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Under cover of the World Cup, ICE rounded up 10,000 people in five days
ICE detained 10,000 people in five days on a White House order, pushing detention above 63,000, amid record contractor profits and rising deaths in custody.
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Serbia's Vučić to resign within weeks and call snap elections
Aleksandar Vučić says he will resign within weeks and call early elections, after 18 months of student-led protests triggered by the Novi Sad disaster that killed 16.
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Lunin's "Rebellion": Russian war veteran detained after viral video warning Putin of mutiny
A Russian war veteran posted a viral video warning the army could turn on the Kremlin over alleged abuse of soldiers, retracted it a day later, and has been detained.
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Judge orders DOJ unredact the Epstein co-conspirator, torture-video and Trump-accuser files by 2 July
A federal judge has ordered the US Justice Department to strip the redactions off a set of Jeffrey Epstein records by 2 July or defend in court why the law lets it keep them hidden.
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Ukraine launches 40-day operation to push Russia to end the war
Ukraine has approved a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's refining and export chain, timed to a stalled peace negotiation and a 15 July review of the Western oil price cap.
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ICC judges sue convicted criminal Donald Trump after US attempt to intimidate the court
Three ICC judges sued Trump over US sanctions imposed for their rulings, arguing the measures exceed emergency-powers law and are meant to coerce the court.
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Russia rations fuel from occupied Crimea to Siberia as Ukrainian drones decimate refineries nationwide
Fuel rationing has reached more than 50 Russian regions as Ukrainian drone strikes cut refinery output, bringing the war Russia launched home to its own drivers.
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Russia's 'family values': raping, beating women & girls to death
A 2017 law made it cheaper to hit your wife than to hit a stranger. Nine years later, the state is still arguing that stopping domestic violence would scare men away from marriage.
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UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targeted Gaza children, amounting to genocide
Commission of inquiry says the killing of at least 20,179 children since October 2023 was part of a strategy to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza. Israel rejected the report as a libellous sham.
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, former DUP leader, found guilty on all 18 counts of child sexual assault, including rape
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former DUP leader, has been found guilty at Newry Crown Court of 18 historical child sexual offences including rape, and remanded in custody to await a long prison sentence.
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Hungary's Magyar moves to end President Sulyok's mandate by constitutional amendment
Peter Magyar told parliament on 22 June his government will end President Tamas Sulyok's mandate via a constitutional amendment and rewrite the constitution from September.
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Starmer resigns, wants orderly transfer of power, Burnham overwhelming favourite
Keir Starmer will resign as Labour leader and prime minister, staying on as caretaker until a successor is chosen. Andy Burnham is the overwhelming favourite.
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US and Iran sign interim deal to reopen Hormuz, with nuclear dispute deferred
An interim US-Iran memorandum reopens the Strait of Hormuz and ends the naval blockade, but Iran's nuclear programme is left to 60 days of later talks.
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ICC sets 30 November trial date for Duterte and unseals warrant for his police chief
The ICC has set Rodrigo Duterte's crimes against humanity trial for 30 November 2026 and unsealed a warrant for his former police chief, now a fugitive senator.
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Russian attacks set fire to the 1,000 year old Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv's UNESCO-listed Pechersk Lavra, kills civilians overnight
Fire tore through the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at the 1,000-year-old UNESCO monastery, which Ukraine says holds Enhanced Protection under the 1954 Hague Convention.