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Overnight News Digest June 27, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-27
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BBC
trump says he is cutting off trade talks with Canada
US President Donald Trump has said he is cutting off trade talks with Canada "immediately" as the country looks to start enforcing a tax policy targeting big tech companies. The latest move, which he announced on social media, comes as the neighbouring nations had been working to agree a trade deal by mid-July. Both countries have imposed tariffs on each other's goods after Trump sparked a trade war earlier this year and threatened to annex Canada using "economic force". On Friday, the US president said he was ending talks due to what he called an "egregious tax" on tech companies and added he would announce new tariffs on goods crossing the border within the next week. "We are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately," he wrote on social media.
AP News
University of Virginia president, pressured over DEI, resigns rather than ‘fight federal government
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the University of Virginia, facing heavy pressure from conservative critics and the Trump administration over the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices, announced Friday that he was resigning rather than “fight the federal government.” The departure of James Ryan, who had led the school since 2018, represents a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to reshape higher education. Doing it at a public university marks a new frontier in a campaign that has almost exclusively targeted Ivy League schools. It also widens the rationale behind the government’s aggressive tactics, focusing on DEI rather than alleged tolerance of antisemitism. “To make a long story short, I am inclined to fight for what I believe in, and I believe deeply in this University,” he said. “But I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my job.”
Hindustan Times
‘Disrespectful and Unacceptable': Iran condemns Trump's remarks on Supreme Leader Khamenei
Iran's foreign minister cautioned Trump, saying that if he wishes to reach an understanding with Supreme Leader Khamene, he would need to “set aside” his tone. Iran on Saturday condemned United States President Donald Trump's remarks on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a day after the latter delivered a victory speech. “If President Trump truly wishes to reach an agreement, he should set aside his disrespectful and unacceptable tone towards the Iranian supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, and stop hurting his millions of sincere supporters,” Araghchi said in a post on social media platform X.
Deutsche Welle
Europe: Scorching heat grips the continent
Extreme heat is being felt across Europe with more in store over the coming days. Though the Wimbledon tennis tournament says, it is bracing for its hottest-ever start with temperatures expected to be around 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), southern countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece look set to see temperatures far higher still. In all, high temperatures are expected to affect the entire Mediterranean, from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balkans. In Andalusia, in southern Spain, temperatures are set to climb to 43 degrees in a heatwave forecast to last until late next week. Spain's AEMET state weather service has also forecast high temperatures in the country's northeastern Zaragoza area. Spain says medical emergency staff expect to see a surge in heatstroke cases among children, the elderly and those with chronic illness. Temperatures over 40 are also expected in neighboring Portugal, where fire warnings have been given for northern inland areas as well as along the Algarve coast.
Reuters
Tourists and residents seek shade as temperatures soar in Athens
ATHENS, June 27 (Reuters) - Tourists visiting the Acropolis used umbrellas and fans to protect themselves, while locals retreated indoors, as temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) gripped the Greek capital on Friday. Situated at Europe's southernmost tip in the Mediterranean Sea, Greece has always had hot and dry summers. But in recent years, climate change has led to longer and more severe heatwaves, as well as wildfires and destructive floods. On Friday, authorities banned outdoor activities for builders and delivery staff from 0900 to 1400 GMT and advised against unnecessary travel. "At the Acropolis, we were all very hot and it was a little bit slippery to walk up, and the combination of the heat and the marble, I think it was hotter because of the cement, it was like a cement jungle almost, which is very hot.”
Deutsche Welle
Germany suspends refugees' family reunification
Over 300,000 people with subsidiary protection status live in Germany, the majority from Syria. They initially receive a residence permit for one year. In 2024, this initial period was extended to three years.* They have the right to live and work in Germany and access social benefits. But while asylum-seekers and recognized refugees have the right to reunification with spouses and children under the age of 18 under German and EU law, those with subsidiary protection status do not. Now, the new coalition government of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) has moved to suspend family reunification for those with subsidiary protection status for at least the next two years. On Friday, June 27, the Bundestag voted in favor of these restrictions on family reunification, allowing them to come into effect. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said. "The country's ability to integrate had simply reached a breaking point," adding that cities and municipalities across the country were at their limit.
The Guardian
US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans
More than half a million Haitians are facing the prospect of deportation from the US after the Trump administration announced that the Caribbean country’s citizens would no longer be afforded shelter under a government program created to protect the victims of major natural disasters or conflicts. Haiti has been engulfed by a wave of deadly violence since the 2021 murder of its president, Jovenel Moïse. Heavily armed gangs have brought chaos to its capital, Port-au-Prince, since launching an insurrection that toppled the prime minister last year. On Tuesday, the US embassy in Haiti urged US citizens to abandon the violence-stricken Caribbean country. “Depart Haiti as soon as possible,” it wrote on X. “The environmental situation in Haiti has improved enough that it is safe for Haitian citizens to return home,” a DHS spokesperson claimed as it was announced that an estimated 521,000 Haitians would be stripped of their “temporary protected status” (TPS) on 2 September this year.
Al Jazeera
Putin confirms he wants all of Ukraine, as Europe steps up military aid
At The Hague this week, Zelenskyy said he discussed those Patriot systems with Trump. At a news conference on Wednesday, Trump said: “We’re going to see if we can make some available,” referring to interceptors for existing Patriot systems in Ukraine. “They’re very hard to get. We need them too, and we’ve been supplying them to Israel.” On June 20, Vladimir Putin revealed that his ambition to annex all of Ukraine had not abated. “I have said many times that the Russian and Ukrainian people are one nation, in fact. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,” he declared at a media conference to mark the opening of the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum on Friday, June 20. been supplying them to Israel,” he said. Russia has made a ceasefire conditional on Ukraine’s allies stopping the flow of weapons to it and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated that condition on Saturday. On June 20, Vladimir Putin revealed that his ambition to annex all of Ukraine had not abated. “I have said many times that the Russian and Ukrainian people are one nation, in fact. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours,” he declared at a media conference to mark the opening of the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum on Friday, June 20.
Al Jazeera
COVID-19 origin still ‘inconclusive’ after years-long WHO study
The World Health Organization (WHO) says efforts to uncover the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic are still ongoing and incomplete, as critical information has “not been provided”. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “all hypotheses must remain on the table” to determine the cause of the virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, after an expert group investigating its origins reached an unsatisfying conclusion in its final report released on Friday. “We continue to appeal to China and any other country that has information about the origins of COVID-19 to share that information openly, in the interests of protecting the world from future pandemics,” Tedros said. After more than three years of work, SAGO was unable to get the necessary data to evaluate whether or not COVID was the result of a lab accident, despite repeated requests for detailed information made to the Chinese government.
Washington Post
DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
The U.S. DOGE Service has lost the power to control the government’s process for awarding billions of dollars in federal funds, the latest sign of the team’s declining influence following Elon Musk’s high-profile exit from Washington, according to two people familiar with the situation and emails obtained by The Washington Post. Three months ago, DOGE employees wrested control of a key federal grants website, grants.gov, which serves as a clearinghouse for more than $500 billion in annual awards, The Post reported. For most of the program’s existence, federal agencies including the Defense Department posted their funding opportunities directly to the site, where thousands of outside organizations could see and apply for them — until April, when DOGE staffers changed the website’s permissions to give themselves power to review and approve all grants across the government.
ARTnews
Why Is Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory So Important?
The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous painting, created by its most famous artist, featuring its most famous motif. The painter, of course, is Salvador Dalí, and his iconic rendering of melted pocket watches is instantly recognizable to nearly everyone, even those with little or no interest in art. Dalí painted The Persistence of Memory when he was 28. By that time, he was already a well-established member of the Surrealist circle, having moved to their base of operation in Paris five years earlier. His reputation preceded his arrival thanks to his fellow Catalan artist Joan Miró, a Surrealist OG whose work inspired Dalí’s own. Miró introduced Dalí to André Breton, Surrealism’s founder and ideological enforcer. Dalí’s thinking, like Breton’s, was deeply indebted to the writings of Sigmund Freud and his belief that the mind could be unlocked through psychoanalytical methods such as the interpretation of dreams.
Local art:
Press-Democrat
Museum of Sonoma County honors late sculptor Bruce Johnson in retrospective exhibit
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