Monday, June 30, 2025
Israeli airstrike on popular Gaza beachside cafe leaves at least 30 dead
Six In The Morning Monday 30 June 2025
Israeli strike on Gaza seafront cafe kills at least 20 Palestinians, witnesses and rescuers say
At least 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit a popular seafront cafe frequently used by activists, journalists, and local residents in western Gaza on Monday, according to medics and eyewitnesses.
Rescue teams evacuated 20 bodies and dozens wounded from Al-Baqa Cafeteria, an outdoor venue which consisted of tents along the beach, a spokesperson for Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence told the BBC.
He added that emergency crews were still searching through a deep crater left by the explosion.
Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war
Oleh, 19, was offered $1,000 for a paint attack on a police station – but the bag he was given contained a crude bomb
Mon 30 Jun 2025 12.00 BST
Oleh found the job via a Telegram channel offering day work and side gigs. It sounded easy enough: he was to travel from his home in eastern Ukraine to the western city of Rivne, pick up a rucksack containing a paint canister and spray it outside the local police station.
It would require nimble feet to flee the scene without being caught, but the money on offer – $1,000 – was good, fantastic even, for what amounted to a morning’s work for the 19-year-old.
More trafficking victims forced into online scam hubs
International police body Interpol says scam centers that use human trafficking victims to carry out their crimes have gone global. Once limited to Southeast Asia, the criminal model is spreading — and uses AI.
Human trafficking-fueled scam centers have significantly expanded their operations worldwide, according to a crime trend update released on Monday by the international police agency Interpol.
Hubs where trafficking victims are forced to take part in online fraud first emerged in a few Southeast Asian nations, but investigators are now also uncovering similar fraud centers in other regions.
France, UK, Germany slam threats against IAEA chief after allegations of Mossad ties
Britain, France and Germany on Monday denounced threats against the head of the UN nuclear watchdog after a hardline Iranian newspaper said International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi should be tried and executed as an Israeli agent.
The foreign ministries of France, Germany and the UK on Monday condemned threats against IAEA chief Rafael Grossi after Tehran accused the head of the UN nuclear watchdog of "betrayal of his duties" for not condemning the Israeli and US strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, and Iranian lawmakers this week.
"France, Germany and the United Kingdom condemn threats against the Director General of the IAEA Rafael Grossi and reiterate our full support to the Agency and the DG in carrying out their mandate," said a statement from the three countries' foreign ministries.
Serbian police remove Belgrade street blockades, more protesters arrested
A number of protesters have been arrested, but police have not shared the exact number.
Serbian police have cleared barricades set up by protesters in the capital after a weekend of antigovernment demonstrations that led to clashes with the police and captured an outpouring of months-long public dissent against the government.
On Monday, police removed metal fences and moved rubbish containers that had been blocking traffic in Belgrade’s Zemun district, while several dozen protesters chanted antigovernment slogans and declared they would return to the streets.
Why Israel prefers dictators next door
Netanyahu’s game plan for the Middle East
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Trump battles for credit for his Iran intervention
Six In The Morning Sunday 29 June 2025
Iran could start enriching uranium for bomb within months, UN nuclear chief says
Stuart Lau
Iran has the capacity to start enriching uranium again - for a possible bomb - in "a matter of months", the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said.
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the US strikes on three Iranian sites last weekend had caused severe but "not total" damage, contradicting Donald Trump's claim that Iran's nuclear facilities were "totally obliterated".
"Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there," Grossi said on Saturday.
‘If things were bad before, they will be worse’: can families recover from the stress and strain of war?
Sun 29 Jun 2025 08.00 BST
In Ukraine, three years of war have taken a huge toll on the relationships of those in combat– and experts say society must start to address the problem
When her husband went off to help defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion in 2022, Yulia stayed at home with their toddler. She describes being overcome by a feeling of “numbness”.
“I’d been left alone with a small child. The worst thing for her was the thought that her father had left her and would never come back. The worst time was when she blocked her father when he tried to call.
“It took several months to get a connection again. I’m glad my husband didn’t give up.”
Free iPhones, Fake Dating Sites and Porn ChatsThe Dirty Tricks of Online Scammers
By Nikolai Antoniadis, Sven Becker, Roman Höfner, Sara Wess und Christoph Winterbach
Crazy. She won an iPhone. Just by taking part in an online survey.
That, at least, is what she thought.
The 50-something woman from Scotland, we’ll call her Martha Campbell, believed what she read on her screen in early 2021. For just a single pound, the new smartphone would be hers. The artist entered her credit card details and the transaction was processed. "It was too good to be true,” she says today. The iPhone never arrived.
Israeli court postpones Netanyahu appearance in graft trial
An Israeli court on Sunday postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay, as US President Donald Trump called for the case to be thrown out.
"Following the explanations given... we partially accept the request and cancel at this stage Mr Netanyahu's hearings scheduled" for this week, the Jerusalem district court said in its ruling, published online by Netanyahu's Likud party.
Netanyahu's lawyers had asked the court to excuse him from testifying over the next two weeks so he could focus on security issues following a ceasefire with Iran and amid ongoing fighting in Gaza where Israeli hostages are held.
Uganda’s President Museveni confirms bid to extend nearly 40-year rule
The 80-year-old leader pledges economic growth from today’s GDP of $66bn to $500bn within the next five years.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he will contest next year’s presidential election, setting the stage for a potential extension of his nearly 40-year rule.
The 80-year-old announced late on Saturday that he had expressed his interest “in running for … the position of presidential flag bearer” for his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.
UK police assess footage of Glastonbury acts over anti-Israel chants
British police say they are reviewing comments made on stage by rap punk duo Bob Vylan and hip hop trio Kneecap at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Rapper Bobby Vylan took to the festival’s third-biggest West Holts Stage on Saturday shouting “Free, free Palestine,” before leading crowds to chants against the Israeli military.
Video showed the rapper shouting into the mic, “Alright, but have you heard this one though? Death, death to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces).”
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Six In The Morning Saturday 28 June 2025
Iran holds state funeral for military leaders killed in Israel conflict
Dearbail Jordan
A state funeral has been held in Iran for about 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel.
Coffins draped in the Iranian flag, bearing portraits of deceased commanders, were flanked by crowds near Tehran's Enghelab Square.
The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this week, after the US became directly involved by bombing key nuclear sites in Iran.
China ‘planned car collision’ during Taiwan vice-president’s visit to Prague
Czech intelligence revealed Chinese diplomats allegedly planned staged incident during Hsiao Bi-khim’s 2024 visit
Sat 28 Jun 2025 14.05 BST
China ‘planned car collision’ during Taiwan vice-president’s visit to Prague
Czech intelligence revealed Chinese diplomats allegedly planned staged incident during Hsiao Bi-khim’s 2024 visit
Taiwan’s vice-president has said she will not be intimidated after reports by Czech intelligence that Chinese officials planned to stage a car collision when she was in Prague last year.
Hsiao Bi-khim visited the Czech Republic in March 2024, in the first overseas visit by her and Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, after winning the election in January. It was reported at the time that a Chinese diplomat had run a red light while following her car – under police escort – from the airport.
Big attendance expected at Budapest Pride despite police ban
The annual Budapest Pride march this year is expected to go ahead in the face of a police ban and government hostility. Organizers said they expect tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations to attend the event.
LGBTQ+ rights supporters from some 30 countries are expected to join the Budapest Pride march on Saturday, defying a police ban imposed under legislation introduced earlier this year that forbids the exposure of young people to non-heterosexual lifestyles.
The annual event has now come to symbolize resistance to a general repression of civil society in Hungary under the nationalist government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which is facing a growing challenge from center-right opposition leader Peter Magyar's Tisza party ahead of elections next year.
'We only have one exit': Life under blockade in West Bank villages
Since the Israel-Iran war started in June 2025, life has become even more constrained in Ras Karkar, a village west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Hatem Nofal, head of the local emergency committee, describes a daily existence dictated by Israeli iron gates, expanding settlements, and the increasing isolation of his community.
There are currently nearly 900 movement obstacles in the West Bank, including checkpoints, concrete roadblocks, earthmounds, and, notably, iron gates locked at the entrances to Palestinian villages. The UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA recorded 205 of these gates in May 2025, with most being closed or intermittently controlled by the Israeli army.
This policy of closure has intensified since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, and further, with the Israel-Iran war, making daily life for Palestinians even more challenging. In August 2023, OCHA documented 645 permanent obstacles across the West Bank, including 118 iron gates.
Protesters gather in Bangkok to demand Thai PM's resignation over leaked Cambodia call
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Thailand’s capital on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, part of the brewing political turmoil set off by a leaked phone call with former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Paetongtarn faces growing dissatisfaction over her handling of a recent border dispute with Cambodia involving an armed confrontation May 28. One Cambodian soldier was killed in a relatively small, contested area. The clash set off a string of investigations that could lead to her removal.
'I had never been separated from my family': Refugee children
If the global refugee population were just 100 people, 33 would be children, each in need of protection.
Sameer - not his real name - fled Afghanistan when he was just 17 years old.
The Taliban had overthrown the government of President Ashraf Ghani - which his father worked for - placing his family at risk.
“I was doing well in my life, practising and exercising normally," Sameer, an aspiring mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, tells Al Jazeera. "But when the Taliban took power … the situation became very hard, like putting us under pressure.”