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The United States Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era federal ban on “bump stocks,” which are gun accessories that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly. The rule was imposed after the devices were used during a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival. In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines with the court’s conservatives in the majority upheld a lower court’s decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban. More to come… Please refresh your browser for updates.…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Southeast Asian countries to participate in a Switzerland-led peace summit taking place on Saturday and Sunday. “We want Asia to know what is going on in Ukraine; Asia to support the end of the war,” Zelenskyy said during a surprise visit to Singapore late last month for the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security conference. “We want Asian leaders to attend the peace summit.” The Summit on Peace in Ukraine — which is being held at the swanky Bürgenstock Resort that overlooks Lake Lucerne in the Swiss village of Obbürgen — is aimed at building on Zelenskyy’s…

EU policymakers warned a few months ago that Europe was being flooded with cheap Chinese electric vehicles . They accused Beijing of backing major production overcapacity to allow China’s automakers to grow their share of the global EV market. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, launched an anti-subsidy probe into the oversupply issue late in 2023 and warned China’s EV makers that they could face a new import tariff to offset what Brussels said was unfair competition for European carmakers. On Wednesday, the Commission said it was planning to impose tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles from July 4 and those tariffs would…

South Africa’s largest political party, the African National Congress (ANC), has reached a deal to form a unity government with former political foes the Democratic Alliance (DA). DA Leader John Steenhuisen said today would “go down in the annals of history as the start of a new chapter” for South Africa. “It is my privilege to report to you that after two weeks of thorough negotiations that only concluded after today’s sitting of parliament had already started, the DA has reached agreement on the statement of intent for the formation of a Government of National Unity.” Earlier South African media reported that…

A unity government has been formed in South Africa with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its largest rival, the Democratic Alliance (DA), signing a deal, an official has said.The ANC, which lost its parliamentary majority in a May election, agreed to enter into a government of national unitywith parties including the DA, the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Patriotic Alliance, public broadcaster SABC reported. The ANC won just 40% of the vote, forcing Nelson Mandela’s legacy liberation movement to negotiate a power-sharing agreement with rival parties for the first time in 30 years.Senior DA negotiator Helen Zille on Friday confirmed…

A total of 24 European countries will be competing in the men’s Euro 2024 tournament, and more than 650,000 international football fans are expected to visit Germany. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for many but could quickly turn into a nightmare if you fall for fakes and scams online. Several social media postsand articlessuggest that football fans could face fines of thousands of euros if caught wearing counterfeit jerseys, citing “specific German laws to combat the spread of fake goods.” German footballer Christoph Kramer, a member of the 2014 World Cup-winning team, was recently spotted wearing a fake jersey of the…

When the most recent round of fighting between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group, Hezbollah, began, Malak Daher hoped it would only last a few days. “It’s so hard to be so far from your life,” said the 30-year-old woman who was displaced from the southern town of Mais al-Jabal, located almost directly at the Lebanese-Israeli border where fighting is centered. “You feel like your life is on hold. Like, life is going on elsewhere, but your own time has stopped.” But the fighting between the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, and the Israeli military did not end. In fact, over the past few…

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday left its key lending rate unchanged at between 5.25 and 5.50 %, according to a statement concluding a two-day meeting.  Policymakers also forecast only one rate cut in 2024, down from a previous estimate of three.  Although the Fed statement said economic activity was expanding at a “solid pace,” along with strong job growth and steady low unemployment, Fed chair Jerome Powell said policymakers “need to see more good data to bolster our confidence thatinflation is moving sustainably toward 2%.” Rates to remain high for ‘as long as appropriate’  Powell told a press conference that the…