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• Frank Lloyd Wright House, Among Chicago’s Most Endangered Buildings, Bought By Nonprofit

  26-06-2026 20:38 via article.wn.com
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• Video: US strikes 10 Iranian military targets near Hormuz, releases footage

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• Today in History: June 28, Franz Ferdinand assassinated

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• South Africa’s World Cup run is a dream come true. Broos says a knockout win ...

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  This World Cup is already a landmark for South Africa, which had never...
  
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• South Africa scrapes past Bangladesh and leaves India needing to upset Australia at Lord’s

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  South Africa has played its part and confirmed that India must take down Australia at Lord’s to...
  
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• Soccer meets nature at Vancouver mountaintop watch party

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  World Cup fans in Vancouver took to the great outdoors Saturday...
  
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• Real World Economics: The complex, influential legacy of Alan Greenspan

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  Alan Greenspan, who died last week...
  
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• Putin says Russia is going through ‘difficult period’ amid Ukraine war, vows to overcome challenges

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• Over 1,300 excess deaths linked to Europe heatwave: WHO calls heat a ‘silent killer’

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• Over 1,300 excess deaths linked to Europe heatwave: WHO

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  GENEVA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,300 excess deaths have been recorded across Europe since June 21 linked to high temperatures, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media platform X on Sunday. "Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," Tedros said on X. He warned that "heat stress is often called the 'silent killer' -...
  
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• Landmark jury verdicts against Meta, Google push U.S. social media regulation

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  The U.S. Congress may be...
  
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• Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  The step, which still needs approval in Parliament, reflects deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey. ......
  
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• Iran narrowly knocked out of tumultuous World Cup on Austria’s last-second goal

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  Iran has been eliminated from the World Cup, narrowly failing to advance past the group stage in...
  
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• ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: South Africa edge out Bangladesh to keep semi-final hopes alive

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  The Proteas Women's opening bowlers proved too hot to handle for Bangladesh, but the South African batters were made to sweat before eking out a nervy four-wicket victory in their final ICC Women's T20 World Cup Group A match at Lord's on Sunday. A fourth successive victory in the tournament in Wales and England lifted South Africa into second place in the group on eight points, slightly improving their net run-rate and strengthening their hopes of reaching the semi-finals. However, their fate s
  
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• ‘I was abducted by Boko Haram aged 5 – our children still face a deadly ...

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• Frustration grows in Venezuela as quake death toll rises and tens of thousands remain missing

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
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• Europe temperatures shatter records: 191 mn face 35C on Sunday; over 1,300 dead in extreme heat

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  A powerful heat wave swept across Europe on Sunday, affecting nearly 191 million people and bringing extreme temperatures to large parts of the continent.The scorching conditions pushed temperatures to record highs in several countries, including Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Denmark, which experienced unusually intense heat.The extreme weather also reached the Nordic region, where Denmark recorded its hottest day since records began in 1874, with temperatures hitting 37 degrees Celsius (9
  
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• At least 14 killed in Saudi Aramco chopper crash near Ras Tanura

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  At least 14 people were killed Sunday when a helicopter operated by state oil giant Aramco crashed in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s official press agency reported. The Saudi Press A ......
  
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• AP News Summary at 7:25 a.m. EDT

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says it launched drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic. The statement issued Sunday also threatened a “complete halt” to negotiations to end the war if Washington continues its attacks. The new crossfire in the Persian Gulf fur
  
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• 3 firefighters killed, 2 injured while tackling wildfires on the Colorado-Utah border, U.S. Wildland Fire ...

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  BEAVER, Utah (AP) — 3 firefighters killed, 2 injured...
  
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• 3 Firefighters killed, 2 injured after Snyder fire escalates on Utah-Colorado Border

  28-06-2026 17:02 via article.wn.com
  In a tragic update three firefighters have been killed and two injured while...
  
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• Fresh hostilities in Gulf suggest US-Iran memorandum was too broadly worded

  28-06-2026 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Document appears to have been subject to conflicting interpretations on key issues of Lebanon ceasefire and strait of HormuzMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesThe sudden eruption of fresh hostilities in the Gulf – just 10 days after Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding to end the conflict – threatens to put the two countries back on the path to war.It appears the deliberately opaque wording in the memorandum has been unable to withstand the pressure of conf
  
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• Body of boy, 15, recovered from Manchester reservoir amid UK heatwave

  28-06-2026 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Teenager’s death comes after at least seven people died in water-related incidents during record-breaking June temperaturesThe body of a 15-year-old boy has been recovered from a reservoir near Manchester, as police renewed warnings about the dangers of swimming in open water during soaring temperatures.Greater Manchester police said officers had been called to reports of a boy getting into difficulty in the water near Cowbury reservoir in Stalybridge at about 6.30pm on Saturday. A body wa
  
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• Bill Cassidy accuses Trump of treating Congress as ‘merely an appendage’

  28-06-2026 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Out-going Louisiana senator’s rebuke over Iran war is rare instance of a Republican politician standing up to TrumpBill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May’s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as “merely an appendage” in his handling of the Iran war.In an interview on Sunday with CBS News’s Face the Nation, the out-going Cassidy explain
  
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• Pauline Hanson’s One Nation withdrew more than $800,000 of election spending claims after AEC inquiries

  28-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Australian Electoral Commission is examining if party breached laws in its $6m public funding claim after the last election, documents showGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian Electoral Commission questioned Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party over more than $800,000 of claimed electoral expenditure for the last election, Guardian Australia can reveal.Documents obtained under freedom of information laws show that the inquiries prompted the party to wi
  
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• Parliament has been getting frosty as winter closes in – but Labor may make one more gamble before the break

  28-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As Labor pushes on with reforms, the Coalition must decide whether to join in the parliamentary deal-makingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt’s the last week of parliament before the winter break, and not a minute too soon; tensions have been running a little high lately.The lower house speaker, Milton Dick, has been yeeting MPs mere moments into question time and accused Angus Taylor of “demeaning” the parliament by calling Anthony Albanese a liar; A
  
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• ‘Whoa, what a loser’: Crowd erupts as Biden slams Trump over ballroom, arch and reflecting pool

  28-06-2026 16:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Biden rips ‘loser’ Trump at Maryland Democrats convention and tells his party: ‘Get up, dammit!’
  
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• Biden calls Trump ‘a loser’, portraying him as incompetent, corrupt and vain

  28-06-2026 16:51 via theguardian.com
  Pugnacious speech invokes Trump’s ‘vanity projects’ to makeover Washington and the ‘brazen, blatant corruption’Joe Biden called Donald Trump “a loser” in a pugnacious speech on Saturday that invoked his presidential successor’s attempted makeover of Washington DC to portray him as incompetent, corrupt and vain.He delivered those remarks while giving the keynote address at a gala in Hanover, Maryland, hosted by the state’s Democratic party, wh
  
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• Donald Trump threatens to annihilate Iran after crossfire over Hormuz – as it happened

  28-06-2026 16:34 via theguardian.com
  Iran attacked Bahrain and Kuwait after US strikes, and threatened a ‘complete halt’ to talksUS and Iran trade strikes as both sides accuse the other of endangering ceasefireWe will soon be closing this liveblog, but you’ll be able to stay up-to-date with our ongoing coverage of the Middle East here.Here is a summary of today’s events:Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, and
  
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• Lucy Powell agrees Ed Miliband would be ‘good’ as Andy Burnham’s chancellor

  28-06-2026 16:33 via theguardian.com
  Labour deputy leader says she thinks energy secretary would suit Treasury but ‘tittle-tattle’ over posts ‘unedifying’Ed Miliband would make a “good” chancellor to Andy Burnham, Labour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said, before the likely next prime minister’s first major speech on the economy since he returned to Westminster.Powell, who served as Miliband’s chief of staff in opposition and is close to the former party leader, appeared to
  
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