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The Guardian
Channel crossings Coastal residents step in to fill gaps in refugee support
Images of Dover and the beaches along the Kent coastline have come to symbolise small boat crossings in the UK, often attracting anti-migrant protests as a result.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Israeli unit was tasked with falsely linking journalists in Gaza to Hamas, says report
A special unit in Israel's military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian website +972 Magazine has reported.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
'This glacier is terminally ill' Time running out to learn from ice-dwelling microbes
It felt really scary... like being in the middle of a burning city during a night raid.\"
5 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Advertisers must do more to avoid images of models looking too thin, says ASA
The chief executive of the Advertising Standards Authority has urged advertisers to increase their efforts to avoid using \"irresponsible\" images of unhealthily thin-looking models.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Shein sales pass £2bn as chancellor urged to tackle 'de minimis' tax rule
Shein, the online fast-fashion retailer founded in China, increased sales in the UK by about a third to more than £2bn last year, overtaking its British rival Boohoo and closing in on Asos.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
King Leads VJ Day Commemorations as UK Marks 80th Anniversary of Japan's Surrender
King Charles led VJ Day commemorations in the UK as a national service of remembrance and a two-minute silence marked the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the second world war and the end of the six-year-long conflict.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
We're so proud' Irish town celebrates family connection to Gallagher brothers
Migration ripped the heart out of Charlestown: generations of young people took the boat to England and left behind derelict homes and shuttered shops, a hollowing chronicled in a landmark 1968 book, The Death of an Irish Town.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
African Union joins call for more accurate world map
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Countdown to extinction: Megadeth say next album will be the last
Call it a symphony for dissolution. The American thrash metal giants Megadeth have announced they are retiring and that their forthcoming album will be their last. They will also embark on a farewell tour in 2026.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Labour moves to find Abbott successor after race letter row
Moves to find a successor to Diane Abbott in the parliamentary seat she has represented since 1987 are under way, prompting concern that her fate has been decided before an investigation into her latest suspension has concluded.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Israel and Jordan endure 'hellish' record-breaking heat at night
Jordan and Israel have suffered through their hottest nights on record, with nocturnal temperatures in the Levant well above levels that scientists informally label \"hellish\".
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
School meal sample sent for tests as hundreds fall ill in Indonesia
More than 360 people fell ill in the Indonesian town of Sragen in Central Java after consuming school lunches, according to officials, in the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme to date.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Palestine Imprisoned leader taunted by rightwing minister
Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted video footage in which he is seen taunting the imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in jail, prompting strong condemnation from Barghouti's family and Palestinian leaders.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Iceland Offers £1 Reward to Any Customer Who Spots a Shoplifter
The grocery chain Iceland is offering customers who spot a thief a £1 reward on their loyalty card.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Sonic boom as RAF scrambles to intercept civilian plane
People in parts of southern England yesterday reported hearing a sonic boom after RAF fighter jets were sent to intercept a civilian plane.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Plastic pollution talks collapse after 'obstruction from oil states'
Global talks to create a treaty aimed at ending the scourge of plastic pollution have collapsed, with no deal agreed and no clear path forward.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Bolivia Turns Right: Voters to Reset Dial as Support for Morales' Old Party Slumps
In Plaza Murillo, the heart of Bolivia's political capital, La Paz—and home to the presidential palace, parliament, and the country's main Catholic cathedral—time may be running out for a clock that runs backward.
5 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Suspend prosecutions related to Palestine Action, letter urges
Protesters arrested for supporting Palestine Action should not be prosecuted until a legal challenge to a ban on the group has been heard, organisations including Greenpeace and Human Rights Watch have told the attorney general for England and Wales.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
US Woman Criticises UK Police Over Handling of Stalking Case
A travel influencer stalked by a British man who travelled to her Indonesian home and threatened to kidnap her has strongly criticised police over the way her case was handled.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Consuming like Carrie How Sex and the City shaped the way we shop
Before Sex and the City, the cosmopolitan was just vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau and lime juice.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Met urged to scrap facial recognition camera plans for Notting Hill carnival
The Met commissioner should scrap plans to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) at next weekend's Notting Hill carnival because the technology is riven with \"racial bias\" and subject to a legal challenge, 11 civil liberty and anti-racist groups have demanded.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Embryos seen implanting into human uterus for first time
A human embryo being implanted into a uterus has been pictured in real time and in 3D for the first time by a team of scientists.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Fishing, power prayers and a call from Kemi Something: what JD did on his summer holiday
After landing at London Stansted, me and the family had an easy drive with our small security detail of 12 cars to David Lammy's cabin in Kent, England.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Sergei Lavrov Minister trolls Ukraine with USSR jumper
In a not-so-subtle act of trolling, Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska on the eve of the US-Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with \"CCCP\", the Russian initials for the USSR.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Warm home discount: Why you must check your name is on your energy bill
The government is urging people who qualify for the warm home discount to check they are named on their energy bills so that this winter's price cut can be made automatically.
2 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Public urged to stay away from injured dolphin off Dorset coast
The public have been warned to keep away from an injured dolphin that was filmed dancing and playing with swimmers off the coast of Dorset.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
It's not a pay issue' Happy workers boost productivity, says peer
It's about how you are being treated and how your employer is developing you in the workplace' Mark Price Founder of WorkL
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
After Lineker 'Chappers' is off the bench as Match of the Day host
He’s spent years sitting on the bench, playing second fiddle to one of England’s best ever strikers. But now that Gary Lineker has hung up his shirt and said farewell to Match of the Day after 26 years, Mark Chapman can finally have his moment.
3 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
Flash floods kill more than 200 people in India and Pakistan
Flash floods have killed more than 200 people and scores of others are missing in India and Pakistan, officials have said.
1 min |
August 16, 2025
The Guardian
TV review A warning of reality shows' demand for extremity
A warning of reality shows' demand for extremity
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