Is Trump using Africa as a ‘dumping ground’ for criminals? 
Activists and rights groups have criticised Trump’s ‘third country’ scheme to deport criminals.

Tehran’s new war plan: Build an anti-NATO.   At the SCO summit, Iran laid the groundwork for a Eurasian security bloc – and the West panicked.

Loneliness is a global health threat and a political failure. 
Social disconnection shortens lives and fractures societies. The WHO is urging leaders to act now before more lives are lost.

Turns out the Kremlin hates von der Leyen about as much as EU lawmakers do.   ‘Russian disinfo’ slayers try very hard to pin Queen Ursula’s no-confidence vote on Moscow.

Trump in Scotland: How’s his trip going and what’s on the agenda? 
The US president will fit in a meeting with UK’s prime minister during four-day visit to Scotland to tour his golf courses.

‘Sovereignty written with bulldozers’: How Israel lays foundations for permanent West Bank annexation.   
The Israeli Knesset has voted to apply sovereignty over settlements, drawing fears of de facto annexation .

Ivan Timofeev: We’re close to the war nobody wants but everyone’s preparing for.   Can nuclear weapons help prevent a war between Russia and NATO?

‘Russiagate’, revenge, and the rotten core of US power.   The years-long deception maintained by highest-level US officials has been put to rest, though not for the sake of justice and democracy.

Fact check: Did US go from ice cream trade surplus to deficit under Biden? 
Trump administration says increased imports from Italy under former President Joe Biden changed the ice cream game.

What’s in the $200m deal Trump has struck with Columbia University? 
Unprecedented agreement marks a victory for the US president in his efforts to exert greater control over the academic institutions.