Yahoo News China launches mock missile strikes on Taiwan to 'punish' new president
China has tested its ability to "seize power" by launching mock missile strikes on Taiwan and pretending to bomb foreign assets.
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The TelegraphCameron, not Farage, destroyed the Conservatives
David Cameron is back from outer space to tell us Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party, that he’s playing “dog-whistle” politics and, we can infer, the Tories ought to run a mile from him. Thus the battle lines of the next leadership contest are drawn. Early advantage goes to elites who will say the party wandered too far to the Right – a view endorsed by a billion deadly dull podcasts made by people who think the Today programme is insufficiently subjective.
- Business Insider
Russian troops surrender to an elite brigade as the Kharkiv front holds, Ukraine says
In a video released by Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade, Russian troops can be seen surrendering in Vovchansk.
- The Telegraph
David Cameron is a disgrace to Britain
Why would anybody trust the Conservative Party to make the big decisions about the future of Britain, when they can’t even agree on what to do about Nigel Farage?
- The Daily Beast
Trump Lets Loose With Unhinged Father’s Day Message for His Enemies
Donald Trump issued an angry and confrontational Father’s Day message Sunday, using the occasion to lash out at his enemies and issue a hyperbolic plea for votes in November’s presidential election.The former president, 78, hit a familiar note in the all-caps missive, writing on Truth Social: “HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE RADICAL LEFT DEGENERATES THAT ARE RAPIDLY BRINGING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THIRD WORLD NATION STATUS WITH THEIR MANY ATTEMPTS AT TRYING TO INFLUENCE OUR S
- Business Insider
A Russian tank stuck in a large crater became a sitting duck for Ukraine's drones, a video appears to show
A video released by Ukraine's 68th Jaeger Brigade appears to show a Russian tank falling into a crater and exploding under Ukrainian fire.
- Sky News
Vladimir Putin has had another bad week – and eyes are now on the Ukraine peace summit
It has been another bad week for Vladimir Putin. In direct response to his unprovoked invasion, Ukraine has this week been able to sign a 10-year security pact with America - a bridge to its eventual membership of NATO, even if that is still a very, very long way away. EU accession talks for Ukraine will also begin before the end of the month.
- The National
Huge poll predicts every seat in Scotland in General Election
A FRESH poll has predicted the result of every seat in the General Election, with the Tories set to retain just one seat in Scotland.
- The Telegraph
Labour to slap higher council tax on homes with big gardens, say Tories
Home owners with gardens will pay higher council tax under plans being considered by Labour, it is claimed.
- The Telegraph
France is on the brink of all-out civil conflict
As some 500,000 Left-wingers marched in France’s cities yesterday, shouting anti-Fascist slogans, never had Lenin’s phrase seemed more apposite: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
- AFP
Trump boasts of cognitive test, then flubs doctor's name
Donald Trump is so proud of a cognitive assessment he took while president that he boasted about it in a speech Saturday, while attacking what he claims is US President Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity.As part of his attack on what he says is the 81-year-old Biden's declining mental acuity, Trump told the laughing crowd in Detroit that the president had been lost while at the G7 in Italy, turning "to look at trees," while other world leaders were looking at a parachutist who'd just landed in an
- HuffPost
Lara Trump Names Difference Between GOP And Dems And Critics Aren’t Having It
Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, who is the co-chair of the Republican National Committee, was accused of gaslighting with her claim.
- INSIDER
The number of powerful Russian glide bombs hitting Ukraine's Dnipro salient falls from 80 a day to 4 thanks to US aid, officer says
Over the last six months, Russia has continually pounded Ukrainian targets with glide bombs — some weighing more than 3,000 pounds.
- The Telegraph
Reform’s Richard Tice: the ex-businessman fuelled by Euroscepticism who quit the Tories
It was a passing comment made by a Parisian taxi driver on a summer’s day in 1991, but the remark has stuck with the passenger more than three decades on.
- AFP
Shunned by West, Russian army deserters live in fear
Russian officer Farkhad Ziganshin had prepared himself for a life of military service since a young age.- 'Live with dignity' - Ziganshin went to a military boarding school at the age of 10 and graduated from a military academy that prepares Russian tank commanders.
- Business Insider
Ukraine proves it can target the Russian air force's weakest link
Ukraine appears to have hit on a strategy to strike back at the Russian jets lobbing glide bombs at its defenses.
- Reuters
Swiss right-wing leader calls Ukraine summit an 'embarrassment'
A leading Swiss right-wing nationalist panned a summit his country was hosting in a bid to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine as an "embarrassment", reflecting the view that the talks are damaging for Switzerland's traditional neutrality. The right-wing Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP), the biggest group in the lower house of parliament, says neutrality is an integral part of Switzerland's prosperity, and it has initiated a referendum to embed the principle in the constitution. Leading figures in the party have argued Switzerland should not have hosted this weekend's summit without Russia, and Nils Fiechter, chief of the SVP's youth wing, delivered a damning verdict on the talks to Russian broadcaster RT.
- The Telegraph
Labour’s secret tax hikes will be merciless
Wes Streeting’s admission yesterday – that Labour has spending plans beyond what it promised in its manifesto – ought to blow open the doors and prompt a proper examination of what exactly a Sir Keir Starmer government would do.
- People
Donald Trump's Fixation with Former “The Apprentice” Contestant Jennifer Murphy Explored in New Book (Exclusive)
Murphy previously claimed that Trump had kissed her. Now, an upcoming book titled 'Apprentice in Wonderland' explores the pair's alleged bond at length
- The Telegraph
Letters: Once-loyal Tories wish to see Conservatism reborn after years of Blairite betrayal
SIR – As a long-term member of the Conservative Party, I cannot wait to see the back of this totally incompetent Government. These Blairites must never be allowed to return. There are a few good MPs, like Penny Mordaunt, and I can only hope that they will join together with Nigel Farage to form a new, invigorated and competent Conservative Party. Meanwhile, I’ll vote for Reform UK. David Bowen Lyme Regis, Dorset
- HuffPost UK
'Admission Of Defeat': Laura Kuenssberg Calls Out 'Desperate' Tory Campaign Tactics
The BBC presenter went straight for the jugular when she interviewed minister Mark Harper.