- Beijing’s Trade Tactics, Ukraine Stance Cast Pall Over Europe-China Ties The Wall Street Journal
- EU-China ties at 'inflection point', von der Leyen says after tense Beijing summit Reuters
- Why Isn’t China Wooing Europe? Foreign Policy
- Europe and China agree to take action on climate change and nothing else in tense Beijing summit AP News
- China’s Xi urges Europe to make ‘the right strategic choice’ amid global trade turbulence at key summit CNN
EU to China: We can’t keep our markets open if you won’t rebalance trade – politico.eu
- EU to China: We can’t keep our markets open if you won’t rebalance trade politico.eu
- China and E.U. Reach Narrow Agreements on Climate and Rare Earths The New York Times
- China’s Xi urges Europe to make ‘the right strategic choice’ amid global trade turbulence at key summit CNN
- Beijing’s Trade Tactics, Ukraine Stance Cast Pall Over Europe-China Ties The Wall Street Journal
- China Fails to Capitalize on Europe’s Grievances Over US Tariffs Bloomberg.com
We might get killed, but we have to get food, injured Gazan tells BBC
Many patients brought to UK-Med's Gaza field hospital were seeking food aid but found only violence.
No survivors after plane carrying 48 people goes down in Russian far east
The Angara airlines An-24 plane went down as it approached an airport in Amur region.
Former head of Central African football body jailed for war crimes
Edouard Ngaïssona, along with Alfred Yekatom, was convicted of targeting CAR's Muslim population.
People in Gaza are ‘walking corpses’, says Unrwa, as agency says it has 6,000 aid trucks ready to enter – Middle East crisis live
Philippe Lazzarini says Unrwa findings show one in five children is malnourished in Gaza City and says agency has food and medical supplies
Palestinian health officials said Thursday that two Palestinian teenage boys were killed by Israeli fire on Wednesday night in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Israel’s military said its forces had fired at Palestinians throwing molotov cocktails toward a highway, killing two near the West Bank town of Al-Khader.
Continue reading...European Central Bank keeps interest rates on hold despite sluggish growth
Central bank shuns calls to reduce borrowing costs as higher US tariffs loom
The European Central Bank has kept interest rates on hold as figures showed the eurozone economy maintaining a slow pace of economic growth.
In what was widely expected to be a pause before further cuts later in the year, the Frankfurt-based central bank shunned calls to reduce the cost of borrowing and held its main interest rate at 2% and the deposit rate at 2.15%.
Continue reading...British teenager Bella Culley to be held in Georgia until September drugs trial
Tbilisi judge rejects lawyer’s offer of plea agreement for release of pregnant Teesside teenager, now 19, at hearing
The British teenager Bella Culley is to be held in a Georgian prison for at least five more weeks as she awaits trial on drug-smuggling charges, a court in Tbilisi has ordered.
Culley, the great-granddaughter of a former Labour MP, was arrested on arrival at the city’s airport in May. Georgian prosecutors said she was carrying a large amount of illegal drugs in luggage she brought with her from Thailand.
Continue reading...‘Extortion’: Columbia University’s deal with White House met with mixed reactions
Some slammed the agreement with the Trump administration to reinstate $400m in federal funds while others praised it as an ‘excellent outcome’
Columbia University’s long anticipated deal with the Trump administration after months of negotiations has drawn both condemnation and praise from faculty, students, and alumni – a sign that the end of negotiations will hardly restore harmony on a campus profoundly divided since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza.
The deal will reinstate $400m in federal funds the administration cut from the university after it accused it of allowing antisemitism to fester on campus. But it will cost Columbia some $220m in legal settlements, as well as a host of new measures that critics warn significantly restrict the university’s independence and will further repress pro-Palestinian speech.
Continue reading...Jeremy Corbyn confirms he is setting up new political party with Zarah Sultana – UK politics live
Former Labour leader said he was founding the new party, which is being referred to currently as Your Party
Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds blamed Donald Trump’s tariffs and competition from China for the slump in vehicle manufacturing.
He told BBC Breakfast he was “very concerned” about the industry, which he described as the “jewel in the crown” of British manufacturing.
I’m very concerned about automotive, the pressures on the system which come from the US trade agenda, but also an incredible increase in capacity from China.
It’s why as a government we’ve adopted so many measures specifically around the automotive sector.
The UK state pension is already one of the worst in the entire developed world, which is a direct result of decades of governments transferring both our national and personal wealth to the super rich.
Any decision to squeeze more out of working people by forcing us to work even longer would be a national disgrace.
Continue reading...Canterbury student jailed for selling phishing kits to fraudsters
Ollie Holman created kits that mimicked charity and bank webpages so criminals could harvest victims’ personal details
A 21-year-old student who designed and distributed online kits linked to £100m worth of fraud has been jailed for seven years.
Ollie Holman created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank and charity websites so that criminals could harvest victims’ personal information to defraud them.
Continue reading...48 killed in Russian passenger plane crash, official says – ABC News
- 48 killed in Russian passenger plane crash, official says ABC News
- Russian plane crashes in Russia's far east, nearly 50 people on board feared dead Reuters
- Dozens feared killed after plane crashes in Russia’s Far East, state media reports CNN
- Soviet-era passenger plane crashes in Russia's far east killing all 48 on board Yahoo Home
- Doomed descent: Did a crew error lead to fatal Russian jet crash that killed 45? What investigators revea The Times of India
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana agree to launch leftwing party
Former Labour MPs condemn ‘rigged’ system and promise ‘a mass redistribution of wealth and power’
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have reached agreement over the launch of a leftwing party after weeks of discussions.
The new movement has yet to be named but has an interim website under the moniker of Your Party. In a tweeted statement, the two former Labour MPs appealed to would-be supporters to register their interest in “a new kind of political party – one that belongs to you”.
Continue reading...UK should act to stop children getting hooked on social media ‘dopamine loops’
Beeban Kidron says it is not ‘nanny state’ to prevent firms investing billions on making platforms addictive from targeting under-18s
A leading online safety campaigner has urged the UK government to “detoxify the dopamine loops” of addictive social media platforms as tech companies prepare to implement significant child protection measures.
Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer, asked the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, to use the Online Safety Act to bring forward new codes of conduct on disinformation and on tech features that can lead to children becoming addicted to online content.
Continue reading...Two die in car during Cyprus wildfire as 44C heat expected
Local reports say the bodies, which are yet to be identified, belong to an elderly couple in the village of Malia, in the Limassol district.
Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks after latest ceasefire talks – BBC
- Russia and Ukraine trade drone attacks after latest ceasefire talks BBC
- Russia Launches Heavy Strikes Despite Trump Arms Pledge to Ukraine The New York Times
- Ukraine, Russia attack each other's territory after latest round of peace talks Reuters
- Russia launches 42 drone strikes on Ukraine overnight, hours after agreeing to Istanbul peace talks - as it happened The Guardian
- Russian attacks kill 4, injure 33 over past day, damaging UNESCO-protected landmarks in Odesa The Kyiv Independent
South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: ‘He can do anything to anyone’
Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump’s attacks on Canada and more.
Continue reading...Iran lays down conditions for resumption of nuclear talks with US – Reuters
- Iran lays down conditions for resumption of nuclear talks with US Reuters
- Iran says it’s ready for nuclear talks with the US but only if Washington rebuilds trust AP News
- Iran says it's ready for nuclear talks if US works to rebuild trust Euronews.com
- Donald Trump says that he won't convince Iran into nuclear talks The Jerusalem Post
- Iran worries U.S. will use nuclear talks as pretext for new attacks: Senior official Axios
First Thing: Late Jesuit global leader allegedly let known child molester become a priest
Court records show Pedro Arrupe, a candidate for sainthood, failed to stop Donald Dickerson being ordained. Plus, deadly clashes on Thai-Cambodian border
Good morning.
The former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order Pedro Arrupe acknowledged he was warned that one of his aspiring priests had been accused of sexually molesting two children and had admitted making sexual advances on a third, court documents reveal.
What is the claim in the Louisiana case? The lawsuit claims Dickerson raped a 17-year-old student at a Jesuit-run university in New Orleans.
Should we expect further developments? Yes. On Wednesday, the House oversight committee voted 8-2 to subpoena the justice department to release files related to Epstein, and subpoenaed Ghislaine Maxwell for a deposition.
Continue reading...Newsman or businessman? Murdoch walks tightrope in battle with Trump
Longstanding relationship between media mogul and US president is being tested amid Trump’s lawsuit over a WSJ story about his ties to Epstein
Rupert Murdoch had made up his mind. “We want to make Trump a nonperson,” he assured one of his former executives in a 2021 email, two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Over seven decades, Murdoch has sought to charm, challenge and change prime ministers and presidents as he built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. In this particular endeavor, however, he failed.
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