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Job market cold as tariffs take toll

US hiring is slowing sharply as US President Donald Trump’s trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. US employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported, well...

Russia

Space chiefs talk cooperation

Russia’s space chief has visited the United States to discuss plans for continued cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA’s acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more...

Ukraine

Kyiv mourns after strikes kill dozens

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv is observing an official day of mourning, a day after a Russian drone and missile attack on the city killed 31 people, including five children, and injured more than 150, officials say. The youngest victim in Thursday’s strikes was 2 years old, and 16 of the injured were children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. It was the highest number of children killed and injured in a single attack on Kyiv since aerial attacks on the city began in October 2022, according to official casualty figures.

New Zealand

New FBI office in NZ provokes Beijing’s ire

FBI Director Kash Patel has provoked diplomatic discomfort in New Zealand by suggesting the opening of a new office in the capital aims to counter China’s influence, drawing polite dismissals from Wellington and ire from Beijing. Patel was in Wellington on Thursday to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand and to meet senior officials. The arrangement aligns New Zealand with FBI missions in other Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations, which also include the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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Nature

Second bear attack on trail

Both bear maulings in the last week occurred near populated areas, including the second attack Saturday near the suburb of Eagle River. A man was walking on a trail that runs parallel to the south fork of the Eagle River, where salmon are running, when his unleashed dog happened upon a brown bear with a cub, said Timothy Gurnett, a Chugach State Park ranger. The bear mauled the hiker, who unloaded his entire can of spray deterrent to ward off the bear, first to stop the attack and then a second time when the bear returned. The sow and her cub disappeared into the woods.

AUKUS

AUKUS decision expected in fall

The United States will complete a review into a defence pact with the United Kingdom and Australia in the northern hemisphere autumn, the office of a top Pentagon official said on Wednesday. US President Donald Trump’s administration said in June it had launched a formal review into the AUKUS defence deal - worth hundreds of billions of dollars - that will allow Australia to acquire US nuclear-powered submarines, causing alarm in Canberra.

USA

Trump opens new golf course

US President Donald Trump has opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland, capping a five-day trip to the UK. “Let’s go. 1-2-3,” Trump said before he cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the official opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland’s northern coast.

Shooting

NYC victims include loving dad

An off-duty New York City police officer and an executive at an investment firm were among the four people killed by a gunman at a Manhattan office tower. The officer, Didarul Islam, was working a corporate security detail at the midtown skyscraper...

China

‘Constructive’ tariff talks extend pause

China and the US have agreed to continue their tariff pauses on each other, China’s top trade official said in Stockholm, following a two-day meeting with US officials. Speaking with the press, Li Chenggang said the two sides had “constructive” and...

Asia

Ceasefire holds as wary villagers return home

A ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia appeared to be holding as tensions lingered despite a truce agreement to end deadly border clashes following economic pressure from the US. The ceasefire that was reached in Malaysia was supposed to take...

Thailand

Thai, Cambodian leaders tackle border dispute

Thai and Cambodian leaders will meet in Malaysia for talks to end hostilities, a spokesperson for the Thai prime minister’s office has said. This comes following pressure from US President Donald Trump to end a deadly border dispute, now in its fourth day, which has killed at least 34 people and displaced more than 168,000. Jirayu Huangsap said Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai will attend Monday’s talks in response to an invitation from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim “to discuss peace efforts in the region.”

Gaza

Israel seizes Gaza-bound ship

The Israeli military has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship seeking to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory, detaining 21 international activists and journalists and seizing all cargo, including baby formula, food and medicine, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said. The coalition that operates the vessel Handala said the Israeli military “violently intercepted” the ship in international waters about 40 nautical miles from Gaza, cutting the cameras and communication, just before midnight Saturday.

Gaza

26 Jul 2025

Starmer: ‘Denial of aid must end’

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza must end. “The denial of aid to children and to babies is completely unjustifiable,“ Starmer said in a video statement. His comments followed a move by the leaders of Britain, France and Germany to demand Israel allow unrestricted aid into Gaza.

26 Jul 2025

India

‘Historic day’: UK, India sign trade deal

The prime ministers of Britain and India have sealed a hard-wrought trade agreement that will slash tariffs on products including Scotch whisky and English gin shipped to India and Indian food and spices sent to the UK. Keir Starmer and Narendra Modi met at Chequers, the British leader’s official country residence outside London, where the UK and Indian trade ministers, Jonathan Reynolds and Piyush Goyal, formally signed the agreement.

Aviation

B-52’s close call with jet puts focus on small airports

The evasive action an airline pilot took to avoid a B-52 bomber in the skies over North Dakota has focused attention on the way small airport towers are often run by private companies without their own radars. Neither one of the pilots of the bomber or of the Delta Air Lines jet seemed to know the other plane was there before the airline pilot saw the B-52 looming in its path.

Israel

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block highway in enlistment protest

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men have blocked a major highway in Jerusalem to protest against enlisting for military service. “We are forced to go to the army that it is brainwashing, and we can’t keep our religion,” said Dovi, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protester. Under longstanding arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men have been exempted from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men and women, who serve two to three years as well, as reserve duty until around age 40.