- Exclusive: Swedish EU letter reopens debate over frozen Russian assets The Kyiv Independent
- EU states revive plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, FT reports Reuters
- European Countries Revive Frozen Asset Plan to Counter Russia Bloomberg.com
- EU heavyweights call on Brussels to reignite frozen Russian asset debate politico.eu
- EU states revive plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine Financial Times
The White House’s preferred economic tools are hitting snags – NPR
Merz unites EU budget-cutters as Costa gropes for deal – politico.eu
- Merz unites EU budget-cutters as Costa gropes for deal politico.eu
- Germany Leads Call for EU Budget Cuts in ‘Hundred Billion’ Range Bloomberg.com
- Germany news: Merz courts 'frugals' to trim EU budget DW.com
- Costa’s Baltic tour ends with call for EU budget to bolster Eastern flank euractiv.com
- Press statement by President Costa following the meeting with Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico consilium.europa.eu
Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro to institute debt ceiling if elected president
A debt ceiling would trigger automatic spending cuts, which conservatives could use to pare back social programmes.
‘Let us be clear: this war must end,’ Archbishop Gallagher tells Russian authorities in Moscow – National Catholic Reporter
- 'Let us be clear: this war must end,' Archbishop Gallagher tells Russian authorities in Moscow National Catholic Reporter
- Vatican’s ‘Foreign Minister’ tells Moscow to end the war in Ukraine Crux | Taking the Catholic Pulse
- Archbishop Gallagher visits Moscow’s Orthodox Cathedral Vatican News
- Russia is paying the Vatican the compliment of conspiracy theories The Pillar
- Vatican official in Russia: War in Ukraine must end, but not through military means EWTN News
Labor Protests and Panic Buying Signal Growing Pressure in Iran – WSJ
- Labor Protests and Panic Buying Signal Growing Pressure in Iran WSJ
- ‘Everything’s open’ in Iran, says journalist who returned from Tehran NewsNation
- Iran's gas lines are growing, but there's no sign so far that its leaders will bow to US sanctions AP News
- Iranians queue for petrol as US blockade bites Financial Times
- Diesel prices surge after Iran ignores latest Trump threats FleetOwner
8 migrants buried in Tunisia’s coastal town of Ben Guerdane
Residents of Tunisia’s coastal town of Ben Guerdane on Wednesday attended the funerals of eight young migrants.
Judge blocks Minnesota bid to extradite Texas ICE agent accused of shooting man
Christian Castro charged with assault after allegedly shooting Venezuelan man and remains in custody in Texas
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent accused of firing his gun and wounding a Venezuelan man in the leg is caught in an interstate extradition dispute between Texas and Minnesota – and could walk out of a Texas jail as soon as Wednesday after a federal judge refused to intervene.
Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime by another, in relation to the incident in which he was involved in the wounding of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in January.
Continue reading...Photos show revelers pelting one another with tomatoes at Spain’s La Tomatina food fight – AP News
- Photos show revelers pelting one another with tomatoes at Spain’s La Tomatina food fight AP News
- Photos: Thousands join Spain’s La Tomatina festival for epic tomato battle Al Jazeera
- Red-soaked revelers unleash chaos at Spain's legendary La Tomatina festival Reuters
- The epic La Tomatina food fight drew foreigners to paint a small Spanish town red AP News
- Thousands descend on Buñol, Spain for annual La Tomatina food fight New York Post
Video: Ukrainian drones target Wildberries e-commerce hub in Russia
Ukrainian drones have again targeted the Russian online shopping giant Wildberries.
Ukrainians marched for a month to get Mykhailo Fedorov his job back as defense minister. Then he released a video calling for elections, and the crowds stopped coming. – Meduza
- Ukrainians marched for a month to get Mykhailo Fedorov his job back as defense minister. Then he released a video calling for elections, and the crowds stopped coming. Meduza
- EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine needs changes to avoid losing war, ousted defence minister says Reuters
- Zelensky Says His Ex-Defense Minister Was Wrong to Call for Elections The New York Times
- Zelensky says wartime election would ‘destroy’ Ukraine The Hill
- Zelensky should be asked what he knew about government corruption, sacked minister tells BBC BBC
US declares drought disaster for parts of Puerto Rico as dry conditions persist – AP News
- US declares drought disaster for parts of Puerto Rico as dry conditions persist AP News
- U.S. declares drought disaster for parts of Puerto Rico as dry conditions persist NBC News
- Travelers may not notice Puerto Rico's water crisis. Residents do. USA Today
- Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought The Conversation
- USDA Approves Drought Disaster Declaration for USVI, Opening Emergency Loans to Farmers The Virgin Islands Consortium
Israel-Hamas truce failure ‘point of no return’, envoy warns
Hamas has pledged to hand over its weapons as part of the US plan for Gaza, which Israeli PM Netanyahu has rejected.
UNRWA chief condemns Israeli seizure of East Jerusalem training centre
Christian Saunders tells Al Jazeera raid part of campaign to weaken agency and eliminate Palestinian rights.
German airport workers die from malaria caught from plane-riding mosquito
Four infected employees being treated in hospital; mosquito traps deployed at Frankfurt hub.
Israeli forces install new gate, isolating Palestinian village
Israeli forces installed gates around the home of Palestinian American Lou Ridi in Qusra, in the occupied West Bank.
Final witness in Lindsay Clancy trial says he doesn’t believe she heard a voice during killings
FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff says he’s treated only two women with postpartum psychosis, both decades earlier
The Lindsay Clancy trial was heading for closing arguments on Wednesday, as a final witness for the prosecution laid out that he believed the Massachusetts mother knew right from wrong when she took the lives of her three young children before attempting to commit suicide in 2023.
An FBI psychiatrist, Dr Gregory Saathoff, testified in court in Plymouth that he does not believe Clancy’s account that she heard a voice ordering her to kill the children – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan – as her defense team maintains that this occurred while she was suffering from the relatively rare condition of postpartum psychosis.
Continue reading...Nigerian gunmen raise over $5 million from mass kidnappings, study finds – Reuters
- Nigerian gunmen raise over $5 million from mass kidnappings, study finds Reuters
- Video shows hundreds held captive after Nigeria mosque kidnapping The Guardian
- Nigeria launches hunt for hundreds of kidnapped mosque worshippers Al Jazeera
- Many bodies recovered after Niger mosque attacks, LG chairman says, as Tinubu orders rescue operation Premium Times Nigeria
- Nigeria’s president orders rescue operation after mass kidnapping at mosque France 24
‘We weren’t going to be lectured by some of those sanctimonious Scandinavian countries’ – Politico
- 'We weren't going to be lectured by some of those sanctimonious Scandinavian countries' Politico
- 25 years since the Tampa affair: How 'stop the boats' changed the world ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- When our PM and a ship's captain collided over the fate of 433 asylum seekers The Canberra Times
- Howard vindicated on border control. But migration is testing all sides now AFR
- MEDIA RELEASE: 25 years since Tampa: Australia must finally turn the page on politics of fear Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Wes Streeting describes ‘unbelievable volume’ of homophobic abuse since becoming defence secretary
Streeting says role is chance to show strength and challenge stereotype that ‘persists in dark corners of internet’
Wes Streeting has described receiving a mass of homophobic abuse since he was made defence secretary last month, while also saying his appointment had been welcomed by some in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as a sign of change.
Until 2000, gay men and lesbian women were banned from serving in the UK military, with about 200-plus personnel thrown out of the forces each year due to their sexuality – an estimate, as proper records were not kept.
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