Xi Jinping to visit France, Hungary and Serbia amid EU trade tariff row (www.theguardian.com)
China’s president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, Ukraine and Taiwan continue...
Brazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years (www.theguardian.com)
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)
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Bomb attacks in Congo kill at least 12 people including children (www.theguardian.com)
‘It’s like winning the lottery’: the mobile home owners buying the land they live on (www.theguardian.com)
Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes – but not the parks themselves, which can be incredibly lucrative. Now some residents are forming cooperatives, and taking control...
Arizona governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage...
Gazprom slumps to first annual loss in 22 years as trade with Europe hit (www.theguardian.com)
The company made a net loss of 629bn roubles (£5.5bn) in 2023 amid dwindling gas trade with Europe, once Gazprom’s main sales market, as a result of sanctions and the throttling of pipelines to the continent.
Could student protesters turn the 2024 election? (www.theguardian.com)
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Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky (www.theguardian.com)
The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes
Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’ (www.theguardian.com)
Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals...
Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, ECHR rules (www.theguardian.com)
Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, ECHR rules (www.theguardian.com)
Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost $40bn and take 16 years, UN finds (www.theguardian.com)
Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ (www.theguardian.com)
‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years (theguardian.com)
Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he’s re-elected unless he gets immunity (www.theguardian.com)
Time magazine called the ex-president’s plans ‘an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world’...
Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests (www.theguardian.com)
Arizona senate passes repeal of 1864 near-total abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Democrats pick up support of two Republicans to repeal law reinstated three weeks ago, with governor expected to ratify repeal...
Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...
Harvey Weinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned (www.theguardian.com)
Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...
The fight for full press freedom in Ukraine: ‘We can write what we want, but bad actors try to intimidate us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment...
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? (www.theguardian.com)
Man allegedly pours bleach into Oregon hatchery tank and kills 18,000 salmon (www.theguardian.com)
Campus protests: UCLA students in standoff with police as demonstrations spread across US (www.theguardian.com)
Tensions are growing at the University of California where hundreds of police in riot gear have gathered after warning pro-Palestinian protesters to disperse or face arrest, a day after their encampment was violently attacked by masked counter-protesters....