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    The Islamic Republic cannot survive unchanged

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  • Books
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  • People crowd around a destroyed building as smoke rises from it

    Iran
    Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150

  • Smokes rise from Jebel Ali port in Dubai after an Iranian missile attack

    Dubai
    ‘We thought it was fireworks’: Dubai’s luxury seekers shaken by Iranian missiles

  • A badly damaged tower block

    Middle East
    UK personnel just 200 metres away from Iranian missile strike

  • Traders at the Kuwait stock exchange

    Oil
    Oil price expected to surge following Iran strikes and strait of Hormuz closure

Iran in depth

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    Analysis
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    Sicily revokes century-old Mondello beach concession over mafia links

    Regional authorities withdraw permit after citing risk of organised crime infiltration linked to a subcontractor
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    UK politics
    Ex-minister adds to UK calls for ban on political donations in cryptocurrency

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    Business
    AI-resistant ‘Halo’ stocks drive UK and EU markets to record highs

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    Mark Carney
    Canada’s Carney to meet Modi in India amid trade uncertainty with US

  • Shia LaBeouf in jeans and a fleece top.

    Shia LaBeouf
    Shia LaBeouf blames ‘small man complex’ for alleged assaults and homophobic slurs

The Sunday read

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    The Sunday read
    An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world’s biggest museum go from here?

    After a heist and the departure of its boss, the French institution wrestles with water leaks, strikes and much-criticised plans for a €1bn renovation

In focus

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    Explained
    What the US–Israeli strikes on Iran mean for the price of oil

    Effective closure of the strait of Hormuz could spell trouble for many developed economies

Features

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    Kindness of strangers
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    Books
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    The big idea
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    Pokémon
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    Life and style
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    Football
    Guardiola condemns fans who booed as Muslim players broke Ramadan fast at Leeds

  • Gianluca Prestianni hides his mouth while arguing with Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior.

    Football
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  • Alexis Mac Allister (left) with his teammate Hugo Ekitiké after putting Liverpool 3-0 ahead

    Football
    Liverpool’s five-star display heaps more pressure on wobbling West Ham

  • Kenneth Roth

    Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression

    Kenneth Roth
    Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Sanam Vakil

    Iran may yet endure this war, but the Islamic Republic as we have known it cannot survive unchanged

    Sanam Vakil
    The regime may now have to meet Trump’s demands merely to save itself. And he needs a coherent plan to deal with what he has unleashed, says Sanam Vakil of Chatham House

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    Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century

    John Harris
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    From Heated Rivalry to the White House, hockey is having a strange American moment

    Dave Schilling
  • Emma Beddington

    Why does admitting you’re ambitious feel so wrong for gen Xers like me?

    Emma Beddington
  • Heather Stewart

    Trump’s Iran strikes accelerate the world’s drift from dollar dominance

    Heather Stewart

  • The Guardian view
    Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US

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    Gorton and Denton: a warning shot across Labour’s bows

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    Martin Rowson
    The Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton

    The Green party has pulled off a landmark victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection in a significant blow to Keir Starmer

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    US
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    Society
    Professor who reportedly paused UK puberty blockers trial removed over bias claims

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    Analysis
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    Turkey
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    Italy
    ‘Who’d guess they’re the same species?’ What Italy’s wall lizards reveal about genetic diversity and why it matters

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    US weather
    Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

  • Education
    UK teachers and parents urged to talk to children about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

  • Retail industry
    Young fashion fans help UK charity shops thrive on struggling UK high streets

  • Exclusive
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  • Politics
    Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan

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  • Media
    ‘Middle East in flames’: what the papers say about the war on Iran

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    Savannah Guthrie may never know what happened to her loved one. In the US, she’s not alone

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    US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say

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    Interview
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    Film
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    Television
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    Honest playlist
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    Podcasts
    A cult survivor looks back at his lost years

  • Olivia Dean on stage in a red dress

    Music
    Hard work, romance and bell hooks: how Olivia Dean became British pop’s newest megastar

  • Neil Sedaka in 1984.

    Neil Sedaka
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What to read

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    Books
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  • Covers of All the Hollow of the Sky, All Fours and Untouchable.

    Books
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  • Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film, directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz.

    Books
    Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?

  • Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor, Devon.

    Books
    Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain’s woodlands

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    Games
    Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film, subtitles and all

  • Leon Kennedy in Resident Evil Requiem.

    Games
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  • Out with the old … Sarah Bond (left) and Phil Spencer (centre) are leaving, while Matt Booty (right) gets a promotion.

    Pushing Buttons
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    Pieced Together review – poignant narrative game gathers bittersweet fragments of a friendship

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    10 Chaotic Questions
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    My cultural awakening
    Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since mended more than 3,000 hearts

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    The Guide newsletter
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    As a psychologist, I’ve seen that polyamory doesn’t fix relationships – it reveals them

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    Life and style
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    The good mixer
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Fashion & beauty

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    The Filter
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    Fashion
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    Fashion
    Demna brings sexy back in effort to reinvigorate Gucci

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
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  • Jessie and comedian Steph Tisdell on Christmas Day, 2025.

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    Well actually
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