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● Reader Q&A: After Lula’s sensational victory in Brazil’s presidential election, post your questions for the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent ● Celebrations in Serbia after veteran ruler Vučić loses election to student-led protest movement ● Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack ● Former FBI director James Comey hit with third set of charges under Trump ● Trump continues midterm campaign blitz in Mississippi amid outcry over racist, Islamophobic attacks – live ● Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget ● Healey is expected to shield low-income pensioners from income tax – but how will it work? ● Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization ● UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’ ● Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile ● Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots ● Speed restrictions on Musk's Starlink lifted in Ukraine, defense ministry says ● England’s Harry Kane wins Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas takes women’s award ● The Memo: El-Sayed allies argue Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks will backfire ● Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found ● China's big political meeting could see Xi 'tighten discipline' in party ● Bolsonaro says police demand passports after Brazil election defeat ● Japan launches mission to Mars to bring back samples from its moon ● Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX ● AI giant Anthropic files for an IPO that could break records ● Reader Q&A: After Lula’s sensational victory in Brazil’s presidential election, post your questions for the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent ● Celebrations in Serbia after veteran ruler Vučić loses election to student-led protest movement ● Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack ● Former FBI director James Comey hit with third set of charges under Trump ● Trump continues midterm campaign blitz in Mississippi amid outcry over racist, Islamophobic attacks – live ● Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget ● Healey is expected to shield low-income pensioners from income tax – but how will it work? ● Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization ● UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’ ● Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile ● Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots ● Speed restrictions on Musk's Starlink lifted in Ukraine, defense ministry says ● England’s Harry Kane wins Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas takes women’s award ● The Memo: El-Sayed allies argue Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks will backfire ● Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found ● China's big political meeting could see Xi 'tighten discipline' in party ● Bolsonaro says police demand passports after Brazil election defeat ● Japan launches mission to Mars to bring back samples from its moon ● Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX ● AI giant Anthropic files for an IPO that could break records
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Reader Q&A: After Lula’s sensational victory in Brazil’s presidential election, post your questions for the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent

Having lost the first round of Brazil’s presidential election to far right rival Flávio Bolsonaro, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spectacularly triumphed in the second. What…
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Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget✓

Carers allowed to earn over the weekly limit without losing out as ‘cliff-edge’ abolished in the budget

Controversial mechanism that hit unpaid carers with huge penalties to be scrapped following Guardian investigation. The controversial rule that led to unpaid carers being punished…
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Healey is expected to shield low-income pensioners from income tax – but how will it work?✓

Healey is expected to shield low-income pensioners from income tax – but how will it work?

Retirees will get a personal allowance aligned with the new state pension, but experts say it could get complicated. Retirees in the UK on low incomes are expected to be given a…
76% agreement · 2 independent sources
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Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization

Anthropic's Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming…
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UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’✓

UK sanctions Sudanese military leaders implicated in El Fasher ‘campaign of rape’

Commanders suspected of sexual violence during the largest and fastest slaughter of civilians in more than 30 years have been subjected to travel ban and asset freeze. Senior…
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Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile✓

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado returns after months in exile

Machado announced her arrival on social media, writing "I am here. With you."
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Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots✓

Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots

Newsom accuses Trump of ‘assault on democracy’ as DoJ claims 20,000 registered voters in state are non-citizens. A US federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s…
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Speed restrictions on Musk's Starlink lifted in Ukraine, defense ministry says

The speed of the Elon Musk-owned satellite system used by the Ukrainian military has been fully restored after two weeks of restrictions, the country's ministry of defense said in…
73% agreement · 2 independent sources
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England’s Harry Kane wins Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas takes women’s award✓

England’s Harry Kane wins Ballon d’Or, Alexia Putellas takes women’s award

Bayern Munich striker becomes the first Englishman to win the prestigious award in 25 years, after Michael Owen in 2001
79% agreement · 2 independent sources
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The Memo: El-Sayed allies argue Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks will backfire✓

The Memo: El-Sayed allies argue Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks will backfire

President Trump is intensifying his anti-Muslim attacks on Abdul El-Sayed in the final stretch of campaigning before Election Day. At a Sunday rally in Michigan, Trump unleashed a…
77% agreement · 2 independent sources
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Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found✓

Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found

Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered
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China's big political meeting could see Xi 'tighten discipline' in party✓

China's big political meeting could see Xi 'tighten discipline' in party

The highly secretive four-day Plenum starts Monday in Beijing
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Bolsonaro says police demand passports after Brazil election defeat

Flavio Bolsonaro posted a video on social media saying police ordered him to surrender his passports
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Japan launches mission to Mars to bring back samples from its moon

Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the planet's two moons
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Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX✓

Elon Musk confirms he is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX

Musk says special committees within both companies have been formed to look at a possible mega-merger
74% agreement · 2 independent sources
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AI giant Anthropic files for an IPO that could break records✓

AI giant Anthropic files for an IPO that could break records

The AI company, which makes the popular Claude chatbot, has filed for an initial public offering that could be one of the biggest ever
78% agreement · 2 independent sources
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Brazil's left-wing President Lula elected for fourth term✓

Brazil's left-wing President Lula elected for fourth term

Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff
76% agreement · 2 independent sources
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Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

Australian workers expect the government to act to protect them from AI harms. There is a clear reform solution at hand. Get our new political email , free app or daily news…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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In allowing coal expansion in the Hunter, Chris Minns is pouring fuel on the climate fire. His decision will come back to hurt us all | Jack Egan

In allowing coal expansion in the Hunter, Chris Minns is pouring fuel on the climate fire. His decision will come back to hurt us all | Jack Egan

The high court found NSW is responsible for emissions from burning exported coal. What message does it send when the government can step in and bypass the law?. Sign up for…
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Australian politics live: UN condemns Labor and Coalition blocking bill to ban shackling pregnant women; texting triple-zero trial begins

Follow the day’s news live. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. Political debate should be ‘robust but respectful’, Anne Ruston says. A day after MPs…
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We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too | Sadiq Khan

We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too | Sadiq Khan

We’ll revive the in-person shopping experience with a transformation of the area, inspired by the John Lewis and Selfridges founders who first set up there. Sadiq Khan is the…
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If the PM reboots the UK for working-class people, unions will be with him. But the time for talking is over | Andrea Egan

If the PM reboots the UK for working-class people, unions will be with him. But the time for talking is over | Andrea Egan

Andy Burnham has railed against neoliberalism – the historic shift must start with this week’s budget. Andrea Egan is the general secretary of Unison. After Keir Starmer, things…
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We will make the net-zero transition work for Britain – approving the Jackdaw gasfield is part of the plan | Andy Burnham

We will make the net-zero transition work for Britain – approving the Jackdaw gasfield is part of the plan | Andy Burnham

Protecting jobs and strengthening energy security in the short term does not mean wavering on Labour’s deep commitment to a cleaner, greener future. Andy Burnham vows UK will hit…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars | Editorial

The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars | Editorial

The transformation of Europe’s busiest shopping street should be a case study in making cities greener, less congested and more inviting places to live. Sadiq Khan has been trying…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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‘Bolso shows all signs of fascism’: the journalist who predicted Brazil’s future – and paid the ultimate price

‘Bolso shows all signs of fascism’: the journalist who predicted Brazil’s future – and paid the ultimate price

Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme. “Bolso shows all signs of…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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‘It’s collective punishment’: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron displaced as Israeli forces take over homes

‘It’s collective punishment’: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron displaced as Israeli forces take over homes

Families forced to flee as Netanyahu tries to prove security credentials after two Israeli soldiers killed days before election. Hebron, the biggest city in the West Bank, had…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Nintendo Switch Sports Resort review – Wii Sports lives on in this effortlessly appealing collection of games

Nintendo Switch Sports Resort review – Wii Sports lives on in this effortlessly appealing collection of games

Nintendo Switch 2; Nintendo/Nintendo Bringing a holiday vibe and a generous selection of sport-themed games, this is exactly what you want from a family video game. When the first…
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US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño

US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to…
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‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

State paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast. The Western…
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success. Shortly…
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This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?

This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?

The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it.…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Trump administration asks Washington to set aside hundreds of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters

Trump administration asks Washington to set aside hundreds of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters

This is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to challenge states with competitive midterm races that could determine control of Congress. The Trump administration on…
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‘You need persistence’: the Norfolk couple who took on environmental regulators three times – and won

‘You need persistence’: the Norfolk couple who took on environmental regulators three times – and won

Tim and Geli Harris have spent more than a decade fighting to protect Catfield Fen, a rare wetland in the Norfolk Broads. Polluters and regulators who fail to stop pollution must…
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Koalas are cute, furry, iconic – and dying of chlamydia. But how well does the approved vaccine work?

Koalas are cute, furry, iconic – and dying of chlamydia. But how well does the approved vaccine work?

Queensland researchers say a published study contains ‘silly mistake’ that over-inflates vaccine’s efficacy but the regulator is standing by decision to approve it. At wildlife…
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Endangered turtles and ‘exceptional’ coral at risk from Woodside’s gas drilling in WA, watchdog says

Endangered turtles and ‘exceptional’ coral at risk from Woodside’s gas drilling in WA, watchdog says

Exclusive : EPA flags oil spill risk from proposed gasfield and threat to pygmy blue whales. Follow our Australian politics live blog for latest updates. Sign up for climate and…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Neighbours is being recut into a microdrama focused on Margot Robbie – and her co-stars aren’t happy

Neighbours is being recut into a microdrama focused on Margot Robbie – and her co-stars aren’t happy

Actor’s storylines in the famous soap will be recut into vertical micro-episodes to be watched on phones – but her fellow cast members say they haven’t been consulted. The…
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Reader Q&A: After Lula’s sensational victory in Brazil’s presidential election, post your questions for the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent

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Celebrations in Serbia after veteran ruler Vučić loses election to student-led protest movement

✓ 86% agree · 4 sources
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Former FBI director James Comey hit with third set of charges under Trump

✓ 84% agree · 3 sources
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Jordan attacks militants in Syria in retaliation for last week’s church attack

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Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found

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Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher

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Nintendo Switch Sports Resort review – Wii Sports lives on in this effortlessly appealing collection of games

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