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United States President Donald Trump says he “wouldn’t pay it either” when asked about the potential $1,000 (£736) ticket price to watch his country play Paraguay in their 2026 World Cup opener. The competition starts on 11 June and the US, who are co-hosting the tournament with Canada and Mexico, will open their campaign in…

In 2021 – following the arrest of Karasira and others like him – Human Rights Watch called on Rwandan authorities to investigate the “suspicious deaths and disappearances of critics, opposition members, civil society actors, and journalists, and prosecute those responsible”.

A military court on Thursday sentenced Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu to death with a two-year reprieve. This means their death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, without the possibility of sentence reduction or parole, Xinhua reports.

In a sign of the national seriousness of the issue, Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin also intervened, condemning the killings as “horrendous and serious”, adding that the protection of wolves was “crucial to the balance of our ecosystem”.

At least 10 people were injured as tornadoes struck parts of northern Oklahoma, according to local reports. Emergency crews conducted search and rescue operations after significant destruction was caused in the city of Enid. Videos show debris flying into the air as the tornadoes damaged properties and infrastructure.

The US and Iran’s rival blockades of the Strait of Hormuz have become a “test of wills”, says BBC’s Chief International correspondent Lyse Doucet. Earlier this month, US forces announced they would intercept or turn back vessels travelling to or from Iran’s coast. Iran calls the blockade “piracy”, and its top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf,…

Experts say prolonged exposure to extreme heat has serious repercussions on health. It can overwhelm the body’s ability to regulate temperature, increasing the risk of dehydration, heatstroke, cardiovascular stress, and even death – particularly among the elderly, infants and outdoor workers.

Money, a Wiradjuri woman, has received accolades for her poetry, including the 2025 Kate Challis RAKA Award, which celebrates Indigenous artists. She is also a recipient of the First Nations Emerging Career Award by the Australia Council for the Arts.

A shipment of gifts recorded in the files led us to another apartment. Details of yet another, rented in 2018 and 2019, were buried in a 10,000-page credit card bill. It also recorded the daily living expenses of the woman staying there, who had her own card on Epstein’s account with a $2,000 (£1,477) monthly…

Earlier this year, Anthropic described distillation “attacks” by three AI laboratories, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, saying it had found them all to be working to copy Anthropic models through distillation campaigns. All three of the labs are based in China.