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Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave
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Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave

Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homesFamilies, including parents with newborn babies, are booking air-conditioned rooms in hotels to escape the UK heatwave, with companies reporting a surge in demand.Data from the accommodation reserva...

Sarah Marsh, Consumer affairs correspondent
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Australian man arrested in Thailand after 17-year-old’s body found in suitcase
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Australian man arrested in Thailand after 17-year-old’s body found in suitcase

The 46-year-old was stopped at about 9.30pm on Friday while preparing to board a Jetstar flight to Perth, according to police and local mediaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian man has been arrested at a Thai airport in connection with the alleged murder of a 17-...

Natasha May in Bangkok and Ben Doherty with Agence France-Presse
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Venice protest planned for US ambassador’s superyacht visit
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Venice protest planned for US ambassador’s superyacht visit

Activists aim to repeat disruption of Jeff Bezos’s wedding when billionaire Tilman Fertitta drops anchorProtesters in Venice are planning to disrupt a visit by the billionaire US ambassador to Italy in his 117-metre superyacht, which they fear he plans to dock in the lagoon city.“We ruined the party...

Catherine Bennett in Venice
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Prosecutors in England and Wales expect rise in domestic abuse during World Cup
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Prosecutors in England and Wales expect rise in domestic abuse during World Cup

CPS urges victims to go to police, saying they will be taken seriously and it ‘won’t hesitate’ to bring abusers to justiceProsecutors in England and Wales are expecting incidents of domestic abuse to increase during the men’s World Cup, and have urged victims to come forward, saying those responsibl...

Hannah Al-Othman
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Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please
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Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please

A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fansLike many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got l...

Rupert Neate
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‘You’re history itself!’: how Arab World Cup commentators fuel fans’ passions
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‘You’re history itself!’: how Arab World Cup commentators fuel fans’ passions

Arabic’s rich history of poetry lends itself well to ‘beautiful commentary that … sounds like a love letter to football’Even before Cristiano Ronaldo’s close-range shot had hit the back of net, the commentator had begun shouting. “Allllllllaaaaaaah!!!!” exclaimed Amer al-Khudhiri, an Omani football...

William Christou in Beirut
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Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone
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Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone

Fire and Rescue NSW uses thermal imaging and a mobile phone red light to quickly locate men who veered off walking track near JindabyneGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo hikers who veered off a walking track in Kosciuszko national park have been found within five hours us...

Guardian staff
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Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says
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Snow and ice on Swiss glaciers melting at alarming rate amid heatwave, expert says

Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across AlpsSwiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).The snow...

Agence France-Presse
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Polygamous sect leader guilty of abuse after girls found in trailer on highway
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Polygamous sect leader guilty of abuse after girls found in trailer on highway

Self-proclaimed prophet Samuel Bateman already serving 50-year prison sentence over child sexual abuseA polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was convicted Friday on state child abuse charges after girls were found in an unv...

Associated Press
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Utah governor orders ban on fireworks as wildfires rage across state
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Utah governor orders ban on fireworks as wildfires rage across state

Fireworks prohibition comes alongside state of emergency as wildfires prompt evacuations and red-flag warningsUtah governor Spencer Cox has announced a state of emergency and accompanying temporary prohibition on the use of personal fireworks until 5 July. The announcement comes as the state experie...

Abené Clayton
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Trump attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message
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Trump attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message

President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’Donald Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections, seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as “godless communists” who pose an existent...

David Smith in Washington
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US says it struck Iran targets after attack on cargo ship on the strait of Hormuz
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US says it struck Iran targets after attack on cargo ship on the strait of Hormuz

Strike was in response to drone attack a day earlier on a commercial vessel The US military ⁠conducted strikes ⁠against Iran ​on Friday, ⁠Central Command said in ⁠a statement, ​adding ‌that ‌US aircraft ‌struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and ‌coastal radar sites ​after Tehran’s atta...

Reuters
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‘Release the footage’: Mississippi protest over police killing of one-year-old
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‘Release the footage’: Mississippi protest over police killing of one-year-old

About 100 marchers demand transparency after Kohen Wiley was shot dead in a car outside a WalmartAbout 100 people gathered on Friday morning outside of the Walmart in rural Senatobia, Mississippi, to protest about the killing of a one-year-old boy by police earlier this month.Walmart itself was clos...

Adria R Walker in Senatobia, Mississippi
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Trump blames Iran for drone strike on cargo ship in strait of Hormuz
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Trump blames Iran for drone strike on cargo ship in strait of Hormuz

US president calls it ‘foolish violation’ of ceasefire agreement after drone damaged ship’s upper deckUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for carrying out a drone strike on a cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz, calling it a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire agreeme...

Associated Press
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Trump administration asks supreme court to back immigration detention policy
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Trump administration asks supreme court to back immigration detention policy

Government asks justices to allow people who have lived in US for years to be held without chance to seek bondThe Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to let it detain people arrested in ⁠its immigration crackdown without ⁠a chance to seek ​bond, even if they have lived in the c...

Reuters
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Mahmood outlines safe immigration routes plan to win over Labour left
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Mahmood outlines safe immigration routes plan to win over Labour left

Home secretary speeds up major part of bill governing asylum and refugees as new prime minister set to take overShabana Mahmood will seek to shore up support for her controversial immigration bill on the progressive left of Labour, as she sets out plans to speed up the opening of new safe and legal...

Rowena Mason and Rajeev Syal
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UN calls for ‘prompt investigations’ of deaths in US immigration custody
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UN calls for ‘prompt investigations’ of deaths in US immigration custody

High commissioner for human rights calls for ‘those responsible for violations of the law’ to be held to accountUS politics live – latest updatesThe United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, on Friday raised the alarm internationally about deaths in US government immigration cu...

José Olivares in New York
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