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UK economic growth slows down as Iran war pushes up energy prices
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UK economic growth slows down as Iran war pushes up energy prices

GDP expanded by 0.4% in three months to June, down from 0.6% in the first quarter, says ONSEconomic growth slowed in the second quarter of the year, as the disruption unleashed by the Iran war began to take its toll, official figures show.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said GDP expanded by...

Heather Stewart
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Clacton polls open with Farage up against slew of fringe candidates
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Clacton polls open with Farage up against slew of fringe candidates

Longest ballot in UK voting history features likes of Count Binface and Howling Laud Hope alongside Reform leader Polls have opened in Clacton, with thousands of residents in the Essex seat to vote in a ballot featuring Nigel Farage and a range of novelty and fringe candidates led by Count Binface.T...

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent
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Yvette Cooper says Labour ‘did not do government very well’ under Starmer
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Yvette Cooper says Labour ‘did not do government very well’ under Starmer

Health secretary praises more collegiate style under Andy Burnham and says previous No 10 sidelined her from key policy launchYvette Cooper admits Labour has “not done government very well” in the last couple of years, and accused Keir Starmer’s No 10 of sidelining her during the launch of a key imm...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Thursday briefing: What happens after an asylum hotel closes?
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Thursday briefing: What happens after an asylum hotel closes?

In today’s newsletter: With more sites closed and more lives upended, a look at the rhetoric and reality of where asylum seekers should be housedGood morning. This week, immigration minister Anna Turley announced, with minor fanfare, the government will stop using a further 13 hotels to house asylum...

Libby Brooks
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Category C and women’s prisons could be upgraded to ease overcrowding
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Category C and women’s prisons could be upgraded to ease overcrowding

Exclusive: Ministers explore diverting male prisoners serving short terms or on remand away from tougher jailsMinisters are examining a possible upgrade of security at men’s category C and women’s prisons to deal with an overcrowding crisis across the England and Wales estate, the Guardian understan...

Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor
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Zambia elections haunted by ghost of incumbent president’s arch-rival
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Zambia elections haunted by ghost of incumbent president’s arch-rival

Hakainde Hichilema is bidding for second term, but feud between him and family of Edgar Lungu, who died in 2025, continuesAs Zambians go to the polls, the ghost of the current president’s predecessor hangs over the elections.Hakainde Hichilema, 64, is bidding for a second term leading the southern A...

Rachel Savage
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India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production
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India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production

Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demandEnough new coalmining projects were proposed last year to increase global supplies by 2.5bn tonnes a year, an increase of 11% from the year before, even as demand for coal plateaus, according...

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
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Victims of road crime feel ‘forgotten by system’, official review finds
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Victims of road crime feel ‘forgotten by system’, official review finds

Many of those affected in England and Wales think offences are not treated with the seriousness they deserve, says commissionerBereaved families or seriously injured victims of road crime feel “forgotten by the system” with offences not treated with the seriousness they deserve, an official review h...

Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent
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Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage
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Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage

Telco board cuts senior executive bonuses by total $1.3m after tech fail that affected millionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTelstra has paid its chief executive, Vicki Brady, $6.8m for the year ending in June, after...

Luca Ittimani and Josh Taylor
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San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion
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San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion

New owner is said to be involved in AI industry, as new class of multimillionaires is entering the real estate raceA luxury Lake Como-inspired estate in the San Francisco Bay Area has sold to a buyer “in the AI world” for a record $70m, in the latest sign of a new tech wealth boom that’s pushing hom...

Sophie Sullivan
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Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns
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Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns

RCN calls for more air conditioners as Burnham faces pressure to recognise urgency of adaptation to climate crisisNurses are collapsing during shifts amid “inhumane and impossible” conditions caused by extreme heat, their union has warned, as Andy Burnham promised to grapple with “the bigger questio...

Peter Walker, Tobi Thomas and Aletha Adu
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Minnesota man killed his wife and child before dying by suicide, police say
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Minnesota man killed his wife and child before dying by suicide, police say

Police said they believed deceased man was assailant in domestic-related homicide at daycare centerA man killed a woman and their child inside a small in-home daycare center they own in Minnesota before taking his own life, police said on Wednesday.Hopkins police department said in statement they re...

Lucy Campbell
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US army helicopter crashes in Texas, killing two people and sparking wildfire
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US army helicopter crashes in Texas, killing two people and sparking wildfire

Military official says AH-64 Apache had been on a routine training flight near Fort Hood when it went downAn army Apache helicopter crashed in a central Texas field on Wednesday, killing both people on board and sparking a wildfire that forced several homes to be evacuated, a sheriff’s official said...

Associated Press
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Ignore the doomsdayers – property investing in Australia is far from broken
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Ignore the doomsdayers – property investing in Australia is far from broken

Investor loan applications may have fallen since the start of the year, but the slump already appears to be turning aroundGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIgnore the doomsday warnings about the government’s tax changes – property investing in Australia is a little bruised,...

Luca Ittimani and Jonathan Barrett
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