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Hezbollah rocket hits Haifa after IDF bombards Beirut; Israel marks 7 October anniversary
Middle East crisis live  
Hezbollah rocket hits Haifa after IDF bombards Beirut; Israel marks 7 October anniversary
Israelis expected to flock to ceremonies, cemeteries and memorial sites around the country; strikes on Lebanon capital continue
NHS  
Maternity staff to receive mandatory training to improve patient safety
Politics  
Keir Starmer reshuffles top team after Sue Gray ousted
Society  
Baby boomers living longer but are in worse health than previous generations
Scotland  
One dead and three injured after explosion at block of flats in Alloa
7 October: one year on
‘A year is just too long’: relatives of Gaza hostages speak of their anguish
Israel  
‘A year is just too long’: relatives of Gaza hostages speak of their anguish
Many are deeply sceptical of the argument that only more military pressure will bring their loved ones back
Washington DC  
‘It’s quite evil’: a US-based Palestinian on the ‘nightmare’ of having family left in Gaza
Hostages  
‘I have to keep going’: mother of Thai worker kidnapped by Hamas prays for his return
Israel  
A year of war accelerates ‘silent departure’ of Israel’s elite
Medical aid  
‘I had to evacuate five times’: a year in the life of a Gaza doctor battling to help victims
In focus
Anti-Kremlin figure Ildar Dadin dies fighting on Ukrainian side
Ukraine war briefing  
Anti-Kremlin figure Ildar Dadin dies fighting on Ukrainian side
Activist was once jailed in Russia under anti-protest law; drones, F-16s and Patriots on Dutch menu of aid to Kyiv. What we know on day 957
US elections 2024  
‘Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump’s strange behaviour hurt him at the polls?
Lebanon  
‘I’m bracing for the worst’: Beirut’s youth adjust to an emptied city
Spotlight
Interview  
‘I was always the bit of totty’: Emily Atack on tabloids, trolls and life after The Inbetweeners
‘I was always the bit of totty’: Emily Atack on tabloids, trolls and life after The Inbetweeners
TV review  
Showtrial season two – this outrageous legal drama sucks you straight back in
Theatre  
Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner
Opinion
British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues
British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues
As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
Guardian Opinion cartoon  
Ella Baron on the Israel-Gaza war one year on, and what the future could be
Sport
Cricket live  
Pakistan v England: First Test, day one
Pakistan v England: First Test, day one
Man Utd are locked in a holding pattern waiting for something to happen
Women's rugby union  
New Zealand 31-49 England: Breach shines in nine-try victory
Podcast
7 October, one year on: a return to kibbutz Nir Oz – podcast
Today in Focus  
7 October, one year on: a return to kibbutz Nir Oz – podcast
Bethan McKernan visits Nir Oz in southern Israel to talk to survivors about Hamas’s attack on 7 October last year, and to discuss what has happened to their kibbutz and the wider region since
Climate crisis
Canada  
Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe
Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe
Plastic pollution  
British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax, documents reveal
Business
Retail  
More than 70 retailers urge Reeves to make 20% cut to business rates
More than 70 retailers urge Reeves to make 20% cut to business rates
London  
Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt to attend UK international investment summit
In pictures
The weekend in pictures  
Goddess Durga and a giant fox:
Goddess Durga and a giant fox:
Photography  
The big picture: Melanie Friend encounters a changing China
The big picture: Melanie Friend encounters a changing China
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