Get the app, consider capacity and be ready for behavioural change: top tips on installing a home battery

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Guardian readers share what they wish they had known before taking the plunge

So you’re finally ready to install a battery at home. There is much to consider – from cost and capacity to the behavioural changes that can boost efficiency. Here, Guardian readers make it easy by sharing their experiences and offering key pieces of advice for how to get the most out of it.

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Water Balloons and Bollywood, India covers itself with color on Holi festival – NBC News

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  1. Water Balloons and Bollywood, India covers itself with color on Holi festival  NBC News
  2. Holi 2025: India comes alive with the festival of colours  BBC.com
  3. Millions of people celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors  The Associated Press
  4. Gulaal, thandai and happy faces | Holi 2025 in pics  Hindustan Times
  5. 7 countries that celebrate Holi just like India  The Times of India
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Putin makes clear Russia will only play ball with Ukraine by his rules

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While carefully avoiding an outright rejection of US ceasefire proposals, Moscow is playing for time

For once, the US president and European leaders were on the same page.

Grasping for a familiar metaphor, a chorus of western heads of state declared this week that “the ball was in Russia’s court” after Ukraine agreed in talks with the US on Tuesday to an immediate 30-day ceasefire.

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China criticises Hong Kong firm’s sale of majority stake in Panama ports

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Commentary urged CK Hutchison to ‘think twice’ about ‘what position and side they are on’ in sale to US investors

China has criticised the sale of the business that controls ports in Panama to US investors, saying the Hong Kong-based parent company should “think twice” and that the $22.8bn deal is “power politics” that is not in the country’s national interest.

Shares in the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison fell more than 6% on Friday after a critical commentary appeared in the Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong.

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Germany’s Friedrich Merz agrees spending deal with Greens – Financial Times

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  1. Germany’s Friedrich Merz agrees spending deal with Greens  Financial Times
  2. Germans Reach Deal to Spend Big on Defense, Climate and More  The New York Times
  3. "Germany is back": Merz secures key support for debt deal  Reuters
  4. German stocks lift European markets higher after lawmakers reportedly agree to spending boost; Kering down 11%  CNBC
  5. Germany’s Merz secures breakthrough on gargantuan spending plan  POLITICO Europe
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Taiwan calls China a ‘hostile foreign force’ and ramps up security – Euronews

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  1. Taiwan calls China a 'hostile foreign force' and ramps up security  Euronews
  2. Taiwan's leader says tougher measures needed to counter stepped-up Chinese infiltration and spying  The Associated Press
  3. Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’  The Guardian
  4. Taiwan’s president seeks to bring back military courts  Financial Times
  5. Taiwan Cracks Down on Chinese ‘Gray Zone’ Espionage  The Wall Street Journal
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China and Russia Unite Behind Iran in Challenge to Trump’s Plans – Yahoo Finance

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  1. China and Russia Unite Behind Iran in Challenge to Trump’s Plans  Yahoo Finance
  2. China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West  The New York Times
  3. China, Russia back Iran as Trump presses Tehran for nuclear talks  Reuters
  4. Russia, China and Iran call for end to U.S. sanctions on Iran and resumption of nuclear talks  CBS News
  5. Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts  NPR
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Weather tracker: Cyclone Jude causes chaos in Mozambique

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More than 200mm of rain fell in 24 hours, destroying 900 homes and leaving 40,000 people without power

Cyclone Jude was the third cyclone to hit Mozambique this season. First spotted as a depression last Friday to the south-west of the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, it intensified over the next few days to a moderate tropical storm, affecting northern Madagascar on Saturday and killing at least one person.

Jude strengthened into a tropical cyclone as it tracked westwards over the Mozambique Channel, where sea surface temperatures of close to 30C provided the heat and moisture necessary to fuel the cyclone.

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Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’ – The Guardian

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  1. Taiwan’s president labels China a ‘foreign hostile force’ and ramps up security measures citing ‘infiltration’  The Guardian
  2. Taiwan calls China 'foreign hostile force' and vows tough measures  BBC.com
  3. Taiwan’s president seeks to bring back military courts  Financial Times
  4. Taiwan's leader says tougher measures needed to counter stepped-up Chinese infiltration and spying  The Associated Press
  5. Taiwan Cracks Down on Chinese ‘Gray Zone’ Espionage  The Wall Street Journal
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YouTuber stabbed to death as she livestreamed on Tokyo street – CBS News

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  1. YouTuber stabbed to death as she livestreamed on Tokyo street  CBS News
  2. Police arrest man in fatal knife attack on a YouTuber during livestreaming on Tokyo street  The Associated Press
  3. Online Influencer Stabbed to Death in Tokyo While Livestreaming  The New York Times
  4. Killing of livestreamer in Tokyo a reminder of social media risks  NHK WORLD
  5. Woman fatally stabbed in Tokyo while livestreaming  Kyodo News Plus
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British man killed by President William Ruto’s convoy in Kenya – BBC.com

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  1. British man killed by President William Ruto's convoy in Kenya  BBC.com
  2. British man killed in Kenya after being knocked over by president’s speeding motorcade  CNN
  3. Briton dies in Kenya after being hit by vehicle in president’s motorcade  The Guardian
  4. British man dies after being hit by Kenyan president's motorcade - as driver arrested  Sky News
  5. British national killed by vehicle in Kenyan president’s motorcade  Yahoo
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China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West – The New York Times

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  1. China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West  The New York Times
  2. China hits out at ‘threats of force’ on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal  CNN
  3. Iranian officials talk nuclear program with Chinese and Russian counterparts  NPR
  4. China, Russia back Iran as Trump presses Tehran for nuclear talks  Reuters
  5. Russia, China and Iran call for end to U.S. sanctions on Iran and resumption of nuclear talks  CBS News
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