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UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears

(Kalyeena Makortoff - The Guardian) UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard, amid growing...

Ukraine and Russia to meet for third round of talks as fourth anniversary of war looms

(Luke Harding and Pjotr Sauer - The Guardian) Senior Ukrainian and Russian officials are to meet this week in Switzerland for a third round...

‘Deliberate targeting of vital body parts’: X-rays taken after Iran protests expose extent of catastrophic injuries

(Tess McClure and Deepa Parent - The Guardian) Across the planes of Anahita’s (names have been changed) face, white dots shine like a constellation....

‘Economic fighters’: the volunteers helping direct sanctions against Russia

(Aisha Down - The Guardian) In August 2022, Olena Yurchenko stumbled across a heated discussion on a Russian-language online forum – and made a...

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own

(Johnny Ryan - The Guardian) The French judge Nicolas Guillou knows exactly how deep Europe’s dependence on US tech is. Guillou and his colleagues...

Labour take note: the politics of home cannot be ceded to the nativist right

(Julian Coman - The Guardian) In the mid-1980s, a remarkable German television series became appointment viewing in my house each Thursday evening. Heimat, an...

Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy

(Devi Sridhar - The Guardian) Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he withdrew the US from the World Health Organization...

‘Life requires cash’: Gaza’s jobs crisis leaves people struggling to afford basics

(Jason Burke, and Seham Tantesh - The Guardian) Every morning, Mansour Mohammad Bakr sets out from the small rented room in Gaza City he...

Disappearances in Mexico surge by 200% over 10 years

(Oscar Lopez - The Guardian) It was a bright morning in August 2022 when Ángel Montenegro was taken. A 31-year-old construction worker, Montenegro had...

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