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Von Der Leyen Speaks Against ‘Paralyzing’ G20 - Despite Boycott Calls over Russia

It is better to have a frank face-to-face conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin than boycott the Group of Twenty summit this year, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has said.

“It is also important to tell him to his face what we think of him and what we think of this kind of action,” von der Leyen told the German broadcaster ZDF on Sunday.

However, she said there can be no “business as usual” with Russia after it launched a military campaign in Ukraine in late February.

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US Robodog Sent to Help Ukraine

A modified version of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot will be sent to Ukraine to help an American firm that has won multiple contracts in Ukraine to clear battlefields near Kiev after approval by the US army.

HALO Trust will use Spot with a robotic arm instead of a “head” to handle unexploded munitions and dispose of them but will still need to be controlled manually.

Ukrainian officials estimate around 300,000 square kilometers of land need to be de-mined, which could take up to a decade to clear.

Why not throw a dystopian animal into the mix - what’s the worst that could happen?

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Japan Power Crunch Risk as Tokyo Rain Season Ends Early for First Time in Decades

Amidst soaring temperatures and the earliest end to Tokyo’s rainy season in over 70 years, Japanese authorities have warned a power crisis may be imminent and are begging citizens to cut back on energy usage.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party faces challenging elections for the parliament’s upper house in less than a fortnight after fierce criticism of its handling of consumer prices.

In Tokyo and eight nearby prefectures, excess generating capacity was predicted to drop to 3.7% on Monday afternoon local time - 3% is considered the minimum for stable power supply.

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NATO to boost rapid re­ac­tion force to 300,000 troops: Stoltenberg
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NATO says will in­crease size of rapid re­ac­tion forces to 300,000 troops in ‘biggest over­haul’ of de­fence since Cold War.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

US bas­ket­ball star Griner held in Rus­sia to go on tri­al on July 1
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Brit­tney Griner ap­peared at a brief hear­ing and is charged with drug smug­gling, which car­ries a sen­tence of 10 years.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Thir­teen killed, 251 in­jured by gas leak in Jor­dan port city
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

A chlo­rine gas leak in Jor­dan’s south­ern port city of Aqa­ba on Mon­day killed at least 13 peo­ple and in­jured 251.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Rus­sia de­nies debt de­fault, blames West­ern fi­nan­cial agents
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Rus­sia’s fi­nance min­istry asked for­eign bond­hold­ers to speak di­rect­ly to those with­hold­ing their pay­ments.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Louisiana judge tem­porar­i­ly blocks ‘trig­ger’ abor­tion ban
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Louisiana is one of 13 US states where ‘trig­ger laws’ ban or se­vere­ly re­strict abor­tion af­ter Roe v Wade over­turned.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Nige­ria gets new chief jus­tice amid ‘all-time’ low ju­di­cial trust
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

The new act­ing chief jus­tice was a sig­na­to­ry to a rare com­plaint by Supreme Court jus­tices against his pre­de­ces­sor.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Eleven killed in Russ­ian mis­sile strike on Ukraine shop­ping mall
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Many more feared dead or wound­ed af­ter Russ­ian mis­sile at­tack on crowd­ed shop­ping mall in Ukrain­ian city of Kre­menchuk.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Iran, US restart cru­cial nu­clear talks in Qatar with EU me­di­a­tion
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Planned talks in Doha could be a fi­nal op­por­tu­ni­ty for Wash­ing­ton and Tehran to save the land­mark 2015 nu­clear ac­cord.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Judge strikes down law al­low­ing non-cit­i­zens to vote in NYC
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Law would have al­lowed peo­ple with per­ma­nent res­i­den­cy and US work au­tho­ri­sa­tion to vote in New York City elec­tions.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

In­dige­nous protest lead­ers agree to talks with Ecuador gov­ern­ment
News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera (RSS)

Talks to be­gin as demon­stra­tions against ris­ing costs of liv­ing have paral­ysed parts of the South Amer­i­can coun­try.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

Ger­many re­turns arte­facts tak­en from Africa dur­ing colo­nial rule
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Price­less arte­facts tak­en from Cameroon, Namib­ia and Tan­za­nia dur­ing colo­nial times will be re­turned, Ger­many says.
Published On 27 Jun 2022

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NATO mulls how to de­fine Chi­na: ‘Sys­temic chal­lenge’ or worse?
NATO re­assess­es Chi­na as a con­cern due to Bei­jing’s in­creas­ing mil­i­tary am­bi­tions and grow­ing eco­nom­ic might abroad.
Published On 27 Jun 2022