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Former Attorney General Bill Barr called former President Trump a “consummate narcissist,” adding that the former president regularly “engages in reckless conduct.” “But the fact of the matter is, he is a consummate narcissist and he constantly engages in reckless conduct that puts his political followers at risk and the conservative and Republican agenda at risk,” Barr said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Swiss voters back ambitious plans to save melting glaciers in referendum The Swiss population went to the polls on Sunday to vote on a bill requiring the country to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Voters in Switzerland have backed a new law aiming to slash fossil fuel use and reach zero emissions after a referendum. The legislation, which sets a target to reach net zero by 2050, was backed by 59% of voters, according to public broadcaster SRF. It went to a public vote after the nationalist Swiss People's Party pushed back against the government's proposals, saying such measures would cause energy bills to rise. The referendum took place on Sunday after a campaign by scientists and environmental groups argued the country's melting glaciers would soon vanish completely if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced. Swiss glaciers experienced record melting last year, losing more than 6% of their volume. FULL STORY

New Partygate video ‘shows Tories dancing, drinking and laughing at lockdown rules’ A Partygate video appearing to show Tory staff drinking, dancing and joking about “bending” Covid lockdown rules has emerged, piling further pressure on the party just days after Boris Johnson was found to have lied about rules being followed. The video, said to have been taken on 14 December, 2020, when socialising inside was banned in parts of the UK, shows for the first time, staff joking about their Christmas party at the Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ) in London breaking the rules, according to The Mirror. The party was organised by the campaign team behind Shaun Bailey’s ultimately failed bid to become mayor of London and “formal disciplinary action” was taken against four staff members over the “unauthorised” event. The party itself had been previously documented when photos first emerged last year, and police dismissed an investigation citing a lack of evidence at the time, but the video has added further evidence of the scale of the celebrations within the Conservative party. FULL STORY

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden delivered an unapologetically economic populist message Saturday during the first rally of his reelection campaign, telling an exuberant crowd of union members that his policies had created jobs and lifted the middle class. Now, he said, is the time for the wealthy to “pay their fair share” in taxes. Biden spotlighted the sweeping climate, tax and health care package signed into law last year that cut the cost of prescription drugs and lowered insurance premiums — pocketbook issues that advisers say will be the centerpiece of his argument for a second term. “I’m looking forward to this campaign,” Biden said to cries of “four more years!” before adding, “We’ve got a record to run on.”

Antony Blinken arrives in Beijing - becoming first top US diplomat to visit China in five years US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Beijing. His arrival marks the first visit of a top American diplomat to China in five years, as relations between the two countries have become increasingly frosty. Having postponed a February trip after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over US airspace, Mr Blinken is set to become the highest-ranking US government official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. During his trip, he is expected to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, China's top diplomat Wang Yi and possibly President Xi Jinping. The aim of the visit is to establish open and robust communication channels between Washington and Beijing, and to ensure the American/Chinese strategic rivalry does not spiral into conflict. Full Story

Philippines passenger ship catches fire at sea The Philippine Coast Guard has used a water cannon to extinguish a fire that broke out on a passenger ferry. The Esperanza Star was travelling between provinces when the blaze started off the island of Bohol. Officials said all 120 passengers and crew on board have been accounted for and no casualties were reported. The cause of the incident is still being investigated. Video story

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Prince William beams with three children in special photograph released for Father's Day. Prince Louis, 5, has his arms around his father's shoulders as nine-year-old Prince George and Princess Charlotte, 8, sit either side. The photograph was taken on the Windsor Estate earlier this year by Millie Pilkington. This year marks the first time William will mark the occasion with his father as monarch. It comes after King Charles marked his first Trooping the Colour as sovereign with a Buckingham Palace balcony appearance.

We were not prepared; we are not prepared - that is what expert witnesses and core participants of the UK's COVID-19 Inquiry have claimed in its first week. As the hearings started, bereaved families of some of the 227,000 people who have died with COVID gathered outside the same Victorian-era Dorland House building in north London that heard from the families of Grenfell fire victims, grieving families once again calling for answers and accountability. They came from across the UK, dressed in red and holding photos of their loved ones, united in their grief but each with their own heartbreaking story of loss. Together, they reflected an unequal and at times unorganised response to an unprecedented threat.

Kylie Minogue has scored her biggest solo hit in more than a decade with the infectious dance anthem Padam Padam. It's the stars first song to break into the UK top 10 since All The Lovers peaked at number three in 2010. That means Kylie is one of only four women to reach the UK's top 10 in five separate decades, alongside Cher, Lulu and Diana Ross. The singer said the success of the song, which has gone viral on TikTok, had "really taken us all by surprise". "I can't even, I can't even, full stop!" she told Zoe Ball on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show earlier this week. "We loved it as a team, but the way that it's taken off is way beyond me."

Tens of thousands of people marched in Warsaw's Pride parade on Saturday to demand equality for LGBT people ahead of Polish elections. The country's right-wing government, which is seeking re-election, has focused on opposing what it calls "LGBT ideology" in previous campaigns. But Warsaw's mayor vowed that the LGBTQ community would "always be safe". "And I hope that you all will be safe in Poland," Rafal Trzaskowski, from the liberal opposition party, told crowds. "We want to show that today diversity, minority rights means Europe that is open, Europe that is tolerant," he said at a press conference before the march.

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BOSTON (AP) — In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame. But the software giant has offered few details — and did not immediately comment on how many customers were affected and whether the impact was global. A spokeswoman confirmed that the group that calls itself Anonymous Sudan was behind the attacks. It claimed responsibility on its Telegram social media channel at the time. Some security researchers believe the group to be Russian.

According to Ugandan police, the raid was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), who have been launching attacks from their bases in the DRC for years, targeting civilians. At least 41 people, most of them students, have been killed in a suspected rebel attack on a school in Uganda, officials have said. Other students have been abducted and a dormitory in the school has been set on fire in the attack, believed to have been carried out by Ugandan militants with ties to the Islamic State group. The mayor of Mpondwe, the town where the attack took place, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, said 41 bodies have so far been recovered, including 38 students. Selevest Mapoze said that while some of the students had suffered fatal burns in the dormitory fire, others had been shot or hacked with machetes. One guard and two members of the local community were also shot and killed outside the school, he said. Joe Walusimbi, a representative of Uganda's president, said some of the victims "were burnt beyond recognition". Full Story

House Republicans coming to former President Trump’s defense in the Mar-a-Lago documents care are turning their attention to the possibility of using congressional funding and oversight authority against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday called to defund special counsel Jack Smith and his office — which is handling the Trump documents case — through the appropriations process. “This is a weaponized government attempt to take down the top political enemy and leading presidential candidate of the United States, Donald J. Trump. We cannot allow the government to be weaponized for political purposes,” Greene said on the House floor.