Taliban ban women's beauty salons in Afghanistan
A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry says the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons
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Major Moscow airport flights disrupted by drone attack
Russia's defence ministry says five Ukrainian drones were shot down in the Moscow region.
Facebook owner Meta set to launch Twitter rival on Thursday
The move is the latest in a rivalry between Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Ukraine 'preparing for a nuclear explosion,' lawmaker says
Rudik claimed that the situation with Russian-occupying forces surrounding Europe’s largest nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine “remains very dangerous.”
Ukrainian Special-Ops Troops Cross Dnipro River, Draw Powerful Russian Counterattack
Ukrainian cross-river raids with small boats over the Dnipro have drawn responses from Russian tanks and artillery. Pro-Moscow sources claim success, while Kyiv says it’s planned attrition.
'Sea Dragon' fossil, 180 million years old, discovered in UK reservoir
One of the most significant findings in the area, the enormous 180 million-year-old petrified remains of an ichthyosaur have been discovered in the UK.
US measure would ban products containing mineral mined with child labor in Congo
New U.S. legislation would ban imported products containing critical green transition minerals mined by child labor in Congo.
Sweden will not get Turkey's nod for NATO bid unless it stops sheltering 'terrorists' -Erdogan
Turkey will not lift its opposition to Sweden joining NATO unless it stops harbouring groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
Ukraine designates Unilever as 'international sponsor of war'
Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency (NACP) added British corporation Unilever to the "international sponsors of war" list for not exiting Russia.
Another 13 international companies leave the Russian market in a month
In June, another 13 international companies left the Russian market, including Michelin Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of car tires, the German company Bosch, and the American chemical corporation 3M.
Ukraine to receive dozens of Leopard 1A5 tanks “in next few weeks” – German Defence Minister
Boris Pistorius, Minister of Defence of Germany, has announced the supply of Leopard 1A5 combat tanks to Ukraine in cooperation with Denmark shortly.
Russia's Medvedev says standoff with West to last decades, Ukraine conflict
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president, has warned that Moscow's confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent.
Catastrophic climate 'doom loops' could start in just 15 years, new study warns
A new study of climate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.
Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records
The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year's annual climate talks in November, average global surface air temperatures were more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for several days, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.
A Saudi woman was given 30 years in prison for criticizing the Neom megacity project on Twitter
Saudi Arabia has sought to brutally repress opposition to its trillion dollar futuristic megacity project, Neom, say activists.
Commander of Russia’s Akhmat unit killed in Donbas – Russian media
Yevgeny Pisarenko, the commander of Akhmat, a Chechen armed formation that is fighting on the Russian side, has been killed in combat in Donbas.
New analysis of tooth minerals confirms megalodon shark was warm-blooded
Ukraine warns of nuclear disaster as Russia orders staff to leave power plant
International Atomic Energy Agency found no visible mines at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station but still needs better access.
Office tasked with investigating the Russian invasion of Ukraine opens in The Hague
After months of lobbying from Kyiv, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) has opened in The Hague, Netherlands. #EuropeNews
Barbie movie banned by Vietnam government over scene showing nine-dash line over South China Sea
State media reports Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie over a scene featuring a map that shows China's unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea.