Why are so many young people addicted to video games? (www.theguardian.com)
A beloved palm and pine tree mark California’s center. Now they’re being cut down (theguardian.com)
Germany’s first African-born MP to stand down after racist abuse (www.theguardian.com)
The first African-born MP to enter the German parliament has announced he will not be standing in next year’s federal election, weeks after he revealed the hate mail, including racist slurs and death threats, he and his staff had received....
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? (www.theguardian.com)
French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government (www.theguardian.com)
Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour (www.theguardian.com)
Cannabis legalisation hampered by most German of substances: red tape (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil apologises after three diplomats’ Black teenagers searched at gunpoint (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil’s ministry of foreign affairs has been forced to apologise to the embassies of Canada, Gabon and Burkina Faso after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers....
Ex-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro could face money-laundering charges (www.theguardian.com)
Man busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the street (www.theguardian.com)
Golden age for south-east Asian cinema as local films break box office records (www.theguardian.com)
On social media videos, audiences throw packs of tissues around the cinema halls. Tearful TikToks from across Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore show friends leaving the cinema weeping. Thailand’s latest hit film, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, has reduced audiences across south-east Asia to tears –...
The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Stormy Daniels gets more than $900K from GoFundMe after alleged threats (www.theguardian.com)
Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour (www.theguardian.com)
Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...
Top Democrats plan crisis meeting despite Biden’s vow to fight on (www.theguardian.com)
Congressional Democrats are to hold an emergency weekend meeting to discuss Joe Biden’s tottering presidential candidacy, after a primetime television interview failed to dispel doubts triggered by last week’s debate fiasco....
‘Stealing with both hands’: veteran reporter Joe Conason details the right wing’s graft (www.theguardian.com)
Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer (www.theguardian.com)
Andrew Tate can leave Romania while awaiting trial, court rules (www.theguardian.com)
The controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate will be allowed to leave Romania while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, a court has ruled....
Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election (www.theguardian.com)
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Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail (www.theguardian.com)
Viktor Orbán visits Vladimir Putin to condemnation from fellow EU leaders (www.theguardian.com)
Viktor Orbán, Europe’s most pro-Russian leader, met Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Friday on a rare trip to Russia that drew strong condemnation from other European leaders....