World
Europe
Russian chess player arrested after smearing pieces with mercury to poison rival
Amina Abakarova is reported to have said she attacked Umayganat Osmanova out of revenge for a personal insult.
- by Lilia Sebouai
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Islamic State material ‘found at suspect’s home in foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows’
Security officials allege the suspects wanted to commit an attack outside the stadium, killing as many people as possible using knives or self-made explosives.
- by Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich
Ukraine pierces Russian border in one of largest incursions of war
Russian military bloggers depicted the situation in Kursk region as more serious than the official accounts, with some suggesting that Ukraine had opened a new front.
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly
What we know so far about the UK riots
Violence is spreading in Britain’s streets. But who is rampaging and why?
- by Jackson Graham
‘Stop the boats’ anti-immigrant rioters chant as London eyes hostile states
With further demonstrations planned this week, the riots are a test of British policing and the country’s judicial and prisons system, which were already creaking at the seams.
- by Alex Wickham and Siraj Datoo
Editorial
Crime
English riots, social media and the running sore of British politics
Young people attracted by social media to the thrill of violence rather than the social engineering and ideology have joined racist right-wingers to try and take over the streets of England.
- The Herald's View
How two Russian spies went deep under cover with their children
A couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia were caught in December 2022. They were sent to Moscow in a prisoner exchange last week.
- by Andrew Higgins
Opinion
UK politics
Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?
Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Nigel Farage political oxygen?
- by Tim Soutphommasane
‘Far-right thuggery’: British rioters set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to do what it takes to “bring these thugs to justice” after another day of far-right violence in the UK.
- by Pan Pylas
‘Vulgar’: Botched church refurbishment draws comparisons to ‘Monkey Christ’
Professional restorers in Spain are demanding to know how the refurbishment of a historic church was apparently botched to leave it looking crude and cartoonish.
- by James Badcock
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ website that is fuelling violence on Britain’s streets
The website Channel3 falsely named the teen accused of murdering three girls at dance school in England, sending conspiracy theorists and the far-Right into a tailspin.
- by Lauren Shirreff