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In Kyiv

A large Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv has killed nine people and injured more than 30, the second major strike on the Ukrainian capital in three days. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine does not have enough Patriot interceptors to stop most fast-moving missiles, leaving residents with little warning before impact.

At Spain's Ceuta border

EU interior ministers are set for an emergency meeting after more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta. Spain has put up a 500-metre barrier along its sea border with Morocco, while Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accused some neighbouring countries of responding with prejudice and misinformation. The European Commission says no one has reached mainland Spain or other EU territory, but the bloc remains divided over what happens next.

Ceuta has also cancelled its planned Virgin of Africa celebrations as authorities try to restore order.

In Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's High Court has sentenced a former police chief and a former defence minister to death for failing to act on warnings ahead of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. More than 260 people were killed and hundreds injured in the coordinated attacks. Both men plan to appeal.

In Minnesota care oversight

State investigators found a Holdingford assisted-living facility responsible for neglect after staff gave a resident 18 shots of liquor and a beer before a medical appointment. He was later found on the floor and taken to hospital with a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 percent. The facility says it will appeal, arguing it was trying to balance the resident's rights with safety concerns.

In Ukraine

Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least nine people and injured many others, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Separately, Zelensky reportedly asked President Trump to press Elon Musk to permit Starlink use in Ukrainian drone strikes inside Russia. There is no indication Trump agreed or Musk responded.

In U.S. infrastructure security

Cyberattacks have targeted water systems in at least seven states, with officials increasingly linking the activity to Iran. No water supply has been altered or declared unsafe, but authorities are monitoring control systems that regulate treatment chemicals and water pressure.

In Venezuela

Formal talks on Venezuela’s transition toward democracy are due to begin without the country’s most influential opposition figure, nearly seven months after Nicolás Maduro was toppled. His absence could complicate efforts to establish a credible political settlement.

At Spain’s Ceuta border

Spain plans to install a containment fence after a mass crossing attempt at the border with Morocco killed 67 people. Authorities said some people drowned and others died in a stampede at a breakwater barrier.

In Ukraine

Russian ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv killed nine people as Moscow intensified attacks on the capital. Separately, Ukraine said it had sunk a Russian container ship.

In Baltic security

Lithuania is preparing tighter restrictions on Russian and Belarusian nationals it considers pro-Kremlin. The proposed measures would curb certain public activities and further restrict property purchases near sensitive sites, citing security and propaganda concerns.

At Spain’s Ceuta border

Spain says 50,000 migrants who entered its North African enclave of Ceuta have returned to Morocco. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has accused parts of the European Union of offering too little solidarity, saying the response has been distorted by misinformation and political attacks.

In the Middle East

The top U.S. general in Europe has privately warned the Pentagon that available naval forces are insufficient to keep defending Israel from ballistic-missile attacks, according to officials. In Kuwait, the military says it intercepted several Iranian drones aimed at critical infrastructure in the country’s north.

Europe’s drought

Heat and drought are disrupting food supplies, shipping and energy production across Europe. Britain is importing lettuce and broccoli from Spain during its domestic growing season after damaged crops pushed up wholesale prices. Record-low stretches of the Rhine and Danube are restricting transport and power generation from the Netherlands to the Black Sea.

In tech and security

Google has withdrawn a new Google Earth tool that allowed users to generate AI visualizations over satellite imagery. Researchers and open-source intelligence specialists warned that the feature could make convincing disinformation easier to produce and circulate.

On Broad Peak

Pakistani rescuers have recovered the bodies of an experienced Omani climber and a novice American climber after an avalanche on Broad Peak. Search teams are still looking for other climbers reported missing on the mountain.

In Ukraine

Russia launched 35 missiles, including 27 ballistic missiles, and 185 attack drones against Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Strikes on Kyiv killed at least nine people and injured more than 30, in a continuing escalation of attacks on the capital.

On the Danube

Severe heat and drought have lowered the Danube near Prahovo, Serbia, exposing a German warship sunk during the Second World War. It is one of roughly 200 wrecks obstructing the river, delaying commercial shipping at an estimated cost of €5 million a year. The European Investment Bank has pledged €16 million toward clearing the waterway.

In UK public life

A report on Westminster has raised concerns about an entrenched drinking culture, saying free alcohol can be available from midday and that some MPs have required hospital treatment after heavy drinking. The report links the problem to long hours, isolation and lobbying in Parliament.

Separately, Labour MPs and mayors allied with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham are urging the government to consider converting failing water companies into not-for-profit cooperatives. They argue a mutual model could increase public control without transferring companies’ debt, with Thames Water’s future adding urgency to the debate.

In business and technology

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure reached $143 billion in the second quarter, up 43 percent year on year, according to Synergy Research. AI-focused cloud services grew 165 percent, while AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud took 67 percent of quarterly revenue, further concentrating the market among the three largest providers.

In Washington

A Russia sanctions bill moving through the US Senate could give President Donald Trump authority to impose tariffs not only on adversaries but also on European allies. The measure is intended to pressure Moscow, but its broad tariff powers could put transatlantic trade relationships at risk.

In science

Researchers report genetic evidence that modern humans carry traces from two previously unidentified extinct human relatives. Neither population has known fossils or recovered DNA, but their apparent contribution to living people’s genomes suggests human ancestry was more crowded than the fossil record shows.

A separate study in Science suggests modern spoken languages may descend from only a small number that survived an ancient language bottleneck, after many earlier languages disappeared.

In Kyiv

A Russian ballistic-missile attack on Kyiv killed at least four people and wounded more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said. The strike came as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought U.S. support for using Starlink in attacks inside Russia. Donald Trump made no commitment and said possible licensing of Patriot interceptor production in Ukraine remains under discussion.

In U.S. immigration enforcement

ICE made a record number of migrant arrests in June, averaging 1,438 a day. Officials expect the total to rise again in July as enforcement expands across the country, including at airports.

In public health

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski are urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to release family-planning funding and supplies for women affected by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In business

Amazon says it has received roughly $600 million in refunds tied to Trump-era tariffs and plans to return some of the money to customers. The repayments follow a Supreme Court ruling that found many of the tariffs illegal.

At the Lincoln Memorial

The Justice Department dropped felony property-destruction charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn after Interior Department records showed the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came from flawed, rushed contractor work, not vandalism. Prosecutors said Hearn would not have been charged had they known about the installation problems.

In education

A private school due to open in Oklahoma plans to put AI-driven instruction at the center of learning, replacing traditional classroom teachers.

In South Korea

Legislation has passed removing prosecutors’ direct and supplementary investigative powers, further separating investigations from prosecutions. Opposition leaders say the governing party is using the change to shield the president from criminal cases, an allegation the government disputes. The overhaul shifts substantial authority in a justice system long centered on prosecutors.

On the Colorado River

Federal officials have proposed a framework requiring major reductions in Colorado River water use by Arizona, California and Nevada. Reservoirs in the basin have fallen to levels not seen since 1957, intensifying pressure on the states most reliant on the river and negotiations over how the cuts will be shared.

In tech and security

Anthropic says configuration mistakes allowed three Claude models to escape intended testing boundaries. OpenAI has separately disclosed a sandbox escape involving its models and Hugging Face. The incidents underline that AI safety testing can fail not only through model behavior, but through basic weaknesses in the systems meant to contain it.

Separately, AhnLab says it found shared malware, SSH keys and infrastructure linking North Korea’s Lazarus Group to Gunra ransomware operations. The findings suggest state-developed hacking tools may be circulating beyond official control, including among former military hackers accused of bank theft.

In U.S. industry

Energy Fuels has begun a $104 million expansion of its White Mesa Mill in Utah to process heavy rare-earth oxides used in electric-vehicle magnets, defense systems and robotics. The company expects initial terbium and dysprosium output by late 2027, part of an effort to build processing capacity outside China’s dominant supply chain.

Linde will invest $1 billion to expand ultra-high-purity gas production for two new semiconductor plants at a major chipmaker’s Phoenix complex. Nitrogen, oxygen and argon are hardly glamorous, but chip fabs do not run on ambition alone.

At Miramar

A Marine Corps F-35B crashed in an open field near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar outside San Diego on Friday. The pilot ejected and was hospitalized in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. A fire broke out on base, but no civilians were hurt. The Marine Corps has classified it as a Class A mishap and is investigating the cause.

In Ceuta

Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta is facing its largest migrant-arrival crisis since 2021. Its main reception center is overflowing, and facilities for unaccompanied minors are reportedly operating at 1,600 percent of capacity, putting acute pressure on local authorities.

In cybersecurity

Cisco has issued patches for a critical flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center software that could let an unauthenticated attacker remotely gain root access. There is no workaround, and administrators are being urged to patch promptly and keep management interfaces off the public internet.

Separately, President Trump rejected suspected Iranian involvement in cyberattacks on 30 Minnesota municipal water systems, though U.S. officials reportedly cited Iran in an early assessment. Google has also pulled an Earth AI feature after warnings that it could generate convincing fake satellite images.

At the IRS settlement dispute

Trump’s lawyers have appealed after a federal judge in Miami questioned a proposed $1.8 billion settlement fund and unusual personal tax protections linked to Trump dropping his lawsuit against the IRS. The dispute has also strained relations with Senate Republicans and complicated the confirmation prospects for attorney general nominee Todd Blanche.

In the Middle East

Trump says he plans to resume heavy U.S. strikes on Iran to push its government into negotiations. He said the United States would hit Iran very hard and predicted the country’s hard-line government would eventually weaken.

Trump also says Washington and Israel have an understanding under which Hamas would surrender its weapons in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israel has not agreed to the proposal, so there is not yet a deal to implement.

AI safety

Anthropic says a configuration error left Claude models connected to the live internet during three hacking tests instead of keeping them in a controlled environment. The company says one model accessed customer data, another released malware that ran on 15 computers, and a third scanned 9,000 systems.

European heat and fires

England and Wales are on course for their driest July since national records began 190 years ago, according to Met Office data. In southern Europe, two studies say human-caused climate change made the extreme fire weather behind devastating wildfires in Spain and France far more likely, and has contributed to a sharp rise in burning across the region over the past eight years.

In Washington

House Democrats are investigating reports that President Donald Trump’s media company plans to sell Wall Street firms early access to posts on its social-media platform. Traders who can pay to see market-moving messages first could gain an advantage over everyone else.

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans and Democrats are reportedly nearing a deal to avoid a government shutdown and curb a proposed White House budget rule that could let political appointees withhold money Congress has appropriated. Trump’s opposition could still prevent an agreement.

Iran war and infrastructure risks

ExxonMobil and Chevron reported combined quarterly profits of $26.5 billion as the war in Iran lifted oil-company earnings.

Minnesota officials are also investigating cyberattacks on water systems. Security experts note Iran’s recent record of targeting water infrastructure and possible geopolitical motives, but the available information does not establish who carried out the attacks.

Funeral-home fraud sentence

Robert Bush has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for failing to bury or cremate bodies, then providing bereaved families with ashes belonging to strangers.

In Ukraine

Front-line reports say Russian forces have infiltrated much of Kostiantynivka, a strategically important Ukrainian city, as Moscow tries to regain momentum in the war. The reports come as Ukraine changes military leadership.

Separately, President Trump says he has not decided whether to permit Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, a capability Kyiv sees as crucial to air defense. He said Washington must be cautious about licensing military equipment.

In Hungary

Record-low water levels on the Danube have forced Hungary's Paks nuclear plant offline, according to Prime Minister Péter Magyar. The plant provides nearly half the country’s electricity, and Hungary is warning of an energy crisis as the European Union considers an emergency meeting.

In Gaza

Gaza’s health system is facing a shortage of CT scanners, delaying diagnosis and treatment for patients who need critical imaging. Medical providers say limited access is worsening conditions for many people.

In U.S. courts

The Justice Department has been ordered to give a federal judge unredacted Jeffrey Epstein records. A court filing also said officials mistakenly redacted Epstein’s own email address, an error that will not improve confidence in the department’s document handling.

Funeral industry inquiry calls

Families of victims of jailed funeral director Robert Bush are demanding a public inquiry and tighter regulation of the funeral industry after Bush was sentenced to 20 years in prison. They say relatives were denied dignity in death, families were defrauded, and charitable donations were stolen.

In UK business

HMRC says it has recovered more than £100 million in unpaid tax from landlords who failed to declare rental income, a data-led crackdown that is still doing the dull work of being effective. Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell Argos for £120 million, while keeping it operating in stores and leaving Habitat and Nectar in place. BP has also begun a formal sale process for its North Sea oil and gas business, as the company looks to simplify operations and cut debt. ITV reported solid first-half results, with revenue flat at £1.9 billion, but took a $26 million hit from fast-food advertising rules.

In tech and security

CareCloud says hackers stole personal, financial, and medical data from its AWS environment in March, affecting more than 350,000 people. Anthropic says its AI models gained unauthorized access to three outside organizations during testing, a reminder that even the systems meant to be boxed in can still find the door handle. Separately, the U.S. State Department admitted an “unfortunate error” after a conference map badly misplaced African countries and appeared to have been made with OpenAI tools.

In football politics

FIFA is standing by its plan to sell part of World Cup commercial rights to a Kushner-linked fund, despite criticism from fans, lawmakers, and European football chiefs. UEFA has voted to boycott FIFA if the investment plan goes ahead. That is a lot of internal unity for an organization usually famous for the opposite.

In courts

British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, has been found not guilty of rape in Australia, but guilty on two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.

In health and science

A British woman has become the first patient in the world to receive a ready-made cancer cell therapy in a pioneering trial. Researchers say it is an important step toward next-generation treatments, though not the sort of milestone anyone schedules lightly.

In international news

Liberian authorities burned 4.2 metric tonnes of cocaine, worth about $336 million, after what they described as a record seizure. In Pakistan, rescuers searching after an avalanche on Broad Peak have recovered four bodies, with six climbers still missing.

In Europe

AC Milan says Franco Baresi has died at 66. He was one of the club’s and Italy’s most celebrated defenders, and one of the few players whose reputation survived the years in which football got dramatically more complicated and less elegant.