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...
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...
‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers (www.theguardian.com)
‘Can you catch it as well?’: bird stunt causes flap in European parliament (www.theguardian.com)
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France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’ (www.theguardian.com)
France should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to a coalition of civil society groups that is launching a new push for reparations....
Powerful conservative funds hand out millions to pro-Trump far-right groups (www.theguardian.com)
Groups led by Stephen Miller and Charlie Kirk among recipients of large sums from Bradley Foundation and Bradley Impact Fund...
Amazon, Google and why you can't just invent a blockbusting games developer (www.theguardian.com)
Blasts heard above Israel after Iran launches drone attack – live (www.theguardian.com)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said any threat from the United States and Israel will be met with Tehran’s reciprocal response, Iranian state TV reported....
A Russian pacifist helped Ukrainians flee the country. Then the Kremlin caught him (www.theguardian.com)
Since the start of the war over two years ago, a discreet network of unofficial Russian volunteers like Demidenko has sprung up that have helped tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war to get out of Russia. Many of the Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Russia or ended up in the country after finding no...
China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Shame! Shame!’: Arizona Republican leaders block effort to repeal abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
Democrats stymied after state supreme court rules that 1864 law with no exceptions for rape or incest can go into effect...
Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system (www.theguardian.com)
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies...
More than 4,000 people evacuated in Russia after dam bursts (www.theguardian.com)
Water levels continue to rise after dam burst near Kazakhstan border after torrential rain...
US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale (www.theguardian.com)
Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050...
UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording (www.theguardian.com)
Who is thought to be behind the Moscow attack? (www.theguardian.com)
Islamic State has claimed responsibility and experts say an IS branch – Islamic State Khorasan Province – is prime suspect...
Dismay as Louisiana lookback law for child sexual abuse victims struck down (www.theguardian.com)
‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN report (www.theguardian.com)
South Sudan closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeks...
Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
Pet DNA testing company in doghouse after identifying human as canine | Dogs | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
US marriages back to pre-pandemic levels while divorce rate falls (www.theguardian.com)
2022 saw nearly 2.1m marriages, up slightly from 2019 – but still far below their height in 1946...
Israel broke international law with tank shelling that killed journalist, UN finds (www.theguardian.com)
‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election? (www.theguardian.com)
‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?::Robocalls of President Biden confused voters earlier this month – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too late
Cape Town hit by ‘unimaginable’ stench from 19,000 cattle on live export ship (www.theguardian.com)
Animal welfare groups say smell from the build-up of faeces and ammonia on the ship are indicative of the conditions animals endure...
