Team set to land in Mexico on Sunday, where it'll be based amid state of war with US, will play first game against New Zealand on June 15
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The EU could reduce the refugee status protections it grants to military age Ukrainian men because "the war needs to be fought and won".
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In an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed meeting to reach a resolution to the years-long war between their two nations.
"We see that the United States is fully focused on the issue of Iran, and it would be wrong to simply wait until the war in Europe returns to the center of its attention. Ukraine proposes ending this war through direct engagement between us — and you. I am proposing a meeting," Zelenskyy said in the letter.
"There are countries that have traditionally hosted leaders to resolve issues of war and peace. Switzerland, Türkiye, the countries of the Arab world — many are able and willing to host such a meeting. It is leaders who resolve the key issues. That has always been the case, and it always will be," he asserted.
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Zelenskyy suggested that Europe and the U.S. should also be involved in the peace process.
"Since the war is taking place in Europe, and since Ukraine needs security guarantees, while you also seek security guarantees for yourself, it would be logical to involve those who can genuinely serve as guarantors. We believe Europe should be part of this process — those who truly have the capacity to influence the situation. We also believe that the United States must be part of the process. This is what could help shape a new security architecture for our part of the world," he said.
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He indicated that Ukraine would agree to a ceasefire during the proposed negotiations.
"Ukraine is ready for a full ceasefire for the duration of the negotiations. This is standard practice, and current developments around Iran only reinforce that point. An attempt to establish real silence is the best way to begin talking to one another. We believe it would not simply be an attempt, but a real ceasefire — if that is what you want," he noted.
He also suggested a prisoner swap between the two nations, noting, "Ukraine is ready for an all-for-all exchange of prisoners of war, and this could become a good prologue to ending the war. Serious steps must be taken to return civilians and children who were taken away during the war."
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"If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us. But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes," Zelenskyy warned Putin.
With Iran and Lebanon campaigns in the balance, and months before elections, dressing-down leaves Israelis suspicious that premier has lost control of life-or-death decisions
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President says he mulled sending troops to seize near-weapons-grade stockpile at war's start, but declined to do so given the risks: 'I don’t want to do it if we’re in conflict'
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Operations by dozens of commandos and Mossad agents along Iran's northern border included killing of IRGC special operations chief, CNN says; Baku rejects 'entirely baseless' report
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Während CO2 in der öffentlichen Debatte häufig als zentrales Problem für das Klima gilt, zeigen Satellitenbeobachtungen und andere detaillierte Analysen ein anderes Bild. Die Vegetation auf der Erde nimmt zu, vor allem durch höhere atmosphärische CO2-Konzentrationen. Gleichzeitig zeigen die Auswertungen realer Temperaturdaten, dass CO2 die Erwärmung des Planeten nicht antreibt.
Seit den 1980er Jahren hat sich die Sahara um etwa acht Prozent verkleinert. Satellitendaten belegen eine weitreichende Begrünung, die sich über weite Teile der Erde erstreckt. Rund die Hälfte der bewachsenen Landflächen ist deutlich grüner geworden, eine Fläche, die etwas mehr als zweimal so groß ist wie die Vereinigten Staaten. Der dominante Treiber ist der Anstieg des atmosphärischen CO2. Höhere Konzentrationen ermöglichen Pflanzen eine effizientere Fotosynthese. Sie verlieren weniger Wasser durch ihre Spaltöffnungen, tolerieren Trockenheit und Hitze besser und wachsen insgesamt kräftiger. Der Effekt zeigt sich besonders deutlich an Wüstenrändern, im Sahel, im Nahen Osten, im australischen Binnenland und am südlichen Sahara-Rand.
Eine 2016 in „Nature Climate Change“ veröffentlichte Studie mit Beteiligung von NASA-Forschern wertete Satellitendaten über 35 Jahre aus. Zwischen einem Viertel und der Hälfte der bewachsenen Regionen der Erde wiesen signifikante Zunahmen der Blattfläche auf. Die CO2-Düngung erklärte etwa 70 Prozent dieses Effekts. Weitere Analysen bestätigen, dass der Anstieg des Spurengases die globale Photosynthese seit 1982 um rund zwölf Prozent gesteigert hat, mit spürbaren Auswirkungen auf die globale Biomasse und potenzielle landwirtschaftliche Erträge.
Der CO2-Effekt wirkt am stärksten dort, wo Wasser knapp ist. In trockenen Randzonen profitieren Ökosysteme und lokale Landwirtschaft von der verbesserten Wassereffizienz der Pflanzen. CO2 erweist sich hier wieder als unverzichtbarer Baustein pflanzlichen Lebens, dem Fundament der gesamten Nahrungskette. Darum wird in Gewächshäusern CO2 gezielt zugeführt, um die Ernten zu steigern. Die globale Begrünung folgt demselben Prinzip, nur im großen Maßstab.
Doch zum CO2 gibt es noch mehr zu sagen. Es ist nicht verantwortlich für die Temperatur auf dem Planeten. Eine auf realen Beobachtungen basierende Analyse von Ole Humlum aus dem Jahr 2025/2026 unterstreicht diese Einschätzung. In „The State of the Climate 2025“ stellt der Autor klar, dass CO2 zwar für Pflanzen und Tiere essenziell ist, jedoch für das Verständnis von Meteorologie und Klima keine besondere Bedeutung hat. Die zeitliche Abfolge von Temperaturänderungen zeigt: Die Erwärmung setzt zuerst an der Ozeanoberfläche ein. Erst mit Verzögerung folgen die Atmosphäre, das Land und schließlich die tieferen Ozeanschichten. Dieses Muster passt nicht zu einem Szenario, in dem atmosphärisches CO2 die Temperatur treibt. In diesem Fall müsste die Temperatur zuerst in der oberen Troposphäre ansteigen und sich dann abwärts ausbreiten. Stattdessen steuern die Ozeanoberflächentemperaturen – beeinflusst von Sonne und Wolkenbedeckung – die atmosphärischen Bedingungen. Der CO2-Effekt ist den anderen Faktoren völlig untergeordnet.
Humlums Auswertung globaler und arktischer Daten zeigt keine Anzeichen einer herannahenden Klimakrise. Die Temperaturen lagen 2025 sogar leicht unter dem Durchschnitt der vorangegangenen zehn Jahre. Die Trends bei Meereis, küstennahen Meeresspiegeln oder Niederschlägen bewegen sich innerhalb bekannter natürlicher Schwankungen. Rechenmodelle und Prognosen, die starke, CO2-getriebene Veränderungen vorhersagen, weichen hingegen spürbar von den echten Messungen ab. Die politische Führung der EU bezeichnet in Verkennung oder Verweigerung der Wirklichkeit CO2 pauschal als „Verschmutzung“ und „Klimakiller“. Europa soll deindustrialisiert werden, um kein CO2 mehr auszustoßen. Was erstens angesichts der physikalischen Realitäten unmöglich und zweitens sinnlos ist. Weil CO2 kein Schadstoff ist. Und der Rest des Planeten bei der Deindustrialisierung sowieso nicht mitmacht. Europa entleibt sich selbst für einen linksgrünen Wahnwitz.
Aber natürlich darf nicht vergessen werden, dass im Namen des Klimas Steuern eingehoben und umverteilt werden. Dass im Namen des Klimas in alle Lebensbereiche eingegriffen wird. Macht und Geld haben unsere selbsternannten Eliten immer schon magisch angezogen.
In 10 hours of congressional testimony that barely touched on Ukraine, Rubio says risk of escalation with Russia is 'more real than it was two years ago'
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Request for people to search for images comes as Jerusalem institution prepares 2027 exhibit for 60th anniversary of city's reunification following 1967 Six Day War
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DC said to demand signing of a deal in Geneva next week; US embassy in Jerusalem warns citizens 'security environment can change quickly,' tells them to check where nearest shelter is
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Tucked away inside the far-left Deadline’s free ad (“Supergirl Advance Tickets Go On Sale Before DC Pic’s June 26 Opening”) for the upcoming Supergirl is the real news: this sucker cost $175 million to produce.
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Two days after another ceasefire was announced between Israel and U.S. terrorist designated group Hezbollah, Yulia Bar-Dan was standing outside her temporary home in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel when the familiar sound of an interceptor echoed overhead.
"There will probably be another siren soon," she told Fox News Digital.
Minutes later, an alert appeared on her phone warning residents in northern Israel to take shelter.
For Bar-Dan, the scene captured the reality of life on Israel's northern border nearly two years after Hezbollah joined the war against Israel on Oct. 8, 2023.
After Hezbollah entered the recent war in support of Iran, Washington launched a diplomatic effort aimed at turning the ceasefire into a broader arrangement for Lebanon.
Multiple rounds of talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials have taken place in Washington, and President Donald Trum repeatedly has announced ceasefire understandings aimed at restoring calm along the border. Residents of communities like Manara, Israel, say the rockets, drones and uncertainty never really stopped.
"A ceasefire is supposed to be on both sides," she said. "Not that Hezbollah keeps shooting at us and we just keep absorbing it."
When Fox News Digital first spoke to Bar-Dan in December 2024 during the war, she and her husband had fled Manara, Israel, with their three children and were living out of a single hotel room, unsure whether they would ever return home.
Today, roughly 200 of the kibbutz's 280 residents have returned, Bar-Dan said. But many, including Bar-Dan's family, still cannot live in their original homes because of war damage.
Despite repeated ceasefire announcements, residents say normal life remains elusive.
"There hasn't really been a routine or a quiet day since February," she said.
Schools officially reopened in early June, but Bar-Dan decided not to send her children.
"They take the bus to school," she said. "What if there's a siren on the way? I can't take that chance."
Her frustration is not directed at Hezbollah alone.
Like many residents interviewed by Fox News Digital, Bar-Dan says there is a growing disconnect between the reality experienced on the border and the reality described by politicians.
"It doesn't really matter where the decisions are being made," she said. "The decisions just need to match reality. Right now there is a decision, but the reality is completely different."
A year and a half after most of Manara's residents were evacuated amid fears of a Hezbollah invasion, community leader Yochai Wolfin says residents have developed their own name for the current situation.
"We call it 'the ceasefire war,'" he said.
The phrase has become common in the community.
First came a year and a half of evacuation. Then came the return home. Then came what Wolfin describes as three months of "fire within a ceasefire."
The uncertainty has become part of daily life.
Children study inside shelters. Parts of the kibbutz still lack protected rooms. Construction projects remain unfinished because contractors are reluctant to work so close to the border.
He said many residents increasingly feel that the decisions determining their future are being made far from the communities that bear the consequences.
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"Who knows what tomorrow will bring?" Wolfin said. "We know who is calling the shots. We saw it a few days ago when Trump announced another ceasefire. But for us, the reality on the ground hasn't changed."
The comments come as Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned Thursday that northern Israel would remain unsafe as long as Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon, according to Reuters.
In a written statement broadcast on June 4, 2026, Qassem condemned the Washington-mediated framework as "absurd, humiliating, and insulting," calling it a roadmap for surrender.
For residents of Israel's northern border communities, the statements reinforced what many say they have been experiencing for months: a ceasefire that exists on paper but not in daily life.
Naor Shamia, who heads Manara's emergency response team, says residents increasingly worry that temporary emergency measures are becoming permanent.
"The fear isn't today," he said. "The fear is that this becomes years. We are in a deadlock."
Across the border region, similar concerns are heard.
In the community of Adamit, resident Yael Cohen-Arazi described the contrast between the beauty surrounding her and the reality of living under constant threat.
"Every morning I wake up and think I'm living in paradise," she said in footage provided to Fox News Digital by the Israeli news agency TPS-IL. "Then there are the explosions that shake my soul."
Her children, she said, have spent so much of their lives under fire that they no longer know what normal looks like.
"I tell them there are children who don't live like this," she said.
Back in Manara, Israel, another alert interrupted the afternoon.
Bar-Dan says she is not angry anymore. Mostly, she is tired and sad.
"I feel bad for the soldiers," she said. "Every day there is another casualty, and there is still no solution."
Yet she insists she is staying.
"This is our home," she said. "Someone has to live on the borders of this country."
Then another explosion sounded in the distance.
Military targets commanders in Hamas's general security mechanism; Gaza medics report five members of same family killed
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Actor Ted Danson apologized for his 1993 blackface performance during the roast of Whoopi Goldberg, whom he was dating at the time.
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Nina Warken will im Gesundheitswesen Milliarden sparen. Doch Länder und Verbände laufen gegen das Paket Sturm. Die Krankenkassen warnen dagegen vor immer weiter steigenden Kosten.
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Der Weltklimarat hat nicht die Klimakrise „abgesagt“, aber er hat etwas viel Peinlicheres getan für all jene, die jahrelang mit der maximalen Drohkulisse Politik machten: …
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Ibrahim Hilu said to have hidden remains of the 20-year-old IDF soldier, killed in 2014 war, until they were recovered by the IDF in January 2025
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Four Republicans vote with Democrats on bill to limit Trump's authority, after GOP speaker of the House tried to prevent display of opposition against president
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday announced sanctions against four Iranian digital asset exchanges, including Nobitex, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Iran.
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US president insists 'we will get' Iran's uranium stockpile, says he wants separate end to Lebanon conflict; Iran's FM says Israeli attack on Beirut would trigger renewal of war
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Police in Santa Clara, California, have issued a warrant for the arrest of San Francisco 49ers wideout Brandon Aiyuk, a report says.
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Makan Delrahim, the chief legal counsel for Paramount Skydance, has suggested that "antisemitic views" may be fueling opposition.
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PM insists he and Trump have 'great relationship,' both agree that Hezbollah must be disarmed; also says Iran 'playing with fire' with attacks on Gulf, Israel 'ready' for fight
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Renewed rocket and drone fire has exposed limits of Israel's battlefield gains -- but with Trump blocking escalation and Lebanon unable to disarm the terror group, there's no straightforward path ahead
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What's needed is a civil version of "What the fuck are you doing?" -- not from Trump to Netanyahu but from Netanyahu to Trump. To be followed by a joint effort to assess why this war has so signally failed, avoid exacerbating the failure with a dreadful deal, and resolutely turn the tide
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