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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper founded in 1821. The paper is politically aligned centre-left and along with its Sunday Paper – The Observer – target an educated, middle-class, left-leaning, 18+ audience.
In 2020, data showed The Guardian was the most trusted newspaper in the UK.
Julian Assange, has lost a high court battle to prevent the US government expanding the grounds for its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition to face charges of espionage.
The Guardian says two 14-year-old boys have been arrested after a man was stabbed to death in Chingford, east London.
The Guardian says future exam results in England should be permanently pegged to those awarded in 2020 to avoid pupils being hit by a fall in grades awarded.
The Guardian says you have to go back to the visit of West Indies to Old Trafford in 2007 for the previous time England went into a “live” home Test without either Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad.
The Guardian reports a “pandemic boom” in child poverty and abuse. It says there is a “looming crisis” of child neglect amid a sharp rise in social services referrals since Covid struck.
The Guardian says Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating from Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The Guardian says the Taliban have captured the key Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri, 140 miles north of the capital Kabul, giving the insurgents control of a strategic road junction linking Kabul to the north and west
The Guardian says as Covid cases among children continue to rise in the US due to spread of the Delta variant, experts are urging the federal government to fast-track vaccine approval for those under the age of 12.
The Guardian says the government is coming under pressure to intervene amid concerns that its Covid testing regime for travellers is close to collapse, with thousands failing to be properly tested on their return.
The Guardian says ministers have opened the door to expanding the use of animal testing to ingredients used in cosmetic products for the first time in 23 years, an animal welfare charity has said.
The gap between private and state school A-level pupils leads the Guardian. The paper says teacher-assessed grades “disproportionately benefited those at independent schools”.
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The Guardian says the devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever.
The Guardian says a group of women sing hymns at the cemetery in Harare as undertakers, dressed in Covid-19 protective gear, gently lower a white casket into the grave.
The Guardian says David Cameron made about $10m (£7m) from Greensill Capital before the finance firm he lobbied on behalf of collapsed, according to the BBC.
The Guardian says Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Monday filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in federal court in New York.
The climate crisis is “inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible” in the words of the Guardian. “The verdict is clear,” its leader column says. ‘There is no more room for delay’.
The Guardian says human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.
The Guardian says the government has launched a £4m fund to back projects trialling running fibre optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads.
The Guardian says an eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.
The Guardian says an Ariana Grande fan who attended the Manchester Arena concert in 2017 has been found dead in her bedroom after experiencing depression and PTSD following the bombing.
The Guardian says thousands of people have fled wildfires that are destroying vast swathes of pine forest and razing homes on Greece’s second-largest island, Evia.
The Guardian says the relaxation of lockdown rules in July sparked a surge of hiring among UK firms, but staff shortages caused by the pandemic and Brexit could still undermine the recovery
The Guardian looks ahead to the publication of a major report into climate change science. It quotes scientists who warn that “urgent climate action was needed decades ago”.