1. Statement of the World Socialist Web Site: unending and escalating war and the extreme growth of social inequality are the chief factors behind the accelerating breakdown of democratic forms of rule in the United States

2. An immediate and urgent ceasefire is essential: the prestigious journal, Lancet, warns that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more

3. Rejected among broad layers of workers and youth in the French snap election, the neo-fascist National Rally (RN) party vows a "come-back" and a humiliated President Macron seeks to salvage his authoritarian war plans at this week's planned Washington summit

4. German government to deliver an austerity and war budget in July

5. Concerns about the spillover of bird flu from cows to workers grows as another farmer contracts the disease

6. British workers and youth make statements on behalf of Ukrainian political prisoner, Bogdan Syrotiuk

7. Acclaimed historian, Mario Keßler, issues a statement on behalf of the Ukrainian political prisoner Bogdan Syrotiuk

8. Thousands of Australian educators’ jobs are threatened by fallout of their government's austerity measures

9. Brutal anti-Asian hate crime on a public bus in New Zealand provokes an outpouring of anger and concern

10. Washington greets the run-off victory of the new Iranian "reformer" president, Masoud Pezeshkian, with caution

11. Partly due to a fall in property tax revenues, Minneapolis' parks department could lock out workers unless they accept their union's concessions-laden deal

12. Syrian refugees in Turkey are being forced to choose between going hungry or going to work in fear

13. Ron DeSantis vetoes all arts funding from the Florida state budget

14. Media workers call for a strike as thousands in Nairobi, Kenya mourn all those slaughtered by the Ruto government

15. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!