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  • Rolls-Royce has secured its third European Small Modular Reactor (SMR) deal, indicating continued progress in the nuclear energy sector.
  • The global central banking community is signaling increased confidence in gold, with a record percentage expecting to boost their reserves in the next 12 months.
  • Semiconductor stocks experienced a decline following Microsoft's decision to pull back from a significant cloud deal with Oracle.
  • Wyoming and Spokane are facing data center construction pauses, reflecting a shift in public opposition from nuclear projects to AI infrastructure.
  • The international focus remains on the US-Iran relationship, with ongoing developments concerning potential peace deals and oil sales impacting global markets and geopolitical tensions.

ZeroHedge

  • NetJets Business Jet Crashes On Texas Highway 7 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    NetJets Business Jet Crashes On Texas Highway The aviation world has endured a turbulent week, with a series of high-profile incidents spanning a fighter jet crash, a B-52 bomber crash, and now a business jet that went down on a Texas highway in the overnight hours. A NetJets Cessna 680 Citation Latitude ( N523QS ) crashed on a Texas highway while attempting an emergency landing near Laredo International Airport, Texas. NetJets confirmed to Fox News that its Cessna 680 Citation Latitude was involved in the accident but did not provide details on what led to the emergency landing. Fox provided

  • Binance Says It Considers Its EU License Compliant Amid Reports Of Potential Rejection 32 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    Binance Says It Considers Its EU License Compliant Amid Reports Of Potential Rejection Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, whose application under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework is under consideration, has generally deferred responding to a report that the company’s licensed activities in the region could be at risk. In a Tuesday blog post, Binance said that Greece's Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC), one of the regulators responsible for overseeing MiCA, had completed its review of the crypto exchange’s application and “considered it compliant with MiCA requirements,” subject to review at the European

  • 20 College Majors Most Exposed To AI Job Disruption an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    20 College Majors Most Exposed To AI Job Disruption The rapid adoption of AI across corporate America is stoking anxiety among recent and upcoming college graduates, many of whom fear that the entry-level white-collar labor market is shrinking just as they prepare to enter the workforce. Goldman analysts led by Pierfrancesco Mei told clients that early signals are emerging, showing how college students are adapting to AI-driven labor market disruption. Students are shifting away from majors tied to high automation risk and weak job growth, and toward fields where AI and automation are less likely to have an impact. The

  • Telegram Founder Warns UK Social Media Ban Is Digital Iceberg About To Sink The Free Internet 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Telegram Founder Warns UK Social Media Ban Is Digital Iceberg About To Sink The Free Internet Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , Telegram founder Pavel Durov told the Freedom Forum audience in Oslo that Western societies have already struck the iceberg and started sinking - yet most citizens remain in their cabins, convinced the ship of personal freedoms is unsinkable. His remarks arrive precisely as Keir Starmer's government rams through a social media ban for under-16s that functions as the perfect pretext for mandatory digital ID, device-level scanning on every phone, and the practical elimination of anonymous speech online.

  • Rolls-Royce Bags Third European SMR Deal While Adding Gas-Cooled Reactor Design 3 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Rolls-Royce Bags Third European SMR Deal While Adding Gas-Cooled Reactor Design Rolls-Royce SMR just added its third major European contract . Videberg Kraft, backed by Sweden’s utility Vattenfall, selected the UK design for three units on the west coast, making it Sweden’s first new nuclear plant in more than forty years. The multibillion-pound export win, actively supported by UK government trade efforts, lands on top of existing deals in the UK and Czechia and makes Rolls-Royce the only SMR developer with multiple binding commitments across the continent. We tracked when the UK advanced its own program, Great British Energy –


The Guardian

  • Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk 2 hours ago by Mohamed Gabobe in Mogadishu and Mark Townsend
    Somalia, US foreign policy, Africa, US news, World news, Global development

    Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation Read more: Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has a £750 emergency operation. But Abdiqadir Salah’s family cannot afford the surgery and the US – which refuses to admit that any civilians were killed or injured during its attack six

  • Sierra Leone’s first lady refuses to condemn FGM without ‘reliable data’ on harms 6 hours ago by Sarah Johnson
    Global development, Female genital mutilation (FGM), Women's rights and gender equality, Violence against women and girls, Health, Society, Sierra Leone, Africa, World news, Global health

    Exclusive: health professionals, survivors and politicians voice concerns in open letter over comments by Fatima Maada Bio, who denies supporting the practice The first lady of Sierra Leone has denied that she supports female genital mutilation amid rising anger around her perceived approval of the practice. But in an exclusive response to the Guardian, Fatima Maada Bio, the wife of President Julius Maada Bio, also said she would not openly condemn FGM until she saw “reliable data” that the practice was harmful. Continue reading...

  • Ghana to advance reparatory justice at first major gathering since landmark UN resolution 6 hours ago by Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi
    Reparations and reparative justice, Africa, Americas, Race, World news

    Heads of state and participants from more than 80 countries at three-day event in Accra to pursue actionable commitments to reconciliation and restitution Ghana is hosting a conference to advance the continent’s push for reparatory justice after the adoption of the landmark United Nations (UN) resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity. Heads of state and government, ministers, civil society representatives, historians, researchers and legal experts representing more than 80 countries are converging in the capital, Accra, for the three-day event, billed Next Steps , which starts on Wednesday. It is the first major

  • Lives and incomes lost as Ebola takes toll on Bunia’s public-facing workers 7 hours ago by Noella Mwanza in Bunia and Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi
    Ebola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, World news

    A headteacher, a motorcycle taxi driver and a travel agent are among those who are counting the human and economic cost of the virus Justin Keno watches more than 400 pupils stream through the Nelson Mandela school’s gate each morning, and wonders which of them might be carrying Ebola. The institution’s principal has done everything he can to prevent the spread of the virus: installing hand-washing basins at the entrance, providing alcohol-based hand rub for parents, making pupils bring packed lunches instead of eating in the canteen, and banning food sellers from outside the gates. Continue reading...

  • South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim dies aged 91 2 days ago by Benjamin Lee
    Jazz, South Africa, Africa, Music, Culture

    The accomplished musician, who recorded over 70 albums in his career, died peacefully in Germany after a short illness The South African jazz composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91. His family announced his death in a statement released on Monday. Continue reading...


South China Morning Post

  • Trump pauses spy chief hearing to secure pick for powerful prosecutor post 24 minutes ago by Agence France-Presse

    US President Donald Trump suspended a Senate hearing on Jay Clayton’s nomination for intelligence chief, saying on Wednesday he wanted to be sure Clayton’s current post as prosecutor would be filled by the man of his choosing. In a game of musical chairs, Trump picked Clayton, who headed the Securities and Exchange Commission during the president’s first term in office, as his director of national intelligence (DNI). Clayton has served as US attorney for the Southern District of New York – one...

  • Over 1,100 foreigners granted ‘anti-woke’ Russian visas last year an hour ago by Agence France-Presse

    Over 1,100 foreign citizens received Russian visas last year for their declared commitment to “traditional values”, state media reported on Wednesday, a track opened as Moscow hardens its anti-liberal narrative amid the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has for years denounced anything that goes against what he calls “traditional family values” as unRussian – including everything from LGBTQ rights to mixed-gender bathrooms – portraying them as a sign of the moral decadence of the...

  • Geopolitics is complicating the green transition – and China’s moment 3 hours ago by Djoomart Otorbaev

    The recent escalation in the Middle East has produced an unforeseen winner. The conflict has rekindled worries about logistics and energy security, prompting governments and businesses to reconsider their reliance on fossil fuels and fragile supply routes. This has sped up the move towards renewable energy. And the principal beneficiary of this shift is China. The strategic significance of the Strait of Hormuz is well understood. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil trade passes through this...

  • Norway’s crown princess has ‘successful’ lung transplant 3 hours ago by Reuters

    Norway’s ⁠Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone ⁠a successful lung transplant and is recovering ⁠from the procedure, the royal household said in a statement on Wednesday. The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2018, a chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs and leads to a reduced oxygen uptake. The hospital said the transplant had “so far” been successful, ‌in a statement provided by the palace, but...

  • 3 dead, no apology: US strike strains relations with India 3 hours ago by Maria Siow

    For years, Washington described India as an indispensable partner, a democratic counterweight to China and a strategic anchor in the Indo-Pacific. Then the US Navy killed three Indian sailors and America’s top diplomat could not even bring himself to apologise. India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar raised the deaths directly with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a phone call last Friday, reiterating what he called India’s “strong protest” and declaring, in a later social media...


New York Times

  • Is Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff Running for President? He Has to Win Re-election First. 2 hours ago by Reid J. Epstein and Patricia Mazzei
    Georgia, Senate, Elections, Senate, Ossoff, Jon, Primaries and Caucuses, Midterm Elections (2026), Presidential Election of 2028

    The 39-year-old senator has become an internet sensation for Democrats seeking a 2028 contender. He says he’s focused on winning a second term in November.

  • Georgia Vexes Trump Yet Again: 6 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primaries 3 hours ago by Patricia Mazzei
    Midterm Elections (2026), Georgia, Alabama, Trump, Donald J, Endorsements, Republican Party, Primaries and Caucuses, Jackson, Rick (1954- ), Jones, Burt (1979- ), Elections, Governors, Elections, Senate, Collins, Michael A Jr (1967- ), Moore, Barry (1966- ), Kemp, Brian P, Fleming, Timothy K, Ossoff, Jon

    Lt. Gov. Burt Jones lost the Republican runoff for governor to the health care executive Rick Jackson despite the president’s endorsement. Mr. Trump’s picks won in other races.

  • How Local Police Are Working for ICE, and an Unusual Data Center Dispute an hour ago by Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Colby Smith
    Illegal Immigration, Computers and the Internet, Data Centers, Police, Dating and Relationships, Disease Rates, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US), Ebola Virus

    Plus, the gym is the new first date.

  • Judge Orders Kennedy Center to Make a Plan for Staying Open 13 hours ago by Julia Jacobs
    Decisions and Verdicts, United States Politics and Government, Music, Kennedy, John F, Center for the Performing Arts, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington (DC)

    As the Trump administration seeks to move forward with renovations at the center, a judge has asked for its programming calendar.

  • Washington’s Reagan Airport Will Ground Flights for July 4 Events 10 hours ago by Karoun Demirjian
    United States Politics and Government, Airports, Independence Day (US) (July 4), United States Semiquincentennial (2026), Delays (Transportation), Reagan, Ronald, Washington National Airport, Trump, Donald J, Washington (DC)

    The runways at Ronald Reagan National Airport will be closed after noon on July 4, and for several hours on July 3. Other celebrations surrounding the nation’s 250th birthday are also expected to cause disruptions.


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