Khamenei Warns U.S. Of “Irreparable” Consequences, Bali Volcano, Spree Swim

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Buenos Aires-based daily Crónica lends its front page to former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whom it calls “a prisoner in her home,” as she began serving her six-year sentence under house arrest on Tuesday. Kirchner was convicted in 2022 for fraud involving public contracts in Patagonia; following a Supreme Court ruling, she is barred from holding public office in her lifetime. While prosecutors sought her imprisonment, the judge granted house arrest due to her age (of 72), requiring her to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. The decision has sparked protests among her supporters, who demand her release.

🌎 7 THINGS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW

• Israel targets Iranian nuclear sites as Trump considers U.S. involvement. Both nations continue to exchange fire as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with his national security team to discuss joining the Israeli offensive, after calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” on Tuesday. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman warned that “any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region” — echoed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who said in a televised message that “the Americans should know that any U.S. military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable consequences.” Read more about it in this article by Andrea Malaguti for La Stampa: Putin To Netanyahu, A New Babylonian Age Of Pure Power.

• G7 ends without joint statements on Ukraine, Middle East. The G7 summit has wrapped up in Kananaskis, Canada, overshadowed by the escalating Israel-Iran conflict and U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden exit on Monday. Although there was no joint statement of support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky left the summit with new aid pledged from Canada. While leaders also stopped short of calling for Israel-Iran ceasefire, they still issued six joint statements on issues including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, migrant smuggling and critical minerals. 

• India and Canada restore diplomatic relations after two years. India and Canada agreed to restore diplomatic services at the G7 Summit on Tuesday, nearly two years after tensions erupted when Ottawa accused New Delhi of involvement in the killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. Following their meeting, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Mark Carney made plans for collaboration in critical sectors built on mutual trust. Modi conversed separately with U.S. President Donald Trump to reject recent U.S. mediation in the India-Pakistan conflict. 

• UK parliament votes to repeal Victorian-era anti-abortion law. Britain’s parliament has voted 379 to 137 to decriminalize abortion in England and Wales on Tuesday, repealing Victorian-era law that sentenced women to life in prison for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks. While the amendment removes criminal liability for women in all cases, it still allows prosecution of medical professionals assisting in abortions beyond 24 weeks, and remains part of a broader justice bill that is subject to change.

• Bali flights paused after Indonesian volcano eruption. Dozens of airlines are cancelling flights to and from Bali after a volcano in Eastern Indonesia erupted on Tuesday, spewing out a 10km ash tower and prompting evacuations and the highest-level disaster alert. The volcano, located just an hour east of Bali on Flores Island, has shown ongoing seismic activity, and in its wake, authorities are monitoring conditions and warning of potential mudflow flooding. For more, we offer this piece from the Worldcrunch vault: It’s Her Job To Predict When Iceland’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes Erupt.

• Trump to extend Tiktok deadline for third time. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he will extend TikTok’s U.S. sale-or-ban deadline by another 90 days, marking the third such extension since taking office. This is despite former President Joe Biden’s mandated ban of the app that was contingent on Chinese-divestment from owning it. Aimed at finalizing a deal to ensure American data security, the extension comes amid Trump’s public support for the app — credited by him for his youth vote success — and ongoing interest in a deal from multiple U.S. investors, including computing giant Oracle and YouTube influencer MrBeast. 

• News Quiz! Why did an 80-year-old man get in trouble in Rome’s center?
A. He carved his name into the Colosseum
B. He screamed in the Sistine Chapel
C. He urinated in the Trevi Fountain
D. He drove down the Spanish Steps

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£465,400

A historic collection of personal scientific papers by WWII codebreaker Alan Turing, was sold on Tuesday at a Rare Book Auctions event in Lichfield, UK, for a record £465,400 ($544,400) — more than triple the £150,000 pre-sale estimate. The papers of the father of computer science, nearly discarded during a recent house clearance, were found in a loft and included Turing’s 1938 PhD dissertation Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (£110,500) and his groundbreaking 1936 paper On Computable Numbers (£208,000). Originally gifted by Turing’s mother to his friend Norman Routledge, the documents were preserved by Routledge’s relatives before going to auction.

📰 IN OTHER NEWS

💥 In Tamra, an Arab town in northern Israel, the fallout of Iran’s missile strikes has taken a devastating toll. As Israel and Iran trade blows, residents without proper shelters — especially in Muslim, Druze and Christian communities — are bearing the brunt of the escalating conflict.
— DIE ZEIT

🌱 As Israel’s devastating war on Gaza continues, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg draws a clear link between environmental devastation and political violence. In Gaza, like elsewhere, environmental destruction is yet another weapon of war.
— AGÊNCIA PÚBLICA

🔍 Scientists are racing to define and map the human exposome — the sum of all environmental exposures over a lifetime — in a groundbreaking effort that could transform our understanding of disease and precision medicine.
— UNDARK

📣 VERBATIM

“This is a kind of fraternal assistance from the Korean people and leader Kim Jong-un to our country.”

— On Tuesday, during a visit to Pyongyang, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu announced that North Korea would dispatch 1,000 deminers and 5,000 military builders to aid in rebuilding infrastructure in Russia’s war-damaged Kursk region. The move marks one of the most overt shows of support from Pyongyang for Moscow since the deepening of their bilateral ties amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. North Korea has become one of Russia’s main allies during its more than three-year-long war, sending thousands of troops and conventional weapons to help the Kremlin oust Ukrainian forces from Kursk.