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New German citizens required to affirm Israel's right to exist (www.middleeasteye.net)

Pyongyang Says It Will Send Support Troops to Ukraine Within a Month (www.kyivpost.com)

Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship (www.kyivpost.com)

Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian troops as soon as it was allowed to strike across the border, commander says (www.businessinsider.com)

Ukraine destroyed columns of waiting Russian soldiers with HIMARS, a Ukrainian commander said....

Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal (apnews.com)

UN tells Israel it will suspend aid operations across Gaza without improved safety, UN officials say (apnews.com)

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel (apnews.com)

France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis (www.thedailybeast.com)

Russia's LGBTQ+ community is turning to Telegram as the government cracks down on them (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly (www.bbc.com)

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”....

How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital (www.reuters.com)

The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight....

China: death penalty for advocating ‘Taiwan independence’ (countervortex.org)

‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com)

Iran to designate Canadian army as a terrorist entity (islamabadpost.com.pk)

Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist (www.theguardian.com)

UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term...

‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks? (www.theguardian.com)

As Julian Assange enjoys his first weekend of freedom in years, there appeared to be no question in the mind of his wife, Stella, about what the family’s priorities were....

‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription (www.theguardian.com)

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Israel-Gaza war live: Israel warns it could take Lebanon ‘back to the Stone Age’ as defence minister wraps up Washington trip (www.theguardian.com)

For Many Greeks, Six-Day 48-Hour Work Week Now Set to Begin July 1st (www.thenationalherald.com)

Intense phase of Israel's war with Hamas about to end, Netanyahu says (www.nbcnews.com)

An Israel offensive into Lebanon risks an Iranian military response, top US military leader says (apnews.com)

US Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overhead (www.businessinsider.com)

A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea....

Russia says U.S. is responsible for deadly Ukrainian attack on Crimea (www.reuters.com)

MOSCOW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles that killed at least five people including three children and injured 124 more....

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