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As the war in the Strait of Hormuz continues to create havoc, Asia remains the worst hit by the global energy crisis. Whether it's a large economy like Japan or China, or a struggling economy like Sri Lanka or Pakistan, the same fate holds. Even nations that produce oil, like…

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A cover-up unravels

More than two months after an assassination attempt on Kamolsak Liwamoh, a Prachachart Party MP for Narathiwat, there are more questions than answers.

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Thaksin Shinawatra: Next up, Dubai?

Nearly two decades after the September 2006 coup that toppled him, and 12 years after another putsch swept away the government of his sister, Thaksin Shinawatra has once again reached a defining political milestone.

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Govt’s planned ‘ban’ on prolonged solitary confinement is not a ban

From Victoria University - Comment: The Govt said the new bill would ‘explicitly prohibit prolonged solitary confinement’. This sounds like a good thing – but it’s deceptive, writes Christine McCarthy.

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It’s advantage Zelensky in Ukraine’s push for peace with Putin

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Russian leader has now been shown up by Kyiv on the battlefield, in the skies, and in the sphere of diplomacy – and Moscow’s rejection of face-to-face peace talks will look more like weakness than strength to Washington

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The Guardian view on Henry Nowak’s murder: big tech and the far right are allied in an outrage arms race

Editorial: Anger and distress at the treatment of the stabbed teenager is widely shared. But the online amplification of myths and grievances must be tackled

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The Guardian view on the UK’s first centre for illustration: visual literacy, and the sheer joy of images, matter

Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves

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Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus

Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hope, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The right’s culture war over prostate cancer screening is damaging trust in medicine

The decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two tier’ – and labelled as misandry, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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When does Nigel Farage ‘speak for the nation’? When it suits him

Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry Nowak, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Congress wants to tie the United States to Israel with this new legislation. It’s a trap

Israel and its lobby will use section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act to bind the US to a state that has gone rogue

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Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex

As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful, says Jess Cartner-Morley

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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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World Environment Day: Why we need local Indian languages to navigate climate change

Ask the next five people you meet if they can say ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ in their mother tongue.

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Farage says woke kills – and the real, hard questions we could be asking are swamped by the culture war

What we must learn from the murders of Henry Nowak in Southampton and Barnaby Webber in Nottingham is that kneejerk assumptions either way are dangerous, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Independent UK

A decade after Brexit, Britain needs a new relationship with Europe

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Brexit arguments of 2016 belong to the past. The challenge now is to develop a realistic new partnership with Europe that strengthens Britain’s prosperity, security and influence

The Guardian - US

Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime

The UK has banned Piker and Cenk Uygur from entry – but the objectionable things they’ve said are not more dangerous than Israel itself

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Cancer breakthroughs: Does a string of advances signal turning point?

It’s not every day that a standing ovation at a medical conference goes viral. Dateline: Chicago, at the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Doctors from around the world rose to their feet to applaud the announcement of a new pill that doubles survival time for pancreatic…

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The practice of forced labour hides in plain sight

Thailand hosts about 4.1 million migrant workers, registered and unregistered alike. They build buildings, staff factories, harvest fields, crew fishing boats and tend homes. They keep labour costs competitive and fill shortages that no domestic workforce can. Without them, Thailand's economy would falter.

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What does Bibi want in the Middle East?

'The war is over," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn't.

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A dangerous call to arms for Asean

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demand at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore for Asian allies and partners to spend 3.5% of GDP on defence sounded alarm bells across Southeast Asia and beyond. His brow-beating call to arms will likely lead to a regional defence build-up not seen in decades.…

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Investing in hope for the planet

Every year on World Environment Day, we are reminded that protecting nature is not simply an environmental responsibility. It is an economic imperative.

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Land Bridge blind spot

The Lower House has made a regrettable decision on the study of the Land Bridge project. Instead of allowing the House to launch a study and promote public participation, a majority of lawmakers on May 29 voted 266:174 to let the cabinet handle the study. The decision undermines the parliamentary…

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The Guardian view on NHS records: patients are not raw material for big tech

Editorial: Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data

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The Guardian view on Trump’s omnipresence: commanding attention like a king

Editorial: The president’s image and name are proliferating in Washington and beyond, overturning well-advised democratic taboos on glorifying sitting leaders

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