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WCL and WSL talking points: Arsenal show super strength but Manchester pair stumble
Barça’s need to adapt on show in Bayern draw, while Sam Kerr’s ‘perfect hat-trick’ is denied by a lack of technology
Venice opera house fires government-linked music director after months of protests
Teatro La Fenice says Beatrice Venezi let go for making ‘repeated offensive’ statements
Orbán may be gone, but his prejudices are now baked into the European political mainstream | Shada Islam
EU leaders have normalised once fringe racist narratives in their migration, border control and even foreign policies says Shada Islam, commentator on EU affairs
The Eukrainian review – heroic portrait of the diplomat trying to haul Ukraine into Europe
Viktor Nordenskiöld’s film follows Ukraine’s deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna as she negotiates her country’s path into the EU, but lacks some of the rigour needed
HSBC ‘reviewing’ private school perk for bankers in Hong Kong
Hundreds of senior staff in territory benefit from nearly £30,000-a-year grant per child not available to staff in group’s other hubs
Jacinta Allan asks Liberals to ‘please explain’ preference deal – as it happened
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Monday briefing: Everything we know about the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
In today’s newsletter: After the dramatic events of Saturday night, White House security arrangements are under scrutiny and political violence is once again in the spotlight
There will be mud! Could my child (and buggy) survive a day at a sculpture park?
Forget intimidating white spaces, forbidding barriers and draconian gallery rules – a great place for kids to experience art is outdoors (even if it might start raining)
Zombie politics is the new norm and Starmer’s dying premiership is the latest instalment | Nesrine Malik
Distracted, listless and unambitious – the PM’s true form has finally emerged. But whatever comes next must end this ruinous cycle, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik