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Paskelbta skaudi žinia iš Ukrainos fronto: nuo birželio pradžios dingusiu be žinios laikytas 25-erių metų lietuvis karys Ignas Kailius žuvo mūšio lauke.

Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since last Thursday, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu says.

People across the continent are taking measures to cope with the searing temperatures gripping Europe.

Though the person in charge of the country will change, the fiscal issues remain the same.

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LONDON — Britain’s likely next prime minister Andy Burnham is lining up James Purnell, who previously served as a minister under Tony Blair, as his chief of staff in 10 Downing Street. The proposed appointment is at an advanced stage as Burnham plans for his expected entry to No. 10 on July 17, two people with knowledge of the plan told POLITICO. One of the two people, granted anonymity to discuss internal planning, said they believed Purnell’s appointment was “pretty much locked on.” The Times and Sky News reported the plan earlier on Tuesday evening. Purnell preceded Burnham as Britain’s culture secretary under Tony Blair, but left parliament in 2010 after launching a failed attempt to topple Blair’s successor Gordon Brown the previous year. He joined the BBC as its director of strategy in 2013 before joining the lobbying firm Flint Global in 2024 as its chief executive. His financial interests in Flint will likely need assessing under standard conflict-of-interest rules. Purnell is one of Burnham’s longest-standing personal allies in Westminster, and was instrumental in his bid to become an MP aged 31 in 2001. Purnell suggested that Burnham — then a special adviser — speak to Blair’s Political Secretary Sally Morgan about the possibility of running for a seat. In his 2024 book “Head North,” Burnham described Purnell as “one of the clearest political thinkers I have ever met” and thanked him “for believing in me and seeing things others didn’t.” Burnham is expected to be the only viable candidate for the Labour leadership in a contest triggered by Keir Starmer’s Monday announcement that he would resign. Nominations by MPs will open on July 9 and close on July 15. If Burnham is the only candidate, as MPs widely expect, he will be confirmed as PM on July 17. Burnham, who was sworn into Commons in Monday, is spending this week meeting MPs in parliament. He spoke to Starmer face-to-face Tuesday. Starmer’s office said it would grant Burnham formal access talks with the civil service, to begin discussing his program for government, as soon as possible. CORRECTION: This article has been updated to correctly reflect the year Purnell left parliament.

BRUSSELS — Hungary has delayed a key procedural step needed to push forward the EU membership bids of Ukraine and Moldova, according to two EU diplomats. Kyiv and Chisinau reached a milestone on their path into the bloc when EU countries unanimously approved, on June 15, the opening of the first formal negotiating chapter for both countries. The move had been blocked for years by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who opposed Ukraine’s EU membership. (Ukraine and Moldova’s bids are politically linked, so one could not advance without the other). The two countries now hope to quickly progress through the EU’s accession process, with Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka telling POLITICO earlier this month that Kyiv is aiming to open all six negotiating clusters (groups of formal chapters) by mid-July. But that timeline is now at risk after Hungary on Tuesday opposed sending a letter to the European Council and Commission, on behalf of the bloc’s 27 members, that spells out the joint position of EU capitals. Hungary was the only country to oppose the move, which requires unanimous approval from all 27 and will be discussed again next week, the diplomats said. A spokesperson for the Hungarian Permanent Representation in Brussels did not reply to a request for comment. The move is in keeping with Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s cool stance toward Ukraine’s membership. While Magyar did not oppose opening a first cluster for Ukraine, his government insisted on deleting the words “as soon as possible” regarding Kyiv’s EU membership from the written conclusions of a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels last week, according to one of the diplomats. Both diplomats were granted anonymity because they are not allowed to speak on the record about closed-door procedures. During a news conference at the end of the European Council meeting last week, Magyar doubled down, telling reporters: “There are six clusters in total, and we don’t think opening them all at once is a good idea — partly because the ink on the first one isn’t even dry yet, and partly because it would send the wrong message to the countries of the Western Balkans — Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, and North Macedonia — [which] have spent years working toward EU membership.”

US Senate votes to pause Iran war in rare rebuke to Trump

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Croatia secured their first points of the World Cup on Tuesday with a narrow 1-0 win over Panama, courtesy of a second-half strike from substitute Ante Budimir, a result that eliminated the Central American side from Group L contention.

“Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie made an emotional on-air appeal on Tuesday for information about her mother, who disappeared from her Arizona home nearly five months ago, a day after reports revealed a previously undisclosed note suggesting the missing 84-year-old may have died shortly after her abduction.

Officials from the UN and international aid agencies gathered in Geneva on Monday to discuss increasing threats of heatwaves in Europe, an intense Ebola outbreak in Africa, and an anticipated food crisis driven by weather events such as El Niño.

A legal battle over where former Zambian President Edgar Lungu's remains will be buried may be over, more than a year after he died, as South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday in favor of his family and rejected the Zambian government's claim of custody over his body.