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MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy
Politics  
MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy
Rishi Sunak suffers blow to his authority as 57 Tory MPs vote against plan and over 100 abstain
Dubai floods  
Desert city awash as heaviest rainfall in 75 years hits Emirates
Israel  
Netanyahu aims to trap west into war across Middle East, warns Iranian diplomat
Aung San Suu Kyi  
Myanmar’s jailed former leader moved to house arrest, says junta
Rwanda bill  
Legislation delayed for at least a day after Lords pass amendments
Cotton Capital: ongoing series
The European city tours of slavery and colonialism
‘Hidden in plain sight’  
The European city tours of slavery and colonialism
From Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid to the Tuileries Garden in Paris, guides reshape stories continent tells about itself
Scraping away generations of forgetting  
My fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena
'Perpetuating a lie'  
British overseas territory St Helena urged to return remains of 325 formerly enslaved people to Africa
Sites of resistance  
Threatened African burial grounds around the world
In focus
Fraught path through US Congress for aid as Russia makes gains
Ukraine war briefing  
Fraught path through US Congress for aid as Russia makes gains
Invaders breaking out and making headway in absence of US help, says thinktank; Zelenskiy signs mobilisation law to boost Ukrainian ranks. What we know on day 784
Smoking ban  
Tory rebellion against Sunak rekindles leadership talk
‘Anything could happen’  
Gaza Strip left hanging while Israel plots response to Iran’s attack
Spotlight
Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man review  
Come on, geezer, is this really the best you can do?
Come on, geezer, is this really the best you can do?
Nigel Farage is cancelled at last and he’s never been happier
John Crace
For the Love of Dogs review  
Alison Hammond brilliantly fills Paul O’Grady’s shoes
Liz Truss quiz  
Did she really say that in her book?
Tantrums of the rich and famous  
Nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur
Opinion
Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way
Nadeine Asbali
Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way
How did Kamala Harris go from being a rising star to a damp squib?
Arwa Mahdawi
Saudi Arabia is rebranding itself as a moderate country, but what’s the truth? Just ask our female activists
Lina al-Hathloul
Sport
Barcelona 1-4 PSG (4-6 agg)  
Mbappé seals wild comeback win after Araújo red card
Mbappé seals wild comeback win after Araújo red card
Dortmund 4-2 Atlético (5-4 agg)  
Hosts win thrilling seesaw contest to reach last four
Champions League  
City are holders, but Madrid’s kings must still be dethroned
 
Guardian Live

Shami Chakrabarti: Defending human rights

Wednesday 22 May 2024, 8pm-9pm BST
Leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner Shami Chakrabarti argues that the human rights agreements put in place following the second world war are now in danger. Join her for a livestreamed event, in conversation with Zoe Williams.

 
Podcast
Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Today in Focus  
Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Liz Truss is back – kind of. The former PM of just 49 days has published a book, Ten Years to Save the West. The Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea and breaking news correspondent Martin Pengelly discuss her seeming lack of regret
Climate crisis
‘Huge turmoil’  
UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather
UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather
Environment  
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Business
IMF  
UK households face second year without improved living standards
UK households face second year without improved living standards
Thames Water  
Firm to add to debt mountain in bid for survival
In pictures
Photos of the day  
King Sejong and a Dior catwalk
King Sejong and a Dior catwalk
‘We do not call ourselves Tutsi or Hutu’  
The new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures
The new Rwandans, three decades after the genocide – in pictures
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