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  • The back of a girl's head with a blue and yellow hair bow

    Germany
    Conservatives urge clampdown on Ukrainian refugees’ benefits

  • Jamal Musiala gives the host nation the lead in Stuttgart.

    Euro 2024 live
    Germany v Hungary

    • France
      European Commission warns country over fiscal rules as election looms

    • Saudi Arabia
      Search for missing pilgrims continues after hajj heat deaths

    • Environment
      France urged to step in to spur TotalEnergies’ transition from oil

    • Israel
      White House disputes Netanyahu’s claim that US is withholding weapons

    • Tenerife
      Mother of British teenager missing has ‘not slept at all’

    • Biology
      Covid immune response study could explain why some escape infection

Europe in focus

  • Fans of Georgia holding up red and white scarves

    ‘New vision, new values’
    Georgia looks to future after historic Euro 2024 appearance

  • France’s President Emmanuel Macron.

    Macron’s reckless gamble shows how little he cares about the fate of French people like me

    Rokhaya Diallo
    We have much to fear if the French president, playing with fire, opens the door to a far-right government
  • Bumblebees and hoverflies attracted to the flowers of a globe thistle

    ‘I have seen the decline’
    Pesticides linked to falling UK insect numbers

Spotlight

  • A table full of dips.

    ‘It’s a flavour-bomb!’
    The rise and rise of the dip

    It started with tzatziki and taramasalata, now it’s all whipped feta and truffle hummus. How did Britain get such an appetite for the scoopable stuff?
  • ‘I wouldn’t use the term glorify’ … Austin Butler leads the whiskery brutes.

    Film
    ‘They ride, they drink, they get dangerous’: the blazing film inspired by the Hells Angels’ biggest rivals

  • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’
    Natacha’s life with long Covid

    Natacha Gray had an active life, diving, climbing and playing music, before illness left her so tired she would collapse on the way to the couch. She discusses two and a half devastating years – and how she stays optimistic
  • Sarah Brooks sitting on grass with rocky mountains in the background

    A moment that changed me
    I walked into the party, shy and anxious. I walked out a whole new woman

    When I boarded the train at Beijing I felt timid, a cautious traveller. But a chaotic and vodka-soaked party set me off on a very different path
    • Taylor Swift performing in Cardiff, 18 June 2024.

      Wildest streams!
      Inside the fan-powered broadcasts of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour

    • ‘After the family had said a prayer, I took Lainey’s portrait’ … the young hunter daubed in blood.

      My best shot
      A bloodied hunter in the world’s first designated wilderness: Kathleen Orlinsky’s best photograph

    • A screenshot of Assassin's Creed Shadows, which features a black samurai protagonist.

      Pushing Buttons
      The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away

    • Beats Solo Buds review earbuds in case.

      Beats Solo Buds review
      Apple’s budget earbuds rock

Euro 2024

  • England v Soviet Union 1-3 1988 European Championships, Hanover Germany Group Match B. England fans. 18th June 1988<br>EWTT4Y England v Soviet Union 1-3 1988 European Championships, Hanover Germany Group Match B. England fans. 18th June 1988

    England
    Unimpressed by their start? At least it’s not Euro 88

    Downbeat fans should remember the last Euros in Germany, when they started badly and only got worse
  • Harry Kane

    England
    Unselfish Kane can shift roles without it affecting his goals

    Captain can drop deep or play as a classic No 9 and will mix it up depending on the opponent and the state of the game
    • Germany players celebrate after the 5-1 defeat of Scotland

      The Knowledge
      The curious case of the seven-match goals trend

    • Nicolò Barella and Italy teammates celebrate a goal against Albania

      Italy
      Maturing Barella driven by pain of missing World Cup

    • Turkey's Kerem Akturkoglu scores their third goal

      Euro 2024 Daily
      Turkey’s bangers-only policy lights up rip-roaring occasion

    • Amadou Onana was visibly frustrated as he corrected a journalist who had referred to him as André

      Belgium
      Amadou Onana forced to correct reporter who called him 'André'

Sport

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Opinion

  • Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin: both are sanctioned, ostracised and feared by the countries of the west.

    Putin and Kim are the odd couple with a dual mission – cementing a new world order

    Simon Tisdall
    Kim enjoys the recognition. Putin’s war, meanwhile needs North Korean weapons. It’s a dangerous alliance, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s Foreign Affairs Commentator
  • Trump and Biden

    The question isn’t whether Trump or Biden is declining faster: it’s why the US is faced with this choice

    Emma Brockes
  • Rishi Sunak (left) and Jeremy Hunt have a drink with biscuits during a visit to a builders’ warehouse in London, 6 March 2024.

    Civil war, what civil war? The so-called Tory moderates never even put up a fight

    Rafael Behr
  • Taylor Swift singing on a stage, surrounded by fans.

    My nine-year-old wanted to fly to Scotland to see Taylor Swift. Somehow I agreed

    Lauren Mechling
  • Pope Francis with Whoopi Goldberg during an audience with comic luminaries at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on 14 June.

    As a vicar and a standup comedian, take it from me: the pope is right, laughing at God is OK

    Ravi Holy
  • detail from Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Two Sisters (On a Terrace).

    How much does Renoir suck as an artist? Well, Trump’s a fan …

    Arwa Mahdawi

Climate crisis

  • A crowd of people hold up protest signs saying 'No more fossil fuels' and 'Kill the drill'

    Jeopardising 'our seas, climate and future'
    Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences

  • A construction worker wipes away sweat on his shirt.

    Extreme weather
    Heatwaves and wildfires strike across US as tropical storm forms in gulf

  • Air pollution forms a visible fog over Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria

    ‘The urgency is undeniable’
    Almost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds

  • Leonore Gewessler after the law was passed in Luxembourg

    Nature
    EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade

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  • Heatwave in Italy<br>epa10751450 A thermometer outside a pharmacy displays '42 degrees Celsius' in Rome, Italy, 17 July 2023. Southern Europe is experiencing a major heat wave this week with temperatures expected to climb up to 48 Celsius degrees on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Italy's health ministry sent on 17 July a circular letter to the country's regional governments with a series of recommendations to manage the impact of the intense heat wave the country is enduring. These recommendations include setting up a 'heat code' at emergency rooms with special, priority procedures for people suffering heat-related health issues. EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI

    Climate crisis
    How are you being affected by the heatwave in southern Europe?

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    Culture
    Tell us about your favourite podcasts of 2024 so far

  • Lonely hiker enjoying the view over spectacular Faroese fjords near Funningur during a sunny spring morning (Faroe Islands, Denmark, Europe)<br>T6H20B Lonely hiker enjoying the view over spectacular Faroese fjords near Funningur during a sunny spring morning (Faroe Islands, Denmark, Europe)

    Travel
    Are you making a change to your summer holidays?

  • In the wake of a heavy defeat to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party (RN) in the European elections, Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election. Here, election staff count ballots for the 2024 European Parliament election at the Bayeux Town Hall counting center, one of 11 in the city, on 9 June, 2024, in Bayeux, Normandy, France.

    People in France
    What are your biggest concerns and current political views?

From our global editions

  • Veggies and farmer owners at Choy Commons, a cooperative of Asian-led farms.

    Environment
    Asian American farm collective targets food insecurity: ‘It’s been really healing’

    New York’s Choy Commons builds supply chain of heirloom vegetables while reviving an agricultural legacy
  • A group of Nigerian women singing together with two playing the drums

    A sisterhood of millions
    The all-women church groups helping people in Nigeria

  • A Patagonian mara is seen at the entrance of Buenos Aires zoo, which has been converted into an ecological park.

    From showing animals for profit to protecting them
    The reinvention of Buenos Aires zoo

  • Vladimir Putin points out something in the sky to Kim Jong-un

    Explained
    Russia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?

  • TOPSHOT-PNG-LANDSLIDE<br>TOPSHOT - Locals react during search and rescue efforts at the site of a landslide at Yambali village in the region of Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 29, 2024. Survivors of a deadly Papua New Guinea landslide face a "significant risk of disease outbreak" and are yet to receive sufficient food and clean water supplies, a United Nations agency said on May 30. Six days after a mountainside community was buried in a sea of soil, boulders and debris, the United Nations' migration agency said water sources had become tainted and the risk of disease was soaring. (Photo by Emmanuel Eralia / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL ERALIA/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Our hearts are heavy’
    Anguish as Papua New Guinea picks up the pieces after deadly landslide

  • Russian emergency ministry image shows an oil reservoir fire in Azov, Rostov region, Russia

    Ukraine war briefing
    ‘Drone sanctions’ burn Russian oil reserves

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  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    ‘Your plastic is here’
    How Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

  • A protester holds a sign painted in the Ukraine national flag and reading 'Stop Putin Stop War'.

    Between hollow rhetoric and war
    How sanctions work – and why they often don’t

  • Dozens of beech trees in beech woodland in early autumn at Woodchester Park in Gloucestershire

    European beeches
    The trees that synchronise reproduction around summer solstice

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  • John Swinney Launches The SNP's General Election Manifesto<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - JUNE 19: SNP leader John Swinney at the SNP General Election launch at Patina on June 19, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has previously proposed negotiating with the UK Government for another independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority of the 57 seats in Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: inflation on target and the SNP manifesto – podcast

  • Illustration: Getty

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Can computers ever replace the classroom? – podcast

  • German players celebrate a goal during their opening Euro 2024 game against Scotland

    Today in Focus
    Germans are divided. Can Euro 2024 unite them? - podcast

  • Turkiye v Georgia: Group F - UEFA EURO 2024<br>DORTMUND, GERMANY - JUNE 18: Mert Muldur #18 of Turkey celebrates scoring the first goal with his team-mates during the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Turkiye and Georgia at Football Stadium Dortmund on June 18, 2024 in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)

    Football Weekly
    Portugal leave it late and the future of football governance with Sir Keir Starmer – Football Daily

  • General Election campaign 2024<br>Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer during LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show, at Global Studios, London, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Tuesday June 18, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

    Today in Focus
    Election Extra: Labour heading for a landslide - podcast

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    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster

  • Sunrise over Walney Offshore Wind Farm off the Cumbrian Coast in the UK

    Science
    What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast

In pictures

  • Antalya, Turkey An owl is given treatment at the Antalya Wildlife Park. Since the beginning of the year 545 animals, including birds of prey and mammals, have been cared for and rehabilitated at the park

    Photos of the day
    Clothes line art and Royal Ascot

    The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
  • Kim Jong-un with Vladimir Putin

    In pictures
    Vladimir Putin in North Korea

  • Luang Prabang, Laos ‘This photo captures novice monks at around 6am as they wake up to collect alms offerings. Each morning, these young monks follow a tradition that is centuries old. The young monk yawning in the lineup perfectly mirrored how I felt that early morning. This image symbolises the blend of dedication and humanity in their daily ritual. It was amazing. It’s a small glimpse into a vibrant cultural practice of the people of Laos.’

    Readers' best photographs
    Mini monks and Mourne Mountains

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    ‘Be determined, persevere, persist’
    The people who made Tottenham’s Cook Up – in pictures

  • Two young girls stand on the bonnet of a car parked on a residential street

    On These Magic Shores
    Exploring spaces for children’s play – in pictures

  • The swimmer Béryl Gastaldello stands in the Fountain of Apollo at the Palace of Versailles

    Paris 2024
    The history and architecture – in eye-catching images

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