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Migrants clashed with police at a deportation site in South Africa where thousands had gathered, exposing rising tensions over migration, xenophobia and the government crackdown.
The United States and Iran finalized a peace deal calling for an immediate halt to military operations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, pushing oil prices lower as Europe warned over the nuclear file.
The biggest World Cup in history begins — and the first US president to snub his team's opening match looks elsewhere, while Mexico City absorbs 19 arrests and the world asks whether 'his' tournament is a triumph or an own goal.
The biggest IPO ever — $75 billion raised, a valuation nearing $2.2 trillion — pushes Elon Musk's fortune past $1 trillion in a single session. And analysts are already calling it a 'hopes-and-dreams IPO.'
More than 500 cases, around 100 dead, labs out of tests: on the eve of the World Cup, the US presses Europe and Africa to bar Congolese travelers — Belgium and the EU refuse.
As Israel-Iran exchanges shattered two months of ceasefire on June 7-8, 2026, Donald Trump ordered both sides to stop shooting and promised total victory within two weeks — but Netanyahu ignored the directive and continued strikes, exposing a public command fracture between Washington and Tel Aviv.
Eleven Iranian missiles on northern Israel, schools closed nationwide, Beirut in flames — and a Trump-Netanyahu call that sharpens into an ultimatum: 'You will accept the deal with Iran.'
Four days before kickoff, Iran's players have their visas for Los Angeles, but 15 officials remain blocked and the team must enter and leave U.S. soil on the same day — Tehran denounces unprecedented treatment in World Cup history.
Water bottles banned, tickets sold for up to 50 times face value, footballer statues vandalized in the Zócalo, criminal probe by the New Jersey attorney general: six days before kickoff, the party has already lost its innocence.
Naim Qassem calls it "capitulation", an anti-tank missile kills Captain Lemberg in southern Lebanon, a UNIFIL soldier dies under mortar fire: the peace architecture built in Washington falls apart under Trump's eyes.
Donald Trump wanted his citizens quarantined at Laikipia; Nanyuki took to the streets, police opened fire, two people died — and a Kenyan judge just froze the whole thing for three weeks.
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