International

As wildfires rage north of Madrid and across south-west France and around 300,000 people are evacuated, the climate emergency has stopped being a distant headline and become a European reality.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest includes news that Trump’s war on Palestinian activism has reached Spain, the renewal of US hostilities against Iran, an update on the first World Symposium Against Anti-Zionism, Marco Rubio’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, the Swiss saying no to racism and the EU Industrial Accelerator Act.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest includes items on the recent NATO summit, the dissolution of Gaza’s Hamas-run administration, events at the World Cup, India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement, Israel’s bid to exert its influence in Venezuela and post-civil war political animosity in Spain.

As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.

Trump’s Ankara bluster was for the cameras. The real story is NATO quietly locking in a war-fighting alliance aimed at China.

The Left Lane’s latest International news digest includes articles on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US socialists’ election wins, Venezuela’s oil revenues, draconian prison sentences given to ICE protestors, Albania’s continuing Flamingo Revolution, the murder of an anti-corruption activist in Ecuador and Italy’s resistance to continuing EU aid to Ukraine.

After a single phone call to FIFA’s Gianni Infantino overturned Folarin Balogun's suspension, Donald Trump got his star striker back on the pitch – only to watch the US crumble to Belgium, in a defeat that has UEFA warning football has “crossed a red line”.

Our latest international news digest includes items on an Israeli-Lebanon ‘peace plan’, the founding of a new political party in Spain by the wife of Nick Clegg, the EU’s problematic visa strategy, Ukraine and the forthcoming NATO conference, a US declaration of war on South America and antisemitism false-flag attacks in Canada.

From child marriage decrees to bullets fired at protesters, the Taliban’s war on women grinds on unremarked, while Afghanistan’s men’s cricket team tours India and Canada. The ICC's silence is complicity.

Our latest international news digest includes items on the Colombian elections, European rearmament, EU immigration law, the Peruvian elections, reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict and rifts in the Iranian diaspora in the UK.