Emmy nominations 2025: The contenders in key categories
Severance earned 27 Emmy nods, while HBO’s dark Batman spinoff, The Penguin, secured 24 nominations.
Pentagon withdraws 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles
The Trump administration said about half the troops deployed to help enforce immigration raids would leave the city.
Cuban minister resigns after saying country has no beggars
Marta Elena Feitó-Cabrera said people going through rubbish were doing so by choice to make "easy money".
Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays
Two southern states cling to past ruling that children are needed for harvest and claim the latest, most favoured slot
Germany’s 16 states are locked in a fierce row over when they are able to take their summer school holidays, with the southernmost two accused of permanently hogging the best slots on the grounds that their children are required to help bring in the harvest.
Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are resisting calls from the other 14 federal states to join the long-held national rotation system of school summer holidays that the other states take part in.
Continue reading...Houthi-linked dealers sell arms on X and WhatsApp, report says
Traders affiliated to Iran-backed rebel group found to have been running weapon stores on social media for years
Arms dealers affiliated with Houthi militants in Yemen are using X and Meta platforms to traffic weapons – some US-made – in apparent violation of the social media firms’ policies, a report has revealed.
The Houthis, an Iran-backed group of rebels who have controlled swathes of Yemen since 2014, are designated as a terrorist organisation by the US, Canada and other countries.
Continue reading...Labubu firm sees profit soaring by at least 350%
Sales, branding and tight cost controls have helped Pop Mart's profits balloon in the first half of 2025.
Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona Democratic primary for House seat
Grijalva beat Gen Z activist Deja Foxx in the race and will succeed her late father, Raúl Grijalva, in the role
Adelita Grijalva won the Democratic House primary in Arizona to succeed her father, beating a young social media activist in a closely watched election seen as a test of the party’s generational divide.
Raúl Grijalva, a longtime congressman in southern Arizona, died from cancer earlier this year and left a vacancy in the state’s seventh district. The younger Grijalva, a 54-year-old who served for 20 years on a Tucson school board, has been a Pima county supervisor since 2020.
Continue reading...UN agency sounds alarm as 1 in 10 children in Gaza now malnourished
US nurse tells of Israeli authorities confiscating supplies of baby formula being brought into Gaza by medical workers.
Indonesia arrests 12 for trafficking babies to Singapore
Police say the suspects have sent more than a dozen babies to Singapore for adoption.
Duo sentenced to four years for ‘moronic’ killing of tree in England – The Washington Post
- Duo sentenced to four years for ‘moronic’ killing of tree in England The Washington Post
- Men sentenced to over 4 years in prison for cutting down iconic tree Yahoo
- Great-gran's 200-mile trip to Sycamore Gap case BBC
- Men Who Cut Down Beloved Tree in England Get More Than 4 Years in Prison The New York Times
- Sycamore Gap pair jailed for four years and three months – as it happened The Guardian
Senate Republicans advance Trump bill to cancel $9bn in approved spending
President is looking to clawback money from public media and foreign aid programs to seemingly control US debt
Senate Republicans on Tuesday advanced Donald Trump’s request to cancel about $9bn in previously approved spending, overcoming concerns about what the rescissions could mean for impoverished people around the globe and for public radio and television stations in their home states.
JD Vance broke the tie on the procedural vote, allowing the measure to advance, 51-50.
Continue reading...Israel bombs Syria’s Druze city of Suwayda hours after ceasefire
The Israeli bombings come after the Syrian government and a Druze leader both said the truce had been broken.
Trump says ‘credible’ Epstein files should be released amid MAGA revolt
US president opens door to releasing more information on accused sex trafficker amid outrage among his base.
‘An insult’: Malaysians slam nomination of ‘alpha-male’ Nick Adams as US ambassador
Adams’ comments about Israel have provoked particular concern in Malaysia, a staunch supporter of Palestine
Former government ministers and youth politicians in Muslim-majority Malaysia have slammed a decision to nominate right-wing influencer Nick Adams as US ambassador to the country, calling it an insult to the nation.
Donald Trump announced last week that Nick Adams, a self-proclaimed “alpha male”, had been announced as ambassador to Malaysia, praising him as a “incredible patriot”.
Continue reading...Air India crash: Boeing aircraft in the spotlight – DW
- Air India crash: Boeing aircraft in the spotlight DW
- Opinion | The Truth About the Air India Crash The Wall Street Journal
- 32 seconds to disaster: How a routine takeoff turned catastrophic Reuters
- Air India Crash Findings Prompt Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches The New York Times
- Air India crash report raises questions about mental health care for pilots PBS
Fewer school-age children vaping in Australia since ban, study says
Australian officials have seized more than 10 million illegal vapes in the past year.
UN finds rising child malnutrition in Gaza, where officials say Israeli strikes kill 93 people – AP News
- UN finds rising child malnutrition in Gaza, where officials say Israeli strikes kill 93 people AP News
- The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial The Guardian
- One in 10 children in its clinics are malnourished, UN Palestinian refugee agency says Reuters
- Aid for Gaza’s starving children is right at the gates. Let it in +972 Magazine
- First Person: How many more children must die before the world acts? UN News
Trump launches probe into Brazil’s ‘unfair’ trade practices
Last week, the US president urged Brazilian authorities to end their prosecution of the country's former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,238
Here are the key events on day 1,238 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
ICE may deport some migrants to ‘third countries’ without assurances they won’t be tortured, memo says – NBC News
- ICE may deport some migrants to 'third countries' without assurances they won't be tortured, memo says NBC News
- ICE's new deportation guidance makes a mockery of due process MSNBC News
- Can Trump Deport People to Any Country That Will Take Them? The New Yorker
- ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The Washington Post
- Trump plans to send migrants to “third countries.” Others have tried that. The Washington Post