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In Today's Wire

• 🟠 Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes
• 🟠 Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning
• 🟠 ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit
• ⚪ Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40

World vs. U.S.

• 🟠 Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes
• 🟠 Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning
• 🟠 ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit
• ⚪ Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40

• 🟢 Heavy Russian strikes kill at least 21 in Kyiv after Ukrainian strikes disrupt Moscow's oil sector
• 🟢 Russia pounds Kyiv with missiles and drones after Ukraine's strikes on oil infrastructure
• 🟢 Trump says U.S. keeping current support levels for NATO would be "ridiculous"

Stories — Ranked by Outside Salience

Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes

• 🇪🇺 Euronews: Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes — Smoke rises over Kyiv after a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack overnight that killed at least eight people and injured dozens.
• 🇫🇷 France 24: Kyiv mourns 30 killed in Russian attack as rescuers continue search — Rescuers continued ⁠clearing the rubble ​in Kyiv on Friday in the hope of finding more survivors, as flags were ​lowered to half mast to mark a day of mourning,
• 🇯🇵 Japan Times: ‘I grabbed my child’: Kyiv residents face devastation of biggest Russian barrage of war — At least 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in what was Russia's biggest attack on Kyiv since invading more than four years ago, according to Ukrainian of
• 🇬🇧 BBC World: 'Most massive' Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 30 — The latest barrage deployed the largest number of weapons on the capital and hit locations over a wide area.
• 🇬🇧 BBC World: Watch: BBC at site of deadly Russian attack on Kyiv flats — Sarah Rainsford reports from the completely destroyed nine-storey block of flats in Ukraine's capital.

• 🇺🇸 PBS NewsHour: Heavy Russian strikes kill at least 21 in Kyiv after Ukrainian strikes disrupt Moscow's oil sector — Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 21 civilians in the city and injuring scores more

Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning

• 🇫🇷 France 24: Russia faces challenges trying to jam Starlink in Ukraine — Footage reportedly shows Ukrainian forces destroying a Russian system deployed to jam Starlink. The satellite network, which is notoriously difficult to jam, ha
• 🇩🇪 DW: Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning — The overnight strikes by Russia came a day after massive missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, where a day of mourning is being observed.
• 🇩🇪 DW: Russia launches attacks on Kyiv, killing at least 27 and injuring scores — Ballistic and cruise missiles and drones were used in what Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said was the largest attack on the city since the war began.

• 🇺🇸 PBS NewsHour: Russia pounds Kyiv with missiles and drones after Ukraine's strikes on oil infrastructure — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised heavy retaliation after an all-night barrage of Russian missiles and drones killed at least 25 in Kyiv. Ukraine
• 🇺🇸 Fox News: Russia unleashes nearly 600 missiles and drones on Kyiv in deadliest strike since May — Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador called Russia a “pariah state" after Moscow launched one of its heaviest overnight attacks on Kyiv, killing at least 18 people and wou

‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit

• 🇩🇪 DW: Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists — Protesters are clearly unwelcome ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara. Amid a strict public gatherings ban, 225 human rights and environmental activists
• 🇬🇧 The Guardian World: ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit — President says Washington’s relationship with Nato is ‘not reciprocal’ and ‘they were not there for us’ in Iran war Donald Trump has said it is “ridiculous” for

• 🇺🇸 CBS News: Trump says U.S. keeping current support levels for NATO would be "ridiculous" — President Trump says it would be "ridiculous" for the United States to continue its "one sided" relationship with NATO. His remarks came less than a week before
• 🇺🇸 Fox News: Trump's Turkey arms sale proposal sparks congressional questions before NATO summit — The Trump administration bypasses Congress to send Turkey a $700 million arms sale including fighter jet engines, despite S-400 concerns from lawmakers.

Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40

• 🇩🇪 DW: Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40 — Authorities say the overcrowded bus was likely speeding when it veered off a mountain road in Balochistan.
• 🇬🇧 BBC World: At least 32 dead after overcrowded bus plunges into ravine in Pakistan — The bus was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, when it crashed in the Dana Sar mountain range.

• 🇺🇸 CBS News: 40 killed when speeding, overcrowded bus tumbles into Pakistan ravine, officials say — A speeding bus plunged from a highway into a rocky ravine in Pakistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others in one of the deadliest road accidents in rec

Underreported in the U.S.

• 🟡 Trump refuses to renew US-Canada-Mexico trade pact he once championed — no U.S. feed source in this pull.
• 🟡 Iran: Dignitaries arrive for Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral — no U.S. feed source in this pull.
• 🟡 Alleged Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland — no U.S. feed source in this pull.

Signals to Watch

• 🟠 Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes — watch kyiv
• 🟠 Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning — watch kyiv, russia, ukraine
• 🟠 ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit — watch nato, summit, trump
• ⚪ Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40 — watch pakistan

Sources by Region

• 🌏 Asia-Pacific: Japan Times
• 🇪🇺 Europe: BBC World, DW, Euronews, France 24, The Guardian World
• 🇺🇸 United States: CBS News, Fox News, PBS NewsHour

TL;DR

• 🟠 Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes — 5 sources / 5 regions · BBC World
• 🟠 Ukraine: Russia strikes kill 4 as Kyiv holds day of mourning — 4 sources / 3 regions · DW
• 🟠 ‘Ridiculous’ for US to maintain current Nato support, Trump warns ahead of alliance summit — 4 sources / 3 regions · The Guardian World
• ⚪ Pakistan: Bus crashes into ravine, killing at least 40 — 3 sources / 3 regions · BBC World

The DeltaWire

In Today's Wire

• 🔴 At least 27 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv
• 🔴 Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations
• 🔴 Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power
• 🟠 Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists

World vs. U.S.

• 🔴 At least 27 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv
• 🔴 Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations
• 🔴 Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power
• 🟠 Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists

• 🟢 Russia hits Ukraine's capital with a massive drone and missile attack, killing at least 18
• 🟢 Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a 'forceful response'
• 🟢 Khamenei body in cold storage as feared Basij mobilizes ahead of historic Iran funeral

Stories — Ranked by Outside Salience

At least 27 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv

• 🇪🇺 Euronews: Smoke rises over Kyiv after Russian overnight strikes — Smoke rises over Kyiv after a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack overnight that killed at least eight people and injured dozens.
• 🇫🇷 France 24: Russia massive attack: 'West simply doesn't have enough interceptors', military expert says — Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Frank Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Portsmouth University, says that "Ukraine's allies are doing as much as they
• 🇫🇷 France 24: Ukraine will retaliate for Russian attack on Kyiv: Zelensky — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Thursday to retaliate for Russia's strikes on Kyiv that killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens, as he visited
• 🇩🇪 DW: Russia launches attacks on Kyiv, killing at least 27 and injuring scores — Ballistic and cruise missiles and drones were used in what Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said was the largest attack on the city since the war began.
• 🇯🇵 Japan Times: Russia bombards Kyiv in deadliest strike this year, killing at least 27 people — The scale and spread of the destruction across Kyiv had little precedent even in a war now in its fifth year.
• 🇬🇧 BBC World: 'Most massive' Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 27 — The latest barrage deployed the largest number of weapons on the capital and hit locations over a wide area.
• 🇬🇧 BBC World: Watch: BBC at site of deadly Russian attack on Kyiv flats — Sarah Rainsford reports from the completely destroyed nine-storey block of flats in Ukraine's capital.

• 🇺🇸 NPR World: Russia hits Ukraine's capital with a massive drone and missile attack, killing at least 18 — Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine's capital overnight into Thursday, with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, killing several people.
• 🇺🇸 NPR World: A major Russian attack kills 17 in Kyiv as Ukraine keeps striking Moscow's oil sector — Loud explosions shook Kyiv for hours during the night, with many people sheltering at subway stations. Emergency crews were digging through the rubble of collap
• 🇺🇸 PBS NewsHour: Heavy Russian strikes kill at least 21 in Kyiv after Ukrainian strikes disrupt Moscow's oil sector — Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 21 civilians in the city and injuring scores more

Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations

• 🇪🇺 Euronews: Iran renews Hormuz threats as Doha talks end with cautious progress — Tehran threatened a "forceful response" against vessels straying from its approved Hormuz routes, even as mediators said indirect US-Iran talks in Doha conclude
• 🇪🇺 Euronews: Ship runs aground in Hormuz as Iran insists on controlling the strait — Iran's IRGC said the grounding was caused by the vessel straying from its approved corridor. Hormuz control and the Israeli intervention against Hezbollah in Le
• 🇯🇵 Japan Times: Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations — A look at what is known to have come out of the latest round of Iran and U.S. indirect talks in Doha.
• 🌍 Al Jazeera: Iran warns ships against using unapproved routes in Strait of Hormuz — Military command issues threat a day after Qatari mediators hailed 'positive progress' in indirect US-Iranian talks.

• 🇺🇸 PBS NewsHour: Iran warns oil tankers to use approved routes in Strait of Hormuz or face a 'forceful response' — Iran's joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a "forceful response
• 🇺🇸 CBS News: U.S.-Iran talks pause for ayatollah's funeral after claims of progress — Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. will pause for a week for the funeral of Iran's slain supreme leader, but President Trump, and mediators, say there's bee
• 🇺🇸 KOMO News (AP wire): Iran threatens 'forceful response' if oil tankers don't take approved Hormuz Strait routes — The military in Iran warned Thursday that there would be a “forceful response if the oil tankers didn’t go through the approved Strait of Hormuz routes.

Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power

• 🇫🇷 France 24: Middle East live: Iran prepares to say final goodbye to Supreme Leader Khamenei — Iran has warned the United States and Israel against any attack as the country prepares for the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed
• 🇩🇪 DW: Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power — Iran's leadership is planning a six-day funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei starting July 4, in what officials say will be the largest gathering in Tehran's hist
• 🌍 Al Jazeera: Iran war live: Tehran slams US before huge funeral for Ali Khamenei — Lebanon's Health Ministry says at least 4,298 people have been killed and 12,196 injured in Israeli attacks since March.

• 🇺🇸 Fox News: Khamenei body in cold storage as feared Basij mobilizes ahead of historic Iran funeral — Tehran prepares massive security operation for Ali Khamenei's July 9 burial, mobilizing Basij militia and IRGC for expected historic turnout.

Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists

• 🇩🇪 DW: Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists — Protesters are clearly unwelcome ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara. Amid a strict public gatherings ban, 225 human rights and environmental activists

• 🇺🇸 Fox News: Trump's Turkey arms sale proposal sparks congressional questions before NATO summit — The Trump administration bypasses Congress to send Turkey a $700 million arms sale including fighter jet engines, despite S-400 concerns from lawmakers.

Underreported in the U.S.

• 🟡 Venezuela quake survivor pulled out alive after eight days — no U.S. feed source in this pull.
• 🟡 Trump refuses to renew US-Canada-Mexico trade pact he once championed — no U.S. feed source in this pull.
• 🟡 Alleged Scattered Spider hacker arrested in Finland — no U.S. feed source in this pull.

Signals to Watch

• 🔴 At least 27 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv — watch kyiv, military, missile
• 🔴 Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations — watch iran
• 🔴 Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power — watch iran
• 🟠 Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists — watch nato, summit

Sources by Region

• 🌏 Asia-Pacific: Japan Times
• 🇪🇺 Europe: BBC World, DW, Euronews, France 24, The Guardian World
• 🌍 Middle East / Global South: Al Jazeera
• 🇺🇸 United States: CBS News, Fox News, KOMO News (AP wire), NBC News, NPR World, PBS NewsHour

TL;DR

• 🔴 At least 27 dead as Russia launches massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv — 9 sources / 6 regions · BBC World
• 🔴 Where the U.S. and Iran stand after Doha negotiations — 7 sources / 4 regions · Al Jazeera
• 🔴 Iran turns Khamenei funeral into show of power — 4 sources / 4 regions · Al Jazeera
• 🟠 Ahead of NATO summit, Turkey arrests more than 200 activists — 2 sources / 2 regions · DW