WAR IN UKRAINE: Ukraine and Russia accused each other of blowing up a dam and causing widespread flooding in southern Ukraine, while Russia said it had thwarted another Ukrainian offensive in eastern Donetsk and inflicted heavy losses.
Everything you need to know about the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, and what happened.
The war in Ukraine is deepening the climate crisis at a time when global greenhouse gas emissions are already running at a record high, according to a report by carbon accounting experts.
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- Dangerous encounters by US and Chinese militaries look set to continue, after a Chinese warship came within 150 yards of a US destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday and forced it to slow down. The US has accused China of military ‘aggressiveness’.
- Prince Harry will become the first senior British royal to give evidence in court for more than a century when he appears in his lawsuit against a tabloid publisher whose titles he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful activities.
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- Iran presented its first domestically-made hypersonic ballistic missile on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported, an announcement likely to heighten Western concerns about Tehran’s missile capabilities.
- French unions are staging a 14th day of protests against government plans to raise the retirement age to 64, in what could be a final attempt to pressure lawmakers into scrapping a law that is already on the statute books.
- Three lawyers for former President Donald Trump left the US Department of Justice amid reports that federal prosecutors are wrapping up an investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents. The Reuters World News podcast discusses which new charges Trump could face.
