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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has threatened legal action against SpaceX following debris, metal, plastic, and rocket fragments falling into Tamaulipas, across the border from SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Texas.

Eastern U.S. suburbs swelter under record-breaking temperatures, with cities including New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and Washington D.C. experiencing triple-digit heat and oppressive humidity driven by a persistent heat dome.

“New intelligence” says US bombing of Iran did severe damage to Iran’s nuclear sites despite the leaked report from the US intelligence.

Hugo Carvajal, former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narcoterrorism charges, facing a maximum life sentence.

Richard Gerald Jordan, aged 79, was executed by lethal injection in Mississippi after spending nearly 50 years on death row for the kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter in 1976.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe asserted that a US operation significantly damaged Iran’s nuclear programme, claiming several key sites are now destroyed and will take years to rebuild.

The week so far has been dominated by the Israel-Iran conflict with a shaky ceasefire currently in place. Donald Trump’s remarkable outburst on TV sent shockwaves around the globe, as a leaked US intelligence report suggests the US bombing of Iran did little damage to Iran’s nuclear efforts – Trump denies this.

The NATO summit is currently underway with members committing to spending 5% of GDP and signing security deals with each other amid an increasingly unstable world.

The Club World Cup 2025 is in full swing, with matches taking place across the rest of the month. There’s still plenty of tickets available, despite the big-name clubs, so get yourself along for some good old football action.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos and partner Lauren Sánchez relocated their Venice wedding reception from the Scuola Grande della Misericordia to the more secure Arsenale complex after activist group “No Space for Bezos” threatened protests, including canal blockades with inflatable crocodiles.

President Trump hailed the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites a success, a US Defence Intelligence Agency report counters that the attacks only set Iran’s programme back by a few months, not obliterate it.