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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Weekend reading: Hollywood's dark side – and Australia's cruelty

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Vanity Fair party following the 88th Academy Awards

'I had to defend myself'

The night Harvey Weinstein jumped on me

All throughout the evening, Harvey Weinstein flirted and stared at me as if I was a piece of meat. Then he lost control, writes the award-winning actor Léa Seydoux

Lea Seydoux

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Black sites

Inside the CIA’s secret torture room

Papers that the Pentagon and CIA were forced to declassify reveal the fullest picture ever of the ‘enhanced interrogation’ regime and the men who designed it

IKONOS satellite image of a facility near Kabul

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The leftovers

My fridge reveals my eldest has flown the nest

With one child now away at university, Jay Rayner is failing at portion control. But there’s a reason the fridge is full of Tupperware boxes …

Leftover containers in a refrigerator

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'I shot like a maniac'

Wim Wenders on his polaroids

Vigils for John Lennon, road trips with Annie Leibovitz … director Wim Wenders took thousands of Polaroids while making his classic films

Wim Wenders New York Parade, 1972 © Wim Wenders Courtesy the Wim Wenders Foundation

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'Manus was like a hell'

How Australia’s immigration policy inspired Europe’s far right

European nativist parties have embraced Australia’s hardline tactics for managing asylum seekers and refugees – but their true agenda is to keep Muslims out

Migrants, most of them from Eritrea, jump into the water from a crowded wooden boat

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My friend Kim Wall

A reporter born to tell stories

Kim Wall died doing the job she loved. Caterina Clerici recalls her journalistic “soul sister”: full of life, bubbling with ideas and about to start a new adventure

Kim Wall

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I'm the woman in the 'racist' Dove ad

I am not a victim

When Dove offered her the chance to be the face of a new body wash campaign, Lola Ogunyemi jumped at it. She had no idea she would become the unwitting poster child for racist advertising

Lola Ogunyemi

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I am Catalan

‘Independence is not a final destination’

Catalonian identity is about more than a yes or no vote for independence from Spain. We went to the region to ask a variety of people what independence means for them

Childhood friends David Jovellar, 24, wearing an ‘estelada’ or independence flag

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Van-derlust

On the road across North America

Foster Huntingdon spent three years travelling across North America after quitting his job. He captures the lives of others living the alternative American dream

Van life

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