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The United States has so far this year faced some truly extreme climate-related catastrophes, including raging floods, devastating fires, thunderstorms and a seriously dangerous heatwave that has affected a third of the population.

Daily Express says HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel has approved an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges.

The Metro says a gunman opened fire inside a suburban Alabama church yesterday evening, killing two people and wounding a third.

The Independent says the head of the UK’s armed forces says Russia has already “strategically lost” the war in Ukraine and is now a “more diminished power”.

The Independent says a previously unknown population of polar bears that adapt to limited sea ice access due to global warming by hunting from freshwater ice pouring into the ocean from glaciers have been discovered by scientists.

The Guardian says After two years of eating in near-monastic silence, children in Japan have been given permission to chat to their classmates over lunch, as Covid cases in the country continue to fall.

The Guardian says the global rout in stock markets, cryptocurrencies and other risky assets has gathered pace amid growing concern that out-of-control inflation, rising interest rates and slowing growth could combine to tip the world into recession.

The Guardian says Marcy Houses, the 28-acre public housing development in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, is best-known as a pillar of rapper-turned-mogul Jay-Z’s New York persona.

France24 says Russia’s war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis could force many more to flee their homes.

Euronews says Ukraine should be given candidate status for European Union membership, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi affirmed on Thursday during a visit to Kyiv.

Arab News says Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians and wounded eight others early Friday during a military operation in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Ukraine close to EU candidate status could be granted as early as next month, with a roadmap to full membership but with conditions, to appease Russia. This announcement follows a…

The Metro says Vladimir Putin ‘hits the Botox quite heavily’ and looks like ‘he is trying to embalm himself while he’s still alive’, a defence and security analyst has suggested.

The Metro says Dr Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s coronavirus tsar, has contracted the virus. Fauci ‘is currently experiencing mild symptoms’, according to the institute, and will isolate and work from home.

The Guardian says Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys argued on Wednesday that the disgraced British socialite should be sentenced to “well below” 20 years.

The Independent says a fisherman has confessed to killing British journalist Dom Philips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in a remote area of the Amazon, Brazilian police said on Wednesday.

France24 says with 52.49 percent of voters choosing to stay away on Sunday, France recorded its highest-ever abstention rate in the first round of the legislative elections, surpassing the 2017 record by a full point.

Euronews says Europe remains at the “epicentre” of a global monkeypox outbreak, the World Health Organization’s European regional office said on Wednesday.

Arab News says Iran said on Wednesday it intended to conduct a test launch of its new solid-fueled rocket, despite a series of catastrophic failures and growing evidence that Israel may be sabotaging Tehran’s aerospace program.

TRT World says the US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points, marking its biggest rate hike in 28 years.

The Metro says a suspected Russian spy has been arrested at Gatwick Airport as he was about to leave the UK, according to reports.

The Guardian says New York’s highest court has rejected Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices, clearing the way for his deposition next month.

Sky News says A second man has been arrested following the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon rainforest.

Euronews says France’s highest court has heard an appeal by the city of Grenoble over a nationwide swimming pool ban on the “burkini” swimsuit.

Aljazeera says Moscow has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives, and defence figures from entering the country, the Russian foreign ministry said.