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Pro-Palestine watermelon symbol does not meet threshold for disruption, says Wimbledon director

Turkish world number 51 Zeynep Sonmez added a vibration dampener in the shape of the symbol to her racket, accusing tournament organisers of enforcing double standards on political expressions by players

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July 3, 2026 12:49

Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey plays a backhand against Ekaterina Alexandrova during the Ladies' Singles third round match at Wimbledon 2025 (Getty Images)

Andy Burnham

Burnham allies distance likely next PM from report of Palantir NHS contract cancellation

One shadow minister suggested the decision would ‘have a trade-off which is measured in more Brits dying’

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July 3, 2026 12:47

Andy Burnham ahead of a radio appearance in London. (Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire).

Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

The space for Jewish artists, especially if they are Zionist, is shrinking all the time. Nowhere is that clearer than at Edinburgh

3 min read

July 3, 2026 12:29

Dancers with the Batsheva Dance Company based in Tel Aviv perform a scene from Hora by Ohad Naharin during a dress rehearsal at the Joyce Theater in New York on February 28, 2023. (Image: Getty Images)

Courts

Protesters accused over aerospace factory damage to face retrial next year

Prosecutors allege the defendants, who believed the business was involved in the supply chain to Israel, had no lawful excuse to act as they did

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July 3, 2026 11:58

A general view of Birmingham Crown Court on October 17, 2024 (Getty Images)

Books

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

The extraordinary story of how the Polish underground sent the world’s first cruise missile to UK scientists is superbly reconstructed by Guy Walters

3 min read

July 3, 2026 11:42

London's calling: V2 rocket arriving at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1945

Israel

The Orthodox rabbi challenging the ethics of might is right

We meet Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein, the keynote speaker at an Orthodox conference in London next weekend

4 min read

July 3, 2026 11:41

A question of ethics: Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein (left) with Rabbi Michael Pollak and Dayan Eliezer Zobin at Ner Israel last month

Turkey

Sa’ar accuses Turkish counterpart of ‘inciting genocide’ after he dubbed Israeli government an ‘unbearable burden’

Hakan Fidan accused the Israeli government of ‘openly committing massacres’ in Gaza and playing a ‘destabilising role everywhere’

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July 3, 2026 11:40

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart following their meeting in Moscow on June 16, 2026. (Photo by SERGEI ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine

Interpol hunt female suspect over Monaco bomb attack on Jewish tycoon

Anastasiia Berezovska is accused of orchestrating a blast that hospitalised Ukrainian property magnate Vadym Iermolaiev, his partner and his teenage son

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July 3, 2026 11:17

An image purporting to show Anastasiia Berezovska (Interpol)

Anne Frank Trust

76 years old, 10,000 feet up in the sky, £18,000 raised for charity

Duncan Dymond’s daring dive has amassed funds for the Anne Frank Trust

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July 3, 2026 11:01

Duncan freefalling (photo: FreeFallFilms)

Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed

This isn't some technical nitpicking for its own sake. What's at stake here is a dramatic claim that got treated as settled fact – cited, repeated, and stretched to cover fatalities it never actually measured

6 min read

July 3, 2026 10:59

Theatre

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

West End theatre, The Duke of York, to be renamed in honour of the Czech-born writer who became the most acclaimed British dramatist of his generation

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July 3, 2026 10:34