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Donald Trump says Xi Jinping wrote him a ‘beautiful note’ after rally shooting (www.theguardian.com)

Hong Kong is global trade hub for world’s most brutal regimes, report says (www.theguardian.com)

Pro-democracy campaign group finds exports of goods to Russia, vital to its war efforts, roughly doubled in a year...

Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested in Greenland (www.theguardian.com)

Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled ‘McCarthyite’ (www.theguardian.com)

Federal judge delays posting of Ten Commandments in Louisiana public schools (www.theguardian.com)

Judge pushed enactment of law to display religious code until November in response to parents’ suit...

Montana man kills grizzly bear that attacked while he was picking berries (www.theguardian.com)

British woman and husband found dead after failed Atlantic crossing (www.theguardian.com)

World leaders react to Biden’s decision to exit presidential race (www.theguardian.com)

We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny (www.theguardian.com)

How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia unleashed them on a completely blank smartphone linked to a new, unused email address....

Plan to end exorbitant ‘surprise’ ambulance bills heads to Congress (www.theguardian.com)

Committee to recommend patients should pay no more than $100 or 10% of a bill, depending on which is less...

Satnam lost his arm and was allegedly left to die on the roadside. This is the horror of exploitation on Italian farms (www.theguardian.com)

Heat-related deaths in Texas climb after Beryl left millions without power (www.theguardian.com)

Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll (www.theguardian.com)

Genetic test could eradicate a type of inherited blindness in dogs (www.theguardian.com)

A mountain rescue dog whose duties ended after her eyesight failed has helped scientists create a test that could eradicate the genetic eye condition in her breed for good....

Slowly but surely, Israel tightens its grip on Gaza’s lifeline to Egypt | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Bangladesh’s top court cuts job quotas that led to deadly student-led protests (www.theguardian.com)

Utah to use pentobarbital to execute man instead of three-drug combination (www.theguardian.com)

Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’...

The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization (www.theguardian.com)

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure...

I have not forgiven Met officers who photographed dead daughters, mother says (www.theguardian.com)

Mina Smallman, the mother of two women murdered in a London park, has forgiven their killer but not the two Metropolitan police officers who took and shared photos of their bodies, she said....

Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears (www.theguardian.com)

The first “multibank” in London, distributing everything from basic foods to baby products and toiletries, will be officially launched this week, amid continued concerns about levels of poverty as the school summer holidays begin....

Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)

Botanists vote to remove racist references from plants’ scientific names (www.theguardian.com)

Plant names are only a part of the taxonomic controversy, however. Naming animals after racists, fascists and other controversial figures cause just as many headaches as those posed by plants, say scientists. Examples include a brown, eyeless beetle which has been named after Adolf Hitler. Nor is Anophthalmus hitleri alone. Many...