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South Sudan closes schools in preparation for 45C heatwave ( www.theguardian.com )

Authorities advise parents to keep children indoors during extreme heatwave, expected to last two weeks...

Iceland volcanic eruption: barriers reinforced as lava flows towards town ( www.theguardian.com )

Flows pose danger to infrastructure in Grindavik, and hundreds of people are evacuated from nearby Blue Lagoon...

Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding ( www.theguardian.com )

After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and Afghanistan...

China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour ( www.theguardian.com )

Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online...

US marriages back to pre-pandemic levels while divorce rate falls ( www.theguardian.com )

2022 saw nearly 2.1m marriages, up slightly from 2019 – but still far below their height in 1946...

Judge denies Trump’s request to throw out classified documents case ( www.theguardian.com )

Aileen Cannon indicates that argument from ex-president’s attorneys that law is too vague is question for jury at trial...

UK air traffic control chaos made worse by remote working, review finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Engineers took 90 minutes to arrive after IT meltdown led to widespread grounding of flights last August...

Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti? ( www.theguardian.com )

Jimmy Chérizier says he is leading Haiti’s poor against corrupt government forces but experts point to a dark and violent past...

British soldiers ‘on the ground’ in Ukraine, says German military leak ( www.theguardian.com )

Kremlin claims audio of officers discussing UK help with missiles shows involvement of ‘collective west’...

EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming ( www.theguardian.com )

Penalty for breaching competition law is four times higher than forecast as Brussels looks to send message to tech firms...

Oversensitive and overreactive: what is nervous system dysregulation and how can it be resolved? ( www.theguardian.com )

The idea of nervous system regulation may be perplexing, but can it help with our mysterious and stubborn health problems?...

France makes abortion a constitutional right in historic Versailles vote ( www.theguardian.com )

Eiffel Tower lit up to mark change, seen as way of protecting law that decriminalised abortion in 1975...

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury ( www.theguardian.com )

Longtime associate of ex-president faces five months in jail after reaching agreement with New York prosecutors in fraud case...

‘It’s greed, that’s what it’s about’: documenting the UK’s cost of living crisis – photo essay ( www.theguardian.com )

Photographer Kirsty Mackay’s project The Magic Money Tree explores the impact of poverty in the Black Country, South Shields and Bristol...

Macron has fired his bazooka again – and Russia isn’t the only target ( www.theguardian.com )

Emmanuel Macron sure knows how to make a headline....

Single orca seen killing great white shark off South African coast ( www.theguardian.com )

Attack on juvenile is thought to be first known time a lone orca has hunted down a great white

Scientist fed classified information to China, says Canada intelligence report ( www.theguardian.com )

Report says Xiangguo Qiu secretly worked with Wuhan Institute for Virology and posed a ‘threat to Canada’s economic security’...

Calls for a global fund to tackle air pollution, killer of 7m a year ( www.theguardian.com )

Health campaigners are voicing concerns that the issue is being neglected – despite the devastating death toll around the world...

Alberta to ban renewables on ‘prime’ land and preserve ‘pristine viewscapes’ ( www.theguardian.com )

Decision by premier Danielle Smith further pits Canadian province against environmental groups pushing green energy...

‘Brain fog’ from long Covid has measurable impact, study suggests ( www.theguardian.com )

Researchers found that deficits equivalent to six IQ points were detectable a year or more after infection...

Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment ( www.theguardian.com )

Paul Edmonds of California is fifth-known person in world confirmed to be in remission from both, says cancer institute...

UK’s net zero economy grew 9% in 2023, report finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Green businesses and jobs are booming – in stark contrast to the national economy – but political U-turns risk future growth...

Putin had Navalny killed to thwart prisoner swap, allies claim ( www.theguardian.com )

Russian leader accused of ordering Navalny’s death to stop him being exchanged for FSB hitman serving life sentence in Germany...

Art shows the surreal reality of wartime Ukraine in a way the news never could ( www.theguardian.com )

Russia’s war against Ukraine has never been only about territory and artillery, about politicians and putative peace deals. Of course, that is the easiest and most acceptable register in which to consider unthinkable violence: as a geopolitical problem happening at a far distance. But Russia’s aggression is an event of...