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Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

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a story from The Guardian › International

Amnesty International confirms 1,518 people executed in 2024 but says real total is likely to be thousands more

More people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly re…

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Author Vincenzo Latronico: ‘I left Italy out of sadness’

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a story from The Guardian › International

The International Booker-longlisted Italian novelist on why he chose to rewrite Georges Perec, his preference for description over dialogue and being part of an anti-gentrification collective in Mila…

40 days ago

International scramble for relics of Brit-born 'God's Influencer' with locks of hair selling for £2,000 - as thousands continue to view his preserved body ahead of Vatican sainthood

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Various items are up for grabs and a lock of Acutis' hair which was listed on eBay sold for an astounding £2,000 just days ago.

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Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it | Laura Spinney

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a story from The Guardian › International

Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future

  • Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language went …

45 days ago

Kirsty Coventry’s in-tray: six big issues facing IOC’s new president

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From protecting women’s sport to the return of Russia and keeping the Olympics relevant, the former gold medallist has tough challenges ahead

As a seven-time Olympic swimming medallist, Kirsty Coventr…

‘It’s a privilege’: Boris van der Vorst, the man who saved Olympic boxing

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By forming a new governing body, World Boxing, the Dutchman prevented the sport being banished by the IOC

“It feels like such a sweet week and of course I’m very happy and proud,” Boris van der Vorst …

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The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

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a story from The Guardian › International

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’

Oakland, California, is often treated as a city on the…

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