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    Nobel peace prize
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    • Novichok poisonings
      Justice ‘highly unlikely’ over Salisbury novichok attack, says Theresa May

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      UK economy returns to growth in boost to Rachel Reeves before budget

    • UK weather
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    • Health
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News in focus

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    Analysis
    Sue Gray’s replacement quells No 10 spad rebellion – for now

    After complaints over pay and life in government, Labour’s special advisers seem placated by Morgan McSweeney’s more conciliatory tone
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    European Union
    Bella Ciao: a brief history of the resistance anthem sung to Viktor Orbán

    A look at the origins and appeal of the song MEPs used to serenade the Hungarian PM in Strasbourg

Spotlight

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    Friendship
    ‘Be more vulnerable!’ What women can teach men about friendship – and what they can learn from men

    Banter, backslaps and no falling out – or baring your soul and obsessing over BFFs? When it comes to friendship, men and women tend to do things differently. So what can they learn from each other?
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    The Filter
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    From do-it-all electronics to a comb for under £2, this is the kit hairstylists can’t live without – and the products you don’t need to spend money on
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    Café François, London SE1: ‘A new London landmark’ – restaurant review

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    This could well turn into Borough Market’s most useful rendezvous point
    • Coldplay’s Chris Martin performing in New York, October 2024.

      Music
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    • Young women browsing books on a stall in Spitalfields Market in London

      Books
      ‘I love the whole atmosphere and can spend hours browsing’: how did bookshops suddenly become cool?

    • Three women, one in a hard hat

      Bolivia
      ‘Many are obliged to sleep with the foreman’: Bolivia’s female builders square up to an abusive system

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      Should my flatmate stop taking things off the street to furnish our home?

Opinion

  • Pimlico Plumbers chief executive Charlie Mullins gets out of a blue Bentley in 2018

    The super-rich claim they’ll flee to escape a Labour ‘tax grab’. Here’s an idea for how to stop them

    Polly Toynbee
    If the 1% follow through on their threats, an ‘exit tax’ could raise £500m a year – by plucking golden feathers as they take flight, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • A building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike

    This is madness. How long will the destruction of Lebanon continue?

    Moustafa Bayoumi
  • a man on screen gives a speech as a room of people look on

    The US won’t run for another term on UN human rights council. Israel is likely why

    Kenneth Roth
    Balloting would have provided a rare opportunity for the world’s governments to vote on complicity in Israeli war crimes
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    Canada is showing that it’s possible to have universal, affordable childcare. Is the UK brave enough to follow?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    If we treated this service as vital state infrastructure, it could make a huge difference to parents – and to the economy, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
    • Emma Brockes

      Digested week
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      Emma Brockes
    • A young girl carrying a box of belongings on her head. There is a large truck and a small crowd of people in the background.

      Sudan’s forgotten war is bloody and horrifying – but US bombs aren’t the way to stop it

      Simon Jenkins
    • Keir Starmer with his former chief of staff Sue Gray in London, 12 October 2023

      The chaos at Keir Starmer’s No 10 isn’t just political gossip – but there’s a way for him to fix it

      Anthony Seldon
    • Eleanor Shakespeare WEB carbon capture climate crisis

      Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions

      George Monbiot

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    Editorial
    The Guardian view on the employment rights bill: a fairer deal for the world of work

  • Orlando, Florida, after Hurricane Milton made landfall.

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Hurricane Milton and other disasters: extreme politics is worsening extreme weather

  • Heinz advert on the London Underground with a coupe only 3 of their parents, editing out the black father, which has caused controversy

    Letters
    ‘Racist’ Heinz advert has diverse lessons for us all

  • Child playing with plastic letters at school

    Letters
    Psychologist shortage is hampering special needs support and intervention

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  • Residents cut off by floods being rescued by boat

    Weatherwatch
    A year after Suffolk floods, underinsured homeowners struggle to rebuild

  • Combine harvester gathering the crop and transferring it to a tractor’s trailer on arable farmland in Shropshire

    Farming
    Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather

  • An oil refinery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Carbon emissions
    Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year

  • A young orangutan holding on to two thin trunks at the top of a tree in dawn light

    Environment
    Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns

From the UK

  • Sue Gray walking on street

    Labour
    Sue Gray set to miss inaugural meeting of council of nations and regions

    PM will convene Friday’s summit of devolved nations and English mayors without Gray by his side, No 10 says
  • Person holding mobile phone with website of British e-commerce company THG on screen in front of logo.

    Business
    Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group takes £10m stake in online retailer THG

  • Liam Gaughan with recording equipment down a mine. He is standing next to a sign saying 'meeting station', and in front of a gate with a sign on it saying 'No road'

    Heritage
    Music project captures ‘sound of carbon’ by recording in Durham coalmine

  • Brown bear lies on operating table surrounded by three medics

    Boki
    Brown bear in Kent recovering well after UK-first brain surgery

    • Conservative leadership
      Councillor who oversaw Grenfell works donated to Badenoch’s Tory leadership bid

    • Immigration and asylum
      Children being traumatised at Gatwick deportation centre, finds watchdog

    • Energy industry
      Green energy firms promise more than £24bn of new investment in Britain

    • Transport
      UK must prepare for widespread road pricing, says infrastructure tsar

    • Scotland
      Man, 44, arrested after death of 36-year-old in Aberdeenshire

    • Labour
      Labour whips warn party’s MPs not to try to amend bills or disagree in public

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    US elections
    Obama tells men to drop ‘excuses’ and support Kamala Harris over Trump

    Ex-president campaigns in Pennsylvania and says fellow Democrat ‘actually cares about making your life better’
  • Edi Rama and Giorgia Meloni attend the signing ceremony in Rome for the migration deal that led to the establishment of the two centres in Albania

    Italy
    Italian migration centres open in Albania under controversial deal

  • The tomb inside Seville cathedral: it is a large and elaborate stone construction on a pedestal with statues of heraldic figures at its corners

    Spain
    DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville

  • a man wearing a suit stands next to a framed painting of rocks by the sea

    US
    FBI returns Monet painting stolen by Nazis to family of the Jewish owners

    • Cyprus
      ECHR ruling for Cyprus asylum seekers may embolden refugees in buffer zone

    • Business live
      BlackRock hits $11.5tn of assets

    • Germany
      Eighteen treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing

    • Tesla
      Elon Musk unveils Tesla Cybercab self-driving robotaxi

    • US
      One dead and 12 rescued after elevator malfunction trapped group in Colorado gold mine

    • Rights and freedom
      Haitian gangs recruiting starving children to fight security forces, rights group finds

Culture

  • Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and Halsey.

    Music
    ‘It’s like, wow. I was really deranged’: stars and repentant stans on the terror of toxic fandom

    Chappell Roan, Halsey and Tegan and Sara are among the music icons rebuking bad fan behaviour. From catfishing to sexual assault and death threats, singers and fans explore how pop became so dehumanised
  • Anna Kendrick in a green-and-gold Paisley-style blouse and a black skirt

    Film
    ‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer

  • Stephen King at his home in Maine.

    The books of my life
    Stephen King: ‘I loved Lord of the Flies the way kids love Harry Potter’

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    Music
    ‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile

  • Daniel Craig in No Time to Die.

    Week in geek
    No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?

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    Leading questions
    ‘We are trying for a baby, but how do we navigate becoming parents if we struggle with monogamy?’

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    Environment
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  • Border Crossings Fall From Record Highs But Remains Potent Issue In Presidential Election<br>RUBY, ARIZONA - JUNE 24: Migrants seeking asylum from Central and South America ride in the back of a border patrol vehicle after being apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border protection officers after illegally crossing over into the U.S. on June 24, 2024 in Ruby, Arizona. President Joe Biden has announced an immigration relief plan, which promises a path to citizenship for approximately 500,000 undocumented immigrants married to or adopted by U.S. citizens. Day's after Biden's announcement, Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump announced to a podcast host that he would solidify green cards for foreign nationals who've received a U.S. college diploma. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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