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“The shower is expected to peak this week; the American Meteor Society estimated that “maximum activity” for the June Bootids would occur on June 20”
“Petrobalt’s involvement came into sharper focus after the September 2025 incident involving the Russian fishing vessel Mekhanik Stepanov.”
“Even before Oct. 7, he was no fan of Israel, declaring in August 2022 that Israel was "a terrorist state" and "worst [sic] than Hitler."”
“Wales finished eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games winning 28 medals in Birmingham, with eight gold, six silvers and 14 bronze.”
“Mayor Sobyanin claimed more than 500 Ukrainian drones were intercepted across the country overnight, with Moscow's air defences alone downing 180 unmanned aircraft approaching the capital.”
“while the Society for Popular Astronomy predicted that the shower would peak on June 27.”
“The company designed the Project 22120 Purga-class patrol vessels operated by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).”
“Washah’s late brother acts as "a key terrorist in Hamas' rocket and weapons production headquarters," the IDF said. The Washah brothers join around a dozen or so Al Jazeera reporters and photojournalists who have been killed by the IDF for…”
“The team will compete across 10 different sports with 67 female and 48 male athletes with ages ranging from 16 to 73 years old.”
“The strikes extended to southern Russia, where a separate drone attack on the Rostov region killed one person and wounded at least two others, according to Moscow region governor Andrey Vorobyov.”
“Experts recommend giving your eyes time to adapt to the darkness, preferably about half an hour.”
“More than $2bn of federal money, a promised 250,000 jobs by 2031, an extra $200bn of economic output, and a target of lifting business AI adoption from barely 12 per cent today to 60 per cent by 2034.”
“Israel has provided extensive evidence since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack that scores of supposed journalists in Gaza are actually terrorist operatives, including at least half a dozen Al Jazeera employees and more than 150 others.”
“Twenty-two Para-athletes are selected with Glasgow hosting more para-events than in any other Games.”
“Perhaps most alarmingly, a 2021 international survey found that Norway’s students ranked last among 65 countries when it came to their enjoyment of reading.”
“between 250 million and 1.2 billion people could be climate refugees by the middle of the century”
“Al Jazeera claimed Washah is "the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023."”
“Former Wales and British and Irish Lions fly‑half Gareth Davies was appointed Chair of Team Wales in April 2023.”
“The ranking process began with a comprehensive selection from over 5,000 of the world's largest and most influential companies”
“His most local team is in Chicago, Illinois, a two-hour drive away and a place that everyone in Wisconsin hates.”
“Two other Saturday strikes took out [...] Hussein Safadi, "the commander of Hamas's sniper array in Gaza City."”
“Ruby Evans became the first Welsh athlete in more than fifty years to win the all‑around title at the British Artistic Gymnastics Championships in March.”
“The process involved a rigorous 4-step methodology to identify the top 750 companies”
“Don’s group of friends plan to fly to the UK for the 2028 Euros instead.”
“Late Friday, the IDF confirmed that it killed Hamas Nukhba commander Zaki Youssef Mahmoud Abu Mustafa, who infiltrated Israel on Oct. 7 and abducted 12-year-old Yagil Yaakov, who spent 52 days in Hamas captivity.”
“Ten athletes will compete in Artistic Gymnastics for Wales this summer.”
“The process involved a rigorous 4-step methodology to identify the top 750 companies, evaluated on more than 20 key data points”
“Two buses crawling through the streets from 2pm to 4pm and a few sound systems.”
“The IDF further reported that it has seized more than 240 firearms since the beginning of 2026 across locations in the West Bank, which Israel believes continues to pose a threat.”
“Welsh Athletics will send a team of 18 athletes.”
“These lists include the 2024 Forest 500 Report, the 2024 Carbon Majors, and the 2023 PERI Top 100 Polluter Indexes: Air, Water, Greenhouse, Toxic Greenhouse, Suppliers, Coal”
“I call up Adam Friedland, one of America’s most vocal and verbose soccer fans and host of The Adam Friedland Show, a show with nearly half a million subscribers.”
“Roy Altman, a young federal judge in Miami, has been lecturing about Israel widely on campuses since October 7.”
“Bowls Wales have selected eight athletes to compete in Glasgow this summer.”
“The final step involved researching various environmental and social Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports”
“When Mamet’s play premiered in 1984”
“Israel on Trial distills his rebuttals of the six claims he has most often encountered that aim to undermine and delegitimize the presently constituted Jewish state.”
“2022 Commonwealth gold medallist Rosie Eccles returns for her third Games as part of a seven‑strong boxing squad.”
“An overall sustainability score was calculated, with a maximum achievable score of 100”
“Marber cuts out the interval which he included in his 2025 (all-male) Broadway staging”
“Altman details six occasions on which the Jews agreed to the creation of a Palestinian state, only to have the Arabs reject it.”
“Retired Olympian Natalie Powell, now Commonwealth Games performance coach at Welsh Judo, has named eight judokas to take to Glasgow, where she won gold in 2014.”
“These companies are spread across more than 40 countries”
“Glengarry Glen Ross is at the Old Vic, London SE1, until 14 July”
“They do not know about the Arab ban on Jewish entrance into the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron—800 years ago.”
“The Welsh Feathers broke into the top six in the world rankings for the first time last year, which secured them automatic qualification for this year's Games. Of the 12 players selected, only three were included in Birmingham four years a…”
“seas are expected to rise by 10 to 12 in. by 2050.”
“This article appears in the 25 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman, Northern Conquest”
“They have heard of 'Palestinian rights,' but not Napoleon's proclamation recognizing Jews as the 'rightful heirs of Palestine'.”
“Wales will take 19 athletes to compete in track cycling and Para-track cycling.”
“reaching record-breaking rates of half an inch per year since 2010.”
“Across 11 episodes, the issues of 2026 – nationalisation, government borrowing, the party system itself, raised recently by Andy Burnham – gripped a claimed audience of ten million.”
“the Palestinians pronounce a fake 'State of Palestine' that is recognized by roughly as many countries as Israel.”
“Six athletes were originally named in Wales' weightlifting squad. But Charlotte Whalley was awarded a reallocated qualification spot to make it a magnificent seven.”
“sea levels have risen about 2 in. per decade since 1978.”
“Having begun on 7 June, Bill Brand ended in mid‑August, two weeks before the heatwave broke, and six before the Labour Party conference”
“a Hezbollah bastion”
“Team Wales will be represented in wheelchair basketball for the first time at a Commonwealth Games Eight athletes have been selected to compete in the men's and women's categories.”
“you're flooding 10 days a year, then 30 days a year, then 50 days a year.”
“Each episode as it appeared on DVD in 2011, and on YouTube now, runs about 52 minutes, but the original length was one hour.”
“Hezbollah is designated by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization”
“The 115 athletes include Paralympic champion Aled Sion Davies and world silver medal artistic gymnast Ruby Evans.”
“3 ft. of water enter his home during Hurricane Floyd in 2018.”
“The formal signing ceremony had been expected to take place in Switzerland on Friday, with vice-president JD Vance representing the United States, but either Trump could not wait, or he could not abide the prospect of ceding the limelight …”
“the 1983 suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut”
“I had just bought the house in '98. By '99 the flood came in my house—18 inches, flooded me right out.”
“The last peace agreement to be signed at Versailles – the 1919 Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allied Powers at the end of World War I – not only failed to deliver a durable peace, but arguably set the stage for World War II.”
“the 1984 attack on the U.S. Embassy Beirut annex”
“In 2025, Beijing reprimanded Nvidia”
“The details of the agreement Trump signed – formally known as the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding – reveal the extent to which he has been forced to back down and abandon his earlier goals.”
“the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847”
“two male students aged 14 and 15”
“It is notable that the text of the agreement specifies that vessels can transit the strait 'with no charge for 60 days only,' suggesting that a new regime of tolls, perhaps dressed up as administrative fees, could then be introduced.”
“two female and one male student”
“(The last round of negotiations took place on the eve of the US-Israeli attack in February.)”
“after one shot was fired”
“Iran has agreed to 'discuss' the issue of nuclear enrichment and to find a 'mutually agreed upon' mechanism for down-blending its current stockpile of highly enriched uranium, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
“The three casualties were not the intended targets”
“In return, the US will lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports, issue immediate waivers to allow Iran to resume selling oil and release Iranian funds currently frozen overseas.”
“the suspects had been planning the incident since late April or early May”
“The US has also promised to 'terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran,' according to an 'agreed-upon schedule' and as part of the 'final deal' which is now to be negotiated.”
“Temperatures in Carpentras exceeded 102.2°F (39°C) on Monday afternoon.”
“including in the preamble to the nuclear agreement signed with the Obama administration in 2015, which Trump tore up during his first term.”
“The temperature in the region rose to 107.4°F (41.9°C) on Saturday.”
“one child and one family among some two million people”
“Another 13 people drowned in France over the weekend, according to authorities.”
“On 28 June, Agha will host an evening of short films she has curated from across the Arab world as part of the Arab Film Club, which she founded in 2020”
“Half of the country—49 of 96 mainland departments or administrative districts—was placed under the highest-level weather warning on Monday, according to Météo-France, the country’s weather service.”
“two Palestinian short films including Bafta-winning The Present (2020) by Farah Nabulsi and the premier of Gaza Bride 17 (2025) by Waseem Khair”
“The Met Office, the country’s national weather forecaster, issued a red extreme heat warning for Wednesday and Thursday, with temperatures expected to reach at least 102°F (39°C) in England and Wales.”
“The Arab Film Club: An Afternoon of Shorts and Q&A will be hosted on 28 June at the Southbank Centre”
“Tuesday is expected to be the peak of the heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 104°F (40°C) in the Ebro Valley”
“The finale of season 2 of the Hardacres airs on 18 June”
“Temperatures could approach 111.2°F (44°C) in parts of the Tagus Valley”
“According to the Reuters Climate Monitor, San Sebastian, a coastal city in northern Spain that traditionally has milder temperatures, was forecast to reach 104°F (40°C) on Monday.”
“Temperatures are expected to exceed 95°F (35°C) in some areas.”
“Italian authorities placed 12 cities under its highest heat alert on Monday, ... The number of red-alert cities would rise to 15 on Tuesday and 16 on Wednesday as the heatwave intensifies, according to the country’s health ministry.”
“an April report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization found that Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average.”
“Italian authorities placed 12 cities under its highest heat alert on Monday, including Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and Verona.”
“The number of red-alert cities would rise to 15 on Tuesday and 16 on Wednesday as the heatwave intensifies, according to the country’s health ministry.”
