BBC
At least two people have died as Hurricane Beryl slammed into southeast Texas, knocking out power for more than two million people while bringing heavy rain and fierce wind gusts.
When Beryl first hit Texas on Monday morning, it landed as a category one hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm.
Officials have warned of destructive winds, up to 15in (38cm) of rain and "life-threatening" storm surges.
More than 1,000 flights in Houston's largest airport have been cancelled.
The state governor’s office has repeatedly urged residents not to underestimate the storm, which caused at least 10 deaths in the Caribbean days before.
In Texas, a 53-year-old man died after ripping winds downed powerlines and knocked a tree onto his home in Harris County, causing his roof to collapse.
In the same county, which includes parts of Houston, a 74-year-old woman was also reported dead after a tree crashed through the roof of her home. The police were notified by the woman's granddaughter.
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BBC
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his prime minister, Gabriel Attal, to remain in post "for the time being to ensure the country's stability", after election results left no party with an outright majority.
Mr Attal, who led the president's Ensemble alliance's election campaign, handed his resignation to Mr Macron on Monday, only for the president to refuse.
Although Ensemble lost many of its seats in Sunday's parliament election, it came second, behind a left-wing alliance but ahead of the far right which had been expected to win.
The unexpected result leaves French politics in deadlock, with no party able to form a government by itself.
Kyiv Independant
Russia launched a mass missile attack on cities across Ukraine including Kyiv on the morning of July 8, killing at least 37 civilians and injuring nearly 170 others.
The latest figures can be found here.
The aerial attack targeted Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Pokrovsk, and Kramatorsk, damaging "50 civilian sites, including residential buildings, a business center, and two medical facilities," the State Emergency Service reported.
The July 8 attack has been the deadliest in months, with the casualty figures comparable to massive strikes carried out by Russia during the winter.
Russian forces launched a number of large-scale attacks during the spring, but these mostly targeted energy infrastructure.
Al Jazeera
The war in Sudan is approaching its 16th month, with tens of thousands of people killed and millions displaced in what international organisations say is the world’s worst displacement crisis.
Fighting erupted between forces loyal to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, the two factions vying for control of the country.
Sudan has been in transition since the 2019 overthrow of strongman President Omar al-Bashir and a subsequent military coup in 2021 as civilian forces tried to establish a government while the two armed parties sparred.
Here is a roundup of the fighting and its wider effect across the country:
Al Jazeera
Hamas says escalating Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip are not helping negotiations to end the war and has accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of creating obstacles to the talks.
In a statement on Monday, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh warned that the “catastrophic consequences of what is happening in Gaza” could “reset the negotiation process to square one”.
Netanyahu and his army will bear “full responsibility for the collapse of this path”, Hamas quoted Haniyeh as saying.
The statement said Haniyeh made “urgent contact” with mediators Qatar and Egypt over the expanding actions of the Israeli military, which issued further evacuation orders for areas in the neighbourhoods of Gaza City, displacing thousands of Palestinians, many of whom have been forced to move multiple times.
On Sunday, Israel’s military ordered “immediate” evacuation for the Tuffah, Daraj and the Old City neighbourhoods of Gaza City in the north.
Deutsche Welle
The leftist New Popular Front was cobbled together to prevent the far-right National Rally from sweeping up all the votes. Now it's won a surprising majority of the vote in France's runoffs.
Following European parliamentary elections in June, France's voters witnessed two surprising developments at home. First, in light of the defeat he suffered at the European polls, French President Emmanuel Macron moved to dissolve France's parliament, the National Assembly, and called snap elections.
A day later, France's political left, traditionally splintered into numerous small parties, announced it was forging a new alliance, the New Popular Front (NFP) in order to prevent the far-right National Rally (RN)from winning at the polls.
They appear to have achieved that goal, emerging from Sunday's runoff election with the most seats in parliament. "The New Popular Front is ready to govern," said Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the NFP's largest party, the left-wing France Unbowed (LFI) party, on Sunday evening.
Deutsche Welle
Self-proclaimed preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in court in the port city on the Indian Ocean along with 94 co-defendants.
The accused are also facing charges of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping and child torture and cruelty in separate cases.
They all pleaded not guilty at an initial hearing in January.
The remains of more than 440 people were discovered and exhumed in an isolated region just inland from the coastal town of Malindi.
Autopsies carried out on 100 victims determined that the majority had died of starvation, but that some, including children, had been strangled, beaten or suffocated.
Court documents reported that certain bodies had had their organs removed in the grim case which has been dubbed the "Shakahola forest massacre."
The Guardian, Australia
Authorities repeatedly ignored pleas that a 13-year-old boy was at risk of harm in the days before the child was allegedly sexually assaulted in an overcrowded Queensland police watch house cell.
Documents seen by Guardian Australia show psychologists and youth workers separately raised the alarm to the youth justice department about the size and vulnerability of the boy and sought his transfer out of the Cairns police watch house for his own safety.
Concern was also raised about a deterioration of the mental state of the alleged perpetrator, a 16-year-old boy, who had been in the watch house for about 20 days when the incident occurred.
The police holding cells were so crowded at the time of the alleged attack, which occurred earlier this year, that four children were being held in a single cell.
The Guardian, UK
Every area of England should take over key powers from Westminster, Keir Starmer will say as he and Angela Rayner declare an end to the “levelling up” agenda and look to kickstart a new era of devolution.
The prime minister and his deputy will meet every regional mayor in England on Tuesday on just their fifth day in office, as the party draws up a devolution bill to be launched as part of next week’s king’s speech.
Starmer and Rayner will use the meeting to underline their desire for a new wave of deals which could see local authorities take over everything from public transport to infrastructure to skills funding.
NPR
A half dozen women — in their 30s, 40s and 50s — gather in a classroom in Phoenix for a few hours on a weekday morning.
They are all caregivers of young children.
There's Yosbri Rojas. When her own 8-year-old is at school, she takes care of two younger children, whose father works with Rojas’ husband installing fiber optic lines.
"I like that the children feel happy with me," Rojas says in Spanish.
Graciela Cruz is also here. She works early mornings in a warehouse, from 4 to 9 a.m. During the day, she parents her own 2-year-old daughter and also watches her neighbors’ 1-year-old while the child's parents are at work cleaning houses and offices.
USA Today
Democrats are all atwitter, having a hard but necessary discussion about President Joe Biden’s age and ability to continue as the party’s presidential candidate.
The political media and associated pundits and poll watchers are also on the case, frisking about like a dog with a roast-beef-scented chew toy, gleefully excited to have a new toy to toss around.
Apparently, it got dull for them to focus on the fact that the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee is a convicted felon who fomented an insurrection, still denies the outcome of the last election and wants to round up millions of immigrants and put them in camps while they await deportation. (Rounding up people and putting them in camps is not a thing that, historically speaking, ends well.)
Those pesky details about Donald Trump have largely been cast aside since Biden got on a presidential debate stage, acted old and prompted the news media at large to say, “Yipeeeee! A different kind of crisis!”
CNN
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is providing significant financial firepower to Smartmatic as the voting technology company fights Fox News and Newsmax over the right-wing networks’ repeated airing of 2020 election lies.
Hoffman, a billionaire venture capitalist and prominent Democratic donor, framed his multimillion-dollar investment in Smartmatic as a way to strengthen the company’s global operations as it pursues the costly defamation lawsuits.
“Smartmatic built a global business by using technology to better engage citizens, regardless of party or ideology, by making voting simple and trustworthy,” Hoffman said in a statement. “After Donald Trump lost in 2020, however, Smartmatic became a target of the defamatory campaign to overturn his defeat.”
Talking Points Memo
Amid the chaos of the will-they, won’t-they storyline that has seized the Democratic Party in the wake of President Biden’s abysmal debate performance, team Trump has slipped into the quieter moments of the media maelstrom, trying to paint their agenda as much more moderate than it actually is.
Take, for instance, Donald Trump’s recent Truth Social post, posturing ignorance around Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s detailed plan, penned by Trump loyalists, for a second Trump administration that involves dismantling the federal government and rebuilding it on a new, far-right foundation, including a professed embrace of Christian nationalism. Even the very extremists in his past administration who have had a direct hand in writing some of the Project 2025 platform, like Stephen Miller, are trying to distance themselves from the agenda that the Heritage Foundation has described as a volley in a modern-day Revolutionary War.
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