Louis, a 17-year-old boy from Narbonne, France, has died following an extremely violent attack that, according to the prosecutor’s office, was premeditated. On Friday evening, he was lured into an ambush at a remote construction site in Narbonne and severely beaten. Five days later, he succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
Paris is temporarily banning the consumption of alcohol in public spaces and takeout sales, as the heat wave plaguing large parts of Western Europe slowly shifts eastward. This measure is intended to ease the strain on hospitals in the French capital.
South Korea is turning to drones as part of its military response to North Korea. The Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that it plans to train 500,000 military personnel as drone operators, while tens of thousands of unmanned systems will be deployed to frontline units.
A 23-year-old British TikTok influencer from Kent faces the death penalty in Dubai after being charged with the death of her boyfriend. According to the human rights organization Detained in Dubai, Brooke George was arrested on June 22 and charged with premeditated murder after the man she was in a relationship with was stabbed to death.
Tucker Carlson views a war with Iran as a watershed moment that could determine the political fate of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. In an interview with Sky News, he said that this decision—which runs counter to the “America First” principle—signals, in his view, the beginning of the end for Trump as a political figure.
This heat wave would have been virtually unthinkable fifty years ago. A new international study by World Weather Attribution concludes that the current heat in Western Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change and that the likelihood of such extreme heat has increased significantly over the past few decades.
NATO leader Mark Rutte defended European allies at the White House following harsh criticism from Donald Trump regarding their role in the war against Iran. At the same time, he tried to appease the U.S. president by praising his actions against Iran and highlighting the sharp increase in European defense spending.
WhatsApp is getting a new CEO with a clear mission: to generate more revenue from an app that already has over three billion users, without driving them away. To that end, Meta is promoting Indian fintech entrepreneur Kunal Shah, while simultaneously investing $900 million in his company, CRED.
The European Union is transferring the first tranche of a new 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine today (Thursday, June 25). This consists of 3.2 billion euros in macro-financial assistance, which, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, is intended to help Kyiv weather the years of war while simultaneously kickstarting reconstruction.
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