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  • Jun 20

    Japanese women hit back at football fans who clean stadiums but leave housework to wives

    Male supporters of Japan's Samurai Blue cleaned up after their World Cup opener against the Netherlands, earning global praise. Back home, women are calling out a double standard: Japanese men do far less housework than their wives.

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Nepal's glacier collapse traced to warming

Fed tightens as Poland readies guns, Sweden turns left and Nepal counts climate losses

The day’s main stories tilted toward hard constraints: money got dearer, borders got twitchier and coalitions got narrower. The pattern is not collapse; it is governing under less slack.

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  • Philippines school shooting

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  • South China Sea vessel collision

    Philippine Coast Guard reports China Coast Guard vessel 21585 rammed and damaged the BRP Datu Magat Salamat near Xianbin Reef, while Beijing claims Manila ignored warnings

  • Russia seizes Western corporate assets

    Expands asset seizures to include major European firms, with Nestlé now facing imminent expropriation by the Russian state.

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European Union · Updated 5m ago

European democracies and populism

AUR's bid to suspend President Dan invokes a constitutional mechanism beyond routine parliamentary activity, while Zemmour's entry fragments the French far-right field ahead of 2027.

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