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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 10:00:43 (1 week ago)

Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup

The 51st edition of the Canadian festival will also feature world premieres starring Taron Egerton, Amanda Seyfried and Chase Infiniti

World premieres of films led by Helen Mirren, Seth Rogen and Chris Rock lead the lineup for this year’s Toronto film festival.

The September festival, taking place after the Venice film festival, has previously seen the premieres of Oscar-winning movies such as Green Book, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Still Alice, Dallas Buyers Club and Silver Linings Playbook.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 10:00:43 (1 week ago)

Louisiana communities are left in the dark on toxic air – and industry helped keep it that way

Lawmakers weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back against greater scrutiny

Kimbrelle Kyereh lives just a few hundred feet from the massive chemical storage tanks in St Rose, in south-eastern Louisiana. Oily fumes sometimes drift into her home, bringing headaches, nausea and insomnia. On one such night, she grabbed her son at 3am and fled to an all-night Ihop.

In 2023, after years of coping with the noxious odors, Kyereh began collecting air samples in her yard for a local environmental justice group. But soon after, Louisiana passed an industry-backed law that sharply restricted how that kind of data could be used.

Ten of Louisiana’s heaviest air-polluting facilities, based on self-reported data shared with the EPA, operate without a single public air monitor within five miles.

This list includes Dow Chemical’s plastics factory in Plaquemine, which is about eight miles from the nearest air monitoring station. The station measures only ozone even though the plant releases an array of toxic pollutants including ethylene oxide, a known carcinogen.

No public monitors measure ammonia – despite the fact that CF Industries’ Donaldsonville plant emits more than 7m lb of the hazardous chemical each year, according to EPA data.

The three chemicals that researchers have concluded “together account for the large majority of total cancer risk” in the area – ethylene oxide, chloroprene and formaldehyde – aren’t monitored by the state at all.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 10:00:42 (1 week ago)

Melvine Malard hungry for trophies after joining Chelsea from Manchester United

• United get club-record fee of about £850,000 for forward

• Malard follows McCabe and Matsukubo into Chelsea

Chelsea have announced the signing of the France forward Melvine Malard from Manchester United on a four-year contract. The Guardian revealed last week that a deal was close for the 26-year-old, who has left United after three seasons for about £850,000.

Malard had one year on her contract and United were keen to keep the forward. However, once it became clear Malard wanted a move United decided to sell rather than lose a high-value player on a free next summer.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-20 10:00:18 (1 week ago)

Can Europe win a trade war with China? It may depend on how victory is defined

As trade tensions with China reach boiling point, EU officials are ramping up engagement with Beijing in search of an off-ramp. Quietly behind the scenes, though, Europe is preparing for a trade war. In Brussels, a steely determination has set in to ensure the bloc’s manufacturing heartlands are not deindustrialised by the “China Shock 2.0”. With some industries already haemorrhaging jobs, the EU’s resilience-building and de-risking plans are now laced with deterrents as Brussels looks to...

Globo News - Mundo

2026-07-20 09:59:34 (1 week ago)

Nico Williams, estrela da seleção espanhola, entrega medalha da Copa à mãe, ganesa que cruzou o Saara e chegou a nado à Espanha

Nico Williams, à esquerda, dança com Lamine Yamal, também filho de imigrantes. Os dois se tornaram duas das estrelas da seleção espanhola Reuters Logo após a cerimônia de entrega de medalhas aos vencedores da Copa do Mundo, o jogador Nico Williams, da seleção espanhola, abandonou a comemoração com os colegas de equipe. Em vez disso, ele caminhou até a arquibancada e entregou a medalha à mãe, uma imigrante de Gana. A homenagem, segundo explicou o atleta depois, foi uma forma de reconhecer o esforço de sua mãe, que, há duas décadas, decidiu cruzar o deserto do Saara, o maior deserto quente do mundo, e cruzar o mar Mediterrâneo para chegar a nado na mesma Espanha que no domingo (19) seu filho ajudou a ser campeã do mundo novamente. Em uma entrevista à revista espanhola "Esquirre", Williams contou que a mãe cruzou o deserto a pé. “Minha mãe sofreu muito. Andar pelo deserto descalça, muitas coisas que eu não desejaria a ninguém. No fim, ninguém vem para a Espanha para roubar ninguém (...) Meus pais para mim são heróis, vieram aqui para trabalhar, não para tirar nada de ninguém, mas para ser mais um e se integrar". Bicampeã: Espanha domina a Argentina e conquista a Copa pela segunda vez Esta reportagem está em atualização.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-20 09:56:58 (1 week ago)

Petro to give farewell speech amid Colombia transfer-of-power tensions

The outgoing president has called for protests as he continues to dispute the results of last month's election.

Le Monde - World News

2026-07-20 09:56:51 (1 week ago)

European Commission imposes record €550 million fine on AliExpress

The Chinese e-commerce platform failed to meet its obligations to stop the sale of illegal products. After sanctions against the social media platform X and the online marketplace Temu, this is the third penalty the EU has imposed in under a year.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-20 09:56:51 (1 week ago)

Australia sees family time increase following social media ban for kids

Social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt discusses Australia's youth social media ban, highlighting the removal of 4.7 million underage accounts and weighing in on new research linking the restrictions to improved teen well-being.

France 24 - World News

2026-07-20 09:55:20 (1 week ago)

After getting a new PM, the UK waits for his government and first policies

Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has become the UK's new prime minister, the seventh in a decade, following Keir Starmer's resignation on July 20. In his first speech, he has vowed to start a ten-year plan for Britain. His government and his first policies will quickly be announced. FRANCE 24's Benedicte Paviot tells us more.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 09:55:15 (1 week ago)

Tuchel is clinging to an outdated English style – he must let players take risks | Jacob Steinberg

Head coach should ditch a physical approach that has rarely worked and embrace England’s gifted ball players

Only England can claim the bronze medal at the World Cup by beating France in a 10-goal thriller and end up even more annoyed with the manager. Yet emotions are still running high after the collapse against Argentina last week and it is going to take more than winning a game low on jeopardy for the criticism of Thomas Tuchel to die down.

Hiring Tuchel was centred around the promise that he would make the difference in the big games. When that fell down, all that was left was anger. It exposed the core emptiness of the appointment, of a rich federation covering up the flaws in its coaching development by trying to game the system by throwing money at an expensive outsider.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-20 09:52:15 (1 week ago)

Andy Burnham becomes 7th UK PM in a decade, is expected to take tougher stance on Israel

Taking reins of unpopular governing Labour party from Keir Starmer, in a Britain with anemic economic growth, ex-Manchester mayor pledges to tackle high cost of living ahead of new 10-year-plan

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-20 09:51:42 (1 week ago)

‘My shirt was wringing’: National Express bus drivers speak out on 40C conditions

Drivers in West Midlands say buses ‘unbearable’ during heatwaves, raising employee and passenger safety fears

Bus drivers in the West Midlands have spoken out about the “horrendous” working conditions they have experienced during heatwaves, which led to 40C temperatures in their cabs.

The UK was hit by high temperatures and dry weather in three successive heatwaves, with temperatures topping 37C last month when the country recorded its hottest ever June day. Last week, the Met Office warned climate extremes were becoming the “new ‘normal’ for the UK”.