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Andy Burnham Set to Become UK Prime Minister — Without a Single National Vote Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, secured the backing of 322 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament by the end of the first day of the party’s leadership contest, making it all but certain he will become Labour leader and…

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Ceasefire Shattered: US and Iran Trade Fire for a Second Day as Congress Fumes The U.S. military struck roughly 90 Iranian targets on Wednesday, July 8, marking a second consecutive day of attacks after hitting more than 80 sites the day before — bringing the two-day total to nearly 170 targets. U.S. Central Command said…

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Armed Chinese and Japanese Ships Face Off for Seven Hours Near Senkaku Islands Days After Beijing’s Missile Test Chinese and Japanese vessels engaged in a roughly seven-hour standoff early Wednesday near the disputed Senkaku Islands (called Diaoyu in China), after two Chinese coast guard ships equipped with naval guns entered Japanese territorial waters off Taisho…

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Trump Declares Iran Ceasefire “Over” as U.S. Strikes 90 Targets and Tehran Fires Back at U.S. Gulf Allies The United States military struck approximately 90 targets across Iran early Thursday, including air defenses, radar sites and small boats, hours after President Donald Trump declared the fragile ceasefire between Washington and Tehran “over” following Iranian attacks…

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Trump Hands Ukraine the Keys to Patriot Missiles While Denmark Fights Off His Greenland Grab — Same NATO Summit, Same Breath President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday that the United States will license Ukraine to manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors, a long-sought request Kyiv…

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Ukraine Launches 430 Drones at Moscow — the Biggest Strike on Russia’s Capital in Two Years Ukrainian forces launched more than 430 drones toward Moscow and surrounding regions in the early hours of July 7, the largest aerial bombardment of the Russian capital in two years. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin confirmed the attack, saying most…

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‘We Could Remove All Our Soldiers’: Trump Threatens NATO’s Foundation Over Greenland at Ankara Summit At the opening of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 7, President Trump renewed his demand that Greenland be placed under US control, declaring it “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” and warned that…

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Ceasefire Declared ‘Over’: U.S. Bombs Iran, Iran Fires Back on U.S. Bases, and No One Has an Exit Plan US Central Command announced on Tuesday, July 7, that it had completed a new series of strikes against more than 80 Iranian targets, including air defense systems, command-and-control networks, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60…

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Hamas Quits Governing Gaza After 18 Years — But Israel Won’t Let the Replacement Administration In Hamas head of administration Mohammed al-Farra submitted his resignation and formally dissolved the group’s Emergency Committee on Monday, July 6, ending Hamas’s nearly two decades of direct governance over the Gaza Strip [1, 2]. Power is set to transfer…

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Iran Attacks Three Oil Tankers in the World’s Most Critical Shipping Lane — America Fires Back with Strikes and Sanctions Iranian forces struck at least three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, July 7, including the Saudi tanker Wedyan and the Qatari tanker Al-Rekayyat, in attacks the United Nations International Maritime Organization…

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