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26 killed in Gaza as Israeli attacks target aid seekers | Latest news on Israel-Palestine conflict

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26 killed in Gaza as Israeli attacks target aid seekers | Latest news on Israel-Palestine conflict

Gaza’s Health Ministry says that in the last 48 hours, 202 people have been killed in Israeli attacks.

At least 26 people, including more aid seekers, have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza.

The attacks come as desperate Palestinians under Israeli blockade continue to wait at food distribution points amid an ongoing hunger crisis.

Among those killed during Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave on Saturday, 11 were aid recipients at distribution centres run by the United States-and-Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which the United Nations has condemned for its “weaponisation” of aid.

Meanwhile, Wafa news agency reported that at least three people were killed and several others wounded by an Israeli drone strike that targeted displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza.

The report said that the attack targeted a tent sheltering displaced members of the Shurrab family. The tent was located in an area the Israeli military had previously designated as a “safe zone”.

In the last 48 hours, at least 202 people have been killed, including four recovered bodies after Israeli attacks, and 1,037 wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza, the Health Ministry reported.

Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, at least 55,908 people have been killed, and 131,138 have been wounded in Israeli attacks.

Attacks on aid sites

In recent days, Israeli attacks on aid distribution sites in Gaza have ramped up as thousands of Palestinians gather daily in the hope of receiving food rations following a two-month Israeli blockade of aid deliveries.

On Saturday, three people were killed at a GHF site in Khan Younis after Israeli forces opened fire. Several people were also wounded and taken to medical facilities.

Omar al-Hobi, a displaced Palestinian in Khan Younis, told Al Jazeera from a hospital that walking to those sites means you “enter the point of death”.

“I call it the point of death. The tank is in front of us, the machinegun is in front of us, and the quadcopter is above us, and there are soldiers on the ground with snipers. Anyone who moves before the time is shot, and the moment the tank retreats, we start running,” al-Hobi said.

Israel claims its attacks at the aid sites have been to control crowds, but witnesses and humanitarian groups have said that many of the shootings took place unprovoked, resulting in hundreds of casualties.

The Red Cross said on Thursday, the “vast majority” of patients who arrived at its field hospital in the enclave since the GHF aid system began at the end of last month had reported that they were wounded while trying to access aid or around distribution points.

Meanwhile, Wafa, citing the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in the Gaza Strip, reports that there has been a disruption in internet and landline services affecting the governorates of Gaza, which include Gaza City, and north Gaza.

There is currently an ongoing outage in the southern and central areas of the Gaza Strip that has lasted for more than three days.

OpenPlay’s catalog management platform partners with Trolley for payouts service

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OpenPlay’s catalog management platform partners with Trolley for payouts service

Catalog management platform OpenPlay has teamed up with payouts platform Trolley.

The partnership will see Trolley integrated into OpenPlay Reach, the recently launched service from OpenPlay that supports the delivery, distribution, management, and monetization of music and video assets.

Trolley claims to process “billions in payments annually for over 5 million payees across 210 countries” and says that it works with major and independent labels, distributors, publishers, and streaming services.

In addition to OpenPlay, the company works with the likes of SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and Downtown Music.

With this latest integration, OpenPlay will use Trolley as its financial compliance royalty payments provider to enable “fast and secure transactions”.

In addition to payouts, OpenPlay Reach clients and users will receive built-in features such as tax forms management, risk mitigation and fraud prevention.

Commenting on the partnership, Edward Ginis, Co-Founder and Chief Client Officer of OpenPlay, said: “We’ve seen Trolley’s dedication to simplifying royalty payments in an increasingly complex digital music economy.”

“We’ve seen Trolley’s dedication to simplifying royalty payments in an increasingly complex digital music economy.”

Edward Ginis, OpenPlay

Added Ginis: “We are proud to bring Trolley into the OpenPlay Reach suite, providing music companies with trusted, flexible tools to manage payouts with precision and autonomy, regardless of their size or type of ownership.”

“Together, we’re empowering music labels and artists with financial transparency and seamless, artist-level payouts so that creators everywhere can thrive.”

Tim Nixon, Trolley

Tim Nixon, CEO and Founder of Trolley, added: “At Trolley, our mission is to build the payouts platform for the internet economy, and in our conversations we’ve come to learn how much OpenPlay shares that vision.

“Together, we’re empowering music labels and artists with financial transparency and seamless, artist-level payouts so that creators everywhere can thrive.”

OpenPlay Reach marked an expansion of OpenPlay’s existing catalog management capabilities.

The company appointed Bob Barbiere as Executive Vice President and General Manager to lead the new service.

OpenPlay claims to serve over 3,000 major and independent labels and publishers globally.Music Business Worldwide

Brazil hot air balloon accident claims at least eight lives

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Brazil hot air balloon accident claims at least eight lives

Danai Nesta Kupemba

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At least eight people have died in a hot air balloon accident in Brazil, a state governor has said.

There were 21 people on board the balloon in the city of Praia Grande on Saturday morning, Governor of Santa Catarina Jorginho Mello said in a post on X.

Mello said 13 people survived and eight died. Rescue teams are at the site of the incident searching for others, he said.

“We are all shocked by the accident,” he added.

“Our teams continue to provide all necessary support to families and victims.

“We continue to monitor the situation.”

This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.

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Israel attacks Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site while Trump considers joining the conflict

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Israel attacks Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site while Trump considers joining the conflict

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Israel has struck Iran’s nuclear facility near Isfahan, pressing ahead with its aerial assault while President Donald Trump decides whether the US will enter the war in the Middle East.

The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had launched an overnight assault involving 50 warplanes, with some targeting two centrifuge production facilities at Isfahan.

However, the crown jewel of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, a sprawling uranium enrichment facility built deep under a mountain in Fordow, remains out of reach of Israel’s conventional weapons.

American “bunker-buster” bombs carried by B-2 Stealth fighters are considered to have the best chance of destroying the facility, although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at clandestine capabilities, including sabotage.

The White House said on Thursday that Trump would decide “within the next two weeks” if the US would strike Iran, a decision that would mark a significant escalation in the conflict.

On Saturday, Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi warned that it would be “very, very dangerous for everybody” if the US were to join the conflict.

“Unfortunately, we have heard that the US may join this aggression,” Araghchi told reporters. “That would be very unfortunate.”

Iran launched a small volley of missiles and drones in the early hours of Saturday. All but one were intercepted, the Israeli military said, with a drone damaging a house in northern Israel.

The IDF also said it had killed two senior leaders in the Quds Force, claiming that both were involved in financing and training Iran’s proxy militias in the region.

Israel’s near-complete domination of Iranian skies has severely diminished the Islamic Republic’s missile launch capabilities and eliminated much of its senior military leadership since its surprise attack on June 13.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rarely been seen in public since Israel’s defence minister said that he too could be assassinated.

The Israeli military’s success has left Trump reluctant to agree to an Iranian demand that any talks take place under the cover of a ceasefire.

“It’s very hard to stop when you look at it, Israel’s doing well in terms of war and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well,” Trump said on Friday, describing the first round of Europe-led negotiations in Geneva as ineffective. “Europe is not going to be able to help with this.” The US did not attend the talks.

A person briefed on Friday’s negotiations said the French, German and UK foreign ministers warned their Iranian counterpart that Tehran may have to give up its red line of refusing to negotiate with Washington while under Israeli attack to “prevent the US from joining the operation”.

“We sent them away to think very carefully about their red line,” the person said. “We told [the Iranians] that US military intervention is something that is actually being planned right now.”

Trump has dismissed the US intelligence community’s assessment that Iran was not using Fordow’s uranium enrichment capabilities to build material for a nuclear weapon. Instead, he has agreed with Netanyahu’s claims that Tehran was weeks from building a bomb.

“She’s wrong,” Trump told reporters when asked about national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s testimony to Congress this year, which contradicted Netanyahu’s insistence that Iran was building a bomb.

Gabbard said in March that the US intelligence community believed that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei had not revived the programme he suspended in 2003.

But late on Friday night, Gabbard wrote on X that if Iran decided to finalise the assembly of a bomb, it could “produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months”.

According to the Iranian Fars news agency, Israel’s overnight military actions appear to have hit some parts of the nuclear facility, but there were no signs of radiation leakage.

On Friday, Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the UN Security Council that although the strikes had “not so far led to a radiological release affecting the public, there is a danger this could occur”.

“Armed attacks on nuclear facilities should never take place, and could result in radioactive releases with grave consequences within and beyond the boundaries of the state which has been attacked,” he said.

Additional reporting by Andrew England in London

Gaza boy devastated after father dies in Israeli air strike during ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict

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Gaza boy devastated after father dies in Israeli air strike during ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict

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A young boy in Gaza was filmed wailing over the boy of his father, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Jabalia. Israel’s bombing of Gaza has not subsided despite it’s escalating military campaign on Iran.

Published On 21 Jun 2025

Evading Police: The Minnesota Shooter’s Two-Day Reign of Terror

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Evading Police: The Minnesota Shooter’s Two-Day Reign of Terror

Two days of terror: How the Minnesota shooter evaded police and got caught

Giorgio Armani to Skip Milan Fashion Week for the First Time

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Giorgio Armani to Skip Milan Fashion Week for the First Time

Fashion legend Giorgio Armani will miss his two shows at Milan Fashion Week for the first time in his career.

The 90-year-old Italian designer is “currently recovering at home”, his company said in a statement. His recovery follows a brief hospital stay in Milan, Italian media reported.

He had “worked with usual dedication on the collections” and would follow the menswear shows on Saturday and Monday remotely, the company added.

It is thought to be the first time that Armani has missed one of his catwalk events, in a career that spans over five decades. Last year he said he could retire in coming years.

The shows next week will present the Spring-Summer 2026 collections of his self-titled luxury brand.

Armani’s long-time collaborator and head of menswear design, Leo Dell’Orco, is now set to give the closing bows.

Armani is said to be in good spirits and is expected to attend the brand’s upcoming shows in Paris at the end of June.

Founded in 1975, the brand celebrates its 50th anniversary next month – as Armani also celebrates his 91st birthday.

Armani, also known as ‘Re Giorgio’ – King Giorgio – has built an empire in the luxury fashion industry.

Born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza in 1934, he studied medicine before embarking on a career in fashion and eventually launching his label with his late partner, Sergio Galeotti.

His fashion house has several different lines which have also expanded into haute couture, ready-to-wear fashion, accessories, beauty products and make-up, jewellery, interior design and luxury hotels in cities such as Milan, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.

Top 10 Thick Strap Training Swimsuits for Serious Female Swimmers

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Top 10 Thick Strap Training Swimsuits for Serious Female Swimmers

When it comes to swim training, real swimmers know that not all suits are created equal. Thick strap training suits are the workhorses of the pool—designed for mileage, built for durability, and cut for athletes who live and breathe chlorine.

These aren’t fashion-first suits you see on summer vacation. These are the day-in, day-out training tanks worn by swimmers grinding through threshold sets, getting after it on the back half of a 10×400 IM, or just chasing a :29 on repeat in practice.

And while there are a lot of options out there, a few brands consistently deliver performance and longevity. Speedo is still the cultural and market leader, worn by Olympians and age groupers alike. But other brands—like Nike, Arena, Jolyn, and Sporti—are earning more traction with bold designs and dependable fabrics.

Here’s our roundup of the best women’s thick strap one-piece training suits—designed for swimmers who take the sport (and their gear) seriously.

🏊‍♀️ 10 Thick Strap Training Suits for Women

1. NIKE Women’s Drippy Check Fastback One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $86
Nike’s Fastback cut offers reliable coverage and support for high yardage training, and the “Drippy Check” brings some fun to the grind.

2. SPEEDO Women’s Disco Boom Super Pro One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $46
Speedo’s classic Super Pro back—comfortable, durable, and trusted by thousands of swim teams. Bonus points for the retro graphic.

3. SPORTI Molecule Wide Strap One Piece Swimsuit (22-44)
💰 Approx Price: $31
Budget-friendly, chlorine-resistant, and ready to go the distance. Sporti’s Molecule design punches above its price point.

4. SPORTI HydroLast Solid Wide Strap One Piece Swimsuit (22-44)
💰 Approx Price: $36
Built with HydroLast fabric, this one’s made to last for a full season of two-a-days.

5. SPEEDO Women’s Learn To Swim Pro LT Superpro One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $39
Ideal for beginners and younger age groupers—affordable, flexible, and comes in tons of color options.

6. SPEEDO Women’s PowerFLEX Eco Solid Super Pro One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $51
Eco-friendly performance. Same Super Pro cut, made with recycled materials for a greener swim.

7. ARENA Women’s Seabed O Back One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $60
Arena’s O-Back offers more range of motion than it gets credit for. Great fit, plus a unique seabed-inspired design.

8. ARENA Women’s Simone Manuel Collection Jungle Cat Tech Back One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $54
Designed with input from Olympic champ Simone Manuel. Eye-catching design, athlete-tested performance.

9. SPEEDO Women’s Movement Back One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $68
A modern update on the classic training suit. Slightly more fashion-forward without compromising function.

10. JOLYN Women’s Breeze Caroline Printed One Piece Swimsuit
💰 Approx Price: $78
JOLYN makes suits that hold up to the toughest practices—and their Caroline cut has become a cult favorite among elite women.

NOTE: SwimSwam is independently owned and operated. We are not owned by a nonprofit, governing body, or a retail company. SwimSwam is partners with most—but not all—brands we review. If you order via the affiliate links in this post, you help support our mission of unbiased, athlete-first journalistic swim coverage. Thank you for your support.

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Whether you’re just starting out or heading into your tenth straight week of doubles, these suits are built for the work. Pick your favorite, get in the water, and put in the laps.

Resin Derived from Biomass to Assist in Wind Blade Recycling

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Resin Derived from Biomass to Assist in Wind Blade Recycling

Wind power is already a vital component of our energy supply. As this sector matures, many wind turbines are reaching the end of their operational lives after years of producing clean energy. Others are becoming less efficient and need to be replaced, a process known as repowering. In both scenarios, the wind blades need to be recycled. Now, a new material is emerging to make this task simpler.

What this article covers:

The wind blade recycling process

The good news is that more than 90% of wind turbines, including the tower and nacelle, are easily recyclable once they’ve reached the end of their lifespan. After the structure is dismantled, the metal components can be reused. However, the main challenge lies in recycling the wind blades. Built to last for decades, they are made from composite materials, including resin and fiberglass.

At today’s recycling plants, mechanical, thermal, or chemical methods are used to recover the raw materials and give them a second life. This can involve grinding, heating, or using chemicals to process the materials.

Another option the wind industry is exploring is repurposing blades into urban furniture like canopies or even structures like bridges.

The biomass alternative

A recent initiative aims to make wind blade recycling easier by taking a different approach: replacing traditional resins with a biodegradable alternative. This research, recently published in Science, has resulted in a material called PECAN, which has properties similar to synthetic resins but is derived from biomass.

Scientists at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed this new resin from bio-based sugars, which offers the same strength as the materials used in conventional blades. One concern was whether PECAN would deform and affect the blade’s aerodynamic properties, but tests have confirmed its strength.

Additionally, this resin can undergo a mild chemical treatment that enables it to be recovered and reused indefinitely. In laboratory tests, researchers successfully decomposed a prototype blade in just six hours, promoting circular economy principles in wind energy and integrates recycling considerations into the preliminary design phases.

The team has also conducted tests with nine-meter-long blades, showing promising results regarding the material’s durability. However, it’s still too early to predict how it will hold up under real-world conditions.

And now for some excitiung blade recycling applications.

 

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​Blades reborn as sneakers

Even without biodegradable resin, wind blade materials can be recycled through chemical, thermal, or mechanical separation processes. A striking example of this is the transformation of blades from ACCIONA Energía’s wind farm in Aibar, Navarra, into the soles of a special edition of sneakers by a well-known fashion brand.

In this case, the resin from the blades was crushed and micronized into powder. The powder was then mixed with rubber and molded into soles using thermocompression. You can read more about this fascinating initiative on this page.

Lastly, beyond wind blade recycling, we recently covered a new technique capable of recycling up to 99% of solar panels. To stay up to date with the latest developments in renewable energy, subscribe to our newsletter below.

 

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Canadians eagerly purchased U.S. debt despite Trump’s tariffs

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Canadians eagerly purchased U.S. debt despite Trump’s tariffs

Canadians have been ditching all-things American after having enough of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats about tariffs and making their country the “51st state.”

Boycotts of U.S. products from whiskey to dog food to Teslas—and a huge pullback in travel across the border—haven’t stopped Canadian investors from buying Uncle Sam’s debt, though. Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout in April marked the high point of the “Sell America” trade as stocks, bonds, and the dollar all sank. But despite the turmoil in fixed-income markets, Canadians purchased a net $9.2 billion of U.S. government bonds in April, the biggest monthly surge since November 2023.

However, the value of Canada’s overall holdings fell by roughly $58 billion that same month, according to the most recent data from the Treasury, by far the biggest swing for any of the top 20 foreign owners of U.S. debt.

The drop likely reflects that month’s massive bond selloff, which may have forced Trump to back off on his so-called reciprocal tariffs. Long-term yields, which spike when bond prices fall, have remained stubbornly elevated with the Federal Reserve—unlike other central banks around the world—patient to cut interest rates.

“You’ve got this gap emerging with the Fed on hold and the Bank of Canada cutting rates, along with everyone else,” Rob Haworth, a senior vice president and investment strategist at U.S. Bank, told Fortune.

The Bank of Canada has slashed rates by 225 basis points over the past nine months, including 25-point cuts in January and March. The Fed, meanwhile, reduced rates by 100 points from September to December last year but has held rates steady so far in 2025. 

As a result, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield was 4.38% as markets closed on Friday, while Canada’s was at 3.30%.

Higher interest rates in the U.S. can make Treasuries appealing to Canadians and other foreign investors, Haworth said, provided they can effectively hedge the risk presented by a weakening U.S. dollar.

At the end of January, Canada’s private and public sector held a combined $351 billion worth of Treasury securities. That number surged to $426 billion at the end of March before falling to $368 billion in April, the most recent data available.

As Federal Reserve economists explained last year, this type of data has long been used as a gauge of foreign demand for Treasuries, particularly among the top three holders: Japan, the U.K., and China. The example of Canada, the seventh-largest owner of U.S. debt, illustrates why this approach is shortsighted, however.

After all, Canadian investors bought more Treasuries in April, even as the total value of their holdings declined after revaluing the bonds at current market prices. The big drop suggests America’s northern neighbor has heavy exposure to long-dated Treasury notes and bonds, which are much more volatile than short-term Treasury bills.

“Valuation changes often move in the opposite direction of net U.S. sales/purchases and are often large enough to drive overall changes in holdings,” Fed economists wrote last year. “As such, changes in holdings alone are an unreliable measure of cross-border demand for U.S. or foreign securities.”

Will foreign demand dry up?

Foreign investors account for roughly 30% of the U.S. Treasury market, according to Apollo chief economist Torsten Sløk, and their behavior is being closely monitored as the Trump administration pushes for big shifts in global trade and international finance.  

The U.S. borrows at much better rates than its underlying finances would normally allow, thanks to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency and confidence that America will always pay its bills.

If foreign buyers sour on U.S. Treasuries, however, that could force the Treasury to pay higher yields to bring back buyers. Such a move would put upward pressure on interest rates for mortgages, small-business loans, and other common types of borrowing throughout the economy.

Foreign investors held just over $9 trillion worth of Treasuries at the end of April, down only slightly from the record set in March. The decline in the dollar this year, Haworth said, has been much more pronounced than any offloading of Treasuries.

That makes sense, he added, because a slowdown in trade affects the flow of dollars first as greenbacks are used in fewer transactions. Changes in the allocation of Treasuries, often held as investments or bank reserves, happen much more slowly.

“There’s probably still some fundamental pressure as we suss out where trade and tariffs end up,” he said.

The Treasury data from April showed foreign private investors were net sellers of long-term U.S. debt. Government institutions like central banks and sovereign wealth funds were net buyers.

More current data suggests the latter trend may have reversed in the months since, though. Holdings by these official entities in the custody of the New York Federal Reserve have declined by $48 billion since late March, prompting Bank of America credit strategists to suggest that “cracks” in demand from these investors are now visible.

Still, it doesn’t seem foreigners are dumping U.S. debt just yet. Even angry Canadians.

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