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  • A partly destroyed house in the town of Sudzha

    Russia
    Moscow says Ukraine has launched cross-border attack inside Russia

    Russian military claims it repelled incursion by 300 soldiers up to six miles into Kursk border region
  • Ana Barbosu

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Romanian PM to boycott Olympic closing ceremony in gymnastics protest

  • A trader works on the trading floor of the New York stock exchange on 5 August 2024

    Stock markets
    Global markets partly recover but analysts fear ‘we’re not out of woods’

  • German police and pro-Palestinian protesters

    Germany
    German court convicts activist for leading ‘from the river to the sea’ chant

  • Side by side comparison of Duncan and Helen Porter standing in front of the glacier in the two photos

    Climate crisis
    ‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers

  • man talks on the phone in front of american flag

    US news
    Bloomberg fires reporter for ‘premature’ publication of Evan Gershkovich release – reports

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Opinion & analysis

  • Alexander Hurst

    Is France scared of spicy food? I used to think so – but now it’s turning up the heat

    Alexander Hurst
  • Renate van der Zee

    Hiring women, rather than just talking about it, works. That doesn’t mean all men are on board, it turns out

    Renate van der Zee
  • Silhouettes of two police officers with riot shields and a burning vehicle at night

    Far-right call to arms over Southport has echoes of Dublin stabbings aftermath

  • People and a cow walking on a street in the rain

    Weather tracker: Record-breaking rain in Delhi leaves trail of destruction

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  • a lorry passes the Sevington inland border facility sign

    UK food industry says lack of testing capacity forcing imports back to EU for checks

  • Nick Thomas-Symonds walking past shrubbery with a folder under his arm

    UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU

    • Woodland on the North Downs near Abinger Hammer, Surrey: tall, ancient trees line a track. Autumn leaves have fallen but many green and orange leaves are still on the trees; the light shines through them.

      Goals to stop decline of nature in England ‘off track’, report warns

    • Portsmouth border control post

      UK port operators to seek compensation if post-Brexit trade barriers are lowered

    • An EU flag flies outside the UK parliament in London

      Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn

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Pictures & video

  • Grant Holloway of United States gets set before the start of his heat in the 110m hurdles.

    Paris Olympics 2024: day nine – in pictures

  • The Guardian's Russian affairs reporter, Pjotr Sauer, describes how it felt to see his friend, Evan Gershkovich, walk free

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    'I can't wait to hug him': the Guardian's Pjotr Sauer reacts to Evan Gershkovich's release – video

  • A general view of action during the women's 100m heats.

    Paris Olympics 2024: day seven – in pictures

  • On a muggy evening at Andrews air force Base, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva stepped onto American soil

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    Hugs and tears as Evan Gershkovich and other US citizens return home after prisoner swap - video

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