Wildfires destroy historic lodge on Grand Canyon’s North Rim, park says

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Grand Canyon Lodge consumed by two wildfires that have burned more than 45,000 acres in area

The historic Grand Canyon Lodge on the monument’s North Rim has been destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire, the park said on Sunday. The blaze has forced officials to close access to that area for the season.

The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing also were lost.

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Women who run with bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermín festival in minority – Euronews.com

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  1. Women who run with bulls at Pamplona's San Fermín festival in minority  Euronews.com
  2. In pictures: Running with the bulls through Pamplona streets  Reuters
  3. Four injured on final day of San Fermin bull runs in Pamplona  Yahoo
  4. Pamplona’s iconic bull run opens in Spain  Al Jazeera
  5. Trump lashes Putin as he confirms Patriot Missiles for Ukraine  MSN
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Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari dies aged 82 in London

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Leader who ousted Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 three decades after brief stint as military ruler dies after ‘prolonged illness’

Nigeria’s former president Muhammadu Buhari, who led Africa’s most populous country from 2015 to 2023 and was the first Nigerian president to oust an incumbent through the ballot box, died in London on Sunday, a presidential spokesperson has said.

President Bola Tinubu’s spokesperson said in a post on X: “President Buhari died today in London at about 4.30pm [1530 GMT], following a prolonged illness.”

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‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

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Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism

The “humanitarian city” Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation.

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ICE Plans to Ramp Up Deporting Immigrants to Countries Other Than Their Own – Rolling Stone

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  1. ICE Plans to Ramp Up Deporting Immigrants to Countries Other Than Their Own  Rolling Stone
  2. ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens  The Washington Post
  3. Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries  The New York Times
  4. "Six Hour Notice, No Safety Assurance": Inside America's New Deportation Plan  NDTV
  5. ICE may deport migrants to countries other than their own with just six hours notice, memo says  Reuters
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“There is Something Very Different Going on Here”: Archaeologists Keep Finding Gigantic Shoes at This 2000-Year-Old Roman Site – The Debrief

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  1. “There is Something Very Different Going on Here”: Archaeologists Keep Finding Gigantic Shoes at This 2000-Year-Old Roman Site  The Debrief
  2. Giant shoes found near Hadrian’s Wall spark mystery around the soldiers of ancient Rome  CNN
  3. 0714 Today in History  Yahoo
  4. Huge Roman shoe discovered near Hadrian’s Wall  Black Hills Pioneer
  5. A colossal find: giant shoes discovered next to Hadrian's Wall baffle Roman archaeologists  MARCA
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Forbes: Ukraine’s drone swarms beat Russia—now the US needs satellite swarms before China does – Euromaidan Press

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  1. Forbes: Ukraine’s drone swarms beat Russia—now the US needs satellite swarms before China does  Euromaidan Press
  2. A Never-Ending Supply of Drones Has Frozen the Front Lines in Ukraine  The Wall Street Journal
  3. How drones and video-game techniques are coming together in Ukraine’s war  The Economist
  4. Ukraine Turns to Fishing Nets to Catch Russian Drones  The New York Times
  5. Kyiv to allocate $6.2 million to drone interceptor program  Reuters
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Trump wants to ‘remake’ Fema, not eliminate it, Kristi Noem says

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Noem says president’s response to Texas floods shows how he wants to change US disaster relief agency to help states

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said on Sunday that Donald Trump wants to have the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) “remade” instead of eradicated entirely.

In a new interview on Sunday with NBC, Noem defended the Trump administration’s response to the deadly Texas floods that have killed at least 120 people, saying: “I think the president recognizes that Fema should not exist the way that it always has been. It needs to be redeployed in a new way, and that’s what we did during this response.”

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‘Serious incident’ at Southend airport after small plane crashes

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Emergency services at the scene after Beechcraft B200 aircraft involved in collision at about 4pm on Sunday

A small passenger plane has crashed after taking off in Essex.

The Beechcraft B200 aircraft crashed at about 4pm on Sunday, soon after taking off from Southend airport, and was seen in flames with dark smoke billowing from it, according to photos circulating on social media.

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Bishops call on UK government to take action over West Bank settler violence

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Senior Church of England clerics want ministers to intensify sanctions and be willing to suspend Israeli trade agreement

Four senior Church of England bishops have called on the UK government to intensify the use of sanctions and to be willing to suspend its trade agreement with Israel over settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

The situation there is “in freefall with increasing levels of settler violence and intimidation against Palestinians”, the bishops say in a letter to the Guardian. The settlers are acting with impunity, they add. “Settler violence is state violence by any other name.”

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Fathers plan legal action to get smartphones banned in England’s schools

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Two fathers tell education secretary they will seek judicial review in bid for statutory ban to safeguard children

Two fathers plan to take legal action against the government in an attempt to get smartphones banned in schools in England.

Will Orr-Ewing and Pete Montgomery wrote to the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, on Friday warning that they would seek a judicial review. They argue that current guidance, which allows headteachers to decide how smartphones are used, is unlawful and unsafe for children.

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Ukraine must get ready for future in which there is no ceasefire with Russia

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Recognising Putin is not serious about peace is first step towards ‘strategic neutralisation’ proposed by ex-minister

While Donald Trump – and other western leaders – are taking their time to catch up with reality, it is obvious that Vladimir Putin has no apparent desire to halt the war in Ukraine. A realistic future military and diplomatic strategy for Kyiv has to accept that fact – and formulate a new approach.

The past six months have been dominated by the erroneous assumption that it would be possible for Trump to negotiate a ceasefire, even an armistice. That would be followed by the arrival of an Anglo-French led stabilisation force to secure the future of Ukraine. But Putin has shown no desire to stop attacking.

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