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Jun 24, 2026

Opinion: Opinion | The Iran Paradox: 2 Things That Can Derail The Peace Process

The possibility of talks extending for months and years on two crucial issues may turn this 'roadmap' into a never-ending saga.

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Jun 24, 2026

SpaceX's Starfall Capsule Takes Off On Debut Mission, Set For Ocean Landing

SpaceX said the capsule could help businesses develop and manufacture products in space.

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Jun 24, 2026

China Can Target People Outside Its Borders Under New Ethnic Unity Law

China passed the law in March to create a "shared" national identity among the country's 55 ethnic minority groups, which include Tibetans and Uyghurs, some of whom chafe under Chinese rule and have over the years often staged protests, some of them violent.

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Jun 24, 2026

Record-Breaking Heatwave In France Leaves 68,000 Homes Without Power

The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone.

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Jun 24, 2026

Move Over US, This Country Has World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

The system, called LineShine, topped the closely watched TOP500 ranking unveiled Monday at the major computing ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany.

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Jun 24, 2026

India Rebukes Pakistan At UN, Calls For Review Of Outdated Security Council Mandates

The UNSC Arria-formula meeting, co-chaired by China and Pakistan, focused on the implementation of Security Council resolutions and the challenges associated with enforcing them.

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Jun 24, 2026

Legal Tech Firm Sues US Over Order Limiting Foreign Access To Top-Tier Anthropic Models

Legion LegalTech asked a U.S. judge to vacate and set aside the administration's directive targeting Anthropic.

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Jun 24, 2026

Mamdani-backed candidates win big in New York Democratic primaries – US politics live

Three congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani win in clear sign of New York mayor’s growing influenceElsewhere in New York, Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F Kennedy, was unsuccessful in his bid to revive the political legacy of the US’s most vaunted political family and win in a race dominated by money from AI-focused Super Pacs. Longtime New York politician Micah Lasher won the primary in New York’s 12th district, beating out Kennedy and George Conway, the Republican turned vocal Trump critic, among others in a crowded field of Democrats hoping to succeed the long-serving representative Jerry Nadler. Continue reading...

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Jun 24, 2026

Keir Starmer to face Kemi Badenoch in first PMQs since resignation – UK politics live

Prime minister to take PMQs as focus shifts to Andy Burnham and plans for governmentBen Quinn is a Guardian political correspondent.Nigel Farage has made an explicit pitch for support from an international gathering of thousands of social conservatives and hard-right activists, likening “family breakdown” to “community breakdown” as populations grew more diverse. The Reform UK leader was speaking a day after the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, which is backed by influential right-wing funders including including donors to Donald Trump. “I think family breakdown is pretty much the same as community breakdown,” Farage said in an interview on the event’s main stage with Philippa Stroud, the Tory peer who set up ARC with others including the controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and Paul Marshall, one of the backers of GB News.When people live together in the same communities and they all speak the same language and they all have something in common and they all know their neighbours’ christian names and they all take part in community events ... And when that starts to break down what happens? People become more individualised, more selfish. They don’t know the names of their next door neighbours and I think downstream of that a similar thing has happened in families and I am not pretending that government can on its own wave a magic hand. But we can at least start to make the argument that living in a family, living in a genuine sense of community, is a better way of life and start unashamedly champion that. Continue reading...

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Jun 24, 2026

Europe heatwave live: UK issues rare red heat warning as record-breaking temperatures in France bring power outages

About 68,000 households lose electricity in northern France as Italy issues red alerts for 16 citiesFrance records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across countryTell us: how is the heatwave in the UK and across Europe affecting you?Grahame Madge, a Met Office spokesperson, said the agency is forecasting 39C as a headline maximum temperature on Thursday in the UK, most likely for somewhere in London or the south-east.“It is possible we could see temperatures higher than the 39C if the final values are at the upper end of our narrow range,” he said, according to the Press Association. Continue reading...

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Jun 24, 2026

Ockenden report live: major NHS maternity review finds hundreds of deaths and serious injuries at ‘toxic’ trust

Senior midwife Donna Ockenden investigated stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuriesFull story: hundreds died or were harmed due to ‘toxic’ maternity care‘Truly horrific’: five stories from the NHS maternity scandalNottingham maternity care scandal: what are the key findings?Speaking at the press conference on her findings, Donna Ockenden began by praising the Nottingham families who campaigned for years for justice.She said:More than 2,500 families came forward to share with my team what happened to them.Let that number sit with you for a moment – 2,500 families. Continue reading...

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Jun 24, 2026

‘Battle hardened’ Ukraine has role to play in defending Europe, says ex-Nato chief

Country is ‘militarily the strongest in Europe’, says Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wants coalition ready in case US pulls troopsThe US’s attitude to the defence of Europe has changed permanently and a European coalition of the willing, including Ukraine, should be established to defend the continent, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former Nato secretary general, has said.A coalition of the willing compromising 45 states is already in theory poised to act as a reassurance and training force inside Ukraine in the event of a peace settlement with Russia. Continue reading...