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Brazilian daily O Globo lends its front page to former President Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on Monday for allegedly orchestrating a failed coup to overturn the 2022 election he lost. Former aid to the president Mauro Cid has turned the state’s focal witness, telling Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court in his key testimony that Bolsonaro “edited” a draft decree to declare a state of emergency, which would have prompted an election redo. Bolsonaro is barred from running for re-election in 2026, and along with six officials implicated, faces up to 40 years in prison.

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• At least two dead in one of Russia’s largest air attacks on Ukraine. Russia has fired waves of drones and missiles on Kyiv and Odessa overnight in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called “one of the biggest” attacks since the war began in 2022. At least two people were killed and 13 wounded after Moscow’s forces fired over 315 drones and seven missiles at Ukraine as part of intensified bombardments which Russia says are retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces. Zelensky has urged Kyiv’s allies to take steps “to force Russia into peace.” Follow our coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war here.

• Israel set to deport Gaza aid boat activists, Israeli gunfire kills 17 near aid site. Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and other activists who were detained aboard a Gaza-bound aid boat have been taken to a Tel Aviv airport for deportation, Israel said on Tuesday. The yacht trying to bring humanitarian aid to the enclave was seized by Israeli forces and towed to the Israeli port city of Ashdod on Monday. Meanwhile, local health authorities reported that Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as displaced people were approaching an aid distribution site of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in central Gaza on Tuesday.

• Trump sends Marines and more National Guard members to Los Angeles. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of more National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles as protests opposing immigration raids continue for a fourth day. About 700 Marines were expected to reach the city on Tuesday morning. California Governor Gavin Newsom warned he would take legal action against the deployments, calling Trump “deranged” and “dictatorial.” Tensions between the federal government and LA escalated dramatically as residents took to the streets to demonstrate against a series of brutal crackdowns on immigrant communities. For more, check this piece by French analyst Pierre Haski: Trump Sends In National Guard — This Is How “Authoritarian Drift” Catches Fire.

• Israel strikes Yemen’s Hodeidah port, a first in the conflict. The Israeli navy struck Yemen’s rebel-held port city on Tuesday, marking the first time its forces have been involved in attacks against the Houthi rebels. The military said the attack followed “the aggression of the Houthi terrorist regime towards the State of Israel, including the launch of surface-to-surface missiles and UAVs (drones) toward Israeli territory.” Yemen’s Houthi rebels have repeatedly launched missiles and drones at Israel since the Gaza war broke out in October 2023.

• DEVELOPING: At least eight killed in Austria school attack. Austrian media reported on Tuesday that an attack at a school in the Austrian city of Graz has left at least eight people dead and several seriously injured. Police said an operation was underway and the building is being evacuated. Local media also reported that the suspected gunman, thought to be a pupil, is believed to have killed himself.

• Birth rates plummeting worldwide, warns UN. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned in a new report that hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, leading to “an unprecedented decline in fertility rates” worldwide. The report cites the prohibitive cost of parenthood and the lack of a suitable partner as some of the reasons behind this decline. Check this Worldcrunch original: France To Iran To Japan: How Governments Try (And Fail) To Make People Have Babies.

• News Quiz! A small marble sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin has sold for 860,000 euros at an auction in central France. What is special about it?

A. It was thought to be a copy for decades
B. It is in rare pink marble
C. It was found at the bottom of a swimming pool
D. It is just a foot

[Answer below]

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With a time of 2 minutes, 05.70 seconds, Canada’s Summer McIntosh broke her second world record in three days at the Canadian swimming trials on Monday, eclipsing Hungarian Katinka Hosszu’s decade-old 200 meter individual medley mark by half of a second. The 18-year-old, already a multiple Olympic champion in Paris, said the record was a long-time goal and major confidence boost ahead of the upcoming World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. 

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✝️ Curia cleanup, abuses, Ukraine-Russia mediation, China… A month of pontificate as a litmus test of the Leo method.
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🎖️ As a child in the 1970s, German journalist Kirsten Küppers found joy, freedom and ease on the U.S. Army base in Mannheim. With Trump asserting his power, it may be simply impossible for that America to be found today in Germany.
— DIE ZEIT

🧠 A laboratory at Spain’s University of Murcia is trying to find the common denominator among all the intelligences that inhabit this planet, no matter how different they may be.
— LA MAREA

📣 VERBATIM

“We want to finish the game and win.”

— French far-right leader Marine Le Pen sharply criticized the European Union at a rally on Monday marking one year after her National Rally (RN) party’s historic victory in the European elections. Le Pen, who has been found guilty of embezzling EU funds and barred from running for political office in France for five years, accused Brussels of promoting mass immigration and undermining European culture. Joined by other European far-right leaders like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s Matteo Salvini, she called for unity of nationalist powers to “take back Europe,” now pledging after previous calls for EU exit to reshape the Old Continent from within.