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Risk of serious birth injuries is rising for women in England, data suggests
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Risk of serious birth injuries is rising for women in England, data suggests

About 31 in every 1,000 facing haemorrhage or severe tears, NHS figures show, in trend described as ‘national crisis’How a Romford maternity ward was able to turn the tide after a ‘requires improvement’ ratingWomen in England are at their highest risk of suffering a serious injury while giving birth...

Denis Campbell and Tobi Thomas
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US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave
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US homeland security secretary tells migrants to seek permanent status or leave

Markwayne Mullin’s remarks come after controversial supreme court ruling to strip TPS from over 350,000 peopleMigrants in the US on temporary protected status should seek permanent residence or leave, Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security secretary, said in the wake of last week’s supreme court decisi...

Gloria Oladipo and agencies
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Zohran Mamdani says he and allies he endorsed carry a ‘national message’
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Zohran Mamdani says he and allies he endorsed carry a ‘national message’

Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservationsZohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to...

Ed Pilkington in New York
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Three firefighters killed and two injured while battling Utah-Colorado wildfires
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Three firefighters killed and two injured while battling Utah-Colorado wildfires

Firefighters were involved in joint response to Knowles and Gore blazes as wildfires ravage western US, fire agency saysThree firefighters were killed and two others were hurt while responding to wildfires along the Colorado-Utah border, the US Wildland Fire Service announced on Sunday.The agency, w...

Marina Dunbar and agencies
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Sky makes £2bn spending pledge as it prepares takeover of ITV broadcasting arm
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Sky makes £2bn spending pledge as it prepares takeover of ITV broadcasting arm

Deal could be announced in July and vow will safeguard future of shows such as Coronation Street and Love IslandSky has committed to spending £2bn on ITV’s studios business over the next five years as it hammers out a takeover of its broadcasting arm, a move that will safeguard the future of popular...

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