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Thailand school shooting: seven killed including suspected attacker, police say
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Thailand school shooting: seven killed including suspected attacker, police say

At least 15 other people injured after student ⁠opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi school, north of BangkokThailand school shooting – latest updatesA Thai teenager killed at least six people and himself at a school outside Bangkok, after fatally shooting his grandparents, in the country’s worst mass...

Natasha May in Bangkok
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Rail passengers face second day of chaos across north-west England
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Rail passengers face second day of chaos across north-west England

Disruption after power failure at regional signalling centre likely to continue until noon with many crews and trains in wrong locationsBusiness live – latest updatesRail passengers are facing a second day of travel disruption across parts of north-west England, after a power failure hit the signall...

Lauren Almeida
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Colombia on the brink: ELN guerrilla group prepares for return to war
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Colombia on the brink: ELN guerrilla group prepares for return to war

As Abelardo de la Espriella takes office as president vowing a new military offensive, the country’s last leftwing rebels are getting ready to fight backAs the boat approached the riverbank, camouflaged figures watched from the tree line.Behind them, in the dim understory of the jungle, a commander...

Thomas Graham in Chocó; Photography by Santiago Mesa
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment

Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job,...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison
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Meet the offenders cleaning canals in the West Midlands as an alternative to prison

With the debate over prison overcrowding and what to do about it raging, one initiative offers an alternative solutionAs the prison overcrowding crisis shows no sign of abating and the debate rages over early releases, an initiative in the West Midlands offers an alternative to custodial sentences.T...

Tom Pilston and Haroon Siddique
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Alan Jones trial: complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ broadcaster by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court
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Alan Jones trial: complainant wants to ‘humiliate’ broadcaster by revealing intimate details of alleged assaults, defence tells court

Barrister alleges ‘account of penis wiggling is an attempt to humiliate’ broadcaster who has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges of indecent assault and sexual touchingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlan Jones’s defence b...

Amanda Meade
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Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe
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Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe

Slovakia reaches new high of 42C as authorities in Poland forced to shut down Kozienice and Połaniec power plantsTemperature records have been broken in several countries across central and eastern Europe as the extreme weather that has caused wildfires and droughts across the continent continues.Co...

Matthew Taylor and Ajit Niranjan
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July’s heatwaves kept UK shoppers away from high street
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July’s heatwaves kept UK shoppers away from high street

Visits down 3.8% after 6.2% fall in June, with many choosing to buy online instead, research for retail body findsShoppers stayed away from UK high streets during last month’s heatwave temperatures, with many choosing to buy online instead as the mercury in some areas rose into the mid-30Cs.Trips to...

Sarah Butler
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Trump unbound: the making of an imperial presidency – podcast
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Trump unbound: the making of an imperial presidency – podcast

Donald Trump’s second term is unlike his first. The politicians who challenged him are gone. The lawyers who once pushed back now choose their battles. What remains is an imperial president with almost no internal checks, using executive power to reshape everything from the economy, immigration and...

Presented by Jonathan Freedland, produced by May Robson, Nada Smiljanic and Danielle Stephens; the executive producer is Maz Ebtehaj
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Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat
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Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat

Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majorityTennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a slim Republ...

Associated Press and Guardian staff
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Trump’s birthright citizenship attack the latest effort in obsessive campaign
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Trump’s birthright citizenship attack the latest effort in obsessive campaign

For more than a decade, president has been fixated on trying to undermine a key constitutional right With a pair of executive orders on Thursday, Donald Trump has tried – once again – to undermine the guarantee of birthright citizenship, a right enshrined in the US constitution and reaffirmed by the...

Robert Mackey
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Man dies after suspected dog attack at rural property in Sydney suburb
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Man dies after suspected dog attack at rural property in Sydney suburb

Police say body of 23-year-old found at Eschol Park property with significant injuries, indicating he may have been attacked before deathFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA young man has died after a suspected dog attack...

Australian Associated Press
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against usersA New Mexico court has ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay $567m for mental health harm to children from its platforms.Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the bulk of the money –...

Guardian staff and agencies
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Trump administration announces changes to Head Start in overhaul
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Trump administration announces changes to Head Start in overhaul

While officials say proposed revisions will encourage more enrollment, advocates say it will undermine the programThe Trump administration has said it plans to overhaul Head Start, tossing out many of the regulations that are the hallmark of the early education program for the nation’s neediest chil...

Associated Press
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Judge approves $106m settlement over deadly 2019 Hard Rock Hotel collapse
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Judge approves $106m settlement over deadly 2019 Hard Rock Hotel collapse

Settlement ends years-long legal battle over collapse of 18-story hotel that was under construction in New OrleansA judge approved a $106m settlement on Thursday that ends a years-long legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans.The 18-s...

Associated Press
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Trump again rebukes Jeanine Pirro over reflecting pool ‘vandalism’ case
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Trump again rebukes Jeanine Pirro over reflecting pool ‘vandalism’ case

President attacks ‘terrible mistake’ of US attorney, who said in court filing damage stemmed from botched renovationDonald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeanine Pirro after the US attorney for the District of Columbia publicly challenged his claims that vandals had damaged the recently...

Maya Yang
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ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors
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ICE is now tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants via ankle monitors

Shift in monitoring methods has led to revenue boost for Geo Group, a private prison firm, that also makes the deviceThe US is tracking nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors as part of a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) electronic surveillance program, according to...

Johana Bhuiyan
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Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship
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Trump signs new orders targeting birthright citizenship

Executive orders come after supreme court rejected president’s first bid to restrict guarantee enshrined in US constitutionDonald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that the White House said aims to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship and ban “birth tourism”.The ‌orders come j...

Robert Mackey and Guardian staff
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Mitch McConnell leaves rehab center to continue recovery from fall at home
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Mitch McConnell leaves rehab center to continue recovery from fall at home

Republican senator, 84, was taken to hospital after fall in June and has been absent from Senate sinceUS politics live – latest updatesRepublican US senator Mitch McConnell has been discharged from a rehabilitation center following the fall that left him hospitalized, he announced on Thursday.McConn...

Shrai Popat in Washington
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