“Prepare for $200 Oil.”
Iran Warned of Another Price Surge After Overnight U.S. Strikes on Its Facilities in the South
Russia’s Foreign Ministry Announced the Start of “Systematic Strikes” on Kyiv and Urged Foreigners to Leave the City
Moscow Said a Ukrainian Strike on Starobilsk “Overflowed the Cup of Patience” and Vowed to Hit Ukrainian Defense Plants and “Decision-Making Centers”
Five NATO Countries, Including Britain and France, Opposed Mandatory Military Aid to Ukraine Equal to 0.25% of GDP
Rutte’s Initiative Was Backed Only by Countries Already Giving Kyiv More—Poland, the Netherlands and the Baltic States
Trump Is Close to a Deal With Iran That Could Leave Tehran in a Stronger Position Than Before the War
Iran Would Reopen the Strait of Hormuz in Exchange for Sanctions Relief but Keep Its Nuclear Program and the Ability to Block the Route Again at Any Time
French Prosecutors Are Investigating Child-Abuse Allegations in More Than 100 Kindergartens and Schools
Staff From After-School Care Programs Are Under Suspicion, and the Cases Include Alleged Rapes of Children Aged Three and Four
Putin Authorized the Use of the Military to Protect Russians Arrested Abroad
The Law Applies to Cases in Which Russian Citizens Are Detained Under Foreign Court Decisions
“Artificial Intelligence Must Be Disarmed.”
In His First Encyclical, Pope Leo Called for Strict AI Regulation and a Ban on Letting It Make Strike Decisions—While Also Criticizing the U.S. War Against Iran
Ukraine Wants to Bring Stepan Bandera’s Remains Back Home—but His Family Opposes Moving Them
The OUN Leader’s Grandson Said He Does Not Want the Reburial Issue Used for Political Purposes
A Man Opened Fire Near a White House Checkpoint—The Attacker Was Shot Dead, and a Bystander Was Wounded
Trump Was Inside and Unharmed—It Was the Second Security Breach in a Month
Texas Filed a Lawsuit Against WhatsApp and Meta—The State Accuses Them of Allowing Company Employees Access to Users’ Private Messages
Durov Called WhatsApp’s Encryption System a “Giant Scam,” While Meta Rejected the Allegations
“Russia Is Looking for Ukraine’s Leadership.”
Zelensky Is Amplifying Fears of Strikes on Bankova and an Offensive From Belarus as His Own Political Vulnerability Grows
Xi Hosted Putin in Beijing a Week After Talks With Trump—and Publicly Called for an End to the War With Iran
Beijing Depends on the Strait of Hormuz for 40% of Its Oil Imports and Fears Becoming Too Tightly Tied to a Single Energy Supplier
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Proposed Using Americans’ Pension Savings to Build Data Centers and AI Infrastructure
In His View, That Would Give the Industry Trillions of Dollars and Allow More Americans to Profit From AI Growth
An Explosion Near a Passenger Train in Pakistan Killed at Least 14 People—Separatists From the Baloch Liberation Army Claimed Responsibility
The Bomb Went Off as the Train Passed, Derailing the Locomotive and Several Cars
Russia Carried Out One of the Largest Strikes on Kyiv Since the Start of the War—90 Missiles and 600 Drones, With the “Oreshnik” Used for the Third Time
Four People Were Killed, Residential Buildings, a Shopping Mall and the Chornobyl Museum Were Damaged—Moscow Called the Strike a Response to Ukrainian Attacks
Merz Invites Ukraine Into the EU as an Observer
Full Membership Is Too Expensive for Brussels, but Keeping Kyiv as an Eastern Buffer Is a Matter of Principle
Trump’s War With Iran Has Cost Americans an Additional $40 Billion in Fuel Costs—About $316 per Household
The President Himself Said He Does Not Think About Americans’ Financial Situation—“We Cannot Allow Iran to Get Nuclear Weapons, and That’s All”
Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” Won the Palme d’Or at Cannes
The Grand Prix Went to Russian Director Andrey Zvyagintsev, Who Used the Stage to Call on Putin to End the War
Trump Has Effectively Sidelined Israel From Talks With Iran—NYT
Netanyahu Failed to Achieve Any of the War’s Goals, While Iran, According to Sources, “Is Acting as if It Won Simply by Surviving”
The Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Spreading Faster Than Authorities Can Trace Contacts—The WHO Has Declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The Virus Has Reached Three Provinces, There Is Neither a Vaccine Nor Treatment for the Rare Strain, and Local Residents Are Blocking Medical Workers
SpaceX Successfully Completed Starship’s Twelfth Test Launch—The First for the New V3 Generation
The Spacecraft Placed 20 Dummy Satellites Into Orbit and Splashed Down in the Indian Ocean, While the Super Heavy Booster Landed in the Gulf of Mexico
Iran Is Considering Charging Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon for Undersea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran Considers the Strait Its Waters and Wants to Control Maintenance of the Lines—but Experts Doubt the Legal Basis
The U.S. Swore In 82 New Immigration Judges—The Largest Intake in Justice Department History
Trump’s Administration Had Earlier Fired Dozens of Judges It Considered Insufficiently Tough on Deportations
Slovak Prime Minister Fico Opposed Giving Ukraine “Associate Member” Status in the EU
In His View, Other Candidates—Montenegro, Albania and Serbia—Should Take Priority
Birmingham Has Its First Muslim Mayor—Pakistan-Born Zakir Chaudhry
London Is Already Led by a Politician of Muslim Background, Sadiq Khan, Whose Family Also Has Pakistani Roots
SpaceX Prepares for the Twelfth Starship Launch—the Company's IPO at a $2 Trillion Valuation Depends on This Rocket
Earlier Prototypes Carried Only a Third of the Advertised Payload Capacity, and the Series of Explosions Has Continued Since 2023
The U.S. and Britain Are Introducing Exceptions to Restrictions on Russian Oil
Washington Will Allow Vulnerable Countries to Access Supplies Already at Sea, While London Opens Imports of Fuel Made From Russian Crude Refined in Third Countries
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Resigns Because of Her Husband’s Serious Illness
He Was Diagnosed With an “Extremely Rare Form of Bone Cancer,” and Gabbard’s Last Working Day Will Be June 30
The U.S. Paused $14 Billion in Arms Supplies to Taiwan to Preserve Ammunition Stockpiles for the War With Iran
The Pause Came a Week After Trump and Xi Met—Taiwan Arms Supplies Were One of the Talks’ Key Issues
European Leaders Demand That Zelensky Complete Corruption Investigations Into the Top of Ukraine’s Government—Die Zeit
According to the Newspaper, Ukraine’s Further Progress Toward the EU Is Directly Tied to How Deeply Kyiv Investigates the “Mindich Case”
Mercedes-Benz Opens the Door to Defense Production, While Volkswagen Is Already Preparing a Plant for Iron Dome
Germany’s Auto Industry Is Seeking Military Orders Amid an Industry Crisis and Rising European Defense Spending
Ukrainian Drones Triggered a Government Crisis in Latvia
The Prime Minister Resigned After a Dispute Over Who Was Responsible for Airspace Security
Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar Said the Entire EU Will Return to Buying Russian Gas After the War Ends
In His View, Economics and Geography Will Ultimately Override Political Considerations
Iran Is Rebuilding Its Military Capacity Faster Than U.S. Intelligence Expected—Tehran Has Already Partly Resumed Drone Production
That Diverges From Earlier Public U.S. Claims That Iran Had Lost Much of Its Defense Industry
The U.S. Threatened to Revoke Visas for the Palestinian Delegation at the UN if Its Representative Does Not Withdraw From the Vice-Presidential Election
Washington Believes Riyad Mansour’s Election Could Complicate Trump’s Plan to Settle the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
SpaceX Files for an IPO—It Could Become the Largest in Wall Street History
Musk’s Controlling Stake Is Valued at $600 Billion and Could Bring Him Closer to Becoming the First Dollar Trillionaire
The U.S. Charged Former Cuban Leader Raúl Castro With Killing Four People, Including Three Americans
The Case Concerns a 1996 Incident in Which Cuban Fighter Jets Shot Down Two Civilian Aircraft Over International Waters
Iran’s Supreme Leader Banned the Export of Enriched Uranium From the Country—Complicating Talks With the U.S. and Israel
Trump Had Earlier Assured Israel That Uranium Removal Would Be a Mandatory Condition of Any Deal With Tehran
The Taliban Lowered the Minimum Marriage Age for Girls in Afghanistan—It Is Now Defined by the Onset of Puberty
Under Islamic Law, That Can Be as Young as Nine, and a Husband’s Abuse Is Not Considered Grounds for Divorce
