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Health workers pull Millennium Bridge stunt in campaign against nuclear weapons

Health workers gathered on the Millennium Bridge in support of a nuclear weapons ban

Chronicle Live

Climate change leading to earlier and earlier heatwaves, scientists say

As France grapples with a particularly intense heatwave this weekend, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country, meteorologists say the increasingly early arrival of heatwaves is directly linked to global warming due to human activities.

France 24

Dutch prime minister apologizes to Srebrenica peacekeepers

The Dutch government has formally apologized to soldiers who were sent as U.N. peacekeepers to defend the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica with insufficient firepower and manpower to keep the peace

The Independent UK

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Europe braces for sweltering weekend heat

Record temperatures, fires or drought: France, Spain and other western European countries braced on Saturday for a sweltering June weekend set to break records.

Radio France Internationale

Drug smugglers deliver £68 million worth of cocaine to supermarkets by mistake

Workers unpacking Colombian bananas shipments find rather unexpected surprise amid crates

The Independent UK

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.

WEKU

Pleas for help as Myanmar awaits high-profile executions

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

Reuters

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How Did Russia-Ukraine War Trigger a Food Crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70%…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemeni PLC Concludes Regional Tour for Gathering Support in Doha

Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) concluded a regional tour that took it to each of Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt and Qatar to attract economic and political support. The President of the PLC on Wednesday arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, the last stop on his trip. Dr.

Asharq Al-Awsat

EXPLAINER: How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world.”

The Independent UK

GOP candidates undeterred after rival wins Trump endorsement

Kentucky gubernatorial hopeful Ryan Quarles is doubling down on his grassroots Republican strategy

The Independent UK

UN calls on UAE to release British man imprisoned in Dubai since 2008

UN working group rules that Ryan Cornelius has been held arbitrarily and subjected to rights violations

The Guardian - UK

Government’s Rwanda asylum policy is ‘absolutely shameful’, says Lady Amos

Labour peer who is first black member of Order of the Garter says scheme threatens to undermine UK’s global standing

The Guardian - UK

France and Turkey propose rival plans to get grain out of Ukraine

Macron favours land routes to Romania from Odesa whereas Ankara wants to use shipping lanes through Black Sea

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Al Jazeera

Ukrainians in Russia align with Moscow but lament refugee camps

More than a million Ukrainians have sought shelter in Russia since the war began.

Daily Mirror

Russia forces everyone in occupied eastern Ukraine to pay £200 each to fund war

Vitaly Khotsenko, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed republic, declared that 14,000 rubles (£200) will be taken from everyone, including infants and the elderly

McClatchy Washington Bureau

US sees perils for Russian influence in Americas if Ukraine war drags on

WASHINGTON — Over dinner at the lush Getty Villa in Los Angeles, where curators have recreated a classical Roman home overlooking the Pacific, President Joe Biden had a rare opportunity to speak with leaders from across the Americas all together and in private.

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Axios

UN Secretary-General António Guterres plays unique role on climate

Guterres will be "blunt" in his brief remarks at the White House on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack

António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer

Radio France Internationale

UN deal sees Ivorian refugees given passports to return home

The Côte d’Ivoire government, host countries, and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have signed a repatriation agreement to offer passports to Ivorian refugees around the world in an effort to encourage reintegration.

Roll Call

White House unveils global steps to speed climate transition - Roll Call

The White House announced steps with 16 other nations to help hasten the global transition to renewable energy technologies.

Evening Standard

Sergei Lavrov claims Russia ‘didn’t invade Ukraine’ while admitting it ‘isn’t squeaky clean’

The Russian foreign minister made a series of baseless claims during an interview with the BBC

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kremlin Says Is in Contact with Turkey Regarding the Export of Grain from Ukraine

Russia is in contact with Turkey regarding the export of grain from Ukraine but there are a lot of uncertainties from the Ukrainian side, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. Turkey on Wednesday said it would "take some time" to de-mine Ukraine's ports but that a safe sea…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cairo Looks Forward to High-Level US Participation in COP27

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the president-designate of the upcoming UN climate change conference, received on Thursday a phone call from the United States Special Climate Envoy, John Kerry. Shoukry told Kerry his country is looking forward to high-level US participation in the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022,…

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