French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend a G7 summit starting Monday while organizers fear potentially violent protests. The summit of some of the world’s richest nations from June 15-17 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva is meant to discuss the Middle East, Ukraine and global economic imbalances. In nearby Geneva, Switzerland, business owners and local leaders want to avoid a repeat of violent protests that smashed storefronts on the sidelines of the G8 summit in 2003, when Russia was in the club...

Canada introduced legislation on Wednesday that could bar children younger than 16 from having social media accounts unless the companies show they can make their platforms safe. Canada is joining a growing global effort to tighten safety protections. Canadian government officials said social media platforms can obtain an exemption if they have put in place sufficient safeguards. “We are failing our children. Enough is enough,” Marc Miller, Canada’s culture minister, said. “We need basic protection in place.” The legislation covers seven types of harmful content including content that induces children to harm themselves, content that incites violence and foments hatred...

Bill Gates said Wednesday that he made a “grave error in judgment” by meeting with Jeffrey Epstein but denied any wrongdoing as the Microsoft co-founder faced hours of questioning from lawmakers about his relationship with the disgraced financier. In an opening statement provided to The Associated Press, Gates said he “should never have met with Epstein in the first place,” but that he “never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct.” The tech billionaire became the latest powerful figure linked to Epstein to testify before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door deposition. The...

An American diplomat was found dead in Myanmar’s largest city, the U.S. State Department said, and members of the diplomatic community in Yangon say a Thai woman has been detained by police in connection with the investigation. American officials in Thailand and the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar referred questions on the case to the State Department, which confirmed the “death of a U.S. government employee” assigned to the embassy in Yangon but gave no other details. “Out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones, we have no further information to provide at this time,” the State...

A minibus packed with schoolchildren caught fire in central Zimbabwe Wednesday afternoon, killing seven, authorities said. Twenty-four children were on board when the vehicle burst into flames in the city of Gweru, according to a police statement, adding that an investigation was underway, but initial examination suggested a jerry can of petrol kept in the minibus may have fueled the fire. Authorities didn’t immediately share the number of the injured. Local media reported the driver and conductor were taken to a hospital and that all the dead were schoolchildren. State broadcaster ZBC News showed photos of the burned-out vehicle, saying...

President Zelenskky: “Today, for the first time, we mark the Day of the Unmanned Systems Forces, and from now on, each year, June 11 will be a day of our gratitude to the warriors of the Unmanned Systems Forces. “Modern warfare can no longer be imagined without drones, and Ukrainian unmanned systems are operating successfully at different levels: from carrying out missions on the frontline to striking important enemy facilities hundreds of kilometers deep inside its territory. “All of this is being documented, and it is thanks to the precision and skill of our operators that Russia’s losses have long...

By Ibidunni Doyinsola The 2026 FIFA World Cup has increasingly been branded a political fiasco. FIFA constantly repeats its famous phrase, “Keep politics out of football,” yet the organisation now appears to have forgotten its own words. FIFA only seems to remember that slogan when it suits its interests. The build up to the tournament has already been filled with controversies, with the host nation, the United States of America, behaving in ways rarely seen from a World Cup host. Since I began watching the FIFA World Cup in 2010, I cannot remember a tournament surrounded by this level of...

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