Read a tribute by the director Steve McQueen: “He had everything, but his service was always to his people.” Music | Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist who broke down racial barriers in the US, has died aged 96. Keir Starmer’s choice for his new chief of staff caused controversy when it was unveiled as Gray had led the civil service inquiry into the Partygate scandal. Politics | The head of the civil service has attempted to block Sue Gray from working with Labour until after the next general election, the Guardian has been told. The decision was taken even though many had been issued with six-month visas on arrival. Immigration | The UK government secretly deported more than 100 Nepali guards who risked their lives to protect British embassy staff in Afghanistan before the Taliban seized back control in 2021, days after they arrived.
The high court also heard that Queen Elizabeth II personally threatened News UK with legal proceedings over hacking, only to be undermined by the then Prince Charles. Monarchy | New court filings submitted by Prince Harry reveal that his brother Prince William received a previously undisclosed “very large sum of money” in 2020 to settle a phone-hacking claim against the owner of the Sun and the News of the World. Vice-president Kamala Harris, the highest-ranking woman and person of colour in US politics, will be Biden’s running mate again. US news | Joe Biden has formally announced his campaign for re-election in 2024, asking Americans for four years to “finish this job”, possibly setting up an extraordinary rematch with Donald Trump. Today’s newsletter, with the Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik, is about that impossible choice, and the factors weighing on the minds of those who have to make it. Now many civilians must decide: take the dangerous road to an unreliable promise of safety, or choose the familiarity of home in a conflict zone with no obvious end in sight. Three previous ceasefires have already fallen apart. But in practice, with airstrikes and reports of renewed fighting throughout the day and other impediments to travel created by the war, that prospect looks anything but secure.
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