With Washington DC preparing to host massive crowds for America’s 250th birthday, the head of the group coordinating the commemorations says security teams are operating at full tilt to reassure an anxious public.
U.S. agency heightens security readiness for 250 upcoming celebrations
Maraykanka oo soo bandhigey qodobada ay ku heshiiyeen dowlada Iiran
Jun 17 (Jowhar)-Aqalka Cad ee looga taliyo dalka Maraykanka ayaa soo saaray faahfaahin la xiriirta is fahamka ay wada gaareen Iiraan iyo Maraykanka.
Ra’iisul Wasaare Xamsa oo xafiiskiisa ku qaabilay Danjiraha Sacuudiga
Jun 17 (Jowhar)-Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Xukuumadda Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Xamsa Cabdi Barre, ayaa xafiiskiisa ku qaabilay Danjiraha Boqortooyada Sacuudiga u fadhiya Soomaaliya Mudane Axmed Bin Maxammed Al-Muwalad, waxa ayna ka wada hadleen xoojinta xiriirka walaaltinimo ee ka dhexeeya labada dal.
Russian vessel fires warning shots at yacht off UK waters
A tense encounter unfolded in the English Channel when sailors aboard a Russian warship fired warning shots at a UK-registered yacht that had drawn close.
Trump;”Waxaan dib u bilaabi karnaa duqeynta Iran haddii aysan si wanaagsan u dhaqmin”
Jun 17 (Jowhar)-Madaxweynaha Maraykanka Donald Trump oo ku sugan Faransiiska oo uu kaga qayb galayo shirka G7 ayaa sheegay heshiiska Iiraan ay la galeen uu yahay mid aan weli la dhammaystirin ayna suurtagal tahay inuu duqaymaha dib u bilaabo haddii aanu ku qancin fulinteeda.
Gabdhaha xulka qaranka soomaaliyeed oo ka badiyay dhiggooda dalka Sudan
Jun 17 (Jowhar)-Gabdhaha Xulka Qaranka Soomaaliyeed ee da’doodu ka hooseyso 17-jirada ayaa guul taariikhi ah ka gaaray dhiggooda dalka Sudan, kadib markii ay 8-2 ku garaaceen kulan ka tirsanaa tartanka Bariga iyo Bartamaha Afrika CECAFA ee ka socda magaalada Dar es Salaam ee wadanka Tanzania.
Australia Warns This El Niño Could Be the Strongest in Decades
An El Niño has taken shape in the tropical Pacific, and Australia’s weather bureau says it could strengthen into one of the most powerful events seen in 70 years.
Trump tells G7 leaders he’s in charge, backs Ukraine’s war goals
With cameras rolling and tensions high over Ukraine, US President Donald Trump cracked a line that captured the power dynamics at this week’s G7: “I’m the boss.” The quip came as he and fellow leaders used the summit to highlight Ukraine’s improved battlefield fortunes and to roll out a unified pledge of support alongside fresh sanctions against Russia.
Mr Trump’s tongue-in-cheek remark — an acknowledgment of the unspoken reality hovering over the three-day gathering of the Group of Seven powers in the French resort of Evian-les-Bains — followed a joint leaders’ statement that could strengthen Kyiv’s hand as potential peace talks with Moscow come into focus.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his allies arrived at the G7 aiming to convince Mr Trump that Ukraine’s fightback is producing tangible results, and that Russia is not in a position to dictate terms for any peace deal.
Signals from the leaders’ statement and their public comments suggested Mr Trump has moved closer to Mr Zelensky’s case after years of scepticism.
Even so, any attempt to pressure Moscow into negotiations still hinges on Mr Trump’s follow-through, which has often proved hard to pin down. It remained unclear whether bilateral Trump-Zelensky talks would happen, and questions also lingered over whether Washington will let waivers expire on sanctions limiting Russian oil exports, now that he has secured a preliminary Iran deal.
“I’m the boss,” Mr Trump told G7 chiefs and reporters as he took his seat for a session on global economic security, where leaders were set to talk through critical-minerals supply chains and macroeconomic imbalances.
Watch: ‘I’m the boss’, Trump jokes as he sits down at G7 table
Mr Trump later hailed what he called a “very good” meeting with Mr Zelensky and other G7 leaders.
“There has been a change in position on the part of the United States and President Trump,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters.
“There is a position that is harder toward Russia and more realistic, in our view, of the situationon the ground of the war.”
Trump’s Iran deal sets tone for talks
Alongside Ukraine, G7 chiefs also welcomed the preliminary peace deal between the United States and Iran — which Mr Trump signed on the eve of the summit — saying they stood ready to help with its implementation.
They said they would work to diversify energy supply routes to cut dependence on the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blocked for most of the duration of its war with the US, and to build up stocks.
France is now urging partners to back a joint statement on critical minerals that could include steps to help the West reduce its reliance on China and to protect investors from countermeasures and dumping, diplomats said.
Donald Trump is flanked by Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron at the summit
China rattled the global economy last year when some industries came close to grinding to a halt after Beijing imposed export curbs on permanent magnets made of rare earths.
“We are negotiating texts that are significant on critical minerals and, as a consequence, on economic sovereignty,” a French presidency official said ahead of the summit.
Measures being weighed over recent months have ranged from price supports, market standards, subsidies and guaranteed purchases to proposals aimed at scaling up private investment in critical mineral supply chains beyond China. Any steps unveiled at the G7 are expected to amount to initial moves rather than a full solution.
Over-reliance on China
The 2025 restrictions marked the latest stage in Beijing’s steady tightening of exports in niche materials and battery metals. It has also restricted American companies’ access to tungsten and antimony, among others.
Western powers are scrambling to lock in offtake from mines and to expand processing and recycling capacity, but reducing China’s dominance — built over decades — is expected to take years.
The United States in early 2026 proposed a trading bloc for critical minerals. However, countries remain divided over how such a bloc should function, particularly against the backdrop of the White House’s “America First” agenda.
Economic imbalances
Leaders were also set to debate ways to rebalance global trade and confront “predatory competition”, aimed mainly at China.
France encapsulates the imbalance this way: “China produces too much, the US consumes too much and the Europeans invest too little.”
In Europe, concern is mounting over China’s trade surplus and its advance up the value chain — a trend analysts describe as a “second China shock” after its dominance of low-value industries in the 2000s. The surplus stands at €360 billion.
French President Emmanuel Macron sought to engage China ahead of the summit in a final push for cooperation.
Beijing rejects EU accusations of unfair subsidies and has repeatedly promised “strong” countermeasures to the EU’s proposed “Buy European” measures and revised tech sovereignty rules.
EU leaders separately plan to discuss tougher trade defence measures — and a more systematic use of them — in response to surging imports from China at a summit in Brussels tomorrow.
G7 leaders also also due to discuss AI over lunch today, including the liability of bots and agents, and how AI presents truth and falsehood.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei were expected to attend.
Multiple Israeli airstrikes strike southern Lebanon, local media reports
Israeli airstrikes hit multiple locations across southern Lebanon, Lebanese state media reported, even as a Middle East peace deal that includes Lebanon is supposed to be in effect.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, Israeli warplanes carried out raids on the Nabatieh al-Fawqa area and struck the eastern outskirts of the nearby town of Kfar Tebnit.
NNA also reported that Israel conducted a drone strike on the town of Ansariyeh in the Zahrani area.
The reported attacks come after a rare public rebuke from US Donald Trump of Israel’s military tactics in Lebanon while targeting Hezbollah militants, saying it was unnecessary to bring down entire apartment buildings in pursuit of fighters.
Mr Trump, who in recent days had voiced displeasure over Israeli strikes in Beirut that he said could have jeopardised his peace deal with Iran, said Israel has been battling Hezbollah — the Iran-aligned Lebanese militia — for “too long”.
“Too many people have been killed. You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody, because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they’re not all Hezbollah,” Mr Trump said at the G7 summit in France yesterday.
His remarks land amid growing strain with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a leader who has remained a key political ally despite periodic friction between the two over the years.
In recent weeks, that friction has become harder to miss.
Israeli officials have been quietly voicing frustration over the Iran deal the Republican president reached, while Mr Trump has been increasingly irritated by Israeli strikes in Beirut — attacks that he said helped trigger Iranian retaliation at the very moment he was working to finalise the peace deal.
Mr Trump said he has a “great relationship” with Mr Netanyahu, but also argued the prime minister should be “more responsible” with Lebanon.
Smoke rises at a site targeted by Israeli artillery in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit
“Without us, without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did.”
The two leaders have repeatedly clashed over Israel’s refusal to limit its pursuit of Hezbollah in Lebanon, where a cessation of hostilities is described as a key Iranian demand.
US presidents, including Mr Trump, have typically been reluctant to openly criticise Israel’s battlefield methods.
Not long after Mr Trump delivered the comments, an official White House social media account that typically shares clips of his public remarks posted a video highlighting those specific statements.
The White House did not explain why the official account chose to post the clip of Mr Trump’s remarks, but said the president maintains a strong relationship with Mr Netanyahu and described the Israel Defence Forces as “incredible partners”.
“There has been no greater friend to Israel and a fighter for peace than President Trump…Americans and our allies around the world are already safer for the United States and Israel’s bold actions to deny the Iranian regime the ability to develop a nuclear weapon,” a White House official said.
There is no indication that Mr Trump’s comments would translate into meaningful policy that would force Israel to reconsider its military tactics in a way that would ensure greater protection for civilians.
Israel has faced sharp criticism from other countries, particularly over its assault on Gaza that has killed 73,000 people, most of them civilians, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Israel says it never targets non-combatants and says militant groups such as Palestinian Hamas and Hezbollah regularly use civilians as human shields.
A spokesperson for the Israeli embassy in Washington did not have any comment for this story.
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Jun 17 (Jowhar)-Dowlada Maraykanka gaar ahaan FBI-da ayaa fashilisay qorshe la doonayay in lagu weeraro xafladii Axadii ka dhacday Aqalka Cad, waxayna xireen shan nin, sida ay sheegtay waaxda cadaaladda Mareykanka.
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