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Weather tracker: Why Europe’s wildfires are proving so fierce and difficult to stop
Wind and record-breaking heat are fuelling the continent’s explosive fire season, with Spain and France among worst hitExplainer: what is a ‘fire cloud’, and how have they worsened wildfires in...
Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger
Government move follows months of drought and crop failures in Karamoja, with 1.5m people facing malnutritionUganda has launched emergency food relief distribution after at least 19 deaths from hunger were...
Monday briefing: How the Cockroach protests have exposed the cracks in India’s government
In today’s newsletter: Across the country, a younger generation is turning private disillusionment into public defiance against a government that once felt untouchableGood morning. As flames engulfed parts of France...
India’s Cockroach Janta party protest victory signals trouble ahead for Modi
Ally forced to resign, with opposition parties reinvigorated and strongman leader’s grip over media channels rockedEven the night before Narendra Modi accepted the resignation of his education minister, India’s prime...
Oil markets are on edge again
The bombing may have paused, but energy supplies are precarious
How big is America’s “obesity penalty”?
GLP-1s offer a rare insight into the social and economic effects of carrying extra weight
America has few good options for a “massive attack” on Iran
Even renewed assaults on Iran’s nuclear programme may not prevent a forever war
Donald Trump’s food-stamp overhaul is beginning to bite
Federal reforms have left the states with a growing bill
Sweden is launching its own MI6
Memories of a big mistake still spook Europe’s spies
Britain is struggling to build data centres
It risks missing a big opportunity
Checks and Balance newsletter: AI has become the ultimate dread risk
John Prideaux, our executive editor, on the psychology behind our anxiety over the technology