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"Will Take Long Time To Control": Over 2 Lakh Evacuated Due To France Forest Fire
Tens of thousands more have been evacuated from wildfires in France and central Spain.
In 2 Days, 2 Education Ministers From 2 Countries Quit For Different Reasons
Even though the reasons for the resignations were different, both ministers stepped down because they were held responsible for problems in the departments they led.
Nepal Seeks India's Nod To Allow National ID Card For Cross-Border Travel
Under current rules, Nepali nationals travelling to India, especially by air, must produce either a valid passport or an original citizenship certificate.
Woman Who Once Feared Sharks Sets Guinness Record With 106 Sea Predator Tattoos
Emily said she has always been fascinated by sharks and by how little information people know about them.
Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’
President harks back to red scare of his childhood to attack US left – but will such language resonate beyond Maga base?Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism. Continue reading...
Europe wildfires: ‘Difficult hours lie ahead’ in battle to contain fires, says Pedro Sanchez as more than 300,000 flee homes in France and Spain
Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in FranceMore than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and SpainAs my colleagues note in this story, scientists say climate breakdown is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating soils and waterways, fuelling wildfires and leading to thousands of excess deaths. Europe is heating at about twice the global average rate.Spain’s environment ministry has said that 32 major forest fires have been recorded so far this year, compared with seven over the same period in 2025. Continue reading...
1 Killed, 17 Injured As Vehicle Rams Crowd At Berlin Pride Festival
The vehicle struck multiple people after charging into Berlin's central Tiergarten park close to the Brandenburg Gate.
Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees
Adrian Howe’s family believe that fears his deal would be financially ruinous led him to kill himselfThe family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his new Vodafone franchise was to open its doors is pressing the government to introduce a new franchising law in his name.The call comes a week after Vodafone settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees who alleged that the company “unjustly enriched” itself at their expense by up to £85m. Continue reading...
France's D-Day landing beaches, Greece's Mount Olympus added to World Heritage List
World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations
Typhoon Noul weakens after making landfall, brings heavy rain to southern China
Typhoon Noul has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves inland after making landfall in southern China
How Trump could undermine the midterms
The president really has no power over elections – but that hasn’t stopped Trump from laying the groundwork to challenge results in NovemberWhen Donald Trump commandeered primetime US television last Friday, he delivered a familiar, but still extraordinary, message. The president argued once again that the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, were illegitimate.US elections are “vulnerable to being rigged and stolen”, Trump alleged, claiming that “the trust of the American people was lost” when he was defeated. Continue reading...
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’ Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of “normalising” the risks they face.Hundreds of journalists from across the UK have anonymously disclosed increasing nervousness over their security. Some have reported avoiding or altering coverage on certain topics due to intimidation, leading to self-censorship and “a narrowing of the public conversation”. Continue reading...
