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Zelenskiy accuses Viktor Orbán of betraying Europe at leaders’ meeting in UK (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has taken aim at the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accusing him of betraying fellow European leaders after Orbán’s recent “peace mission” to Moscow....
Tax filings show Catholic conservative activist Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott (www.theguardian.com)
Macron ally wins surprise re-election as national assembly speaker (www.theguardian.com)
Extremist Israeli minister makes provocative visit to al-Aqsa mosque (www.theguardian.com)
Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president (www.theguardian.com)
Bernice Johnson Reagon, US civil rights activist and singer, dies aged 81 (www.theguardian.com)
Violence against women in Brazil reaches highest levels on record (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalize rape victims who have an abortion....
Trump says Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as ‘it doesn’t give us anything’ (www.theguardian.com)
Shell quietly backs away from pledge to increase ‘advanced recycling’ of plastics (www.theguardian.com)
The energy giant Shell has quietly backed away from a pledge to rapidly increase its use of “advanced recycling”, a practice oil and petrochemical producers have promoted as a solution to the plastics pollution crisis....
Netanyahu rejects calls for immediate inquiry into 7 October security failures (www.theguardian.com)
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected calls for an immediate independent inquiry into the security failures that allowed the deadliest attack in his country’s history....
Ursula von der Leyen wins second term as European Commission president (www.theguardian.com)
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Uncontacted tribe seen in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active (www.theguardian.com)
Teamsters social media attacks leader over Republican convention speech (www.theguardian.com)
China suspends nuclear talks with US over arms sales to Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
Wall Street Journal fires new chair of Hong Kong Journalists Association (www.theguardian.com)
The chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association has been fired by her employer, the Wall Street Journal, weeks after being appointed as the head of the embattled union....
Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt (www.theguardian.com)
The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump....
Chinese business tycoon convicted of defrauding followers in $1bn scheme (www.theguardian.com)
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How Clarence Thomas helped thwart prosecution of Trump in classified documents case (www.theguardian.com)
Clarence Thomas has struck again....
Generation Kill author Evan Wright dies aged 59 (www.theguardian.com)
Evan Wright, the award-winning journalist who wrote about US subcultures in the book Generation Kill, which he helped adapt into the HBO miniseries of the same name, has died aged 59....
Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory (www.theguardian.com)
Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS (www.theguardian.com)
The case of Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service over a potential prosecution for perjury and forgery....