refugee crisis
Saturday
5
September
2015
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As Europe’s politicians continue to bicker, desperate travellers are welcomed and fed as they arrive at German city
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After days waiting in dirty conditions, they set off to Austria on foot
headlines
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The outspoken Republican presidential candidate guarantees high ratings
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highlights
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Jon Stewart used his TV platform to become one of the world’s sharpest political commentators. Fresh from his Edinburgh show, how will his South African successor fare?
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The former SAS man who forged a career in Britain has exported his brand of derring-do across the Atlantic
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Can Andy Murray book a place in the second week of the US Open with a win over Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci? Follow all the action from Arthur Ashe Stadium with Bryan Armen Graham
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Singer Bono says Europe ‘will be no more’ if it is unable to cope with wave of refugees, as he and his band play Turin
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It’s emotional voyeurism when we fail to care beyond being sad for the victims of the tragedies that our governments helped create and which we all ignored
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European nations are starting to step up, albeit reluctantly, to address the Syrian catastrophe. It is time America does the same
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Comedian says Cosby wouldn’t be attracted to ‘bitches’ alleging rape and suggests Cosby was in relationships with the women before spurning them
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Taking a cue from pope’s call to action, bishops ask wary legislators to say yes to proposed legislation that would reduce emissions and residents’ energy use
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Retirees take more exercise, sleep longer and need to see their doctor less often than before they left work, research finds
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Victims say president Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to turn Hutus against Tutsis as protests continue against government
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special report: the counted
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People killed by the police in the US, recorded by the Guardian
in brief
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Receiving the Library of Congress prize for American fiction, Erdrich spoke of how her writing emerged from the ‘great loss’ of Native Americans
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Director of film starring Eddie Redmayne, about Danish transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, says that ‘access to roles’ is key to progress
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Alex Gibney says Laurene Powell agreed to help – then tried to dissuade potential interviewees from taking part
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Scott Cooper’s Whitey Bulger saga is a confident and nasty film with impressive performances from a starry cast
in depth
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In his poetry and prose, Primo Levi refuses to regard the crimes of the Holocaust with any fascination, and instead focuses on what it means to be human. The Beloved author celebrates the Jewish chemist’s belief in the individual
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Despite volatile markets and a deceptively tepid recovery, the Federal Reserve looks unequivocally committed to raising interest rates – but try getting any of the candidates for president to admit such action could undermine the recovery
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Presidential candidates offer opposing solutions to commonwealth’s $72bn debt, with Democrat backing bankruptcy status
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Rory Carroll meets the bicycle tribes – from the Kushtown Society to the Ovarian Psycos – who claim LA’s streets after dark
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When the leftwing senator challenging the Democratic frontrunner talks about class, corruption and greed his middle-aged midwestern audience cannot get enough
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Tananarive Due, Bernice McFadden and Jeffrey Renard Allen answer the question: are non-white authors bound to the race narrative?
video & pictures
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There is an outdoor feel to this month’s gallery: John Grant in Iceland, the Unthanks in Northumberland, Yanis Varoufakis on the island of Aegina. All this and Amy Schumer too in our monthly showcase of photography commissioned by the Observer
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On Saturday 5 September, Syrian refugees traveling from Hungary arrived in Munich, where Germans greeted them enthusiastically
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Queen Bey has hit middle age, and it’s been a pretty glamorous journey to get here. Here’s her life so far in pictures – one for each year
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These images of the Yenisei river in Siberia show the stark contrast different times of year bring to the same scene. Reuters photographer Ilya Naymushin recorded seven locations in winter and again in summer
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In the searing heat of summer in western Egypt, people with rheumatism, joint pain, infertility or impotence lie buried neck-deep in the sand of Siwa, near Dakrour mountain. A sand bath is said to be a natural therapy for many medical conditions. Treatment is followed by tea in a tent. Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih went to have a look
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Animal experts have concluded that an ape attack on a drone at Royal Burgers’ zoo in the Netherlands was ‘pre-planned’ and utilized a high level of ingenuity
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Images illustrate the enormous challenge facing Europe – from refugee centres in Germany to hundreds walking from Budapest to Austria
people
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The Oscar nominated actor spoke about her difficult work with David Fincher as well as her new film Carol at the Telluride film festival
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A federal judge in Colorado has granted an injunction to halt the opening night premiere of Amazing Grace, a documentary which features footage of the singer shot by Sydney Pollack in 1972
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The model, 23, on 60s and 70s style, learning to breathe, and realising that her parents didn’t have normal jobs
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Actor in Venice to attend the world premiere of his gangster film Black Mass jokes about the row in Australia over the fate of his Yorkshire terriers
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