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Anna Campbell’s death in Syria was futile, but her passion was admirable | Simon Jenkins

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The humanitarian sympathy she showed by leaving Britain to fight for the Kurds should not be dismissed

“She wanted to create a better world and would do everything in her power to do that.” The words of Anna Campbell’s father on her death in Syria convey the heartbreak any parent would feel. She was, he said, “young, idealistic, passionate, brave, determined”. He was “in pieces”.

Related: British woman killed fighting Turkish forces in Afrin

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Pound jumps on hopes of Brexit transition deal - Politics live

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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a broad agreement has been reached on the Brexit transition.

Business Insider’s Adam Payne says EU sources are confirming the WSJ report.

A well-placed EU source has just confirmed the WSJ report to me. The agreement text will be published shortly. Press conference at 12.

This is from Sky’s Beth Rigby.

UK govt source tells me they expect implementation period to be agreed today: Dec 2020 cut off date for transition; UK to be allowed to agree 3rd party trade deals during transition; fudge on fishing with UK given a say on quotas? https://t.co/0yiSGLPTsG

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Mull campaigners secure £4m of public funds to buy isle of Ulva

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Money granted by Scottish Land Fund will enable community trust to submit buyout offer to current owner Jamie Howard

Campaigners trying to buy the tiny Hebridean island of Ulva have been given more than £4.4m in government funding, nearly meeting the full cost of the buyout.

The money was granted by the Scottish Land Fund and will enable campaigners on Mull to submit their formal offer to buy Ulva off the Isle of Mull from its current owner, Jamie Howard, for about £4.5m later on Monday.

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The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?

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Projections suggest cities will swell at an astonishing pace – but whether that means our salvation or an eco-disaster is by no means certain

The 1960 street map of Lagos, Nigeria, shows a small western-style coastal city surrounded a few semi-rural African villages. Paved roads quickly turn to dirt, and fields to forest. There are few buildings over six floors high and not many cars.

No one foresaw what happened next. In just two generations Lagos grew 100-fold, from under 200,000 people to nearly 20 million. Today one of the world’s 10 largest cities, it sprawls across nearly 1,000 sq km. Vastly wealthy in parts, it is largely chaotic and impoverished. Most residents live in informal settlements, or slums. The great majority are not connected to piped water or a sanitation system. The city’s streets are choked with traffic, its air is full of fumes, and its main dump covers 40 hectares and receives 10,000 metric tons of waste a day.

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Is the way we think about overpopulation racist? | Fred Pearce

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Half the world lives in urban areas, yet environmental concerns about megacities often focus on developing economies. But consumption is as important as population

It is just 50 years since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb galvanised the global discussion on overpopulation. Published in 1968, his million-selling Malthusian polemic suggested that over-breeding poor countries were killing the planet. And it began in a megacity: India’s capital, Delhi.

Related: The 100 million city: is 21st century urbanisation out of control?

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Officials wanted Florida school shooting suspect forcibly committed in 2016

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  • Documents urged compulsory mental evaluation of Nikolas Cruz
  • Move would have made obtaining gun legally difficult or impossible

Officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month’s Florida school shooting that they decided he should be forcibly committed. The recommendation was never acted upon.

A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.

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Trump will pull out of Iran nuclear deal, leading senator predicts

Briton falls to his death from balcony in Mallorca – reports

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British man, 22, fell from a fifth floor balcony while on holiday in Palma, local media report

A 22-year-old British man has died after reportedly falling from a fifth floor balcony in Majorca while on holiday with friends.

According to reports in the local newspaper Diario de Mallorca, police inquiries suggest the man lost his balance and fell through a void on the balcony at an apartment in Palma, the island’s capital.

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The new helmsman: Xi Jinping's re-election brings comparison with Mao

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President’s reappointment for unlimited terms in office sends the state propaganda machine into overdrive

China’s propaganda drive has kicked into overdrive following Xi Jinping’s unanimous reappointment as president at the weekend.

Xi’s face dominated the front pages of major Sunday newspapers, many carrying the same editorial from the ruling Communist party’s official People’s Daily about Xi’s reappointment as president on Saturday.

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Florida bridge collapse: all bodies recovered from crushed vehicles

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  • Five bodies pulled from vehicles; a sixth died in hospital
  • Victim’s uncle rages at ‘complete incompetence of installation

Police in Miami believe they have recovered all the bodies of those who died in a catastrophic bridge collapse on a busy highway on Thursday.

The Miami-Dade police chief, Juan Perez, told news media late on Saturday searchers had recovered all five bodies of people in vehicles that were crushed under the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University, when the structure fell on to a busy six-lane road connecting the campus to the community of Sweetwater.

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Developing countries at risk from US rate rise, debt charity warns

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Jubilee Debt Campaign says 126 nations spend more than 10% of revenues on interest

The expected rise in US interest rates will increase financial pressures on developing countries already struggling with a 60% jump in their debt repayments since 2014, a leading charity has warned.

The Jubilee Debt Campaign said a study of 126 developing nations showed that they were devoting more than 10% of their revenues on average to paying the interest on money borrowed – the highest level since before the G7 agreement to write off the debts of the world’s poorest nations at Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.

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Israeli security guard stabbed to death in Jerusalem

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28-year-old Palestinian assailant was shot dead by police after attack in Old City

An Israeli security guard has died of wounds suffered in a stabbing attack carried out by a suspected Palestinian assailant in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The assailant was shot and killed by police at the scene.

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Balearic island of s’Espalmador sold to private bidder for £16m

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Tiny island close to Formentera has been bought by a family from Luxembourg

A tiny Balearic island that lies between Ibiza and Formentera and boasts two houses, a chapel and a watchtower has been sold to a private bidder for €18m (£16m).

S’Espalmador, which occupies 137 hectares and can be reached on foot from Formentera at low tide, has been snapped up by a family from Luxembourg despite efforts to sell it to the Formentera government.

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Jared Kushner's company routinely filed false New York City paperwork

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Construction applications falsely claimed no rent-controlled tenants protected by rules to prevent developers from pushing them out

When the Kushner Companies bought three apartment buildings in Queens in 2015, most tenants were protected by rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a profit.

But that was exactly what the company then run by Jared Kushner did, with remarkable speed. Two years later, it sold the buildings for $60m, nearly 50% more than it paid.

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Kurdish militia vows to make Afrin 'an ongoing nightmare' for Turks

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YPG plans hit-and-run attacks on Turkish and Syrian rebel forces after pulling out of besieged city

Kurdish militants have vowed to wage a guerrilla war against the Turkish military and their Syrian rebel proxies after the latter swept into the northern Syrian city of Afrin, seizing control from Kurdish forces.

The Kurdish militia, the YPG, withdrew from Afrin before dawn on Sunday, members blending in with an exodus of up to 150,000 civilians who had been fleeing the city since Friday.

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Vladimir Putin secures landslide victory in Russian election

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President takes more than 75% of vote according to partial results, extending Putin’s time in office to nearly a quarter of a century

Vladimir Putin cruised to victory in Sunday’s presidential elections in a result that was never in question. His fourth term as president will extend until 2024, making him the first Kremlin leader to serve two decades in power since Josef Stalin.

With results still coming in, Putin looked set to exceed expectations by clinching more than 75% of the vote.

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Monday's best photos: Tokyo fashion and ice in Denmark

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The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world

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Students turn detention for anti-gun walkout into silent protest – video

'We have to get tough': Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers to combat opioids – video

The alt-right is in decline. Has antifascist activism worked?

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Antifascist tactics have led not only to failed events and dwindling cadres but to infighting and blame games in an increasingly fractious far-right movement

The alt-right appears to be falling apart. The Traditionalist Workers party disintegrated this week after a lurid interpersonal drama among its leadership. Richard Spencer says his alt-right rallies aren’t “fun” any more, and is rethinking his college tour in the aftermath of his fizzer of an event in East Lansing, Michigan, two weeks ago.

It’s a good time to offer an observation: on the terms it set itself, antifascist organizing in the United States has worked.

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