Iran Ends Talks With the U.S. and Announces a Full Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Amid Israeli Strikes on Lebanon
Tehran Also Vows to “Activate Other Fronts,” Including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
EU Considers Temporarily Suspending the Price Cap on Russian Oil Over the War Around Iran
It Currently Stands at $44.10 a Barrel, With the Next Review Scheduled for Late Summer
Experimental Drug Amivantamab Significantly Shrank—and in Some Cases Completely Eliminated—Tumors in Patients With Advanced Cancer
The Study Included 102 Patients With Head and Neck Cancer, 43 of Whom Saw Tumors Disappear or Sharply Shrink Within Weeks
Around 1,600 German Companies Continue to Operate in Russia, With Annual Revenue of €20 Billion
Despite Sanctions, 75% Are Satisfied With Business Development in the Country—and Some Returned to the Forum in St. Petersburg for the First Time in Years
U.S. Prepares to Return to the Moon
NASA Shows the Rovers Astronauts Will Drive Across the Satellite, While Hopping Drones Watch From Above
Trump Family-Linked Startup Is Testing Humanoid Robots in a Real War in Ukraine for the First Time in the World
Eric Trump Is an Investor and Adviser to the Company, Which Has Already Received $24 Million in Pentagon Contracts
Moldova Does Not See NATO Membership as an Immediate Goal—There Is No Broad Public Support
The Country’s Foreign Minister Says He Personally Supports NATO, but Local Politics Still Needs to “Lift the Taboo” Around the Issue
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge After Google Announces Plans to Replace Conventional Search With AI—U.S. Growth Reached 18% in a Week and Up to 70% on iPhone at Its Peak
Users Are Seeking an Alternative Amid Fears Over Inaccurate AI Summaries and Losing Control of Search Results
OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong—AI Has Not Yet Led to the Mass Disappearance of Jobs
At the Same Time, Pizza Hut’s Largest Franchisee Has Filed a $100 Million Lawsuit Over Failures in Its AI Delivery System
Mobilized Man Dies in Donetsk Region With a Head Injury—His Body Was Found on a Road After Recruitment Officers Were Taking Him to a Training Center
The Military Enlistment Office Said He Escaped From the Car but Did Not Explain How the Escapee Sustained Such an Injury
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Wants the “Soft Return” of 8 Million Refugees and Promises to Create the Necessary Conditions—Without Specifying Them
The Country Continues to Face Shelling, Forced Mobilization by Recruitment Centers and Military Registration for Teenagers From the Age of 17
Zelensky Threatens Belarus With a Pre-Emptive Strike, Though His Border Guards See No Preparations for an Attack There
Minsk Is Moving Closer to Washington for the First Time in Years, and Kyiv Is Trying to Prevent It
Iran Has Restored Most of Its Underground Missile Bases Less Than Two Months After U.S. and Israeli Strikes, CNN Satellite Images Show
Of 69 Tunnel Entrances Hit, 50 Have Already Been Cleared, While Around 1,000 Ballistic Missiles Remain in Storage
No More Than 20 Liters per Person
Annexed Crimea Introduces Gasoline Rationing After Drone Strikes on the Land Corridor
At a Defense Forum in Singapore, AI Was Discussed as a New Threat on the Scale of Nuclear Weapons
The Technology Compresses Decision-Making Time So Sharply That People Begin to Act Irrationally
Russia Has Benefited More Than Anyone Else From the War in the Middle East
How Iran’s Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Crippled Persian Gulf Supplies and Redirected China’s and India’s Oil Flows Toward Moscow—A Deep Dive
The EU Is Looking for a Negotiator With Putin and Discussing Merkel, Draghi and Stubb
But the Point of These Initiatives Is Not the Outcome, but Europe’s Attempt to Prove the War Will Not End Without It
Estonia Does Not Rule Out Mandatory Conscription for Women—Staffing the Army With Men Alone May Prove Impossible
The Defense Resources Agency Estimates the Shortage of Conscripts Will Become Especially Acute by 2040
Netanyahu Ordered the Military to Expand Control Over Gaza From 60% to 70% of the Territory
The Move Comes Despite an Existing Ceasefire Under Which Israel Was Supposed to Withdraw Troops From the Enclave
White House Concert for America’s 250th Anniversary Is Falling Apart—Five of Nine Artists Have Refused to Perform
Poison Rock Musician Bret Michaels Is the Latest to Withdraw, Citing a “Toxic Atmosphere” and Threats Against His Team and Family
Court Orders Trump’s Name Removed From the Kennedy Center Facade—Renaming Is Ruled Illegal
The Judge Said Only Congress Can Change the Center’s Name and Also Barred Its Closure for Renovation This Summer
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s $1.77 Billion Fund to Compensate Victims of the “Weaponization of Government.”
The Justice Department Will Not Be Able to Transfer Funds to the Fund Until the Case Is Resolved
Hegseth Arrives in Singapore for the Shangri-La Dialogue and Holds Meetings With U.S. Partners in Asia
Washington Discusses Security With Singapore, Expands Defense Cooperation With Vietnam and Prepares a New Statement With Thailand
Anthropic Surpassed OpenAI in Valuation After a New Funding Round
Claude’s Developer Was Valued at $965 Billion, While OpenAI Was Worth $852 Billion in Its Latest Round
In Switzerland’s Winterthur, a Man With a Knife Wounded Three People at a Train Station—He Had Just Been Released From a Psychiatric Clinic
The Attacker Shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and Authorities Are Treating the Incident as a Terrorist Attack With a Jihadist Motive
Uniform MiCA Rules for the Crypto Market Take Effect Across the EU on July 1
What Changes for Exchanges, Stablecoins, Tax Reporting and Cold Wallets
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
Trump’s Administration Is Preparing for a Possible Collapse of Cuba’s Regime as Early as This Summer—and Is Developing Military Response Options
The White House Is Betting on the Island’s Economic Strangulation in a Strategy Officials Call “Accelerationism”
Lech Wałęsa Removed the Ukrainian Flag From His Jacket and Withdrew Support for Zelensky After the Reburial of OUN Leader Melnyk
The Former Polish President Said Zelensky Had “Honored UPA Bandits” and Insulted All Murdered Poles
Ukraine’s Commitments Under the EU’s €90 Billion Loan Have Been Published—Scrapping Exemptions for International Parcels, Taxing Digital-Platform Income and Extending the Military Levy for Three Years
The Money Will Come in Three Tranches and Is Strictly Tied to Tax Reforms and Anti-Corruption Policy
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
“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
A Russian Drone Crashed Into a Residential Building in Romania’s Galați—Two People Were Injured and 70 Residents Evacuated
Bucharest Called the Incident a “Serious Escalation” by Russia and Asked NATO to Accelerate Deliveries of Counter-Drone Systems
Ukraine Could Receive Its First Swedish Gripen Jets as Early as 2027 and Buy Up to 20 Newer Gripen E Fighters After 2030
The Aircraft Will Be Equipped With Meteor Missiles, Which Kyiv Hopes to Use to Push Russian Guided-Bomb Carriers Away From the Front
Latvia Has Begun Installing Anti-Tank “Dragon’s Teeth” on Its Border With Russia—on Land Seized From Local Residents
The Country Is Building the Baltic Defense Line With Lithuania, Estonia and Poland and Plans to Complete It by 2028
Merz Ranks Last in a German Politician Approval Rating
The Chancellor’s Performance Is Viewed Negatively by 62% of INSA Poll Respondents
Norway Is Joining France’s “Nuclear Umbrella” Amid Fears of Reduced U.S. Military Support
Poland and Lithuania Have Already Joined Paris’s Umbrella
Netflix Released the Trailer for In the Hand of Dante—Julian Schnabel’s Film About the Search for a Manuscript of The Divine Comedy
Oscar Isaac Plays Both a Modern Writer and Dante Alighieri, Joined by Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, John Malkovich and Martin Scorsese
Trump Says Talks With Iran to End the War Are Not Satisfactory
The U.S. Rejects Iran’s Draft Hormuz Deal and Has Not Promised Sanctions Relief for Giving Up Uranium
