Labour consider plan to release prisoners after 40% of sentence served ( www.theguardian.com )
French election: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third ( www.theguardian.com )
French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third ( www.theguardian.com )
Opinion: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? ( www.theguardian.com )
According to one journalist’s tally, the New York Times has run 192 stories on the subject since the debate, including 50 editorials and 142 news stories. The Washington Post, which has also gone for saturation coverage, published a resignation speech they wrote for him. Not to be outdone, the New Yorker’s editor-in-chief...
Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint ( www.theguardian.com )
Brazil’s ministry of foreign affairs has been forced to apologise to the embassies of Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers....
John Cena announces retirement from WWE wrestling ( www.theguardian.com )
HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election ( www.theguardian.com )
‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems ( www.theguardian.com )
Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century...
TV tonight: two new telly detectives are here to thrill crime drama fans ( www.theguardian.com )
The Turkish Detective is based on Barbara Nadel’s bestselling novels. Plus: the hippy days of Ibiza are brought back to life. Here’s what to watch this evening...
French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government ( www.theguardian.com )
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? ( www.theguardian.com )
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape ( www.theguardian.com )
The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )
Golden age for south-east Asian cinema as local films break box office records ( www.theguardian.com )
On social media videos, audiences throw packs of tissues around the cinema halls. Tearful TikToks from across Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore show friends leaving the cinema weeping. Thailand’s latest hit film, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, has reduced audiences across south-east Asia to tears –...
Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on ( www.theguardian.com )
Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers ( www.theguardian.com )
Tesla won’t free up use of its batteries, leaving owners unable to reap full benefits ( www.theguardian.com )
‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace ( www.theguardian.com )
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‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace ( www.theguardian.com )
The sewage crisis was a significant factor in the Tories’ losing support in the “blue wall” in the south of England, electoral polling suggests....
HMRC withheld offshore tax avoidance figures for UK’s wealthy during election ( www.theguardian.com )
Tax officials are under pressure this weekend to publish estimated figures on offshore tax avoidance by some of the country’s wealthiest individuals after withholding the information in a report published during the election campaign....
Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on ( www.theguardian.com )
Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco....
Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House ( www.theguardian.com )
Joe Biden’s doctor met with a leading Washington DC neurologist at the White House this year, it was reported on Saturday....
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour ( www.theguardian.com )
Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...