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France had its hottest day ever, and forecasters predicted that Britain's temperature record for June was likely to be broken.
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The jump in oil exports comes as the threat level for ships crossing Hormuz has been downgraded to "moderate."
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Use BBC Sport's projections tool with in-game updates to plot your country's route through the World Cup knockouts.
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Hours before visiting the Capitol, the president scrapped plans to sign a major housing bill, condemning "bad Republicans" for resisting his demands to ram through new voting restrictions.
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Pro-Israel leaders in New York expressed alarm at the primary victories of three Democratic candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Progressive Jewish groups celebrated.
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;Resize=(620)) Ukrainian drones knocked out power in the biggest city in Russian-held Crimea on Wednesday and targeted facilities ?in central and southern Russia, underscoring the reach of Kyiv's attacks on energy infrastructure.
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Micron's quarterly earnings report follows a 700% surge in the memory maker's stock price over the past year.
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Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are contractually committed to staging their fight in the UK, says Eddie Hearn - and any attempt to move it to the United States would need Joshua's team to agree new terms.
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Heat records were broken when temperatures soared across southern England on Wednesday afternoon.
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Judge Denise Casper ruled that the president lacks the authority to oversee elections.
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President Donald Trump has called for the Department of Justice to "immediately start looking into" oil companies as he accused them of price gouging.
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;Resize=(620)) Western Europe was in the grip of a deadly, record-setting heat wave on Wednesday that has killed dozens of people, closed schools, slowed trains, knocked out electricity and forced farmers to harvest grain at night.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had instructed the Department of Justice to immediately probe oil companies for not lowering gas prices at the pump in line with falling costs, accusing them of "gouging" consumers.
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;Resize=(620)) The UN's Commission of Inquiry found that Israel had genocidal intent in the Gaza Strip during the war, with the key indicator being its targeting of children. The Gaza Health ministry says that since the ceasefire began in October 2025, more than 1,000 people died, 265 of them children.
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;Resize=(620)) Millions of people across Europe were exposed to extreme and exceptionally high temperatures on Tuesday, with 40 fatalities from drowning recorded in France in the past week as residents seek relief from the searing heat.
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Despite long-standing commitments from governments, women remain underrepresented, particularly in leadership and operational roles in United Nations Peace Operations. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, only 40 per cent of all Chief of Police Officers, and 30 per cent of civilian heads of United Nations peace operations are women. As of October 2024, just one woman serves in a military leadership role within United Nations Peace Operations. On the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, 29 May, meet some of the women leading global peace and security efforts and find out why women's leadership in peace operations matters.
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