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The Observer
The vote was won but the debate on 'deeply flawed' assisted dying bill is far from over
The assisted dying bill may have passed in the House of Commons last week, with Kim Leadbeater, the MP who introduced it, saying she hopes it could have royal assent by October.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Bailed Kneecap face mixed messages before Glasto gig
Billboards, fly posters, T-shirts — nothing unusual outside a music venue.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
KKR's bid for NHS landlord exposes City's vulnerability
Private equity's battle to aquire Assura is the latest example of companies snapping up discounts on the UK stock exchange
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Israeli hackers steal $90m Iranian crypto – and 'burn' it
A group of pro-Israel hackers known as Predatory Sparrow targeted Iran's largest crypto exchange last Wednesday, stealing roughly $90m (£67m). Then they did something extraordinary: rather than keep the money, in effect they destroyed it. Blockchain analysis shows the $90m was transferred to wallets that can never be accessed because no one holds the keys.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
How I discovered the missing children that Ireland tried to forget
For more than a decade Catherine Corless defied ridicule and disbelief in her search for the shocking truth of what happened at Tuam's mother and baby home
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Clock ticks on RedBird deal to take ownership of Telegraph
The newspaper group seemed to heave a sigh of relief that its search for an owner was over, but Westminster's concerns about who has control is holding up proceeedings, writes Jane Martinson
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Super-rich exit, but London's still on the money for culture
Once completed later this summer, the Lucan, a block of 31 flats in Chelsea, will be one of London’s most opulent addresses - and its penthouse, priced at £19.5m, will be the jewel in the crown. It is more than 3,200 sq ft and its buyer will benefit from “exclusive experiences such as private dining and personal shopping”.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Alfred Brendel
Piano virtuoso who felt silence was important in music and comically chided coughers and sneezers
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Orbán's challenger hopes that Pride will come before a strongman's fall. He just can't say so...
Hungary's opposition leader can't speak out in favour of the banned Budapest march for fear of losing votes when he tries to break the right's 15-year grip next year
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
What about tax breaks for investing in UK plc too?
There isn’t any reliable evidence on whether former non-doms are leaving.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Meghan in the pink with launch of her own celebrity rosé
A rosé by any other name would smell as sweet. Or would it? The Duchess of Sussex has become the latest celebrity to smell the aroma of peach, strawberry, lychee - and the money and launch her own pink wine.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
I had an abortion at 23 and still grieve. I can't celebrate this change to the law
This week's vote allows pregnancy terminations without limits. Freedom has consequences - I wish it had been done with more regret
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Here's how to to make the wealthy pay
The chancellor's looming U-turn on inheritance tax reform isn’t merely an embarrassing retreat - it exposes a government constrained by its own limited imagination.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Despair of families watching attacks on Gaza food aid sites
The attack began at 9pm last Thursday. Ibrahim al-Qattrawi pushed his face into the dirt, waiting for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) food distribution point to open, while Israeli quadcopters circled overhead. Bullets and artillery shells tore through the air around him.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
This scandal has played out on social media as much as in the Commons and courts
It was in the wood-panelled halls of the House of Commons that the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced a national inquiry into grooming gangs in the UK last Monday.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
It's not all Stonehenge and white beards, say today's TikTok druids
Women now make up half of the ancient movement. And yes, they still wear robes...
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
'This isn't a leader. This is a man in hiding': the myth of Khamenei is over
In Tehran, even under a rain of missiles, people find each other. That's the image emerging on Iran's fractured, unstable internet.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
History's women have more to tell us than their fashion choices
Kate Maltby
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Keir Starmer faces his greatest test in foreign policy – one that could define his premiership
In 1950, amid some wild talk in America about how far the US might go to prevail in the Korean War, Clement Attlee left Number 10 in haste to fly to Washington to caution Harry Truman about the use of nuclear weapons. In 1990, when Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq's army to invade Kuwait, Margaret Thatcher sought to stiffen the spine of George H Bush by telling that US president: \"Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
People smuggling replaces drugs at top of NCA caseload
Britain's top law enforcement agency is investigating more cases of people smuggling than any other crime, amid pressure from the government over small-boat arrivals.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
A caring society does not suggest death as an answer
In considering the scenarios of the third reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill, I thought long and hard about what this moment would be like.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
How can we change the culture of cover-ups?
First, accept that they are the norm Martha Gill
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Lena Dunham
The creator of the TV blockbuster Girls is back but avoiding the limelight, writes Barbara Ellen
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Iran's Berlin moment
Israel's allies cannot afford to waste it
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Chancellor faces U-turn on tax rules after non-doms take fright
Mounting evidence that super-rich non-doms are quitting the UK after changes to how they are taxed may push Rachel Reeves into an embarrassing U-turn.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Trump keeps Nato allies on edge over pledge to increase defence spending
As summit looms and global tensions rise, podcast's exposure of UK forces' weakness is a prescient warning
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
New York mayor race goes to the wire as Democrats face a generational choice
A 33-year-old socialist's bid to beat a billionaire-backed ex-governor could upset the Big Apple cart in Tuesday's primary. Ed Helmore reports from New York
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Duty done: K-pop's top boyband is reunited
The rapper Suga, below, became the seventh and final member of the K-pop mega group BTS to finish his mandatory South Korean military service on Saturday, marking the end of the band's hiatus while serving their country.
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
To live a happier life be more ostrich-like
Advance medical tests sully happiness today with distant misery, writes Melanie Reid
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June 22, 2025
The Observer
Antarctic scientists' midwinter chill-out
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey marked the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere yesterday with a midwinter feast, a message from royalty and their traditional viewing of John Carpenter's 1982 ice station horror, The Thing.
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