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A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days. Source link

Defence Minister Bill Blair announced on Sunday that Canada will be buying $33 million worth of air defence equipment for Ukraine, as that country continues its counteroffensive against Russia. The Canadian contribution is part of a U.K.-led partnership that is securing air defence equipment for Ukraine, which is under threat from Russian missile and drone attacks….

For the second time in nearly two weeks, the United States carried out airstrikes against a facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its proxies in eastern Syria early Thursday, ratcheting up retaliation for a steady stream of rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria. The strikes by two…

The last five months have “obliterated” temperature records, linked to carbon emissions and El Niño. Source link

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged the swift return of “irregular” migrants and a crackdown on the “brutal business” of migrant smuggling on Sunday during a visit with Italy’s prime minister to a tiny fishing island overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a single day this week. Tensions have spiked on Lampedusa, an…