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Jun

13

2026

Return to Gaza’s Nasser Hospital: “Every single thing in the complex is a crisis”

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NASSER Hospital in Khan Younis is the last major medical facility continuing to operate in the southern Gaza Strip. Over more than two and a half years, The New Humanitarian has reported on how the facility and its staff have struggled to continue providing healthcare amidst the Israeli military campaign that has laid waste to Gaza and the blockade that has choked off essential supplies. The hospital has been besieged and raided, then hurriedly reopened: The staff has been working under immense strain. Recently, The New Humanitarian revisited the hospital and spoke with staff members who were interviewed in previous…

Jun

13

2026

By MAX NESTERAK and J. PATRICK COOLICAN

Man pleads guilty to murder of former Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and husband

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VANCE Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to the murder of former state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, and the shootings of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. The plea agreement calls for two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in federal prison. U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim said he will set a date for sentencing within 10 days, with a hearing before the end of July. The guilty plea is an important marker in Minnesota’s recovery from the most brutal political violence in recent history, even as the Hortmans’ wide circle of friends and…

Jun

13

2026

By STEVEN STERN

I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances

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The 2026 FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched events of the international sports calendar, and fans from across the globe will be trying to predict how far their team will go. I’m a data scientist and in an attempt to forecast the eventual tournament winner, semi-finalists and teams’ chances of progressing through the group stages, I built a model to predict how the World Cup may unfold. Here’s how I did it and what my model predicted. Lessons from recent history For this World Cup, the traditional 32-team tournament structure (eight groups of four) has been expanded…

Jun

12

2026

By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

The Price of Power: Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, and the reckoning that would not wait

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HE built hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa. He funded vaccine programmes that saved millions of lives. He recast himself, in the decades after Microsoft, as the most consequential philanthropist of his generation. But on Wednesday, Bill Gates - with a net worth estimated at over $100 billion and a foundation bearing his name - sat in a closed-door chamber on Capitol Hill and offered testimony that stripped away the carefully curated image of the world's most benevolent billionaire. The testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was private. But the opening statement was not. And what Gates said —…

Jun

12

2026

By BAMO NOURI and INDERJEET PARMAR

US and Iran’s exchange of strikes shows how far diplomacy has changed

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THE US military launched strikes against Iran on June 9 in response to the downing of a US Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier. These strikes, which the US military called “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression”, came after Donald Trump claimed he was in the “final throes of what will be a very, very good deal” to end the war. Iran swiftly carried out retaliatory attacks of its own. The powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps branch of Iran’s armed forces says it has struck US bases in Bahrain and Jordan. And it has warned…

Jun

12

2026

By CHABELI CARRAZANA

Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free childcare center for city workers

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TUCKED in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country. The center, called The Little Apple, is a pilot program that could prove to be a model for cities across the country that are childcare curious but not ready to take the big universal swing. This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Housed in a renovated space…

Jun

11

2026

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

A KNIFE IN THE NECK OF BRITAIN: How one attack in Belfast ignited the UK’s most explosive immigration crisis in years

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IT began with a kitchen knife, a dark street in north Belfast, and a man left fighting for his life. It ended — at least for the time being — with cities across the United Kingdom ablaze with rage, immigrant families fleeing burning homes, and the ghost of Britain's dark nativist past haunting the present with terrifying familiarity. On the night of Monday, 8 June 2026, at approximately 10:30 pm, Stephen Ogilvie, a man in his 40s, was attacked in a residential street in northern Belfast by a Sudanese national who pinned him to the ground and attempted to sever…

Jun

11

2026

By The African Mirror

US/Israel-Iran War: Ceasefire remains elusive as it rains missiles, drone strikes

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IRAN’S Revolutionary Guards said they launched missile and drone strikes on U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday, marking one of the sharpest exchanges since a fragile ceasefire took effect in April and underscoring the fragility of efforts to end the broader US‑Israeli campaign against Tehran. The attacks followed U.S. strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz that Washington said targeted air-defence sites, ground-control stations and surveillance radar. U.S. Central Command said the strikes lasted about four hours and hit nearly 20 targets; Iranian state media reported explosions on Qeshm island, in the port city…

Jun

11

2026

By TIMOTHY GRAHAM; ELLA CHORAZY, and STEPHEN HARRINGTON

The market moves before Trump posts

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IT has long been the case that when a US President speaks, financial markets react. But recently, oil markets have been behaving a bit differently: sometimes the stock price moves before Trump posts. Millions of dollars are changing hands, with some traders seeming to have made incredibly well-timed bets. Did some of them know something the rest of the market didn’t? @realDonaldTrump made 1,341 Truth Social posts from January 25 to April 8. Our analysis of that 73-day window reveals 15 distinct events with unusual trading activity around Trump’s posts. In several of those events — including the most striking…

Jun

10

2026

By OWN CORRESPONDENT

ICC prosecutor suspended: Karim Khan’s fall after Netanyahu indictment sparks international justice crisis

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THE International Criminal Court has plunged into its most devastating crisis as chief prosecutor Karim Khan was suspended with immediate effect on June 8, 2026, the first time an ICC prosecutor has ever been formally removed from duty by the court's oversight body. The suspension over sexual misconduct allegations carries a darker shadow for international justice advocates: Khan's troubles exploded into full-blown political warfare only after he indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes in Gaza. The Bureau of Assembly of Parties, the ICC's executive committee, has referred Khan to disciplinary proceedings that will require all 125 member…