57 m. ago Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The Florida immigration detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is being met by opposition from a range of groups concerned with its impacts on local Native American tribes, the Everglades ecosystem and human rights for migrants

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1 hour ago Convenience store of the 'future' opens powered by AI and robots

Lawson, a convenience store in Japan, has gone full tech in a store in Tokyo in partnership with KDDI in a bid to improve customer experience and collect data on how their stores work by using AI

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3 h. ago ‘I get what I deserve’: Sabalenka says peace talks helped clear the air with Coco Gauff

World No 1’s TikTok dance helps to smooth things overSabalenka: ‘I just lost it. Of course she’s got my respect’Winning Wimbledon is hard enough to do when everything’s going swimmingly off the court as well as on it. When something is rumbling beneath the surface, focusing on the job in hand can be almost impossible.So it was perhaps no surprise that Aryna Sabalenka chose to clear the air with Coco Gauff after the world No 1’s harsh words in the wake of her painful loss to the American in the final of the French Open this month. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘I get what I deserve’: Sabalenka says TikTok dance helped clear the air with Coco Gauff

World No 1 smooths things over after Paris final outburstSabalenka: ‘I just lost it. Of course she’s got my respect’Winning Wimbledon is hard enough to do when everything’s going swimmingly off the court as well as on it. When something is rumbling beneath the surface, focusing on the job in hand can be almost impossible.So it was perhaps no surprise that Aryna Sabalenka chose to clear the air with Coco Gauff after the world No 1’s harsh words in the wake of her painful loss to the American in the final of the French Open this month. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Israeli strikes kill more than 60 people in Gaza, health officials say

Latest deaths come amid worsening humanitarian situation despite renewed hope for ceasefireAt least 62 people have been killed in Gaza by overnight Israeli strikes, according to health officials, as the humanitarian situation worsens in the besieged strip despite renewed hope for a ceasefire.Airstrikes began overnight on Friday and continued into Saturday morning, killing a dozen people near a displacement shelter near Palestine Stadium in Gaza City. A strike at midday on Saturday killed at least 11 people. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery

Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things aroundAs Los Angeles county’s new $720m art museum building nears completion, it’s still haunted by a single, vexing question: how do you hang art in a gallery where every single wall is made of massive slabs of concrete?Designed by Peter Zumthor, a prizewinning Swiss architect, the new building at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) has sparked controversy in the art world since its initial designs were made public in 2013. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Feral seagulls are 'close to killing a human' as stark warning issued to Brits

A warning has been issued after a child was left with "blood running down her face" in flurry of horrific attacks from the flying gulls with politicians calling for more to be done

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7 h. ago Rei Kawakubo redefines men's suits with radical designs at Paris Fashion Week

Rei Kawakubo, the ever-restless force behind Comme des Garçons, delivered a characteristically unpredictable twist on men’s tailoring at Paris Fashion Week

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12 h. ago How an 'AI bodyguard' could help to keep women safe on the streets of London

Ina Jovicic, 26, was inspired to design the device after she was attacked by four men while walking home at night in London

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12 h. ago ‘We need to reclaim these words’: Inside England’s first romance

Saucy Books in London has become the go-to destination for romance readers – but fans say misogyny is stopping the genre getting the recognition it deservesWhether you want a brooding billionaire, a queer awakening, a dragon rider (yes, really) or an old-fashioned enemies-to-lovers tale, there’s a romance novel for everybody at Saucy Books.England’s first romance-only bookshop opened last week in Notting Hill, west London, instantly becoming a go-to destination for readers and turning into a meeting spot for like-minded folk to share their love stories. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago ‘Positive cascades could help accelerate change’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy LentonTimothy Lenton is a professor of climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter. He started working on tipping points in the 1990s, making him one of the first scientists in the world to study this form of planetary risk. In an upcoming book, Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis, he argues the Earth has entered an “unstable period” but humanity can still prevail if we can trigger positive social and economic tipping points to reverse the damage that has already been done. On 30 June, he will host a global conference on tipping points. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Sir David Beckham joins Mail Sport in calling for England's greatest World Cup captain Bobby Moore to be given honour he richly deserves

MIKE KEEGAN AND RYAN HOOPER: Sir David Beckham today leads the star names calling for 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore to be given a posthumous knighthood.

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14 h. ago The global south needs more than tinkering at a conference: debt forgiveness is the only fair way | Kenneth Mohammed

Next week, a UN summit in Seville will discuss the future of financing the world’s poorer nations. It should first concede that the old methods have failedIt is 2025, and the architecture of economic power remains grossly tilted against the nations of the global south. Nowhere is this imbalance more acute – and more enduring – than in the debilitating impact of sovereign debt.From the vast countries of Africa to the scattered but strategically vital small island developing states (Sids) of the Caribbean and the Pacific, debt has become a modern form of bondage – the chains that restrict growth, sovereignty and the basic human dignity of nations struggling to define their own path to development. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago SFA's amatuer system risks another season of chaos for youth football

Record View says 'there can be no excuse for another round of infuriating delays, exacerbated by the lack of any human helpline to streamline the process.'

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16 h. ago SFA's amateur system risks another season of chaos for youth football

Record View says 'there can be no excuse for another round of infuriating delays, exacerbated by the lack of any human helpline to streamline the process.'

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19 h. ago Tommy Hilfiger takes a TUMBLE at Bezos wedding as lip reader reveals smirking Tom Brady's reaction

The fashion designer, 74, tripped while trying to get into a water taxi and narrowly avoided falling into the water in front of the newlyweds and all of their other A-list wedding guests.

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21 h. ago ‘It’s a concrete eyesore’: Locals and survivors rage over New Jersey’s ‘unfinished’ 9/11 memorial

Officials say the Empty Sky memorial is complete, but one of its designers and the families of those who perished say otherwise

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24 h. ago ‘American death zones’: Trump admin announces $30m for Gaza aid program where dozens have been killed trying to get food

Testimony collected by The Independent from Palestinians whose family members have been killed at sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation paints a picture of chaos and death

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24 h. ago Trump says US will terminate trade talks with Canada over tax on technology companies – live

President accuses Canada of ‘direct and blatant attack’ over plans to tax US technology companiesThe Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning, Reuters reports.US and China are locked in a technological arms race and with it secure an economic and military edge. The huge amount of data processing behind AI requires a rapid increase in power supplies that are straining utilities and grids in many states.The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, Palestine, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Trump says supreme court limiting judges’ powers is ‘monumental victory’ as liberal justices dissent – live

Sonia Sotomayor says decision is an ‘open invitation to bypass the constitution’; joined by Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown JacksonUS supreme court limits judges’ power on nationwide injunctionsUS supreme court rules key provision of Obamacare constitutionalThe Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning, Reuters reports.US and China are locked in a technological arms race and with it secure an economic and military edge. The huge amount of data processing behind AI requires a rapid increase in power supplies that are straining utilities and grids in many states.The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, Palestine, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeki...

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