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• Over a dozen Muslim imams from Europe met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog
• Unite's dirty war on Angela Rayner
• Macron’s swipe at Brexit was an outrage against diplomacy
• We’ve become inured to Trump’s outbursts – but when he goes quiet, we need to be worried | Jonathan Freedland
• Starmer had a chance to thwart the smuggling gangs – with ‘one in, one out’, he has bottled it | Diane Taylor
• Australia’s current childcare funding model risks failing our most precious people | Zoe Daniel
• Britain faces another showdown with the bond market
• A rightwing minister told Sweden to get tough on crime – until his own son was caught in a Nazi scandal | Martin Gelin
• Reeves’s tears and standing room only for Macron’s Westminster speech | John Crace
• Queen Ursula survives -- barely
• Australia must combat antisemitism, but not simply defer to demands of some voices | Ben Saul
• Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich to help the poor? | Andy Beckett
• Israel launched the world’s first-ever attack against an advanced, multilayered, and well-protected nuclear program
• In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims
• Welcome to Prime Day, when thousands of product thumbnails blur together to form a giant pile of garbage | Anna Spargo-Ryan
• Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic
• Trump's Plan to Impose 50% Tariffs On Brazil Highlights Illegal and Harmful Nature of his Trade Policy
• The sinking of two ships signals a resumption of attacks by the Houthis
• This migration deal shows what a sap Starmer is
• Why are U.S. companies and consumers being punished for Trump's "witch hunt" in Brazil?
• With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Can the Green party ever work with Jeremy Corbyn?
• How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
• Keir Starmer will not learn from this crisis
• The state has assumed total control over our children
• The U.S. is imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council rapporteur Francesca Albanese over a 'campaign of political and economic warfare' against the U.S. and Israel
• Hamas agrees to release 10 hostages as part of ongoing ceasefire talks
• Gen Z ‘Gig Workers’ For Russian-Backed Group Convicted of Arson
• Tibet still holds the queen on the geopolitical chessboard
• We Promoted Democracy by Building Playgrounds in Colombia 15 Years Ago
• An apology opens a way to national healing
• A wind turbine in every garden? Ed Miliband has lost the plot
• Trump tells West African leaders he'd like to visit Africa 'at some point'
• Trump to host summit of African nations in 2025 - Africa Report
• U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent to skip G20 finance meeting in South Africa
• Macron and Starmer are already yesterday’s men
• The rise of Britain’s radical right
• Henley Regatta’s parade of manners
• Trump says he will deliver more tariffs on unnamed countries on Wednesday
• From the archive: Enoch and after
• How to organise a government rebellion
• A Lords’ last supper for hereditary peers
• Letter of the week: The privilege of paying tax
• Norman Tebbit and the pull of working-class Toryism
• Why has Latin American shifted to the right? | Ernesto Samper Pizano
• Zohran Mamdani: The Beguiling Bolshevik Who Played the Race Card with College Admissions
• If ministers want to see how welfare reform can be done, come see us in Greater Manchester | Andy Burnham
• This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones
• Macron and Starmer talk Trump, boats and Ukraine – but Brexit is the ghost at the banquet | Rafael Behr
• From 7/7 to 7 October: jihadism still stalks Britain
• Britain is growing old disgracefully
• Keir Starmer has time to turn this around
• Immigrants did not cause Britain’s social housing shortage
• Attacks in Melbourne have struck fear into the Jewish community, and do nothing to bring about peace | Josh Burns
• Ravensbrck was the largest concentration camp for women in the Third Reich
• Von der Leyen’s Moment of Truth
• Trump says ceasefire deal in Gaza could be reached by end of week
• Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead | Marina Hyde
• New Report Exposes Brutal Hamas Atrocities Against Israeli Women
• Heard the one about Rod Liddle and the police state?
• EXCLUSIVE: Sultana’s big launch didn’t quite go to plan. What happens now?
• Macron will enjoy his royal welcome. But the Franco-British relationship remains a love-hate affair | Paul Taylor
• Germanyâs Pension Ponzi on the Brink
• Why is Qatar so prominently involved in the Middle East peace process?
• Four staff members of satirical magazine LeMan arrested in Turkey over controversial cartoon
• Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro
• Here are 5 common mistakes journalists make when it comes to digital security
• Don’t tell Emmanuel Macron – but he’s a normal politician now
• Why the public will keep gambling on Nigel Farage
• Are we entering a new era of left-wing infighting?
• On what planet is the BBC pro-Israel?
• Germany is ‘importing’ antisemitism, our leaders claim. Irony is not their strong point | Mithu Sanyal
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize
• Prominent West Bank Sheikh Faces Violent Threats After Proposing Peace With Israel
• Trump announces 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea
• No, British Muslims were not the ‘real victims’ of 7/7
• Trump announces 25 percent tariffs on all exports from Japan and South Korea
• 7/7 and the refusal to confront Islamist terror
• Trump backs Brazil's former president on trial over alleged coup plot
• Milei Defies Critics, Working Economic Miracles In Argentina
• These words of defiant unity followed the horror of the 7/7 bombings. Imagine what we would hear today instead | Hugh Muir
• Bessent Promises ‘Several’ Trade Announcements Over ‘The Next 48 Hours’
• China sent 132 aircraft to operate around Taiwan in the week following Lai’s speech
• 38 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza as Netanyahu prepares to travel to Washington for talks with Trump
• Here's what to watch as Netanyahu meets with Trump
• Trump says there will be no exceptions to the anti-U.S. policies of BRICS countries
• When Israel Attacks Gaza, These People Run to Save Lives
• No one wants to pay to fix Britain
• Politicians are retreating from net zero because they think the public doesn’t care. But they’re wrong | Rebecca Willis
• After disability benefits, is Labour really about to target the educational rights of special needs children? | John Harris
• The decline in support for Labour over the last 12 months has been unprecedented
• How the media echoes Hamas propaganda
• A Big, Beautiful Financial Weapon Against Illegal Immigration
• Labour needs to take the radical left seriously
• London 7/7: the atrocity we don’t talk about
• Liz Truss is long gone – but her fiscal meltdown still dictates every step Labour makes | Max Mosley
• The spirit of the G8 ‘make poverty history’ summit of 2005 seems long gone | Heather Stewart
• Pat Lochridge, one of the first women hired by CBS Radio, was the only female reporter to cover both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of World War II
• How universities went to war with biological facts
• The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it? | Simon Tisdall