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Путін несподівано визнав, що не мав домовленостей з Трампом на Алясці: WP назвав причину

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-06-30T10:58:00+00:00

Путін уперше визнав, що під час саміту з Дональдом Трампом в Анкориджі не було жодних домовленостей щодо завершення війни в Україні.

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UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:53:49+00:00

CMA says developers should be able to steer users away from app stores for payments to increase competitionBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK’s competition watchdog is challenging Apple and Google’s “effective duopoly” over mobile platforms by allowing developers to steer users away from their app stores to make purchases.The Competition and Markets Authority argues that consumers and app owners are being let down by Apple and Google restrictions on spending money outside their app stores. Continue reading...

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Starmer unveils extra £15bn for UK defence, with some road and energy projects scrapped to fund rise – politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:43:23+00:00

Starmer defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit and MoD has to ‘spend better’Keir Starmer is speaking now.They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning they showed him one of the heaviest drones he had ever seen.Last year, I made the decision in the national interest to reprioritise aid spending towards defence and achieve the biggest uplift in defence spending since the end of the cold war.That was the right choice because the world has changed. National security is economic security. Continue reading...

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Monaco bombing was ‘attempted assassination’, not terror attack, say prosecutors – Europe live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:38:22+00:00

Authorities are still searching to identify the suspect of an alleged assassination attempt of a Ukrainian business tycoonThe prosecutor did not identify the victims, but AP reported that he told a press conference that:“One of the three injured is a woman in life-threatening condition. The other is a man who is no longer in life-threatening condition and a child whose life isn’t in danger, he said. He didn’t provide their identities.” Continue reading...

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Grand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firings

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:32:43+00:00

Exclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for NovemberThe makers of Grand Theft Auto are attempting to gain official union recognition after mass sackings last year.Video game designers and other employees at Rockstar Games are working with the IWGB Game Workers Union to try to secure unionisation before the release of GTA VI scheduled for November. Continue reading...

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Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Gear Up for Meetings in Qatar

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:30:43+00:00

American and Iranian officials are in the Gulf state, a key mediator between the two countries, days after new round of attacks threatened efforts to sign a lasting peace deal.

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The cost of falling ill in India

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-30T10:26:57+00:00

The continued dominance of use of private healthcare services and their high treatment costs are imposing a severe financial burden on households, especially among the poorest segment of society

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UK disposable incomes squeezed by price rises and tax changes

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:23:04+00:00

ONS confirms 0.6% GDP growth in first quarter, with services, production and construction sectors expandingBusiness live – latest updatesUK households suffered a drop in disposable incomes in the first three months of the year as price rises and extra wealth taxes hit average spending power.The Office for National Statistics said a rise in the consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation in the first quarter and higher capital gains tax receipts reduced real household disposable income by 0.8% from January to the end of March. Continue reading...

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Police units deployed across South Africa before anti-immigration marches

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:20:52+00:00

Government fears repeat of anti-migrant violence in 2008 that led to looting and resulted in deaths of 62 peopleSouth African authorities have deployed police units to towns and cities around the country before planned demonstrations against undocumented foreign nationals.Security personnel were seen patrolling the central business district in Johannesburg, the economic capital, where many shopkeepers decided not to open on Tuesday. Trucks and other assets belonging to the South African National Defence Force were also present, according to local media reports. Continue reading...

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Starmer unveils extra £15bn for UK armed forces but says defence spending cannot be ‘bottomless pit’ – UK politics live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:14:56+00:00

Starmer says some capital projects on roads and energy have been shelved to fund long-delayed defence investment planKeir Starmer is speaking now.They are at Malloy Aeronautics, a firm that designs heavy-lift drones, and Starmer says this morning they showed him one of the heaviest drones he had ever seen.Last year, I made the decision in the national interest to reprioritise aid spending towards defence and achieve the biggest uplift in defence spending since the end of the cold war.That was the right choice because the world has changed. National security is economic security. Continue readi

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Chris Martin’s lost James Bond theme goes on auction with unheard Coldplay tapes

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-30T10:06:51+00:00

Acoustic recording of a song titled The World Is Not Enough included in wide-ranging auction featuring formative Coldplay recordingsA lost demo recording of a song Coldplay’s Chris Martin reportedly intended for 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough is going up for auction, alongside other recordings from the band’s earliest years.For the auction by Wax Poetics, the British producer Chris Allison is making available an archive of recordings the band made prior to their Allison-produced second EP The Blue Room, released in October 1999. Continue reading...

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Steel sector more open to climate policy than global peers, finds new study

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-30T10:03:13+00:00

According to a new briefing from InfluenceMap, India’s largest steelmakers are engaging more constructively on climate and energy policy than their counterparts in Japan and Korea

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