burnham prepares for government, the pressures on the public finances are in...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Friday briefing: The US at 250: who gets to tell the story?
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Friday briefing: The US at 250: who gets to tell the story?

In today’s newsletter: As official celebrations spotlight a narrow cast of ​white heroes, communities across the US are reclaiming the histories that Freedom 250 leaves outGood morning, and a very happy 250th birthday to the United States of America. If you prefer to celebrate with cage fighting on...

Libby Brooks
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Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran
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Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran

Huge scale of funeral for supreme leader across five cities is intended to relay message of resistance to rest of the worldIn the small hours of Friday the police roadblocks, stalls, posters and army vans were starting to appear across Tehran as millions of Iranians prepared to attend the long-delay...

Patrick Wintour in Tehran
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Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds
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Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds

Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committeeNSO Group’s hacking software was repeatedly used against a member of the European parliament while he was conducting an investigation of spyware abuses in Europe, according to a new report.Rese...

Stephanie Kirchgaessner
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‘Bigger than football’: Norway fans’ Viking row makes waves at World Cup
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‘Bigger than football’: Norway fans’ Viking row makes waves at World Cup

From Times Square to the Norwegian parliament and even in fighter jet cockpits, the choreographed row is everywhereThe fans have done it, in their thousands, in the stadiums. The players have done it on the pitch. Pretty much anyone who was there did it in New York’s Times Square. Norwegian MPs did...

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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Trump hijacks America at 250 celebrations – podcast
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Trump hijacks America at 250 celebrations – podcast

This weekend marks 250 years since the signing of the declaration of independence, but Donald Trump is making the celebration all about himself. As the anniversary approaches, Jonathan Freedland talks to the Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum about why so many Americans are feeling less patriotic these daysA...

Presented by Jonathan Freedland, with Yoni Appelbaum, produced by Danielle Stephens, Aisha Riaz, and Nada Smiljanic; the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj
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Portrait of Angela Merkel unveiled at museum in Berlin
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Portrait of Angela Merkel unveiled at museum in Berlin

Painting by Jérémie Queyras shows former German chancellor in trademark jacket – at a time of nostalgia for her ruleOver months they met secretly in a studio in the government quarter of central Berlin – a young artist and his subject, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel. For hours at a time,...

Kate Connolly in Berlin
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China says man who flew plane into Beijing skyscraper had mental health problems
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China says man who flew plane into Beijing skyscraper had mental health problems

Official statement offers the most detailed official account yet of the highly unusual and fatal incident in BeijingChinese authorities said the man who flew a small plane into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old who had mental health problems.The statement published on Thursday...

Amy Hawkins in Beijing
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More than 100 passengers on US cruise ship sick from suspected norovirus
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More than 100 passengers on US cruise ship sick from suspected norovirus

Princess Cruises vessel is docked in San Francisco for disinfecting in third outbreak for company this yearMore than 100 passengers and about 23 crew members on a Princess Cruises ship fell sick from suspected norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), marking the...

Uwa Ede-Osifo
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FBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation
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FBI orders 260 staffers to Georgia to assist with 2020 election investigation

Memo calls for ‘surge’ of analysts after agents in January seized hundreds of boxes containing Fulton county ballotsThe FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton county.A memo obtained Thursday...

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