Prime minister outlines plans to penalise countries that refuse to take back refused asylum seekers

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UK will look into more ‘transactional’ approach to granting visas, says Starmer

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

Oscar winner accuses political leadership of ‘incompetence’ and ‘destructive decision-making’ in handling of anti-ICE protests and wildfires earlier this year

Mel Gibson calls for his fellow Angelenos to overthrow Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass

^{Joe Sommerlad (The Independent)}

Kenyan police have shot an apparent bystander at close range during the latest protests over the killing of a blogger in custody earlier this month

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Kenyan police shoot protester at close range during latest protests over blogger's death

^{Evelyne Musambi (The Independent)}

Program with the defense department is first under the startup’s initiative to put AI to work in governments

OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

The rules on how pan-European political parties can access EU funding are set to be tightened under a new agreement between MEPs and EU governments.

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New rules will see 95% of pan-European party funding come from EU budget

The rules on how pan-European political parties can access EU funding are set to be tightened under a new agreement between MEPs and EU governments. 

^{Benjamin Fox (EUobserver)}

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti says the Houthis will come to the aid of any Arab or Muslim nation under attack.

“We will intervene to support Tehran against Zionist aggressions as we supported our brothers in Gaza,” al-Bukhaiti said.

The Houthis have been carrying out drone and missile attacks against Israel in a campaign that they say aims to pressure the country to end its war on Gaza.

Over the past days, Houthi missiles have coincided with Iranian launches against Israel.

LIVE: Israel, Iran trade attacks; Trump claims ‘control of skies over Iran’

Fighting between Iran and Israel rages for a fifth day with all eyes on US President Donald Trump’s next move.

^{Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)}

Exclusive: “There’s my challenge to Elon,” attorney S. Scott West told The Independent. “Make these vehicles so safe that I don’t have to do this anymore.”

‘Defectively designed’ Cybertruck burned so hot in crash that the driver’s bones literally disintegrated: lawsuit

^{Justin Rohrlich (The Independent)}

Authorities can’t enforce a new Florida law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state while the law is being challenged in court

Florida can't enforce a new immigration law while court challenge continues, judges rule

^{Mike Schneider (The Independent)}

https://stateline.org/2025/06/17/guns-kill-more-us-children-than-other-causes-but-state-policies-can-help-study-finds/

Women are challenging rule that two-child benefit cap exception applies only to third or later children

Two mothers denied ‘rape clause’ exception to benefit cap discriminated against, UK court told

^{Raphael Boyd (The Guardian)}

‘We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family’s privacy as we grieve,’ the children said.

Children of murdered Minnesota lawmaker release statement instructing people how to ‘honor’ their parents lives

^{Erin Keller (The Independent)}

Authorities in Warsaw say they have added minefields to the "East Shield" project, the name given to the protective barrier at the border with Russia and Belarus. Construction began in November last year and now occurs year-round, seven days a week.

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Poland adds minefields to 'East Shield' protective barrier with Russia and Belarus

^{Jerry Fisayo-Bambi (Euronews.com)}

The city’s elected financial watchdog was accosted by masked officers in Manhattan

NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by masked agents at immigration court

The city’s comptroller was grabbed by masked officers and accused of ‘assault’ days after US Sen. Alex Padilla was handcuffed at a Kristi Noem event on ICE enforcement in California

^{Alex Woodward (The Independent)}

The Food and Drug Administration says it will begin offering faster reviews to new medicines that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health

FDA to offer faster drug reviews to companies promoting 'national priorities'

^{Matthew Perrone (The Independent)}

Former White House aide remains at Tesla chief’s side even after barrage of Epstein allegations

Stephen Miller’s wife ordered Social Security workers to cover up a lie from her new boss Elon Musk: report

^{John Bowden (The Independent)}

The New Jersey Democrat will be held in Pennsylvania facility after his conviction on bribery charges

Ex-senator Bob Menendez arrives at prison to begin serving 11-year sentence

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country’s public to remove the messaging app WhatsApp from their smart phones, alleging without offering any evidence the app gathered user information to send to Israel.

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Six hours after Israel’s air strikes in Iran last Friday, farmers in Iraq could have looked up and seen Iranian drones traveling west: more than 100 of them flew on a 1,700-kilometer journey to Israel, with their propellers buzzing like Weedwackers.

Among them was the Shahed-136. Composed mostly of foam and plywood, each Shahed-136 drone is 3.5 meters long and has a 2.5-meter wingspan and a 40- to 50-kilogram warhead at its nose. The drone’s “brain,” a sensor the size of a cough drop, measures every movement while a credit-card-sized GPS onboard listens for microwave chirps from navigation satellites. The Shahed’s route (its waypoints in latitude, longitude and altitude) is uploaded before a booster rocket fires it into the sky. And it is loud: its 50-horsepower motor is slightly more potent than that of a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle and would be as noisy as a lawn mower or a moped at full throttle—now multiplied by 100 in what military strategists sometimes refer to as a rudimentary swarm.

Iran’s recent launch of drones at Israel—or Russia’s use of them against Ukraine, where Shahed drones are nicknamed “flying mopeds”—the swarm’s power is in its numbers. One missile with a similar range can cost upward of $1 million, but a Shahed can be knocked together for $20,000 to $50,000. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fires them from portable rails or from racks on trucks, and the small pulse rocket on the bottom of each drone slams it to cruise speed before falling off. The Center for Strategic and International Studies describes such drone salvos as tools “used as much to saturate air defenses as they are to attack targets, cluttering radar screens and forcing command centers to make decisions about where to fire their more capable surface-to-air missiles,” exactly the situation Israel faced.

Last Friday, as the more than 100 Iranian drones flocked toward Tel Aviv and were shot down by fighter jets, Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system and a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean, they couldn’t adjust their course based on what was happening on the battlefield.

The Shahed, which means “Witness” in Persian, is generally a “fire and forget” drone: it cannot transmit information back or receive updated trajectories (though it is often modeled in different ways, and some Shahed drones used by Russia have reportedly had communication equipment). Rather the swarmlike power of such attacks is based in their cost: in the one late last week, the IRGC could afford to fire drones in a wave so dense that fighter pilots, radar operators and Iron Dome crews had to sort through a moving cloud of identical radar blips.

How Drone Swarms Work—From Iran’s Shahed Attack to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb

Iranian Shahed drones, Ukrainian quadcopters and the U.S.’s Golden Horde program reveal three paths to massed autonomy, and each rewrites the rules of air defense

^{Deni Ellis Béchard (Scientific American)}

Exclusive: Sources say US wants information on when importing of raw materials from abroad at Port Talbot site will stop

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Trump threatens to keep 25% tariff on UK steel imports over Port Talbot concerns

^{Kiran Stacey (The Guardian)}

Max mara sotto accusa: sciopero delle lavoratrici il 22 e 23 maggio: “Ci chiamano grasse.”
Nel cuore del lusso italiano si nasconde una contraddizione inquietante. Mentre Max Mara è celebrata per la sua eleganza senza tempo e i cappotti impeccabili, le lavoratrici dietro al marchio, perlopiù donne, rompono il silenzio denunciando una realtà dura: regole rigide, esaurimento fisico, salari rubati e promozioni bloccate.

L’ultima protesta arriva dallo stabilimento di San Maurizio a Reggio Emilia, dove 220 lavoratrici hanno scioperato con il supporto del sindacato Filctem-CGIL
Le loro richieste? La fine di “condizioni di lavoro inaccettabili” che, a loro dire, appartengono agli anni ‘80, non all’Italia di oggi.

Le lavoratrici di Max Mara: “Ci chiamavano grasse. Contavano le pause bagno”

All’interno della fabbrica, le dipendenti descrivono un ambiente disumanizzante:

Body-shaming: “Ci chiamavano vacche da mungere. Ci dicevano che eravamo troppo grasse, suggerendoci persino esercizi per dimagrire.”
Salari da sfruttamento: “Siamo pagate a cottimo, come macchine su una catena di montaggio.”
Controllo e umiliazione: “Contano le pause bagno, nonostante siamo donne con il ciclo.”
Erica Morelli, segretaria generale di Filctem-CGIL Reggio Emilia, ha condannato l’immobilismo dell’azienda: “Max Mara ha costruito un muro. Questo sciopero è la nostra ultima risorsa per ottenere rispetto.”

Marco Grimaldi, vicecapogruppo di AVS alla Camera, è intervenuto sulla vicenda presentando un’interrogazione parlamentare: “Il colosso Max Mara non applica nemmeno il contratto collettivo nazionale del tessile (CCNL), né offre alcuna trasparenza su emissioni e tutela climatica.”

Moda di lusso, realtà da sweatshop

Non si tratta di un caso isolato. Max Mara si aggiunge a una lunga lista di marchi della moda segnati da abusi lavorativi.
Indagini hanno rivelato l’esistenza di laboratori in subappalto — le cosiddette “fabbriche dormitorio” vicino a Milano e Bergamo — dove lavoratori cinesi cuciono borse di lusso a 2€/ora. Le stesse borse vengono poi vendute a 1.800–3.000€.

Facciamo due conti:

• Costo di produzione per borsa: 40–90€

• Prezzo al dettaglio: fino al 3.000% di ricarico

• Quota del lavoratore: meno dell’1% del prezzo finale

In breve, i colossi del lusso fanno affari sulla pelle delle persone e del pianeta.

La moda genera il 5% del PIL italiano, ma si basa su un sistema di schiavitù moderna. Questo è inaccettabile.

Considerazioni finali: la verità scomoda del capitalismo

Max Mara sotto accusa rivela il volto scomodo del lusso. L’industria della moda è lo specchio del capitalismo: glamour in superficie, sfruttamento dietro le quinte. Infatti, dietro la patina del lusso si nasconde un sistema fondato sulla compressione del lavoro per massimizzare i profitti.
Eppure, come affermano i sindacati, aumentare il compenso di appena 1–5€ per capo potrebbe cambiare radicalmente la vita dei lavoratori.

Le testimonianze delle lavoratrici Max Mara rivelano quanto sia marcio l’intero sistema economico. Ma può davvero l’industria della moda continuare a esistere umiliando proprio chi la sostiene?

In definitiva, si possono mettere cerotti — soluzioni che sembrano funzionare — con la mediazione di sindacati, forze dell’ordine o altri attori. Ma finché non si affronterà la causa profonda ( cioè il sistema economico stesso), nulla cambierà davvero.

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Caso Max Mara alla Camera: “Insulti e oppressioni alle operaie”

“Il governo non resti in silenzio. È bufera dopo lo sciopero indetto nei giorni scorsi alla Manifattura San Maurizio dalla Filctem Cgil Avs e M5s chiedono al ministro Calderone un’informativa urgente in merito ai “gravi episodi”

^{ANTONIO LECCI (Il Resto del Carlino)}

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-16/many-exporters-no-longer-want-dollars-us-bank-executive-says

A federal court in Argentina has granted former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s request to serve a six-year prison sentence for corruption at her home in Buenos Aires

Argentine tribunal allows ex-President Fernández to serve corruption sentence at home

^{Via AP news wire (The Independent)}

Rafael and other Israeli arms companies were blocked from exhibiting at the Paris Air Show for refusing to remove attack weapons from display. The firms say the move is discriminatory and are preparing legal action.

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Israeli arms firm Rafael threatens to sue France over Paris Air Show shutdown

^{Sophia Khatsenkova (Euronews.com)}

Republican Thomas Massie joins with Democrats in effort to require Congress approval before Trump attacks Iran

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‘Not our war’: bipartisan US lawmakers back resolution to block involvement in Iran

^{Chris Stein (The Guardian)}

Move opposed by senior politicians including the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood, who branded it ‘extreme’

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MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in biggest change to reproductive rights in decades

^{Kate Devlin (The Independent)}

Israel wants regime change; the U.S. is fine with that, sources say

Trump Secretly Greenlit Iran War

^{Ken Klippenstein}

A recent bomb threat caused significant flight disruptions.

"I Have A Detonator With Me": Alaska Airlines Deals With Similar Bomb Scare Nearly 2 Years Apart

^{Tatenda Karuwa (Alaska Airlines)}

“Sorella di Perfezione” – Un libro di Giuseppe Iannozzi – recensione di Vanessa Sulpizi

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