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Many fires were sparked by the weather, with climate change increasing lightning strikes amid blistering heat and dry conditions...

President also says presidential immunity for crimes should be removed and ethics rules for justices should be stricter...

Former head of US border security says claim ‘terribly misleading’ and statistics show nine of 10 convicted traffickers are US citizens...

Leading Māori figures from across New Zealand have sounded the alarm over the government’s changes to policies that affect Māori, after analysis by the Guardian highlighted the far-reaching scope of the proposals....

US Democrats have spent recent days trying out a relatively new attack line on Donald Trump: that he is weird. The tactic is almost certainly calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are moving from marked disinterest in the now-dropped matchup between Joe Biden and his presidential predecessor...

The Guardian witnessed the Rapid Action Battalion, the elite unit of Bangladesh’s police forces, fire teargas from a helicopter on crowds below and army forces fire at protesters with what appeared to be light machine guns, leaving about 200 people dead and thousands injured. Analysis of footage from protest scenes by Amnesty...

Fond amusement is mostly the point (I think) of this clear-eyed look at a short-lived British phenomenon. Sexploitation films emerged from the burgeoning sexual revolution of the 1960s. Depending on who you ask, this revolution came about as a result of sex between men being decriminalised, or the liberating arrival of the pill...

Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list...

Several brands of condoms and lubricants contain alarming levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals”, including styles of Trojan and K-Y Jelly, new research finds....

Republicans took to the airwaves Sunday to criticize a surging Kamala Harris, calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a “dangerous liberal” as US conservatives’ lines of attack on the vice-president began to solidify....

Israeli jets struck southern Lebanon overnight as diplomats worked frantically to prevent a regional war after a rocket strike that killed 12 young people in the occupied Golan Heights....

Russian leader says Washington risks triggering cold war-style missile crisis and promises to respond in kind...

Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of hope and fear in a presidential election that could end 25 years of socialist rule – if a free and fair vote is allowed....

Vladimir Putin has warned the US that if Washington deploys long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, Russia will station similar missiles within striking distance of the west....

Sean P Grayson worked for six law enforcement agencies in four years, with allegations of abuse of power and lying...

Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app....

For Israeli military paramedic Yuval Green, it was the command to burn down a house that made him decide to end his reserve duty....

Aerospace giants have been accused of putting profits ahead of safety as officials consider cutting the minimum number of pilots required on commercial flight decks from two to one....

A senior official with the Dutch Olympic committee has insisted that a convicted child rapist in its beach volleyball team is not a paedophile, in an email seen by the Guardian....

US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders...

Minors can receive contraception confidentially under Title X in the state with the highest repeat teen birth rate...