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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Eckert’s Spygate ban may be lenient, but no sane manager will try the same trick again

  Verdict has been a long time coming and the Southampton head coach has recaptured hearts and minds at St Mary’s

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Houthi forces appear to make slow advance in south-west Yemen

  Group’s fighters hit key airport in Aden with explosive moments before plane from Cairo was due to land

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

  Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Hegseth tells USS Lincoln sailors controversial deployment ‘wasn’t easy’

  Pentagon chief tries to play down problems onboard carrier as it returns to dock after 260 days at sea without port call

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Judge orders officials to preserve all evidence tied to Christa Pike’s botched execution

  Judge tells Tennessee officials all items in execution room must be saved as Pike remains restrained in hospital bed

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia

  Legislation is an effort by ruling Liberals to address growing clash over who has access to doctor-assisted death

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  England ready to level up and embrace ‘calculated risks’, claims Tuchel

  Head coach pleased ‘everyone bought in’ to new ideas Jarell Quansah says: ‘We can really dominate teams’ Thomas Tuchel believes England have unlocked a new level after moving forward with his tactical tweaks in the opening Nations League fixtures. The head coach wanted the players to retain their aggression, especially in the high press, to step on to the front foot and to harness the chaos often seen in the Premier League.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Jonathan the giant tortoise, 194, offers up insight into secrets of longevity

  DNA analysis of oldest living land animal reveal patterns on genes that appear to protect functioning of mitochondria

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  The Guardian view on the US midterms: the cost of living is on the ballot, but this is about democracy too | Editorial

  Editorial: Donald Trump’s unpopularity and the economic struggles of voters have boosted Democrats. But with less than a month to go, there is no complacency

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Jon Rahm quits LIV over ‘unacceptable’ terms before golf series relaunches

  Two-time major winner is reportedly owed over £100m Tour filed for bankruptcy after Saudi funding withdrawn Jon Rahm is to quit LIV Golf due to the “unacceptable” terms offered for the proposed relaunch of the breakaway series. LIV is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the US after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund withdrew support at the end of the season having spent $5bn (£3.7bn) in four years. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Ella Baron on the Greens’ new ‘Zionism is racism’ policy – cartoon

  Members voted at the party’s conference to pass the motion – but it is opposed by the bulk of Green MPs and could face a legal challenge

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Saracens’ Brendan Venter takes aim at ‘autocratic’ Prem over media duties

  Technical director held court at club’s training base, comparing rugby to winemaking and claiming interviews ‘steal my joy’

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Christa Pike awake and speaking after botched execution: what happens now? - The Latest

  Christa Pike, a death row inmate who survived the state of Tennessee’s attempt to execute her last week, is conscious and speaking. The 50-year-old is recovering in hospital after surviving two lethal injections in a case that has shocked many in the US and prompted a debate about the death penalty. She was due to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Michael Safi speaks to the chief reporter for Guardian US, Ed Pilkington – watch on YouTube Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Trump heads to Texas as Republican midterms woes deepen – US politics live

  Leaked audio reveals Texas attorney general telling fundraiser that affordability is his campaign’s biggest problem; Trump due to speak in Texas on Wednesday

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  German court orders detention of former intelligence chief after spying arrest

  August Hanning, 80, appears before judge after being accused of treason and espionage on behalf of foreign state

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Lionel Messi’s Argentina career turned football into a sacred mystery | Marcela Mora y Araujo

  Jorge Messi wanted his country to fall in love with his son. That ambition was fulfilled during a brilliant international career that ended this week

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left

  TaxWatch research contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Verstappen’s victory in Sepang should serve as a warning to Red Bull’s rivals | Giles Richards

  Improvements to the car are paying off as the team look to lay the groundwork for renewed success next season

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Ties are back in fashion, thanks to gen Z – should we all be smartening up?

  Sales at one UK retailer are up 200%, thanks in part to young people rejecting the informal look adopted by their middle-aged bosses Name: Ties. Age: Originated in the early 17th century. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting woman drugged by her husband

  Sean Peers admits offence against woman who was drugged and attacked for more than two decades A man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, whose husband had drugged her and invited other men to abuse her. Sean Peers, 38, had been due to stand trial alongside 11 other men, but admitted one count of assault by penetration on 15 September 2024 when he appeared at Manchester Minshull Street crown court. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  French wine industry facing historic low harvest after extreme summer heat

  This year’s harvest expected to be down 2% on mediocre yield in 2025, when production was lowest in nearly 70 years France’s wine industry is facing a historic low harvest after the country was hit by a series of summer heatwaves. At about 35m hectolitres, the total harvest would be down 2% on a mediocre 2025 yield and 14% below the 2021-2025 average, according to estimates published on Wednesday by the ministry of agriculture. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘Take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego? Trump is beyond irresponsible | Ted Widmer

  We appear to be entering a new era, in which political desperation at home leads to increasingly unhinged threats abroad

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  World’s largest penguin colony suffers ‘enormous population crash’

  Chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island in Antarctica declined by two-thirds since 2011, likely due to climate crisis The world’s largest penguin colony has declined by two-thirds since 2011, most likely due to the climate crisis, a new study has revealed. Scientists warned the rapid demise of chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski, the northernmost of the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica, increased the risk of a wider ecosystem collapse. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser

  Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, adds to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s For Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire Goldsmith family was a gateway to elite society and he wanted to be in their circle. The disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 facing sex-trafficking charges, longed for a billionaire’s lifestyle and cultivated the family’s friends, bankers, business associates and advisers. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘All me’: Tory party riding high on Kemi Badenoch’s wave of popularity

  At Conservative conference, some worry about becoming a one-woman party, while others say party should thank their lucky stars they have her

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Satellite images show attack jets at Chinese military facility in Laos

  New ‘support and training centre’ prompts concern in region but China says it is ‘not directed at any third party’ Satellite images show attack jets stationed at a new overseas Chinese military facility in Laos, which opened last week and gives Beijing’s air force its first foothold in mainland south-east Asia. Images provided by the commercial satellite provider Vantor show eight light attack aircraft positioned at Ban Keun airport alongside what appear to be more than a dozen military vehicles lined up in rows. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Football Daily | Tears, drone ads and a 1,740-word manifesto: Messi v Ronaldo gets one more chapter

  Nothing compares to sport’s contrasts, and few are as stark as the exits of two defining icons of the modern football era. As one continues to negotiate his grand departure from the international stage in a swirl of petulant rancour, bitterness and posturing, the other’s farewell was – up to a point – a study in dignified grace.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Landslides, flash floods and raging seas: is California ready for the ravages of El Niño?

  A mix of natural disasters could all befall the state at once as it finds itself in the crosshairs of the climate phenomenon

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Cruel torment, depraved violence, evil turns: where did TV’s real baddies go?

  From Carrie’s bullies to Cathy Ames, sympathetic backstories have made villains boring. It’s time to bring back truly awful villains – in all their deliciously sinful glory

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘Another coup d’état’: fears grow as Flávio Bolsonaro vows to ‘re-democratise’ Brazil

  After a surprise first-round victory, critics suggest son of disgraced ex-president could seek to continue his father’s authoritarian rule

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘Palestinians will bear the cost’: UK consulate in East Jerusalem prepares to shut its doors

  Forced closure marks low point in UK-Israeli relations, with reports UK is considering retaliatory expulsion of Israeli diplomats from London

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Tropical Storm Isaias near Mexico is forecast to become a hurricane

  Isaias, which succeeded Tropical Depression Nine, would be the first hurricane of the belated Atlantic season

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

  The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Anne Carson and Can Xue favourites to win Nobel prize in literature

  The Canadian poet and Chinese experimental writer are the bookmakers’ favourites to win, with Haruki Murakami, Gerald Murnane and Margaret Atwood also in the mix Canadian poet Anne Carson and Chinese experimental writer Can Xue are the bookies’ favourites to win this year’s Nobel prize in literature, set to be announced Thursday. The frontrunners both have 10/1 odds of taking home the world’s most prestigious literary prize, this year worth 12m Swedish Krona (approximately £900,000), according to Ladbrokes. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘In the wake of death, Courtney Love was giving it her all’: Hole’s Melissa auf der Maur on her best photograph

  ‘This is Courtney doing her makeup on the ’95 Lollapalooza tour. I was documenting my generation being hijacked by corporate greed – and destroyed following the sacrificial death of Kurt Cobain’

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg

  Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Jaguar Type 01: a £150k gargantuan getaway vehicle utterly useless in the city

  Too costly for most, too large for UK car parks and wheels bigger than a warlord’s pickup truck. But it does come in ‘London red’ Jaguar targets young Americans with Type 01 EV The cutting edge car du jour, even while very few will ever buy one, is a good index of what the world’s coming to. It’s a dress-for-the-job-you-want principle, on wheels: drive for the world you want to inhabit. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Reform clears its own officials of breaking party funding laws despite police investigation

  Internal inquiry clears Dan Jukes and James Orr, who were filmed talking about scheme involving US donor Reform UK has cleared two senior officials of breaking laws that ban foreign donations, despite the matter remaining under police investigation. The party published a 27-page report of an internal inquiry by its legal secretary and general secretary, finding that Dan Jukes, Nigel Farage’s press adviser, and James Orr, its head of policy, had not breached funding rules. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Coco Gauff says online racist abuse during China Open was ‘draining’ after loss to Mertens

  American involved in disputed point during tournament Gauff called out ‘insane’ amount of abuse online Coco Gauff said she had been left drained by the racist abuse she experienced during the China Open after losing in the last 16 to Elise Mertens. The American was dismayed earlier this week after an incident during her match against Chinese teenager Sun Xinran.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Separatists win in Quebec – but does that bring separation from Canada any closer?

  Lack of majority for Parti Québécois puts any referendum in doubt, especially amid bruising trade war with Trump

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Tents, night-vision goggles, bear tracking kits – and even books: America’s first nature library opens

  As well as books, the new facility offers hundreds of kits to connect people with the natural world, including hammocks and nightvision binoculars. We asked five of the first visitors what they thought of it

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and Niles

  From a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husbands

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Portuguese authorities took 83 days to tell Rui Pinto his witness protection was ending

  Commission concluded in July threat level was low Manchester City whistleblower given 10 days’ notice Portuguese authorities kept Rui Pinto in the dark for almost three months about their decision to end his status as a protected witness and notified the Manchester City whistleblower 10 days before it was due to expire, it can be revealed. According to documents seen by the Guardian, the special security programmes commission (CPES), which oversees Portugal’s witness protection programme, met on 8 and 9 July to discuss Pinto’s case.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Why do billionaires have so many children if they’re not prepared to parent them? | Arwa Mahdawi

  Kim Kardashian’s revelation that she has five nannies for four children has cause a ruckus. But the world of the ultra-wealthy throws up far more extreme examples of parenthood, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Spin | Schrödinger’s six, tiny boundaries and the hollow spectacle of ghost-town T10 cricket

  ‘It doesn’t look like proper cricket,’ says Faf du Plessis as Canada’s Super60 tournament raises a few eyebrows

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Pidcock ‘mad’ after two teammates collide with police motorcyclist in Italy

  Pinarello-Q36.5’s Camprubi and Gloag floored in crash ‘Things like this shouldn’t happen,’ says British rider Tom Pidcock revealed that he considered quitting the Tre Valli Varesine after two teammates crashed upon being hit by a police motorcyclist. The British rider’s Pinarello-Q36.5 colleagues Marcel Camprubi and Thomas Gloag were struck with six laps of the finishing circuit left. Jarno Widar won the race with Pidcock finishing second. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  ‘I thought the baby would change him’: the women whose pregnancies are blighted by domestic abuse

  An estimated 20,000 cases are disclosed to maternity services in England every year. Two survivors tell their stories

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Q&A: ‘Godzilla-level’ El Niño is causing extreme weather – our environment writers answer your questions – live

  Guardian reporters Jonathan Watts and Gabrielle Canon are online answering your questions on climate and extreme weather from what to expect this winter in the UK to the increasing risk of natural disasters.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Reopening Brexit debate a ‘terrible idea’, says Badenoch as she criticises rivals and mocks Starmer – UK politics live

  Conservative leader will deliver her keynote speech to Tory conference later Kemi Badenoch claims that the Conservative party has changed considerably under her leadership, and that as a result it does not deserve to be tainted by the terrible reputation of the last Conservative government. In one of her interviews yesterday, she said: We are under new management. Your viewers will know that sometimes you have a football team that’s disappointing. There’s a new captain, there’s a new coach, there’s a new owner, effectively, which is all me.

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Three years on from the 7 October attacks, antisemitism has taken hold in Britain: Jews aren’t safe | Dave Rich

  Britain cannot call itself a diverse democracy when communities are living with such fear. A line must be drawn. Let it be now, says Dave Rich, author and director of policy at the Community Security Trust

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  A moment that changed me: I was heading for disaster on the Greek version of Strictly. Then instinct kicked in

  I was gripped by fear, aching all over – and still recovering from cancer treatment. But Dancing With the Stars was a joyous celebration of survival

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  I see what’s happening here in Paris: reasonable student demands met with awful violence | Helen Massy-Beresford

  The debate around the schools protests is angry and polarised: a foretaste of how next year’s presidential election is likely to play out, says Helen Massy-Beresford, a British journalist and editor who lives in Paris

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  I was tortured because I’m a Somali woman who dared to speak out | Sadia Moalim Ali

  I was sentenced to three years in jail for insulting government institutions. Now I am free, I will carry on fighting for the women I met in prison, writes Sadia Moalim Ali

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Japan PM leads outcry after US Marine arrested over alleged killing of woman on Okinawa

  Crimes involving US troops on Okinawa have been a constant source of tension between Tokyo and Washington Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has led public outcry over crimes committed by US servicemen after a marine suspected of killing a woman on Okinawa was arrested on Saturday. In a speech in parliament, Takaichi described the alleged crime as “heinous” and urged US military authorities to enforce discipline among American servicemen stationed on Okinawa, an island 1,000 miles south of Tokyo. Continue reading

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• The Guardian2026-10-07✓ Read

  Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy blames Russia for attack on Bulgarian vessels in Black Sea as investigation launched

  Bulgarian authorities investigating origin of drone attack on two vessels in Nato member’s exclusive economic zone. What we know on day 1,687

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• The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102

  Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life

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