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  • Palestinian doctor Muhammad Abu Salamiya stands with a group of men behind a lectern

    Israel-Gaza war live
    Al-Shifa hospital director release sparks row in Israel; army needs 10,000 soldiers, Israel defence minister says

  • white man wearing black glasses and black jacket

    US
    Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse scraps US filming plans after outcry from Native American groups

    • Joe Biden
      Biden’s family reportedly tell him to stay in presidential race as blame shifts to advisers

    • World
      Hurricane Beryl bears down on Caribbean as powerful category 3 storm

    • France
      French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon detained over sex assault allegations

    • China
      China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

    • UK election live
      Starmer will try to set up ‘permanent Labour government’ if he wins, Conservative minister claims

    • Arctic
      Norway blocks sale of last private land on Svalbard after Chinese interest

News in focus

  • Composite of false, AI generated images

    Explainer
    Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

  • An image of Kevin Roberts against the backdrop of a painting

    The election operators
    The force behind Project 2025: Kevin Roberts has the roadmap for a second Trump term

    The ‘cowboy Catholic’ head of the Heritage Foundation is on a mission to align the right behind Trumpism, and has a plan in place to overturn the American government as it exists if Trump returns to power
  • Rachel Reeves

    UK politics
    She could soon be the UK’s first female chancellor – but who is Rachel Reeves?

    The 45-year-old has the perfect CV for the role, with experience at the Bank of England and in private finance – but how has her background shaped her tough stance on public finances?

Spotlight

  • white man wearing blue suit and red tie in front of microphone

    Explained
    What is the fallout if the supreme court grants Trump presidential immunity?

    Justices to decide Monday on Trump’s claim of absolute immunity over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election
  • Billy Joel in New York on 7 December 1977.

    Music
    ‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna

    The nearly 50-year-old song has been adopted by the under-30s to describe their particular feelings of ennui
    • ‘Somebody once asked me if they had ever had sex’ … Lucy Lawless as Xena and Renee O’Connor as Gabrielle.

      Culture
      ‘I was attacked by a bloody rabbit’: how we made Xena: Warrior Princess

    • Deforestation in the Amazon - detail of an area.

      Sustainable fashion
      ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

    • friends in casual summer wear lying in circle on the colourful rug in the park having fun and making a group selfie

      Pass notes
      Head lice are everywhere. Are selfies to blame?

    • Portrait of a boy holding a black staff

      Tanzania
      Milk and sacrifice: a rare glimpse into a Maasai rite of passage

Euro 2024

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Sport

  • Mary Earps after Manchester United's defeat by Chelsea at the end of the WSL season

    Manchester United Women being hindered by indifference

    Suzanne Wrack
  • Dan Ashworth

    Football
    Ashworth free to start at Manchester United as Newcastle deal struck

    • Referee Wayne Barnes holds up a red card during the Rugby World Cup final between New Zealand and South Africa

      Rugby union
      New Zealand chief says 20-minute red cards need to be brought in

    • Max Verstappen and Lando Norris collide during the Austrian Grand Prix

      Formula One
      McLaren urge FIA to punish Verstappen over Norris incident

    • Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone poses after breaking the 400m hurdles world record at the US Olympic trials

      Athletics
      McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 400m hurdles world record for fifth time

    • Simone Biles waves to fans at the US Olympic gymnastics trials

      Gymnastics
      ‘I knew I’d be back’: Biles shines at US trials to seal Olympics spot

Opinion

  • Commemoration for those who died in tax protests in Kenya<br>NAIROBI, KENYA - JUNE 30: Commemoration held for 23 people lost their lives in the clashes that broke out across the country after the police opened fire against the protesters who opposed the government's tax regulation and entered the parliament building in Nairobi, Kenya on June 30, 2024. The group protested against the government after the ceremony. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    The world is scrambling to understand Kenya’s historic protests – this is what too many are missing

    Nanjala Nyabola
    A finance bill was the trigger, but the backdrop is government debt and blinkered interventions from western institutions, says Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola
  • Marine Le Pen with supporters in Paris, France, 1 July 2024

    Macron is history, Le Pen is triumphant. What do ‘reasonable’ French voters like me do now?

    Pierre Haski
  • Adelie penguins in Antarctica.

    Scientists ignored ‘gay’ animals for years. When will we get over our human hang-ups about the natural world?

    Elle Hunt
  • Joe Biden at Andrews Air Force Base

    Gaza has turned into Biden’s most perplexing moral and foreign policy failure

    Mohamad Bazzi
  • Rishi Sunak returning to No 10 Downing Street on 22 May, after announcing the date of the general election.

    The tragic parable of Rishi Sunak: driven by success at all costs, then undone by his own myth-making

    Nesrine Malik
  • Multi-coloured stick people standing side by side, holding hands

    We’re all familiar with BFFs and frenemies. Here are six other friendship types you need to know

    Emma Beddington
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Climate crisis

  • A firefighter in protective clothing manages a fire line in Fresno County, California

    Weather tracker
    Scorching temperatures across US threaten heat records

  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    Food
    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

  • An artist impression of the Microsoft Park Royal datacentre, now under construction in west London.

    Technology
    AI drive brings Microsoft’s ‘green moonshot’ down to earth in west London

  • Building covered in scaffolding and hoarding sadvertising Cop29

    Azerbaijan
    Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

Around the world

  • A general view of the supreme court building in Washington.

    US politics live
    US supreme court to issue Trump immunity decision

    The court delayed ruling on Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution until today, the last day of the session
  • Women carrying children queue outside a clinic

    Nigeria
    Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

  • A paper boat showing Rishi Sunak's face and the message 'Stop the boats' against a blue background. Credit: Guardian Design Team/PA

    UK politics
    How the Tory war on immigration backfired

  • man wearing suit and tie sits at table in front of rows of people holding up portrait photos

    Boeing
    US accused of offering Boeing ‘sweetheart deal’ over fatal crashes

    • US
      Steve Bannon to turn himself in to prison after supreme court rejects appeal

    • China
      Chinese space rocket crashes in flames after accidental launch

    • Nigeria
      At least 18 people killed in series of suicide attacks in Nigeria

    • Business
      French market leaps amid hopes Le Pen will fall short of outright victory

    • Technology
      Meta accused of breaking EU digital law by charging for ad-free social networks

    • Brexit
      EU would not rush to reopen Brexit talks with Labour, say Brussels sources

Culture

  • Blitz<br>Steve McQueen's Blitz to open the 68th BFI London Film Festival. Saoirse Ronan

    Film
    Steve McQueen’s Blitz to open the London film festival

    Film starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Weller marks a high-profile world premiere for the festival, now in its 68th year
  • Despicable Me 4.

    Film
    Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive

  • Still angry … Ice-T and Body Count.

    Review
    Body Count ft Ice-T review – an explosive love letter to heavy metal

  • Swift wearing ruffled dress.

    Music
    Taylor Swift clothes to be displayed at free V&A show this summer

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Film
    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the bard’s work updated on screen

  • Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, pictured in 2005.

    Books
    Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88

Lifestyle

  • ‘I feel privileged to do it’ … Fiona Burke

    A new start after 60
    I saw children caged on the US-Mexico border – and my life changed completely

    When Fiona Burke saw the shocking images in lockdown, she knew she had to help. Now she spends four months each winter volunteering on the border, helping migrants who are battling the odds
  • Woman with sensitive skin illustration

    The beauty Q&A
    How do I find the right products for my sensitive skin?

  • Rachel Roddy's biscotti occhi di bue or bullseye biscuits 1167

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bullseye biscuits

  • Phil Daoust, holding an ice-cream cone, reclines in a deckchair in the park in the sunshine

    Fitness
    Do be a quitter! How I broke my exercise streak – and smashed my fitness goals

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman who are kissing while blindfolded

    How we do it
    ‘Most of the flirting is virtual – you sit at a computer and talk to girls online’: This is how we do it in China

  • Keir Stamer talking

    Ask Philippa
    My in-laws think Keir Starmer is ‘an idiot’. Should I pick a fight?

Take part

  • Biden and Trump speak during the presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia.

    People in the US
    Share your reaction to the first US presidential debate

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    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

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    Culture
    Tell us about your favourite new podcasts of 2024 so far

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    People in the US
    How do you stay cool in extreme heat?

From our global editions

  • A man consults with unhoused people in a tent encampment.

    Homelessness
    2,100 deaths in 10 years: how fentanyl is devastating Los Angeles’ unhoused community

    A Guardian analysis of autopsy records reveals record-high overdoses in 2023. Harm reduction advocates are fighting to save lives on the streets
  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Loneliness
    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

  • Goats belonging to Sicilian farmer Luca Cammarata drink from a muddy water pond near his drought-stricken farm

    ‘We can’t let the animals die’
    Drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future

  • A man sitting on the ground holds out his hand through a gate to a medic in a white jacket

    Global health
    How a brother’s illness spurred a plan to get mental health on the agenda across Africa

  • Multicoloured striped pieces of cloth hang from the ceiling

    Thailand
    Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales

  • An oil platform in the North Sea

    Oil
    North Sea oil decline: ‘We can’t have a repeat of what happened to 80s miners’

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  • Tim Jonze enjoys an ice cream at the Shepards as part of his Glastonbury food series. Photograph: Alecsandra Dragoi for the Guardian

    Food
    All hail the food truck! I ate my way around Glastonbury

  • Factor Druk printing house, after being destroyed by a Russian missile in May

    Ukraine
    ‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house

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Podcasts

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly Westminster: The final week of campaigning - podcast

  • Illustration: Calum Heath

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big – podcast

  • Boris Johnson standing in front of the Vote Leave bus during the EU referendum campaign with a fellow campaigner

    Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 2 - podcast

  • FBL-EURO-2024-MATCH37-GER-DEN<br>Germany's forward #07 Kai Havertz (C) runs with the ball past Denmark's defender #02 Joachim Andersen during the UEFA Euro 2024 round of 16 football match between Germany and Denmark at the BVB Stadion Dortmund in Dortmund on June 29, 2024. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Germany beat the storm and the Danes while the Swiss roll Italy – Football Daily

  • Keir Starmer

    Weekend
    Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet, the woman who gave birth to her granddaughter, and why do we have the dreams we do?– podcast

  • Donald Trump (left) and Joe Biden take part in the first presidential debate (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly America
    Debate disaster: is there a way back for Joe Biden? – podcast

  • Beneath the Baobabs, a festival in Kilifi, Kenya, over new year's 2023-2024. Photograph: Drew Kamau

    The Audio Long Read
    Nairobi to New York and back: the loneliness of the internationally educated elite – podcast

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  • Wimbledon 2024 - Day One

    Photos of the day
    Wimbledon starts and Glasto ends

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • A local resident walks past a burning building following shelling in Ukraine

    Ukraine
    Residents flee as war arrives in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine

  • From the series Rotting from Within, by Abdulhamid Kircher.

    The big picture
    Abdulhamid Kircher reflects on his traumatic family history

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    Fashion
    Splashing out: 10 swim brands to know – in pictures

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives in Canberra<br>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange kisses his wife Stella Assange as he arrives in Canberra, Australia, June 26, 2024. REUTERS/Edgar Su

    Gallery
    Australia’s best photos of June

  • Seventeen pose for photograph beside the Pyramid stage.

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