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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 9 - Caught on Camera

Fifteen years ago on June 16, on a sunny June day in Switzerland, millions of domestic workers worldwide gained the recognition they had long deserved.

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The real roots of the violence in Belfast

Last week's violence in Northern Ireland, not really a "protest" but an organised pogrom, is being seized on by the British and international hard right as further evidence that "out-of-control immigration" is fuelling the justifiable anger of the beleaguered (and soon to be replaced) white majority. This is a steaming…

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Prime Minister Modi is rigging Indian democracy

India's citizens are witnessing a remarkable inversion of democracy: a government choosing its voters rather than the other way around. Even as public discontent grows across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has strengthened its grip on power by manipulating the electoral process itself. The…

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The Guardian view on defending Europe in a new era: collaboration is the key

Editorial: The recent abandonment of plans for a Franco-German fighter jet sent a disastrous signal. Strategic autonomy will be jointly achieved or not at all

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The Guardian view on the global baby bust: people are having fewer children – even where they say they want more

Editorial: Indian fertility has fallen below the rate required for population stability, in further evidence of the unexpectedly rapid decline in births internationally

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OPINION - I grew up in the age of the internet — I couldn’t survive social media as a teenager today

Even the way social media makes me, a woman with a fully developed frontal lobe, feel is too much to bear sometimes, writes Maddy Mussen

Evening Standard

What Jared and Ivanka want, Jared and Ivanka get? Not if Albania’s ‘flamingo revolution’ has any say in it

Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to block the Trump-Kushners’ plans to build on a nature reserve. But they’re not the only billionaires acting as if the whole world was for sale, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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The NDIS spent a year fighting our request to give our quadriplegic kid a wheelchair. Talk about wasteful

What’s frustrating about Labor’s budget cuts is that they imply disabled people are to blame for cost blowouts

The Guardian - AU

Even if Iran benefits from this deal with Washington, any peace is likely to be temporary

The regime has learned it must extract concessions rather than promises from the US, says Sina Toossi from the Center for International Policy

The Guardian - UK

Makerfield voters are giving Burnham the benefit of the doubt. If he fails, the consequences will be grave

Winning this byelection wouldn’t make Reform disappear. Would Burnham really have the courage needed to see them off in No 10, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

The Anthropic ‘Fable’ saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora’s box. What now?

We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it

The Guardian - US

I spent an evening with fans of Lotus Eaters – the hit podcast shaping Britain’s new far-right culture

At a sold-out show in its home town, Swindon, all the bombast and conviction driving this Restore-linked outlet was there to see, says journalist Oliver Haynes

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Brand Beckham always delivers with a PR opportunity. But Brooklyn’s turned up late, with the wrong order

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham appears in a new ad for DoorDash, just months after attacking the family brand’s love of self-promotion. Where will it all end, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Sadiq Khan: A decade after MP Jo Cox was murdered the winds of division continue to sweep Britain

With every passing year, the urgent need for greater civility, respect and understanding in our politics – and across our society – becomes more apparent

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I’ve found a way to get free ferries to France – and I can’t believe my luck

While taking the boat to Dunkirk, I stumbled upon a remarkable deal. I’ve barely been on dry land since, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - US

The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back

There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

The Guardian - US

The removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center is a much-needed act of iconoclasm

The desecration of a ruler’s symbols is among the oldest forms of political revolt

The Guardian - US

So is the US war with Iran over? In a word: no

The much-hyped deal, which is set to be formally signed on Friday in Geneva, doesn’t end the war. It’s essentially a 60-day extension of a ceasefire

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Can longevity be a political message? Decoding the politics of the PM@4399 celebrations

The BJP-led NDA’s celebration of Narendra Modi completing 12 uninterrupted years may prompt a question: what exactly is a governing party asking voters to think about when it asks them to see how long it has been in power?

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Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax isn’t far off Labour’s housing policy. Not that you’ll ever hear Starmer say it

The UK has its own progressive second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops, asks Anna Minton, a reader in architecture at the University of East London

The Guardian - UK

The old ‘warfare v welfare’ arguments are back – but it’s Britain’s real duty to spend on both

Slashing benefits in favour of defence will make millions less, not more, safe, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - AU

As One Nation surges in the polls, I’m so heartened by Australia’s love for Nestory Irankunda

We must remember he’s only 20 years old. It’s unfair to place the fate of multiculturalism on his shoulders

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'Let the oil flow!' Can US and Iran actually strike a lasting deal?

If Donald Trump calls it a peace deal, does that make it so? '"Let the oil flow," trumpeted the US president after agreeing on the day of his 80th birthday to a memorandum of understanding with Iran. Trump was quick to schedule a signing ceremony for this coming Friday in…

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Development banks must evolve

Multilateral development banks (MDBs), chief among them the World Bank, were established to provide capital to developing countries that couldn't raise it at home or on affordable terms abroad. For decades, they filled that gap. But as more countries move from low- to middle-income status (according to the World Bank's…

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Myanmar eyes Asean Summit spot

Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing is pressing ahead on two fronts simultaneously -- the battlefield and diplomacy. For the latter, the Myanmar president and former junta leader aims to secure a return to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fold by the next summit in November. Whether he succeeds…

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