Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack – The Kyiv Independent

  1. Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack  The Kyiv Independent
  2. Ukrainian attack suspends Russian oil flows to Hungary, Slovakia  Reuters
  3. Europe’s Fragile Energy Lifeline Exposed by Ukraine’s Strikes in Russia  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Trump told Orbán he’s ‘very angry’ at Ukraine over pipeline attack  The Hill
  5. Ukraine attacks pipeline that sends Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia  The Guardian
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Trump ‘manufactured crisis’ to justify plan to send national guard to Chicago, leading Democrat says

Pentagon official confirms plan as House minority leader Jeffries says president is ‘playing’ with Americans’ lives

Planning is underway to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.

“We won’t speculate on further operations. The Department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel,” a Department of Defense official said, according to ABC.

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France summons US ambassador Charles Kushner over antisemitism allegations

Kushner says in letter to Macron he’s concerned over ‘rise of antisemitism’ and ‘lack of sufficient action’ to confront it

France summoned the American ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence, a French foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.

Kushner, who is Jewish and whose son is married to US President Donald Trump’s daughter, published the open letter in the Wall Street Journal amid deep divides between France and the US and Israel.

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Wildfires in California and Oregon grow, prompting evacuations and warnings

Firefighters battle blazes amid dry, hot weather as fires in Napa county and Deschutes and Jefferson counties spread

Wildfires in California wine country and central Oregon grew overnight, prompting hundreds of evacuations as firefighters worked on Sunday to try to contain the blazes amid dry, hot weather.

The Pickett Fire in Napa county had grown to more than 10 sq miles (26 sq km) and was 11% contained as of early Sunday, according to the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection.

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Arguing over hunger in Gaza ‘kind of obscene,’ UNICEF official says – Politico

  1. Arguing over hunger in Gaza ‘kind of obscene,’ UNICEF official says  Politico
  2. After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Is Defiant  The New York Times
  3. ‘Purely in survival mode’: Aid worker shares conditions in Gaza City after famine declared  PBS
  4. Are Palestinians really facing a famine in Gaza? - explainer  The Jerusalem Post
  5. Doctors in Gaza say patients’ protruding ribs and bony limbs offer evidence of malnutrition  AP News
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