Eleven dead, 19 injured as fire engulfs foster care home near Algiers amid exceptional heatwave · Pollar

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Hormuz shut, Toronto choked

Washington widens Iran campaign as Kyiv reshuffles and smoky cities confront heat

The day’s main stories share a hard edge: governments are taking bigger risks and asking citizens to trust them. War widened in the Gulf, Ukraine changed hands at the top of its defence ministry, and smoke turned North American summer into a public-health warning.

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The Green Deal under revision

New reporting indicates growing industry pressure to simplify CBAM reporting and streamline EU taxonomy rules, aligning with the EU's stated focus on regulatory simplification.

Eleven dead, 19 injured as fire engulfs foster care home near Algiers amid exceptional heatwave · Pollar