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Refugees hit hardest as deadly floods sweep across continents
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Massive landslide sweeps away portion of road in India – video
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Turkey wildfires: Six now dead and hundreds homeless as devastating toll of disaster becomes clear
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Buried in concrete: mafia architecture – in pictures
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Tokyo Olympics: The medal winners' flowers that pay tribute to 2011 disaster
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics: rugby sevens, Djokovic beaten again, athletics and more – live!
via theguardian.comGames schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage‘Rainbow Olympics’: Tokyo hailed as turning pointSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingIn pictures: the best images from day seven in TokyoEmail Geoff, tweet or comment below the line 10.03am BST Football: Quarter-finals, baby. All level in the second half for Spain and Cote d’Ivoire, 1-1 with Dani Olmo and Eric Bailly the scorers. New Zealand and Japan started half an hour ago and no one has scored. 10.01am -
Sarah Perry: As an author, I felt useless in the pandemic. So I trained to be a vaccinator
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Biden’s political appointments for ambassador posts rile career diplomats
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics: rugby sevens, basketball, athletics and more – live!
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Coronavirus live: UK businesses warned over ‘no jab no job’ policies, Germany anti-lockdown protests banned
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The knock that tears families apart: ‘They were at the door, telling me he had accessed indecent images of children’
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I love watching airport arrivals. The reunions say: life is better now you’re here | Rory Kinnear
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NSW reports 210 cases as protesters a no-show; Queensland announces snap lockdown – as it happened
via theguardian.comNew South Wales records 210 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus – two-thirds in people under 40 – as police set up exclusion zone over anti-lockdown protest; Queensland locks down 11 LGAs from 4pm today after six new cases. Follow the latest newsQueensland snap lockdown: latest restrictions explainedState v state: war of words heats up over Sydney and Melbourne lockdownsFrom social distancing bracelets to vaccine priority: how NSW supermarkets are tackling CovidNSW restrictions -
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: gymnastics, basketball, athletics and more – live!
via theguardian.comGames schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage‘Rainbow Olympics’: Tokyo hailed as turning pointSign up for the Guardian’s daily Olympic briefingIn pictures: the best images from day seven in TokyoEmail Geoff, tweet or comment below the line 8.05am BST That is all from me. Enjoy the rest of the day’s action. I’ll now leave you in the capable hands of Geoff Lemon. 7.51am BST Table tennis is a criminally overlooked, undervalued sport. In most other sports, an a -
Covid Australia live update: NSW reports 210 cases as protesters a no-show; Queensland announces snap lockdown
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The shows must go on: the best of Edinburgh fringe, in person and online
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How Games Workshop grew to become more profitable than Google
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Sydney anti-lockdown protest blocked as organisers vow to regroup in August
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Pedro Francke: relief in Peru as moderate is made finance minister
via theguardian.comPresident Pedro Castillo completes his cabinet after causing shockwaves with appointment of controversial Guido Bellido as prime ministerAfter 24 hours of uncertainty and the worst Friday in years on the stock exchange, Peru’s new president, Pedro Castillo, has completed his cabinet, swearing in the moderate leftist economist Pedro Francke as finance minister, and in the process calming jittery investors and anxious Peruvians alike.Aníbal Torres was also sworn in, as justice ministe -
West African health officials race to vaccinate amid spikes
Thousands of new coronavirus cases have been reported in West Africa in recent weeks amid low vaccination rates and the spread of the delta variant -
Myanmar junta accused of crimes against humanity six months on from coup
via theguardian.comHuman Rights Watch says army’s suppression of protests has included torture and murder, as small protests mark milestoneHuman Rights Watch has accused Myanmar’s military junta of crimes against humanity as small groups of protesters marked six months since the armed forces seized power.Bands of university students rode motorbikes around the country’s second-largest city Mandalay on Saturday waving red and green flags, saying they rejected any possibility of talks with the milit -
Floods block food from reaching thousands of refugees in Colombia
via theguardian.comFamilies fleeing drug gangs and paramilitaries have been cut off, with government accused of being ‘incapable’ of protecting themFlooding and landslides have left thousands of refugees cut off from food supplies in Ituango, the conflict-strewn municipality in north-western Colombia.Roads have been blocked by mud and debris after heavy rains, while helicopters have been unable to land. As a result, the delivery of food and medical supplies has been stymied, and communications cut off. -
Lab-grown dairy is the future of milk, researchers say
via theguardian.comStartups are joining the race to create first imitation cow’s milk by artificially reproducing proteins in curds and wheyFor decades, people on plant-based diets were restricted to soya-based options to recreate dairy, until veganism went mainstream and a clutch of palate-pleasing almond, coconut and oat-based alternatives emerged. Last week, Swedish scientists launched a potato milk, equally lauded for its sustainability credentials and criticised for deriving from a humdrum carbohydrate. -
Billie Eilish: ‘To always try to look good is such a loss of joy and freedom’
via theguardian.comIn an exclusive interview, Gen Z’s biggest pop star talks about body image, oversharing with fans and what she’s missed most since becoming famous Billie Eilish is making me nervous. She has called, as arranged, bang on time – 11pm in Los Angeles – but, she admits, she is not quite ready to speak: “This is a mess, I’m so sorry!” Her pale face and platinum hair loom from her phone screen, surrounded by darkness. Her head is at a funny angle and… oh -
Coronavirus: China and Australia toughen Delta response
via theguardian.comSnap three-day lockdown in Brisbane and surrounding areas of Queensland, while WHO urges containment ‘before more dangerous variants emerge’See all our coronavirus coverageOutbreaks of the Delta variant have prompted China and Australia to impose stricter Covid-19 restrictions as the WHO urged the world to quickly contain the mutation before it turns into something deadlier.China’s most serious surge of coronavirus infections in months spread to two more areas on Saturday: Fuji -
Blind date: ‘He kept name-dropping celebrities he’s worked with’
via theguardian.comWill, 27, A&E doctor, meets Owen, 26, stage managerWhat were you hoping for?
To meet the love of my life, or at least go viral. Continue reading... -
Hong Kong man arrested for allegedly booing Chinese anthem while watching Olympics
via theguardian.comMan allegedly also waved colonial-era flags while watching fencer Edgar Cheung’s medal ceremony at a mallHong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem, after he allegedly booed the Chinese national anthem while watching an Olympic event at a mall.The 40-year-old man was detained on Friday after allegedly waving colonial-era Hong Kong flags and booing, while urging others to join him in insulting the song, according to a police statement posted on Facebo -
Senate work on infrastructure plan slides into Saturday
Senators are returning to the Capitol for a rare Saturday session as they try to make further progress on a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan -
Biden lands win, but virus surge threatens to derail agenda
President Joe Biden this week took a huge step toward achieving a hallmark legislative accomplishment -
Evictions loom after Biden, Congress fail to extend ban
A national eviction moratorium has expired after President Joe Biden and Congress failed to extend it -
Father hopes to reopen case of British woman who disappeared 20 years ago
via theguardian.comLouise Kerton went missing in 2001 after travelling to stay with her boyfriend’s family in GermanyTwenty years since the disappearance of Louise Kerton, who travelled to Germany to holiday with her boyfriend’s family and disappeared, her father is looking for fresh leads.Phil Kerton is hoping publicity to mark the anniversary might trigger memories or encourage police in Germany, the UK or Belgium – which she is supposed to have travelled through via rail and sea – to reo -
Eutelsat Quantum: breakthrough reprogrammable satellite launches
via theguardian.comTransmission beams can be reconfigured from the ground, whereas most commercial satellites are hard-wired before launchThe world’s first commercial fully reprogrammable satellite has been launched, ushering in a new era of more flexible communications.Unlike conventional models that are designed and “hard-wired” on Earth and cannot be repurposed once in orbit, the UK-engineered Eutelsat Quantum allows users to tailor it almost in real-time. Continue reading... -
Filmmaker hospitalised after violent attack by anti-vaxxers captured on film
Vishal P Singh suffered multiple broken bones in his face -
UK weather: flood warnings as Storm Evert moves eastwards
via theguardian.comUnsettled weather forecast across England and Wales with ‘torrential thundery downpours’ in the eastThe Met Office has issued weather and flood warnings as Storm Evert moved eastwards across Britain with thunderstorms forecast for the weekend.Yellow wind warnings are in place for coastal areas in south-east England and East Anglia, and thunderstorm warnings for a swath of England from Nottingham to Norwich and north as far as Hull. Continue reading...
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