The UAE withdrew from a US-led maritime coalition,the US said it would stop sharing some data with Russia required under the New START nuclear arms treaty,NATO launched military exercises in the Arcticand deployed more troops to Kosovo,and Japan put its ballistic missile defenses on alert,as North Korea launched a spy satellite that ended up crashing into the sea.Meanwhile, Sudan's army suspended its participation in ceasefire talks,a Palestinian toddler was wounded by Israeli gunfire,Lebanon accused five men of killing a UN peacekeeper,and five Palestinian fighters were killed in a blast in Lebanon.In other news, the US military denied reports that an AI-controlled drone killed its operator.

On Monday, Russia launched a series of attacks across Ukraine, with Kyiv's airforce claiming it intercepted 37 of 40 missiles and 29 of 35 drones.Strikes continued on Tuesday, as the two nations exchanged drone attacks in their capitals,with a fire breaking out at an oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region on Wednesdayand Ukraine opening a criminal investigation after three civilians died because the doors of a local bomb shelter were locked.Amid the artillery attacks, Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that the nation is ready to launch its long-awaited counteroffensive.This came as Zelenskyy reissued calls to join NATO on Thursday.

The foreign ministers from the BRICS group of emerging economies met in South Africa,the US and Taiwan signed a new trade deal,China declined a US request for a meeting between the two nation's defense chiefs,CIA Director Bill Burns reportedly made a secret trip to China last month,Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez called for a snap election on July 23,and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida sacked his son for hosting a party at his official residence.Meanwhile, Senegal's opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced for "corrupting youth,"a UN court extended the convictions of two Serbians for their roles in the Balkan wars,and a report claimed that over 150 have died in custody during El Salvador’s gang crackdown,which saw its ex-president Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years over his gang ties.In other news, US Senator Lindsey Graham was placed on the Kremlin's most wanted list,Russia claimed the US spied on thousands of iPhones belonging to Russians and NATO member diplomats,and an alleged Russian spy whale reappeared off Sweden's coast.

The GOP Freedom Caucus mulled ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over a bill to raise the debt ceiling,which the House Rules Committee sent to the House,where it cleared,and was then passed by the Senate and signed by Pres. Joe Biden,and the Senate halted Biden's student loan relief plan.Meanwhile, GOP presidential nominee Ron DeSantis campaigned in Iowa,former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to announce his presidential bid,and former VP Mike Pence is expected to launch his campaign.In other news, the Dept. of Justice decided not to charge Pence for the classified documents found at his residence,and federal prosecutors reportedly obtained a recording of former Pres. Donald Trump admitting he possessed classified files.

The BBC warned that social media platforms might be inadvertently erasing evidence of human rights abuses through their content moderation,and a transgender-critical academic's speech was interrupted at Oxford.

In the US, a shooting in Florida injured nine,the founder of blood-testing start-up Theranos began her prison sentence,and new documents detailed convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's final days in prison.Elsewhere, the UN warned the illicit drug trade in Southeast Asia is expanding,Uganda outlawed the stealing of human organs,Malaysia confirmed that white-collar criminal Jho Low is hiding in Macau,and Pakistani lawyer and activist Jibran Nasir returned home after being abducted.

The head of Twitter's trust and safety team Ella Irwin resigned,and Air New Zealand began asking passengers to weigh themselves before flights.In other news, a US judge ruled that the families of victims killed in the 2019 Boeing Max crash in Ethiopia can seek pre-impact compensation,Australia dismissed a decorated soldiers defamation suit against three news agencies for depicting him as a war criminal,and Amazon settled two privacy complaints against its subsidiaries Ring and Alexa.

Eurozone inflation fell to 6.1% in May,the UN's labor agency warned that the unemployment divide between high and low-income countries is growing,Tunisian Pres. Kais Saied called for taxing the rich to avoid another loan from the International Monetary Fund,and Sri Lanka cut its interest rates for the first time in three years.

The Earth Commission warned that seven out of eight safe boundaries for human life have been surpassed,a study detailed the consequences of the Antarctic's melting ice,the UN began cleaning up an oil spill off Yemen's Red Sea coast,and wildfires in Canada destroyed 6.7M acres of forest.In other news, Nepal shelved plans to move its Everest base camp,and Mars chocolate bars switched to paper wrappers in the UK.

The US Food and Drug Admin. considered importing unapproved cancer drugs,Pfizer claimed its hemophilia drug reduces patients' bleeding rates,Australian researchers made a breakthrough in endometriosis treatment,Canada announced new requirements that individual cigarettes carry health warnings,and London's police said it would stop responding to mental health calls.In other news, the former director of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said the COVID lab leak theory shouldn't be ruled out,and former UK PM Boris Johnson handed over his WhatsApp messages to a group investigating the government's handling of COVID.

NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs,and China launched its first civilian into space.Meanwhile, a group of experts warned AI could lead to extinction,as China's CCP also cautioned against the technology.

A train collision in India left at least 280 dead and over 800 injured.

A Belfast auction listed a pencil that allegedly belonged to Adolf Hitler..