Tue 09 June 2026: A US federal judge blocked President Donald Trump on Monday from imposing a $100,000 fee on employers who file H-1B visa applications for highly skilled foreign workers. The policy violated both the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the US Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin ruled in a decision issued by the US […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: About 9,000 years ago, the Neolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence. Catalhoyuk, Turkiye – About an hour southeast of Konya lies one of the most exciting Neolithic finds of the 20th century – the densely populated settlement of Catalhoyuk. Occupied for 1,000 years […]
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Fri 05 June 2026: US President Donald Trump’s legal team has refused to provide financial records sought by the BBC in a $10 billion defamation lawsuit, escalating a discovery dispute in a Florida court, according to a British daily. Financial Times reported Friday that Trump sued the BBC over a 2024 Panorama documentary, alleging the […]
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Thu 04 June 2026: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday announced a support package for Armenia after Russia expanded restrictions on agricultural imports from the country. “We are preparing an EU support package. It includes immediate financial assistance, worth over 50 million euro ($58 million). And more will come,” von der Leyen […]
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Wed 03 June 2026: France has imposed a €22-million (nearly $25-million) fine on fast-fashion platform Shein over breaches of consumer protection rules, Commerce Minister Serge Papin said on Wednesday. “The fraud control authority is sanctioning serious breaches for a retailer,” Papin said on US social media company X, citing failures to respect withdrawal rights and […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured in a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes targeting Kyiv and several other Ukrainian regions early Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials. In the city of Dnipro, several residential buildings were struck by missiles and drones, killing at least eight people and […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: At least 929 homeless people died in France in 2025, according to a provisional count by the Les Morts de la Rue (The Dead of the Street) collective. “The number continues to increase year after year,” Adele Lenormand, a member of the collective, said, noting that 912 deaths were recorded in 2024. The collective said […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: The decision was split, allowing the Trump administration to continue barring transgender people from enlisting in the military. A United States court of appeals has ruled that a policy under President Donald Trump to expel transgender troops from the military was a violation of the Constitution. But Monday’s decision was a split […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday rejected Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s call for Yerevan to hold a referendum on joining the EU, amid pressure from Moscow a week before a parliamentary vote. Armenia has in recent years looked for other allies, frustrated that Moscow did not protect it in a […]
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Mon 01 June 2026: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Sunday that the US government is targeting her administration in an effort to interfere in Mexico’s internal affairs. Delivering her annual accountability report, Sheinbaum highlighted her administration’s achievements two years into its term while denouncing what she described as a “media offensive and multimillion-dollar social media […]
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