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  • Viktor Orbán and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is raising a hand, speaking at the European Council summit

    Ukraine
    Viktor Orbán visits Kyiv for surprise talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy

    Hungarian PM’s visit is the pro-Putin leader’s first to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion
  • Marine Le Pen, member of parliament and French far-right National Rally.

    France live
    Marine Le Pen says National Rally should not try to form government without a majority

  • white man wearing blue suit and red tie salutes

    US
    Trump seeks to set aside hush-money conviction hours after immunity ruling

  • Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer.

    UK election live
    Starmer dismisses Tory false claims about his work ethic as ‘desperate’ and ‘bordering on hysterical’

    • Israel
      Palestinians flee Khan Younis as eight reported dead after Israeli strikes

    • Wimbledon 2024
      Andy Murray pulls out of Wimbledon singles but commits to doubles

    • Migration
      Panama to shut down Darién Gap route in deal that will see US pay to repatriate migrants

    • Business live
      Eurozone inflation dips in June; UK supermarket sales slow despite Euro 2024 boost

    • Greece
      Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week

    • Air transport
      Air Europa plane diverts to Brazil after severe turbulence injures dozens

Europe in focus

  • Close-up of Geert Wilders in dark blue suit and light blue tie

    Netherlands
    New Dutch government sworn in amid concerns over far-right ministers

  • Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron walk side by side. The president is wearing a black baseball cap and a blue scarf tucked into a black bomber jacket. Brigitte is wearing sunglasses, a cream and black scarf and a denim jacket

    Analysis
    Macron sought clarity – and has brought his centrist project tumbling down

    In an increasingly divided country, Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration party has cemented its steady rise
  • Broken Uni tory mortarboard illustration

    Tory Britain 2010-24
    How the Tories pushed UK universities to the brink of disaster

    The long read: Over the past 14 years, the Conservative dream of a free market in higher education has collided with the harsh reality of austerity and the cultural resentment of the radical right – driving some institutions close to bankruptcy

Spotlight

  • Tourists at a viewing site beneath the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

    Travel
    ‘My escape is going north’: heatwaves begin to drive tourists in Europe to cool climes

    Whether swapping the south of France or Mallorca for the UK or Scandinavia, rising temperatures are changing habits
  • Positech's Democracy 4

    Games
    I simulated each UK party’s first years in government in a video game, and the results were awful

  • An illustration showing computer mouse clicks on a female body.

    Pornography
    The secret lives of porn addicts: ‘I am meticulous about covering my tracks’

    As pornography use soars, some men feel their behaviour is moving from a compulsion to an addiction. They describe how this affects their health, happiness and relationships
  • Just the ticket … audience interactions are propelling comedians to stardom

    Comedy
    How viral ‘crowd work’ clips are remaking standup for the social media age

    More and more comedians are uploading their improvised encounters with audience members. But do these interactions detract from the craft of standup?
    • ‘You’re faced with your mortality – that’s what the show is about”… Crazy Smooth, centre, performs In My Body.

      Dance
      Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

    • Jensen Huang delivers a speech in Taipei, 2 June 2024: he is seen very small in the foreground in front of a black background with huge illustrated images of a robotic figure and moving mechanical joints behind him.

      Analysis
      Can AI boom drive Nvidia to a $4tn valuation despite investor doubt?

    • Composite for Tory years music piece

      Music
      Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

    • Manizha Talash, Ray Bassil and Alexandra Ndolo

      Olympics
      In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

Euro 2024

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Opinion

  • Supporters of French far right leader Marine Le Pen react after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies , Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections Sunday and plunged the country into political uncertainty, according to polling projections. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

    The Guardian view
    France’s snap election: the unthinkable becomes plausible

    Editorial: Sunday’s first round vote puts Marine Le Pen’s radical right within touching distance of power. The priority must now be damage limitation
  • Residents under watch of the police evacuate the Delmas 22 neighbourhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2 May 2024

    Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

    Olivier De Schutter
  • Janelle Monáe in trousers with huge outsplayed fringes in pink

    The truth about vaginas: how I became a committed vulva-splainer

    Zoe Williams
  • Marine Le Pen with supporters in Paris, France, 1 July 2024

    Macron is history, Le Pen is triumphant. What do ‘reasonable’ French voters like me do now?

    Pierre Haski
  • Keir Starmer and the shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, during a visit to Barnet, north London, in January 2024.

    Euphoria felled by reality and scant ambition – I have seen what could be Labour’s future

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • An illustration of donald trump and the supreme court building.

    Was Donald Trump a king as president? The US supreme court thinks so

    Moira Donegan

Climate crisis

  • Man wearing fluorescent yellow vest and hat with stop sign

    Climate crisis
    Biden unveils rules to protect millions of US workers from extreme heat

  • A firefighter in protective clothing manages a fire line in Fresno County, California

    Weather tracker
    Scorching temperatures across US threaten heat records

  • Thibaud van der Steen, co-founder of No Waste Army, says Dutch farmers are struggling in the face of extreme weather.

    Food
    ‘It’s not beautiful, but you can still eat it’: climate crisis leads to more wonky vegetables in Netherlands

  • An image that is half black earth, half bright orange flames and gray smoke.

    US
    Firefighters near Phoenix battle wildfire as temperatures surpass 38C

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Around the world

  • Building reduced to rubble by Israeli airstrike

    Israel
    Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official

    Harrison Mann, military expert who quit over Gaza, says ruinous war in Lebanon would pull US into regional conflict
  • Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004.

    Jeffrey Epstein
    Florida prosecutors knew Jeffrey Epstein assaulted young girls years before plea deal

  • A woman in white is grabbed by two police officers wearing masks

    Cambodia
    Cambodia jails 10 environmentalists in ‘crushing blow to civil society’

  • Damaged fishing boats rest on the shore after the passing of Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fish Market, Bridgetown, Barbados on July 1

    Caribbean
    Hurricane Beryl strengthens to category 5 storm as it ‘flattens’ island in Grenada

    • Russia
      Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were translations of Nazi verse

    • Ukraine
      Briton who founded charity helping Ukrainian soldiers dies ‘in battlefield’

    • London
      Military horses bolt through city again after three break loose

    • Streaming
      Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp launches Netflix rival Tubi in UK

    • Music
      Killer Mike will not face charges after Grammys arrest

    • New Zealand
      ‘Like the devil on meth’: feral cat killing competition produces record haul

Culture

  • A color still of an older white woman and a younger white man appearing about to kiss in the vegetable section of a grocery store.

    Film
    From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances

    Anne Hathaway and Nicole Kidman are romancing younger stars in glossy new romcoms, adding texture to the dreaded cliche of the ‘cougar’
  • A color-tinted photo of three smiling white men wearing casual suits and standing in a row, looking in the same direction, in front of a pink rosebush and a white picket fence.

    Books
    ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

  • Mariel Franklin (credit Maxim Vinciguerra)

    Book of the day
    Bonding by Mariel Franklin review – a comprehensive vision of a devastated society

  • Affected by tragedy … The Mother of All Lies.

    Film
    The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years

  • Thomas Sainsbury (Ian) in Loop Track.

    Film
    Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell

  • Silhouette of Man Walking Cross the Big Window with Cityscape Landscape in Background<br>S1CAF9 Silhouette of Man Walking Cross the Big Window with Cityscape Landscape in Background

    Books
    Why Are You Shouting? by James Womack review – tales of the metropolis

Lifestyle

  • Illustration of a naked man and woman behind a DNA spiral

    This is how we do it
    It is routine in Iceland to check whether you are related to a romantic partner before you get serious

    When Sigrún checked out her family tree online, it wasn’t to find out if she and Einar were related – it was how closely related
  • rhiannon batten campwild scotland

    Travel
    ‘Walking away from the world in Scotland’: an easier way to plan long Highlands hikes

  • Deforestation in the Amazon - detail of an area.

    Fashion
    ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

  • ‘I feel privileged to do it’ … Fiona Burke

    A new start after 60
    I saw children caged on the US-Mexico border – and my life changed completely

  • Sunset Reflection in Yasuni national park, The Amazon river basin, South America.

    Travel
    Into the Peruvian Amazon: ‘I’m going to show you good things. Let’s start with an anaconda’

  • Rachel Roddy's biscotti occhi di bue or bullseye biscuits 1167

    A kitchen in Rome
    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for bullseye biscuits

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  • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

    Climate crisis
    How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

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    Has a pet ever got in the way of your relationship or friendship?

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    Life and style
    Do you still sleep in your childhood bedroom?

From our global editions

  • President Joe Biden, center, arrives at Fort Lesley J. McNair accompanied by grandson Beau Biden, obstructed from left, son Hunter Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden and first lady Jill Biden, Monday, July 1

    Analysis
    After a disastrous debate, focus falls on Joe Biden’s inner circle

    As the party asks who is to blame for the US president’s poor performance against Trump, calls grow for Biden to widen his team
  • Keir Starmer laughs alongside a smiling Richard Walker as they stand inside an Iceland supermarket

    UK politics
    ‘When power shifts, so does the money’: mega-donors fill Labour’s coffers

  • a man in a blue suit and red tie stands in front of American flags

    Explainer
    Trump on Trial: The supreme court handed him a partial victory. Now what?

  • Composite of false, AI generated images

    Deepfake
    Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake

  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Japan
    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

  • A man consults with unhoused people in a tent encampment.

    Los Angeles
    2,100 deaths in 10 years: how fentanyl is devastating Los Angeles’ unhoused community

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  • Chris Martin of Coldplay on the Pyramid stage on Saturday night

    Glastonbury
    The big Glastonbury 2024 review: the Last Dinner Party justify the hype, Dua Lipa nails it and Coldplay go over the top

  • Goats belonging to Sicilian farmer Luca Cammarata drink from a muddy water pond near his drought-stricken farm

    Italy
    ‘We can’t let the animals die’: drought leaves Sicilian farmers facing uncertain future

  • People march in a line holding a long banner in front of them that reads: 'L'extrême droite est l'ennemie mortelle des LGBTI'

    Reaction
    ‘Not a solution’ – fears grow over prospect of win for far right in France

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    Hungary
    ‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary sets scene for its EU presidency

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    Science Weekly
    Caroline Lucas on climate, culture wars, and 14 years as the only Green MP - podcast

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    Today in Focus
    The enigma of Keir Starmer – podcast

  • FILE - Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak, delivers a speech as part of a Conservative campaign event in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4, in Leeds, northern England, Thursday, June 27, 2024. The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power. (Darren Staples/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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    Photography
    Close encounters: Arles festival of photography – in pictures

    Enigmatic eggs, US army fashion and Japanese women of the sea feature in exhibitions at this year’s French showcase
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    Photos of the day
    Wimbledon starts and Glasto ends

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    Ukraine
    Residents flee as war arrives in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine

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    Maasai
    Milk and sacrifice: a rare glimpse into a Maasai rite of passage

  • Coldplay on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury

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