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US puts pressure on Palestinian leaders to withdraw bid for UN vice-presidency role
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US puts pressure on Palestinian leaders to withdraw bid for UN vice-presidency role

In state department cable, Jerusalem embassy told to issue protest to Palestinian Authority leaders, warning ‘consequences will follow’ if they failed to complyThe US has ordered its Jerusalem embassy to pressure the Palestinian leadership into dropping a bid for a UN general assembly vice-presidenc...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington and Julian Borger senior international correspondent
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Labour must be bolder or it will lose, Streeting says in resignation speech
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Labour must be bolder or it will lose, Streeting says in resignation speech

In first speech since quitting cabinet, Streeting says party must deliver change or it will hand keys of No 10 to ReformUK politics live – latest updatesLabour must be bolder and deliver real change, Wes Streeting has said in his first Commons speech since resigning as health secretary, saying that...

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
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Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants
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Brexit may be back, but Britain needs to know what it wants

A decade after the referendum, EU leaders would welcome closer ties – once the UK has understood the ‘European deal’• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereBrexit’s back. Well, sort of. If it ever really went away. At any rate, an awful lot of ink has been spilled – in Britai...

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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Former US representative Barney Frank dies aged 86
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Former US representative Barney Frank dies aged 86

Family says Massachusetts Democrat entered hospice care last month, dealing with congestive heart failureUS politics live – latest updatesBarney Frank, a former US representative and Democrat of Massachusetts, died on Tuesday night, his family has told NBC10 in Boston. He was 86.“He was, above all e...

Guardian Staff
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Texas storms prompt canceled flights as north-east heatwave comes to a close
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Texas storms prompt canceled flights as north-east heatwave comes to a close

Flash flood warnings and school closures in Texas as the US north-east breaks heat records before a dramatic cooldownHundreds of flight cancellations have been reported in Texas as storms roll over the state, leading to flash flood warnings and school closures, while punishingly high temperatures in...

Edward Helmore
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Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin
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Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin

Choreography of back-to-back visits appeared deliberately mirrored but China made sure the differences were noticedDays after Donald Trump was greeted in Beijing with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese flags, Vladimir Putin arrived in China to an almost...

Pjotr Sauer, and Amy Hawkins in Beijing
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Lithuanian leaders rushed to bunkers as drone violates country’s airspace
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Lithuanian leaders rushed to bunkers as drone violates country’s airspace

Vilnius residents urged to take shelter during alert, after Nato and EU warn that Russia is diverting Ukraine’s dronesEurope live – latest updatesLithuania’s president and prime minister were rushed to underground bunkers and residents of the capital, Vilnius, urged to take shelter during a warning...

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’
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DWP pursued woman’s employer for nonexistent ‘benefit debt’

Exclusive: Employer of woman who cares for disabled mother was asked to deduct ‘debt’ from salary despite court ruling she had nothing to payA woman providing full-time unpaid care for her elderly disabled mother says her job has been put in jeopardy because welfare officials wrongly pursued her emp...

Patrick Butler Social policy editor
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Channel 4 boss apologises after Married At First Sight sexual misconduct allegations
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Channel 4 boss apologises after Married At First Sight sexual misconduct allegations

Priya Dogra says she believes channel acted appropriately, but that she is ‘deeply sorry’ for distress of participantsChannel 4’s chief executive has stood by the broadcaster’s treatment of concerns raised by contestants on Married At First Sight, as she said she was “deeply sorry” for the distress...

Michael Savage Media editor
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US doctor who contracted Ebola in the DRC flown to Germany for treatment
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US doctor who contracted Ebola in the DRC flown to Germany for treatment

Dr Peter Stafford’s wife and four children are also being monitored for symptoms amid Ebola outbreak in the DRCAn American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been flown to Germany for treatment, along with his wife and four children, as the World Health Organizat...

Edward Helmore
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George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties
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George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties

Billionaire philanthropist’s Open Society Foundations has worked to advance justice and human rights around worldFor decades, the Open Society Foundations have worked to advance justice and human rights in Africa, the Middle East and trouble spots around the world. But the OSF’s latest major investm...

David Smith in Washington
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Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85
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Totó la Momposina, vocalist and Colombian music legend, dies aged 85

The singer was one of her country’s most’s popular musical exports, and travelled the world with an evangelistic vision for spreading cumbia musicTotó la Momposina, one of the most celebrated musicians in Colombian history, has died aged 85.Her three children announced her death from a heart attack...

Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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Planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped, says Keir Starmer
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Planned fuel duty rise to be scrapped, says Keir Starmer

PM tells Commons extending the temporary 5p cut is a necessary response to cost-of-living pressuresUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has announced an extension to the temporary 5p cut in fuel duty, as widely expected, telling the Commons it was a necessary response to cost-of-living pres...

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
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Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war
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Blinded and broken, Sunny the owl becomes another casualty of Russia’s war

Ukrainians lament appalling toll of fighting on their country’s bird populationRussia sent kamikaze drones to attack the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia in February. They hit buildings and killed several people. One unreported victim of the bombardment was a male long-eared owl, blinded in one eye a...

Luke Harding in Dnipro. Photos and video by Alessio Mamo
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Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss
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Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss

Stuart Machin argues government should reduce tax and regulatory burden on supermarkets insteadThe boss of Marks & Spencer has called a government proposal for voluntary price caps on essential food items “completely preposterous”, saying it should reduce tax and regulatory burdens instead.Stuar...

Sarah Butler
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Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’
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Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’

‘China has already eaten much of German industry’s lunch and is preparing to start on dinner,’ thinktank saysBusiness live – latest updatesGermany must stop admiring China’s success in the EU or it will sleepwalk into the kind of deindustrialisation the US experienced 25 years ago, a leading Brussel...

Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent
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