Japan has record 100,000 people aged over 100: How societies are ageing – Al Jazeera

  1. Japan has record 100,000 people aged over 100: How societies are ageing  Al Jazeera
  2. Japan Reaches a Unique Milestone, With More Than 100,000 People Aged 100 or Over  The New York Times
  3. This country has over 100,000 people age 100 or older for first time  USA Today
  4. Japan just hit a new longevity milestone  Scientific American
  5. Map Shows Countries With Most Centenarians As Japan Tops 100,000  Newsweek
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The Nepal floods question: When the Himalayas collapse, who gets warned? – Al Jazeera

  1. The Nepal floods question: When the Himalayas collapse, who gets warned?  Al Jazeera
  2. Rapid Warming in the Himalaya Exacerbates Geohazard Cascades Beyond Adaptation Limits  World Weather Attribution
  3. Here’s what one team of scientists thinks happened in Nepal’s deadly flood wave  CNN
  4. Scientists Warn of Flood Risks to 8 Himalayan Countries after Nepal Disaster  The New York Times
  5. If Climate Change Contributed to Nepal’s Floods, Should Polluters Pay?  National Geographic
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Iran war cost is now at least $43.6 billion, U.S. Central Command says – The Washington Post

  1. Iran war cost is now at least $43.6 billion, U.S. Central Command says  The Washington Post
  2. Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed  Al Jazeera
  3. Iran war has cost $45.1 billion, Pentagon tells Congress  CNN
  4. US Warns Allies of Missile Delivery Delays Due to Shortage  Bloomberg.com
  5. Cost of Iran War Estimated at $43.6 Billion  The New York Times
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Bomb attack at Pakistan mosque kills at least 31 people – Al Jazeera

  1. Bomb attack at Pakistan mosque kills at least 31 people  Al Jazeera
  2. Kohat: At least 21 killed in attack on mosque in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  BBC
  3. Pakistani forces end 20-hour standoff with militants in the northwest  10TV
  4. Death toll at 31 in Pakistan police compound attack, AFP reports  reuters.com
  5. 15 cops among 21 martyred in blast at Kohat Police Lines, more than 80 injured  Dawn
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Trump says son has paid back Russian for wedding party – The Washington Post

  1. Trump says son has paid back Russian for wedding party  The Washington Post
  2. Trump says his son paid back Russian billionaire who funded parts of wedding celebration  CNN
  3. Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin  ProPublica
  4. Trump says his son told him he will repay Russian oligarch for wedding parties  reuters.com
  5. Trump says his son’s wedding party being bankrolled by a Russian oligarch is ‘totally allowed’  AP News
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‘My fear was too great’: the Pussy Riot member recruited by Russian spies to inform on fellow activists

Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB

First came the blackmail and death threats to secure cooperation, then came a series of tasks, each more sinister than the last: to inform on fellow activists, to elicit personal information from protest-minded artists and – eventually – to help with a plot to kidnap and murder a Kremlin enemy.

That is how Rita Flores, a 29-year-old Russian artist, activist and former member of the Pussy Riot collective, described her recruitment and three-year handling by officers from Russia’s FSB security service, a cooperation she only broke when she fled the country last month.

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Trump says ‘anything could happen’ in US-Iran war ahead of meeting with Gulf leaders – Fox News

  1. Trump says ‘anything could happen’ in US-Iran war ahead of meeting with Gulf leaders  Fox News
  2. Trump says U.S. ‘hopefully’ nearing end of Iran war as Saudi Arabia, Houthis trade strikes  CNBC
  3. Trump claims direct talks with Iran: Is diplomacy picking up again?  Al Jazeera
  4. Trump determined to end Iran war soon, US president's senior adviser tells Euronews  Euronews.com
  5. Trump tells Axios he's approaching major crossroads in Iran war  Axios
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Iran claims it struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, and other Mideast developments – AP News

  1. Iran claims it struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, and other Mideast developments  AP News
  2. Iran Exploits Attack on Small Product Tanker to Assert Hormuz Control  The Maritime Executive
  3. Vessel struck in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports  edition.cnn.com
  4. Tanker struck by ‘unknown projectile’ in Hormuz, British maritime agency says  The Times of Israel
  5. Japan economy minister Kiuchi: It is up to BOJ to decide details of monetary policy  Forex Factory
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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.

Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.

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Uber ordered to pay $40m over death of woman ejected by driver on freeway

California judge finds company ‘vicariously liable’ for driver’s negligence in death of Emily Normandin-Parker

Uber was ordered to pay $40m to the parents of a 23-year-old woman who was killed after a driver kicked her and a friend out of his car by the side of a California freeway, according to newly public arbitration documents.

An arbitrator, retired Calfornia judge Richard A Stone, found that the ride-share company was “vicariously liable” for the driver’s negligence.

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Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say

Group trapped at Hotel Bamy after US removal as rights groups sound alarm over poor conditions and violence

Two men that the Trump administration expelled to Equatorial Guinea were bound, fitted with bags over their heads, beaten and pushed down a flight of stairs, all in plain view of other US deportees, according to witnesses and human rights lawyers.

The men – one from Egypt and one from Eritrea – were then taken to a prison. About 30 detainees from the US remain trapped at a hotel in the outskirts of the coastal city of Malabo after being deported from the US. Detainees have said they believe the men were beaten for telling the press and human rights advocates about the poor conditions and violence inside the hotel, and that they are haunted by flashbacks and terrified they will be retaliated against next.

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