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    Spain declares emergency as fires force thousands of evacuations in France

    NAVALUENGA, Spain/LEGE-CAP-FERRET, France — Spain declared a national emergency over wildfires for the first time on Friday and France asked for help from the European Union to tackle a blaze on the Atlantic coast as searing heat fuelled fires across Europe and forced tens of thousands of evacuations. French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourism hotspot busy for the summer season, as smoke and flames drew closer to homes. About 63,000 people were evacuated from the area, many brought to safety by boat, officials said. Close by, in the town of Biscarrosse, another large fire also forced residents to leave their homes. "From our home, we had a view of the fires ... We could see the clouds becoming darker and darker," said Yoan Urien, 26, who left late on Thursday after police told everyone in his neighbourhood to leave. "I was able to find somewhere to take shelter with my pets, but ... it's quite a shock," he told Reuters. A fire that began in Saumos, north of Cap Ferret, is threatening to cut off the only road out of the peninsula and is the lar

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    Spain declares emergency as fires force thousands of evacuations in France
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    Drones target northern Iraqi city where US forces are based as US-Iran fighting escalates

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    Drones target northern Iraqi city where US forces are based as US-Iran fighting escalates
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    Giraffes given new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in country's largest park

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    Giraffes given new home in Uganda to escape oil drilling in country's largest park
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    Liberia seizes $317 mil. of cocaine bound for Europe

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    Liberia seizes $317 mil. of cocaine bound for Europe
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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage

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    In war-torn Gaza, hopeful Palestinian amputee footballers seek to score goal on global stage
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Rubio says Mojtaba Khamenei alive and 'increasingly engaging'

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was wounded in U.S.-Israeli attacks and has not been seen in public since assuming office, is alive and increasingly active. "I think there are indications out there that he is increasingly engaging at some level," Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, succeeded his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the first wave of U.S.-Israeli strikes that launched the war on February 28. Rubio was testifying in front of the Senate panel as talks on ending the three-month-old war that has engulfed the Middle East and triggered a global energy crisis have stalled. Rubio expressed hope for a deal with Iran, while insisting that Tehran must severely limit its nuclear program in order to see sanctions lifted. "There is the prospect before us, which could happen today, it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week," Rubio said. Rubio said that Tehran must agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas. "They have to an

Jun 3, 2026By AFP
Rubio says Mojtaba Khamenei alive and 'increasingly engaging'
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Iran stops talking to mediators over Israel-Hezbollah fighting in Lebanon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the U.S. and Israel, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday, as tensions flared in Israel's separate but related fight against the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon. The halt in communication was likely meant to increase pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump over negotiations on the Iran war ceasefire and loosening the Islamic Republic's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the oil, gas and other commodities that normally pass through it. Trump then could potentially push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt or slow the advance of his forces, which have moved deeper into Lebanon than at any time in over a quarter of a century. The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, come as the conflicts in Iran and Lebanon have increasingly become conjoined. Iran insists that any potential truce in the war there must also quell the fighting in Lebanon, where Hezb

Jun 3, 2026By AP
Iran stops talking to mediators over Israel-Hezbollah fighting in Lebanon
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How a nudge from Nvidia propelled frugal Micron into AI boom and $1 tril. market cap

SAN FRANCISCO — Micron Technology's march toward a $1 trillion valuation is nothing if not dramatic: a year ago it was a little over $100 billion. That surge, though, was not built on its famed frugality, but on a nearly too-late push from Nvidia that pulled the U.S. memory chipmaker into the center of the AI boom. For decades, the Idaho-based company survived by building factories on a shoestring budget, adopting used equipment and avoiding cutting-edge bets. That discipline helped it endure brutal boom-bust cycles in memory chips and outlast rivals, leaving it one of three global suppliers alongside Korea’s Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. But that approach of treating memory chips as a commodity clashed with Nvidia’s vision for AI. Three years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met Micron boss Sanjay Mehrotra and outlined how he expected the memory market to evolve, Huang said in a media interview last month. Huang had long bet early that memory, and not just processors, would become a critical bottleneck for AI, forcing suppliers like Micron to rethink both technology and spending.

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
How a nudge from Nvidia propelled frugal Micron into AI boom and $1 tril. market cap
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Microsoft expected to showcase new PC, cloud AI tools at developer conference

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will hold its annual software developer conference on Tuesday, where the company is expected to showcase new tools for developers building AI software for PCs and the cloud. In a keynote address in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to outline how the technology company plans to compete both in the cloud, where it is both an investor and a rival to firms such as OpenAI, and increasingly on PCs. Those laptop and desktop computers are becoming home to tools such as OpenClaw, a piece of open-source software that can direct groups of AI bots called agents to carry out everyday tasks for users. But OpenClaw, which has gained popularity in China and helped Microsoft's longtime rival Apple sell Mac computers, and other such tools are also risky for most businesses to use. Analysts expect Microsoft to work on making such agentic AI tools safer for businesses and the world's 1 billion users of its Windows operating system to use on a regular basis. They also expect more details on how Microsoft will let developers tap a new chip from Nvidia unveiled

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
Microsoft expected to showcase new PC, cloud AI tools at developer conference
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Blanche set to return to Capitol Hill as Trump reconsiders plans for $1.8 bil. fund

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to return to Capitol Hill on Tuesday after the Trump administration signaled it was pausing contentious plans to move forward with a nearly $1.8 billion fund that could compensate allies of President Donald Trump who believe they have been unjustly investigated and prosecuted. The hearing before the House Appropriations Committee was scheduled for discussion of the Justice Department's budget, but lawmakers will almost certainly focus their questioning on the creation of a fund that has provoked outrage over the mere possibility that violent pro-Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, could be eligible for payouts. The Republican president is now reconsidering whether to move forward with the fund established to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, a person familiar with his thinking said on Monday, in the face of Republican backlash and legal setbacks. The Justice Department also said Monday it would comply with a Virginia court temporarily blocking the

Jun 2, 2026By AP
Blanche set to return to Capitol Hill as Trump reconsiders plans for $1.8 bil. fund
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US in talks to expand nuclear weapons deployments in Europe, FT says

The U.S. is discussing whether to deploy nuclear weapons in additional European NATO states, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. U.S. officials have signaled openness to additional deployments beyond the existing six countries hosting nuclear-capable bombers, the FT said, citing three people briefed on the discussions. The move would involve more countries to host so-called U.S. dual-capable aircraft (DCA), which are able to deliver nuclear strikes, the newspaper said, while cautioning that an agreement to expand U.S. nuclear hosting was not imminent. Countries on NATO's eastern flank including Poland and some Baltic states were interested in potentially hosting DCA bases, the report said, adding that discussions were ongoing in NATO channels. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House, Department of Defense and NATO did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has previously said publicly that the U.S. will continue to use its nuclear weapons to protect NATO members, even as European allies take the lead on conventio

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
US in talks to expand nuclear weapons deployments in Europe, FT says
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Lebanon announces partial ceasefire between Israel, Hezbollah but attacks continue

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM — Lebanon announced a partial ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel on Monday in what would amount to a limited de-escalation of a conflict that has killed thousands of people and inflamed the broader U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. According to Lebanon's embassy in Washington, the agreement would not end the conflict in that country. But it calls for Israel to refrain from strikes on Beirut and its suburbs controlled by Hezbollah, while the Iran-aligned group would halt its attacks on Israel. Hostilities in southern Lebanon, which Israel invaded in March, continued on Monday evening. Early on Tuesday, the Israeli military said that it intercepted two projectiles that crossed from Lebanon into northern Israel, and that no injuries were reported. U.S. President Donald Trump, who first announced the agreement, said Hezbollah, through intermediaries, had pledged not to attack Israel. No U.S. president has ever spoken with Hezbollah, with or without intermediaries. The U.S. has designated the group as a terrorist organization. Trump also said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
Lebanon announces partial ceasefire between Israel, Hezbollah but attacks continue
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Trump administration proposes 25% tariff to punish Brazil over trade practices

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has proposed a new punitive tariff of 25 percent on many imports from Brazil, after deciding its practices were unfair on a range of issues from digital trade to illegal deforestation, top trade official Jamieson Greer said on Monday. The measures, under the Section 301 trade legislation, cover areas such as electronic payment services, preferential tariffs, intellectual property protection and ethanol market access as well, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said. It proposed the new duties as it released the results of its unfair trade practices investigation into Brazil that started last year under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. But it excluded some items, such as beef, coffee, rare earths, other metals and aircraft parts from the new tariffs. Brazil's practices in the areas investigated "are unreasonable and burden or restrict U.S. commerce, are thus actionable under Section 301(b) of the Trade Act," the USTR said in a statement. The tariffs would partially replace a tariff of 50 percent on many Brazilian goods imposed l

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
Trump administration proposes 25% tariff to punish Brazil over trade practices
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Iran has not yet sent its response to US in talks, Mehr says

Iran has not yet responded to a proposed final agreement with the United States aimed at ending the conflict between the two countries, and discussions on the final text are continuing in Tehran, a source close to the Iranian negotiating team told Mehr News on Tuesday. The source said Iran was reviewing the proposal cautiously because of what it sees as a history of U.S. non-compliance and longstanding mistrust. "Based on previous experiences, Iran is seeking tangible and real benefits," the source said.

Jun 2, 2026By Reuters
Iran has not yet sent its response to US in talks, Mehr says
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Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 11, traps others in damaged buildings

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens and trapping others, authorities said. At least four people were killed in Kyiv and 58 people were injured, including three children, Ukraine's state emergency service said in a statement on Telegram. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were damaged in eight of Kyiv's districts. Attacks were also reported elsewhere across Ukraine. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, at least six people were killed and 36 others injured after Russian strikes hit the city of Dnipro, according to the emergency service. A second attack as first responders arrived at the scene killed one rescuer. A two-story residential building and part of a four-story apartment block were damaged, with people trapped beneath the rubble of the larger building. The boom of explosions echoed through most of the night and into the early morning. Kyiv had been bracing for another mass attack for days, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia w

Jun 2, 2026By AP
Russian attack on Ukraine kills at least 11, traps others in damaged buildings
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