@nascarcasm: Fake texts to EchoPark summer winner Chase Elliott – NASCAR.com

  1. @nascarcasm: Fake texts to EchoPark summer winner Chase Elliott  NASCAR.com
  2. On Camera, 5-Storey House Collapses In Shimla Day After Evacuation Amid Heavy Rain  NDTV
  3. Five-storeyed building collapses in Shimla, cloudburst in Rampur  Hindustan Times
  4. 3 dead and a dozen missing as torrential rains cause flash flood in north India  AP News
  5. Multi-storey building collapses like a pack of cards in Shimla; locals blame four-lane NH work  The Indian Express
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PM: Iran war opened broad regional possibilities, ‘first we need to free the hostages’ – The Times of Israel

  1. PM: Iran war opened broad regional possibilities, ‘first we need to free the hostages’  The Times of Israel
  2. Netanyahu says ‘opportunities have opened up’ to free hostages, as Trump demands Gaza ‘deal’  CNN
  3. Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran war creates ‘new opportunities’ to free Gaza hostages  Financial Times
  4. Netanyahu sees Iran outcome opening door to Gaza hostage return  Reuters
  5. Israeli military plans bigger Gaza op., waits for Hamas hostage response  The Jerusalem Post
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Turkish police arrest more than 50 people before banned Istanbul Pride parade

City’s bar association says people ‘deprived of their liberty through arbitrary, unjust, and illegal detention’

Police arrested more than 50 people in Istanbul on Sunday ahead of a banned LGBTQ+ Pride march, the city’s bar association said.

“Before today’s Istanbul Pride march, four of our colleagues, including members of our Human Rights Centre, along with more than 50 people, were deprived of their liberty through arbitrary, unjust, and illegal detention,” the Istanbul Bar’s Human Rights Centre posted on X.

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Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia’s climate visas – Reuters

  1. Over a third of people on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas  Reuters
  2. A Special ‘Climate’ Visa? People in Tuvalu Are Applying Fast.  The New York Times
  3. More than a third of this country’s population has applied to relocate  CNN
  4. Tuvalu: One in three citizens apply for climate change visa  BBC
  5. What You Need to Know About Australia's World-First Climate Visa  Earth.Org
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Iran’s nuclear enrichment ‘will never stop’, nation’s UN ambassador says

Amir-Saeid Iravani says Tehran is ready for negotiations but Trump’s ‘unconditional surrender is not negotiation’

Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, said on Sunday that the Islamic republic’s nuclear enrichment “will never stop” because it is permitted for “peaceful energy” purposes under the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

“The enrichment is our right, an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right,” Iravani told CBS News, adding that Iran was ready for negotiations but “unconditional surrender is not negotiation. It is dictating the policy toward us.”

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One dead and two injured after explosion damages Philadelphia homes

Cause unknown after several homes faced extensive fallout, including collapses, firefighters say

One person died and two others were injured after an explosion damaged several homes on Philadelphia’s north side early on Sunday, according to authorities.

Firefighters responded to a report of an explosion just before 5am, according to the Philadelphia fire department.

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Trump sent ‘explicit’ threat to cut funds from University of Virginia, senator says

Mark Warner says school would face slashes to jobs and financial aid if its president did not resign over DEI practices

The University of Virginia (UVA) received “explicit” notification from the Trump administration that the school would endure cuts to university jobs, research funding and student aid as well as visas if the institution’s president, Jim Ryan, did not resign, according to a US senator.

During an interview Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Mark Warner, a Democratic senator for Virginia, defended Ryan – who had championed diversity policies that the president opposes – and predicted that Donald Trump will similarly target other universities.

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Tens of thousands flee Gaza City after Israel warns of major offensive

Israeli forces urge people to evacuate eastern areas before ‘military operations that will escalate and intensify’

Tens of thousands of Palestinians were fleeing eastern parts of Gaza City in the north of the territory on Sunday after Israel warned of a major offensive.

The messages on social media from the Israel Defense Forces warned of “military operations [that] will escalate, intensify, and extend westward to the city centre to destroy the capabilities of terrorist organisations” and directed those living in several crowded neighbourhoods to al-Mawasi, a coastal area much further south that is already overcrowded and has very limited facilities.

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