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The body of a woman suspected of involvement in the attempted murder of sanctioned Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev was found near Kyiv on 6 July.

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Explosions rocked Damascus on Tuesday as France’s president met with his Syrian counterpart in a landmark visit. Emmanuel Macron had entered the presidential palace to meet Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa when the explosions happened near the Four Seasons Hotel. Syrian authorities did not immediately comment on the incident. Syrian media reported that Macron was staying at the Four Seasons. Two explosions were heard in the heart of the capital, Syrian newspaper Al-Watan and Syria TV network...

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If implemented, the plan could free up capacity at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin factories in the US and enable the defense giants to ramp up production at home, the news agency pointed out

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Beijing has staged a special screening of a blockbuster film that sparked a debate about propaganda in Southeast Asia for 150 foreign diplomats and their families to help them “better understand China”. Diplomats from 74 embassies, including Indonesia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Peru, attended Monday’s screening of the film Dear You, which was organised by the Chinese foreign ministry. The movie was shot in the Teochew dialect spoken in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province and...

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As of 10:00 a.m. Moscow time, the MOEX and RTS indices fell by 1.54% to 2,160.32 and 872.84 points, respectively

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The Nigerian-American writer says she ‘will not watch’ Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of her fantasy bestseller Tomi Adeyemi, the author of the popular YA fantasy Children of Blood and Bone, has distanced herself from the forthcoming film adaptation of her book. “There is a reason I will not post anything about the adaptation of my work,” the Nigerian-American author said in group chat messages shared to TikTok . Continue reading...

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This fantastical journey through family, folktales and a world beneath our feet is witty, uplifting and gorgeously written Daniel Mason’s latest novel sees him return to the verdant New England landscape that so captivated readers of 2023’s acclaimed North Woods . This time, though, he hops the border from Massachusetts into Vermont – and effects a deeper shift in the process. Where North Woods was a foray into history, telling the tale of a house and its inhabitants over three centuries, in Country People Mason turns his attention to literature and mines the rich seams of text, from myths to Milton to Shakespeare to Tolstoy and all points in between, that make up his novel’s foundations. This is, at its core, a story about stories; a tale about the tales we tell each other, and our children, and ourselves. It’s also a far simpler thing: the linear account of a year in the life of a contemporary family. On the surface, this might look like a step back from the scope and ambition of North Woods, which spooled out over hundreds of years in a polyphony of forms and voices. But if Country People teaches us anything, it’s that surfaces are only ever a fraction of what we’re dealing with – or, to borrow from one of its three, gloriously baroque epigraphs: “for every terrestrial stream, there run a thousand below the earth. For each pond, a hundred inner seas.” The book’s action is driven, in fact, by its characters’ compulsive need to dig deeper: to burrow into their physical and metaphorical landscapes for meaning, for inspiration, and on occasion just for the hell of it. Sometimes the digging in Country People is literal; often it’s metaphorical. And occasionally – well, occasionally, it turns out, the boundary between the two isn’t as solid as it might first appear. Continue reading...

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I joined Marilyn Monroe, Walter White, Ozzy Osbourne and other tribute artists on a cruise where imitation is its own art form INT. DECK 7, LE CABARET ROUGE, 11.37pm Frank Sinatra, palming a can of Sprite in one hand and the fist of his beautiful red-headed wife in the other, sat in a dark corner across from Jeff Bezos, who looked like he was waiting for him to say something. But Sinatra said nothing. He’d been mostly quiet all evening, and now in this cabaret he seemed even more distant, staring out past fog and strobe and Bezos’s strong bald head and into the large room where at least half a dozen men had basically shattered a bistro table trying to get a better look at Marilyn Monroe. Sinatra’s wife knew, as did Roy Orbison and Austin Powers, who stood nearby, that it was only minutes before he was supposed to go onstage, and that forcing any sort of conversation on him in this mood of focus would be extremely stupid. Continue reading...

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Russian forces destroyed a Nova Poshta logistics centre in an attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the night of 6-7 July. [Nova Poshta (internationally known as Nova Post) is Ukraine's largest private postal operator – ed.]

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Czech inflation slowed more than expected below target last month, underscoring the central bank’s monetary-policy dilemma after it raised interest rates.

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The European Central Bank is navigating an uncertain economic situation even as the US and Iran move closer to a lasting peace deal, according to Governing Council member Fabio Panetta.

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South Korea’s Incheon International Airport achieved a historic milestone in global aviation by recording 1 billion cumulative passengers in the shortest period among the world’s major hub airports, the airport operator said on Tuesday. According to Incheon International Airport Corp (IIAC), the airport crossed the 1 billion passenger mark just 25 years and three months after its opening in March 2001, outpacing all historic rival global hubs. Germany’s Munich Airport required 33 years and 10...

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"Regardless of the fact that they are currently sitting at one table, each of them has a knife concealed behind their backs to start carving up Ukrainian territory for themselves," Viktor Vodolatsky said

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To sustain future maritime operations, the U.S military will need to run supplies through an environment that spans thousands of miles of open ocean, denied ports, contested straits, and archipelagic chokepoints against adversaries that have spent decades studying how to target American logistics. That problem does not require one identical vessel for every mission. It does require a more common family of watercraft for the manned ships that carry cargo and vehicles inside a theater, built for scale, interoperability, and wartime replacement. Getting this right is arguably the most important acquisition problem the joint force faces in the next decade.So The post Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family appeared first on War on the Rocks .

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Defence spending and support for Ukraine's military needs are expected to top the agenda of summit in Turkish capital.

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The Ukrainian military fired artillery at evacuated areas 56 times

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Over 430 drones were heading toward the Moscow Region between late July 6 and 6:00 a.m. on July 7, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said

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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Archie Rhind-Tutt , Nick Ames and Sid Lowe as error-prone USA are picked off by Belgium and Cristiano Ronaldo bids farewell to the World Cup for good Continue reading...

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Néstor Lorenzo’s side face Switzerland in Vancouver on Tuesday and will be hoping for the same backing that has shocked opponents so far Mexico City, Guadalajara, Miami, Kansas City – Colombia’s World Cup journey has gradually been heading north for three weeks. Thousands of their supporters now descend on Vancouver looking to see Néstor Lorenzo’s side try to reach their first quarter-final in 12 years when they face Switzerland on Tuesday. After Mexico and the United States, “yellow fever” is about to hit Canada. This sort of fan migration, which has filled host cities with vibrant colour and joy, has not been seen since that last quarter-final in 2014, when Colombia supporters travelled in massive numbers to Brazil, not only owing to its proximity but also to the fact that the selección had not qualified for a World Cup for almost a generation before. James Rodríguez, the breakout star of that tournament, addressed the fans before travelling to North America as captain this year as there had been trouble when Colombia were in the US for the 2024 Copa América. Continue reading...

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Click your way through the group stage and the knockouts to crown champion Continue reading...

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Everything you need to know (and more) about every squad member. Click on the player pictures for more information Continue reading...

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Portugal lose last 16 game 1-0 against Spain Martínez: ‘When you need a goal, you cannot take him off’ Cristiano Ronaldo has admitted that he has played his last World Cup game, but said that even at 41 he has not yet made a decision about his future. Twenty-three years after making his debut, the Portugal captain’s 233rd game for his national team ended in a late 1-0 defeat against Spain that led to elimination in Dallas. He departs as the only man to have ever scored at six World Cups and he said he does so at peace, claiming that Portugal’s European Championship win in 2016 is as big as a world title and noting that his era has been the most successful in the country’s history. Continue reading...

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⚽ News and previews before the final last-16 match-ups ⚽ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Email Luke Hello sports fans. USA, the co-hosts, have been knocked out after a thumping 4-1 last-16 defeat by Belgium in Seattle. They insist the Donald Trump-induced Folarin Balogun red-card furore had nothing to do with the result . Continue reading...

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BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions after the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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Morning update Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Tensions have reignited amid an attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, with severe damage to the vessel reported. While Axios indicated that two US officials blamed Iran for the attack on the ship, Tehran's IRIB state broadcaster reported that the targeting happened after the vessel "ignored repeated warnings". Here are more updates from across the region: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said that he is preparing to travel to the White House for a meeting with US President Donald Trump towards the end of July, where the two are set to discuss the framework of the agreement with Israel. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf vowed to punish "arrogant powers" for the killings in the country, the Tasnim News Agency quoted him as saying. The statement comes amid the funeral procession being held for the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Hamas announced on Monday the dissolution of the body that has governed the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades, clearing the way for a technocratic committee to implement civilian rule. The move marks a significant political shift by Hamas, which has run Gaza since 2007 after winning the legislative elections the previous year.

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Araghchi says US-Iran talks will not start if Washington threats continue Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi indicated that discussions between Tehran and Washington will not begin if US threats continue. "Millions of proud Iranians rallied in unity to honor Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and his legacy. Neither them nor our Brave Armed Forces are moved by any threats," he wrote in a post on X. "Para 13 of the MoU is clear: Negotiations on final Deal will not commence if threats continue," Araghchi. "Honor your signature." Millions of proud Iranians rallied in unity to honor Grand Ayatollah Khamenei and his legacy. Neither them nor our Brave Armed Forces are moved by any threats. Para 13 of the MoU is clear: Negotiations on final Deal will not commence if threats continue Honor your signature. pic.twitter.com/uQ7OoFyp8U — Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 7, 2026

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On its 250th birthday, America must leave behind the illusion of primacy Submitted by Jeffrey D. Sachs on Mon, 07/06/2026 - 15:21 The failed Iran war presents costly proof that global dominance was always beyond Washington's grasp People wait to re-enter the event site after being evacuated due to storms during Independence Day celebrations in Washington, DC, on 4 July 2026 (Amid Farahi/AFP) On On the fourth of July, the United States turned 250 - an event that summoned the founders who spoke of a republic seeking “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind”, rather than dominion over them. Yet the story that matters most for our own moment does not begin in 1776. It begins 35 years ago, with the collapse of the Soviet Union - the moment the US mistook the disappearance of its main rival for a mandate to remake the world in its own image. What followed was an overdrive of hubris. Washington read the unipolar moment of 1991 as a global manifest destiny, and set about entrenching its primacy in every region of the globe. The mood was captured with startling candour by political scientist and former American national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard (1997), a meditation on how the US might dominate the Eurasian landmass and forestall the rise of any power capable of challenging it. Primacy ceased to be a momentary fact and hardened into a doctrine - and, for a generation of US policymakers, an obsession that no defeat seemed able to shake. Strangely, much of the Arab world embraced it too. Time and again, Arab governments acceded to American designs on the premise that only the US could supply what they wanted: security above all, but also advanced weaponry, technology and finance. The bargain seemed prudent, since the Arab world would accept US leadership and enjoy American protection. Nowhere was this clearer than in the network of US bases strung across the Gulf, from the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and Al Udeid in Qatar , to Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia , Al Dhafra in the UAE and Ali Al Salem in Kuwait . All those bases, and yet the question remained: who were these bases really serving? Myth demolished Some governments went further, entering what became, in effect, a strategic alliance with the US and Israel , on the old assumption that one should always back the strongest side. The myth of the indispensable protector became the organising principle of the Arab region’s diplomacy. The Iran war has demolished that myth. On 28 February, the US and Israel attacked Iran , assassinating the supreme leader and many senior officials, all in brazen defiance of the United Nations Charter and with the declared aim of regime change . And then the mightiest military on earth ran headlong into the limits of its power, military and political alike. Iran did not collapse. It named a successor to the supreme leader, struck back across the region , and closed the Strait of Hormuz , triggering a fuel crisis and wrecking the global economy. After months of US and Israeli bombardment, billions of dollars wasted, thousands of lives squandered , and a region set aflame - from Lebanon to the Gulf - Washington settled not for the regime change that it had promised, but for a fragile and repeatedly broken truce. The only choice left for the US is whether to accommodate a world it can still help to shape but no longer command, or to spend its remaining strength resisting the irreversible The American-Israeli war failed, conclusively. It neither toppled the Iranian state nor subdued it; it enriched the arms industries but no one else; and it left every Gulf capital that had sheltered under the American umbrella more exposed , not less. In failing, it taught two lessons at once about the limits of American power, and the folly of the Arab states staking their national security upon it. Every government that built its strategy on the permanence of American dominance now has reason to think again. On this national birthday, two awakenings are overdue: one in Washington, and one in the Arab capitals that trusted it. For the US, the lesson is that the age of forcing American and Israeli solutions on the region is over. No arsenal can any longer impose the outcomes that American power once asserted. The honest course for the US would be to pursue, at last, what international law and justice have always required, which is a genuine solution for Palestine . This can be a two-state solution, with Israel and Palestine living in peace side by side, or a single bi-national democratic state. In either case, it must be the end of the Greater Israel project , which aims for Israel’s permanent occupation of Palestinian lands and territories in neighbouring countries. The Greater Israel project has been the main source of the region’s perpetual wars. The path forward For the Arab world, the subservience to US power should end as well. There is no rational reason for the Arab world to outsource its security to a distant, unreliable and biased patron. The path forward is Arab unity, rather than competition for Washington’s favour; to make peace with Iran, recognising that Arabs and Iranians are permanent neighbours and not proxies in someone else’s contest; and to build genuine strategic autonomy in a multipolar world, dealing with the US, China , Russia , and every power on equal terms and according to the region’s own interests. How a regional defence pact could deal the final blow to Israel's violent expansionism Read More » A security architecture designed in the region, rather than in Washington, is now both possible and necessary. The Gulf states in particular command the capital, the energy, and the human talent to shape their own future - and, in the coming age of clean power, to help lead it. We live in the age of multipolarity, and that is the Arab world’s surest road to dignity, security and peace. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the American republic announced itself to the world as a member of the human family, not as its master. The Iran war is the costly proof that global primacy was always beyond its grasp. The unipolar moment that Washington mistook for a permanent world order has ended. The only choice left for the US is whether to accommodate a world it can still help to shape but no longer command, or to spend its remaining strength resisting the irreversible. The wisest gift the US could give itself at 250 is to recognise multipolarity at last, and to rejoin the community of nations as one cooperative power among many. The wisest gift the Arab world could give itself is to stop waiting for a patron - and to stand, at last, in unison, on its own feet. Happy birthday to the United States, and for all of us, may this be a new birth of realism and peace. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. War on Iran Sybil Fares Opinion Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:29 Update Date Override 0

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Italy’s oldest dairy company has borrowed money against cheese still aging in its warehouse, taking advantage of a change in the law aimed at helping food and wine producers access finance.