Day: July 2, 2026

Once described as “the godfather” of French migrant camps, he has been working in a Leicestershire village. ...

A convicted people smuggler is living in Leicestershire and seeking asylum while working illegally, the BBC can reveal. ...

Russia launched its biggest strikes on the city in weeks with children among the “significant number” of casualties, Ukrainian officials say. ...

Attendance at the Great American State Fair is sparse and the heat is extreme, but at least you can pay $25 for a pretzel This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday I have been to some disappointing fairs ...

US regulators allowed Philip Morris to advertise its Zyn oral nicotine pouches as less harmful than cigarettes. The decision is a marketing win for the tobacco giant, which like other manufacturers is investing in smoke-free products. Tobacco replacements, such as nicotine pouches or vapes, are vastly less deadly than smoking ...

Anthropic is rolling back spyware-like code it implemented to track whether users are affiliated with Chinese AI labs. A cybersecurity newsletter reported that the Claude Code feature covertly tracked and transmitted information based on a user’s timezone and potential connection to Chinese tech companies accused of illicitly training their own ...

Global chaos isn’t spreading, but is highly localized, a new report argued. The impression in foreign policy circles, a former US ambassador to NATO wrote, is that “the erosion of the international rules-based order is a uniform, global trend.” But the reality, according to the Atlas of Impunity report, is ...

The recent surge in commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could give the US additional leverage in talks with Iran, analysts said. More than 10 million barrels of oil are flowing through the waterway daily, a US official told Bloomberg, adding that the jump underscores Tehran’s limited ability to ...

Russia is starting to import gasoline from India, Reuters reported, in a sign of the severity of Moscow’s fuel shortages. The shipments mark a shift in the countries’ energy dynamic: Earlier this year, India turned to Russia to mitigate a disruption to oil supplies spurred by the Iran war. Russian ...

⚽️ Kick-off time: 5pm local/10am AEST/1am BST/8pm EDT⚽️ Player guide | Golden Boot | Bracket | Mail Beau Hello from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, where as you might expect an extremely pro-USA crowd is filing in. There are certainly more than enough Bosnia and Herzegovina fans here to make ...