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‘I’ve never been so obsessed with a band’: readers’ best albums of 2025 so far
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:00:43 GMT

Bad Bunny blasting bigotry against Puerto Ricans, Davido’s uplifting vibes and a blast from trip-hop’s past. Here’s what has caught your ear this year
• Read the Guardian’s best albums of the year so far

Constellations for the Lonely is a fabulous return for Doves: textured, layered and, as ever, occupying a space and sound all their own. From the futuristic reflection of Renegade to the soulful Cold Dreaming to the thought provoking A Drop in the Ocean, and the devastating realisation of loss in Last Year’s Man ... This is a band confronting the past, to channel hope and find redemption by coming through challenges that can only be overcome through genuine friendship. Steven, Wolverhampton

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Experience: I’ve walked across three countries in a straight line
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:00:25 GMT

I didn’t train for my first attempt and got stuck on a mountain with no signal, darkness falling and hypothermia setting in

Growing up, I loved the outdoors. I gallivanted through the Staffordshire countryside with my stepbrother, Greg. We used to pick a point in the distance and create “missions” to walk towards it. It was a mischievous challenge that saw us hopping fences, wading through rivers and sneaking around farmers.

I was also obsessed with maps, and even read the Birmingham A-Z for fun. When Google Earth came out in 2005, I spent hours studying satellite images.

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Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:00:39 GMT

A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it

By the time Jesse Owens bowed his head from the highest podium tier to be crowned with his fourth Olympic wreath in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Europe’s premiers knew they had a problem. In front of a record-setting crowd at games that should have been a lavish display of Aryan propaganda, Owens’s unmatched athleticism on the track humiliated the host Nazi regime and smashed one of the vital ideological pillars upon which European empires annexed the world into their racial order. Since the inception of race-based slavery and settler-colonialism in the 15th century, the novel idea that human beings could be stratified into distinct “races,” with superiority defaulting to white Europeans, was bolstered by the claim that white racial supremacy was the rational outcome of the “natural” biophysical, intellectual and aesthetic ascendancy of white people, and thus of whiteness itself.

Adolf Hitler watched Owens, the five-time world record holder and grandson of enslaved people, triumph in his first event from a lavishly decorated imperial box, and abruptly exited the arena thereafter rather than witness Aryan athletes stumble to place second. In his conspicuous departure, a reluctant admission heard around the world had been made. A pillar was smashed. European physical superiority had been proven an undeniable fallacy and, more insultingly, Black dominance on the track was now a quantifiable fact. The ideological stakes of white supremacy – that whites were the smarter race, the sole ones capable of higher thought, that white people were the most physically beautiful, and also that the cultural products of whiteness were the most artistically valuable to advanced civilization – had suffered a powerful blow and shifted on its heels.

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In the Arena: Serena Williams review – there is just no one in the world that matches up to her (and her sister)
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:55:21 GMT

This eight-part docuseries about one of tennis’s most decorated players paints a picture of an astonishing woman – and an even more astonishing sibling relationship

Serena Williams, holder of 39 grand slam titles and four Olympic gold medals, who spent 319 weeks as tennis’s world No 1 and became the highest-earning female athlete in history, never thought she was that good when she was a young player. That was because she was always training against her older sister, Venus (“she was the prodigy of prodigies”), the only person in the world who could really challenge her. A year younger, Serena remembers being shorter and weaker and resorting to cheating on line calls at practice so she could occasionally beat her.

In the Arena: Serena Williams (the title comes from President Roosevelt’s 1910 speech to the Sorbonne – “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena” so, yes, consider me told) is an eight-part docuseries that covers Serena’s rise and rise over her 27-year tennis career before she retired three years ago. Since then, incidentally, she has been busy with her venture capital firm, production company, body care and pain relief startup, beauty line and raising two children. Honestly, it’s like looking in a mirror, is it not?

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Is it true that … there’s no gain without pain?
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:00:39 GMT

Feeling the burn is your body’s way of signalling effort, but you don’t always have to suffer to make progress

The words may have been printed on gym vests for decades, but is “no pain, no gain” actually true when it comes to the benefits of exercise, such as improved cardiovascular health or increased muscle mass?

“Not strictly,” says Dr Oly Perkin from the University of Bath’s Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism (CNEM). “A better way of putting it is that you may make more gains if you experience a bit of pain.”

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Ukraine war briefing: Russia repatriated at least 20 of its own dead soldiers in recent exchanges, Zelenskyy says
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 03:06:39 GMT

‘Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports’, says Zelenskyy, condemning Moscow’s disorganisation in swapping of PoWs and troops’ remains. What we know on day 1,215

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia sent Ukraine at least 20 of its own dead soldiers in recent exchanges with Kyiv, describing it as a result of Moscow’s disorganisation in carrying out large swaps of wounded PoW’s and remains of troops. Zelenskyy said that an “Israeli mercenary” fighting for Moscow was among the dead Ukraine had received. Officials did not disclose the identities of the bodies: “They threw the corpses of their citizens at us. This is their attitude toward war, toward their soldiers. And this is already documented. Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports,” he said. He said the Russian side insisted the dead were all Ukrainians.

Zelenskyy has also accused western firms of supplying Russia with “machine tools” used to make weapons, in remarks made public Saturday. He said companies from Germany, the Czech Republic, South Korea and Japan were among them, as well as one business “supplying a small number of components from the United States.” He said most of the companies supplying tools to Russia were from China, but that dozens of western firms were also culpable: “We have passed on all this information to all countries, our partners, everyone … We strongly urge everyone to impose sanctions on these companies,” the Ukrainian leader added.

The Ukrainian president also called on Ukraine’s western partners to allocate 0.25% of their GDP to helping Kyiv ramp up weapons production and said the country plans to sign agreements this summer to start exporting weapon production technologies. In remarks released for publication Saturday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was in talks with Denmark, Norway, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Lithuania to launch joint weapon production. He also said on Saturday he was planning staff changes in Ukraine’s diplomatic corps and also in government institutions to boost the country’s resilience. He gave no time frame for the decisions.

Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a leading Belarus opposition figure, was freed on Saturday after more than five years in prison, in the most significant move so far by Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko to try to ease his isolation from the West. Lukashenko has been shunned by the West for years and faced sanctions after brutally crushing pro-democracy demonstrations in 2020 and then allowing Vladimir Putin, his close ally, to launch part of his 2022 invasion of Ukraine from Belarusian territory. The release came just hours after Belarusian authorities announced that Lukashenko met with US president Donald Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in Minsk.

In the Donetsk region, Russian strikes on Saturday on key towns on the eastern front of the war in Ukraine killed at least one person. The Russian military said its forces had captured another small village in its slow advance westward through Donetsk region. Russian forces struck Sloviansk and Kramatorsk – two cities that Moscow will target as its forces press on. Donetsk region Governor Vadym Filashkin said one person died and three were injured in Sloviansk. In Kramatorsk, officials said at least one person was trapped under rubble and a number of other residents were injured.

In the north, another person died in a drone attack in the north near the Russian border, Ukrainian officials said. A mass drone attack on the town of Nizhyn near the Russian border killed one person and damaged local infrastructure. Reports from Kharkiv region in the north-east suggested Russian troops were closing in on the city of Kupiansk. On Friday, the Russian Defence Ministry said it had captured the village of Moskovka, just outside the city of Kupiansk.

Deportation of Ukrainians is part of a continuing “cleansing” operation of the occupied territories, reports the Guardian’s Shaun Walker in Zaporizhzhia, which may accelerate if US-led attempts to push Russia and Ukraine into a peace deal result in the freezing of the current frontlines, solidifying Russian control over the territory Moscow has seized over the past three years.

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Greens demand Labor reveal whether Pine Gap used in Iran strikes – as it happened
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:35:03 GMT

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‘We’re not just a vassal state’

Hastie says he would be reluctant to commit Australian troops to any conflict with Iran that the US elects to join, but said any decision about logistical support would be “a decision for the government”.

We need greater transparency. Secretary Hegseth appeared before the arms committee this week, last week, he talked about the Indo-Pacific and named communist China as the Pacific threat – his words and he talked about the US building up its forward posture in the Indo-Pacific. He spoke specifically of Australia, Japan and the Philippines. We’re very much part of the integrated deterrence that the US is building in the region.

We need greater transparency, to talk about operationalising the alliance, building guardrails for combat operations and defining our sovereignty. This will make things clearer for us, so we can better preserve our national interests. We’re not just a vassal state, we’re an ally, partner and it’s time we had a discussion about what that looks like.

One thing is clear. If you are Iran and you survive this conflict with your regime intact and a nuclear program intact, I think you will move at best speed to build a bomb, to put yourself in the strongest position the, in time this happens.

They will use it.

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Rocket Report: Two big Asian reuse milestones, Vandenberg becomes SpaceX west
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:02:28 +0000
"This is potentially going to be a problem."
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‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:00:37 GMT

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files

‘It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shining on the buildings. Everything down there was bright – very, very bright. You could see the city from 50 miles away, the rivers bisecting it, the aiming point. It was clear as a bell. It was perfect. The perfect mission.”

I’m sitting in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco opposite the navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The year is 2004, and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, aged 83, has agreed to be interviewed for a book I’m writing for the 60th anniversary of that fateful mission. Van Kirk informs me, with the trace of a smile, that this will probably be the last interview in his life.

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‘A new space to play in’: can vertical dramas save the UK’s TV sector?
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Shot in vertical, phone-friendly aspect and produced on the quick, the Chinese-import format is bringing work to an ailing industry

They’re a Chinese cultural phenomenon which keeps millions of viewers glued to their phones, but the runaway success of “vertical dramas” is providing an unlikely source of employment for film and TV crews here in the UK.

The bite-size melodramas have breathless titles such as A Flash Marriage with the Billionaire and My Firefighter ex-Husband Burns in Regret, and are chopped into one minute episodes for avid consumption on viewers’ vertically held smartphones.

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Israel Says Iran Is Hacking Security Cameras for Spying
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: Ukrainian hackers reportedly knock out a key Russian internet provider, China’s Salt Typhoon hackers claim another victim, and the UK hits 23andMe with a hefty fine over its 2023 data breach.
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America’s Oligarch Problem
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:07:15 +0000
How did the United States join Russia and China as an oligarchy? The staff writer Evan Osnos chronicles the shift in his new book, “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich.”
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From Street Fighter to Final Fantasy: Yoko Shimomura, the composer who put the classical in gaming’s classics
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:00:38 GMT

With a four-decade career beginning at Capcom in the 8-bit era, Shimomura is one of the most acclaimed names in gaming. She recalls her early struggles – and explains why her beloved classical music fits best with RPGs

Alfred Hitchcock, David Attenborough, Harold Pinter, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Hideo Kojima – these are just a few of the recipients of the Bafta fellowship, the highest honour the academy can bestow. Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura is the latest to receive the accolade; one of only 17 women and four Japanese people to have done so. She is also the first video-game composer to be recognised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the first composer recognised at all since John Barry in 2005.

It is with good reason that the academy has honoured her. Shimomura is an icon. You’ll know her music from Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Kingdom Hearts, Legend of Mana, Streets of Rage and more than 70 other games she has contributed original compositions or arrangements to. Her 37-year-long career has seen her record at Abbey Road Studios, have her music played by symphonic orchestras around the world, and work in genres ranging from rock to electronica, ambient to industrial, pop to opera. And yet Shimomura seems unchanged by her success.

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Hong Kong teachers allegedly told to avoid US Independence Day events
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:28:37 GMT

Messages advise staff to also warn students off celebrations to avoid violating national security law

Teachers in Hong Kong have been warned to keep themselves and students away from any US Independence Day celebrations as they may breach national security laws, educators have alleged.

A text message purportedly sent by the principal of a Hong Kong school to staff said the education bureau’s regional education office had reminded them “to be careful about Independence Day activities organised by the US consulate in Hong Kong, and not to participate to avoid violating the national security law and Hong Kong laws”.

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Weather tracker: Mexico’s Pacific coast hit by tropical storm and hurricane
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:07:59 GMT

Tropical Storm Dalila brings flooding to Acapulco, while Hurricane Erick causes disruption in Oaxaca state

While the western Atlantic has experienced a quiet start to the hurricane season, the eastern Pacific has recently become fairly active, producing a tropical storm and a category 4 hurricane within a few days.

The first and weaker of these systems, Tropical Storm Dalila, developed into a tropical storm late last week. Although this storm stayed off the coast of Mexico and was relatively weak to other storms that have developed in this region, Dalila brought flooding and mudslides to the resort town of Acapulco, in western Mexico.

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Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:25:10 GMT

In phone call, Paetongtarn Shinawatra discusses border dispute with former Cambodian leader and calls him ‘uncle’

Thailand’s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, apologised after a leaked phone conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen prompted public anger and threatened the collapse of her government.

In the leaked call, Paetongtarn – daughter of the populist former leader Thaksin Shinawatra – discusses an ongoing border dispute with Hun Sen, who is known to be a friend of her family.

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India illegally deporting Muslim citizens at gunpoint to Bangladesh, say rights groups
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:00:51 GMT

There are fears the crackdown against ‘outsiders’ is driving widespread persecution as expelled Indians are returned by Bangladesh border guards

The Indian government has been accused of illegally deporting Indian Muslims to Bangladesh, prompting fears of an escalating campaign of persecution.

Thousands of people, largely Muslims suspected of being illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, have been rounded up by police across India in recent weeks, according to human rights groups, with many of them deprived of due legal process and sent over the border to neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

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England v India: first men’s cricket Test, day three – live
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:46:41 GMT

• Updates from day three at Headingley, 11am BST start

• Counties to vote on radical shake-up to cut matches

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The players line up for a minute’s applause in memory of Syd Lawrence. Motor neurone disease sounds unimaginably horrific. You can read about it – or watch the Australian show Mr Inbetween, which has an astonishing portrayal of a man with MND – but I can’t imagine anything prepares a family for the impact it has.

Ben Duckett on Ollie Pope

He was just so calm coming out. He probably couldn’t come out in tougher conditions, with Jasprit Bumrah running down the hill with the lights on. I don’t know what’s inside his head, but he’s just stayed true to the way he plays, and there’s no better feeling than that, scoring a hundred against that attack, coming out in the first over. You could see it in the way he celebrated, and it didn’t just mean a lot to him, it meant a huge amount in the dressing room as well. I had goosebumps for him.

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AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers?
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 05:00:41 +0000
To understand how AI will reshape the future of work, there are few better places to start than India’s $280 billion business process outsourcing sector.
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Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:52:06 GMT

Islamabad says US president helped resolve India conflict but critic says ‘Israel’s sugar daddy in Gaza’ not candidate for any prize

Pakistan has said it will recommend Donald Trump for the Nobel peace prize for his work in helping to resolve the recent conflict between India and Pakistan.

The move, announced on Saturday, came as the US president mulls joining Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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Revisiting “Columbus,” a Thrilling Drama of Growing Up Modernist
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:33:57 +0000
Kogonada’s first feature, starring Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, and Parker Posey, highlights the inspirational power of the architecture for which Columbus, Indiana, is famed.
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Your Guardian Sport weekend: England v India, Club World Cup, tennis and NBA
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:15:44 GMT

Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports

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Thawing of relations between Pakistan and US raises eyebrows in India
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:24:07 GMT

Army chief’s effusive welcome in Washington hints at strategic recalibration amid Middle East turmoil

After years in the diplomatic deep freeze, US-Pakistan ties appear to be quickly thawing, with Donald Trump’s effusive welcome for Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, signalling a possible major reset.

Once snubbed so badly that former prime minister Imran Khan had to board an ordinary airport shuttle after arriving in the US rather than being whisked off in a limousine, Pakistan is now enjoying top-level access in Washington, including a White House lunch for Munir on Wednesday and meetings with top national security officials.

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Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:32:25 +0000
Politicians have a yen for handouts
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Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:32:47 +0000
Politicians are reaching for increasingly extreme measures
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New Zealand halts millions of dollars in aid to Cook Islands over deals struck with China
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:56:47 GMT

Wellington says it has paused payment of some funding until Pacific island nation takes steps to ‘repair the relationship and restore trust’

New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials from the New Zealand foreign minister’s office has said.

New Zealand, which is the Cook Islands biggest funder, won’t consider any new money for the nation until the relationship improves, a spokesperson for foreign minister Winston Peters told the Associated Press on Thursday.

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Cambodia bans fruit imports and soap operas from Thailand as border dispute sours
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:41:27 GMT

The border dispute has led to a surge in nationalist sentiment and tit-for-tat actions by both governments

Cambodia has banned imports of fruit and vegetables from Thailand, the latest escalation in a series of retaliatory actions sparked by a long-running border dispute between the South-east Asian neighbours.

Tensions flared in May when troops briefly exchanged fire at a contested area of the border, killing a Cambodian soldier.

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‘I feel completely drained’: young professionals swamped by ‘infinite workdays’
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:00:35 GMT

For many, work starts before sunrise and stretches late into the night, with nearly 270 notifications a day, report finds

It is 10pm in Seoul, South Korea, but Hyun Jin Lee is not heading home. The recent college graduate – an employee in the IT industry – is at a mandatory team dinner.

“I end up working late almost every day,” laughs Lee. “By the end of the day, I feel completely drained, like I’ve used up all my energy [and] I can’t really do anything on weekdays after work.”

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Squid Game: the show’s worst characters are back … and they’re as unbelievably wooden as ever
Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:00:02 GMT

The South Korean smash hit drama that gripped global audiences returns for a final instalment. It’s brutal, cruel and, sadly, brings back the animal-mask wearing VIPs whose season one appearance caused global mockery

Look alive – Squid Game returns this week! There’s still no sign of any squid, which is the kind of false advertising that ruined The Pink Panther. But that’s good, because squid are terrifying. Once, showing off on holiday, I offered to cook for a group of friends. I didn’t speak the language where we were, and ended up leaving the fishmonger with a big bag of tentacles. As I attempted to remove the head, guts, beak and skin of the creatures, their internal sacs burst, coating me in viscous black ink. I suffered an allergic reaction, don’t eat squid any more, and don’t see those friends.

Squid Game the TV show (Netflix, Friday 26 June) has proved even more traumatising. Set on a hidden island, the competition pits hundreds of desperate, indebted people against each other in a series of children’s games. The winner gets millions, while the losers are executed by guards, or die via gruesome, in-game accidents. The show’s brilliance is the way it amplifies the emotional stakes of each set-up. Players bond, form alliances, then have to murder each other to survive. The weak are ganged up on, cowards exploit loopholes in the rules to screw over everyone else, while those who make selfless choices are punished. Usually.

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Air India survivor carries brother’s coffin amid questions over plane’s emergency systems
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:40:33 GMT

Investigators reportedly examining whether ‘last resort’ ram air turbine functioned after takeoff

The sole survivor of the Air India crash has helped carry his brother’s flower-heaped coffin to a crematorium in the western Indian coastal town of Diu, days after they plummeted into the ground shortly after takeoff.

With bandages still on his face and arm, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, who was discharged from hospital on Tuesday, broke into sobs and was consoled by relatives.

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The Air India crash and the miracle of seat 11A - podcast
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:00:00 GMT

Aviation journalist Jeff Wise on the crash of flight AI171, in which at least 270 people died, and how one passenger in seat 11A managed to survive

Air India flight AI171 took off from Ahmedabad airport on the afternoon of 12 June with 242 people on board. Less than a minute later, it had crashed into a medical college about 1km away.

Including those on the ground, at least 270 people were killed. But one passenger miraculously survived. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British national sat in seat 11A, was able to walk away from the scene – though, as he found out soon after, his brother had died on board.

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Bali flights cancelled after Indonesian volcano spews 10km-high ash tower
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:26:30 GMT

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on the island of Flores, east of Bali, erupted on Tuesday afternoon, leading to several airlines cancelling flights

A volcano in eastern Indonesia has spewed a colossal ash tower into the sky, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Bali.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,584m twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, east of Bali, erupted at 5.35pm local time on Tuesday, the volcanology agency said in a statement.

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Can China reclaim its IPO crown?
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:54:13 +0000
Hong Kong is hot. The mainland very much is not
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FedEx founder and former boss Fred Smith dies aged 80
Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:22:55 GMT
The Vietnam War veteran started the firm in 1973 with 14 planes before it became a global brand.
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Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
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America and China have spooked each other
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:37:40 +0000
With the costs of the trade war abundantly clear, officials seek to restore their truce
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How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI
Thu, 29 May 2025 09:54:01 +0000
The country’s sprawling industrial policy is beyond mere human comprehension
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?
Thu, 15 May 2025 09:54:29 +0000
Progress in trade talks has so far been slow
Match ID: 32 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 38 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

America has given China a strangely good tariff deal
Mon, 12 May 2025 15:08:15 +0000
For the next 90 days, at least
Match ID: 33 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 40 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash
Wed, 07 May 2025 17:11:54 +0000
Might tariffs fall from their mountainous highs?
Match ID: 34 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 45 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America
Thu, 01 May 2025 09:11:26 +0000
A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone
Match ID: 35 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 52 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:23:03 +0000
Trade between China and America is already sinking
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?
Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:45:39 +0000
Perhaps. But nastier outcomes are also imaginable
Match ID: 37 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
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America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:20:45 +0000
South-East Asia is exposed to both Chinese import competition and American ire
Match ID: 38 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 67 days
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Investors realise Trump’s pause was not the salvation it appeared
Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:03:24 +0000
As China strikes back, reality sets in
Match ID: 39 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 72 days
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Can China fight America alone?
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:16:55 +0000
The world’s two biggest economies begin an almighty trade clash
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China has a weapon that could hurt America: rare-earth exports
Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:11:39 +0000
It has only just begun to use it
Match ID: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 73 days
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Why China thinks it might win a trade war with Trump
Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:43:49 +0000
The country’s officials vow to “fight to the end”
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs
Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:55:54 +0000
Stockmarkets plunge further in response
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Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:07:30 +0000
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
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Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:25:03 +0000
An economic recovery depends on it. Yet a new action plan may not do the job
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Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever
Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:16:05 +0000
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
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China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:11:06 +0000
They did not want to bail out indebted firms. Now they are on the verge of doing so
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:46:53 +0000
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:05:43 +0000
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:04:26 +0000
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
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China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:45:53 +0000
When will something break?
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:37:51 +0000
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
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China’s markets take a fresh beating
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:30:24 +0000
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:22:45 +0000
Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

What a censored speech says about China’s economy
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:09:08 +0000
If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

The hidden cost of Chinese loans
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:12:33 +0000
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT

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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
Match ID: 69 Score: 5.71 source: www.nasa.gov age: 338 days
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India has a chance to cure its investment malaise
Thu, 29 May 2025 10:08:06 +0000
Global trade turmoil presents a rare opportunity
Match ID: 70 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 24 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Should investors spend the trade war in India?
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:30:52 +0000
Mumbai may be a haven, but it is not a safe one
Match ID: 71 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

India has undermined a popular myth about development
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:55:44 +0000
Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels
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qualifiers: 5.00 india

Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:20:10 +0000
Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
Match ID: 73 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 136 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:47:46 +0000
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92
Match ID: 74 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 175 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
Match ID: 75 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 227 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
Match ID: 76 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 255 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:16:45 +0000
Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
Match ID: 77 Score: 1.43 source: www.economist.com age: 192 days
qualifiers: 1.43 bangladesh

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