Sun 05 July 2026: The European Parliament is poised to launch a formal procedure against the Europe of Sovereign Nations alliance, the political party housing the Alternative for Germany and other regional far-right groups. A finding that the alliance failed to maintain the core tenets of the European Union would result in the loss of […]
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Fri 03 July 2026: Over the past few years, central banks have been quietly buying up significant quantities of gold. As the trend has accelerated, official agencies now hold the highest quantity of gold since 1975 – more than 36,000 tonnes of the precious metal. Central bank buying of gold picked up after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine […]
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Fri 03 July 2026: European Union monitors say the first half of 2026 was ‘marked by sustained and exceptional ocean warmth’ and forecast more to come. The world’s oceans experienced their “warmest June ever observed” and could see further record-breaking highs in the months ahead as El Niño and climate change push temperatures higher, according to a […]
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Fri 03 July 2026: The U.S. government has issued multiple intelligence warnings to Warsaw detailing Russian blueprints for an armed provocation on Polish territory, according to sources close to Polish President Karol Nawrocki. The planned operation aims to test the strategic resolve of the NATO alliance. Intelligence assessments indicate the Kremlin intends to execute the […]
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Thu 02 July 2026: Vatican stresses only pope may approve bishop consecrations to safeguard apostolic ties to Jesus’s original disciples. The Vatican says priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo XIV’s approval are in schism with the wider church and are now excommunicated. […]
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Thu 02 July 2026: German prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian man with leading the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, accusing him of committing a war crime, media reports said on Wednesday. Serhii K., a former Ukrainian soldier being held in pretrial detention in Hamburg, faces charges that include […]
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Wed 01 July 2026: The UK government on Tuesday announced that new safe and legal routes for refugees will begin rolling out from the autumn as part of wider reforms to the UK’s immigration and asylum system. The changes, confirmed ahead of the Immigration and Asylum Bill announced in the King’s Speech, will include new […]
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Wed 01 July 2026: President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the National Executive following consultation with the leadership of the Democratic Alliance as a member of the Government of National Unity (GNU). “These changes will affect the Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Trade, Industry and Competition, Electricity and Energy, Higher Education, […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: For the first time in 20 years, US billionaire Warren Buffett is skipping his usual midyear donation to the Gates Foundation as he waits for the results of an internal review into the group’s ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Investor and philanthropist Buffet, […]
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Tue 30 June 2026: WhatsApp will let users go by usernames instead of phone numbers, closing a longstanding privacy gap on the app used by more than three billion people. The Meta-owned platform said on Monday that it has begun letting users reserve unique usernames before a wider rollout later this year when people will be […]
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