The Guardian - June 13, 2025

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June 13, 2025

At least 260 die as plane on way to UK crashes in India

More than 260 people were killed when a London-bound Air India flight crashed in a residential area in the city of Ahmedabad yesterday, with a British man the sole surviving passenger, according to police.

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Trump poised to lower tariffs on UK cars within days, minister indicates

The US is poised to start lowering its tariffs on some British products within days, the UK trade secretary has indicated.

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US-style megafarms are on the rise with 24,000 across Europe

US-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with more than 24,000 operating around the continent, according to a report published yesterday.

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'Dubai chocolate' rogue imports put people with allergies at risk

Pistachio-filled \"Dubai chocolate\" is one of the UK's hottest food trends, but officials are warning that rogue imports could pose a serious threat to people with allergies.

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A true original: Jane Birkin's first Hermès handbag to go on sale in Paris next month

A unique Birkin handbag, the only one of its kind made for the British-born singer and actor Jane Birkin, is to go on sale in Paris.

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I looked out and saw smoke' How the disaster unfolded seconds into flight

At 9.48 yesterday, Air India flight 423 took off from Delhi bound for Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat state, 600 miles to the south. It was an entirely normal day - if hotter than usual for the time of year in north India - and an entirely normal flight, except for the fact that the plane, an 11-year-old Boeing Dreamliner, landed 20 minutes early.

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Community in mourning

UK Gujaratis gather for information and support

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Briton who was sole survivor of Ahmedabad plane crash has 'no idea' how he escaped

A British man is the sole survivor of the London-bound Air India flight carrying 242 people that crashed shortly after takeoff yesterday in the north-west Indian city of Ahmedabad.

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Black box data recorder holds key to explaining shock loss of plane with good safety record

The Air India tragedy in Ahmedabad is the first time a Boeing 787 Dreamliner has crashed since its introduction in 2011.

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Spanish Beats French in GCSE Foreign Language League Table

Spanish has overtaken French as the most popular foreign language studied at GCSE, provisional data for England showed yesterday.

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Northern Ireland minister accused of stirring up racial tensions refuses to resign

Northern Ireland's first minister has accused a DUP politician of \"inflaming\" tensions, as the display of political unity after three nights of violence fractured when a leisure centre in Larne was set on fire.

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Three teenage girls admit killing man, 75, in north London street

Three teenage girls have admitted the \"senseless\" killing of a 75-year-old man in a street attack in north London filmed on a mobile phone.

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Blood cancer patients to receive 'Trojan horse' drug in world first

Thousands of patients in England with blood cancer are to become the first in the world to be offered a pioneering \"Trojan horse\" drug that sneaks inside cancer cells before wiping them out.

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Judge Declares Mistrial on Remaining Weinstein Rape Charge

The judge in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes case declared a mistrial on the remaining rape charge after the jury foreperson said he would not continue deliberating.

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Stand by me: £2m estimate on painting of 'tense' Gallaghers

\"Where you gonna swim with the riches that you found?\" asked Oasis in All Around the World. Maybe in the art market, buying a portrait of Noel and Liam at the height of their fame for a potential £2m.

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Lempicka's portrait of 'most beautiful woman I've ever seen' may fetch £9m

When Tamara de Lempicka first came across the young sex worker Rafaëla in Paris, she was enchanted.

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Public spending Britain on course to become 'national health state', says thinktank

Britain was on track to becoming a \"national health state\" where half of all public spending was allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, a leading thinktank said yesterday.

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Ministers to offer olive branch on welfare bill to avert rebellion

Ministers are to offer mutinous Labour MPs an olive branch on the government's welfare plans to help avert a major rebellion in a crucial vote early next month.

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Economy shrinks by 0.3%

The UK economy contracted in April by 0.3% as businesses cut jobs and cancelled investment plans in response to higher taxes and the uncertainty created by Donald Trump's tariff war.

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No more Mr Nice Guy: departing IFS man has one last hurrah at the expense of chancellor

You can only conclude that Paul Johnson is demob happy.

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Spending review: Experts debate whether cuts are a return to austerity

Rachel Reeves usually avoids any mention of the word \"austerity\" in connection with her fiscal policies, but on Wednesday, the chancellor decided to tackle the argument head on.

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Councils 'running out of time' to avoid bankruptcy over Send debts

Council leaders have warned that a multibillion-pound deficit from years of overspending on special educational needs has become a \"burning platform\" that will push scores of English councils into bankruptcy within months.

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Funding 'Don't pit cities and towns against each other,' Khan tells ministers

Ministers must not \"stumble into the trap of pitting our towns and cities against each other\", Sadiq Khan warned last night, as he delivered a blistering attack on the Treasury's decision to sideline London in this week's spending review.

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Croydon Government intervenes to avert crisis

Government commissioners are being sent in to run Croydon council, with a report finding its finances were \"deteriorating rapidly\" and it was heading for effective bankruptcy for the fourth time in recent years.

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Government to invest £9m in services to treat sickle cell disease

People in England living with sickle cell disease will benefit from quicker and more accessible treatment thanks to a £9m investment, the government has announced.

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'I've got to be a dad first' Paternity leave MP leads way

When the Labour MP Luke Charters announced he was planning on taking at least four weeks' paternity leave when his second son was born, he received dozens of messages of support and encouragement from constituents.

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Government to fund 100,000 EV charging points across England

About 100,000 street-side electric vehicle (EVs) charging points will be installed across England as a result of £381m in extra funding, ministers said yesterday.

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Afghan Woman Can Stay in UK After U-Turn on Asylum Refusal by Home Office

An Afghan woman who risked her life defending human rights in her home country has been allowed to stay in the UK after a Home Office U-turn.

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Dutch novelist and UK doctor take Women's prize honours

The Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year's Women's prize for fiction, while the British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award.

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Yorkshire has driest spring in 132 years and enters drought

Yorkshire has become the second area of England to enter drought after the driest spring in 132 years.

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Adverts for assisted dying services would be banned, says MP

Adverts promoting assisted dying services would be banned if the procedure was made law under a new amendment, the MP sponsoring the bill has said.

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‘Mental torture’ Activist’s family on his indefinite jail term in Egypt

Activist’s family on his indefinite jail term in Egypt

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Residents stuck in limbo after blocks found to be unsafe

Residents facing an order to leave two Merseyside tower blocks after the buildings were deemed unsafe say they are now stuck in limbo.

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Theatre review An exasperating foray into the internet's 'arkive'

The disused warehouse given over to this immersive production was once a storehouse for newspapers (Rupert Murdoch's, in fact). So it is well suited to the show's central concern, the archiving of words, though the fictive \"arkive\" stored here is for every single digital expression since the inception of the internet in 1983.

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Ryanair Will Fine Unruly Passengers Taken Off Planes £500

Disruptive Ryanair passengers whose behaviour results in their being removed from the plane will be fined £500, the airline said yesterday.

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Swinney under fire for focus on Reform in 'disastrous' poll

Scottish National party activists and senior figures have vented their frustrations at their leader, John Swinney, after the \"disastrous\" byelection loss of a Holyrood seat to Scottish Labour.

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More mass casualties near Gaza food points as GHF says five staff killed

The bloody chaos that has overtaken food distribution in Gaza has worsened with more mass casualties among Palestinians trying to reach humanitarian assistance, while the US-Israeli organisation tasked with aid deliveries claimed five of its local workers had been killed by Hamas.

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Iran Trump warns about 'massive conflict' soon over nuclear deal

Donald Trump has warned that a \"massive conflict\" could break out in the Middle East \"soon\" if talks over an Iranian nuclear deal break down, amid concerns over a possible Israeli strike against Tehran.

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Families Arrested in LA Raids Were Held in Basement With Little Food or Water - Lawyers

As federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they confined detainees—including families with small children—in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to immigration lawyers.

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California Arrests Made at Car Washes and Churches

Federal immigration authorities have been conducting sweeping raids across California, arresting people at their homes and at workplaces as part of Donald Trump's promised immigration crackdown.

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President's culture war

Trump hears the people sing, but their message falls on stony ground

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Immigration Russian-born scientist freed on bail in US

A judge has released a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with smuggling frog embryos into the US, freeing her on bail after a brief hearing.

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Cuban Students in Uproar After Huge Price Increase for Internet

After blackouts, water shortages, transport failures and the soaring cost of food, Cuba's students appear to have finally lost patience with their government over a huge price rise for the country's faltering internet.

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Concern over directive for women to wear burkinis on Syrian beaches

Syria's government has asked women to wear \"burkinis\" or more modest swimwear while visiting beaches this summer, though it has clarified there will be no legal consequences for those in bikinis.

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Man who killed 10 in Austria 'was obsessive online shooter'

A gunman who killed 10 people at his former school in the Austrian city of Graz was an \"obsessive online first-person shooter\", according to police, who have given detailed information about how he had planned the attack.

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Spanish Government Corruption Row Intensifies After MP Resigns

Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has apologised to voters but ruled out a snap election following the resignation of a senior member of his Spanish Socialist Workers' party (PSOE), hours after a supreme court judge found \"firm evidence\" of his possible involvement in taking kickbacks on public construction contracts.

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Secret sonnets Publisher hopes to inspire new readers with Lorca reprint

In the autumn of 1983, dozens of carefully chosen readers received an envelope containing a slim, red booklet of sonnets that had been locked away since they were written almost 50 years earlier by the most famous Spanish poet of the 20th century.

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FTSE 100 hits record high as US dollar slides

The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years yesterday and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump's latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

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Credit Suisse bosses 'given warnings over Greensill' before firm's collapse

Bosses at Credit Suisse were warned against dealing with the Australian financier Lex Greensill's eponymous firm three years before the collapse of Greensill Capital, which once employed the former prime minister David Cameron as an adviser.

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Finest range boosts Tesco as consumers opt to dine in

Households treating themselves to Tesco's Finest range have helped lift sales at the UK's biggest supermarket, with analysts suggesting high restaurant prices could be driving a home-dining boom.

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UK freezes £170m of assets owned by ally of ousted Bangladeshi PM

Britain's serious crime agency has frozen UK property worth £170m belonging to the former land minister of Bangladesh amid a crackdown on former allies of Sheikh Hasina, the autocratic leader deposed in last year's student-led revolution.

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Vodafone Three Plans to Double Broadband Arm by 2034 and Boost Network

Vodafone Three, the newly formed leader in the UK's mobile market, is aiming to more than double its broadband business by 2034, as it pledged to create thousands of jobs and upgrade its network.

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Poundland sold for £1 with dozens of store closures likely under restructuring plan

Poundland is expected to close dozens of its stores after being bought by an investment company for £1.

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Chinese Firm Launches Its Cheapest Electric Car in UK

The Chinese manufacturer BYD has launched its cheapest car in Britain in the latest stage of its efforts to overtake Tesla as the world's biggest electric carmaker.

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Back to the future

Ugly pack and backs you would pay to watch: Bath revive memories of 1990s

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Cummins joins 300 club on day of tumbling wickets

Australia captain reaches landmark but Test in balance after South Africa fight back

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Bavuma leads the gutsy fightback in Proteas' show of never-say-die spirit

Truth is, South Africa aren't really supposed to be here. Their board has all but given up on Test cricket

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Cunha seals 'dream' £62.5m United move

Manchester United have completed the £62.5m signing of Matheus Cunha from Wolves, and the forward says he wants to help the club \"back to the top\".

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Textor ponders Johnson bid for Palace shares

The New York Jets owner, Woody Johnson, has offered £190m to buy John Textor's stake in Crystal Palace.

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Skinsuits and 'magic' nodes: how to smash a mile record

Kenya's Faith Kipyegon is attempting to take eight seconds off her fastest time and go under four minutes

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Tottenham Hail Frank's 'Proven Track Record'

Worked initially as the assistant to Dean Smith. He succeeded him as the manager in October 2018.

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Elliott opener gets England bouncing against Czechs

In a week that England's senior side have hardly covered themselves in glory, perhaps the under-21s could make it another memorable summer?

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Uncontested: Dazn's story reveals game's grim future

Saudi-backed streaming superpower's broadcasting deal for Gianni Infantino's Club World Cup is the next expansionist step towards a world super league

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'Trent' hurdles the language barrier in style at big unveiling

Alexander-Arnold impresses with his Spanish and stresses Real are the only club he would have left Liverpool for

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Spaun makes the early running as McIlroy falters on gruelling course

Matsuyama, Fleetwood and Fitzpatrick also toil but MacIntyre rises to challenge

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Wimbledon lifts prize pot but says money is no quick fix

The All England Club has insisted that it has listened to the complaints of leading tennis players regarding prize money but it believes the solution to player issues lies in greater changes to the structure of the sport.

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Raducanu recovers poise to reign as British No 1 after two-year wait

Second-round victory means the 22-year-old leapfrogs her doubles partner Katie Boulter

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Tottenham get their man Spurs 'delighted' after Frank confirmed on three-year deal

Tottenham have confirmed the appointment of Thomas Frank as their new manager.

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