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A Sign Of Failure The Kremlin Is Putting Up Stiffer Economic Resistance Than The G7 Anticipated

THE TIGHTENING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA announced by the G7 summit in Hiroshima is evidence that the west remains solidly behind Ukraine in its battle against aggression. It is also a sign of failure

E-Cigarettes - Smoke Alarm

The rise of disposable e-cigarettes has focused regulators worldwide on what they fear isan explosion of vaping among young people

How Xi's Crackdown On Business Has Maoist Roots

To many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack

Intensive Farming 'Is Main Cause Of Bird Decline'

The use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in Europe, according to scientists

On Tap How Israel Uses Water To Control West Bank

In occupied villages, farms owned by Israelis are flourishing, while Palestinians often do not have enough water to drink

OUT OF SIGHT

The deep oceans store huge amounts of energy, but they are not bottomless

THE GLOBAL WARNING

As seas around New Zealand heat at an unparalleled rate, scientists are starting to understand what it might mean for marine ecosystems around the world

What my privileged start in life taught me about the British class system

It wasn't just luck that propelled the Guardian columnist into a media career. She reflects on the subtle workings of class (and a meeting with a naked future PM)

Back to life The Toronto river that's roaring again after 50 years

After decades of illness, includinga cholera scare and bouts of malaria, Toronto's Don River succumbed to mounting neglect and was pronounced dead in 1969

The battle to expand 'broken' supreme court

Wearing dark suit and sunglasses, Brian Fallon pointed at the gleaming US Capitol building to his left, then to the marble edifice of the supreme court to his right

Call to bring guardianship laws into 21st century

The day before Aly Hegazy graduated from high school in June 2020, his father died from cancer after a long illness. The grief of losing him was compounded by the realisation that, without his father's signature,Hegazy would be unable to go to university

Kashmir's cricket bat industry facing final innings

For more than 100 years they have been making cricket bats from Kashmir's willow trees

Pedal power Giant-killing MP gears up to capitalise on poll win

At the small Bangkok shophouse that Rukchanok Srinork uses as an office, the A floor is cluttered with stacks of campaign signs and leaflets. There are bottles of Fanta and fruit donated by her supporters (orange is her party's colour). And, by the entrance stand her team's well-known bicycles

After Noah The London zoo team on a mission to save species

The hatching of a Socorro dove-extinct in the wild-is part of a campaign to restore captive animal populations

Shipments of arms double - telling only part of story

British arms exports doubled during 2022 to a record £8.5bn ($10.6bn), according to the only publicly available official figures, reflecting escalating geopolitical uncertainties and fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Mud, sweat and tears - The deluge, round two

Less than a month after EmiliaRomagna was struck by deadly storms, the rains returned and claimed more lives

Thousands flee homes after flooding devastation

Jamal Ali Abdi has seen flooding in Beledweyne before but never on the scale witnessed this month when the Shabelle River burst its banks, causing devastation to the central Somali town and displacing almost the entire population

Taiwan fears fuelling US efforts to stifle chip industry

Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok

The impasse between the west and the rest

In Hiroshima, two issues dominated the minds of western leaders: how to end the war in Ukraine and impose peace on Russia; and how to convince the global south that a subsequent new world order can be shaped in their interests

Eurovision is a political battlefield, with neon

Volodymyr Zelenskiy wasn't allowed to address the crowd in Liverpool, but the contest was still a four-hour anti-war protest

The missing Kidnappings and cartel violence tear a town apart

María Zapata Escamilla woke to the sound of shattering glass. Armed men in military fatigues had burst into her home: they dragged her disabled husband outside, along with her 14-year-old son, still in his pyjamas

Trump the predator: will court verdict harm his 2024 bid?

A mystery of Donald Trump’s US presidency was the absence of a major sex scandal

'No solution' Inflationary crisis pushes middle class into poverty

Increasing numbers of Egyptians are desperately hunting for second jobs, cutting back on spending and scrambling to find new ways to cope with soaring prices, amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis

The football club whose players left to seek a better life in Europe

If Ghardimaou football club’s players had been there to take to the pitch last month, the Tunisian town’s stadium would have been packed with fans, waving the teams’s blue and white colours

Gang violence puts freedoms of Christiania in peril

The 40-year history of the open cannabis trade on “Pusher Street ” in the heart of the anarchist Christiania neighbourhood of Copenhagen could be over as the city’s mayor said she was willing to shut it down over the commune’s fears about rising gang violence

Vive la révolution! Is it time for a Sixth Republic?

Raising the retirement age has sparked public anger at Macron, but some suggest the constitution itself is to blame

Microbes found that eat plastic at low temperatures

Microbes that can digest plastics at low temperatures have been discovered by scientists in the Alps and the Arctic, which could be a valuable tool in recycling

Scrap warrior One man's fight to help the world's waste pickers

After a childhood scavenging at a local dump, John Chweya is lobbying for workers' rights to be enshrined in a UN treaty

Promised land The 10-pound poms who left UK for new life

Sylvia Brady does not romanticise her life as a newlywed in northern England in 1959

Hong Kong citizens fear deportation after years left in limbo

Britain vowed to protect those fleeing its former colony, but exiles say they don't know if they will be granted asylum