President Volodymyr Zelensky had hoped to secure more support from the Group of 7 nations, but the crisis in the Middle East was seen as a more urgent priority.

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The lead singer of the alternative rock band "The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus" told supporters of President Donald Trump they are permanently banned from his shows Saturday.

“Memaw sells drugs and uses them. She makes us stay in the dog cage when she wants to go outside by herself.”

Adriana Smith, who has been brain dead since February, but kept alive because she was 9 weeks pregnant, was set to be taken off life support after doctors delivered her baby via C-section.

Michael Kay’s frustrations with the Yankees, who have gone 29 straight innings without scoring a run, were palpable as he called the final out of Tuesday’s game.  The Yankees fell to the Angels, 4-0, as their losing streak reached five games. As Paul Goldschmidt swung and missed for the final out, Kay seemed almost in...

Three new products, including a foie gras created from cultured Japanese quail cells, have been approved for sale

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For over a decade, lab-grown meat has been hailed as the food of tomorrow – a plate changing technological innovation that is right around the corner. Now, in Australia, tomorrow has finally come.

After a two-year-long approval process, Food Standards Australia New Zealand has given Australian food technology startup Vow foods the green light to sell three products made from cultured quail cells.

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As the reigning pennant-winning manager, Aaron Boone will be in the dugout leading the American League squad for the All-Star Game next month in Atlanta.He will not be the only manager there associated with the Yankees.

An unhinged Lowe’s employee shot and killed his coworker as he operated a forklift during an overnight shift at the hardware store -- then bizarrely fessed up to the murder in an email to human resources.

Irons, now 21, was a 13-year-old student at El Segundo Middle School when other teens began bullying her between November 2017 and June 2018.

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• Silva says City players ‘very used to’ gruelling schedule

Bernardo Silva will captain Manchester City at the Club World Cup, with the Portuguese player saying he could leave the club when his contract expires next June.

The 30-year-old signed in the summer of 2017 and is one of Pep Guardiola’s most trusted players, a status reflected in the manager nominating him to lead the campaign to claim the inaugural 32-team competition in the US.

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A tangy pea, potato and coconut curry, and a soupy, spicy delight from northern India – and both meat-free

The sweetness of fresh green peas works so well with Indian curries and spices, and June is the month to make the most of them, because they’re now at their peak. Even the empty pods have so much flavour and sweetness, which makes them perfect for a quick salad on the side (toss thinly sliced raw, blanched or even griddled pods with chopped tomato, sliced onion and coriander, drizzle over some fresh mint raita and sprinkle with chaat masala). Blanch the fresh peas without any seasoning before you make the curry, then add them to the simmering gravy near the end. You can swap them for frozen peas, too, if you like.

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© Photograph: Matthew Hague/The Guardian. Food stylist: Ellie Mulligan. Prop stylist: Rachel Vere.

Tyranny is contagious – and western governments’ reluctance to name the threat is helping it spread

There is no founding charter or admissions process to the self-selecting group of “leading” economic powers that currently numbers seven. It was the G8 from 1997 to March 2014. Then Russia annexed Crimea and had its membership suspended, establishing the rule that participating nations should not seize their neighbours’ land.

The White House used to condemn that sort of thing on the grounds that “it violates the principles upon which the international system is built”. These days, not so much. On Sunday, shortly after arriving for a G7 meeting in the Canadian resort of Kananaskis, Donald Trump told his host, the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, that Vladimir Putin’s expulsion from the club had been a “big mistake”.

Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist

One year of Labour, with Pippa Crerar, Rafael Behr and more

On 9 July, join Pippa Crerar, Rafael Behr, Frances O’Grady and Salma Shah as they look back at one year of the Labour government and plans for the next four years

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© Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters

Garments thrown out by consumers from Next, George, M&S and others found in or near conservation areas

Clothes discarded by UK consumers and shipped to Ghana have been found in a huge rubbish dump in protected wetlands, an investigation has found.

Reporters for Unearthed working with Greenpeace Africa found garments from Next in the dump and other sites, and items from George at Asda and Marks & Spencer washed up nearby.

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© Photograph: Misper Apawu/AP

According to the French streaming platform’s analysis, fraudsters use bots to listen to AI music and take the royalties

Up to seven out of 10 streams of artificial intelligence-generated music on the Deezer platform are fraudulent, according to the French streaming platform.

The company said AI-made music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the music streaming platform but its analysis shows that fraudsters are behind up to 70% of those streams.

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© Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson voiced concerns Monday about potential federal troop deployment to his city as part of former President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Front-runner Andrew Cuomo's comfortable lead in the Democratic primary race for mayor is shrinking, with surging democratic socialist rival Zohran Mamdani cutting the ex-governor's lead from a month ago in half , according to a new survey released Wednesday.

Biden-appointed U.S. Judge Julia Kobick issued a ruling Tuesday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s move to only allow two genders, male and female, on U.S. passports.

"We had to stay calm because the younger girls were freaking out too, so I sang some songs, I tried to cheer them up," Girl Scout Emilia Krieger said.

Israel’s attacks on uranium enrichment facilities have caused localised radioactivity, but contamination appears limited

PFAS are a commercial hit — that should not play a part in how they are categorised

PM’s decision was controversial with some Labour strategists fearing it gave Reform UK too much credibility

Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party

Consulting group offered pro bono work to UNRWA shortly after Israel’s military campaign began in late 2023

Karen Read's murder trial now rests with the jury, which appears focused on a drunken driving charge after prosecutors played clips of her discussing spiking her own drinks.

Experts say the strikes have delayed Tehran’s bomb-making by months – but may undermine chances of a diplomatic solution

In just a few days of war, Israel has killed more than a dozen of Iran’s top nuclear scientists, taken out much of its top military hierarchy and attacked key parts of its nuclear programme.

It has been a powerful display of Israeli military and intelligence dominance, but has not critically damaged Iran’s widely dispersed and heavily protected nuclear programme, Israeli military commanders and international nuclear proliferation experts agree.

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Tinder is trialling a height filter, following in the footsteps of some other popular apps. What is behind the ‘6ft fixation’ in dating – and could it be scuppering the chance of true connection?

Height is often seen as a dealbreaker when it comes to romance, particularly within heterosexual relationships. But when Tinder recently said that it was trialling a feature that allows some premium users to filter potential matches by height, it quickly proved controversial. “Oh God. They added a height filter,” lamented one Reddit thread, while an X user claimed: “It’s over for short men.”

“I’ve experimented with not putting my height on my dating profile, or lying about it just to see, and the number of likes I get shoots up massively,” says Stuart, who is in his 50s and from the Midlands. “I know I get screened out by the majority of women from the off.” At 5ft 7in (170cm), Stuart is just two inches below the UK and US male average height of 5ft 9in, but a height filter would probably prevent him from receiving as many matches.

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© Composite: Guardian Design; Prathamesh Dixit/Getty Images

As the Trump administration’s security focus shifts towards countering China, European governments are living on borrowed time

Call it the five-for-five summit. When Nato leaders meet in The Hague next week, European allies will sign up to a phoney transatlantic bargain in which they pretend they will spend 5% of their economic output on defence and Donald Trump pretends in return that he is committed to Article 5 of the Nato treaty, the mutual defence clause that he has repeatedly undermined.

The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, is deploying all his considerable political wiles and powers of persuasion to contrive a short, “no surprises” summit at which fundamental differences over Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, trade, the Middle East and liberal democratic values are deliberately excluded.

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre

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Former President Biden visited the set with his wife Jill and his son Hunter.

Dave Portnoy was incensed at Marina Mabrey and the WNBA after the Sun guard got into a tussle with Caitlin Clark during Tuesday’s game between Connecticut and the Fever. 

Sam Bennett's 15 goals throughout the Stanley Cup Playoffs earned him the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Panthers defeated the Oilers in Game 6 to win consecutive Stanley Cup titles.

Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu hit a career milestone to lift New York past the Atlanta Dream with an 86-81 victory on Tuesday night.

As badly as the Braves have performed this season there is something about playing the Mets, that brings out their late-inning heroics.

Luke Weaver, recovering from a strained hamstring, threw live batting practice on Tuesday ahead of the Yankees' game against the Angels in The Bronx.

Canada may be the home of hockey, but the Stanley Cup is maintaining its residence in the Sunshine State. Read More

Major League Soccer’s leading scorer and his family have been stuck in Israel since conflict in the region broke out between the Jewish state and Iran. 

This town is big enough for the two of them, it turns out.

• Florida win Game 6 to claim series 4-2

• Panthers also beat Oilers in last year’s final

The Florida Panthers repeated as Stanley Cup champions by beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 in Game 6 of the final on Tuesday night, becoming the NHL’s first back-to-back winners since Tampa Bay in 2020 and 2021, and the third team to do so this century.

Sam Reinhart scored four goals, becoming just the fourth player in league history to achieve the feat in a Stanley Cup final game. His third to complete the hat-trick sent rats, along with hats, flying on to the ice. Matthew Tkachuk, one of the faces of the franchise, fittingly scored the Cup clincher.

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© Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images

Sam Reinhart poured in four goals as the Florida Panthers took down the Edmonton Oilers to once again be crowned Stanley Cup champions, this time doing so in six games.

The Marist survey suggests that Andrew M. Cuomo is still the favorite to win the Democratic primary, but his advantage over Zohran Mamdani is dwindling.

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Spiritual practitioners fear that legislation imposing prison time for vaguely defined occult services could cast a wide net.