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The Trump administration has ramped up its protection of the US strikes on Iran on the weekend, saying new intelligence helps its preliminary declare of whole success – regardless of a leaked intelligence report that discovered the event of Tehran’s nuclear program had been delayed by just a few months.
Donald Trump appeared to again away from his earlier admission of doubts over the dimensions and severity of the injury inflicted by the US strikes, having known as the intelligence “inconclusive”. Inside hours, he was depicting the assault very otherwise, saying: “This was a devastating assault and it knocked them for a loop.”
The director of nationwide intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, mentioned on social media that “new intelligence confirms” what Trump had said, and claimed it will “probably take years” for Iran to rebuild its nuclear program.
The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the protection secretary, Pete Hegseth, will temporary senators on the strikes shortly. Head to our liveblog for the most recent.
The place has this data come from? All we all know is that Ratcliffe mentioned it got here from a “traditionally dependable” supply.
How has the White Home reacted to the leak of the categorised evaluation? It’s reportedly attempting to limit the sharing of categorised paperwork with Congress – and the administration is claiming the media are utilizing it to politically injury Trump.
Pam Bondi denies realizing Ice brokers wore masks throughout raids regardless of video proof
Pam Bondi claimed she was unaware that federal immigration officers put on masks, just like the one at proper exterior a New Jersey detention facility on 12 June. Composite: Reuters, AP
The US lawyer common, Pam Bondi, has denied realizing that immigration officers have been concealing their faces whereas rounding up undocumented folks, regardless of widespread video proof.
Challenged on the difficulty at a Capitol Hill subcommittee listening to Wednesday by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi at first appeared to profess ignorance of the tactic, earlier than suggesting it might be for self-protection. “I do know they’re being doxed … they’re being threatened,” she mentioned. “Their households are being threatened.”
Peters acknowledged the purpose however mentioned it may improve the chance to officers who could also be attacked if folks consider they’re being kidnapped by an unknown assailant. The general public can also be at elevated danger of being attacked by people pretending to be immigration enforcement, he mentioned, including that this “has already occurred”.
What different points had been raised? Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator for Alaska who has been crucial of Donald Trump prior to now, mentioned immigration enforcement was being prioritized over preventing violent crime.
Plan to open California’s largest immigration jail sparks outrage
An anti-Ice protest in Paramount, California, this month. {Photograph}: Jae C Hong/AP
Plans to open a sprawling federal immigration detention heart in a California desert neighborhood has been met with anger from advocacy teams.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is contracting CoreCivic, a personal firm that runs a number of prisons in California, to transform a former 2,500-bed jail in California Metropolis into the state’s largest immigrant detention heart. The positioning was constructed by the corporate in 1999 as a federal jail and operated as a state jail from 2013 to March 2024.
How was the information obtained regionally? There was concern voiced by some southern California residents and advocacy teams, with folks packing a metropolis council assembly this week to share their views. Whereas most opposed the detention heart, not less than one native resident backed it within the title of job creation.
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Demonstrators relax teargas canisters shot by police throughout a protest within the central enterprise district of Nairobi on Wednesday. {Photograph}: Daniel Irungu/EPA
At the very least 16 folks had been killed and 400 injured in Kenya on Wednesday in a nationwide demonstration held to commemorate these killed throughout final yr’s anti-government protests.
Tons of of individuals within the UK who use weight reduction injections have reported pancreatic issues, main well being officers to research.
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians after dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a West Financial institution city on Wednesday, setting fireplace to property.
Chile will goal quick vogue waste in a plan to manage the importation of used clothes that has created a scourge of textile dumps within the Atacama desert.
Stat of the day: Almost a 3rd of Tuvalu residents enter poll for climate-linked visa to maneuver to Australia
Tuvalu’s capital, Funafuti. Scientists worry the Pacific archipelago might be uninhabitable throughout the subsequent 80 years amid local weather change. {Photograph}: Tala Simeti/The Guardian
Almost one in three residents of the Pacific nation of Tuvalu have entered a poll for Australian visas being provided as rising sea ranges threaten the island nation. The local weather visa program, underneath which 280 visas might be provided to Tuvaluans yearly, is the primary of its sort globally – however has exacerbated fears that Tuvalu could possibly be drained of younger, proficient folks.
Don’t miss this: Are we seeing the dying of worldwide regulation?
Some say it’s not the regulation that’s at fault however the nations that are supposed to uphold it. Illustration: Owen Pomery/The Guardian
Rising numbers of students and attorneys worry that the system of worldwide regulation and the establishments that are supposed to uphold it dangle within the stability. “Worldwide regulation has all the time trusted the nice religion of nation states,” a global lawyer and former justice minister in Pakistan mentioned. “And that good religion has eroded.” With establishments such because the UN human rights council broken by the US’s withdrawal from them, Linda Kinstler examines why specialists are shedding religion within the system, and whether or not it’s the fault of the states that are supposed to assist it.
Local weather verify: EU rollback on environmental coverage ‘gaining momentum’
EU policymakers have dealt a number of crucial blows to the European Inexperienced Deal because the finish of 2023. {Photograph}: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
The European Union is more and more backtracking on its surroundings coverage, campaigners have warned, as a push for deregulation that started in 2023 picks up pace. This pattern, which has included the safety standing of the wolf being downgraded and a blunting of air pollution targets for carmakers, appeared notably clear this week after an anti-greenwashing regulation was apparently killed within the remaining phases of talks.
Final Factor: Might a intercourse sabbatical enhance your life?
A intercourse sabbatical can supposedly improve your appreciation of ‘emotional closeness’. {Photograph}: Getty Pictures
1 / 4 of American adults wish to take a intercourse sabbatical – a sort of break from intercourse that supposedly enhances your appreciation of “emotional closeness”. You would possibly wish to take these findings and any associated claims with a pinch of salt, although, because the ballot was commissioned by a “sexual wellness” model that primarily sells vibrators …
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