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After the fall
The Guardian Weekly

After the fall

He was known for taboobusting, transgressive stories about identity, sexuality and belonging. Then Hanif Kureishi broke his neck. Despite a lifechanging injury, he's still every bit as provocative

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October 18, 2024
Province's blueprint for sharing land with First Nations
The Guardian Weekly

Province's blueprint for sharing land with First Nations

An experiment is under way in British Columbia, Canada's westernmost province: the government is rewriting its laws to share power with Indigenous nations over a land base bigger than France and Germany combined.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
True superstar Nadal calling time on career brings an end to golden era
The Guardian Weekly

True superstar Nadal calling time on career brings an end to golden era

There are some moments in sport that stand above all others. For Rafael Nadal, that moment came in the early evening at Wimbledon in 2008.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that
The Guardian Weekly

Play chess against Mo Salah? I would love that

The football-mad world No 1 on the players he'd like to face, why he feels he has never played the perfect gameand his retirement plans

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5 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Addis adagio Pianist plays a key role in musical adventure
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Addis adagio Pianist plays a key role in musical adventure

Girma Yifrashewa will never forget the exhilaration of getting his own piano - a surprise gift.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
'Coolest job on earth': new team for penguin post office
The Guardian Weekly

'Coolest job on earth': new team for penguin post office

As a \"tent master\", whose work involves building big tops at music festivals, George Clarke has never run a post office- and certainly never counted penguins for a living.

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2 mins  |
October 18, 2024
A children's hospital with its own healing properties
The Guardian Weekly

A children's hospital with its own healing properties

From patient 'cottages' to walls designed for scribbling on, the Kinderspital in Zurich is a child-friendly miracle

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4 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Road to recovery Reeling Florida counts the cost of double hurricane strike
The Guardian Weekly

Road to recovery Reeling Florida counts the cost of double hurricane strike

More than just clouds were swirling when a tropical disturbance that would become Hurricane Milton formed in the south-western Gulf of Mexico, beginning its inexorable advance towards a strike on Florida's west coast.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Forecasters targeted as conspiracy theories swirl
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Forecasters targeted as conspiracy theories swirl

Meteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton were targeted by a deluge of conspiracy theories that they were controlling the weather, abuse and even death threats, amid what they say is an unprecedented surge in misinformation as two major hurricanes hit the US.

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2 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Tributes paid to ex-Scottish first minister Alex Salmond
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Tributes paid to ex-Scottish first minister Alex Salmond

Scotland's first minister John Swinney paid tribute to Alex Salmond's \"colossal contribution\" to Scottish and UK politics, as allies mourned his sudden death last Saturday, at the age of 69.

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2 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Labour pledges have left chancellor boxed in for budget
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Labour pledges have left chancellor boxed in for budget

Frustration grows among ministers forced to delay plans until after Rachel Reeves speech

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4 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Ballot boxing Stage set for a battle of the political dynasties
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Ballot boxing Stage set for a battle of the political dynasties

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, 79, returned to politics last week when he registered to run as mayor in his family's stronghold, Davao city.

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2 mins  |
October 18, 2024
How the Kremlin is trying to hijack an EU referendum
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How the Kremlin is trying to hijack an EU referendum

Last spring, customs officers in the tiny nation of Moldova struck gold.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
Fear of being forgotten Despair in Gaza as focus shifts away
The Guardian Weekly

Fear of being forgotten Despair in Gaza as focus shifts away

As Israeli bombs began to fall across Lebanon, the scenes of bloodshed and chaos were grimly familiar to the people of Gaza. Mai al-Afifa, 24, was teaching a workshop about how to identify unexploded ordnance in a school turned shelter in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah last Thursday when an Israeli missile hit the next building in the compound.

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3 mins  |
October 18, 2024
"They take care of us' Shias put their faith in Hezbollah
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"They take care of us' Shias put their faith in Hezbollah

When the Sabra family fled bombardments in Israeli the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun for Beirut's southern suburbs in October last year, a monthly stipend in dollars from Hezbollah meant they did not fear going hungry.

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4 mins  |
October 18, 2024
You gotta let people know who you are' On the campaign trail with Kamala Harris
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You gotta let people know who you are' On the campaign trail with Kamala Harris

With election day closing in, the Democratic nominee launched an intense drive to tell her story in her quest for the presidency. David Smith joined her on Air Force Two

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9 mins  |
October 18, 2024
The erosion of Britain's history has nothing to do with statues
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The erosion of Britain's history has nothing to do with statues

The People's Story Museum in Edinburgh is a part of the city's cultural fabric whose name says it all: a museum and archive, opened in 1989 and located in the 16th-century Canongate Tolbooth, that takes in just about every aspect of working-class life in the Scottish capital from the 18th century to the late 20th century. Its exhibits include recreations of a bookbinder's workshop, a wartime kitchen and a jail cell; the artefacts it looks after span work, leisure, politics, protest and more.

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3 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Bullet from the blue: Six decades of Japan's wonder train
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Bullet from the blue: Six decades of Japan's wonder train

At 6am on 1 October 1964, two trains set off in opposite directions in a daring experiment that would turn them into symbols of Japan's transformation from militarist pariah to global economic powerhouse.

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3 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Employees hit back over long-hours corporate culture
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Employees hit back over long-hours corporate culture

For the average Indian, the working week is now longer than ever - totalling almost 47 hours.

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October 11, 2024
Lucky numbers? The secrets of serendipity
The Guardian Weekly

Lucky numbers? The secrets of serendipity

Luck is often framed in terms of things that happen in our livesbut perhaps we should feel most fortunate for the fact we're here at all

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4 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Defensive bastion of Vuhledar falls to Russia
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Defensive bastion of Vuhledar falls to Russia

Ukraine has said that its forces have withdrawn from the eastern city of Vuhledar, a defensive bastion that had resisted repeated attacks since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion.

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2 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Divided opposition rocked by Navalny ally attack claim
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Divided opposition rocked by Navalny ally attack claim

When Leonid Volkov, a longtime associate of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was brutally attacked with a hammer outside his home in Lithuania in March, it initially seemed yet another case of the Kremlin hunting down its enemies abroad.

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October 11, 2024
White House blasts false claims about deadly storm
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White House blasts false claims about deadly storm

The White House moved last weekend to quash claims that government officials control the weather, including a far-fetched rumour circulating on social media that Hurricane Helene was an engineered storm to allow corporations to mine lithium deposits.

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October 11, 2024
Residents pick up the pieces after hurricane devastation
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Residents pick up the pieces after hurricane devastation

After keeping vigil all night, Fesperman, 32, Jason decided it was finally safe to sleep. By 6am on Friday 27 September, he figured the worst of the rain from Hurricane Helene had passed. Jonathan Creek, the normally ankle-deep stream that runs through his backyard in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, had stayed within its banks.

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5 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Short-term gains: Lack of vision in multi-fronted war may be fatally exposed
The Guardian Weekly

Short-term gains: Lack of vision in multi-fronted war may be fatally exposed

As Israelis approached the holy days of Rosh Hashanah last week, the news began to circulate. IDF units fighting on the border with Lebanon had taken casualties.

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3 mins  |
October 11, 2024
I'm bracing for the worst'?
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I'm bracing for the worst'?

Beirut's youth adjust to an emptied city

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3 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Grief and pain amid the echoes of Israel's 'war of resurrection'
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Grief and pain amid the echoes of Israel's 'war of resurrection'

Crowds gathered at the site of the Nova festival and across Israel to mourn victims of the 7 October Hamas attack, even as new fears grew of a spiralling regional conflict

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4 mins  |
October 11, 2024
The war will not end until Israel sees the cost of its destruction
The Guardian Weekly

The war will not end until Israel sees the cost of its destruction

AT THE START OF ISRAEL'S WAR on Gaza, when the intensive bombing of civilians began, the thought in my mind was: how will we Palestinians live with the Israelis after this? A year later, the question has only become more pertinent.

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3 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Israel-Gaza One year on: A chasm between viewpoints
The Guardian Weekly

Israel-Gaza One year on: A chasm between viewpoints

YOU'LL BE AHEAD OF ME ON THIS ONE. By the time you read this, it's possible that Israel will have hit back in response to the ballistic missiles that Iran fired on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities last Tuesday. As I write, the world is bracing itself for that expected Israeli retaliation and what threatens to be an all-out regional war, pitting the Middle East's dominant powers against each other.

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6 mins  |
October 11, 2024
Secular elite question their place in Israel's future
The Guardian Weekly

Secular elite question their place in Israel's future

Conflict accelerates a brain drain of liberals uneasy over the rise of religious influence

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4 mins  |
October 11, 2024