In Kramatorsk, 12 miles from the frontline, daily life goes on amid the constant threat of attacks

In a branch of the Ukrainian coffee chain Lviv Croissants in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, there is a noticeboard where people leave coloured Post-it notes with simple hand-drawn messages. One just says “Kramatorsk”, with red hearts below and a yellow and blue semi-circular fan above, the colours of Ukraine.

Among those looking at the notes is Bohdan, a 26-year-old, who has been serving in the army for the past three years. The soldier, now in logistics, has chosen to spend his one day off in Kramatorsk with his dog Arnold to photograph for himself recent Russian bombing on a city where he was based for 18 months.

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© Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

© Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

Woodlander Initiative provokes mixed reactions in Llanafan Fawr as critics say aim is to build racially exclusive communities

During the middle ages, monks would travel to the village of Llanafan Fawr in mid-Wales to visit the church and relics of St Afan, a son of the king of Gwynedd, martyred by foreign pirates centuries before.

Today, a different sort of pilgrim can be found there. Two hilly, wooded parcels of land in Llanafan Fawr were bought by the Woodlander Initiative (TWI), a land-buying scheme led by Simon Birkett, a far-right figure with links to Patriotic Alternative, the UK’s largest fascist group. Critics say Wiltshire-based Birkett’s aim is to create a racially exclusive settlement; he has cited Orania, a whites-only town in South Africa, as an inspiration for the project.

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© Photograph: Francesca Jones/The Guardian

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?

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The rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, duckingthrough the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. C lean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.

Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British political figure who could convincingly be played by the equally posh but self-effacing Colin Firth, whose old London home Clegg recently bought – but there are backbench nobodies more grandly self-important than the former deputy prime minister who became number two at the tech giant Meta. Which may be just as well, given rumours that his next supporting role may be to his lawyer wife Miriam González Durántez’s nascent political career in Spain. It turns out she “never really settled” in the land of the billionaire tech bro, one of many reasons the couple swapped poolside life in Palo Alto, California, for London almost three years before he left Meta, which owns and operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. “She’s fomenting insurrection in Spain now,” Clegg says of España Mejor, her non-profit aimed at bringing citizens into policymaking.

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From a desperate attempt to get aid to an expulsion order and the death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif – Karim recounts nine days in Gaza

Karim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza City. He has been displaced by the war 12 times and survived an Israeli strike in Rafah. He now lives in the ruins of his former home with his parents and four brothers. He kept a diary for the Guardian over the course of a week.

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© Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images

Taylor, 28, an operations manager, meets Joshua, 27, a musician

What were you hoping for?
Love at first sight. No, honestly, good conversation with a good person. Someone who was willing to engage with the spirit of the evening.

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© Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

Jammed light switch? We’ll fix it when we’re back from holiday. Leaky garden hose? Doesn’t matter, it’s raining. Big hole in the roof? Ah!

Summer seems to end earlier every year – the weather turns, the football starts, and you realise you’re going to spend the remainder of August trying to reconnect with your lost luggage. This year the traditional demarcation between the seasons – when we arrive home from holiday to find everything in our house in dire need of immediate repair – has come so early that we haven’t even been away yet. The light switch in the downstairs loo is stuck in the on position. The back door will not shut. The garden hose has exploded.

“Nothing in this house works,” my wife says, trying to flick the jammed light switch.

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© Illustration: Selman Hosgor/The Guardian

Spiced fried seasonal vegetables folded through basmati rice and served with a nutty, raita-style dressing

My mother’s greatest fears are an empty fridge and underfed family and friends. That’s why there’s always a glut of fresh produce in the kitchen, both hers and mine – like mother, like daughter. At this time of year, that means courgettes, and the usual way I dispatch them is in a shaak (dry curry) or a pilau. Today’s dish is a combination of the two: spiced fried courgettes, just shy of melted, tossed through rice with fresh herbs and served with a fancy salted pistachio yoghurt masquerading as a raita.

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© Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Lola Salome Smadja.

© Photograph: Louise Hagger/The Guardian. Food styling: Emily Kydd. Prop styling: Jennifer Kay. Food styling assistant: Lola Salome Smadja.

Ghislaine Maxwell revealed intimate details of her relationship with the late convited pedophile during her two-day DOJ interviews last month.

Coco Gauff is playing the long game when it comes to perfection.

The Mets are banged up, but manager Carlos Mendoza doesn’t see a potential long-term storm brewing.

“Based on the evidence, investigators determined a kidnapping in Yucaipa did not occur.

Seoul says military fired warning shots on Tuesday after troops from the North briefly crossed border

South Korea fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the heavily fortified border earlier this week, Seoul said on Saturday, after Pyongyang accused it of a “deliberate provocation” that risks “uncontrollable” tensions.

South Korea’s new leader Lee Jae Myung has sought warmer ties with the nuclear-armed North and vowed to build “military trust”, but Pyongyang has said it has no interest in improving relations with Seoul.

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© Photograph: Ahn Young-joon/AP

Takeaways from the Jets’ 19-17 preseason loss to the Eagles on Friday night.

Group in Kilteely pooled savings to buy bar and licence and ‘everybody brought something to the table’

A century ago, the County Limerick village of Kilteely had seven pubs but one by one they shut. This year, it braced to lose the last.

The economic and social trends that have shuttered family-run pubs across Ireland appear remorseless, leaving many communities with nowhere to meet, have a drink and share stories.

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© Photograph: Johnny Savage/The Guardian

The disadvantages of having the world’s language

Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory

Parole board rules against elder Menendez brother, convicted over killing parents in Los Angeles in 1989

Lyle Menendez was denied parole for his role in the 1989 killings of his parents on Friday, just a day after the California parole board denied the release of his brother Erik.

California governor Gavin Newsom will have the final say in whether or not the 57-year-old will be released.

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“A lot of this stuff comes straight out of the faculty lounge at universities, I mean, no one talks about the Overton Window at a football game,” Third Way co-founder Matt Bennett said.

The California parole board ruled that Erik and Lyle Menendez should stay locked up for at least three more years

Partnership with Midjourney marks shift away from internal product development

State department says all people who hold valid US visas are subject to ‘continuous vetting’, including of social media

The Trump administration is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules, in a significant expansion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In a move first reported by the Associated Press, the state department said that all of the foreigners who currently hold valid US visas are subject to “continuous vetting” for any indication that they could be ineligible for the document, including those already admitted into the country. Should such evidence come to light, the visa would be revoked and, if the visa holder were in the United States, they would be subject to deportation.

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© Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

© Photograph: Fernando Llano/AP

For Americans, the price of eggs became a rallying cry for consumers beaten down by high prices. For Italians, it’s the cost of beach umbrellas.

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California parole board denies release for Lyle Menendez, convicted in 1989 shotgun slaying of parents in Beverly Hills with brother Erik.

Holy mackerel, talk about a reel-y big deal! A Northern California eighth-grader landed a potential world record-breaking 63.7-pound white sea bass during a family fishing trip, making him an instant celebrity among his classmates and the angling community. Julian Her, 13, of Rio Oso hooked the massive fish on Aug. 10 while fishing with family...