- Iran prepares for dayslong funeral for late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in war AP News
- Iran sends defiant message to Trump with colossal funeral for slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei CNN
- Will Mojtaba Khamenei attend his father's funeral? DW.com
- Powerful Iranian general seen in public amid preparation for supreme leader’s vast funeral NBC News
- Ali Khamenei’s six-day funeral expected to draw millions in Iran The Guardian
Monaco bomb suspect is a woman from Ukraine – Financial Times
Putin shrugs off fuel shortages in Russia as he ramps up attacks on Ukraine – AP News
- Putin shrugs off fuel shortages in Russia as he ramps up attacks on Ukraine AP News
- Long Lines for Gas Shatter the Illusion of Normalcy in Wartime Russia The New York Times
- Novorossiysk suspends gasoline sales to private drivers as Russian fuel crisis bites Reuters
- Russia’s Oil-Port City on Black Sea Is Fast Running Out of Fuel Bloomberg.com
- What is Nayara, the Indian firm Russia is reportedly importing oil from? Al Jazeera
How drug gangs use social media to recruit Thai air crew as couriers – Reuters
- How drug gangs use social media to recruit Thai air crew as couriers Reuters
- Recipient of heroin from flight attendant identified Bangkok Post
- Australia Heroin Bust Spurs Thai Airport Screening Overhaul Bloomberg.com
- Silk shirts used to hide heroin in overseas parcel plot Khaosod English
- Thai Laotian couple arrested in Loei linked to heroin trafficking and the jailed Thai Airways hostess Thai Examiner
World Cup: Police criticise timing of decision on pubs staying open for England match – BBC
- World Cup: Police criticise timing of decision on pubs staying open for England match BBC
- England fans can drink till 5 a.m. for Mexico World Cup game after government intervention NBC News
- More than two million Brits are preparing to call in sick on Monday after England's late-night match Yahoo Sports
- Keir Starmer to allow pubs to stay open until 5am for England v Mexico match The Guardian
- Mexico vs England: Pubs allowed to stay open until 5am for Three Lions' World Cup last-16 tie Sky Sports
A Man Filming in Public Was Told He Would Be Arrested to Prevent a Crime That Had Not Happened Yet — He Asked If This Was Minority Report – Yahoo
Albania’s flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers – Financial Times
- Albania’s flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers Financial Times
- Protests Over Kushner-Linked Project Turn Violent in Albania Bloomberg.com
- Man who sold land for Kushner-backed Albania development probed over alleged money laundering, drug trafficking CBS News
- Albania warned EU accession at risk over Jared Kushner-backed resort plans The Guardian
- Albania’s PM denounces ‘beautiful’ Flamingo Revolution protests turning violent politico.eu
Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’ – Al Jazeera
- Russia’s triumphant tone shifts as Ukraine deploys ‘asymmetrical tactics’ Al Jazeera
- Putin Retaliates With New Strikes After Ukraine Takes the War to Russia The New York Times
- Ukraine is raising the cost of war for Russia — and testing Putin's resolve CNBC
- Ukraine’s Plan to Unnerve Putin The Atlantic
- Putin’s Two Pillars of Russian Resilience Are Crumbling Newsweek
At least 40 killed in passenger bus crash in southwest Pakistan – Al Jazeera
- At least 40 killed in passenger bus crash in southwest Pakistan Al Jazeera
- Overcrowded bus plunges into ravine in southwest Pakistan, killing 40 passengers and injuring 8 ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Bus Plunges 70 Feet Into a Ravine in Pakistan, Killing 40 The New York Times
- 40 killed, 8 injured as passenger bus falls into ravine near Balochistan-KP border Dawn
- Pakistan: Overcrowded bus plunges into ravine, killing at least 32 BBC
Zohran Mamdani to deliver speech to mark US’s 250th birthday in New York
New York mayor’s remarks at city hall to come just hours before Trump is set to deliver address at Mount Rushmore
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, is expected to deliver a speech on Friday morning to mark America’s 250th birthday.
The address, scheduled to begin at 10am local time and streamed live, will be delivered from behind George Washington’s desk in New York city hall. Mamdani will be surrounded by recently naturalized citizens.
Continue reading...Salvaged steel and a slice of countryside: Caro sculptures on show in Oxfordshire fields
Visitors can get free peek at works by one of UK’s most significant 20th-century artists and one of his successors
Swifts screech overhead, hares lope along the grassy paths and butterflies flutter in the woodland fringe. There is an orchard; there are chickens, beehives. It seems simply a lovely, if conventional, slice of English countryside – until you happen upon striking sculptures fashioned out of chunks of reclaimed steel or machinery parts salvaged from factories, shipyards and farms.
The pieces are the stars of a show called Heavy Metal, which brings together work by one of the UK’s most significant 20th-century artists, Anthony Caro, and one of his successors, James Capper.
Continue reading...Keir Starmer ally Hollie Ridley to step down as Labour general secretary
Exclusive: As well as citing personal reasons, Ridley says she is making way for a successor ‘to work alongside new leader’
Hollie Ridley, Labour’s general secretary, is to step down this autumn after two years in the job, she has announced to party staff.
Ridley, an ally of Keir Starmer who ran Labour’s field operations in the 2024 general win election, said in an internal email she would stand down after the party’s annual conference in September.
Continue reading...Woman suspected in Monaco parcel bombing reportedly seen in Germany
Suspect is said to have tried to pass as a man during attack apparently targeting Ukrainian-born oligarch
The main suspect in a bomb attack in Monaco this week is a woman who has been spotted in Germany, a judicial source in Monaco told Reuters on Friday.
Three people were wounded on Monday evening in a parcel bomb explosion in the wealthy principality, which was believed to be an attack on a Ukrainian-born oligarch.
Continue reading...Trump says U.S. maintaining current support levels for NATO would be “ridiculous” – CBS News
- Trump says U.S. maintaining current support levels for NATO would be "ridiculous" CBS News
- ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit The Guardian
- Angsty in Ankara Foreign Policy
- Pay more for defence to get goodies from Trump, US tells Nato allies Financial Times
- Donald Trump Melts Down at Allies in Late-Night Takedown The Daily Beast
In the West Bank, Israeli settlers take over Palestinian’s dream home – Reuters
- In the West Bank, Israeli settlers take over Palestinian's dream home Reuters
- Colonizer Attacks Escalate Across West Bank Farmlands, Communities - IMEMC News
- Settlers Establish New Outpost Near Bedouin Community Adjacent to Khan al-Ahmar East of Jerusalem jordannews.jo
- Israeli settlers seized unfinished Palestinian home in Jalud Межа. Новини України.
- Settlers plow lands in Kafr Ni’ma, storm Burqa, and occupation forces set up checkpoints around Ramallah شبكة يافا الإخبارية
What’s China’s new ethnic unity law, and what does it mean for minorities? – Al Jazeera
- What’s China’s new ethnic unity law, and what does it mean for minorities? Al Jazeera
- China Defends Widely Criticized ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law The New York Times
- McGovern, Smith, Khanna lead Bipartisan Group of 14 House Lawmakers Asking State Department to Condemn Chinese Government’s harmful “Ethnic Unity Law” Congressman Jim McGovern (.gov)
- Press Release: The World Uyghur Congress Joins Global Day of Action to Protest the Ethnic Unity Law World Uyghur Congress
- China tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law CNN
At least 3,700 excess deaths reported during heatwave in France, Belgium and Netherlands – Reuters
- At least 3,700 excess deaths reported during heatwave in France, Belgium and Netherlands Reuters
- France records 2,025 excess deaths at peak of heatwave as Europe braces for more extreme weather BBC
- Deaths surged 29% in France during week of record heat, health agency says AP News
- Weather tracker: Heatwave breaks June temperature records across Europe The Guardian
- June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people in Europe New Scientist
Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, seized by Chinese authorities in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70 – AP News
- Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, seized by Chinese authorities in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70 AP News
- Ex-HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee, detained by China in 2015, dies in Taiwan at 70 NPR
- Taiwan’s leader pays tribute to Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee after his death South China Morning Post
- Hong Kong dissident Lam Wing-kee dies at 70 in Taipei Focus Taiwan
- Taiwan Obit Hong Kong Bookseller Bluefield Daily Telegraph
At least 40 killed in passenger bus crash in southwest Pakistan
Bus lost control and fell into the rocky ravine near border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials say.
US heatwave threatens 250th anniversary events and World Cup
Weekend’s high temperatures and humidity ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, researchers say
The scorching heat blanketing much of the US this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, researchers have found, warning that the high temperatures could threaten Independence Day celebrations and World Cup matches this weekend.
“The climate the country has today is fundamentally different to the one it had when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence,” said Theodore Keeping, extreme weather and wildfire researcher at Imperial College London, in a press release.
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