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• World at Large: President Trump says peace deal will be signed Sunday after Iran said it remains cautious on timing
  Tatarstan and major Russian cities impose limits on petrol sales
  Racial Tensions Continue to Escalate in UK over Belfast Attempted Decapitation by Immigrant
WORLD — BY COUNTRY
• United States: Congress Permits Expiration of Key Provision for Foreign Surveillance FISA Section 702
  Paramount's $110B purchase of Warner Bros. approved by DOJ
  1 killed, 10 hurt in mass shooting in Midland, Texas; suspect also dead: DPS
• China: Taiwan launches website for Chinese nationals to report intelligence
  Somaliland Opens Diplomatic Office In Taiwan Despite Strong Objections From Beijing
  China Arrests American Scholar-Journalist, Adding to Friction With U.S.
• Russia: Russia’s Geran kamikaze drones wipe out Ukrainian UAV depot in DPR
  UN records highest civilian casualty toll in Ukraine since 2022
  President Putin: Russia Is Single-Handedly Standing Against The West
• United Kingdom: UK armed forces board Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in English Channel, PM says
  UK forces board sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil tanker
  UK court to rule on Palestine Action ‘terrorist’ label
• India: Tata's iPhone Plant Faces Shutdown Threat In Tamil Nadu Over Groundwater Contamination
  Monsoon tracker LIVE: Cyclonic system to bring rains to northern Tamil Nadu
  India Set To Miss Budget Deficit Target As Oil Shock Strains Public Finances
• Germany: Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II - The New York Times
  Switzerland votes on plan to cap population at 10 million
  EU to ban airlines from charging parents to sit with their children
• South Korea: Jailed South Korea ex-president gets 30 more years for sending drones into North
  
  
• Canada: Canada's economy posts biggest trade surplus in more than a year
  Canadian Mother Sues OpenAI, Alleging Chatbot Encouraged Daughter's Suicide
  Canada police investigate whether Toronto police death linked to global terror attacks
• South and Central America: Gunmen in Haiti kidnap senior defense official James Boyard
  Peru's leftist candidate Sanchez asks right-wing rival Fujimori to back vote recount
  
• Saudi Arabia Qatari mediators travel to Tehran for final touches on a possible deal to end war
  
  
• Israel: Four UK pro-Palestinian activists jailed for violent raid on Israeli defense factory
  
  
• Continental Africa: Ebola cases rise to 689 in DRC
  Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds | Global development | The Guardian
  

• White House:
  Trump Administration Reignites Its Feud With Anthropic Over Latest A.I. Models
  President Donald J. Trump Signs the Secure America Act"
  President Trump indicates Iran leaked false information on peace deal terms
• State Department:
  US Plans to Slash Fighter Jets, Warships to NATO in Europe: Report
  
  
• Dept of War (DoW):
  1-40th Cavalry Regimen,t Ft Greely AK, Transformation from cavalry to parachute infantry
  Naval Research Laboratory Receives Space Force Antenna to support tracking, telemetry and command operations for emerging space technologies
  
• DHS:
  Trump Administration Says It Will Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing
  
  
• Treasury:
  US Treasury Eyes Crackdown on Foreign Influence Questioned In America's Nonprofits
  
  
• HHS:
  Former NIH Head Admits Secretly Helped With Paper Dismissing Theory COVID-19 Came From Lab
  Public Schools Experiencing Dramatic Drop in Enrollment Due to Declining US Birth Rates
  
• Supreme Court:
  US Supreme Court denies Alabama's request to carry out nitrogen gas execution
  
  

• Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
  Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire with SpaceX's IPO
  

• Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could "Open the Floodgates"
  Clocks made from an atomic nucleus just ticked on for the first time
  Astronomers may have found a record-breaking pair of black holes

• Humanoid Warbot Live-Fires Mortars At Vegas Test Range
  Anthropic disables top-tier AI models after US order limiting foreign access
  Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

• Construction in Germany Revealed the 'Princely Grave' of a Celtic Warrior Who Was Buried With Weapons and a Two-Wheeled Wagon
  Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average
  Stop sending spy turtles to snoop on us, says China

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