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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
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    US
    Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran charged in foiled plot to kill US leaders

In focus

  • Angelina Yang holds a banner supporting Taiwanese athletes at the Paris Olympics.

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    ‘We’re not doing anything wrong’: why the word Taiwan is banned at the Olympics

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    America's dirty divide
    In Alaska, advocates say reducing prison population is a key climate strategy

    Ageing correctional centers and the people within are threatened by floods, extreme heat, and building collapses due to snowfall and thawing permafrost
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    Analysis
    A US judge ruled that Google built an illegal monopoly. What happens next?

    The ruling found Google broke antitrust laws by making multibillion-dollar deals. Will those agreements evaporate?

Spotlight

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    Young men and the election
    The one policy conservatives across the world say will fix men: mandatory military service

    Proponents say the draft could help foster connection. Others see the proposal as a cynical political gimmick
  • Two Olympic greats meet as Simone Biles poses with Beacon in the runup to the Olympics

    Meet Beacon
    The unsung hero of the Olympic-champion US women’s gymnastics team is a very good boy

  • A long sought-after medal is 40 minutes away for France after they beat Canada in the quarter-finals.

    How the Olympic men’s quarter-finals became the best day in basketball

    Bryan Armen Graham at Bercy Arena
    There’s not a better date on the basketball calendar than the Olympic men’s quarter-finals, an all-day quadruple-header of win-or-go-home ties crackling with national pride
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    Drugs
    The end-of-life patients finding solace in magic mushrooms: ‘What life after life could be like’

    Some with terminal cancer have said psilocybin helped them confront death. But how that happens is still unclear
    • Cuba's Mijaín López Nunez raises his arms in triumph after beating Chile's Yasmani Acosta Fernandez to win gold in the 130kg final

      Paris 2024
      Mijaín López makes greatness look easy with Greco-Roman gold

    • Man makes shocked face on stage while holding microphone

      Joe Rogan’s Netflix special is another tired, and unfunny, tirade

      Jesse Hassenger
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      Why am I like this?
      I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

    • An image of a man and woman lying side by side

      Sexual healing
      My wife has no libido. Should I sleep with other people, as she suggests?

Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • The IBA president, Umar Kremlev, is seen on a big screen at a press conference in Paris, with the IBA chief Chris Roberts and coaching official Gabriele Martelli

    The men of international boxing use Olympics to spoil for another kind of fight

    Barney Ronay
    With geopolitics in play, the IBA has made the IOC look ridiculous in the row about the women’s competition
  • Sophia Smith celebrates with team mates after her extra-time goal against Germany.

    Soccer
    USWNT 1-0 Germany: Smith’s extra-time goal sends USA to final

    Emma Hayes has led the US to the Olympic gold medal match in her first tournament in charge, thanks to Sophia Smith’s late goal against Germany
    • Amit Elor is unbeaten in five years.

      Wrestling
      Amit Elor becomes youngest US wrestler to win Olympic gold

    • Gabby Thomas celebrates after winning the women's 200m

      Track
      Gabby Thomas wins women’s 200m gold

    • Mondo Duplantis celebrates with his family and friends after winning pole vault gold, then setting a new world record.

      Interview
      Mondo Duplantis: ‘Pole vaulting is a strange sport but it’s so special’

    • Cuba's Mijaín López Nunez raises his arms in triumph after beating Chile's Yasmani Acosta Fernandez to win gold in the 130kg final

      Wrestling
      Mijaín López makes greatness look easy with Greco-Roman gold

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    Medal table gold medals silver medals bronze medals Total medals
    1 United States 24 31 31 86
    2 China 22 21 16 59
    3 Australia 14 12 9 35
    4 France 13 16 19 48
    5 Great Britain 12 15 19 46
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    Opinion

    • A man with white hair gestures his hand as he stands in front of signs saying 'Vice President Kamala Harris Fight For Reproductive Freedoms'.

      Kamala Harris’s VP pick may signal a shift away from pivoting to the center

      Moira Donegan
      • Tim Walz and Kamala Harris

        The Guardian view
        Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick: Tim Walz is a smart choice for Democrats

      • Arwa Mahdawi

        Kamala Harris is mixed race, I’m mixed race – and Donald Trump is a dusty old relic

        Arwa Mahdawi
      • A man in a suit-and-tie speaks on stage in front of an American flag

        Trump once seemed invincible. Then Kamala Harris broke the spell

        Sidney Blumenthal
      • Tommy Robinson addressing a protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 27 July 2024

        Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

        Marina Hyde

    Sports

    • Yaroslava Mahuchikh shows off her Olympic gold medal

      ‘Fight until the end’
      High jump gold medallist Mahuchikh’s call to Ukraine

      • Charley Hull smokes a cigarette at the US Open.

        Golf
        Smoke alarm: Hull fears cigarette ban could hit Olympic hopes

      • Chicago White Sox players watch another defeat from the dugout

        MLB
        ‘It sucks. It’s painful. It hurts’: White Sox lose record-tying 21st straight game

      • Armando Christian Pérez – known as Pitbull – has been a longtime proponent of education initiatives in South Florida.

        College football
        FIU to play in ‘Pitbull Stadium’ after rapper agrees naming rights deal

      • Julián Álvarez

        Soccer
        Manchester City agree to sell Álvarez to Atlético Madrid in €95m deal

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    Climate crisis

    • 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 wearing suit and tie stands behind microphone and podium

      US elections 2024
      Trump says he has ‘no choice’ but to back EVs after Musk endorsement

    • a side-by-side image of Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise

      Climate crisis
      Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress

    • person stand on beach shore holds phone up

      Hurricanes
      Tropical Storm Debby intensifies as most of Florida under emergency orders

    Across the country

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      Cori Bush
      Pro-Israel groups spend millions to try to oust ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush

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      Donald Trump
      Influencer gives Trump a Tesla, a Rolex … and a campaign finance violation?

      • Espionage
        Chinese American man convicted in US of spying on dissidents for China

      • US
        Mike Bloomberg will donate $600m to historically Black medical schools

      • Robert F Kennedy Jr
        RFK Jr will not be charged for dumping dead bear in Central Park 10 years ago

      • Airline industry
        Alaska pilot describes ‘chaos’ as Boeing officials quizzed on mid-flight blowout

      • Ron DeSantis
        Florida governor’s rejection of federal aid left children hungry, advocates say

      • Kansas
        Prosecutors plan to charge ex-police chief for raid on Kansas newspaper

    Around the world

    • The outside gates of a synagogue.

      Exclusive
      Far-right forums used to plan UK riots now encouraging antisemitic attacks

      Exclusive: Experts say websites that organised protests are inciting violence against Jewish people
    • Australian foreign minister Penny Wong and US secretary of state Antony Blinken at a press conference in Maryland after the annual Ausmin talks.

      Australia
      US plans more frequent bomber deployments to Australia amid China’s ‘escalatory behaviour’

    • Former leader of the Move Forward Party and former prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat at the party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand

      Thailand
      Thailand facing political upheaval as court set to rule on fate of progressive Move Forward party

    • A Homo floresiensis skull

      Evolution
      ‘Hobbit’ bone from tiny species of ancient humans found on Indonesian island

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

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

      • Bangladesh
        Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister

      • England riots
        Elon Musk calls PM ‘two-tier Keir’ over police response to violence

      • World
        UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

      • Oil
        Saudi Aramco to pay record dividends despite dip in profits

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      Football Weekly
      Where will Mbappé play at Madrid and will Kane finally win a trophy? – Football Weekly

    • Self Esteem Rebecca Lucy Taylor Grace Dent comfort eating podcast

      Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
      Revisited - S3 E2: Self Esteem, musician

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      Science
      Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

    • Evan Gershkovich arriving at Joint Base Andrews last week. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

      Today in Focus
      Inside the prisoner exchange that set an American journalist free - podcast

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      Football Weekly
      Transfer tittle tattle and the Scottish season kicks off – Football Weekly

    • An inhaler for the administration of chloroform or ether, circa 1848. Photograph: World History Archive/Alamy/Guardian Design

      The Audio Long Read
      Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world – podcast

    Culture

    • Hunter Schafer in Cuckoo

      Review
      Cuckoo review – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence

      Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer is a convincing scream queen in this Germany-set chiller which prioritises mood over plot
    • painting of three people in misty night

      Art
      Out of Town: art inspired by summer’s desire to escape from the city

    • Zora Neale Hurston.

      Books
      Unfinished Zora Neale Hurston novel to be published 65 years after her death

    • Vultures 2 artwork.

      Music
      Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign: Vultures 2 review – some of Ye’s most jaded, degraded moments

    • The Influencer.

      TV review
      The Influencer review – judging by these social media stars, humanity’s future is bleak

    • The human cost of prison … Daughters.

      Review
      Daughters review – heartbreaking record of girls and their imprisoned fathers

    Lifestyle

    • Juliane Diller in 1972, arriving at Frankfurt airport to live a more peaceful life in Germany

      How we survive
      A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

      Juliane Diller was 17 when the aircraft she and her mother were on exploded. Of the 92 people on board, Juliane was the only survivor – and it would take her 11 days to walk to safety
    • A man attempts take-off with his home-made wings

      Pass notes
      Be more avian! Why stressed Chinese students are pretending to be birds

    • OM Nigel Blackberry Almond Croissant

      Food
      Nigel Slater’s recipe for blackberry almond croissants

    • Versatility is king: Yotam Ottolenghi’s olive oil flatbread can take on all kinds of toppings and flavourings like garlic butter and grated tomatoes.

      Kitchen aide
      Rise and shine: easy summer breads to entertain

    • José Pizarro's warm green bean salad with crispy jamón and mahón.

      Food
      José Pizarro’s recipe for warm green bean salad with crispy jamón and mahon

    • Tom Cruise at the Cannes film festival.

      Technology
      Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

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      Have you been affected by sexual extortion?

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      Tell us about your favourite Paris Olympics moment so far

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      Family
      Have you rekindled a relationship with a close family member?

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    From our global editions

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      Venezuela
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      Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh’s democracy

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      Art and design
      Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses

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      Analysis
      Oilfield slowdown exposes political volatility in Libya and beyond

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      US neo-Nazi terror group aims to revive activities ahead of election

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      The United States is not facing an imminent recession. This is nonsense

      Robert Reich
      The American economy is still growing. There is no reason to panic, despite Trump’s ‘world war three’ comments
    • Zoe Williams reads romance literature.

      Romance books
      My weeks of reading hornily: steamy book sales have doubled – and I soon found out why

      From fairy porn to romantasy via the Omegaverse, publishing is sexier than ever. The reason? A big shift in gen Z and millennial attitudes to respectability and shame ...
    • President Putin greets Russians returning to Moscow after prisoner Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, followed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin

      Prisoner exchange
      How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

    • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

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      She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

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