✈️ Paris Airport Workers File Strike Motion for Olympics Opening Ceremony

A union representing workers at Paris’ two major airports has filed a strike motion for July 26, the date of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The Force Ouvrière (FO) union – which represents 11.5% of workers at Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airports – filed the motion, which will last from 05:00 on July 26 to 07:00 on July 27.

FO wants a €300 flat bonus offered to all workers to be increased to €1,000, and for other selective bonuses to increase both in terms of payout and number of staff eligible.

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🇷🇺💥🏁 Around 50 foreign instructors were killed as a result of an Iskander strike on a mercenary deployment point in Derhachi, Kharkov region, the Ministry of Defense reported.

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😒 JUST IN: US Secret Service director quits over Trump shooting

Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had been facing growing calls to step down amid questions over lax security arrangements at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. 

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🔴 NOW: Biden set to address the nation on Wednesday at 8 PM EST

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🎯 China Unveils World’s First Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have successfully demonstrated a meltdown-proof nuclear fission reactor - the twin reactor design can generate 105 MW of power each and has been in the works since 2016.

Conventional nuclear reactors use fuel rods that are energy-dense, containing large amounts of uranium with smaller amounts of graphite. In the HTR-PM reactor design, the fuel rod is inverted, and a large amount of graphite is used within which uranium is encased.

The nuclear fission reaction occurs much slower than a conventional reactor and can withstand a higher temperature for much longer. Additionally, the excess heat generated through the process is dispersed over a larger fuel area and can be cooled using passive or non-energy-consuming methods.

The reactor began commercial operation in December 2023. 

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❗️Around 14,000 People Need to be Medically Evacuated from Gaza - WHO

The BBC presenter describes the slaughter, starvation, displacement and destruction in Gaza as "ongoing difficulties on the ground."

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⚡️ UK Accused Israel of Not Acting Like ‘Civilised Nation’ - Archives Reveal

Newly released documents show heated exchanges between Israel’s defense minister and Britain’s ambassador regarding IDF activity during a West Bank incursion in 2002.

UK officials on the ground compiled a report on the character of the IDF, which claimed Israeli troops were ‘out of control’ – adding: ‘They look down on the Arabs and despise them. It needs to be said that the average Israeli does not value an Arab life as equal to a Jewish one.”

Cabinet Office papers show that US President George Bush also complained to then-UK PM Tony Blair about how this action would turn Arafat into a “martyr.”

Plus ça change?

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📣 NEW: US House Speaker Mike Johnson reiterates warning to lawmakers that there will be “zero-tolerance policy for disturbances” during Netanyahu’s address to Congress

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😳 EU wants to build comprehensive database of assets owned by all citizens - Focus

The EU Asset Register is expected to be a comprehensive database that records a wide range of assets owned by citizens, including real estate, bank accounts, securities, vehicles, and possibly works of art or precious metals.

George Orwell 2.0 incoming.

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🧐 “We are here today to throw our support behind VP Kamala Harris” - Chuck Schumer

*silence*

That tumbleweed silence of support apparently raised $81mn+ in just a few hours…

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👴 Proof of Life for Joe Biden

Old Joe has made his first appearance since Team Kamala stole his power while he was allegedly sick with COVID.

He looks terrible, well, worse than normal - not a high bar, admittedly.

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📣 NEW: Protesters calling for end of US arms sales to Israel - camp out in cannon office rotunda

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❗️UK Must Be Ready for War in Three Years - Head of British Army

Britain's army must be ready in three years to fight a war against an "axis of upheaval" of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, the force's new chief has warned.

While stressing that conflict was not inevitable, General Sir Roly Walker predicted that Putin would come out of the Ukraine war “very, very dangerous.”

Walker claimed that the Russian president would be “wanting retribution” against countries that supported Ukraine.

UK PM Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to lift defense spending to 2.5% of national income from just over 2% at present, but has yet to specify a timeframe.

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