PARIS (AP) – France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering in a heat wave with daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights. The national weather service, Meteo France, said most of the country was entering conditions that likely won’t ease before Friday.
BEIJING (AP) – China on Monday announced sanctions on 10 American defense companies in response to a recent U.S. move that bars some leading Chinese tech companies from defense contracts.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – An explosion tore through Qatar’s key natural gas export terminal Sunday night as workers tried to resume operations there after Iran bombed it during the war, causing a fire that hurt at least 54 people as another 18 were still missing hours later.
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military has conduced another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, immediately killing two people and leaving six survivors amid an ongoing campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) – A polarized Colombia gave conservative political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella a razor-thin lead in a runoff election that will be challenged in the coming days by the ruling party’s progressive candidate.
Reactions as Israeli strikes leave Lebanon’s ancient coastal city of Tyre shaken
Economic woes fuel discontent with Brexit in UK, decade after vote to leave EU
LONDON (AP) – U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a career-defining decision: step down or fight a possible challenge from Labour Party rival Andy Burnham. Starmer has publicly vowed to stay in office, but pressure is building as more and more Labour Party colleagues conclude that his time is up.
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