This is our flagship newsletter Morning Wire. You can subscribe here and we’ll email it to you daily.In the news today: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops; wildfire smoke engulfs swaths of the Midwest and Northeast; and the U.S. expands its strikes into northern Iran. Also, why scientists are excited about finding sugar in outer space. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump meets with Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree…

German authorities carry out raids over alleged Russian gas sabotage An investigation is looking into the sale of Gazprom’s Berlin-based subsidiary Gazprom Germania, which took place around a month after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 24/06/2026 Read the full article here

Google is getting into the “star in your own AI-made videos without the need for a camera” game. The tech company said on Thursday that two new updates to Google Vids, its AI video creation tool, will let you star in your own videos, which you can now create with…

European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius said the EU executive’s military mobility package, which enters trilogues in the European Parliament on Thursday, is necessary and should be implemented “as soon as we can be ready” – but MEPs want it implemented two years ahead of the originally envisaged deadline. “The…

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A Sudanese court has sentenced Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, to death after convicting him of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in West Darfur.The court, sitting in the army-controlled city of Port Sudan, also sentenced 15 other senior…

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