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Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, won Iran’s presidential election.
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, met Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party was on course for a landslide victory in Britain’s general election, early results suggested.
A second Democratic congressman publicly urged President Joe Biden to step aside after his horrific performance in a debate against Donald Trump, his Republican opponent, on June 27th.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s hard-right National Rally, said that she would seek support from candidates of other parties to form a government if her party failed to win an outright majority after the second round of the parliamentary
In a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines, America’s Supreme Court found that presidents are entitled to “at least presumptive immunity” from criminal prosecution for “official” acts but not for “unofficial” ones.
Polls showed the far-right National Rally party in the lead after voting finished in the first round of France’s parliamentary election.
Russia said that its refineries would be allowed to export petrol until the end of July, extending a pause on export restrictions that the Kremlin first imposed in March
Inflation in America eased according to the Federal Reserve’s preferred metric
China’s Communist Party expelled two former defence ministers who were accused of corruption
America’s Supreme Court delivers rulings; Boeing under sanctions, and more
Soldiers stormed Bolivia’s presidential palace in the city of La Paz; Evo Morales, the former president, called it a “coup”.
Ruto withdraws finance bill; Biden’s Supreme Court win, and more
Police in Kenya reportedly killed several protesters and injured scores more outside the country’s parliament in Nairobi.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat, warned that “no help is entering into Gaza” as much of the aid arriving at the border is “not used”.
Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, arrived in Washington, DC, for talks with American officials.
Israeli attacks on Gaza City, in the north of the besieged enclave, killed 42 people according to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled authorities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, said he was “incredibly angry” about allegations that members of the Conservative Party placed bets on the date of the general election Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
America will suspend deliveries of air-defence interceptors to other allies in order to rush more of the munitions to Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
America approved the sale of drones and missiles to Taiwan for around $360m. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea for his first visit since 2000. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, dissolved the country’s six-person war cabinet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A two-day summit on Ukraine ended in a joint declaration, signed by 80 countries, that stated that Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” must be the basis for any peace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More than 50 heads of state and government gathered in Switzerland for a summit that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said could help to bring a “just and lasting peace” for his country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i
America’s Supreme Court ruled that a ban on bump stocks, introduced by Donald Trump in 2018 after a mass shooting in Las Vegas, was unlawful Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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