Trumpian censorship in the UK Teacher, librarians under pressure to remove books on race, identity, social justice from libraries. 200 titles pulled from one Greater Manchester school library, including books by Black authors. What are we becoming? runnymedetrust.org/blog/eras…

Amazing if four months of war comes to an end with J.D. Vance getting an email "Please DocuSign these documents: IranUSA_MOU_Final_FINAL_ActuallyFinal_V43"

We must stop/discourage Deosai tourists from coming close to Marmots or try to feed them or touch them Any outside feed/interaction can bring vector-borne disease & potentially wipe out most precious wildlife of GB (Marmots are preyed upon by Brown Bears & Himalayan Grey Wolf)

Hundreds protested outside court after long sentences for Palestine Action activists over a protest at an Israeli weapons factory in the UK. Rights groups, experts and Amnesty warn the ruling could set a precedent for protest rights. Al Jazeera’s Camille Nedelec reports.

Since Pakistan announced its deportation drive on 15 Sep 2023, about 2.47 million Afghans have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan as of 6 June 2026, as per UNHCR-IOM. Of these, 540,490 (22%) returned in 2026 alone. The majority of returnees (64%) were undocumented.

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

India has summoned a top US diplomat to lodge a "strong protest" after three Indian sailors were killed in a US attack on an oil tanker off Oman earlier this week. India's shipping minister called it an "irreparable loss". US Central Command accused the Palau-flagged vessel Settebello of violating the ongoing US blockade "by attempting to transport oil from Iran".

MORE STRIKES TONIGHT (Reuters) - The United States will hit Iran "very hard tonight" and will soon take control of the Middle Eastern country's oil and gas infrastructure and markets, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday. "At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela," Trump said on Truth Social.

Update from #ReleaseImaanAndHadi legal team: Today, we, on behalf of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, have filed an application to place certain additional documents on the record in relation to the delay in complying with the directions dated: 12.05.2026

Research for new Ebola vaccines will be fast-tracked as experts warn the disease is moving faster than the response. Here’s what we know aje.news/7kpkkg

Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texas calf as parasite crosses border from Mexico reut.rs/4ulqrBr reut.rs/4ulqrBr

The brutal killing of four immigrant workers (Pakistanis, Afghans) who were burned alive in a vehicle has Italian officials struggling to confront rampant labor exploitation by criminal gangs that have infiltrated Italy’s agricultural industry. nytimes.com/2026/06/03/world…

BREAKING: The Islamabad High Court has de-listed Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha’s suspension of sentence appeals that were going to be heard on 4 June. No new date has been set. Today the couple completes 130 days in Adiala Jail for tweeting; how utterly shameful.

Big relief to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Supreme Judicial Council led by CJP Yahya Afridi has rejected PTI's complaint of misconduct against Chief Election Commissioner & other members of ECP. PTI had sought a thorough inquiry by accusing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sultan Sikandar Raja and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) of becoming incapable of performing their constitutional duties and thus guilty of misconduct. The complaint was jointly filed by the PTI and its secretary general Omar Ayub Khan, highlighting that the constitutional obligation dem­ands the ECP to act independently without taking sides in favour of or against any political party.

I am so thrilled that the GlobalCORRIDOR website is up! I have been working on this project since 2022. The Atlas documents dozens of transnational infrastructure corridors across the world. Check out the website for our research articles, reports, podcasts & documentaries.

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC says it targeted 'US-owned' commercial vessel with cruise missile 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/xhk3kr?update=46185…

‘A Volatile Picture’ month at last! The book is shipping out in the US via @UWAPress (summer sale on now! ) / UK distributor @LivUniPress. Out in the world on the 16th of June uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295… | liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

La FLACSO México lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega entrañable profesor-investigador, colega, amigo y miembro muy querido de nuestra comunidad académica. Expresamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias a sus familiares, amistades, colegas, estudiantado y a las comunidades académicas de las que formó parte.

BREAKING: Iran's negotiating team has stopped exchanging messages with the United States through mediators because of attacks on Lebanon, according to Iranian media. 🔴 More on aljazeera.com

Excerpt from Mohammed Hanif’s letter to Junaid Hafeez: ‘Those who made blasphemy the central plank of their politics, and threatened generals and judges and politicians, have been silenced for now. We sometimes fear that your acquittal might poke those monsters we have put to sleep. Or people who decide such things still suspect that these monsters might be unshackled to liven up our political circus.’ dawn.com/news/2003949