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  • French Navy Boards 5th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Off Europe Since September 40 minutes ago by Tyler Durden

    French Navy Boards 5th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Off Europe Since September French President Emmanuel Macron has announced yet another highly provocative naval seizure of a Russian so-called shadow fleet vessel. "On Tuesday, the French navy boarded the oil tanker Deliver as it was passing off the coast of Sicily in breach of maritime law ," Macron wrote in a post on X, revealing the prior interdiction that took place earlier in the week. Illustrative, via French Navy Reports say it flew a Cameroonian flag and was sailing from Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk, whereupon it was boarded by French

  • Trump Singles Out Exxon, Chevron, Shell, And BP Over High Gas Prices an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    Trump Singles Out Exxon, Chevron, Shell, And BP Over High Gas Prices By Irina Slav for OilPrice.com President Donald Trump has listed Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP as being among companies responsible for excessively high fuel prices, following the announcement of a federal government probe into price-gouging earlier in the week. “Oil prices have come down so much and we are not seeing anything at the pump by comparison the way they should be, ” the U.S. president told media, as quoted by the BBC. “We should be, in my opinion, at $2.25 [a gallon] right now at the pump

  • US Humanitarian Response Begins In Quake-Ravaged Venezuela, Are Hospital Ships Next? an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    US Humanitarian Response Begins In Quake-Ravaged Venezuela, Are Hospital Ships Next? Summary US Phase One Of Humanitarian Response Begins Buildings collapsed in several districts of Caracas Venezuela declared a state of emergency after the earthquakes Secretary of State Marco Rubio Deploys First Responders Trump Says "U.S.A. stands ready, willing, and able to help" USGS Says Quakes May Prompt " International Response " USGS Fears Death Toll Ranging Between 10k - 100k Phase One Of H umanitarian Response Begins Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided reporters with an update on America's efforts to help Venezuelans after two massive earthquakes rocked

  • Cargo Vessel Comes Under Apparent Iranian Attack Near Oman, Crude Jumps, After IRGC Warned It Controls Hormuz Strait an hour ago by Tyler Durden

    Cargo Vessel Comes Under Apparent Iranian Attack Near Oman, Crude Jumps, After IRGC Warned It Controls Hormuz Strait Update(11:28ET) : A tanker appears to have come under (likely) Iranian attack close to the coast of Oman on Thursday. It seems that Iran is seeking to impose control, and its red lines as its military issues the following message: "Coordination with the IRGC Navy for passage through the Strait of Hormuz via Channel 16 is mandatory, and violator vessels will be dealt with ." Below is the initial UKMTO alert: UKMTO WARNING 074-26 - ATTACK Click here to view the full

  • Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Remove Deportation Protections For Syrians & Haitians 2 hours ago by Tyler Durden

    Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Remove Deportation Protections For Syrians & Haitians Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court has allowed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) attempt to remove deportation protections for nationals of Haiti and Syria. In a 6–3 decision on June 25, a majority of the court said federal law barred judicial review of non-constitutional arguments against the department’s determinations. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, which said the sole constitutional argument in the case would likely fail. “Citing statements made by President Trump and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi


The Guardian

  • ‘Constitutional coup’ claims as Zimbabwean senate approves extending presidential term an hour ago by Rachel Savage, southern Africa correspondent
    Zimbabwe, Africa, South Africa, World news, Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa

    Opposition figures fear changes will further tighten 83-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s hold on power Zimbabwe is on the brink of amending its constitution to give the president more time in office, a change the government said will bring stability – but which opponents have labelled a “constitutional coup”. The upper house of Zimbabwe’s parliament voted on Wednesday 75-4 in favour of the constitutional amendments, which would allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030 by extending presidential terms from five to seven years. Continue reading...

  • France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC a day ago by Rachel Savage and agencies
    France, Ebola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, Europe, World news, World Health Organization, Humanitarian response

    French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very low The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission to an area affected by the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The patient was transferred to a specialist facility and was in a stable condition, the ministry said in a statement . “All precautionary measures, including the patient’s isolation, were taken upon his arrival in the country, with transfer to the hospital under

  • Play puts spotlight on Kenya’s crisis of gender-based violence 2 days ago by Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi. Photographs by Esther Sweeney
    Kenya, Violence against women and girls, Theatre, Stage, Culture, Africa, World news

    Autobiographical work Free Me aims to encourage victims to speak out in country where violence against women is rising There are audible gasps in the auditorium in Nairobi as a husband launches a volley of blows and slaps on his wife and pushes her to the floor. “I wish I could spare you this,” the wife tells the audience. “My husband beat me up as if we were in a bar fight. Except, in a bar someone fights back.” The scene comes from Free Me, an autobiographical play by Gathoni Kimuyu, a Kenyan theatre and TV producer who lived through

  • Kenyan minister orders halt to construction of US Ebola facility 2 days ago by Rachel Savage and agencies
    Ebola, Kenya, Africa, Trump administration, Democratic Republic of Congo, US news, World news

    Decision comes after Aden Duale was held in contempt for ignoring previous high court ruling to stop work Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous order to end work. Many Kenyans strongly oppose the facility , with deadly protests erupting since the complex was announced in May for US citizens evacuated from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is grappling with a widespread Ebola outbreak . Continue reading...

  • UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told 2 days ago by Mark Townsend
    Global development, Sudan, Conflict and arms, UK news, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, World news, Politics, Africa, Middle East and north Africa, War crimes, International law, Law, Foreign policy, House of Commons, Human rights, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates

    Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee The British government had received intelligence that Ethiopia appeared to be supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war as far back as 2024 but did not go public with the news for fear of upsetting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a parliamentary committee will hear. In May 2024, officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told Nathaniel Raymond , an American human rights investigator at Yale University, that “significant private pressure” from the


South China Morning Post

  • US-led relief effort puts Washington’s post-Maduro strategy in Venezuela to the test 34 minutes ago by Teresa Elena Frontado

    The United States is mounting a large-scale humanitarian operation in Venezuela after twin earthquakes devastated the South American country, putting to the test Washington’s role as the most influential international partner in the country’s post-Maduro transition. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was deploying search-and-rescue teams, military logistics and humanitarian help after Wednesday’s magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes, which have killed at least 164 people and injured...

  • US inflation rises to 3-year high, spending picks up 2 hours ago by Bloomberg

    US consumer spending accelerated in May even as prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, suggesting Americans are powering through the fallout from the Iran war. The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 4.1 per cent last month from a year earlier, the most since April 2023, Bureau of Economic Analysis data out on Thursday showed. Excluding food and energy, prices were up 3.4 per cent from a year earlier. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending rose 0.3 per cent from a...

  • Swedish minister brings baby to EU meeting, a first for the bloc 4 hours ago by Reuters

    EU governments’ ministers gathered for a long day’s discussion of climate change policies on Thursday were surprised by a fresh-faced participant at their negotiating table: a three-month-old baby. Swedish Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari brought her son, Adam, to the EU council meeting in Luxembourg, to ‌highlight the benefits of parental leave policies which do not force women to choose between work and family responsibilities. “I wanted to showcase being an example of not having to make...

  • German doctor admits to killing 12 patients in high-profile trial 4 hours ago by dpa

    A German doctor admitted to having killed 12 patients nearly a year since the start of his high-profile trial at the Berlin Regional Court on Thursday. The 40-year-old palliative care doctor is charged with killing 15 patients in total – 12 women and three men – between September 2021 and July 2024. He is alleged to have administered a “lethal mixture of various drugs” to the victims, who were between 25 and 87 years old. Prosecutors also believe he set fires in some cases to try to obscure his...

  • US’ Rubio wraps up Gulf tour as allies share concerns over Iran peace accord 5 hours ago by Reuters

    US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Gulf allies on Thursday that any deal with Iran would take their interests into account, as he wrapped up a Middle East trip aimed at winning over regional partners with deep reservations about the preliminary accord. Speaking at a meeting of Gulf Arab foreign ministers in Bahrain – home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet – Rubio said Washington was seeking an ‌enduring peace with long-time foe Iran that would not come at the expense of the security of allies in...


New York Times

  • Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration 29 minutes ago by Ann E. Marimow
    United States Politics and Government, Deportation, Decisions and Verdicts, Temporary Protected Status (US Immigration), Refugees and Displaced Persons, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Homeland Security Department, Supreme Court (US), Noem, Kristi, Sauer, D John (1974- ), Trump, Donald J, Syria, Haiti

    President Trump has pushed to rescind Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from countries convulsed by humanitarian crises.

  • Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at Border 2 hours ago by Ann E. Marimow
    United States Politics and Government, Asylum, Right of, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Decisions and Verdicts, Refugees and Displaced Persons, Federal Courts (US), Immigration and Emigration, Supreme Court (US), Trump, Donald J, Mexico

    A policy of turning back asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Trump administration wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.

  • Why the Venezuelan Earthquakes Happened, and What to Expect Next an hour ago by Robin George Andrews
    Earthquakes, Landslides and Mudslides, Geology, Venezuela Earthquakes (June 24, 2026), Research, Politics and Government, Caracas (Venezuela), Caribbean Area, Venezuela

    Twin earthquakes like those that ripped through the region are unusual but not unheard of. Scientists are already gathering data needed for a more detailed picture.

  • To Escape the Heat, Parisians Jump into an Old Industrial Canal 9 hours ago by Mark Landler and Ségolène Le Stradic
    Heat and Heat Waves, Drownings, Canals, Global Warming, Paris (France), France

    Crowds are filling the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty people drowned while swimming in other waterways.

  • See Record-Breaking Extreme Heat Wave Across Europe in Photos an hour ago by Megan Specia
    vis-photo, Heat and Heat Waves, Global Warming, Europe, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Vatican City

    Temperature records have been broken in several European countries this week.


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