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  • A man walk passes the rubbles of destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah.

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    Belgian aid worker and son, seven, killed in Israeli strike on Rafah

  • tennis club staff at Wimbledon pose for a picture beneath the royal box on Centre Court

    Wimbledon
    Guaranteed Centre Court seat? That’ll be £116,000 … each

    • ‘Huge disappointment’
      UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass

    • Live
      Venice residents protest as city begins visitor charging scheme

    • London
      Runaway horses in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through centre of city

    • Paris
      Moulin Rouge windmill blades collapse

    • Exclusive
      Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

    • Silver surge
      Grey wave of walkers spearhead record activity levels among England’s over-55s

News in focus

  • Commuters line a platform as a metro train arrives

    ‘Confined to this little island’
    Britons criticise rejection of EU youth mobility deal

  • Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, with his wife, Begoña Gómez, voting at the general snap election in Madrid

    Explained
    Why is Spain’s prime minister considering resigning from office?

    Pedro Sánchez accuses opponents of ‘bullying operation’ conducted against him and his wife, Begoña Gómez
  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    ‘Every day I cry’
    50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

    Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers, gathered over two years in a Guardian investigation

Spotlight

  • Natalie and Beccy in 2023.

    How we met
    ‘She accosted me and told me she’d looked me up on Facebook’

    Beccy, 49, and Natalie, 60, became best friends after she visited Natalie’s rescue farm in Ontario, Canada. They now run events together on the farm and love travelling together
  • ‘I learn a lot every single time I work’ … actor and director Bryce Dallas Howard

    Bryce Dallas Howard
    ‘I can’t be trusted around famous people’

  • Sian (left) and Pam

    Dining across the divide
    ‘She felt our generation shouldn’t be held responsible for the massive imbalance between us and young people’

    Could they agree on immigration and housing? And why did the conversation turn to pigeon racing?
  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound
    How could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

    What broke me as a child was my mother’s death from breast cancer. But around that shattering, I became a person – and learned how to parent my son
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      ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’
      The scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    • An illustration of a female stretched across in her living room holding an iPad-like device watching a show

      'Refreshingly familiar'
      How brilliant female British TV detectives helped me understand myself

    • collage illustration with Diane Abbott at the centre, surrounded by (clockwise from left): Tony Blair, a Stoke Newington sign, Diane Abbott, Ken Livingston, Hackney Town hall, Child Q protestors, Jeremy Corbyn

      ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’
      Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey

    • ‘Running tens of thousands in debt from the tour and I’m being told that it’s normal’ … Arooj Aftab performing in Brooklyn in June 2023.

      ‘The working class can’t afford it’
      The shocking truth about the money bands make on tour

Opinion

  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Our capital has many problems, but it is time to push back against attacks from those who neither know nor understand it
  • Heritage Foundation: Former Prime Minister Liz Truss on Fighting the Global Left

    Fair to say America isn’t gripped by Liz Trussmania. Here’s what she can learn from Mr Bean

    Emma Brockes
  • Old military vehicles arrive for a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, Portugal, 25 April 2024

    In Portugal, we’re celebrating 50 years of freedom. So why is the far right creeping back?

    Vicente Valentim
    Today, we remember the 1974 Carnation Revolution. But as memories of dictatorship fade, anti-democratic forces are on the rise, says political scientist Vicente Valentim
  • "Eid in the Square" celebrations in London<br>London Mayor Sadiq Khan poses for a selfie as he greets audience members during 'Eid in the Square' celebrations in Trafalgar Square, London, Britain, April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams

    Elected mayors have made their mark, but still Westminster hogs power. That’s a national embarrassment

    Tony Travers
    Devolution has been too cautious, and England has less say about community affairs than almost any other democracy, says academic Tony Travers
    • legislation to ban smacking of children<br>A rally was held outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in support of the Children (Equal Protection from Assault) (Scotland) Bill which is facing its final parliamentary debate and vote today. If passed the legislation means a ban on smacking of children. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday October 3, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Smacking. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

      Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

      Frances Ryan
    • Abortion rights supporters staging a ‘die-in’ protest

      The US supreme court heard one of the most sadistic, extreme anti-abortion cases yet

      Moira Donegan
    • On a lawn surrounded on three sides by buildings, dozens of tents with handmade protest signs in red and green.

      Why we need to stop using ‘pro-Palestine’ and ‘pro-Israel’

      Judith Levine
    • UK's Liberal Democrats Leader Ed Davey Unveils New Campaign In Guildford<br>GUILDFORD, ENGLAND - JANUARY 03: Liberal democrat supporters wait in the rain for the arrival of the Party Leader Ed Davey on January 03, 2024 in Guildford, England. Ed Davey revealed a new campaign poster as he launched a tour of Surrey seats and held a rally with activists in Guildford. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

      Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

      Martin Kettle

Editorials & Letters

  • Rishi Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, visit an engineering firm in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 25 March 2024.

    The Guardian view
    Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view
    Globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • Families being helped ashore on Dungeness beach after being rescued in the English Channel by the RNLI in 2023.

    Letters
    A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Letters
    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

Sport

  • Corinthians’ players cover their ears and mouths in protest before their game against Santos

    Moving the Goalposts
    Santos under fire after Lima’s brief return sparks volley of protest

    Female players claim they they feel punished after coming forward anonymously to report sexual and moral harassment
  • (Left to right) North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye, Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans, LSU Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.

    NFL draft predictions
    The stars, the needs and the lower-round gems this year

Climate crisis

  • people wear shirts that say "end fossil fuels" and hold signs that say "Manchin is killing us"

    Climate crisis
    ‘Outrageous’ activists get in the faces of politicians and oil bosses – will it work?

  • The Aedes albopictus mosquito on human skin

    Climate crisis
    Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe, says expert

  • A male gold miner holding a spade in the background observes a female gold miner in an open-pit gold mine

    'Green industrialisation'
    Process raw materials in Africa, urges top environmentalist

  • driftwood, lots of plastic bottles and other pollution on beach, with two figures on bikes in background

    Plastics
    Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s pollution

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From the UK

  • Passengers board a train at Huddersfield railway station

    Railways
    Labour promises nationalisation within five years of coming to power

    Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership as contracts with train operators expire
  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda
    Flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • Alcoholic drinks on a table

    Public health
    Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

  • Two people standing next to metal ladder in put below ground

    ‘It’s magical’
    Prehistoric mines in Norfolk to reopen to visitors

    • Sainsbury's
      Supermarket says sales revival in big-ticket items depends on base rate cut

    • Hip-hop
      Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator

    • Iran
      Lack of action could lead to more threats and attacks in UK, says journalist

    • Armed forces
      UK’s first ever memorial to LGBT personnel to be built

    • Heritage
      Fears for Queen Victoria belongings delay English coastal path completion

    • Car insurance
      Providers agree to crack down on ‘poverty premium’

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Around the world

  • A man and a woman walk past a billboard with an illustration showing missiles taking off from a stylised 3D relief map of Iran

    Middle East crisis
    Oil price could exceed $100 a barrel if conflict worsens, World Bank warns

  • Pedro Sánchez with his wife, Begoña Gómez

    Spain
    PM considers resigning, blaming political ‘harassment’ of wife

    • France
      National library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

    • Live
      US economic growth slows; Anglo American shares surge after BHP proposes £31.1bn takeover

    • Georgia
      Suspects arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

    • Indonesia election
      Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    • Environment
      Global battery rollout doubled last year – but needs to be six times faster, says IEA

    • Inequality
      World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

Culture

  • Back to black … St Vincent

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    St Vincent: All Born Screaming review – the unmasking of a great American songwriter

    Are we finally seeing the real Annie Clarke? Replacing alter egos with raw immediacy, she delivers one of her best albums: restlessly inventive and packed with ideas
  • Glicéria Tupinambá (right, with her niece Jessica) in the Brazilian pavilion at Venice, which features the Tupinambá cloak, along with letters asking for its return.

    Part protest, part rave
    The Indigenous artists stunning the Venice Biennale

  • Theatricality and chemistry … Ute Lemper.

    Ute Lemper review
    Intimate and mesmerising show celebrates an inimitable performer

  • It even has a cursed walrus! … Dead Boy Detectives.

    Dead Boy Detectives review
    This fun paranormal romp will make you feel young again

  • In the whacking trade … Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy in In the Land of Saints and Sinners

    In the Land of Saints and Sinners review
    Liam Neeson finds cowboy spirit in Donegal

  • Testmatch.

    Testmatch review
    Smart satire hits casual racism for six

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    Do you love reading – but all too often find yourself just scrolling through your phone or watching TV? Here is how to get lost in literature again
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    Thursday quiz
    Strange distances, surprise candidates and Sherlock Holmes

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    Restorative in every way
    A rewilding retreat in Somerset

  • Saga home insurance website promising a good deal on insurance.

    Consumer champions
    Caring for the elderly? Not with Saga’s 220% price hike

  • Silvia Rothlisberger sitting on her van on the roadside in New Zealand

    A moment that changed me
    Joyriders destroyed my van in New Zealand – which led to a lovely life in London

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    ‘I may be a troll but I’m not stupid’
    Super-stan Harry Daniels on singing loudly at Biden, Dua Lipa and Anna Wintour for clout

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    The former US president often describes himself as the ‘best friend that Israel has ever had’, but he may not be so reliable
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    ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’
    Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later

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    Portugal recalls the Carnation Revolution

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    Labour’s plans for Great British Railways all but set up by Tory government

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