International relief was tempered by uncertainty over what comes next. Israel declared its support for the two-week truce between the U.S. and Iran, but said it had launched the largest wave of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon since the war began.
As US troops flock to danger, Donald Trump seeks ways to disentangle himself from the war on Iran. “We are on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly,” he said in a 19-minute address at the start of the month. “It’s very important that we keep this conflict in perspective.”
The West’s technology brains and universities are arming China. A few of them are potentially breaking the law to do it, but most of them don’t need to. The front door has been open for years, and nobody in London or Washington has thought to close it.
It was, on the surface, a fairly routine proposal. Officials from the BRICS nations, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have decided to discuss, at a summit in New Delhi later this year, how to deepen trade and collaboration. No one was paying very much attention when the decision was made. And yet, according to a report in the well-informed newspaper Berliner Zeitung, a resolution was quietly suggested that might turn the global monetary system upside down. It was the start of what might be termed the “plot against the dollar.” America’s currency is likely to face its most serious challenge of the post-World War Two era.
Iran said it would respond “crushingly” if President Trump carried out his threats to strike power plants and bridges. An Israeli strike killed an Iranian intelligence chief overnight.
As the Persian Gulf conflict boosts the oil revenue that finances Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are striking at Russia’s ability to refine and ship its crude.
Iran said it would respond “crushingly” if President Trump carried out his threats to strike power plants and bridges. An Israeli strike killed an Iranian intelligence chief overnight.
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third-world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.”
China Built the World’s Drone Industry. Now It’s Locking Down the Skies.
The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users said the changes were restricting too many flights.
The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become extreme.
The strike set several refinery units ablaze, its operator said. President Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s infrastructure but there was no sign of a deal to end the war.
Lower immigration has brought labor supply in line with shaky demand, but economists worry that such a slow-moving job market is at risk of toppling over.
In a landmark case, a California jury last week found social media companies Meta and YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive products. The ruling came the day after Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was ordered to pay $375m after a jury in a separate trial in New Mexico found it misled consumers about the safety of its platforms.
Meta, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok are facing thousands of similar lawsuits in US courts, while governments around the world are starting to introduce measures to curb social media’s grip on children’s attention.
Guardian technology editors Dan Milmo and Robert Booth assess whether what has been called a “big tobacco” moment for the industry will lead to significant change. And in our opinion section, Jonathan Freedland argues that the court verdicts must be just the start of a global fightback.
The big story | A war of regression Weeks into a war that was going to take days and has cost billions, Donald Trump has bombed the US into a worse position with Iran, writes Patrick Wintour
Science | ‘On the shoulders of giants’ Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin have been unearthed and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany, Donna Ferguson reports
Feature | Circuit training After touring 11 Chinese companies making humanoid robots, Chang Che asks: just how close are we to a robotic future?
Opinion | Labour needs a thinker Ed Miliband’s stock is rising in a party in need of an old-style intellectual heavyweight, argues Gaby Hinsliff
Culture | Gimme shelter Catherine Slessor visits Henry Moore’s former countryside home Hoglands, now home to studios and a vast sculpture garden, to learn about a new exhibition of the drawings he made as a war artist, capturing people as they took sanctuary from the blitz
The Senate’s bipartisan bill to fund the agency is now formally back with the House, and the shutdown will continue at least through Monday, when the chamber will hold its next session.
President Trump said that he was considering leaving NATO over allies’ failure to support his Iran offensive, and suggested the closure of the Strait of Hormuz would be a problem for others to solve.
President Trump said he planned to attend arguments in a case that tests whether he can limit the principle of automatic citizenship for nearly anyone born in the U.S.
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