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Is Burnham’s Oxbridge-heavy cabinet a sign of social mobility or lack of progress on class?

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-26T11:00:11+00:00

PM’s team can be seen as backward step even though in some ways it is more diverse. Yet its makeup points to wider access to powerRace, school, gender: the makeup of Andy Burnham’s cabinet – in chartsLike 20 British prime ministers before him, Andy Burnham’s new cabinet minister for AI, Kanishka Narayan, went to Eton. After graduating from the country’s most elite private school, Narayan attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied – what else? – PPE (politics, philosophy and economics), like David Cameron, Rishi Sunak, Ed Miliband and a host of other senior politicians. An MBA at Stanfo

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RFK Jr urges Alzheimer’s screening but blunts key panel that could drive research

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-26T11:00:10+00:00

Experts say evidence for cognitive screening desired by health secretary ‘not great’ as taskforce idle since last yearThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has called for better Alzheimer’s screening – but a critical federal panel that might have helped researchers find practical ways to do that has been prevented from meeting for more than a year.The panel, formally called the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), had planned to issue a recommendation on screening for cognitive decline this year, alongside 13 other topics as varied as autism screening and food allergy prevention

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Who is India’s new education minister?

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-07-26T10:33:58+00:00

India’s government has picked Pralhad Joshi as the new education minister after weeks of protests over exam scandals.

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Medici in pensione, ex primari, aprono ambulatorio per chi non ha accesso alle visite specialistiche

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-07-26T10:15:54+00:00

La sede sarà al Pilastro e le consulenze saranno gratuite. Tra i luminari, Cortelli, Brunocilla, Eleonora Porcu, Poggioli. Il cardiochirurgo Gargiulo: “Se quattro milioni di persone in Italia rinunciano alle cure significa che accedere a esami e visite non è semplice e per alcuni è impossibile”

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Israeli protesters denounce deadly settler violence

Source: Al Jazeera - World · Published: 2026-07-26T10:06:52+00:00

Dozens of Israeli activists protested in Tel Aviv against settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

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Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-26T10:00:08+00:00

President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left – but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism. Continue reading...

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Dans Gaza dévastée, les « zones pilotes », un simulacre de reconstruction qui ne convainc pas les habitants

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-26T10:00:08+00:00

En l’absence d’un plan global pour la remise en état de l’enclave, en grande partie détruite par l’armée israélienne, le Conseil de la paix créé par Donald Trump en septembre 2025 est censé proposer des « logements transitoires » aux déplacés gazaouis dans la zone aujourd’hui contrôlée par l’Etat hébreu.

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Au Niger, trois ans de séquestration pour l’ancien président Mohamed Bazoum

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-26T10:00:05+00:00

Depuis qu’il a été renversé par le chef de sa propre garde rapprochée, le 26 juillet 2023, le général Abdourahamane Tiani, l’ancien chef de l’Etat nigérien, vit cloîtré avec sa femme, Hadiza Bazoum, dans l’enceinte du palais présidentiel, à Niamey.

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Berlin Police Search for Suspect in Fatal Attack on Pride Parade

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-26T09:59:47+00:00

The hunt for a 21-year-old man with links to local Islamic groups began early Sunday. The police said they were investigating the attack as a possible act of terrorism.

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U.S.-Iran War Pauses for 2nd Straight Day

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-26T09:53:05+00:00

President Trump put off plans to escalate the fighting in part because of dwindling stockpiles of interceptor missiles, American officials said.

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Europe wildfires: ‘Difficult hours lie ahead’ in battle to contain fires, says Pedro Sanchez as more than 300,000 flee homes in France and Spain

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-26T09:51:57+00:00

Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in FranceMore than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and SpainAs my colleagues note in this story, scientists say climate breakdown is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating soils and waterways, fuelling wildfires and leading to thousands of excess deaths. Europe is heating at about twice the global average rate.Spain’s environment ministry has said that 32 major forest fires have been recorded so far this year, compared with seven

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Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-07-26T09:45:18+00:00
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Des jeunes dronistes ukrainiens attaquent la Crimée depuis des champs de blé

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-26T09:37:54+00:00

La brigade des « Oiseaux de Magyar » est la cheville ouvrière de l’opération engagée cet été par Kiev contre la Crimée occupée. Ses jeunes dronistes décontractés font décoller de nuit des engins pilotés très loin de là, devant des écrans d’ordinateur.

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En Cisjordanie, deux mosquées incendiées par des colons israéliens, sur fond de vives tensions après les affrontements de vendredi

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-26T09:33:20+00:00

A la veille du week-end, quatre Palestiniens et deux Israéliens sont morts lors de violences dans un village palestinien près de Naplouse, où des colons avaient pénétré. Après ces affrontements, Israël a annoncé une opération d’ampleur dans le nord du territoire palestinien occupé.

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En Cisjordanie occupée, deux mosquées incendiées par des colons israéliens

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-26T09:33:18+00:00

Vendredi, quatre Palestiniens et deux Israéliens sont morts lors de violences dans un village palestinien près de Naplouse, où des colons avaient pénétré. Après ces affrontements, Israël a annoncé une opération d’ampleur dans le nord du territoire palestinien occupé.

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