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My friends left Ukraine after the Russian invasion. Now I wonder if we live in the same world | Diana Berg
NEWS | 22 July 2026
One of them runs not between Ukraine and the world, but through Ukrainians ourselves – between those who left and those who stayed. But the thought came anyway. That was the first time I allowed myself the thought that maybe they were living through this war too – just differently. Those who left and those who stayed were simply no longer living in the same version of it. Every trip I take is like a military operation: no flights out of Ukraine, hours to the border, permits, logistics.

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US renews strikes on Iran as Tehran claims no nuclear activity at site threatened by Trump – Middle East crisis live
NEWS | 22 July 2026
From 1h ago 07.30 EDT Iran foreign ministry: there is no nuclear activity at Pickaxe Mountain The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, posted on X on Wednesday that there is no nuclear activity at Kolang Kouh, otherwise known as Pickaxe Mountain. “Iran’s nuclear activities have been fully declared to the IAEA in accordance with its safeguards obligations. The agency already recommends that airlines ​avoid the ​airspace of Bahrain, ​Kuwait, Qatar, ​the ‌United Arab ​Emirates, ​Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. “Iran’s nuclear activities have been fully declared to the IAEA in accordance with its safeguards obligations. What is Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s underground nuclear facility Trump is threatening to attack?

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Houthis threaten to attack shipping tankers if they use Saudi Arabian ports on Red Sea
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthis have warned shipping companies that their tankers risk being attacked if they use Saudi Arabian ports, as the militia moved quickly to enforce a blockade announced the previous day. Donald Trump on Tuesday said the US would “​just have to ​take ‌care ​of ​business” if the Houthis followed through on their threats. View image in fullscreen Yemenis take to the streets in Sana’a to protest against Saudi Arabia’s military action in north Yemen. The Houthis control ⁠northern Yemen, including territory along the Bab el-Mandeb, the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea. “The Houthis have not yet clarified which ships they will target, but their intent to blockade Saudi ports implies that any ship visiting Saudi ports and carrying Saudi oil would be in the crosshairs,” she said.

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Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Trump is expected to announce that he will ask Congress to approve the agreement with Saudi Arabia. It could allow for the building of a uranium enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia after a joint US-Saudi study. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/ReutersRosemary Kelanic, the head of the Middle East programme at Defense Priorities, warned in a social media post: “Giving Saudi Arabia uranium enrichment technology is a terrible idea on many counts. Separately, the US had been willing to consider a regional consortium to enrich uranium that would include Saudi Arabia, Iran, the US and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defence pact after Israel launched an attack on Qatar targeting Hamas officials.

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‘It’s truly hell here’: airstrikes, repression and water shortages become ‘new normal’ for Iranians
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Soroush*, a writer based in the city who secretly publishes a newsletter documenting human rights violations in Iran, described a “new normal” for its residents. “We are less afraid of the future because we are now forced to accept this is the new normal. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty ImagesMoein*, a resident of Jask, said that although the water supply had been restored, residents were in panic and scrambling to prepare for a long-running war. The heat is rising and if we lack water supply due to these attacks, we will die of heat exhaustion and thirst. According to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, hundreds more are believed to be facing capital punishment.

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‘If all else fails, sue’: how ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Some of the ultimately unsuccessful lawsuits delayed the adoption of vital public health policies for years, while also tying up government and public health officials in complex and expensive litigation. The tactics mirrored those used by the tobacco industry for decades, Nestle said, adding: “Food companies are well trained. “That courts have upheld public health regulation in the large majority of resolved cases is an encouraging signal. View image in fullscreen Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People, says government officials are ‘terrified’ of lawsuits from food companies. We engage constructively on topics affecting our business and respect the role each stakeholder plays in advancing public health goals.”A Ferrero spokesperson said it supported public health objectives aimed at reducing obesity and diet-related disease.

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Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov ‘prominent position’
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and offered a “prominent position” to the defence minister he sacked last week in a move that sparked nationwide protests. In a late-night TV address, Zelenskyy said he was appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi, a popular and innovative general, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces. 1:32 Why Ukrainians are protesting against Zelenskyy’s dismissal of defence minister – videoFedorov welcomed Drapatyi’s appointment. It is unclear what Fedorov’s new role will be, amid reports that he was insisting on being given his old job back as defence minister. View image in fullscreen Yevhen Khmara replaced Mykhailo Fedeorov as Ukraine’s defence minister.

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EU bids to finalise new Russia sanctions amid discontent from some member states – Europe live
NEWS | 22 July 2026
06.59 EDT EU talks on finalising 21st package of sanctions against Russia under way Jennifer Rankinin BrusselsHere in Brussels talks between senior EU diplomats are under way in the latest attempt to overcome Greece’s opposition to the bloc’s sanctions against Russia. Athens is now holding up the 21st package, as it seeks an exemption on this previously agreed measure. The 21st round of sanctions includes measures targeting crypto companies, banks and oil traders helping Russia evade sanctions. Without further agreement., the oil price cap will go up automatically later this summer. The unraveling of the package has prompted some insiders to ask if the EU’s sanctions policy is reaching its limits.

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Ukraine war briefing: Mykhailo Drapatyi takes over as Kyiv’s top commander
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Medium and long-range strikes against Russia will continue under Mykhailo Drapatyi , Ukraine’s new top military commander, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday, as he replaced Oleksandr Syrskyi in the job after a huge political row accompanied by street protests. “The operations of the Ukrainian defence forces are ​ongoing and must continue steadily,” said the Ukrainian president. Drapatyi, his replacement, is well regarded within Ukraine’s army and liked by the public, Harding writes. A major general, Drapatyi is commander of Ukraine’s joint forces group and has been fighting Russia since its covert attempt in 2014 to take over the eastern Donbas region. Traders told Reuters that to replace lost production, gasoline produced in the Urals and Siberia, as ⁠well as imported supplies from Belarus, has been redirected to the Moscow region.

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Opposition parties shut down Indian parliament in solidarity with ‘cockroach’ protests
NEWS | 22 July 2026
India’s opposition parties have shut down parliament in a protest calling for the resignation of the education minister, in solidarity with the new youth-led “cockroach” movement. View image in fullscreen Police detaining Priyanka Gandhi outside the prime minister’s residence in Delhi. View image in fullscreen A Cockroach Janta party supporter holding a placard at a protest in Delhi on Wednesday. Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/GettyModi has not commented directly on the protests, but the education minister, who had dismissed the CJP protesters as a “B-team of terrorists”, took a more conciliatory tone in his first comments since Monday’s protests. Allow and continueSeveral key opposition parties have come out in support of the students’ movement and condemned the police violence against Monday’s protest.

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India’s Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Their rallying call was the resignation of the education minister and for reform of a corrupt and broken education system. Delhi police denied the protesters the right to march on parliament and kettled the expanding crowd into a restricted area. View image in fullscreen Members of the Rapid Action Force deployed at the protest site near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Monday. Photograph: Jai Thakur/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreen The protest site near Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Sunday. It was not only young people who returned to the protest site on Tuesday.

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British woman jailed in Hong Kong after making false rape allegations
NEWS | 22 July 2026
A British woman who reported being raped to police in Hong Kong has been sentenced to six years in prison for blackmail and perverting the course of public justice. Isabel Rose, 26, from south-east London, travelled to Hong Kong in early 2024 to visit a British banker she had met while travelling in south-east Asia. They stayed in touch and he later invited her to Hong Kong and offered to pay for her flights. Rose said she was raped in his apartment about 12 hours after landing in Hong Kong and reported the allegation to police. Rose was released on bail after the arrest but was unable to leave Hong Kong for almost two years while awaiting trial.

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Six beluga whales finally leave embattled Canadian marine park
NEWS | 22 July 2026
Six beluga whales have at last left Marineland, the embattled Canadian marine park in Niagara Falls that previously threatened to kill its own animals, and are arriving at US aquariums this week. Twenty whales – 19 belugas and one orca – have died at the park since 2019, according to documents compiled by the Canadian Press. Four were flown to Chicago and two to San Antonio, Texas. Photograph: Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez/ReutersSeaWorld San Antonio said: “Our commitment is clear. The Canadian advocacy group Animal Justice said it remained concerned about the whales because of Marineland’s “lack of transparency” about their wellbeing.

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AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals
NEWS | 22 July 2026
OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance – which had entered its systems. The attack ended when Hugging Face’s security team and its own AI agents spotted and stopped the rogue activity. One cybersecurity expert said the Hugging Face incident showed the OpenAI agent had acted “like an actual real hacker” by, for instance, seeking out zero-day vulnerabilities and using stolen credentials to access the database’s systems. “The AI thought that maybe Hugging Face would have important information around how to achieve its goal, which is a better score in a cybersecurity benchmark.