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Tabitha Chawinga playing for her former team, Jiangsu Suning. She quit the game for a year after having to undress in a Malawi schools game. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

‘A violation’: football star had to strip during match to prove she was female

The Guardian - By Charles Pensulo

Ed Sheeran performing in Milan in 2017. Sheeran and other musicians, including Sir Elton John, have campaigned on the issue of post-Brexit touring. Photograph: Stefania D'Alessandro/Getty Images

UK musicians to be able to tour visa-free in 19 EU countries

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Belarus athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya waves goodbye as she boards her Vienna-bound flight at Narita airport outside Tokyo on Wednesday. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya leaves Tokyo on flight to Vienna

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Nine-year-old female known as Yakei, pictured, has become the boss of a 677-strong troop of Japanese macaque monkeys at a nature reserve on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Photograph: Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden

Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history

The Guardian - By Gavin Blair

Forest fires in the Manavgat district of Antalya. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Turkey appeals for help to fight wildfires as heatwave continues

The Guardian - By Lorenzo Tondo in Caltanissetta, Sicily

‘Demand is pushing up the average cost of housing in rural areas beyond what locals are able to pay, and amplifying a pre-existing housing crisis.’ Photograph: Photofusion/REX

The pandemic property boom is pricing locals out of the British countryside

The Guardian - By Jade Angeles Fitton

Sunbathers watch as a helicopter carries water from the sea to dump on fires near Marmaris. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Turkish fires sweeping through tourist areas are the hottest on record

The Guardian - By Jonathan Watts

The strike group is led by HMS Queen Elizabeth and is on its way to Japan via the South China Sea for exercises with allies. Photograph: Ana Brigida/AP

Beijing warns of ‘counter-measures’ as Royal Navy sails South China Sea

The Guardian - By Helen Davidson

Ghalia, who has had her Danish residency permit revoked. More women and older people have been affected by the change in policy, as men are at risk of being drafted into the military on return

Denmark faces legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees

The Guardian - By Bethan McKernan, Rosie Swash and Annie Kelly

Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest are being burned and cleared for grazing cattle — a double blow to global warming, as cattle produce methane and cleared forests release carbon into the atmosphere. Photograph: Florian Kopp/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock

Critical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds

The Guardian - By Katharine Gammon

Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP

Guilty verdict in first Hong Kong trial held under national security law

The Guardian - By Helen Davidson in Taipei

Cheering crowds in Tunis. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images

Tunisia president dismisses prime minister and suspends parliament

The Guardian - By Bethan McKernan

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Afghanistan civilian casualty figures at record high, UN says

The Guardian - By Emma Graham-Harrison

Protesters marched through central Sydney on Saturday, in breach of coronavirus stay-at-home orders. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Sydney police fine hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters for ‘filthy, risky behaviour’

The Guardian - By Matilda Boseley

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Anti-lockdown protests across Australia as Covid cases surge to record levels in Sydney

The Guardian - By Ben Smee

A remote mining camp near Nome, Alaska, where a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew rescued the survivor of a bear attack, on 16 July. Photograph: US coast guard/AFP/Getty Images

Man who endured weeklong attacks by grizzly bear rescued after SOS spotted

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‘In this heat, people are harvesting raspberries and strawberries.’ A strawberry farm in southern England. Photograph: Tesco/Ben Stevens/Parsons Media/PA

The UK’s summers are getting hotter – and that puts low-paid workers at risk

The Guardian - By Mika Minio-Paluello

Bennie Thompson’s move comes at the same time as many Republicans have been seeking to downplay the attack on the Capitol. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

Capitol attack committee chair vows to investigate Trump: ‘Nothing is off limits’

The Guardian - By Hugo Lowell

People and security forces gather at the site of a bombing in Wahailat market in Sadr City, Iraq. Photograph: Khalid Mohammed/AP

Baghdad suicide bombing: dozens killed, scores injured in blast at packed Iraq market

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Flood damage in Schuld, Germany on Sunday. Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman for Minnesota, said the recent extreme weather around the world should serve as a warning. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Politicians from across world call for ‘global green deal’ to tackle climate crisis

The Guardian - By Fiona Harvey

Protesters support transgender rights outside Wi Spa in Los Angeles. Photograph: Jill Connelly/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Dozens arrested in Los Angeles as anti-trans protest outside spa turns violent

The Guardian - By Lois Beckett and Sam Levin

A firefighter searches for hotspots while mopping up the north-east side of the Bootleg fire near Sprague River, Oregon, on Wednesday. Photograph: Nathan Howard/AP

Western US and Canada brace for another heatwave amid more than 70 wildfires

The Guardian - By Ed Pilkington in New York, Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco

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Cuban president claims protests part of US plot to ‘fracture’ Communist party

The Guardian

Chow Hang-tung, vice-chair of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, addresses the media in June.
Photograph: Jessie Pang/Reuters

‘Growing risks’: Hong Kong pro-democracy group scales down

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Covid ‘freedom day’ means nothing of the sort for clinically vulnerable people

The Guardian - By Laura Elliott

Security forces members exchange gunfire with armed men next to the Pétionville police station in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. Photograph: Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP/Getty Images

Haiti requests US troops to protect infrastructure after assassination

The Guardian - By Tom Phillips , Julian Borger

Police in Haiti say they have killed four gunmen whom they believe were involved in the assassination of president Jovenel Moïse. Photograph: Orlando Barría/EPA

Haiti: four dead after police gunfight with suspected killers of president Jovenel Moïse

The Guardian - By Peter Beaumont, Tom Phillips, Julian Borger

An Afghan soldier by the runway at the huge Bagram airbase following the departure of US troops. Photograph: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters

Afghan anger over US’s sudden, silent Bagram departure

The Guardian - By Peter Beaumont

Afghan soldiers on a road at the frontline of fighting with the Taliban near the city of Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan on Sunday. Photograph: Nazim Qasmy/AP

Hundreds of Afghan security forces flee as districts fall to Taliban

The Guardian - By Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul and Dan Sabbagh

Protesters in Rio de Janeiro demand the removal of the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Photograph: Andre Coelho/EPA

Brazilians take to streets to demand removal of Jair Bolsonaro

The Guardian - By Tom Phillips

Photo: Don Mackinnon/AFP/Getty Images

Record heatwave may have killed 500 people in western Canada

The Guardian - By Leyland Cecco

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Hong Kong legal system should reflect China’s will, says official

The Guardian - By Helen Davidson

Donald Trump at his first post-presidency campaign rally, in Wellington, Ohio. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Trump in financial and political danger as company faces possible criminal charges

The Guardian - By David Smith

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As Hancock exits, the future looks the same: hope mixed with dread

The Guardian - By John Harris

Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty

Frenchwoman guilty of murdering stepfather after years of abuse

The Guardian - By Kim Willsher in Paris

Illustration: Nate Kitch/The Guardian

Picking fights has served Johnson’s Tories well – but it’s a strategy that may backfire

The Guardian - By Andy Beckett

Photograph: Hugh R Hastings/Getty Images

During Covid, to be ‘vulnerable’ is to be told your life doesn’t matter

The Guardian - By Frances Ryan

Funeral of a White Helmets member, reported killed after a missile attack on the group’s centre in Qastoun, 19 June 2021. Photograph: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images

Assad forces’ shelling in Syria causes 5,000 civilians to flee

The Guardian - By Bethan McKernan

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has announced it will shut by the end of the week after authorities used national security law to freeze its bank accounts and funding and arrest top editors. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids

The Guardian - Helen Davidson in Taipei

Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

Macron and Le Pen lose out as French voters shun local elections

The Guardian - By Kim Willsher in Paris

Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer

John Bercow defects to Labour with withering attack on Johnson

The Guardian

Ebrahim Raisi is seen as close to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photograph: Wana News Agency/Reuters

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi hailed as Iran’s new president

The Guardian - By Patrick Wintour

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Juneteenth becomes federal holiday celebrating end of slavery in US

The Guardian - By Guardian staff and agencies

Photograph: Jacob King/PA

British politics is still drunk on Brexit spirit, and Boris Johnson won’t call time

The Guardian - By Rafael Behr

Nicolas Sarkozy, 66, and his team are accused of spending almost twice the legal €22.5m (£19.4m) limit for the presidential campaign against François Hollande. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP

Nicolas Sarkozy to appear before judge in campaign funding case

The Guardian - By Kim Willsher

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Police officers escort a victim (C) after gunfire erupted at a busy entertainment district in Austin, Texas, June 12, 2021, in this still image taken from video provided on social media.

4 mass shootings in 6 hours leave 38 wounded, 6 dead across US

The Guardian - By Bill Hutchinson

Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will hear the first testimony against her in a junta court on 14 June Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Trial of Aung San Suu Kyi to begin in Myanmar after military coup

The Guardian

‘Life is not a preparation for the hereafter’: Sir Ian McKellen wears blazer and scarf by Dries Van Noten (libertylondon.com) and his own hat. Photograph: Alex Bramall/The Observer

Sir Ian McKellen: ‘What does old mean? Quite honestly I feel about 12’

The Guardian - By Tom Lamont

Boris Johnson with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, England. Photograph: Reuters

G7: Boris Johnson to face pressure from EU on Northern Ireland

The Guardian - By Heather Stewart

Photograph: Phil Noble/AFP/Getty Images

All the Queen’s presidents: Biden joins long line of US leaders to meet royal

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