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Firefighters race to extinguish blazes across EU as fire weather breaks records
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Firefighters race to extinguish blazes across EU as fire weather breaks records

European Forest Fire Information Service figures show conditions in EU 43% more severe than for same period in last 20 years Fire weather in the EU has broken records for severity for this time of year, new data shows, as firefighters race to extinguish blazes across the Mediterranean.Inflamed by ca...

Ajit Niranjan
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Embattled German chancellor chooses papal pageturner for his beach read
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Embattled German chancellor chooses papal pageturner for his beach read

With his popularity at historic lows, Friedrich Merz seeks spiritual guidance from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AISummer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing pageturners – airport reads that wind up sandy and sunscreen-stained. Not so for Friedrich Merz’s holiday rea...

Deborah Cole in Berlin
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Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say
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Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say

Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standardsFlock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the AI-powered surveillance of private citizens and for targeting immigrants for years. But now safety advocates are also claiming that th...

Stephen Starr in Beavercreek, Ohio
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Profits boost for defence firms as governments beef up spending
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Profits boost for defence firms as governments beef up spending

Shares in Rolls-Royce jump by 5.5% after it lifts earnings guidance, while BAE Systems also upgrades profit forecastsBusiness live – latest updatesRolls-Royce and BAE Systems are expecting higher profits as governments around the world boost their defence spending.Both companies lifted their earning...

Jasper Jolly
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Bank of England holds interest rates at 3.75% as inflation fears mount
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Bank of England holds interest rates at 3.75% as inflation fears mount

Split vote comes as Iran war is rekindled and oil price climbs back above $90 a barrelThe Bank of England has kept UK interest rates on hold as fears mount over rising inflation triggered by the Iran war.Against a volatile backdrop in the Middle East conflict, the Bank’s monetary policy committee vo...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Book returned to Australian library – 150 years overdue
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Book returned to Australian library – 150 years overdue

The book, Antiquities of Athens, was handed back to Kiama library by a man who found it bricked into a wallAn Australian public library has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late after being found behind a wall during a home renovation.The book, Antiquities of Athens, published in 1858, was...

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Three people found dead on small boat in Channel crossing attempt
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Three people found dead on small boat in Channel crossing attempt

Group of migrants found unresponsive off coast of Dunkirk after attempting to reach UKThree people have died while trying to reach the UK on a small boat after one of the busiest days for Channel crossings this year.The group of migrants were found dead on a boat off the coast of Dunkirk on Thursday...

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Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy
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Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy

Chief executive says the four-year plan will lead to greater efficiency but gives no details of potential job lossesBusiness live – latest updatesLloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part of a four-year plan under which its chief executive will use new tech and AI to drive growth.C...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
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Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
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Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds

Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court rulingA new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further le...

Adria R Walker
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US borrowing costs hit 19-year high as Fed holds interest rates
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US borrowing costs hit 19-year high as Fed holds interest rates

Bank’s chair pledges to keep up fight against inflation but decision brings fears of a failure to keep paceUS government borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 2007 after the Federal Reserve voted to hold its key interest rate steady, feeding fears that the central bank may not move fast...

Lauren Almeida
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‘Grey lump with orange wings’: migrating moth descends on UK gardens
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‘Grey lump with orange wings’: migrating moth descends on UK gardens

Boom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in EuropeHe had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insec...

Chris Baraniuk
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Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices
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Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices

Environmental groups renew calls for windfall tax to support households following Q2 earnings rise to $9.84bn Shell more than doubled its profit in its second quarter of the year, as Europe’s biggest oil and gas company reaped the benefits from the jump in oil and gas prices triggered by war in the...

Lauren Almeida
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Was Florentine friars’ fatigue-fighting elixir a precursor to Coca-Cola?
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Was Florentine friars’ fatigue-fighting elixir a precursor to Coca-Cola?

Document believed to be from 19th century details recipe using Bolivian coca leaves, kola nuts and wineAn Italian friar has unearthed a document from the pharmacy archives of an ancient convent in Florence describing a medicinal potion made from Bolivian coca leaves and kola nuts, prompting suggesti...

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
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