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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:05 (6 days ago)

Andy Burnham urged to be radical on economy to help Labour win next election

Exclusive: Poll shows policies such as rent control and higher wealth taxes could fend off Reform UK in key seats

Andy Burnham is being urged to adopt an “economic populist” approach to combating the cost of living crisis if he becomes prime minister, as a detailed opinion poll shows radical policies could help Labour to retain its majority at the next election.

Senior figures advising the Makerfield MP have been circulating a seat-by-seat poll showing Labour’s majority could be demolished at the next general election with the party on course to win fewer than 100 seats.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:04 (6 days ago)

‘It’s peak tick season!’ Should Charli xcx really have been lolling around in long grass?

Harry Styles, Zoë Kravitz, Sarah Pidgeon … celebrities love stretching out on Britain’s lawns and meadows. But with the tick-borne Lyme disease on the rise, is it safe for any of us?

Do we need to worry about ticks in the UK? How serious are the risks associated with the diseases they can carry? Should we avoid rolling around in long grass à la Charli xcx in the video for her latest single, Wink Wink?

These are questions that have been circulating on social media this week, after the release of the pop star’s video, filmed in Essex, and sightings of celebrity couples Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles and Sarah Pidgeon and Joe Alwyn lounging in the long grass on Hampstead Heath in London.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:04 (6 days ago)

I visited seven themed bars in one week. Can ball pits and bingo save British nightlife?

While most hospitality venues are struggling, there has been an enormous rise in ‘competitive socialising’. But why? And could I find the answer while dressed in a prison jumpsuit and drinking a daiquiri?

British hospitality is in crisis. In the first quarter of 2026, three hospitality sites closed every day, while one in five remaining businesses fear collapse over the next year owing to rises in tax and employment costs. For those venues struggling to make ends meet in London in particular, there is the added worry of increasingly stringent licensing rules and influential lobby groups making once-thriving areas such as Soho a ghost town after 11pm.

And yet one hospitality niche seems to be bucking the trend: themed bars. Blending booze with, say, axe-throwing, darts, immersive theatre or adult-sized ball pits, these experiential venues have seen a boom in recent years. A report from Savills estate agents found a 58% increase in “competitive socialising” venue openings in 2025 compared with 2018, while another survey found one in three adults had visited one of these venues in the UK in 2024-25. Photo-friendly interiors have made many of them a hit on social media, too.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:03 (6 days ago)

Valuable Spanish painting left on street salvaged by man who liked its frame

Andrés Hurtado found work by Joaquín Sorolla after its owners mislaid it, before responding to theft alert

The mystery of a small and very valuable picture by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla that vanished over the weekend has been solved after a man told police he had mistaken the painting for junk when he found it on a Seville street but rescued it because he liked the frame.

Rather than being entranced by the painting’s subject matter – two boats off a beach – Andrés Hurtado was instead captivated by its handsome gold frame.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:03 (6 days ago)

‘Techno in a monastery – are you ready?’ The Greek priest whose doom metal album is the year’s hippest record

His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin

‘The guitar was made by God,” says Father Dionysios Tabakis, sitting in the living room of his flat in Nafplio, a city on Greece’s Peloponnesian coast, surrounded by a huge assortment of musical instruments and religious icons. Dressed in long black robes and sporting a fine grey wispy beard, Tabakis sounds as if he could be speaking from the pulpit when he adds: “The devil cannot create something. God has created all.”

His favourite is an adapted Harley Benton R-457. Bought for only €135, it’s a striking electric guitar, yielding chords that are more wobbly and atonal than those of an ordinary guitar, but also warmer. Tabakis likens the sound to the “waves” of the human voice.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:03 (6 days ago)

My mother has died and I can mourn her. That makes me one of the fortunate | Shada Islam

Grief is universal, but being able to mourn is a privilege. For those dying in wars from Gaza to Sudan, there is no shroud, no grave, no funeral

It was the early-morning phone call that so many of us dread. My mother was in the emergency ward of her local hospital. She was struggling to breathe. I went into automatic mode, booking the first available flight to Karachi. I threw clothes into a bag, grabbed my passport and headed for Brussels airport with a heavy heart.

Only 12 hours earlier, we had spoken on the phone. It was my birthday. She was her usual cheerful self, her signature laugh ringing out as she regaled me with stories from my childhood. She asked about my granddaughter – her great-granddaughter, whom she adored – and wanted to know what I was working on and where I planned to travel next.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-02 00:00:02 (6 days ago)

‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages

The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

The physical fact of my abortion caught me off guard. I had been so accustomed to defending abortion as an abstract right – as a right to privacy, to healthcare, to autonomy – that when it came to having one, I was surprised by the brutality of it. Fasting for hours before. Clammy and light-headed, my hands freezing and damp, in the clinic waiting room. Waves of contracting pain afterwards, the blood and the vomit from the anaesthesia, the days of cramping and bleeding. Soaking through pads. Cold sweat. I thought having an abortion would feel like the exercise of the hard-won autonomy of generations of feminists before me. But mostly it just hurt.

What do you do with the brute fact of pain? Of what Annie Ernaux describes, writing about her own abortion before legalisation in France, as an experience that sweeps through the body? I could not translate it easily into a feminist politics, into a slogan, into something I could shout or wanted to shout. It did not feel like the exercise of bodily autonomy; it did not feel like a choice, though of course, in some formal and factual way, I did choose to have an abortion. It’s just that the choice seemed to be the least important and least interesting part of the whole experience, totally unmemorable when it came up against the violence and urgency of the body, reeling and revolting against the sudden transformation from pregnancy to unpregnancy. Nor did the sensations of aborting feel like the making of an abortion story, like the raw material for an anecdote that could be compressed and publicised on social media, piled up with the others to make some kind of aggrieved claim. There was no real plot – but feeling.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-01 23:58:07 (6 days ago)

US designates Ecuador’s Chone Killers gang as ‘terrorist’ organisation

Ecuador's government praises the US for backing President Noboa's campaign to dismantle gang-crime networks.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-01 23:57:59 (6 days ago)

Venezuela faces post-quake medical crisis as threat of infections looms

Doctors said Wednesday they feared the aftermath of Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes could trigger a widening medical crisis marked by untreated injuries, infectious diseases and a healthcare system already on the brink. Thousands of displaced Venezuelans are sleeping in crowded shelters or outside without access to clean water amid dismal sanitary conditions following the June 24 earthquakes which officials say killed at least 2,295 and left more than 11,000 injured. Aid workers said...

Globo News - Mundo

2026-07-01 23:57:13 (6 days ago)

Rússia lança ataque em grande escala contra Kiev; bombardeio deixa mortos e dezenas de feridos

Rússia lança ataque em grande escala contra Kiev A Rússia lançou um ataque em grande escala contra Kiev com mísseis balísticos, de cruzeiro e drones durante a madrugada desta quinta-feira (2). O bombardeio, descrito pelas autoridades locais como um "furioso ataque inimigo", causou fortes explosões, sacudiu a capital da Ucrânia por horas e deixou um rastro de destruição que afetou todos os 10 distritos da cidade, em ambos os lados do rio Dnipro. Há divergências iniciais entre os balanços de vítimas divulgados pelas autoridades locais. Tymur Tkachenko, chefe da Administração Militar da Cidade de Kiev, informou que o ataque deixou dez mortos e danificou cerca de três dezenas de locais na capital. O prefeito de Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, informou separadamente que há pelo menos 34 feridos. Entre as vítimas estão paramédicos e motoristas de uma estação de ambulâncias. O presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, já havia emitido alertas prévios sobre a possibilidade do bombardeio e informou que encurtou sua visita a Dublin, na Irlanda, onde acompanharia o início do mandato de seis meses do país na presidência rotativa da União Europeia. Muitos moradores, carregando crianças, pertences, barracas e animais de estimação, buscaram abrigo em estações de metrô subterrâneas após os primeiros alarmes. Os alertas de ataque aéreo foram emitidos para a maior parte do território da Ucrânia no que já é considerado o pior ataque russo ao país desde meados de junho. "Outra noite terrível para os moradores da cidade, que foram forçados a passá-la em abrigos", publicou Olha Stefanishyna, embaixadora da Ucrânia nos Estados Unidos, na rede social X. Uma mulher observa um prédio de apartamentos em chamas após um ataque de míssil russo em Kiev, Ucrânia, na quinta-feira, 2 de julho de 2026. Danylo Antoniuk / AP Devido à gravidade da ofensiva, a vizinha Polônia, membro da Otan e da União Europeia, chegou a enviar caças a jato temporariamente como medida preventiva, mas as aeronaves retornaram após constatar que não houve violação do espaço aéreo. A Finlândia, que também integra a Otan e o bloco europeu, impôs uma restrição temporária de aviação na região oriental do Golfo da Finlândia, levantada posteriormente. Prédios destruídos e pessoas sob escombros Os relatos oficiais apontam para graves danos estruturais em áreas residenciais de Kiev. No distrito de Desnianskyi, um edifício residencial de nove andares foi parcialmente destruído, e do primeiro ao sexto andar desabaram após um impacto direto, deixando moradores presos nos escombros. Incêndios também foram registrados nos distritos de Sviatoshynskyi e Darnytskyi, onde equipes de resgate atuam para retirar pessoas presas sob os destroços de habitações. No distrito de Holosiivskyi, o fogo atingiu o telhado de um prédio de vários andares. Chamas também consumiram o topo de um edifício no central Boulevard Shevchenko e atingiram áreas próximas a residências no distrito de Pecherskyi, além de um prédio administrativo em Solomianskyi. Danos também foram confirmados nos distritos de Obolonskyi e Podilskyi. No distrito de Shevchenkivskyi, cinco pessoas ficaram feridas, incluindo um paramédico que se encontra em estado extremamente crítico. Contexto e troca de ataques Bombeiros trabalham no local de um prédio de apartamentos danificado durante um ataque com mísseis e drones russos, em meio ao ataque da Rússia à Ucrânia, em Kiev, Ucrânia, em 2 de julho de 2026. Stringer / Reuters A intensificação das investidas russas contra a capital ucraniana ocorre paralelamente ao avanço de uma campanha de drones de longo alcance promovida pela Ucrânia em território russo. Os alvos ucranianos têm sido instalações militares e de energia da Rússia. As ações ucranianas atingiram províncias profundas no território vizinho, desencadeando uma crise generalizada de combustível na Rússia — o terceiro maior produtor de petróleo do mundo — e forçando o país a importar gasolina de locais distantes, como a Índia. Nesta quinta-feira, o governador da região de Leningrado, Alexander Drozdenko, afirmou no Telegram que as forças russas derrubaram sete drones ucranianos na área, que abriga grandes instalações de refino e exportação de óleo. Já na região de Belgorod, que faz fronteira com a Ucrânia, autoridades locais relataram que um ataque de drone atingiu uma residência, matando um homem e deixando sua esposa ferida. Tanto a Rússia quanto a Ucrânia afirmam que não têm civis como alvos deliberados em suas operações. Recentemente, Zelenskyy propôs a abertura de negociações com o presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, para encerrar a guerra que já dura mais de quatro anos, mas a proposta foi rejeitada pelo líder do Kremlin. *Com informações da Reuters e AP.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-01 23:51:47 (6 days ago)

Trace Gallagher: This debate is not about who you are… it's about what you did

The ‘Common Sense’ Department thinks the way California state lawmakers make laws — or, in some cases, fail to make them — is baffling.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-01 23:50:25 (6 days ago)

California homeowners allege HOA threatened them with fines over US flag

California homeowners Amy and Chris Cooke discuss their homeowners association allegedly threatening them with fines over displaying a U.S. flag on ‘Fox News @ Night.’