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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's fun
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral

Buried On The 4th Of July: Mediators Pledge Quiet Between US, Iran To Allow For Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral President Trump by mid-week told reporters that the "denuclearization of Iran is moving along well" and that "very good meetings" are being held in Doha - even though no direct talks have taken place, but only an exchange of messages via mediators. On Wednesday US officials told regional media that no frozen Iranian funds have been released , nor will they be until Iran complies to what's been laid out in th

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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral
Buried On The 4th Of July: Mediators Pledge Quiet Between US, Iran To Allow For Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral President Trump by mid-week tol.
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Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by Israel
Israelis called on Thursday for a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, as the country marked 1,000 days since th.
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Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in London
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship For Michael Scurr, a vo.
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Syria explosion updates: Bomb blast kills 5 people in Damascus
At least five people were killed when an explosive device detonated near a key government building in the Syrian capital..
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UK-US pharmaceuticals deal will divert £45bn from essential NHS services, says doctors' union
The NHS will be forced to divert around £45bn from essential services under a UK-US pharmaceuticals deal, increasing potentially preventable.
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Thailand says photo of Macron kneeling before King Vajiralongkorn is AI-generate
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Thailand says photo of Macron kneeling before King Vajiralongkorn is AI-generated

Thailand’s foreign ministry denied on Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron knelt before the country’s king during his state visit to Paris this week, after an AI-generated picture circulated online. King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida’s trip was the first official visit by a Thai monarch to France since 1960, marking the

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King approves appointment of James Maynard as Regius Professor of Mathematics at Oxford

A GOV.UK notice dated July 1 stated that the King has approved the appointment of Professor James Maynard FRS, Professor of Number Theory at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, as Regius Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford. He takes the chair in succession to Professor Sir Andrew Wiles.

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Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by Israel
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Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by Israel

Israelis called on Thursday for a state commission of inquiry into Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, as the country marked 1,000 days since the deadliest event in its history, which triggered the war in Gaza. A series of sombre commemorations were being held across the country, as well as protests against the government's handling of events

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Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in London
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Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in London

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship For Michael Scurr, a volunteer at the National Archives in Kew, west London, it was “just a boring old Thursday morning” when he sat down in late May to catalogue a collection of documents from the British national collecti

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France's far-right party National Rally probed for embezzlement of EU funds

The European justice is keeping a close eye at France's far-right National Rally. A series of searches were carried out as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement of funds, targeting the far-right group which Jordan Bardella once sat in at the European Parliament. Meanwhile, Jordan Bardella has denounced it as judicial persecution.

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FCA and the Bank of England set out approach to joint regulation of systemic sta
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FCA and the Bank of England set out approach to joint regulation of systemic stablecoin issuers

The Bank of England and the FCA have published a joint approach setting out how they and where relevant other authorities will work together to regulate systemic stablecoin issuers in the UK.It explains how responsibilities will be split between the authorities, and how UK stablecoin issuers may move from FCA supervision to joint regulati

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Fed payments study: noncash payments reached 236.6 billion in 2024

The Federal Reserve on July 1 issued initial findings from its 2025 triennial payments study, reporting that noncash payments reached 236.6 billion in 2024 — more than triple the volume in 2000. Per the release, cards accounted for over three quarters of payments by number, with credit card payments growing faster than debit for the first

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OeNB's Kocher closes Vienna conference on monetary policy trade-offs in a h
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OeNB's Kocher closes Vienna conference on monetary policy trade-offs in a heterogeneous currency area

The Bank for International Settlements published on June 30 the concluding remarks of Martin Kocher, Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, delivered at the OeNB-SUERF Economics Conference "Monetary policy trade-offs in a heterogeneous currency area" held in Vienna on June 19. The material available contains no further detail on t

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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's fun
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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral

Buried On The 4th Of July: Mediators Pledge Quiet Between US, Iran To Allow For Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral President Trump by mid-week told reporters that the "denuclearization of Iran is moving along well" and that "very good meetings" are being held in Doha - even though no direct talks have taken place, but only an exchange of messag

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Top EU official visits Armenia and offers economic support to help counter Russian pressure

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Armenia on Thursday, promising to provide a $20.5-million aid package and the elimination of import duties on most Armenian farm products to support the South Caucasus nation's push for closer ties with the European Union and pivot away from longtime ally Moscow.

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2026-07-02COURIERS Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to attend Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeralSCOOP 87 · 4 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by IsraelSCOOP 83 · 6 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Rare Copy of the Declaration of Independence Is Discovered in LondonSCOOP 83 · 5 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Syria explosion updates: Bomb blast kills 5 people in DamascusSCOOP 82 · 4 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS UK-US pharmaceuticals deal will divert £45bn from essential NHS services, says doctors' unionSCOOP 82 · 2 SRC
2026-07-02COFFERS FCA and the Bank of England set out approach to joint regulation of systemic stablecoin issuersSCOOP 82 · 1 SRC
2026-07-02CROWNS PM meeting with His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik Al Said of Oman: 2 July 2026SCOOP 81 · 1 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS France's far-right party National Rally probed for embezzlement of EU fundsSCOOP 79 · 2 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Putin loses most Russian troops in one month since Ukraine war beganSCOOP 79 · 4 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Keir Starmer issues state apology for decades of forced adoptions practices in UKSCOOP 78 · 5 SRC
2026-07-02COFFERS Ukraine's sanctions chief lambasts last EU shipyard servicing Russia's LNG fleetSCOOP 78 · 5 SRC
2026-07-02COURIERS US officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiatorsSCOOP 78 · 3 SRC
2026-07-02CAPITALS Pilot who hit Beijing's tallest building wrote about 'ending his life,' Chinese authorities saySCOOP 77 · 3 SRC
2026-07-02COURIERS Trump Suggestion of a Syrian Crackdown on Hezbollah Confounds Many in MideastSCOOP 77 · 2 SRC
2026-07-02COURIERS Statement by Commissioner Dombrovskis following the EU-Türkiye High-Level Economic DialogueSCOOP 77 · 2 SRC
2026-07-02CROWNS Thailand says photo of Macron kneeling before King Vajiralongkorn is AI-generatedSCOOP 77 · 2 SRC
2026-07-02COURIERS Top EU official visits Armenia and offers economic support to help counter Russian pressureSCOOP 77 · 3 SRC
2026-07-02COURIERS Explosive device goes off at Damascus cafe, killing at least nine peopleSCOOP 75 · 3 SRC
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UK-US pharmaceuticals deal will divert £45bn from essential NHS services, says docto
House of Commons Library — Research — (2026-07-02)
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Statement by Commissioner Dombrovskis following the EU-Türkiye High-Level Economic D
European Commission — Press Corner — (2026-07-02)
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PM meeting with His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik Al Said of Oman: 2 July 2026
GOV.UK — No 10 Downing Street (Atom) — (2026-07-02)
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US officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators
The Straits Times — World — (2026-07-02)
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EU and Armenia strengthen partnership on resilience, trade and connectivity
European Commission — Press Corner — (2026-07-01)
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Fed payments study: noncash payments reached 236.6 billion in 2024
Federal Reserve — All Press Releases — (2026-07-01)
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Riksbank expands offline card payment options for essential goods
Sveriges Riksbank — Press (EN) — (2026-07-01)
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Russia talks peace while waging war, UK tells OSCE
GOV.UK — FCDO (Atom) — (2026-07-01)

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