The US struck Iran for the third consecutive day. A Paraguayan senator called the world’s best soccer player a “colonized Cameroonian” and then demanded an apology from him. And Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was close to obtaining legal status. His uncle is still missing.
The US struck Iran for the second consecutive day. NATO concluded in Ankara. And two separate UN bodies called this week for the immediate release of a Palestinian doctor who says he is being killed in Israeli custody.
Trump says the Iran deal is over. Brent is at $78.57 and rising. At NATO, he demanded Greenland, wrote off Spain, and threatened to pull US troops from Europe. And an ICE officer killed a man in Houston while his son watched.
The MOU is twenty days old. Tonight Iran struck three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The US revoked Iran’s right to sell oil and launched strikes. A US official called it “punishment.” Meanwhile NATO opened in Ankara. And Marine Le Pen is running for president.
At NATO’s Ankara summit, Trump skips a key diplomatic ritual while Ukraine pleads for air defense. Meanwhile, FIFA’s controversial decision to reinstate a US player sparks outrage, Iran’s state funeral reveals fractures in its leadership, and France’s far-right faces a pivotal court ruling.
Nolan Xavier Wells was 18 years old. He disappeared on the Fourth of July celebrating a holiday that, as Frederick Douglass noted 174 years ago, was not yet fully his.
Russia killed at least 14 people in Kyiv overnight, including three children among the 60 injured. Ukraine has run out of Patriot interceptors. Zelensky is asking Trump directly for those missiles at a NATO summit in two days.
Today is Cape Verde’s Independence Day. The party is still going.
