Israel launches air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs – BBC

  1. Israel launches air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs  BBC
  2. LIVE: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut, kills 50 in Gaza  Al Jazeera
  3. Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning  CNN
  4. Israeli Military Strikes Near Beirut, Saying Hezbollah Was the Target  The New York Times
  5. Israeli jets strike Beirut’s southern suburbs for the third time since a ceasefire began  AP News
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Vancouver: Death toll in Lapu Lapu festival attack rises to 11 – BBC

  1. Vancouver: Death toll in Lapu Lapu festival attack rises to 11  BBC
  2. Suspect in deadly Vancouver car ramming had history of mental health-related interactions with police  CBC
  3. Vancouver festival crash latest: Death toll rises to 11 after car-ramming attack as suspect ‘known to police’  The Independent
  4. 11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver  NPR
  5. Car Plows Into Vancouver Street Fair, Killing People  The New York Times
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Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker livestream sit-in against GOP funding plan

Democratic House leader and New Jersey senator protest on steps of US Capitol over proposed Republican budget

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and New Jersey senator Cory Booker were holding a sit-in protest and discussion on Sunday on the steps of the US Capitol in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan.

Billed as an “Urgent Conversation with the American People”, the livestreamed discussion comes before Congress’s return to session on Monday, where Democrats hope to stall Republicans’ economic legislative agenda. Throughout the day, they were joined by other Democratic lawmakers, including the senator Raphael Warnock, who spoke as the sit-in passed the 10-hour mark.

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First images of Pope Francis’ tomb at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome – New York Post

  1. First images of Pope Francis’ tomb at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome  New York Post
  2. Images of Pope Francis' tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore church released  BBC
  3. What to expect from the conclave that will choose Pope Francis' successor  USA Today
  4. Watch Pope Francis' full funeral video as world mourns late Vatican leader  CBS News
  5. Catholic faithful pay respects to Pope Francis as his tomb opens to the public in Rome basilica  AP News
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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families – AP News

  1. For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families  AP News
  2. ‘Food is not political,’ WFP head says as U.S. cuts aid and Israel blocks help to Gaza  PBS
  3. Updates: Israel inflicts ‘man-made starvation’ on Gaza as attacks kill 45  Al Jazeera
  4. The World Food Programme has run out of food in Gaza  NBC News
  5. Aid workers sound the alarm over Gaza's transformation into 'mass grave'  Le Monde.fr
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Trump’s first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order – Reuters

  1. Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning the world order  Reuters
  2. Analysis | An unpopular president continues to push radical changes on the country  The Washington Post
  3. ‘Welcome to the Thunderdome’: Inside 100 Dizzying Days of Trump  Bloomberg.com
  4. Trump's first 100 days seen as bringing big changes, but still too much focus on tariffs — CBS News poll  CBS News
  5. The most consequential moments from the first 100 days of Trump’s second term  PBS
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Russia continues to strike Ukraine after Trump questions Putin’s commitment to peace

Airstrike in Donetsk kills three and drone attack in Dnipro leaves one dead, according to local sources

Russia has continued its assault on Ukraine with a series of drone attacks and airstrikes, hours after Donald Trump cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s readiness to end the conflict.

Three people were killed and four wounded on Sunday morning in airstrikes on Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. In a drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipro region, a person was killed and a 14-year-old girl wounded after a third consecutive night of assaults, the local governor, Serhiy Lysak, said.

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US treasury secretary says ‘there is a path’ with China over tariff negotiations

‘The Chinese will see this high tariff level is unsustainable for their business,’ says Scott Bessent

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said “there is a path” to an agreement with China over tariffs after he had interactions with his Chinese counterparts last week in Washington.

“I had interaction with my Chinese counterparts, but it was more on the traditional things like financial stability, global economic early warnings,” Bessent told ABC News’s This Week on Sunday, explaining that he spoke to the Chinese during International Monetary Fund meetings in Washington. “I don’t know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi,” he added.

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