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Putin’s forces are celebrating their advances in eastern Ukraine. Finland and Sweden have signed the Nato accession protocol. Across Europe, police have arrested close to 130 people for suspected involvement with human trafficking. In a Chicago suburb, at least six people died in a fourth of July parade mass shooting. Six people had died, and thirty are being treated in hospital. Shanghai has announced two more rounds of coronavirus testing.

A shooting in a Copenhagen shopping centre left three people dead and four seriously injured. In Libya, the UN finds ‘probable’ mass graves. Russian forces have taken the Ukrainian city Lysychansk, leading them to turn their attention to trying to seize all of the Donetsk regions. Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion providers are now fearing for their lives. The Uvalde School District Police Chief has resigned from the city council.

The Supreme Court has limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Russian missiles landed on the port of Odesa, hitting an apartment building and a resort, killing over eighteen people. A Florida judge has blocked the state from having a new law which would ban abortions after fifteen weeks. Ketanji Brown Jackson has become a new Supreme Court justice. Taiwan has said that freedom in Hong Kong has “vanished”. Californian wildfires have burned over nine hundred acres.

The United States believes that Putin wants to capture most of Ukraine. Putin has said he would retaliate if NATO set up infrastructure in Finland and Sweden. Anti-abortion lawmakers are attempting to advance plans to prevent patients from seeking abortions in other states. The Israeli government has voted to dissolve parliament. Regarding the January 6th Capitol riot, the House select committee has issued a subpoena to former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone.

A former White House official has revealed that Donald Trump attempted to lead the armed mob to the Capitol. In Southern Ukraine, a missile strike has killed at least three people in a residential building. NATO leaders are expected to sign off on a new Eastern Europe force model. In the Congo, Rwandans are afraid of leaving their homes as rebel attacks increase and hate against Rwanda grows. Regarding the outbreak of monkeypox, Biden has expanded access to the vaccination in states with higher cases.

A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian shopping centre with over one thousand civilians inside, killing at least sixteen people. This prompted the US to name Moscow as a state sponsor of terrorism. In Texas, at least forty-six people were found dead in an abandoned truck. Tokyo is experiencing its worst heatwave since 1875. Ghislaine Maxwell is facing up to 55 years in jail for her role in sex-trafficking teenage girls In rural Missouri, a train carrying over two hundred passengers crashed into a dump truck.

Nationally, protests are taking place in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Russian cluster missiles hit a Ukrainian Airborne unit as it retreated from Severodonetsk. The Ukrainian president has urged the G7 leaders to keep the pressure on Russia. G7 has pledged to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance the infrastructure needed in developing countries. In Sri Lanka, the severe fuel crisis has schools shutting down and employees being asked to work from home.

Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from Severodonetsk. The European Union granted Ukraine membership candidate status. Today, an earthquake aftershock killed five people in Afghanistan. The United States Senate has made key gun law breakthroughs by agreeing to a package including modest new firearms restrictions and $15 billion in mental health and school security funding. The FDA has banned Juul e-cigarettes from being sold in the U.S. California’s largest reservoirs are at critically low levels.

Afghanistan's Taliban-led government is appealing for more international aid. Today, Ukraine will be accepted as a candidate to join the European Union. Officials in Uvalde, Texas are trying to raise the funds to demolish Robb elementary school. In Quito, Ecuador, thousands of indigenous people have marched in a peaceful protest demanding the president acknowledge price rises. China is grappling with the worst flooding in decades and record-high heat waves.

In Afghanistan, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake has killed over nine hundred and twenty people and injured over six hundred others. At least fifteen people have died after Russian rockets rained down on the Ukrainian city Kharkiv. Russian forces have seized several more villages in Eastern Ukraine. Biden is urging Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months. Police response to the Robb elementary school shooting has been called “an abject failure”. In the next two years, Amazon risks running out of workers in the United States.

Russia has been angered by the EU's choice to cut off an outpost in the Baltic sea. The House select committee on the Capitol Riot will likely show that Donald Trump and top advisers aimed to return Trump to the White House by attempting to send fake slates of electors. This year a record number of LGBTQ+ candidates are running for Congress. Spain is experiencing wildfires amid the European heatwaves. Tesla is being sued by former employees for its choice to carry out “mass layoffs”.

The EU said that, by blocking millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain, Putin is committing a “real war crime”. Ukraine is awaiting the European Union membership decision. A teenager has been killed after a shooting in a Washington D.C. music festival. In Ethiopia, over two-hundred Amhara people have been killed in an attack blamed on a rebel group. Recent flooding in Bangladesh and India has left millions awaiting relief. A Japanese court has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was not unconstitutional.