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| A guard outside the entrance to Evin Prison in Tehran in 2022. Majid Asgaripour/WANA News Agency, via Reuters |
Iran could be enriching fuel again ‘within months’
An attack by the U.S. on Iran’s two uranium enrichment centers caused damage that was “severe” but not “total,” the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said. The state could be enriching uranium in a “matter of months,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CBS News.
His comments widened the divide with the Trump administration over how severely the U.S. set back Iran’s nuclear program. President Trump insisted yesterday that Iran had given up its nuclear ambitions because the American attack had “obliterated” its facilities.
Grossi’s analysis is consistent with a preliminary assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency that estimated that the strike set back the Iranian nuclear program by only a few months. The C.I.A. director said later in the week that the Iranian program had been severely damaged, and that U.S. intelligence agencies were continuing to assess the strike.
Related: Iranian state news media reported yesterday that 71 people were killed when Israel attacked Evin Prison in Tehran on June 23. Dissidents and political prisoners — including opposition politicians, activists, lawyers, journalists and students — are held there.
Analysis: After the 12-day conflict with Israel and the U.S., Iran stands on a knife’s edge. What will a shaken country in dire economic straits do with what its president has called “a golden opportunity for change”?
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| An anti-immigration protest in May in Warsaw. Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
Europe’s tough turn on migration
European leaders across the political spectrum are pushing a tougher line on undocumented migrants, with some leaders looking to replicate Denmark’s “zero” refugee policy. E.U. officials are working on new rules that would help to send asylum seekers to third countries.
The number of migrants arriving in the E.U. declined by about 20 percent in the first five months of 2025, after a sharp decline last year, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex, the E.U.’s border agency. At the same time, expulsions have slowly increased. Still, migration along some routes, including from Libya into Greece, remains significant.
Background: The shift has steadily built with voter backlash that helped fuel nationalist, far-right and populist parties, after Europe took in more than a million Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others seeking asylum a decade ago.
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| Civilians sheltering in a subway station during strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine, yesterday. Yan Dobronosov/Reuters |
Russia hit Ukraine with its largest air assault yet
Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles, the Ukrainian authorities said yesterday. Strikes on infrastructure were reported across the country, including in western Ukraine, which Russia hits less frequently. It was unclear if any civilians had been killed, but the Ukrainian air force reported that one pilot fatally crashed while trying to stop the assault.
The air force said Russia launched 537 drones and missiles overnight — the highest number recorded in a single night since the war began.
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| Europe: A dangerous heat wave is gripping large swaths of the continent, prompting widespread health and fire alerts. U.S.: The domestic policy bill that Senate Republicans want to pass would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimated. Immigration: A federal appeals court in New Orleans will consider today whether President Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act for the mass deportation of immigrants. Gaza: The Israeli military issued broad evacuation orders for neighborhoods in Gaza City, as President Trump called for a cease-fire deal. Emirates: Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyar, the Emirati vice president and owner of the soccer team Manchester City, has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars. Costa Rica: Nicaraguan human rights activists who fled to Costa Rica are worried that their former country’s government is sending assassins after them. Greenland: United Airlines has started a seasonal, nonstop flight from New Jersey to the capital of the Arctic island that President Trump wants to acquire. Crime: Here are four takeaways from the defense’s closing arguments in the Sean Combs’s trial. |
Pride
| New York City: As millions gather for America’s largest Pride parade, L.G.B.T.Q. communities are increasingly concerned about the national pushback against transgender people. Aid: Trump’s sweeping cuts are threatening centers for L.G.B.T.Q. seniors, who face higher levels of poverty and isolation than their heterosexual peers. History: In the 1970s, most American courts saw gay parents as unfit, and denied them custody. So one woman stole her child from her estranged husband and took her underground. |
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| Formula 1: Lando Norris held off Oscar Piastri to win the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix. Soccer: Chelsea’s coach, Enzo Maresca, sees recent Club World Cup weather delays as “a joke,” and as an ominous warning for 2026. Boxing: Jake Paul beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to take home his sixth consecutive victory. |
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As a teenager in Malawi, Susan Namangale pooled her pocket money with that of a few friends to buy two chessboards for their school. More than three decades on, her passion for the game endures, and she has introduced it to schools, prisons and city shelters. “Chess is for everyone,” she said.
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| Faith and rhythm: The Catholic Church’s effort to win young followers in Brazil relies in part on influencers, D.J.s and beatboxing nuns. Behind the binge: For South Koreans, “Squid Game” is a whole lot more than entertainment. Back in action: The British band Oasis is ending its 16-year pause with a goal: to conquer America. False pretenses: An artist thought she had sold a painting to Lady Gaga. Then things got strange. |
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Controversy at Glastonbury
The Irish-language rap group Kneecap has faced enormous pushback, including a terrorism charge for one member, for its anti-Israel statements, leading to calls for the band to be axed from the Glastonbury music festival. Its performance on Saturday went ahead, and audiences seemed not to agree with the criticism, cheering as one rapper said, “Israel are war criminals.”
But the festival did apologize for a separate chant of “Death, death, to the I.D.F.” — a reference to Israel’s military — by another band, which had led to accusations that it was promoting hate.
Given the festival’s history of anti-establishment politics, the public statement was surprising, my colleague Alex Marshall, who covers European culture, told me. “But Glastonbury is now Britain’s major music event — it is the establishment,” he said. “That means it’s under vast pressure to not upset anyone.”
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