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Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died ‘Leon Black is hiding behind litigation’: outrage after billionaire sues Congress over subpoenas for Epstein investigation – live Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’ Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal A jury in Malta acquits a businessman in the killing of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets Maria Bartiromo departs Fox News Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones ‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images Labour condemns Reform’s plan for £100bn in cuts as ‘half-baked’ and ‘incredibly reckless’ – as it happened Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died ‘Leon Black is hiding behind litigation’: outrage after billionaire sues Congress over subpoenas for Epstein investigation – live Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’ Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal A jury in Malta acquits a businessman in the killing of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets Maria Bartiromo departs Fox News Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones ‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images Labour condemns Reform’s plan for £100bn in cuts as ‘half-baked’ and ‘incredibly reckless’ – as it happened
Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died
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Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died

Two Democrats are demanding that Homeland Security officials fund election security ahead of the midterms. And, trail-blazing journalist Gloria Steinem has died
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Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say

Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say

Al-Mughayyir's council says they were trying to stop settlers stealing sheep, but the Israeli military says they threw stones at its troops
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Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order

Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order

Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with Canada. Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for US users of its Maps…
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Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group

Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group

Booking.com said the "limited test" was "not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews"
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EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report

EU’s ability to defend against invasion remains in doubt, finds official report

Fragmented infrastructure and reliance on US continue to hinder ‘defence readiness’, says European court of auditors. Europe live – latest updates. The EU’s ability to respond to…
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Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions

Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions

Comments latest swipe by president against critical media coverage of what experts call troubling shortages
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More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands

More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands

Rescuers found 44 survivors on board the vessel but bad weather meant they had to leave five bodies behind
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Tech giants warn time is running out to prepare for AI threats

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled…
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Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal

Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chips. Nvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for…
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London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets

London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets

Wayve robotaxis added to Uber app and will have human in front ready to take over if needed – but only 15 cars licensed. Londoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the…
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Maria Bartiromo departs Fox News

Fox News has parted ways with longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo, the network announced Thursday. The network gave few details on what led to the host's departure in a short…
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Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones

Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones

I will calmly read all the threatening letters and await the court case against me. But I will take a stand even if our government won’t. I can’t even remember when I decided to…
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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats. On a rocky beach in Cornwall, a…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump’s agenda, experts warn. The US…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’. A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its…
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Labour condemns Reform’s plan for £100bn in cuts as ‘half-baked’ and ‘incredibly reckless’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed. The Electoral Commission has released political donation figures for the second quarter of 2026. They show that Reform UK continues to rake in far more…
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China’s demise was gleefully predicted by the west – meanwhile, it built an AI revolution | Larry Elliott

China’s demise was gleefully predicted by the west – meanwhile, it built an AI revolution | Larry Elliott

Free AI models that are as good as the investment-hungry US versions will disrupt global markets, and offer Britain a lesson. Almost from the moment it began, the end of the…
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A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining

Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Australian science prize awarded to researcher studying memory accuracy of domestic violence survivors

Australian science prize awarded to researcher studying memory accuracy of domestic violence survivors

Helen Paterson’s work on advancing how police and courts understand memory is recognised in prestigious Eureka prizes. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news…
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The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the economy: a plan stuck in the Tory comfort zone | Editorial

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the economy: a plan stuck in the Tory comfort zone | Editorial

The Conservative leader’s choice of a new shadow chancellor shows a lack of insight into the reasons why the party was defeated at the last election. To outlast a prime minister…
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The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed | Emma Brockes

The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed | Emma Brockes

Small changes are what I’m aiming for – 10-minute workouts, cleaning out my handbag. Then I’m less likely to have failed come October. Are you a January resolutions or a September…
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Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

Bring on the drones: how a technology revolution is being rolled out across Africa’s nature reserves

As graduates of an online training course gather from across the continent, the consensus is overwhelming: computers and saving animals go together. On a bitingly cold night in…
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BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months. Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…
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‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged world

As FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feet. Since 2009’s…
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Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and wife seek to end drug charges case on immunity grounds

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have asked a judge to dismiss the drug trafficking indictment against them on the grounds that they have immunity as the…
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Country diary: A stranded traveller that looks more plastic than animal | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Country diary: A stranded traveller that looks more plastic than animal | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Appledore, Devon: By-the-wind sailors have been washed up in great numbers this summer. I stumble on a single one of these bright blue beauties. Amid the hot grit of the estuarine…
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'The crowd shouted that we'd stolen someone's genitals' - deadly rumours spread on social media

'The crowd shouted that we'd stolen someone's genitals' - deadly rumours spread on social media

More than 80 people have been killed in the mob violence, the BBC finds after gathering data from six African nations
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Rise of far-right leader Roberto Vannacci challenges Meloni as she celebrates Italian milestone

Rise of far-right leader Roberto Vannacci challenges Meloni as she celebrates Italian milestone

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Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

As more companies turn to AI, they’re hiring freelancers to clean up its mistakes rather than create original work. Lisa, a freelance graphic designer based in Spain, noticed a…
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‘We humans are inept at taking care of baby animals’: why well-fed orphan bears die in the wild

‘We humans are inept at taking care of baby animals’: why well-fed orphan bears die in the wild

Scientists surprised to find all but two of 12 grizzlies were dead within a year of ‘feelgood’ release, unable to sustain their high-calorie diet and inclined to approach humans.…
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'My parents won't lend me £10k but helped my brother': When families play financial favourites

'My parents won't lend me £10k but helped my brother': When families play financial favourites

So-called financial favouritism can cause jealousy and resentment long into adulthood. Here is how experts say you can avoid it
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Japan killed 14,000 bears after a rise in deadly attacks on people – but is a cull the answer?

Japan killed 14,000 bears after a rise in deadly attacks on people – but is a cull the answer?

Bears killed 13 people in Japan last year, as a lack of forest foods increased human-wildlife conflict. But the controversial cull in response has raised concerns with…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty in second national security case

Wong, 29, is accused of urging foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against China. Joshua Wong , one of Hong Kong’s most prominent…
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Property developer claimed ‘the premier is my best friend’ in tapped phone call, Icac hears

Property developer claimed ‘the premier is my best friend’ in tapped phone call, Icac hears

Charles Perrottet, the younger brother of the former premier, tells Icac that claims made by Jean Nassif in the call were ‘bravado’ and ‘far-fetched’. Follow our Australia news…
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CIA director Ratcliffe floated Trump-Putin-Zelensky summit during Moscow visit, sources say

CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between President Trump, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow…
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How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too

How one American couple ditched their lawn and created a wildlife haven – and you could too

Novice gardeners James Reed McGuire and Crystal Fritz wanted to try something new when they moved out to the suburbs. Little did they know they were joining a nationwide movement.…
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Dems demand DHS fund election security. And, journalist Gloria Steinem has died

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A jury in Malta acquits a businessman in the killing of reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia

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Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’

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Palestinian teens killed during settler attack on West Bank village, officials say

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