world news
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Suspect shot and injured by police after trying to attack officer with hammer outside cathedral in French capital
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Government agencies sought to mitigate the impact of president’s lambasting, restating existing policy and playing down the significance of the tweets
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Woman, who later died in unrelated shooting, was attacked by convicted sex offender in what Alberta’s justice minister says was a ‘disturbing and tragic case’
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Nearly 60% of civilian deaths from the three-year military campaign have been reported this year – but human rights groups say true figure is far higher
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Operation to recapture Islamic State ‘capital’ expected to be long and bloody and may mark turning point in war
spotlight
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For over 100 years, a small minority have battled the very idea of national land. As efforts are renewed, all Americans must face the fight
around the world
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UKUKLondon attacks: Spanish authorities decry lack of information over missing man - livePolice say attacker Khuram Butt was investigated in 2015 but ruled out as potential terrorist
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EuropeEuropeQatar: FBI says Russian hackers 'planted fake news story' that led to crisis – reportBureau experts visited Doha in May to analyse alleged cyber breach in which hackers placed story with state news agency, CNN reports
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Burmese migrants charged with defamation after alleging labour abuses in Thailand’s multimillion-pound poultry export industry
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Documents show JBS, which supplies beef to retailers including Waitrose, previously bought cattle from Brazilian farm now being investigated for labour abuse
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opinion & analysis
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Years after Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, leaks continue as about 35% of those with top secret clearances – 428,000 people – are contractors
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Several Arab countries are breaking ties with Qatar. We look at the reasons why, and what the consequences may be
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Emboldened by renewed US support, Riyadh has moved quickly to demand its partners align their agendas to theirs
pictures and video
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Footage posted to Instagram appears to show one police officer removing a watch from a woman’s arm while she recovers from being teargassed
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The mother and stepfather of Reality Winner, the 25-year-old facing a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly leaking classified information, call the accusations ‘shocking and overwhelming’
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White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells a press briefing that Twitter gives US president Donald Trump a ‘communications tool that isn’t filtered through media bias’, but also at the same time says she believes that the press puts to much emphasis on what he communicates through social media.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders denies that Donald Trump is picking a fight with London’s mayor following the president’s criticisms of London mayor Sadiq Khan over Twitter following the London Bridge attack
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Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says a ‘disgruntled’ employee who was recently fired from his job at an Orlando business shot and killed five people in what he calls a ‘workplace violence incident’
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The world is changing at dizzying speed – but for some thinkers, not fast enough. Is accelerationism a dangerous idea, or does it speak to our troubled times?
US NSA contractor faces 10-year sentence in first Espionage Act charge under Trump