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France braces for day of strikes amid political crisis
France  
France braces for day of strikes amid political crisis
About 800,000 people to demonstrate against budget plans, putting pressure on new prime minister
Trump UK visit  
Starmer banks on £150bn investment to placate critics of Trump state visit
US live  
Trump celebrates Jimmy Kimmel suspension; some networks replace show with Charlie Kirk tribute – live
EU  
European Commission calls for freezing of free trade with Israel over Gaza
Russia  
Widow of Alexei Navalny says lab tests confirm he was poisoned in prison
In focus
Superfans descend on Windsor to enliven Trump’s festival of nothing
Trump UK visit  
Superfans descend on Windsor to enliven Trump’s festival of nothing
With US president hidden from public view, media focuses instead on peripheral sideshow of clowns drawn by state visit
China  
China’s ‘temple economy’ in the spotlight as scandals rock influential religious leaders
Gaza  
‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo
Features
Relationships  
‘It was a bad dream – but I never woke up’: what it is like to lose your best friend
‘It was a bad dream – but I never woke up’: what it is like to lose your best friend
Film  
One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper
The long read
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
Cold war  
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence
 

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Opinion
France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now?
Rokhaya Diallo
France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now?
I know many are deeply opposed to Trump’s UK visit. But Keir Starmer doesn’t have that luxury
Martin Kettle
Sport
Champions League  
Simeone blames row with fan on ‘getting insulted all game’
Simeone blames row with fan on ‘getting insulted all game’
Champions League  
Kane double helps Bayern Munich spoil Chelsea’s return to elite
Champions League  
PSG thrash Atalanta, Thuram double earns Inter win at Ajax
Climate crisis
Inside the Guardian  
The Guardian climate pledge 2025
The Guardian climate pledge 2025
Extreme heat  
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Podcast
The downfall of Jair Bolsonaro – podcast
Today in Focus  
The downfall of Jair Bolsonaro – podcast
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been handed a 27-year sentence for an attempted coup – is there any way his political career can continue? Tom Phillips reports
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