Ricardas Puisys found hiding in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, after Facebook account set up in his nameA man feared by police to have been murdered has been found living in woods, almost five years after he disappeared amid fears he was being exploited.The last confirmed sighting of Ricardas Puisys, now 40, was on 26 September 2015 at his workplace, 20 miles from where he lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He unexpectedly failed to return to work two days later and in November of that year police launched a murder investigation. The following month a man was arrested on suspicion of his murder before being released without charge. Continue reading...

Increase in police and tougher punishments promised after child dies following apparent gangland shooting near StockholmSwedish officials have promised more police and tougher punishments amid public outrage after a 12-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet in an apparent gangland shooting at a petrol station car park south of Stockholm.“I am aware no words are enough for those who have lost a child in this awful way, but I still want to we share your grief in these difficult times,” the home affairs minister, Mikael Damberg, told the national news agency TT. Continue reading...

Hume, who has died aged 83, won acclaim for his efforts towards achieving Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland

Exclusive: health chief says declaration of major incident shows spread not just in BAME groups

Most offices in business district deserted despite PM’s call to return after coronavirus lockdown

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets over the weekend to protest against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's alleged corruption and against his government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.Israeli media estimated that about 15,000 protesters arrived at Netanyahu's state residence in Jerusalem, where they carried banners calling on him to resign and to save Israeli democracy.The weekend's protests were reported to be the biggest in a series of weekly demonstrations near Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. Protesters also arrived outside his private house in the Israeli city of Caesarea and hundreds gathered in Tel Aviv Continue reading...

Up to 20,000 demonstrated against restrictions, raising fears of a rise in infections

Anwar Jan shot dead in home town of Barkhan in Balochistan provinceThe murder of a reporter known for exposing corruption has set off a wave of protests across Pakistan’s western Balochistan province, one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.Anwar Jan was shot dead by two gunmen on the evening of 23 July as he drove his motorbike home in the town of Barkhan. Continue reading...

Natalia Robledo-Contreras had to fight from the age of eight to be recognised as Dutch and almost lost her family in the process

New bridge, named Genoa San Giorgio, replaces Morandi bridge that collapsed in 2018

Paris instrument with 8,000 pipes and five keyboards will be cleaned and repairedWork has begun to dismantle and repair the grand organ in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which escaped serious damage after a devastating fire in April 2019.The instrument, believed to be the biggest in France, was untouched by the flames that threatened to engulf the building and the gallons of water used by firefighters to extinguished the blaze. Continue reading...

Former aide claims she told Mark Spencer extent of allegations months before MP was arrestedA minister has refused to confirm whether the government’s chief whip was told about claims against a Conservative MP by his alleged victim four months before he was arrested on suspicion of rape.It is understood that the woman in her 20s, a former parliamentary staffer, spoke to the chief whip, Mark Spencer, in April. Last week, the woman told the Times that Spencer had taken no action. Continue reading...

Renovation plan is latest event in peripatetic history of remains of wife of Richard I

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern says while there was no timeframe on plans for a trans-Tasman travel bubble that would include Australia, the rise in Covid-19 cases in Victoria means it won't happen for some time to come. Once hopeful of including other countries in the Pacific region in the travel bubble, Ardern has confirmed New Zealand's borders will remain closed until the risk of coronavirus entering the country through visitors can be minimised. 'We wish Victoria all the very best as they continue to combat what is a devastating situation,' she said, 'but I think the reality for both of us is this is going to slow things down for us'

160 people have died following the killing of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, leaving the ethnically and politically riven country more divided than everThe figure holding a gun stepped beside the car in which Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was sitting in Addis Ababa, and pulled the trigger. The cold-blooded killing on the night of 29 June cut short the young life of one of Ethiopia’s most popular musicians and activists. It was also the start of some of the most consequential few days in recent Ethiopian history.Hours later, in the lakeside town of Ziway in Ethiopia’s Oromia region – from which Haacaaluu came – Selas Russell woke to the sound of gunfire and shouting. Soon a friend rang her. “Get up, grab your passport, leave your belongings and run for your life,” he told the Ethiopian-born British citizen who owns a hotel in the town. Continue reading...

Photojournalist Achilleas Zavallis travels to Lebanon and finds a country struggling with the effects of economic decline and mismanagement. Inflation is out of control, destroying the spending power of all but a wealthy minorityLebanon has long been a country that somehow held it together. Through war, insurrection, chaos and intervention, it always prevailed. It remains a country of contrasting realities, but it is steadily becoming a place where dreams died. Beirut long ago lost its claim to be the Levantine equivalent of Paris. Its vibrant nightlife has been dulled by an economic implosion, its skyline disappears into darkness as we drive to my hotel at night.With the power grid functioning only two to four hours a day, there are no traffic lights to guide us. Buildings seem empty, or abandoned. Car headlights illuminate a couple walking along an empty street. The centrepiece of the city’s shopping and nightlife, Hamra Street, is deserted. Continue reading...

Australia and NZ were once both heralded as coronavirus success stories, but Victorian outbreak has sparked anxiety across the Tasman

US cases hit 1.87 million last month, or double the previous record; WHO says pandemic continues to accelerate; Melbourne wakes to strict lockdown

Leeds-based Meatless Farm says it seeks to build on growth in plant-based eating during coronavirus lockdownA vegan food company is sparing no blushes with what it calls a “light-hearted” advertising campaign to encourage more Britons to avoid eating meat.Meatless Farm says it is targeting people who have cut down on bangers and burgers during lockdown with its provocative slogan M*** F***, launched on Monday with a national campaign. Continue reading...

A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights. A new Guardian series hears some of their stories‘Why do you sound so British?” the immigration officer asked 15-year-old Ijeoma Moore as she followed orders to pack for herself and her 10-year-old brother. Officers had arrived at their London home that morning in 2010, as they were eating breakfast and getting ready to leave for school. “Because I am British,” the teenager replied.What else could she be? She had lived in the UK since she was two years old. She loved tea and toast and “stupid telly”. But her mother’s repeated residency applications to the Home Office had all been rejected. Moore was not a British citizen. Continue reading...

Schools across the state will return to remote learning while on-site supervision will be offered for students who need it

Coronavirus has hit the industry hard, with division over how to respond

Chinese students, Mongolian tourists and Palestinians from Gaza are still stranded

Romanian has been described as ‘bravest and most distinguished candidate for the job’Laura Codruƫa Kövesi made her name as the head of Romania’s respected anti-corruption agency, the DNA. She went after government ministers and mayors, fast becoming a favourite of the European parliament and anti-corruption campaigners.Kövesi was popular with many governments – but not her own, who vowed to do everything to block her successful campaign to become Europe’s first public prosecutor. Continue reading...

Virus proves a reminder to wealthy of their reliance on impoverished workers, reviving calls for a slum revolution that will benefit all

Scenes of economic despair are visible across Lebanon – from shops to homes, businesses to hospitals. Guardian journalist Martin Chulov discusses why the country is verging on financial collapse

Outbreaks of Covid-19 recorded on MS Roald Amundsen in Norway and the Paul Gauguin in Tahiti

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has lost trust in Dr Deborah Birx, a senior scientist on Donald Trump’s coronavirus taskforce, after the US surpassed 154,000 deaths due to the virus. Pelosi criticised Birx's role in the White House's handling of the pandemic, claiming president Trump had been spreading disinformation about Covid-19, and Birx was his appointee

Health officials to perform coronavirus testing, the first time a mainland team has been part of city’s pandemic response

Capital could lose £178m in 2021 as companies decline to send all workers back to officesMajor cities such as London face more economic pain as some companies resist the government’s efforts to encourage workers back to their desks this week, economists have warned.Pablo Shah, a senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), fears that the capital could have lost its aura as a “fun” place to work, particularly in the digital and creative industries. Continue reading...

Blood plasma containing coronavirus antibodies may help patients in any second wave

Veteran politician, who is being aided by Brexiteers Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore, is bullish about New Zealand First’s chances at the election“When you talk about populism, let me ask you this question,” says Winston Peters, the MP who has at times been in a position to handpick who will lead New Zealand. “In your profession or mine: who wants to be unpopular?”The eccentric veteran politician – rich-voiced and finely-tailored – has held seats in New Zealand’s parliament since 1979 with only two breaks from his time in office, advancing his minor party on a platform of curbing immigration, benefits for pensioners, and exhortations to “common sense”. Continue reading...

Politicians say withdrawal of up to 12,000 soldiers will hurt local economy and makes little strategic senseThe US government’s decision to withdraw thousands of troops from bases across southern and western Germany will have a huge impact on affected communities, local politicians have said.Up to 12,000 troops from the air force and army are due to leave the region, the US defense secretary, Mark Esper, said this week in a move attributed to long-term planning by the Pentagon, but which Donald Trump said was a punishment for Berlin’s low defence spending. Continue reading...

Israeli PM says media makes demonstrations seem more significant than they are – he could have a pointImages of thousands of people in the streets and police scuffling with protesters paint a picture of an increasingly isolated prime minister whose lengthy grip over Israel may finally be loosening.The visuals are striking, and the protests have certainly grown in size, yet whether they can hurt more than Benjamin Netanyahu’s ego is still to be seen. Continue reading...

Queensland is often a conservative stronghold in federal elections, but in recent years the Liberal National party has struggled to gain and hold power at state level. Now, three months away from an election, tensions in the LNP are on the rise. Ben Smee explains why backroom powerbrokers could be holding the party backYou can read Ben Smee’s reporting on the LNP here: Continue reading...

Exclusive: Legislation already in place should be used so workers are not forced to make ‘terrible choices’, Greens leader Adam Bandt saysThe Australian government has the power to roll out paid pandemic leave via regulation, rather than having to pass new legislation through the parliament, according to advice from the parliamentary library.The Greens, which shared the advice with Guardian Australia, said it showed the government should act immediately to prevent workers from “being forced to make terrible choices” when they felt they could not afford to stay at home while waiting for Covid-19 test results. Continue reading...

Law academic Elaine Pearson says safeguarding the human rights of people in Hong Kong ‘is not something that should be controversial’The University of New South Wales says it deleted social media posts promoting the comments of a prominent academic – calling for international pressure on China to temper human rights infringements in Hong Kong – because the comments were “being misconstrued as representing the university”.The situation has mired the Sydney-based institution in an increasingly uncomfortable national debate about Chinese influence on university campuses. Continue reading...

Robyn Williams was sacked in March despite never having viewed unsolicited videoA decorated former police chief has won two key battles in her fight to overturn her conviction for possessing a child abuse video and get her job back, the Guardian has learned.Former superintendent Robyn Williams was convicted under paedophilia laws in November 2019 after being sent an unsolicited video via WhatsApp of a child being abused, despite never viewing the images. The prosecution accepted she had no sexual interest in children. Continue reading...

London mayor warns crime could spike as lockdown eases and demands support for police and youth services

Infections rise following easing of lockdown as government struggles to retain public trust

Crowds protest against alleged corruption and PM’s handling of coronavirus crisisThousands of demonstrators took to the streets outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s house over the weekend in what appeared to be the largest protest to date calling for the embattled Israeli prime minister to resign.Rallies on Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday morning were held in Jerusalem, home to the official residence of the 70-year-old leader, as well as his beach house in central Israel, near Tel Aviv, and at dozens of road intersections across the country. Continue reading...

Experts find hundreds of errors in the writer’s works, mostly made by editors and typesettersErnest Hemingway’s published writings are riddled with hundreds of errors and little has been done to correct them, according to a forthcoming study of the legendary writer’s texts.Robert W Trogdon, a leading scholar of 20th-century American literature, told the Guardian that Hemingway’s novels and short stories were crying out for editions that are “as accurate to what he wrote as possible” because the number of mistakes “ranges in the hundreds”. Although many are slight, he said, they were nevertheless mistakes, made primarily by editors and typesetters. Continue reading...

Cache of documents raises questions about early 2011 killings by SAS soldiersThe UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has been ordered by a court to explain why the government withheld evidence suggesting SAS soldiers executed 33 civilians in Afghanistan in early 2011.The minister has until autumn to explain why key emails and documents revealing official concern about the string of killings were not previously disclosed in a case relating to the deaths of four men from one family in a night raid. Continue reading...

Many countries that believed they were past the worst are grappling with new outbreaks, says WHO

Diaries and manuscripts turn spotlight on little-known acts of endurance and braveryFrom quiet acts of bravery, to overt acts of rebellion, Jewish resistance to the Holocaust took many forms, yet research shows they remain largely unacknowledged in traditional UK teachings about the genocide.A new exhibition, drawing on thousands of previously unseen documents and manuscripts, is placing some of the little-known personal stories of heroism, active armed resistance, and rescue networks in the extermination camps and ghettos at the forefront. Continue reading...

Pandemic prompts difficult questions as fears grow over future of city where one in four jobs rely on tourism

Downing Street accused of flouting rules while FDA claims ministers will be forced to accept special advisers picked by PMDowning Street is being accused by Labour of flouting Whitehall rules to hire a new White House-style spokesperson to host daily government press conferences on live TV.A new special adviser is being recruited to reply to questions from journalists including rebuffing criticisms from opposition politicians. Continue reading...

Metal detectorist had posted images online of artefacts including Phoenician earringPolice in Spain have recovered a haul of ancient artefacts, including Phoenician gold jewellery, that could date to 1,200BC, after the metal detectorist who found them posted pictures of the treasures online.The investigation began when specialist officers from the national police force noticed that images of archaeological and cultural items were being shared on different websites. Continue reading...

Declaring a ‘state of disaster’ in Victoria gives police more authority, and hope that Covid cases can be contained within six weeksEven the vast majority of Victorians who accepted stage 3 restrictions as necessary, if depressing, would have been confronted by what premier Daniel Andrews announced on Sunday. They were the tightest coronavirus restrictions ever imposed in Australia and among the toughest in the world.Melburnians had just got used to compulsory mask wearing and now are to be confined to their homes from 8pm to 5am except for medical reasons or for essential work, at the risk of a $1,652 fine if they break curfew. Had this ever happened outside war time? There was no such curfew in New Zealand even in their “go early and go hard” response earlier this year. Continue reading...

Grover Ponce, 42, died after being shuttled between six different health facilities as his family watched in rising desperation