In 2024, 17 million battery and plug-in hybrid cars were sold worldwide, 11 million of those in China. Chinese brands, meanwhile, had 10% of global EV and plug-in hybrid sales outside their home country, according to the consultancy Rho Motion. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is set to introduce a resolution affirming that the only acceptable outcome of U.S. nuclear talks with Iran would be the total dismantlement of its enrichment program, Jewish Insider has learned. jewishinsider.com/2025/06/lindse…

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

US President Donald Trump’s administration has asked Ukraine for assurance that it will not allow China, under any circumstances, to enter its rare-earth market, in particular under the name of reconstruction after Russia’s war ends. kyivpost.com/post/54241

Kosovo has accepted a request to receive migrants deported from the United States, with an initial plan to take in 50 deportees per year, the government said in a statement to Reuters on Wednesday. reuters.com/world/kosovo-a…

The cable, sent on June 10, says countries which take "anti-Israel actions" on the heels of the conference will be viewed as acting in opposition to U.S. foreign policy interests and could face diplomatic consequences from the U.S. reuters.com/world/europe/u…

China is putting a six-month limit on rare-earth export licenses for US automakers and manufacturers, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Beijing leverage if trade tensions flare up again while adding to uncertainty for American industry. wsj.com/world/china/be…

"This initiative seeks to normalize the use of potentially dangerous drugs," Banka told leaders of Summer Olympics sports..."For the sake of athlete health and the purity of sport of course it must be stopped," the WADA leader said. espn.com/olympics/story…

Jim Hedrick, a former rare earths specialist at the United States Geological Survey who is now the president of U.S. Critical Materials, a rare earths company, said it would take five years for the United States to break its dependence on China. nytimes.com/2025/06/11/bus…

Seoul suspended its own loudspeaker broadcasts near the border targeting North Korea on Wednesday, after having resumed propaganda and K-pop blasts last year during a time of growing tension with its neighbour. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

The Texas Legislature cancelled the state’s program to build its own border wall as the legislative session came to a close, having spent more than $3 billion to build only about 65 miles of scattered segments. mediaite.com/politics/texas…

As a practical matter the sanctity of hospitals and medical facilities, which has existed since time immemorial, is a thing of the past. You can thank Israel, and at least as importantly the impunity it has enjoyed courtesy of its sponsors and allies, for this development.

“Neither the U.S. nor the Israelis can continue to sit and intercept missiles all day…The Israelis and their friends need to move with all deliberate haste to do whatever needs to be done, because we cannot afford to sit and play catch.”  wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Seeking to underline his family’s shared hardship with ordinary Israelis, Netanyahu adopted a Churchillian tone when pointing out that this was not the first time his son Avner’s wedding had needed to be postponed. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

The defense officials were also told that to completely destroy Fordow…it would likely require the US to first soften the ground with conventional bombs and then ultimately drop a tactical nuclear weapon from a B2 bomber. theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

Senior U.S. intelligence officials said that Iranian leaders were likely to shift toward producing a bomb if the American military attacked the Iranian uranium enrichment site Fordo or if Israel killed Iran’s supreme leader. nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/…

The episode has set off alarms across Europe about how dependent European governments, businesses and citizens are on American tech companies like Microsoft for essential digital infrastructure — and how hard it will be to disentangle themselves. Concerns nytimes.com/2025/06/20/tec…

“Our country is hot as a pistol,” Trump told The Wall Street Journal in a brief interview on Sunday. “Six months ago, our country was cold as ice. It was dead,” he said, calling the strikes “a great victory for our country.” wsj.com/politics/polic…