World news
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Weighing in on active trial is highly unusual move for sitting president – one legal expert says: ‘He shouldn’t have done it’ -
Indian PM vows more aid and compensation for those hit by worst monsoon in 100 years
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Superdry co-founder Julian Dunkerton calls for new Brexit poll and says fear is growing about prospect of no deal -
Gavin Williamson says UK will work closely with Indonesia and Malaysia over claims Second World War ships have been plundered -
Watchdog says government failing in its duty to protect citizens’ lives -
With casualty numbers still rising, some of the bereaved have shunned state commemorations to hold private memorials
Spotlight
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Laughter has optimism embedded in it. It allows us to see that, while we are all human and we fail, we can change
Around the world
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Big rise in younger ordinands after fears that no one would replace the quarter of Anglican vicars who are near retirement -
Leadership has been sadly missing, from the Genoa bridge collapse and Turkey’s financial plight to Trump’s US -
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After a Guardian investigation revealed the exploitation cycle in US prisons, activists Nikki Bell and Marian Hatcher say enough is enough -
Rajasthan moves to tackle above average infant mortality rate by promoting natural feeding in first hour of life -
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Opinion & analysis
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During his 10-year tenure, the former UN secretary general dared to ruffle feathers while defending the body he led and its mission -
Once the symbol of a country on a path to prosperity, the Morandi bridge collapse is the first major challenge for the country’s populist coalition -
A depressing new study about online dating indicates a problem that is reverberating across every aspect of our society
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Digested week: When Trump called Omarosa Manigault Newman a ‘dog’ on Twitter, some still managed to be shocked
Pictures and video
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The archbishop of Genoa, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, led a state funeral service on Saturday for the victims of the Morandi bridge collapse
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We look back at three major speeches by the former UN secretary general and Nobel peace prize laureate
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Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general who has died at the age of 80 after a short illness, was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2001
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The Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh UN secretary general has died aged 80 -
Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, has died at the age of 80
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Donald Trump has defended his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort - who faces 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud - describing him as a 'very good person'
Green space in every schoolyard: the radical plan to cool Paris