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Clean-up of Indian coal-fired power plants ‘could have saved 720,000 lives’

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Researchers say early deaths may have been avoided over 10-year period if technology installed

Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name | George Monbiot

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Marcus Decker dared to protest on climate and was punished. Now he could be deported. Is that a humane democracy?

Letting grass grow long boosts butterfly numbers, UK study proves

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Analysis of 60o gardens shows wilder lawns feed caterpillars and create breeding habitat

What to wear now you can’t wear Sambas

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Rishi Sunak has killed them off, at least for now. So while your Sambas take a breather and wait for the storm to pass, here are some other looks led by trainers not yet tainted by having cropped up in the halls of government

Moving pictures: travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal

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Cinemovel is screening Oscar-nominated Io Capitano to packed houses around the country, highlighting the perils migrants face on the journey to Europe

07

News live: Australia must condemn all attacks by both Israel and Iran, Greens say; WA crash kills four

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Reports of explosions in Iranian city of Isfahan prompt sell-off of stocks in Australia – and in other markets such as Japan. Follow the day’s news live

Most UK dairy farms ignoring pollution rules as manure spews into rivers

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Exclusive: 80% of Welsh dairy farms inspected, 69% of English ones, 60% in Scotland and 50% in Northern Ireland breaching regulations

Rwanda bill: what does the latest delay mean?

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Flights have been pushed back to summer after the House of Lords spoke out for Afghans and refugees – here’s what to expect over the coming weeks

Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – fame, fans and former flames in the line of fire

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(Republic) Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms

Breakups, fantasies and her most cutting lyrics: inside Taylor’s Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department

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What are the big takeaways from Swift’s new album? She’s refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation

A historic revolt, a forgotten hero, an empty plinth: is there a right way to remember slavery? – podcast

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As the author of a book about a pivotal uprising in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero. But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started to wonder what he had got himself into

Lost orchards and blossom flourish in placenames across England and Wales

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Doubling of related street, house and farm names since 1900 gives glimpse of flower ‘ghosts’, says National Trust

Joanna Scanlan among actors backing gender equality push in theatre

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Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequality

Basque election: leftwing coalition partly descended from Eta leads in polls

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Surveys suggest EH Bildu’s focus on health, housing and employment is attracting younger voters

06

Peter Bol case prompts Wada to reform synthetic EPO testing processes

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Athletes who record inconclusive initial doping test results for synthetic EPO may be saved from public shaming, following World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) reforms prompted by the Peter Bol saga.

Middle East crisis live: Israel has carried out an attack on Iran, US officials say, after blasts reported near Isfahan

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US officials say military operation carried out, without giving further details; Iran state media says air defences fired and airspace closed in some areas

Teenager dies after suspected crocodile attack in the Torres Strait

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Body of 16-year-old boy discovered with injuries ‘consistent with a crocodile attack’ as wildlife officers search for animal

05

Voting begins in India’s election with Modi widely expected to win third term

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First phase in world’s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period

Do Aur Do Pyaar (Two Plus Two Is Love) review – refreshingly nonjudgmental infidelity romcom

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Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking up

Teenager accused of Sydney church stabbing has history of behaviour consistent with mental illness, court hears

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Police have charged 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence over stabbing of bishop at church in Sydney suburb of Wakeley

The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate – podcast

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In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades later, women have finally begun speaking out about what happened

04

Ukraine war briefing: Donald Trump says survival of Ukraine important to the US

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Former president’s comments are being described as a shift in tone days before Republicans vote on a multibillion-dollar aid package. What we know on day 786

After an absence of 71 years, the green-tinged Devil Comet returns to Australian skies

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While 12P/Pons-Brooks may not be as famous as Halley’s, its appearance close to Jupiter is causing great excitement for stargazers

‘Lost for words’: Joe Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents

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President’s suggestion that his ‘Uncle Bosie’ was eaten by cannibals harms US efforts to build Pacific ties, say local experts

The jurors: who is on the Trump trial jury?

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Seven men and five women have been chosen to sit on the jury in the ex-president’s hush-money trial. Here’s what we know

02

Prince Harry confirms he is now a US resident

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Paperwork filed shows the royal has informed British authorities that he has moved and is now ‘usually resident’ in the United States

Sydney church stabbing: police charge 16-year-old boy with terrorism offence

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Bishop was injured in alleged attack in Wakeley with the teenager expected to appear at a bedside court hearing on Friday

Guardian wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

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Press Awards recognise newspaper’s cross-platform Cotton Capital series amid wins for several Guardian reporters

Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system

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Prime minister to express concern about ‘over-medicalising’ normal worries with diagnoses as mental health conditions

UK supermarkets accused of misleading labelling on origins of food products

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Which? says inconsistencies also found, with ‘meaningless’ labels making it hard for shoppers to make informed choice