‘We’re excited’: arthouse hits draw young UK filmgoers to a summer of subtitles (www.theguardian.com)
This time last summer, British cinemas were holding their collective breath, looking forward to the biggest box office weekend of the year. “Barbenheimer” came to the rescue, with the doubleheader of blockbusters jointly chalking up an initial total of £30m when released in mid-July....
Key global powers fail to sign up to Ukraine peace summit communique (www.theguardian.com)
UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)
Strike: An Uncivil War review – brutal confrontation on the miners’ strike picket lines (www.theguardian.com)
British schoolchildren are taught that the last full-scale military engagement on their soil was the battle of Culloden in 1746. But this should change: on 18 June 1984 the battle of Orgreave, the subject of Daniel Gordon’s documentary, was the bitterest moment of the miners’ strike of 1984-85. It was the last stand for both...
Prof Arturo Casadevall: ‘It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can’t happen to us’ (www.theguardian.com)
Arturo Casadevall is a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has spent four decades investigating how fungi can both improve and devastate life as we know it. His new book, What If Fungi Win?, charts how we might overcome the rising threat....
‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year? (www.theguardian.com)
UK ‘morally incoherent’ for sending arms to Israel and aid to Gaza, says Oxfam chief (www.theguardian.com)
‘No pride in occupation’: queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict (www.theguardian.com)
“Israel presents itself as an LGBT haven in the region, but for Palestinians it offers neither refuge nor solidarity”
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test (www.theguardian.com)
Gaffe came as 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate sought to bolster his support among Black and Latino voters in Michigan
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test (www.theguardian.com)
Up to ten people including children shot at public splash pad in Michigan (www.theguardian.com)
White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world (www.theguardian.com)
Murder conviction of Missouri woman overturned after 43 years in prison (www.theguardian.com)
New York governor considers face-mask ban on subway to deter crime (www.theguardian.com)
ICC must be allowed to carry out work ‘without intimidation’, say 93 member states (www.theguardian.com)
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ICC must be allowed to carry out work ‘without intimidation’, say 93 member states (www.theguardian.com)
The international criminal court must be allowed to carry out its work “without intimidation”, a group of 93 states has said in a significant public intervention intended to reinforce support for the judicial body....
Eight Israeli soldiers killed in southern Gaza, military says (www.theguardian.com)
Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in a blast that engulfed their armoured vehicle in southern Gaza, in the biggest loss of life for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a single incident since January....
Dutch lorry drivers could stop bringing goods to UK if post-Brexit delays not cut (www.theguardian.com)
US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees (www.theguardian.com)
US supreme court sides with Starbucks in union case over fired employees (www.theguardian.com)
Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
The portrayal of a former university official in Steve Coogan’s film about the discovery of the remains of Richard III is defamatory, a high court judge has ruled....