In the middle of the Danube river separating Serbia and Romania, a rusty hull is visible along with a broken mast. The ship, near the Serbian port of Prahovo, laden with weapons, belonged to Nazi Germany’s Black Sea fleet. Baking temperatures and drought have driven water levels to record lows […]

Abdul El-Sayed is projected to win Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left. NBC News reports: "The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage." https://flip.it/.pLWId #USPolitics […]

A drought in Europe has caused the continent’s second-longest river, the Danube, to sink so low that ships are having trouble navigating it. But the receding waters have also revealed abandoned Nazi war ships — and remains of a wooly mammoth. Read more from @CBSNews https://flip.it/8mXfKc […]

Ukraine and Russia are trading blame for a drone strike that killed seven people on a crowded Russian beach. While Ukraine hasn’t confirmed they launched the drone, a Ukrainian spokesperson said it “was Putin who killed these Russians” because the Russian military shot the down the drone over a […]

U.S. FCC Commissioners face ethics complaints for taking luxury gifts from Paramount, @ProPublica reports. The FCC members allegedly accepted "luxury gala tickets from Paramount as the company sought government approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery." […]

Since July, Ukraine has carried out dozens of strikes on warehouses for the Amazon-like Russian company Wildberries, which supplies the Russian military with a range of equipment. But that’s not the sole reason Ukraine has its sights on the e-commerce business. Read more from @euronews […]

Cuba’s electricity grid collapsed over the weekend, sending the nation into darkness again as it faces continuous blackouts. A U.S.-imposed oil blockade earlier this year has strained the country’s energy infrastructure. Read more from @NBCNews https://flip.it/RU1ra_ #Trump #Cuba #Blackout

Cuba plunges into darkness as electric grid collapses

The power crisis is driven ​by ⁠fuel shortages and severe U.S. sanctions.

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The country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero to more closely match the Pacific island’s spelling and pronunciation in the national language. Nauru is the world’s third-smallest country by population size, after Tuvalu and Vatican City, with a population of 12,000. Read […]

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become […]

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Some 98% of active climate scientists say climate change is man-made and happening right now. But in Germany, the number of climate skeptics is rising along with the temperature -- an estimated 10,000 Germans have died in this summer's heat wave. @DW@flipboard.com explores how this came to be […]

U.S. President Donald Trump says American forces will pause on new strikes against Iran, claiming the parameters of a peace deal are set. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/rqSL3- #Iran #US #Trump

Trump says he will order halt to Iran strikes after parameters reached for deal to end war

U.S. President Donald Trump says he'll order American forces to hold off on strikes he had threatened against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the war.

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Homemade bomb explodes at Moscow restaurant, killing at least three people and injuring 21, Russian officials say. @BBC@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/T.dEwS #News #Russia #Europe

Three killed after bomb detonated at Moscow restaurant, state media say

Security officials said a woman tried to enter the restaurant with explosives but was stopped by a security guard.

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President Trump presses for reopening of Hormuz, threatens more strikes on Iran as Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza. Read more from @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/D_f3zv #News #War #MiddleEast

Trump threatens more strikes on Iran. Tensions from Hormuz to Kuwait and Gaza lead to more warnings

U.S. President Trump has threatened more strikes on Iran as the U.S. pushes to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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U.S. President Donald Trump says Hamas has agreed to disarm in exchange for Israel’s retreat from Gaza. Now, each side is insisting the other hold up their end of the deal first. Read more from @npr https://flip.it/DGIG7p #Hamas #Israel #Trump

“The verdict is clear: the climate crisis is in overdrive,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says, describing a summer of heat domes and wildfires that have made for an apocalyptic summer in Europe. Read more from @france24 about how climate change is amplifying the El Nino weather pattern […]

Italy’s Interior Ministry is temporarily suspending the Schengen free movement regime the country shares with Spain, closing their sea and land borders. The move comes after the rush of migrants who surged into Ceuta yesterday. Read more from @euronews https://flip.it/E2oYIH #Spain #Italy #Cueta

Italy suspends Schengen with Spain over Ceuta migrant crisis

The temporary suspension of the Schengen agreement was prompted by concerns over the migrant crisis in Ceuta. #EuropeNews

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What to know about the Spanish enclave of Ceuta as migrant arrivals from Morocco spike, from @AssociatedPress. https://flip.it/oQWXTW #Ceuta #Migrants #News

What to know about the Spanish enclave of Ceuta as migrant arrivals from Morocco spike

Thousands of migrants have entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco, with at least 18 dying in the attempt, prompting local officials to seek help from Spain's national government.

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The A.I. boom has been driving the entire U.S. economy. Since the release of ChatGPT, A.I.-related stocks have been responsible for as much as 75 percent of the returns of the S&P 500, and data centers now account for a vast majority of America’s G.D.P. growth. Oracle and other hyperscalers now […]

More than 1,500 people have died from Ebola as an outbreak continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to government data. Health officials say the contact tracing rate stands at 78.3%, but the World Health Organization says the rate needs to hit 90-95% to contain the […]

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says a Russian missile landed in Polish territory overnight, prompting fighter jets to secure its airspace. Russia carried out a missile barrage on neighbor Ukraine, and Tusk says there’s no reason to believe that Poland was targeted. Read more from @USAToday […]

Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting, and President Donald Trump’s approval rating on Iran has fallen slightly since last month, according to a new @AssociatedPress poll. https://flip.it/l1E-0U #Iran #Trump #News

How views on Trump’s handling of Iran have shifted, according to a new AP-NORC poll

A new AP-NORC poll shows most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting. President Donald Trump’s approval rating on Iran has fallen slightly since last month.

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One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was skeptical that the U.S. could reach a deal with Iran in a meeting with United States President Donald Trump. Hours later, Iran launched an attack on an American base. Read more from @Axios@flipboard.com on the leaders’ rocky relationship over […]

Egypt has tried to stay on good terms with all parties involved in the Iran conflict, but threats from the Houthi rebel group in Yemen is likely to upend their efforts. Read more from @france24 https://flip.it/FnnrXT #Egypt #Iran #US

US-Iran war: Egypt's difficult balancing act

The US-Iran war has already had a negative economic impact on Egypt. Now new threats from the Houthi group in Yemen are likely to worsen that. At the same time, Egypt is trying to stay on good terms with all parties.

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Iran resumes missile attacks as U.S. and Saudis strike Tehran-backed militias in Iraq. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/.hgLSZ #Iran #News #MiddleEast

Iran resumes missile attacks as US and Saudis strike Tehran-backed militias in Iraq

The renewed hostilities sent oil prices spiking. Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 3.1% to $84.58 a barrel.

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Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s first female president and its ninth leader in a decade. The 51-year-old daughter of Peru’s polarizing former President, Alberto Fujimori, and plans to rule with an “iron fist” and build a mega-prison modeled on El Salvador’s. Read more […]

French authorities have ordered 4,000 more people to evacuate from tourist sites as firefighters look to reign in a massive wildfire west of Bordeaux. Over 300,000 people in the country have fled their homes, and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says it is “very likely” France’s largest civilian […]

In 2024, a protest led by young people over job quotas ousted Bangladesh’s longtime ruler. In 2025, a social media ban and anger over “nepo kids” sparked youth-led demonstrations that resulted in the resignation of the prime minister of Nepal. Now, India’s education minister is out of his job in […]

Officials at a German deradicalization program say the suspect in the Berlin LGBTQ+ pride parade attack was faking his cooperation during screenings. “Our colleagues could tell that he wasn’t very interested in a real deradicalization process,” one official there says. Abdul Ballout, a […]