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Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing amid aftershocks
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Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing amid aftershocks

Military mobilises thousands of personnel after quake on southern Kyushu island that registered a maximum 7 on the Japanese shindo intensity scale At least five people have been killed, and nine are missing after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan on Tuesday, injuring hundreds and knoc...

Gavin Blair in Tokyo, and Rachel Hall
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Kenya investigating unexpected deaths of 15 elephants in national park
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Kenya investigating unexpected deaths of 15 elephants in national park

Potential toxic substance detected in several of 15 elephants found dead in Kenya’s Amboseli national parkOfficials are investigating the deaths of 15 elephants over the past month in Kenya’s Amboseli national park.The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said 10 of the elephants showed signs of partial par...

Guardian staff and agencies
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ICE agents used racial slurs during Los Angeles crackdown, court files show
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ICE agents used racial slurs during Los Angeles crackdown, court files show

Agents accused in lawsuit of using anti-immigrant slurs and denigrating undocumented MexicansICE agents deployed last summer to the Los Angeles area referred to the subjects of their immigration operations with racial slurs, according to newly released court documents.On 4 July 2025, an unidentified...

Uwa Ede-Osifo
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FCC bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’
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FCC bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’

Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the USThe Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on humanoid robots from China on Tuesday, saying that the technology poses “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security. The move co...

Dara Kerr and agencies
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Senate confirms Trump ally Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence
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Senate confirms Trump ally Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence

At confirmation hearing, Clayton sidestepped questions about 2020 election and declined to say Trump lostSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US Senate voted to confirm Jay Clayton as the director of national intelligence on Tuesday, giving Trump another key ally directing the nation...

Sam Levine
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Trump pausing Iran attacks shows US military power is not enough on its own
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Trump pausing Iran attacks shows US military power is not enough on its own

Tehran has not been bombed into submission, leaving America unable to enforce its demands without a ground war that it does not wantHas Iran won a war it didn’t start against the United States? It is not a victory in any conventional military sense: about 3,500 Iranians have been reported killed and...

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
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Rescuers pick through wreckage after ‘devastating’ Wisconsin tornado
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Rescuers pick through wreckage after ‘devastating’ Wisconsin tornado

No deaths reported after twister leveled homes and topples trees and power lines in north-east of stateFirst responders searched homes and buildings on Tuesday for possible victims of a powerful tornado that ravaged several north-eastern Wisconsin communities.The Fox Cities region, which is home to...

Associated Press
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Florida executes man in first of two lethal injections planned in single day
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Florida executes man in first of two lethal injections planned in single day

Governor Ron DeSantis has made the state’s death chamber the nation’s busiest at the end of his final termA former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death on Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before...

Associated Press
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Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care
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Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care

Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey – but not Farage – to discuss how to fix decades-old funding crisisAndy Burnham has promised “problem-solving, not point-scoring” before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most intractable issues in British...

Pippa Crerar and Aletha Adu
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Seattle police recover machine gun and ghost gun from scene of mass shooting
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Seattle police recover machine gun and ghost gun from scene of mass shooting

Three people died, including one of the suspects, and at least five more were wounded, including two-year-old boySeattle police recovered a modified machine gun and an untraceable “ghost gun” from the scene of a mass shooting at a food festival this weekend that left three people dead – including on...

Roque Planas
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Former Gavin Newsom aide shares fresh details of affair
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Former Gavin Newsom aide shares fresh details of affair

Ruby Rippey writes in Vanity Fair of relationship with then San Francisco mayor and appears to contradict his accountA former aide to Gavin Newsom has publicly shared for the first time her full account of their affair, which took place more than two decades ago when Newsom was mayor of San Francisc...

Dani Anguiano
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Utah woman set fire to church a day before wedding, authorities say
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Utah woman set fire to church a day before wedding, authorities say

Lenita Moreno, 25, arrested over fire – which allegedly caused $108,000 in damage – at Mormon church in KaysvilleA Utah woman set fire to the church where she was scheduled to get married a day before the wedding, allege authorities investigating what may have been an extreme case of cold feet.Lenit...

Edward Helmore
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Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively
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Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively

White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from...

Melody Schreiber
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Trump hosts back-to-back meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu
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Trump hosts back-to-back meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu

Ukraine seeks more firepower for air defenses and Israeli prime minister tries to repair relationship with US presidentDonald Trump hosted back-to-back White House meetings with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as Ukraine seeks more firepower for its air defenses and the Israel...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington
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