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The lead singer of The Village People, Victor Willis, died at age 74. The band and his wife shared the news separately on social media saying that he passed away on the 30th of June 2026 after a short but aggressive illness. The family have requested privacy. Eliza Herbert takes a look at the life … Read more
US President Donald Trump defended earning around $1.2 billion from his family’s cryptocurrency activities, saying “everybody’s profiting” from his time in power. The president has also rejected the idea that he is using his position to enrich himself. The comments come before Trump prepared to take his first flight on a new Air Force One … Read more
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Benedict Vigers, Senior Global News Writer at Gallup. For much of the war in Ukraine, conventional wisdom suggested that Russians had largely rallied behind the state despite mounting international sanctions and military costs. Gallup’s latest research challenges that picture. Drawing on more than two decades of continuous polling, Vigers … Read more
The anti-migrant protesters in South Africa blame foreigners for the nation’s unemployment and high crime. It’s a familiar story for South Africans — this is the biggest such demonstrations since 2008, when a wave of anti-migrant violence spread across the country. Nearly two decades earlier, in May 2008, a wave of xenophobic riots started in … Read more
Businessman Yorgen Fenech went on trial in Malta on Wednesday accused of orchestrating the assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was blown up in 2017 in a car bomb near her home. Source link
Thomas Tuchel’s England take on underdogs DR Congo in Atlanta on Wednesday, away from another World Cup upset after premature exits for European heavyweights Germany and the Netherlands. The Congolese play in their first World Cup knockout match after qualifying from the group stage as the top-ranking third-placed team. Follow our live, minute-by-minute commentary. Source … Read more
For several months, Ukrainian forces have been targeting Russian territories and energy infrastructure in the illegally occupied Crimean peninsula. Russian supply routes into the occupied territories, as well as major oil refineries inside Russia, have also come under attack. In June alone, refineries in Moscow, Nizhnekamsk, Tyumen and Volgograd were affected. A total of 16 … Read more
Donald Trump has filed his mandatory annual financial disclosure. The report shows the US President made more than 1.4 billion dollars via cryptocurrency ventures last year. This figure represents the overwhelming majority of Trump’s personal earnings – a massive sum that has been made possible largely through the President’s own pro-crypto policies. Raising widespread accusations … Read more
Delano D’Souza is pleased to welcome Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the National Heat Risk Commission at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Europe’s recurring heatwaves are no longer exceptional weather events but evidence of a structural climatic transformation. Boyd argues that the continent has entered an era in … Read more
France’s Green Party has said it will launch a no-confidence motion against Sébastien Lecornu’s government over its handling of a late-June heatwave that caused at least 1,000 excess deaths according to the public health agency. Source link