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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s prime minister, arrives at a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Thailand’s government faces collapse after a leaked phone call unleashed fresh political turmoil, with Paetongtarn facing resignation calls and street protests as she grapples with the exit of the second-biggest party in her coalition. Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Thailand’s prime minister faces political crisis after phone call with former Cambodian leader gets leaked

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People taking part in a demonstration organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement Britain (PYM) near the Israeli embassy in London, in protest against the escalating aggression in the middle east following the Israeli air strikes against Iran. Picture date: Friday June 13, 2025. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Iranians living in Europe are torn between the hope for a new era and concern for their loved ones

By Jean-Philippe Lacour, Caroline Taix, and others

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – OCTOBER 23: The MI6 building in Vauxhall turns pink in the lead up to Breast Cancer Campaign’s wear it pink on October 23, 2013 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Breast Cancer Campaign)

Britain appoints first female MI6 head, who calls herself a ‘self-confessed geek’

By Marie Heuclin and AFP

Luca de Meo, chief executive officer of Renault SA, during the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. The annual technology and startup conference runs until June 14. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gucci owner Kering sees stock jump after Renault CEO quits to lead the luxury group

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CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos and partner Lauren Sanchez attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

Venice is set to host Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s fairytale wedding—but residents aren’t feeling the love

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12 June 2025, Italy, Rom: Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, speaks at a press conference during the Weimar Plus meeting. Photo: Hannes P. Albert/dpa (Photo by Hannes P Albert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

As NATO boosts defense spending, Europe’s arms industry faces pressure to deliver: ‘This is really keeping me up at night,’ says NATO chief

By Max Delany and AFP

Toronto , Canada – 21 June 2022; Andrew Macdonald, SVP of Mobility Business Operations, Uber, on Centre Stage during day one of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)

Uber to launch self-driving taxis in London despite COO labeling the city’s roads as some of the ‘world’s busiest and most complex’

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Papuans hold placards reading “revoke all nickel mining permits in Raja Ampat immediately” during a protest march to the Southwest Papua Governor’s office in Sorong on June 10, 2025. Indonesia revoked permits on June 10 for four of the five mining companies operating in the eastern archipelago of Raja Ampat after activists shared videos of islands damaged by nickel extraction. (Photo by AWAKIRAYA / AFP) (Photo by AWAKIRAYA/AFP via Getty Images)

Indonesia cancels several nickel mining permits in the dive hotspot of Raja Ampat after viral clips show environmental damage

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Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder at Neo Material Technologies Inc.’s Magnequench Tianjin Co. factory in Tianjin, China, on Friday, June 11, 2010. A generation after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made mastering neodymium and 16 other elements known as rare-earths a priority, China has cornered the market, with far-reaching effects ranging from job losses and global trade to U.S. national security. Photographer: Doug Kanter/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How China’s embrace of rare earth export controls is hitting the global car industry

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Models of the lunar lander Resilience (centre, L) and the lunar rover Tenacious (centre, R) operated by Japanese private company ispace are displayed at the Moon landing event venue in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. Japan’s hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed on June 6 when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan’s ispace aborts mission to be the first non-U.S. private company to land on the Moon after suspected crash

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PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 14: A view of the Hermes Original Birkin belonging to Jane Birkin, presented for the Exhibition l’Excellence à la Française on October 14, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Luc Castel/Getty Images)

The first ever Birkin bag—born in 1984 at the request of actress Jane Birkin for a bag designed for motherhood—heads to auction

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), at a rates decision news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. The ECB lowered interest rates for the eighth time in a year after inflation dipped beneath 2% and the economy suffered repeated blows from US tariffs. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images

European Central Bank cuts rate to 2% amid struggling eurozone growth and stable inflation

By Sam Reeves and AFP

A girl rides a motorbike past the Ba Trieu kindergarten in Hanoi on June 4, 2025. The country’s communist government on June 4 lifted a long-standing ban on families having more than two children, as it battles to reverse a declining birth rate and ease the burden of an ageing population. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP) / To go with ‘VIETNAM-POLITICS-POPULATION-CHILDREN,FOCUS’ by Tran Thi Minh Ha and Lam Nguyen (Photo by NHAC NGUYEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam scraps two-child limit but Vietnamese say no to more kids

By Tran Thi Minh Ha, Lam Nguyen, and others

dpatop – 05 June 2025, USA, Washington: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) gets off an airplane of the air force at Washington airport. Merz wants to meet US President Trump in the USA. It is the first meeting between the two politicians since Trump and Merz took office. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Germans anxiously await Chancellor Merz’s meeting with Trump, calling it ‘crucial for Europe’s future’

By Oliver Junker and AFP

04 June 2025, Berlin: Lars Klingbeil (SPD), Federal Minister of Finance, Vice Chancellor and SPD Federal Chairman, gives a press conference on the draft bill for an emergency tax investment program to strengthen Germany as a business location. The bill was previously approved by the Federal Cabinet. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa (Photo by Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Germany unveils €45.8 billion in corporate tax breaks to supercharge stagnant economy

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