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...
California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis (www.theguardian.com)
Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in decline...
Brazil: 37 killed and dozens missing in worst floods in 80 years (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...
Bomb attacks in Congo kill at least 12 people including children (www.theguardian.com)
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...
Rebuilding homes in Gaza will cost $40bn and take 16 years, UN finds (www.theguardian.com)
Turkey stops all trade with Israel over ‘humanitarian tragedy’ in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Turkey has halted all trade with Israel, citing the “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the Palestinian territories, which prompted strong criticism from the Israeli foreign minister....
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)
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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)
David Cameron backed Israel arms sales two days after death of UK aid workers (www.theguardian.com)
‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years (theguardian.com)
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
Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun (www.theguardian.com)
Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation...
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.
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...
Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests (www.theguardian.com)
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...
Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights (www.theguardian.com)
Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame? (www.theguardian.com)
Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, it’s a bigger killer than habitat loss or poaching...
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? (www.theguardian.com)
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...