Real Madrid vs RB Salzburg: FIFA Club World Cup – team news, start, lineups
Real Madrid meet Red Bull Salzburg in Philadelphia in the final Group H match at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Man charged after violently slamming Afghan child to the ground
A Belarusian tourist has been charged with attempted murder after violently attacking an Afghan boy at a Moscow airport.
At least 16 people killed and 400 injured in Kenyan protests
Police clashed with people marching in Nairobi and other areas to honour those killed in protests last year
At least 16 people have been killed and 400 injured in Kenya as a nationwide demonstration to honour those killed during last year’s anti-government protests turned chaotic, with police clashing with protesters in different parts of the country.
Amnesty Kenya’s executive director, Irũngũ Houghton, said the death toll had been verified by the government-funded Kenya national commission on human rights. “Most were killed by police,” he said.
Continue reading...US lawmaker denies charges stemming from immigration centre visit
Representative LaMonica McIver has been accused of assault as the Trump administration accuses Democrats of obstruction.
Mamdani’s defeat of Cuomo offers Democrats a path out of the wilderness
Mamdani signifies a generational change and rebuke to a party establishment grown complacent and hypocritical
The party was on its knees. It failed to beat Donald Trump, a twice impeached convicted felon, and lost both chambers of Congress. Since November, Democrats have been searching for a path out of the wilderness. On Tuesday, they found one.
But instead of celebrating Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory in the New York mayoral primary election, the first major Democratic contest since Trump’s win, many in the party establishment went into panic mode.
Continue reading...Can a deal be found to end Israel’s war on Gaza?
Israel's recent conflict with Iran has renewed efforts to push for a deal in Gaza.
‘I can see it’s upsetting’ – Trump asks BBC Ukrainian reporter about her family
The US president asks Myroslava Petsa about her husband on the frontline after she asks him about supplying air defences to Ukraine.
Jeff Bezos arrives in Venice for wedding amid protests over inequality
Amazon tycoon set to marry Lauren Sanchez in lavish Venice wedding as activists protest 'growing disparity'.
At least eight killed and hundreds hurt as Kenya protesters battle police
Thousands of people march across the country against President William Ruto's government.
Kenya’s Gen Z protests: Eight killed, hundreds hurt as protesters battle police – BBC
- Kenya's Gen Z protests: Eight killed, hundreds hurt as protesters battle police BBC
- What to Know About the Antigovernment Protests in Kenya The New York Times
- At least 16 people killed and 400 injured in Kenyan protests The Guardian
- Sixteen killed, hundreds injured, in antigovernment Kenyan protests Al Jazeera
- At least 8 killed as anti-government protests rock Kenya The Washington Post
Change in Nato mindset brought on by Vladimir Putin as much as Donald Trump
Allies agreed to raise defence spending to counter likely prospect of Russian remilitarisation if Ukraine war ends
The price was high, but for now, at least, a crisis in Nato has been averted. Donald Trump may like to take the credit for almost all of the 32 allies agreeing to a sharp increase in defence spending, but the reality is that the dramatic change in the Nato mindset was as much brought on by Vladimir Putin.
The Russian president’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was the first jolt, but there is a second uncomfortable reality. If there is a sustainable ceasefire in Ukraine, it will mean the deployment of a European-led peacekeeping force in the country – and after a while, Russia’s military might will inevitably recover.
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Even as the missiles flew across the waters separating Iran and Qatar, diplomacy was in motion. And it worked.
US to stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says
The announcement from Robert F Kennedy Jr comes as his controversial CDC vaccine panel meets for the first time.
Trump doesn’t rule out sending Ukraine more Patriot missiles after Zelenskyy meeting – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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- Trump: Zelensky ‘couldn’t have been nicer’ during meeting The Hill
Did a ‘Harvard report’ reveal 377,000 Gazans are ‘missing’? The number has been misinterpreted – France 24
- Did a ‘Harvard report’ reveal 377,000 Gazans are ‘missing’? The number has been misinterpreted France 24
- Did a Harvard report reveal 377,000 people are missing in Gaza? No - Truth or Fake France 24
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NATO countries’ budgets compared: Defence vs healthcare and education
The decision by NATO members on Wednesday to spend five percent of their GDP on defence could shift budget priorities.
Scientists criticise cut in UK funding for global vaccination group
Five-year £1.25bn pledge to Gavi is 40% cut in real terms, which experts say will cost lives in developing countries
The UK has cut its funding to a leading global vaccination group by a quarter, a move that experts say will directly lead to the avoidable deaths of many thousands of children in developing countries.
The Foreign Office billed the £1.25bn commitment over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) as a major boost to the group’s work as well as to the UK’s status as a developer of vaccines. A series of aid agencies praised the decision.
Continue reading...‘Naughty’ bears escape, steal a week’s worth of honey and take long nap – The Washington Post
- ‘Naughty’ bears escape, steal a week’s worth of honey and take long nap The Washington Post
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Trump administration sues Maryland court system over deportation rulings
The Trump government has criticised Maryland's federal judges for 'judicial overreach' in their immigration orders.
Iran’s parliament approves bill to suspend cooperation with IAEA
Move makes it harder to verify degree of damage inflicted on Iran’s three key nuclear sites by US and Israeli bombing
Iran’s parliament has unanimously agreed to suspend all cooperation with the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear inspectorate, making it harder for an independent expert assessment to be made about the degree of damage inflicted on Iran’s three key nuclear sites by the joint US and Israeli bombing.
It also makes it harder for the location of any highly enriched uranium to be known. The vote is a sign that Iran wants to harden its negotiating position on cooperation with the west in the wake of 12 days of attacks mounted by Israel and the US, but supported by European governments only with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
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