In Locarno, Switzerland, on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore, lies the mouth of the Maggia river. Inside the marquee, Rotanzi jumped on to a table to address the crowd. Barely five metres from the end of the marquee, where the forest had stood, there was a void. Inside the marquee, Foresti sensed that something strange was happening. “At the end of the marquee, the forest had gone,” said Foresti.

Palestinian officials have reported that at least 27 people were killed by Israeli forces as they tried to get food from distribution centres in Gaza on Sunday. At least 1,400 people have been killed while seeking aid since 27 May, the UN said. The killings occurred as the far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, led prayers at al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site

The cabinet said after an emergency meeting it would improve its offer to Trump. Swiss officials rejected reports that the 39% rate was imposed because of the call between Trump and Keller-Sutter, the finance minister and current president under the country’s rotating system. Trump made it clear from the very beginning that he had a completely different point of view, that 10% tariffs were not enough,” the source told Reuters. “Faced with Trump, Keller-Sutter was surely too naive,” was the headline in the tabloid Blick, while 24 Heures said what should have been her “masterpiece” ended up as “the heaviest defeat of her political career”. The business minister said Trump was focused on the US trade deficit with Switzerland, which was Sfr38.5bn (£35.8bn) last year.

Switzerland is in crisis mode as it tries to avoid a 39% tariff imposed by the US. The government held emergency talks to draft a plan, and Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter is willing to travel to Washington if a solution is in sight. The US cited a trade deficit of 38 billion dollars as the reason for the tariff, which Switzerland disputes as "absurd." Switzerland is in crisis mode as it grapples with a 39% tariff imposed by the United States. The government has convened emergency talks to draft a response, with Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter ready to travel to Washington if a solution emerges.

Photograph: Simon StraetkerEsfandiary arrived in Switzerland four years ago, initially crossing the mountains from Iran into Turkey on foot. Soon after reaching Switzerland, Esfandiary joined Peaks4All, a Geneva-based non-profit that supports refugee integration through mountaineering. Photograph: Simon StraetkerLysenko arrived in Geneva in the summer of 2022, just months after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. View image in fullscreen Peaks4All founder Clémence Delloye leads two participants over a tricky section. Photograph: Simon StraetkerIn Europe, including in Switzerland, many refugees say they face challenges integrating, especially as politics in many countries have shifted further to the right.

Trump’s latest blitz triggered a wave of market jitters and fears for jobs in some of the poorest countries, as tariff rates were signed off ranging from 50% to 10%. The new rates, which Trump sees as benefiting US exporters, create uncertainty for dozens of countries, including longtime US allies. The deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico was extended by another 90 days. The EU’s 15% tariff rate as a single all-inclusive rate was confirmed in the executive order. For goods already in transit or warehoused for consumption before 8 August, the previous tariff rate (10% + MFN rate) will apply until 5 October 2025.

The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order imposing “reciprocal” tariffs ranging from 10% to 41% on imports from dozens of countries and foreign locations, shortly after extending the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days. Brazil received a 10% “reciprocal” tariff, but an executive order on Wednesday imposed a 40% additional levy from 1 August linked to the prosecution of the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, taking the total to 50%. Canada’s higher total rate of 35% was ordered to come in from 1 August. The Guardian has a searchable table of the countries and the new tariff levels they face. The rates can be found in the table below.

But the big shock comes in the latest revisions to payrolls, with previous estimates for both May and June being revised sharply lower. The Bureau of Labor Statistics now estimates that just 19,000 new jobs were created in May, 125,000 fewer than the 144,000 previously estimated. June’s data has been revised down too - showing that just 14,000 new jobs were created, not the 147,000 reported a month ago. That means 258,000 fewer jobs were created in May and June than previously thought. This surprisingly weak data may be a sign that Donald Trump’s trade wars, and the associated uncertainty, have cause more damage to the US economy than previously thought.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it continued to monitor statements by US president Donald Trump regarding sanctions against Moscow, but that Russia had acquired immunity to such measures thanks to long experience. Trump said on Tuesday the US would start imposing tariffs and other measures on Russia in 10 days if Moscow showed no progress towards ending its more than three-year-long war in Ukraine. “We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time, our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “While Geneva hosts war criminals Matvienko, Tolstoi and Slutsky, Russian troops continue to launch missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. Given the delay in verifying deaths, the UN says the true number is likely to be much higher.

In Gaza City, the acute malnutrition soared from 4.4% in May to 16.5% in the first half of July, reaching the famine threshold. View image in fullscreen Mohammed al-Mutawaq with his mother, Hidaya, in the al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. But Checchi, and other leading experts on the topic, are confident there is now a famine in Gaza. And I don’t think that governments such as the UK are unaware that what is happening is a famine,” Checchi said. The front pagesView image in fullscreen Photograph: GuardianThe Guardian leads with “UK to recognise state of Palestine unless Israel commits to ceasefire”.

Twelve hours before Euro 2025 reached its crescendo the Uefa executive director of football, Giorgio Marchetti, addressed a hall of delegates in Basel. Those fan marches, replicated by several nations’ fanbases across the month, were evidence of a women’s football supporter culture that has grown in shape and identity here. Uefa wanted to learn more about the sport’s audience, its habits and its mores, at Euro 2025 and has been presented with compelling answers. Euro 2025 achieved that in greater concentration than any of its past equivalent tournaments. Euro 2025 built firmly on existing foundations and, for all the challenges that await, set out Marchetti’s vision for a far more durable beast.

With Late Shift, Volpe aimed to shine a light on the frontlines of the looming healthcare catastrophe through the eyes of the dedicated, exhausted Floria. The looming workload suddenly grows exponentially, compounding the stress and driving up the likelihood she will make a fateful mistake. But she notes it was rare in TV medical dramas to see nurses and their everyday feats front and centre. “I wanted real nurses not to be able to tell the difference between me and a professional,” she says. Franziska Aurich, 28, who works on a cancer ward at Berlin’s Charité hospital, also found the film “very close to reality”.

“No blood for Israel.”While this type of scene with masked men chanting is a relatively common occurrence in the US, this incident in Canada illustrated the underbelly of a surging global movement: neo-Nazi “active clubs”, American-born neofascist fight clubs, are rapidly spreading across borders. But the arrival of an active club, which has also shown itself in other nearby towns and cities like Toronto (the country’s largest metropolitan area), is a relatively new development. Beirich described how members of Patriot Front “often work closely with Active Club chapters” including participating in their mixed-martials training. On Telegram, active club chapters regularly share Patriot Front propaganda. “Join Patriot Front if you are in America,” one active club adjacent account posted on Telegram, with nearly three thousand views.

It’s a high-vigilance, high-stress environment.”These are examples of what numerous sources say is a “total infiltration” of the plastics treaty negotiations by vested industrial interests and corporate lobbyists. ‘Distorting knowledge’The plastics treaty negotiations resume in August in Geneva, Switzerland, having failed to reach agreement at the fifth round of talks in December. These include the US Plastics Industry Association, Plastics Europe and national plastic industry groups from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia and Korea. Ninety-five nations issued a “wakeup call for an ambitious plastics treaty” on 10 June at the UN Ocean Conference. But I think we can expect chaos and fireworks.”She recalled another incident of harassment at one of the plastics negotiations.

Guinness World Records’s oldest living horse – who was once owned by legendary actor Burt Reynolds – has died shortly after attaining the title, the organization announced recently. World's oldest horse, once owned by Hollywood legend Burt Reynolds, dies at age 40https://t.co/m6D2n4ycpw — Guinness World Records (@GWR) July 21, 2025Dzama added that Mokie instead demonstrated “what a horse can do with just their magic”. Dzama began looking after Mokie while the owner who acquired the horse from Reynolds was out of town. That second owner “enjoyed many years riding all over” the US with him, Dzama told the records organization. “He was just a really special guy.”Before Mokie, Guinness World Records recognized Echoquette the Arabian mare as the oldest living horse.