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On 30 June 2026 the U.S. Supreme Court held, 6-3, that Title IX and the 14th Amendment allow states to bar transgender girls and women from female school sports, immediately reinstating bans in Idaho and West Virginia and signaling legal cover for 27 similar state laws.
On 28 June 2026, hours after U.S. jets struck ten Iranian military targets near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran fired drones and missiles at U.S-linked sites in Bahrain and Kuwait, threatening to quit talks and reigniting a four-month war over who controls the vital waterway.
On 29 June 2026, President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian delegations would meet in Doha the next day to negotiate Iran’s denuclearisation, but Iran’s Foreign Ministry hours later insisted no talks with U.S. officials were scheduled.
On 29 June 2026 Andy Burnham, now the only contender for Labour leader after Keir Starmer’s 22 June resignation, laid out a Manchester-based ‘No 10 North’ and a decade-long devolved growth agenda, positioning himself to enter Downing Street by 20 July.
On 28 June 2026 Iran announced it alone will administer the Strait of Hormuz for the next 30 days, and within hours Tehran and Washington traded missile, drone and air strikes that jeopardise their 11-day-old cease-fire MoU.
After Iran boycotted 28 Jun technical talks in Switzerland over unmet access to unfrozen funds, Washington and Tehran on 29 Jun agreed to suspend all military attacks and reconvene negotiations in Doha on 30 Jun to salvage their fragile 14-point 17 Jun memorandum covering the Strait of Hormuz.
Four days after twin 7.2/7.5 quakes, Venezuela’s government raised fatalities to roughly 1,450 and acknowledged tens of thousands missing, while more than 2,000 international responders poured into the sealed-off La Guaira disaster zone.
Less than a day after Israel and Lebanon signed a Washington-mediated framework for a phased Israeli withdrawal, the Israeli military shelled, bombed and raided multiple Lebanese towns on 27–28 June 2026, killing civilians and torching homes while Hezbollah vowed to ignore the accord.
On 28 June 2026 the US carried out a second wave of airstrikes on Iranian targets hours after Tehran’s drones and missiles hit Bahrain, Kuwait and a Qatari-chartered tanker, putting the two-week-old interim ceasefire on life-support.
Within 48 hours, U.S. Central Command bombed six Iranian coastal missile/radar sites (26 Jun) and Iran replied (27 Jun) with drones on Bahrain and a projectile that hit a tanker, the sharpest breach of the two-week-old cease-fire.
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