Police officers detain demonstrators during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles. June 8, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake |
- Israeli naval forces boarded and seized a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of the war-torn Gaza Strip. The boat with its crew of 12, including activist Greta Thunberg, is now heading to a port in Israel.
- The US believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, US officials told Reuters.
- NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will use a speech in London to say the military alliance needs a 400% increase in air and missile defence, one of the priorities for a summit of members in the Hague later this month.
- Voting resumed for Italy's two-day referendum on proposals to make it easier to obtain Italian citizenship and strengthen labour rights, but low turnout looked set to make the vote invalid.
- Argentina's firebrand right-wing President Javier Milei has largely tamed runaway inflation with a ruthless austerity plan and he aims to solidify power when his party and its allies take on a divided opposition in legislative elections in October.
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- China's export growth slowed to a three-month low in May as US tariffs slammed shipments, while factory-gate deflation deepened to its worst level in two years, heaping pressure on the world's second-largest economy on both the domestic and external fronts.
- For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
- Three of Trump's top aides will meet with their Chinese counterparts in London for talks aimed at resolving a trade dispute between the world's two largest economies that has kept global markets on edge.
- UnitedHealth Group is weighing multiple bids for its Latin American operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter, as the insurer buckles down after a series of unprecedented missteps that include the ouster of its CEO and a reported criminal accounting probe.
- Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told employees they needed to reinforce safety standards after a growing number of injury near-misses in an internal video message on April 29, just weeks before three workers died due to a fire on one of the company's oil platforms in Angola.
- Car executives have once again been driven into their war rooms, concerned that China's tight export controls on rare-earth magnets – crucially needed to make cars – could cripple production. The industry worries that the rare-earths situation could cascade into the third massive supply chain shock in five years.
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How Trump defanged Justice Department's political-corruption watchdogs |
Created after the Watergate scandal, the US Justice Department's Public Integrity Section has fought political corruption for nearly half a century. Five months into Trump's second term, it has been stripped of power. |
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Lucia Ene-Lesikar prepares for a session of chess at London's Knight Club. June 3, 2025. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes |
Combining dance music, some social media buzz and one of the world's oldest pastimes, London chess group Knight Club draws dozens of players each week, creating a social space its organisers say is much-needed by the city's younger generations. |
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