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No 10 plan to avert Labour welfare rebellion in chaos amid division over scale of concessions
Welfare bill  
No 10 plan to avert Labour welfare rebellion in chaos amid division over scale of concessions
MPs including select committee chairs express doubts that concessions agreed last week go far enough
Scotland  
Scottish firefighters tackle wildfires for third day as risk to life grows
Crown estate  
King Charles to receive £132m next year after crown estate makes £1.1bn profit
Wimbledon 2025  
Carlos Alcaraz escapes first-round scare as Fabio Fognini tests his limits
Technology  
Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality
In focus
Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law extinguishes last standing pro-democracy party
Hong Kong  
Five years on, Hong Kong’s national security law extinguishes last standing pro-democracy party
League of Social Democrats disbands amid ‘the omnipresence of red lines and the draconian suppression of dissent’, days before anniversary of Beijing’s imposition of NSL
Trump news at a glance  
Republicans scramble to pass ‘one big, beautiful bill’ as deadline looms
‘A new wave of repression’  
Fears for Iran’s political prisoners after Israel war
Features
China  
The spiritual economy: young Chinese turn to fortune tellers as anxiety about the future rises
The spiritual economy: young Chinese turn to fortune tellers as anxiety about the future rises
Film  
Jurassic World Rebirth review – Scarlett Johansson runs show as near-extinct franchise roars back to life
The long read
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
The long read  
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
The long read: Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Petersburg. The scandal revealed a dark truth about the ties between Vienna and Moscow
 

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Opinion
I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?
Rokhaya Diallo
I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?
Liz Kendall is a listening kind of woman but can’t seem to hear Labour discontent on welfare bill
John Crace
Sport
Wimbledon  
Raducanu too strong for teenager Xu in all-British battle
Raducanu too strong for teenager Xu in all-British battle
Cricket  
Mystery swirls around Bumrah as England overlook Archer for second Test
Football  
Fifpro calls for longer half-time breaks after heat ‘wake-up call’ at Club World Cup
Podcast
The French town that banned its tap water and the chemicals that could be in yours - podcast
Today in Focus  
The French town that banned its tap water and the chemicals that could be in yours - podcast
Phoebe Weston heads to Alsace, eastern France, to hear about a ban on drinking water caused by dangerously high levels of ‘forever chemicals’
Climate crisis
In pictures  
Puerto Rico’s solar-powered village
Puerto Rico’s solar-powered village