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2026-07-30 00:16:58 (2 weeks ago)

Some Northern Ireland Loyalists Embrace an Anti-Immigrant Ideology

Northern Ireland’s Protestant loyalists have long felt their identity was under siege. Now anti-immigrant ideology has found a new toehold here.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-07-30 00:13:54 (2 weeks ago)

UK slows AI data center roll-out over energy crunch

The UK’s energy regulator has proposed fees for AI data center developers to remove cull projects amid soaring electricity demand
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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:53 (2 weeks ago)

Burnham the crowd-pleaser knows how to make friends, but he’ll be defined by how he makes enemies | Andy Beckett

The prime minister’s instinct to not upset people is set against a lifelong desire to effect transformative change. The two may not sit together easily

Andy Burnham has always liked to be liked. Studying at secondary school near Liverpool in the 1980s, he writes in his autobiography and manifesto, Head North, “involved me walking something of a tightrope. Because of my mum and dad’s insistence that I should aim for university, I would largely try to keep up to date with my work. But … I realised I could often make the class laugh and that won me credit with the in-crowd. It was hard to be both a good student and one of the lads.”

As the new leader of a divided country, he is still trying to appeal to opposing interests while establishing his own, upbeat brand. “Let’s build a new national sense of unity, of common purpose and positivity,” he said in his first speech outside 10 Downing Street. After a post-Brexit decade dominated by angry rightwing politics, Labour infighting, never-ending culture wars and online acrimony, Burnham’s affable, seemingly inclusive politics has a strong initial appeal. This week, for the first time in 18 months, Labour is ahead of Reform UK in the polls. It’s possible that some voters have finally had enough of divisive politics and would like to try something different.

Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:52 (2 weeks ago)

‘It makes you feel you’ve got a really dirty house’: what’s behind the UK’s plagues of flies?

From Leicestershire to Carmarthenshire, neighbourhoods are struggling with wave after wave of houseflies. Why are they suffering while others are spared? And is there no alternative to nets and zappers?

Francesca Davies’s living room is absolutely teeming with flies. You can’t enter the contact centre worker’s home without a cluster of insects rising from the sofa or the floor to buzz around your face. Davies and her family live in West Heath, a suburb of the Cheshire town Congleton. Davies’s husband, Alex Andrew, a 29-year-old maintenance engineer, grew up in the market town and he used to think of West Heath as a desirable area, with its well-maintained houses and access to green space. When he and Davies were able to buy a new-build here in 2019 via a shared ownership scheme, they felt incredibly lucky. That is, until they moved in, and realised that every summer swarms of flies descend on their neighbourhood, an issue that is “getting worse”, Davies says.

At the moment, the 27-year-old swats flies out of her young daughters’ bedroom every night before she puts them to bed, and keeps doors and windows closed or covered with fly nets as much as possible. She and Andrew have even bought an industrial fly killer (like the ones often found in fish and chip shops) for their kitchen, as it is impossible to start cooking without attracting even more insects. The pair have become used to the sound of flies “getting zapped throughout the night”, Davies says.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:52 (2 weeks ago)

‘People say I’m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky’: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?

In a bold new production starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss, the NT is fusing Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. So what can two stories written 23 centuries apart tell us about how we live today?

In around 420BC, Sophocles staged Electra, in which the title character avenges the murder of her father by her mother, Clytemnestra. In 1966, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman premiered Persona, in which a psychiatric nurse, Alma, is caring for Elisabeth, an actor who has suffered a breakdown while playing Electra. These two dramas, written 23 centuries apart, are now sharing the stage in an alluring new National Theatre production.

In Electra/Persona, director Benedict Andrews has paired the stories before and after the interval, linked by a stunning coup de theatre at the end of the first half. “Persona is a pinnacle of modernist cinema and Bergman is a north star for me,” says Andrews. “I’ve long been fascinated by the impossibility – in a good way – of staging Persona, because it is so much about the camera and the silence and the closeup: the face as a terrain. And I was always fascinated by why Bergman chose to have Elisabeth break down while playing Electra, so I wanted to put them together. I think it’s become clear in rehearsal that the whole evening is one cycle of grief.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:52 (2 weeks ago)

Carmakers ‘delaying investment in UK factories until EV sales rules relaxed’

Industry wants mandate forcing manufacturers to sell increasing share of electric cars each year to be eased

Carmakers are delaying final decisions to invest in UK factories until electric car sales rules are relaxed, according to the head of the British car industry’s lobby group.

The chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Mike Hawes, said those with existing UK operations were considering building new models, but had held back so far.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:51 (2 weeks ago)

A rain festival with no rain: the Indian farmers bracing for a ‘super’ El Niño as monsoon arrives late

Raja is normally a celebration of the start of the monsoon, but in the eastern state of Odisha, the rains came so late the seeds were sown under clear skies

Kasturi Gamango and Pramila Sabar cannot contain their giggles as they explain one of the big attractions of the Raja festival, which they attended a few days earlier along with 20 other farmer families in Laxmipur, in Odisha’s Ganjam district.

“We do no work for three days during the festival,” they say. “Our husbands cook and clean while we enjoy our free time.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:51 (2 weeks ago)

Artists find creative haven in Côte d’Ivoire’s ‘calm and soothing’ Grand Bassam

Creatives priced out of Abidjan have breathed new life into a city that was hit by a jihadist attack in 2016

By the poolside of La Fourchette de Rōze hotel in Grand Bassam, a Côte d’Ivoire city sandwiched between the Ébrié lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean, a birthday party was in progress. On the second-floor gallery, the artist Nuits Balnéaires stood by a huge painting in one corner and looked out through the window towards the billowing waves of the Atlantic Ocean.

“It’s poetic … that immense energy of the ocean, which also fuels my work,” the Ivorian visual artist said. “The natural elements are the very essence and foundation of my artistic practice,” he added, as he reflected on the way in which his name, which translates as “coastal nights”, matched the ambience.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-30 00:00:45 (2 weeks ago)

Lindsay Clancy prosecutors ‘squeeze’ timeline from ex-husband as jury weighs ‘murder versus madness’: expert

Patrick Clancy's testimony reveals the timeline of texts, calls, and errands just before his three children were strangled in their Duxbury home.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-30 00:00:30 (2 weeks ago)

‘Like volcanic ash falling’: Inside Aeon mall after Japan’s earthquake

Japanese PM Takaichi says 'race against time' to rescue those trapped in the mall and others affected by the quake.

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-30 00:00:07 (2 weeks ago)

France's civil security fleet contends with chronic shortages and maintenance difficulties

Since the July 21 start of the Pontevès wildfire and the eve of the Gironde blaze, according to internal summaries from France's civil security agency reviewed by Le Monde, no more than eight of the country's 12 Canadair firefighting aircraft have been operational on the same day. Most often, that number is seven, and on the worst day, just five.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-29 23:56:07 (2 weeks ago)

US launches another round of attacks on Iran

Targets across southern Iran hit, including on strategic Qeshm Island.