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Blind date: ‘Her one dating request was “no one in finance”. I work in finance’
NEWS | 13 June 2026
“Not in finance” was her one date request (I work in finance). Q&A Fancy a blind date? No, it’s a blind date! Be mindful of how it will read to your date, and that Blind date reaches a large audience, in print and online. Fancy a blind date?

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‘Looks like Chornobyl’: life in Kyiv’s most bombed neighbourhood as Ukraine braced for new mass strike
NEWS | 13 June 2026
On Lukianivska Square, in Kyiv’s most bombed neighbourhood, the white letters on a busy McDonald’s have melted from a fire that engulfed a nearby shopping centre during the last major attack, on 24 May. The last strike collapsed a section of the metro’s ceiling and filled the platforms with a fog of dust. Kyiv’s Lukianivska metro station damaged in Russian attackLocal residents say the situation has only got worse in recent months. View image in fullscreen Damaged buildings near the Lukianivska metro station. But this is my livelihood.”View image in fullscreen The heavily damaged Kvadrat shopping mall near Lukianivska metro station following a massive Russian missile strike.

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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy boosts army wages and seeks foreign recruits to counter manpower shortage
NEWS | 13 June 2026
Ukraine will hike military wages and seek to recruit more fighters abroad, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed, as the army faces a manpower shortage after four years of war with Russia. Zelenskyy’s government said in May it would study possible measures to boost military personnel numbers after talks on how to end the war with Russia stalled. Ukraine has secured a €90bn ($104bn) loan from the EU allowing the government to increase defence spending to a record 4.4tn hryvnias ($97bn) this year. Zelenskyy said his government would raise the basic military wage by one-third to 30,000 hryvnias ($700). About 10,000 foreign volunteers have joined the Ukrainian army from more than 70 countries since the war began, according to estimates by Ukrainian military publications.

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Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access
NEWS | 13 June 2026
Anthropic said it will “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. Anthropic’s relationship with the government ruptured this year after it refused to allow the US military to use its AI models for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems. For years, US export controls have focused on the chips and tools that power AI rather than on restricting foreign access to AI itself. Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out an AI model named Claude Fable 5, representing a new tier of capability it calls “Mythos-class”. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected,” Anthropic said.

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Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI
NEWS | 13 June 2026
A Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing. View image in fullscreen Petra Urban’s court sketch of the Syrian brothers after it was altered using AI and posted online by the Noord-Brabant region of the PVV far-right party. Secondly, this was done for a political party, when I want to work as neutrally and independently as possible. Urban said that after her union issued a legal demand for licensing rights and damages, the PVV MP Maikel Boon called her to apologise and has now paid the damages – which have not been made public. There’s no knowing where it will end.”She also distanced herself from the far-right party led by Geert Wilders.

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SPONSORED | 13 June 2026
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Palantir loses legal challenge to force Swiss magazine to publish responses
NEWS | 13 June 2026
The US technology company Palantir has lost a legal challenge to force a Swiss independent magazine to publish its responses to articles about how the Swiss government rejected its services. It was this narrative – that Palantir could not sell its products to Switzerland – that prompted the legal action, the journalists said. When the magazine refused, Palantir filed a lawsuit in a Swiss commercial court demanding that it did so. The court on Friday ordered Palantir to bear 95% of the 9,000 Swiss francs ($11,300; £8,400) court costs and to pay Republik 9,900 francs in legal expenses. Palantir said in a statement reported by the Financial Times: “We welcome that the Zurich commercial court confirmed our right to publish a counterstatement.

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US-Iran peace deal remains elusive as Trump and Tehran trade conflicting claims
NEWS | 13 June 2026
View image in fullscreen Trump lashed out at ‘dishonorable’ Iran over terms of deal reported in state media. Iran’s military stopped a tanker from transiting the strait, Iranian state media said, reporting the sound of explosions early on Friday. Trump is under domestic political pressure to end the war, with polls showing his approval ratings sinking as fuel prices rise. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said on Friday that he and Trump were in “full agreement” to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. A leading Hezbollah politician expressed confidence on Friday that Iran would insist on Lebanon being included in a deal.

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Chaotic talks on a US-Iran deal continue on the Trump rollercoaster
NEWS | 13 June 2026
View image in fullscreen Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday as markets fell after Trump threatened more action against Iran. According to reports from the region, the gaps in those talks are indeed getting smaller in the past few days. Trump may have shown the way for a possible fudge by insisting that the deal will ensure “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon”. It has not worked in the Iran talks. Even if an MoU is agreed, the hawks are confident that the ensuing nuclear talks will break down over Iran’s insistence on its right to enrich uranium.

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Palestinian American woman held without charge by Israeli military
NEWS | 13 June 2026
A 20-year-old Palestinian American woman has been held in Israeli military detention for nearly two weeks after Israeli soldiers stormed her family home in a pre-dawn raid on 2 June. A spokesperson for the Israeli military said she and three other women detained around the same time were arrested “after promoting hostile terrorist activity and additional terrorist-related activities”. The four students are being held at an Israeli detention and interrogation center in Jerusalem notorious for its record of abuse. Journalists and human rights groups have documented widespread abuses of Palestinians in Israeli detention, including sexual abuse and beatings. All of them had also spoken out on behalf of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 15-year-old Palestinian American boy who was detained by the Israeli military over allegations that he had thrown rocks.

Today:
Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests
NEWS | 13 June 2026
Trees may not be able to store as much planet-heating carbon as hoped, a study suggests, with researchers finding photosynthesis does not always lead to wood growth. Scientists studied 137 sites across the US and found trees stopped growing months before the point in the year at which photosynthesis stopped. As fossil fuel emissions leave more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for trees to absorb, climate scientists expect the land-based carbon sink to remain stable or grow over the 21st century. But many of the models estimate the uptake using the levels of photosynthesis, rather than actual wood growth. They said their results showed the capacity of forests to store carbon over long periods depended on how much carbon was absorbed and then directed towards wood growth.

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Workers begin to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
NEWS | 13 June 2026
A crew of workers spent the night removing Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, hours after a judge rejected an emergency appeal to block the removal of the former president’s name. View image in fullscreen People wait on Friday for Donald Trump's name to be removed from the performing arts centre in Washington. Photograph: Rahmat Gul/AP“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name,” the judge wrote in his 94-page opinion, “and only Congress can change it.”Cooper also issued a temporary block on Trump’s demand to close the Kennedy Center for two years of renovations, which was due to start in July. Yet less than 36 hours before the deadline, lawyers acting for Trump and the Kennedy Center board mounted a last-minute attempt to keep his name on the building. By then, the venue had already removed Trump’s name from its website and had reportedly sent out emails offering tickets to an event at “the Kennedy Center” – without including the 47th president’s name.

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Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive
NEWS | 13 June 2026
The Trump administration also sought to purge “corrosive” or “ideological indoctrination” from exhibitions at the nation’s historical and cultural institutions. The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), the Association of National Park Rangers, and the American Association for State and Local History were among the plaintiffs. Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the NPCA, said in a statement after the ruling: “Americans count on national parks to help us understand our full, rich history. National parks “exist to preserve and interpret the full American story, not just the parts that make some politicians comfortable. The Trump administration has 21 days to comply with the order.

Current Events:
Seven fights on the South Lawn: Trump prepares for UFC birthday spectacle at White House
NEWS | 13 June 2026
A tennis court was built at the White House in 1902. View image in fullscreen Workers install a setup ahead of the ‘UFC Freedom 250’ fights on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC on 11 June 2026. Trump is shrewd about what his fans – the Maga base which sent him back to the White House in November 2024 – wants to see, according to biographer Gwenda Blair. “It’s on the White House lawn? The focus now turns to Sunday night’s proceedings: seven fights on the South Lawn.

News Flash:
US claims it is not responsible for strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats – so who is?
NEWS | 13 June 2026
A Coast Guard spokesperson said that it assumed responsibility for coordinating a “search and rescue” and dispatched the Bertholf to respond. So far, the Pentagon and the US Coast Guard have both publicly denied participating in operations involving Ecuadorian fishing vessels. The Coast Guard also said that it had no knowledge of, nor were any Coast Guard forces involved in, the incident described in reports on attacks on Ecuadorian fishermen. A spokesperson added that the US Coast Guard does not operate armed drones. The Fiorella, an Ecuadorian fishing vessel, disappeared on 20 January after its captain sent a final satellite message describing what [he] said was a US aircraft, a UAV, and a blue patrol ship that had been following the vessel for three days.