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• Las Vegas police issue search warrant in long-unsolved killing of Tupac Shakur

  18-07-2023 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Nevada police say warrant was executed in Henderson, Nevada, 26 years after rapper was fatally shot in 1996 aged 25Authorities in Nevada confirmed on Tuesday that they served a search warrant this week in connection with the long-unsolved killing of the rapper Tupac Shakur nearly 30 years ago.Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop, was killed on the night of 7 September 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. He was 25. Continue reading...
  
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• Sun and Mail publishers examine claims against journalist Dan Wootton

  18-07-2023 23:32 via theguardian.com
  
  GB News presenter facing allegations he inappropriately offered colleagues large sums in return for sexual materialThe publishers behind the Sun and MailOnline are looking into allegations that Dan Wootton inappropriately offered colleagues tens of thousands of pounds in return for sexual material.Wootton’s ex-boyfriend claimed last week that Wootton, who is now a presenter on GB News, used the pseudonym “Martin Branning” and offered individuals large sums of money in return fo
  
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• Jaguar Land Rover owner investment in electric vehicle battery plant in UK 'very welcome' - Sky News

  18-07-2023 23:25 via news.google.com
  
  Jaguar Land Rover owner investment in electric vehicle battery plant in UK 'very welcome'  Sky NewsJaguar Land Rover-owner to spend £4bn on UK battery factory  BBCTata Picks UK For Gigafactory & Hong Kongs 30% Pay Hikes  BloombergTata Somerset gigafactory: 'Breakthrough' £4bn car battery plant hailed as 'fantastic news'  Somerset LiveView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Phoenix’s vulnerable residents suffer through record heat at night

  18-07-2023 23:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Only one cooling center remains open all night, when the concrete radiates heat stored during hellish daytime hoursEven after the sun sinks below the horizon in Phoenix, Arizona, the concrete cityscape continues to cook. In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave that’s kept daily highs above 110F (43.3C) for a record 19 consecutive days, the evening hours have offered little reprieve. For more than a week, low temperatures breached 90F (32.2C), breaking a grim record recently set in 2020.
  
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• England veterans aim to keep Ashes alive with sense of endgame nearing

  18-07-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ben Stokes faces a crucial tactical test with rain on the radar, while Australia see their chance to retain the urn at Old TraffordWhen Brendon McCullum started out as England’s Test head coach, he was asked the thorny question of Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and how he might approach succession planning here. “I like to pick the best team every time,” came the reply. “My job will be to plan as if you’ll live for ever, but live as if you’ll die tomorrow.&rdquo
  
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• The moment when an e-bike battery on charge exploded

  18-07-2023 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Midlands Fire Service says the owner of the footage allowed it to be shared to flag the dangers.
  
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• ‘It’s inherently political’: looking back upon a history of women at work

  18-07-2023 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  At a new exhibition, around 50 objects are pulled together to tell a story of women working from various backgrounds carrying out a spectrum of jobsThink about the term “women’s work” and images will inevitably come to mind – possibly a grade-school teacher, or a sex worker, or a second world war-era Rosie the Riveter. We all have ideas about just what so-called women’s work is, as it’s a very well-worn concept that comes with its own set of assumptions, stere
  
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• Keir Starmer recasts Blair model for age of insecurity

  18-07-2023 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader nods to Sir Tony Blair in a speech setting out his programme for government.
  
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• McDonald’s apologises after UK staff claims of harassment

  18-07-2023 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  BBC investigation uncovers claims of intimidation, bullying and racist slurs in some outletsMcDonald’s has apologised after more than 100 current and recent UK restaurant staff alleged sexual harassment was rife at some outlets and said they regularly faced mistreatment.The publication of a BBC investigation on Tuesday caused a storm in Westminster. The chair of the business and trade committee, Darren Jones, said the claims were “some of the most appalling” he had heard, while
  
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• Erupting Alaska volcano spews large ash cloud, prompting warnings to pilots

  18-07-2023 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Ash cloud from Shishaldin volcano, which began erupting 11 July, is angular and sharp and can cause jet engine to shut downAn ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large on Tuesday that warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions.The ash cloud with an initial height of around 5.5 miles (8.9km) was drifting south-south-east from Shishaldin volcano, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said in a statement. The eruption wa
  
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• One in five New Yorkers may be drinking lead-contaminated water, report finds

  18-07-2023 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Study identifies about 900,000 households with service lines definitely or possibly made of lead, a known neurotoxinOne in five New Yorkers may be drinking lead-contaminated water, a new report has found.Roughly 900,000 households – or 21% of the city’s residents – live in properties with lead or possible lead service lines, the pipes that provide city water to individual properties. Lead can leach into the water from the pipes as the water travels through them. Continue readin
  
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• Nicaragua fails to back censure of Russia at end of EU-Latin America summit

  18-07-2023 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Celac president declares first summit of its kind in eight years a success despite late wrangling EU leaders have failed to persuade all of their Latin America and Caribbean counterparts to strongly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite watering down a joint statement closing a two-day summit in Brussels.Ralph Gonsalves, the president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), brushed off a row after Nicaragua failed to agree to the sole paragraph on the war i
  
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• England win third ODI to draw women’s Ashes thanks to Sciver-Brunt heroics

  18-07-2023 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Third ODI: England, 285-9, beat Australia, 199, by 69 runs (DLS)Hosts clinch ODI series two days after Australia retained urnThe International Cricket Council’s press release could not have been better timed: it landed at 3pm on Tuesday, midway through England’s innings at Taunton, proclaiming that (for the first time since September 2022) Nat Sciver-Brunt was sitting back atop the list of the world’s one-day international all-rounders.Twenty minutes later, she brought up her s
  
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• Blair and Starmer bask in each other’s reflected glory | John Crace

  18-07-2023 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Current Labour leader and former Labour PM find validation in onstage love-inHow things change. You wouldn’t have caught Ed Miliband or Jeremy Corbyn having a love-in with Tony Blair at his thinktank’s annual Future of Britain conference. Then again, I doubt they would have got an invite. It would have been a bit like chucking a slab of kryptonite into the mix. No one would have got out alive.Keir Starmer is a different breed of Labour leader. A man with an eye on the Downing Street
  
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• Norway’s Ada Hegerberg: ‘I don’t think things will change without women standing up’

  18-07-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The forward, who missed the 2019 World Cup while taking a stand, on the battle female footballers face and her hopes after the Euro 2022 flopAda Hegerberg knows what it means to take a stand. Her five‑year absence from Norway’s national team, in protest over the attitude of the football federation to women’s football, was costly. While the best fought it out for the World Cup in France in 2019, the then Ballon d’Or holder was absent.Hegerberg felt pretty isolated in her d
  
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• Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft

  18-07-2023 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Move gives start-ups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s BardMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is making a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model freely available, in a move that gives startups and other businesses a low-cost opportunity compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.A new version of a Meta large language model (LLM), called Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud
  
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• UK equality watchdog restarts inquiry into bullying claims against chair

  18-07-2023 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Equality and Human Rights Commission paused investigation into Kishwer Falkner after media leaksBritain’s equality watchdog has restarted an investigation into complaints of bullying and harassment made against its chair, Kishwer Falkner.The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) appointed a senior lawyer to carry out an independent inquiry into the allegations earlier this year but paused the investigation after leaks to the press. Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-Met officer who took bribes from nightclub bosses jailed for seven years

  18-07-2023 20:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Frank Partridge, who worked in West End licensing, accepted a luxury holiday and tickets to an Elton John partyA former Metropolitan police sergeant has been jailed for seven and a half years for taking bribes while working in licensing for bars and nightclubs in the West End of London.Frank Partridge, 50, who joined the force at 17 and was known by some as “Fun Time Frankie”, was last week found guilty by a jury of four counts of bribery and cleared of a further count of bribery. He
  
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• Rochdale care worker tells court underage girls were his ‘friends with benefits’

  18-07-2023 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Jahn Shahid Ghani admits drug-fuelled sex with 14- and 15-year-old but says he thought they were over age of consentA care worker accused of grooming and exploiting two underage girls in Rochdale has told a court they were his “friends with benefits” and he thought they were over 16.Jahn Shahid Ghani, 50, said he was about 32 when he had ecstasy-fuelled sex with the girls when they were only 14 or 15 – including threesomes with one of his adult girlfriends. Continue reading...
  
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• EU sends water bombers to help fight wildfires around Athens

  18-07-2023 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Flying boats dispatched as state of emergency called in Loutraki, with firefighters battling fast-moving blazeTell us: have you been affected by wildfires in Greece?The EU has weighed in with help to combat wildfires in Greece, dispatching four Canadair water bombers as the battle to douse blazes that have raged around Athens intensified.Conflagrations whipped by gale-force winds left a trail of devastation, decimating pine forests, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee as flames tore t
  
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• Daniel Christie on Suella Braverman and her barge

  18-07-2023 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
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• Jewish group criticises GB News host over ‘dangerous conspiracy theory’

  18-07-2023 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Beverley Turner tweeted that Covid ‘causes less harm to certain ethnicities – east Asians, and Ashkenazi Jews (Fauci anyone?)’A leading Jewish group has criticised a prominent GB News presenter for spreading “a dangerous conspiracy theory” after she tweeted that the Covid virus appeared to have been bioengineered to be less dangerous to some Jewish people.In a tweet sent on Tuesday afternoon, Beverley Turner supported the idea first popularised by the controversial
  
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• Keir Starmer defends decision not to scrap two-child benefit cap

  18-07-2023 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader says there will have to be more tough choices ahead if party is to win the next electionKeir Starmer has doubled down on his decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap, warning his party that there will have to be more tough choices if Labour is to win the next election.The Labour leader, who faces pressure from senior party figures to row back from his position on the policy, instead told them they had to be even more focused and disciplined in the months ahead. Continue read
  
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• The Guardian view on Europe’s heatwaves: warnings from Hades | Editorial

  18-07-2023 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Searing temperatures from Spain to Greece underline that the climate emergency cannot be put on hold while other crises are prioritisedThe weather map of southern Europe remains a deep, sinister red, as the heat soars above 40C in places and closer to 50C in Sicily and Sardinia. In Madrid, some nights are equatorial rather than tropical, as the temperature stays above 25C. June was the hottest month recorded on Earth for 120,000 years. The hottest week came early this month. “Very dangerou
  
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• Australia drop Murphy and recall Green, as Warner retained for fourth Ashes Test

  18-07-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Spinner Todd Murphy left out as tourists pack batting lineupHazlewood replaces Boland with rain on horizon at Old TraffordTodd Murphy has emerged as the unlucky man in Australia’s selection squeeze, left out to allow Mitch Marsh and Cameron Green to both play the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.Australia confirmed their XI for the Manchester match on Tuesday afternoon, with Marsh to bat at No 6, Green at No 7 and Alex Carey at No 8. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Wallace suggests cabinet reshuffle could happen within days

  18-07-2023 19:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Defence secretary expects reorganisation as sources say plans to ‘reset narrative’ are under way in case of byelection losses‘Lots of Tories won’t vote’: can Labour really take Selby and Ainsty?The defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has fuelled speculation of an imminent cabinet reshuffle, suggesting one could come in the next few days.In his first interview since announcing he planned to step back from frontline politics, Wallace said Rishi Sunak would inevitably have
  
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• The Guardian view on dentists: the lack of care for children’s teeth is a disgrace | Editorial

  18-07-2023 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  A committee of MPs is the latest body to sound the alarm about the disappearance of NHS dentistry Parliament’s health and social care committee is the latest body to warn about the decline of NHS dentistry. In a new report, the MPs say that the problem of so-called dental deserts – where it is impossible to register with an NHS dental practice – is getting worse rather than better. About 3,000 dentists have left the NHS since the start of the pandemic. Shortages are particularl
  
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• Commitment to push forward with small nuclear reactors seems sensible | Nils Pratley

  18-07-2023 19:55 via theguardian.com
  
  UK government seems to commit to exploring smaller modular designs rather than the monsters at Sizewell and HinkleyNew logo, new faces, and new promises to move at “unprecedented scale and pace” in driving the expansion of nuclear power in the UK. One should regard the fanfare for Great British Nuclear, the new government body, with scepticism because nothing moves quickly in the world of nuclear energy. Hinkley Point C, the enormous project in Somerset, is years behind schedule and
  
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• ‘We will not back down’: Hollywood stars on the actors’ strike

  18-07-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  George Clooney, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon and other major stars have added their support to the ongoing Sag-Aftra strikeIn the first week of the Screen Actors Guild strike that’s disrupting the film and television industries, Hollywood actors have been speaking on and off the picket line about their thoughts.The strike has been described by the actor and Sag-Aftra president, Fran Drescher, as a response to an unfair system that’s diminishing and demeaning to performers. “We ar
  
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• Judge’s reduction of sentence for abortion shows how law must change, say campaigners

  18-07-2023 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Legislation that led to Carla Foster being jailed after procuring pills for a termination said to be ‘antiquated’Prosecutors have been urged to heed a judge’s call for “compassion, not punishment” after the court of appeal halved a woman’s sentence for terminating her pregnancy beyond the legal time limit.Carla Foster, 45, was sentenced to more than two years in prison after she admitted illegally procuring her own abortion when she was between seven and eight
  
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• Huw Edwards faces months off air as BBC investigation could last to autumn

  18-07-2023 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Director general says corporation will take time with fact-finding missionHuw Edwards faces being off air for months after the BBC’s director general said an internal investigation into the suspended News at Ten presenter was likely to stretch into the autumn.Tim Davie said the corporation would take its time with a fact-finding mission looking at claims against its best-known newsreader, after two police forces concluded Edwards had no criminal case to answer. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour has to be more than simply the anti-Tory party | Letters

  18-07-2023 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Gary Nethercott and Lyn Howardrespond to Frances Ryan’s article about the party’s lack of clear policy direction under Keir StarmerFrances Ryan is right to raise the question of just what we can expect from an incoming Labour government (By telling us so little about its policy plans, Labour tells us all we need to know, 13 July). The country clearly needs a radical break from the collective failed policies of five consecutive Tory prime ministers.When Keir Starmer made 10 pledges du
  
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• Elect Keir Starmer on Thursday, and fight him on Friday | Letters

  18-07-2023 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Where reform is really needed is in the taxation system, writes Bernie Evans. Plus letters from Hilary Lang, Stephen Porter and Peter WomackWell said, John Harris (Keir Starmer is threatening to leave our crises unchanged. So what social forces will he unleash?, 16 July). At last a journalist is challenging the Labour/Tory nonsense about spending money on our cash-starved public services being “unaffordable”, because there is “no new funding available”. Of course, when Ke
  
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• Extremists could use AI to plan attacks, Home Office warns

  18-07-2023 18:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Suella Braverman says risk of serious terrorist incident in UK is increasingExtremists could use artificial intelligence to plan more sophisticated terror attacks, the Home Office has warned, amid a resurgence in activity by al-Qaida and Islamic state.The risk of a serious incident in the UK is increasing, Suella Braverman said, accelerated by AI, the expected release of terror-connected prisoners this year and an “evolving” threat from Islamist groups. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s an anti-adrenaline sport’: inside the dangerous world of freediving

  18-07-2023 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  In Netflix documentary The Deepest Breath, we meet the people willing to risk their lives to dive more than 300ft deepThe Deepest Breath, a riveting new documentary on a pivotal partnership in the world of freediving, introduces one of its primary subjects, the world champion diver Alessia Zecchini, in motion, unfazed. One moment, she’s driving a car down a nondescript stretch of the Bahamas, responding to a question from an unseen passenger about mortality. “Honestly, I don’t
  
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• The play’s the thing – but its success depends on the theatre too | Michael Billington

  18-07-2023 18:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Not all buildings are created equal. From sightlines to acoustics to the alchemy of actor-audience rapport, the physical facts of a dramatic space are fundamentalWhat makes a good theatre? Critics are not the most reliable guides. We sit in the best seats, don’t have to pay, and are there to assess the performance rather than the building. If ever I have wanted guidance on architectural issues, I have turned to Iain Mackintosh, who from 1973 worked for Theatre Projects Consultants, has des
  
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• British Commonwealth Games bid encouraged after 2026 hosts withdraw

  18-07-2023 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian state of Victoria pull out due to high costsOrganisers describe UK as fantastic hosts and are open to talksOrganisers have said they would welcome any offer from the United Kingdom to step in as hosts of the 2026 Commonwealth Games after the withdrawal of the Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday left the event’s future in serious doubt.The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said it was given only eight hours’ notice before the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, announc
  
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• Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden review – the scissors I get, but what’s with the frog?

  18-07-2023 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  National Gallery, London
  Rego’s huge mural, painted 30 years ago for the Gallery’s restaurant, sits alongside the altarpiece that inspired it. Hers is less a feminist revolt than a celebration of perspective itselfIn its small but rhetorically charged exhibition Crivelli’s Garden, the National Gallery recasts a painting that Paula Rego created for its restaurant at the start of the 1990s as a Major Masterpiece of Radical Art. I could have sworn it was a gentle, playful work, pe
  
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• Jonas Vingegaard leaves Tadej Pogacar trailing in Tour de France time trial

  18-07-2023 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Vingegaard wins stage 16 and leads Pogacar by 1min 48secBritain’s Adam Yates leapfrogs Carlos Rodríguez into thirdJonas Vingegaard crushed Tadej Pogacar’s hopes of reversing his 10sec deficit in the Tour de France by opening up a huge overall lead in the stage 16 time trial, dramatically ending days of shadow boxing through the French Alps.The defending champion, riding for Jumbo-Visma, had always insisted the race would not be decided by seconds and he appears to have been ri
  
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• Tell us: are you using AI for emotional connection or support?

  18-07-2023 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  We’d like to hear from people who are developing personal relationships with AI We’d like to find out more about people developing personal relationships with AI.As some turn to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones, we’d like to find out rather ways that people are using AI for emotional connection or support. What has worked for you and what hasn’t? Continue reading...
  
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• People who cram week’s exercise into two days still reap heart benefits – study

  18-07-2023 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Weekend warriors’ have similarly low risk of heart disease and stroke as those who spread out their physical activity People who fit an entire week’s recommended exercise into a couple of days have a similarly low risk of heart disease and stroke as those who spread out their physical activity, researchers say.The results from a major study on “weekend warriors” against more regular exercisers suggest that even when people are too busy to exercise in the working we
  
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• French Uber inquiry finds ‘gaping loopholes’ remain in lobbying rules

  18-07-2023 17:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Firm benefited from close relationship with Emmanuel Macron when he was economy minister, inquiry findsA French parliamentary investigation into Uber has concluded there are “serious flaws” in France’s system of governing the gig economy, with “gaping loopholes” in rules around transparency still in place almost 10 years after the ride-hailing app established itself in Paris and beyond.The six-month investigation, prompted by the Guardian’s Uber Files revelati
  
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• How to manage your holiday in a heatwave

  18-07-2023 17:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Europe and the US are sweltering in 40C heat - what should you do if you're visiting this summer?
  
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• ‘I was born with death as my sidekick’: the ‘zombie’ with cystic fibrosis who turns pain into art

  18-07-2023 17:24 via theguardian.com
  
  At 35, Martin O’Brien has already outlived his life expectancy. And in performances in which he attaches pegs to his testicles or smears himself with mucus, he brutally confronts his mortalityIt’s not often you meet someone who self-identifies as a zombie. Are your pronouns he, she, they – or it, I ask. “Let’s go with ‘it’!” laughs Martin O’Brien, the most jovial zombie you could hope to meet. He (the pronoun he actually uses) is serving tea
  
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• Experts warn about feline coronavirus after ‘thousands’ of cat deaths in Cyprus

  18-07-2023 17:20 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Alarming’ reports of sudden rise in feline infectious peritonitis thought to point to more virulent strainThousands of cats have died in Cyprus, according to experts who are warning that a more virulent strain of a feline coronavirus is causing severe illness. Separately, dozens of cats have died after being infected with avian flu in Poland.The reports have raised questions about whether there is any connection between the rises in deaths and whether, given that many have pet cats
  
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• Ryan Giggs: Ex-Man Utd and Wales star's future uncertain after court case ends

  18-07-2023 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ryan Giggs' fight to clear his name is over, but the most decorated British footballer of all-time faces an uncertain future.
  
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• Treasures lent by Israel for White House event ‘stranded at Mar-a-Lago’

  18-07-2023 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Antiquities from Israel’s national treasures collection have ended up at Trump’s Florida estate, say reportsAncient artefacts sent from Israel to the US four years ago on a short-term basis and intended for display at a White House event have ended up at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a report.The Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday that antiquities including ancient ceramic oil lamps, part of Israel’s national treasures collection, were s
  
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• Before Barbenheimer: when major movies are released on the same day

  18-07-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  The much-hyped showdown between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer isn’t the first time two cinematic titans have gone to warSome defect in the homo sapiens brain compels us to see everything in terms of competition – all the world grouped by trials of skill and supremacy into a binary of winners and losers. This is of course how we wound up with the concept of sport – and, probably, war – but the internet’s never-ending ticker of
  
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• USAid chief accuses Putin of ‘reckless’ exit from Ukraine grain deal

  18-07-2023 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Putin’s justification full of ‘lies’, says Samantha Power, as Russia warns of ‘risks’ to ships exporting grainRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesThe head of USAid has accused Vladimir Putin of making a “life and death decision” affecting millions of the world’s poorest people by withdrawing from the year-old UN-brokered deal that let Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea.Speaking in the shadow of several vast grain silos in the key
  
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• ‘Lots of Tories won’t vote’: can Labour really take Selby and Ainsty?

  18-07-2023 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Voters in the former mining constituency turned Tory stronghold suggest the Conservatives have their work cut out in the forthcoming byelectionLabour activists are quietly hopeful of pulling off a record-breaking win in Rishi Sunak’s backyard by taking the toughest of the three Conservative seats up for grabs next Thursday.A win in Selby and Ainsty, now a Conservative rural stronghold but one with a mining industry past, would, Labour say, mark the biggest majority the party has overturned
  
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