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The official toll passed 920 dead and more than 4,500 injured as heavy-equipment shortages slowed debris clearance in La Guaira; at least 172 still trapped; Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Colombia dispatched search teams

A 7.2 foreshock and 7.5 mainshock 39 seconds apart destroyed buildings near La Guaira and Caracas; USGS gives 44% odds the toll exceeds 10,000; confirmed dead rises as teams clear rubble

The agency chief plays down the clock on inspections as Washington and Tehran send conflicting signals about what the June 17 deal requires

A 6-3 conservative majority ruled migrants physically in Mexico cannot apply for US asylum; a second 6-3 ruling strips Temporary Protected Status from Haitian and Syrian nationals

Burgenstock talks June 22 conclude with a 60-day road map, Hormuz deconfliction cell and IAEA-inspectors-back agreement; Trump threatens US tolls if no final deal by August 22

Paris and Rome deepen cooperation on the SAMP/T air-defence system, nuclear energy and a European satellite venture to rival Starlink

General Christopher Donahue will leave command on July 2, eighteen months into a normal three-year tour; the four-star post is being cut to three stars under the defence secretary's general-reduction drive

The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment loses its line item while the administration reframes its surviving projects as anti-China minerals plays

Commerce Department denied Polestar authorisation on June 25, citing its inability to isolate Geely Group software from its connected-vehicle systems; Volvo Cars, same Chinese parent, was approved in May because it manufactures in South Carolina with a separate software stack

In a White House meeting on June 25, Trump publicly blamed NATO allies for not joining the Iran war; Secretary General Rutte defended members by noting Europe hosted 4,000-5,000 US aircraft

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled the order creating a federal voter registry and restricting USPS mail-ballot delivery violates the separation of powers; the injunction covers 24 jurisdictions ahead of November 2026 midterms

The new 301-style investigation piles on top of the 30% baseline tariffs agreed in the June 11 deal and introduces a human-rights-based trade mechanism that Brussels and Ottawa find difficult to oppose

Switzerland talks produced a 'roadmap', and opposite public accounts of what Iran committed to on nuclear access

Goyal and Greer report 'substantial progress' but leave key issues open before the tariff snap-back

Hegseth says a directed-energy system autonomously detected and killed multiple drone and cruise-missile threats in the program's inaugural live test

A 99-year US development lease over the Zangezur strip moves from framework to implementation, rewiring South Caucasus transit and alarming Tehran and Moscow

Ankara condemns the strikes as illegal, mourns Khamenei, and offers Trump support to implement a ceasefire, with two-thirds of Turks wanting Turkey to stay out

Rutte met Trump June 24 ahead of the July 7-8 Ankara summit; US anger at allies who refused to join the Iran campaign; 5% GDP defence target being pushed

Less than two hours before the planned ceremony, Trump posted that the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act would remain unsigned until Congress passed the SAVE America Act; the housing bill had cleared the Senate 85-5 and House 358-32

The Pentagon gets $67bn, including $21bn in munitions replenishment; $11bn goes to US farmers and $1.4bn to the Ebola response in central Africa

Four Republican defectors passed a War Powers Act resolution; it has no force of law but is the first bipartisan Senate rebuke of the Iran campaign

Trump says Meloni 'begged' him for a photo; she calls it fabricated and her diplomat cancels his US trip

State Dept confirmed the phased drawdown on June 19; UNAIDS head Byanyima warns of preventable deaths; Pretoria has not received formal notification and is scrambling to find alternatives

Trump insists 'no $300 billion payment to Iran by the US'; Vance says Arab states and investors will fund it, and no country has confirmed a cent as Iran's own bank warns of a 12-year rebuild

Pakistan recasts itself from war-adjacent bystander to lead mediator; Pezeshkian's thank-you visit and Nobel chatter follow a 14-point deal reopening Hormuz and extending the truce

Justices signaled they may preserve birthright citizenship and block the firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook

Canada's PM banks 13 critical-minerals partnerships and a France intelligence pact, while caught reassuring Trump over Chinese EV imports

France hosts a summit that hardens the Russia line and claims a 'deep change' in the US approach, at the cost of consensus theatre

First leaders' talks in 16 months order a 'commercially meaningful' deal; USTR Greer flies to Delhi as a July 24 tariff cliff looms and Congress cries appeasement

A state dinner on the G7 margins becomes the unexpected venue for an initial war-ending agreement

Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion, tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father

'A deal is a deal', MEPs approve the Turnberry framework while warning it is unbalanced

1,000+ arrests, a blocked move to federalize Illinois troops, and a fourth 'No Kings' day of protest

With safeguards 'legally untenable' since February and inspectors locked out, the IAEA Board declares Iran non-compliant on 12 June, the agency can no longer verify the stockpile

Washington's first 'failed demonstrably' label since 1997, plus sanctions on Petro himself, collide with a Trump-endorsed successor

A budget-reconciliation bill ends a 76-day DHS shutdown and entrenches the deportation machine to term's end

A 30-day deadline lapses, Washington moves on a 25% levy, and Lula readies a retaliation law months before facing Flávio Bolsonaro

After the Supreme Court voided IEEPA tariffs, Section 301 becomes the new, uncapped lever against China, India, the EU and dozens more

A 1 June proclamation cuts farm-equipment duties and rewards high US material content, building a new tariff wall

The president pushes a mediated plea deal Netanyahu won't take, admitting wrongdoing and quitting politics, while Trump calls Herzog 'weak and pathetic'

At the G7 Trump says the dam is causing Egypt 'tremendous problems' and offers to restart US Nile mediation, six months after Ethiopia inaugurated Africa's largest hydro project

Trump's pledge to fill the reserve to 700m+ barrels collides with $171m of actual funding and ~$100m of needed cavern repairs, even as ~170m barrels lent out in the war await repayment

After Washington's June compliance review found 'no viable path forward,' the state abandons its lawsuit and turns to private investors and cap-and-trade