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• Biden bans range of US high tech investments in China citing national security risk

  09-08-2023 23:54 via theguardian.com
  
  The order – to be implemented next year – restricts investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum tech and AIJoe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that will narrowly prohibit certain US investments in sensitive technology in China and require government notification of funding in other tech sectors.The long-awaited order authorizes the US treasury secretary to prohibit or restrict certain US investments in Chinese entities in three sectors: semiconductors and
  
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• FBI agents shoot and kill Utah man accused of making threats against Biden

  09-08-2023 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Agents were trying to serve warrant on Craig Deleeuw Robertson’s home hours before president was expected to land in stateA Utah man accused of making threats against Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president was expected to land in the state on Wednesday, authorities said.Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, when the shooting happened at 6.15am, the FBI said in a statement. Cont
  
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• Thousands of adopted children names revealed on Scottish website

  09-08-2023 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Genealogy site Scotland’s People made available records of adoptions dating back 100 years, raising fears for breaches of privacyA genealogy website operated by the Scottish government has disclosed the names of thousands of people adopted as children.The Scotland’s People site made available the records of adoptions dating back more than 100 years, records that included the adopted child’s first name and new surname. While the Information Commissioner’s Office has not re
  
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• Labour accuses government of losing £250bn from value of UK assets

  09-08-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Rachel Reeves says Tory bond black hole ‘will land working people with another astronomical bill’Labour has accused the government of “catastrophic financial mismanagement” and claimed it has “lost” £251bn from the value of assets created to rescue the banking sector after the 2008 financial crash.The party said analysis of recently published figures showed that a decline in the value of the Bank of England’s assets – over which the Treasury
  
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• Argentina election campaigns suspended after 11-year old killed in robbery

  09-08-2023 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Candidates for the national primary elections cancelled rallies as protests roiled city of Lanús, where attack took placeThe death of an 11-year-old girl in a drive-by robbery caught on grainy security footage in Buenos Aires has shocked Argentina and prompted all major candidates to cancel their closing campaign rallies ahead of national primary elections on Sunday.Morena Domínguez was attacked by two robbers who were riding a motorcycle when she was about to arrive at school earl
  
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• Trump requests to review classified documents at Mar-a-Lago ahead of trial

  09-08-2023 23:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s lawyers asked for a secure facility to be reinstalled at the same Mar-a-Lago club where he hoarded classified documentsLawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge on Wednesday to approve the re-establishment of an ultra-secure facility at his Mar-a-Lago club to review classified documents produced to him in discovery, an audacious request without precedent in national security cases.The request essentially would give Trump the freedom to discuss and review the same classified do
  
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• Rangers earn slender Champions League advantage after beating 10-man Servette

  09-08-2023 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Third qualifying round first leg: Rangers 2-1 ServetteTavernier 6pen, Dessers 15; Bedia 44penRangers left themselves with work to do to see off Servette after a narrow 2-1 win over the Swiss side in the first leg of their Champions League third qualifying round at Ibrox.Their captain, James Tavernier, scored a penalty in the sixth minute before striker Cyriel Dessers knocked in a second eight minutes later for his first goal for the club. Continue reading...
  
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• Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80

  09-08-2023 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  The Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist, who worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, died in Los Angeles after a long illnessSinger, songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson, best known as a member of the Band, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. He had suffered from a long illness, according to a statement released by his management.Robertson’s manager of 34 years, Jared Levine, wrote: “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death
  
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• Heartache for Katie Archibald but Emma Finucane sprints to gold

  09-08-2023 22:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Scot fails to claim medal in the OmniumYoung rider picks up first world titleKatie Archibald’s resilience finally ebbed away in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome, as she admitted that the pressure of competing in the UCI Cycling World Championships, a year after her partner Rab Wardell died of a cardiac arrest, had been overwhelming.“I’ve struggled with the pressure,” the Scot said, after missing out on the medals in the women’s Omnium. Continue reading...
  
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• Conservative HQ criticised for ‘targeted campaign’ against immigration lawyer

  09-08-2023 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Law Society and Bar Council ‘gravely concerned’ over briefing sent to right-leaning papers calling Jacqueline McKenzie a ‘lefty lawyer’The Law Society and Bar Council have hit out at the Conservatives’ treatment of an immigration lawyer after she was the subject of a dossier sent to right-leaning newspapers.In an article for the Guardian, Jacqueline McKenzie, the head of immigration at Leigh Day and a partner at the firm, said Conservative party HQ had sent a briefi
  
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• US voices fears for Niger’s ex-president, who is ‘running out of food’

  09-08-2023 22:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Mohamed Bazoum has been held at the presidential palace since the coup that deposed himThe US has expressed deep concern for Niger’s deposed president after his party said he and his family were running out of food and living under increasingly dire conditions.President Mohamed Bazoum, the West African nation’s democratically elected leader, has been held at the presidential palace in Niamey with his wife and son since mutinous soldiers moved against him on July 26. Continue reading.
  
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• US special counsel obtained search warrant for Trump’s Twitter account

  09-08-2023 22:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Social media platform delayed complying, court filing shows, prompting judge to hold Twitter in contempt and fine it $350,000The US special counsel who is investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president’s Twitter account, and the social media platform delayed complying, a court filing on Wednesday showed.The delay in compliance prompted a federal judge to hold Twitter in contempt and fine it $350,000, the filing showed. Continue reading...
  
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• Police in Oxford Street make arrests amid social media ‘robbery campaign’

  09-08-2023 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds of teenagers gathered outside JD Sports in response to Snapchat call to take part in robberyPolice have arrested nine people and issued dozens of dispersal orders after shoppers were locked inside stores on London’s Oxford Street following warnings of a robbery campaign organised on social media.Hundreds of teenagers gathered outside JD Sports on the capital’s busiest shopping street in an apparent response to widely shared posts on Snapchat and TikTok urging users to take p
  
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• Mexico: outrage as Amlo suggests critics guilty of ‘gender-based violence’ against him

  09-08-2023 21:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Offhand remarks by Mexican president prompt condemnation in country with soaring levels of violence against womenAndrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican president, has sparked ridicule and outrage after suggesting during a news conference that criticism leveled against him could be considered a form of gender-based violence.The comments on Wednesday touched a nerve in Mexico, where the government of López Obrador has been unable to tackle soaring levels of violence against
  
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• Climate activists outraged over Biden claim he ‘practically’ declared US emergency

  09-08-2023 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Biden said ‘I’ve done that’ when asked about declaring climate emergency, yet White House has not announced such a declarationJoe Biden has said that he has “practically” declared a national emergency on the climate crisis, despite not actually taking that step, vexing climate campaigners.“I’ve already done that,” Biden said when asked if he intends to declare a climate emergency in a Weather Channel interview aired Wednesday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Ohio saw through the con’: abortion rights advocates celebrate Issue 1 result

  09-08-2023 21:53 via theguardian.com
  
  While anti-abortion activists vow to ‘continue the fight’, supporters of abortion retain hope for November electionIn a resounding victory for supporters of abortion rights, Ohio voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Issue 1, a GOP-backed ballot measure that would have made it considerably harder to amend the state constitution.Abortion rights advocates celebrated the defeat of Issue 1, which means Ohio keeps its longstanding rule on citizen-led state constitutional amendments: a
  
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• The Premier League is back for an uncluttered, if uncertain, new season | Barney Ronay

  09-08-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A strange brew of noises off haunts the coming campaign, even if it offers a chance for English football to rediscover itselfWelcome back, once again, to the new abnormal. For the best part of three decades the Premier League has been defined by its uncluttered power chords, beautifully slick in presenting itself as a place of endless growth, certainty, colour, a footballing cloud city, out there floating above the mess of the everyday.But the world will eventually find its a way in. Et in arcad
  
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• Anthony Joshua calls for leading fighters to face random drug testing

  09-08-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Joshua wants radical change to help tackle doping crisis‘Why am I under pressure but 60% to 70% of boxers aren’t?’Anthony Joshua has expressed his frustration with boxing’s inability to tackle its doping crisis and called for radical change so that the leading fighters in the world are subject to random testing.He was meant to fight Dillian Whyte in London on Saturday night but last Saturday it emerged that his British rival has returned a positive test result for a still
  
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• In the Flip vs Fold war, Samsung fans have picked a clear winner - TrustedReviews

  09-08-2023 20:52 via news.google.com
  
  In the Flip vs Fold war, Samsung fans have picked a clear winner  TrustedReviewsSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: a big screen inside and out  The GuardianSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: The best foldable just got better  Expert ReviewsIs The Galaxy Z Fold 5 Good?  PhoneArenaSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 review: a little better is just good enough  The VergeView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ben Target: Lorenzo review – end-of-life care comedy is joyful and surprising

  09-08-2023 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
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  The comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring’s reciprocal flowThe “dead dad show” is a fringe comedy staple. But what about the dead not-quite-an-uncle show? Ben Target is a comedian who, by his own account, never quite delivered on the promise identified by his best fringe newcomer nomination more than a decade ago. Well, he delivers something very lovely here, with an autobiographical
  
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• Steve Bell on Lee Anderson and the Bibby Stockholm barge – cartoon

  09-08-2023 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
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• Staffordshire police treating fire at Crooked House pub as arson

  09-08-2023 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Blaze at famous pub nine days after it was sold to new owners sparked outrage and calls for it to be rebuiltPolice have said they are treating the fire at the historic Crooked House pub as arson, although its cause is currently unknown.Staffordshire police said they believed the fire “may have been started deliberately” after fire investigators said the cause could “not currently be determined”. Continue reading...
  
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• Yorkshire council warns of budget crisis as deficit reaches £47m

  09-08-2023 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Kirklees local authority, hit by underfunding, price rises and extra demand on services, reports precarious financesA West Yorkshire council said it was close to going bust unless a £47m funding gap could be closed, as a growing number of local authorities warned that they were almost running out of funds.Kirklees council, which counts Huddersfield as its main town, said it could face a section 114 notice – signalling that it cannot balance its budget – in the 2024/25 financial
  
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• Four of Britain’s biggest lenders cut rates on fixed mortgage deals

  09-08-2023 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Halifax, HSBC, Nationwide and TSB reduce rates, easing pressure on hard-pressed homeowners Four of Britain’s biggest lenders have cut rates on their fixed mortgage deals, easing some of the pressure on hard-pressed homeowners.Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group – the UK’s biggest mortgage lender – is reducing rates by up to 0.71 percentage points from Friday. That means a five-year fixed rate currently priced at 6.10% will be offered at a rate of 5.39%. Continue reading
  
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• Northern Ireland police data breach is second in weeks, force reveals

  09-08-2023 20:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Admission that document with names of 200 staff was stolen in July follows revelation of ‘monumental’ data breach on TuesdayThe Police Service of Northern Ireland has admitted that this week’s “monumental” data breach followed an earlier leak of names of hundreds of officers and staff, deepening a crisis over the mishandling of personal information that could be used to target employees.The disclosures sowed anxiety in the ranks and prompted some officers to relocat
  
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• British doctor shot and killed in Cape Town amid violent taxi strike protests

  09-08-2023 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The man, 40, took wrong turning from airport into Nyanga township, where protests were taking placeA British doctor was shot and killed in Cape Town after taking a wrong turn from the airport and encountering violent protests linked to a week-long taxi driver strike.The 40-year-old British national was with two family members when he drove into the city’s Nyanga township, located near Cape Town international airport. Continue reading...
  
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• WHO declares ‘Eris’ Covid strain a variant of interest as cases rise globally

  09-08-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Health risk of EG.5, which is related to Omicron subvariant, judged to be low but may drive larger wave of infections A new strain of Covid-19 has been designated as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization, although the public health risk has been judged as low.The variant, known as EG.5 or “Eris”, is related to an Omicron subvariant called XBB.1.9.2, and is growing in prevalence globally, with countries including the UK, China and US among those affected. Continue rea
  
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• ‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests

  09-08-2023 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazilian president says developed nations that over centuries have pumped emissions into the atmosphere must ‘pay their bit’The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has told developed countries to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to protecting the world’s remaining tropical forests, as major rainforest nations demanded hundreds of billions of dollars of climate financing and a greater role in how those resources are spent.“It’s n
  
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• Turning food into a weapon: how Russia resorted to one of the oldest forms of warfare

  09-08-2023 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  With Russia blockading Ukraine’s eastern ports, an alternative route to the west is possible but faces serious problemsAfter failing to conquer Ukraine by conventional means, Russia tried an energy war, trying to hobble the power grid and freeze the nation into submission. Now it has launched a food war.The mining of the Kakhovka dam in June threatens to turn southern Ukrainian farmland into a dustbowl. Since Moscow pulled out of an UN-brokered deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports through
  
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• Welsh secretary has ‘history of hostility’ towards Traveller communities

  09-08-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaflet is latest example of Tory MP’s hostile comments about Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities over 25 yearsLast week, the Welsh secretary David TC Davies insisted that he meant no criticism with a leaflet that warned voters, “Gypsy and Traveller site coming to your area soon!” before asking them: “Would you like to see a Traveller site next to your house?”Despite being accused of creating a “hostile environment”, Davies was defended by the deputy p
  
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• One Foot in the Grave actor Doreen Mantle dies aged 97

  09-08-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Mantle was best known as Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew’s wifeDoreen Mantle has died aged 97, her agent has announced.The actor was best known for her performance as Jean Warboys, the annoying friend of Victor Meldrew’s wife, in the BBC comedy series One Foot in the Grave. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the electoral commission hack: democracy needs stronger safeguards | Editorial

  09-08-2023 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  A culture of complacency around data security and a government obsessed with partisan games have put electoral regulation at riskThe theft of something precious to 40 million people would, in most circumstances, be cause for instant outrage. That appears not to have been the case when the scene of the crime was a database held by the UK Electoral Commission. The delay in detection and muted reaction are as alarming as the heist itself.At some point after August 2021, hackers gained access to the
  
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• The Guardian view on the Amazon summit: rich nations must now step up

  09-08-2023 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The election of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has changed the environmental politics of the region. But more international assistance is neededIn last October’s Brazilian election, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro by a margin of 1.8%. That narrowest of victories may have been the single most important environmental development of 2022. With Mr Bolsonaro in power, the Amazon rainforest was hurtling towards a tipping point after which it w
  
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• Views from both sides of the digital divide | Letters

  09-08-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Josephine Culhane on technology’s pitfalls; plus letters from Wally Harbertand David WardI was nodding my head vigorously in agreement when I read your editorial (The Guardian view on the digital divide: a growing problem that must be taken seriously, 6 August). An hour later I was having a telephone conversation with your subscription team about the fact that I could no longer have my subscription vouchers for the Guardian.I now need to use a barcode that would be scanned by my newsagent
  
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• Lee Anderson’s ugly words shame Britain | Letters

  09-08-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The Tory deputy chair used demeaning and disgusting language in his remarks about asylum seekers, says Alexandra Wright. Plus letters from Kevin Potter and Will KingA week after the devastating fire that consumed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, I joined a march of silence from the library in Ladbroke Grove to Grenfell Tower.Nothing prepared me as I raised my eyes to look at the terrible and shocking black shell of the tower, as though transplanted from hell’s own landscape – an unsightl
  
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• Hacked UK voter data could be used to target disinformation, warn experts

  09-08-2023 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Data from Electoral Commission breach could allow rogue actors to create AI-generated messages in effort to manipulate electionsData accessed in the Electoral Commission hack could help state-backed actors target voters with AI-generated disinformation, experts have warned.The UK elections watchdog revealed on Tuesday that a hostile cyber-attack had been able to access the names and addresses of all voters registered between 2014 and 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Women helped build this’: celebrating the ladies of hip-hop

  09-08-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  In an expansive Netflix docuseries, major figures speak about the often overlooked contributions to a male-dominated genre“We were set up on a friend date,” says the producer Carri Twigg of how she first met her future film-making partner Raeshem Nijhon. “We got to talking and she mentioned she always wanted to do a project about women in hip-hop, but in a way that was contemporary and different.”Such are the roots of Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop, a four-part
  
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• Ukrainian forces cross Dnipro River in bid to breach southern frontline

  09-08-2023 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Up to seven boats landed east of Kherson city and broke through defensive lines, say Russian military bloggersRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesUkrainian forces have made an attempt to cross the Dnipro River dividing liberated and occupied Kherson, in a potential breach of what has for months served as the frontline in the south of Ukraine.Russian military bloggers reported that up to seven boats, each carrying six to seven people, had landed near the village of Kozachi Laheri, east
  
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• AI helps airline pilots avoid areas that create polluting contrails

  09-08-2023 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Experiment by Google and American Airlines reduces vapour trails, which are a source of global heatingAircraft contrails – or clouds of condensation behind planes – have been a familiar sight in skies across the world since the start of the jet age. However, a new experiment by Google and American Airlines suggests they could soon become much rarer, in a small but significant win that could assist the battle to cut aviation emissions.Pilots flying using artificial intelligence models
  
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• Former rugby star’s Irish-accented French team talk hailed as ‘absolutely glorious’

  09-08-2023 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  La Rochelle coach Ronan O’Gara lights up the internet seamlessly blending French with English with a few choice wordsFrench may be the language of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Voltaire, but sometimes it takes a rugby player from Cork to inject extra oomph.Ronan O’Gara, a former Ireland international who coaches the French club La Rochelle, has lit up the internet with a pep talk to his team that seamlessly blended French with English swearing, graced with a Cork accent. Continue reading..
  
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• Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli charged with non-recent sexual offences

  09-08-2023 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish broadcaster arrested and released to appear in court at later date, say Police ScotlandThe Scottish comedian and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli has been arrested by police in Scotland and charged in connection with non-recent sexual offences.Originally a BBC Scotland graduate trainee, Kohli, 54, has presented a number of programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, UKTV and other broadcasters, winning Royal Television Society and Bafta awards for one children’s programme. Continue reading.
  
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• Dam partly collapses in Norway as Storm Hans continues to cause chaos

  09-08-2023 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Parts of eastern and central Norway still on red alert as country battles widespread flooding and landslidesA dam in Norway has partly collapsed as the country battles record high river levels, flooding and landslides after a fatal storm.Norwegian police were considering blowing up the dam when water from the Glåma River, the country’s longest, started spilling out the side at Braskereidfoss hydroelectric power plant. Continue reading...
  
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• Narendra Modi has ignored religious violence for too long. Now he must face the music | Priya Sharma

  09-08-2023 18:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Bloodshed in Manipur is just the latest example of sweeping ethnic frictions. The PM must show he is the solution, not the problemIt is a hot and furious week in India’s parliament. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, is accused of turning a blind eye to three months of bloodshed in some of the poorest villages of India, in the remote north-east state of Manipur. Barbaric details are surfacing: hundreds of villages destroyed, Christian churches and schools torched, and widespread sexual ass
  
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• ‘I know the odds’: Céline Boutier plays down chances at Women’s Open

  09-08-2023 18:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Frenchwoman has won her past two outings, including a major, but realises history is against her making it threePredicting the winner of any tournament is a hard enough task at the best of times; trying to identify the winner of a women’s major championship right now is proving one of golf’s most elusive goals, a riddle wrapped in an ace inside an albatross. The past 22 majors have produced 21 different champions – only Minjee Lee, at the 2021 Evian Championship and 2022 US Ope
  
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• Tell us: what’s your experience with buy now, pay later schemes in the UK?

  09-08-2023 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  We want to hear from people using companies like Klarna and Clearpay and if they worry about debt issuesBuy no, pay later schemes like Klarna and Clearpay have surged in recent years, with people in the UK spending £5.6bn in the first six months of 2022 alone.A YouGov poll commissioned by anti-debt charity StepChange in 2021 found that 49% of people of those with a BNPL loan find it difficult to keep up with household bills and credit repayments. Continue reading...
  
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• The strange tale of The Crooked House tells a much bigger story

  09-08-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The pub in which things seemed to roll uphill is now gone – like so much of the history and mystery of the Black CountryA disused pub is no more. So what? Fire failed to finish the job, and so with apparently indecent haste, bulldozers razed the Crooked House in Staffordshire to the ground. People turned up to mourn. Why? Who mourns a disfigured building? What exactly are they mourning? These are reasonable questions, unless you happen to be from the area.The Crooked House always lived lar
  
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• Germany arranges supply of 30 Leopard 1 tanks for Ukraine

  09-08-2023 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Arms firm Rheinmetall to refurbish vehicles following military aid package announced at Nato summitThirty secondhand Leopard I battle tanks are to be refurbished by the arms manufacturer Rheinmetall at the orders of the German government and exported to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.The tanks are part of a fleet of 49 vehicles that the Düsseldorf-based company purchased from the Belgian private defence company OIP Land Systems. Some of the vehicles are reportedly in
  
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• Secret restaurant costs: is it outrageous to charge €2 to cut a sandwich in half?

  09-08-2023 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  An Italian cafe has gone viral after slapping a surcharge on a patron who wanted to share his lunch with his girlfriend. But there’s more to it than mere effronteryIt is a holiday tale designed to court outrage: a tourist in a cafe in Italy has been charged an extra €2 for the privilege of having his sandwich cut in half.The customer just wanted to share the sandwich with his girlfriend, but when the bill arrived it listed the mysterious service “diviso a metà” at t
  
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• ‘Worst nightmare’: South Korea mulls disastrous Scout jamboree

  09-08-2023 17:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Youngsters faced a heatwave, flooded tents, sewage spills and an expensive evacuation – but concerns were raised before the event even beganMedia outlets in South Korea have labelled its hosting of the World Scout Jamboree a “national disgrace”, a “survival game”, and a “worst nightmare”. Public outcry has intensified online and strangers are approaching scouts on the streets, apologising on behalf of their country and handing out gifts.South Korea has s
  
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• Perverse as it sounds, Donald Trump in a prison cell may be the worst possible outcome | Emma Brockes

  09-08-2023 17:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Imagine Trump posing as the ultimate martyr, campaigning for president from jail – his supporters would find it irresistibleIt seems a long time ago, but there was a brief period, after Joe Biden’s inauguration and before the 6 January hearings and the start of campaigning for next year’s presidential election, when it was possible to avoid Donald Trump for days at a time. He was still there, obviously, wandering the corridors at Mar-a-Lago, Gloria Swanson-style, and posting sc
  
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