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Interview

Debbie Harry at 80

The pop icon is busier than ever. She plays Pamela Anderson’s mother in a new film and will soon release Blondie’s first album in nine years. She explains why she will never stop thinking about what’s next

By Megan Nolan

Europa League

Victory for the Villans

They came, they saw, they conquered. A claret and blue horde engulfed Istanbul as Aston Villa secured the cup, George Simms reports from the Bosphorus

International Booker Prize

Love and war in Taiwan

The Taiwan Travelogue author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and her translator Lin King tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger about queerness, bootleg manga and their country's contested future

Cannes Film Festival

Fractured families

From father-daughter fallouts to faith-based child abuse and shady dealings in the suburbs, trouble begins at home for the Palme d’Or frontrunners, Vanessa Thorpe reports from France

News in brief

Politics

Labour accused of easing Russian sanctions on the sly

International

The US arrest of Raúl Castro does not bode well for Cuba

Crime

Austria investigate suspects over Sarajevo ‘sniper tours’

Media

Young Murdoch splashes out on Vox

For today

The Makerfield paradox: why a byelection win could lock Burnham out of No 10

Politics

Rachel Sylvester

The Makerfield paradox: why a byelection win could lock Burnham out of No 10

The French town that found the key to beating the far right

France

Kim Willsher

The French town that found the key to beating the far right

Erica Wagner

The scammers using AI and flattery to target authors like me

James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain – meticulous, mysterious, utterly maverick

Art

Laura Cumming

James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain – meticulous, mysterious, utterly maverick

Investigation

All doped up

This week a select group of drug-enhanced athletes will take part in a new sports competition. The Enhanced Games will provide an outlet for those frustrated by confusing anti-doping regulations but risks turning elite sport into a ‘dangerous clown show’