GERMANY - German media has been banned from reporting on a Muslim migrant who allegedly beheaded his one-year-old baby daughter in Hamburg. Angela Merkel’s pro-migrant government has banned German media from reporting on a barbaric crime involving a Muslim migrant who allegedly beheaded his one-year-old baby daughter on a train station platform in Hamburg.

GERMANY - If it was indeed the authorities' plan to censor the news and keep the information of the beheading under wraps, then it backfired. Due to the reports about the raid, thousands of people have seen the video, and hundreds of thousands have heard about the botched censorship attempt. Hamburg's government is still trying to conceal the beheading. Among other things, they [the AfD party] wanted to know whether the child had been beheaded. The administration - in breach of its constitutional duty - refused to answer. It also censored the questions by blacking out whole sentences.

NORTH KOREA - Disarmament talks between the US and North Korea ended in Pyongyang on Saturday with the North Korean regime accusing Washington of a “gangster-like mindset” and warning of “yet another tragedy” if negotiations collapse. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, responded that if the US was a gangster, so was the whole world, as it had the same demand that North Korea dismantle its nuclear weapons programme. He insisted sanctions would remain in place until Pyongyang completed disarmament. Pyongyang, however, made clear it had no intention of carrying out the comprehensive unilateral disarmament Donald Trump has claimed was the outcome of his 12 June summit in Singapore with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.

FRANCE - Riots continue in France after a 22-year-old Aboubakar Fofana lost his life in police control on Tuesday. The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS) official responsible for the death has been indicted but remains free under judicial supervision. This decision has rekindled tensions in Orvault, Rezé, and the neighborhoods of Nantes, Breil, and Bellevue. The scale of the current riots is more extensive than we see now on a regular basis in the French suburbs. The rioters torched numerous cars, a petrol station, a community library, a school and several shops. There is even a report that a bullet from a rifle damaged a police officer's helmet.  Friday afternoon the police admitted that the killing of Abubakar was not self-defence but an accident.

JAPAN - Dozens of people have died and at least 50 are missing after torrential rain triggered landslides and flash flooding in western Japan on Saturday. Local authorities said 20 people had been killed, while public broadcaster NHK said the death toll had risen to 46. The number of casualties is expected to rise, said Yoshinobu Katsuura, a disaster management official in Ehime prefecture. The prime minister, Shinzō Abe, said the situation was “extremely serious” and ordered ministers to “make an all-out effort” to rescue victims. Water levels reached five metres (16ft) in the worst-hit areas, forcing some residents on to rooftops and balconies to attract the attention of rescue helicopters.

USA - According to Movie Guide – an online family programming guide – parents should listen up. “Parents need to be on top of what their children may be watching, because the days of innocent Saturday morning cartoons is officially over (honestly, it’s been over for a while),” the online guide warns. Drag Tots joins Netflix’s upcoming Super Drags superhero animated series – one that has led to a firestorm of controversy and a Citizen Go petition created by the Christian Film and Television Commission, reports Business Insider.

EUROPE - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stood firm on mass migration during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin Thursday, saying that his country would refuse to allow Germany to send migrants back to Hungary. Chancellor Merkel described the meeting saying that Mr Orbán claimed Hungary felt, “not at all responsible for the processing of asylum applications”, and looked to countries like Greece to take responsibility for processing asylum claims instead, Der Spiegel reports. The German leader added that the federal government could not see Europe “decouple” itself from asylum seekers and legitimate refugees but noted that the two leaders did find common ground on wanting to secure the European Union’s external borders.

UK - London Pride 2018: Starbucks to celebrate with Glitter Frappuccinos. London will host a Pride parade this weekend with a little help from Starbucks, The popular coffee chain has been sponsoring the annual event for four years. Starbucks is rolling out a themed drink at select stores along the parade route. London is gearing up to celebrate Pride in style, thanks to a spirited temporary addition to the Starbucks menu. Eight stores around the city's center, which will play host to the festivities, will be offering customers the option to add edible glitter to any Frappuccino. According to Cosmopolitan, the option will only be available from Thursday to Sunday, however, so get it while you can.

CHINA - Nothing is going to be the same after this.  On Friday, the United States hit China with 34 billion dollars in tariffs, and China immediately responded with similar tariffs.  If it stopped there, this trade war between the United States and China would not be catastrophic for the global economy.  But it isn’t going to stop there. 

CHINA - A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China's military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to "manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war" and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the Express.

ISRAEL - The combination of operational abilities, personal charisma and courage have turned Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ strongman in Syria into one of the greatest threats to Israel. And as Soleimani and Iran keep entrenching themselves near the Golan Heights, this threat just keeps growing. Soleimani has another rare important skill: His survivability in the tough Iranian political system. A poll conducted recently by the University of Maryland together with an Iranian research institute revealed that Soleimani is the most popular personality in Iranian public opinion, even more popular than Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. At the moment, Soleimani is Israel’s main enemy in Syria.

USA - The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming. One hundred years ago, in 1918, a strain of H1N1 flu swept the world. It might have originated in Haskell County, Kansas, or in France or China — but soon it was everywhere. In two years, it killed as many as 100 million people — 5 percent of the world’s population, and far more than the number who died in World War I. It killed not just the very young, old, and sick, but also the strong and fit, bringing them down through their own violent immune responses. It killed so quickly that hospitals ran out of beds, cities ran out of coffins...

GERMANY - It’s happened again.  London whistleblower Andre Maguire told King World News that one of the largest banks in Germany just refused to return a client’s gold the bank was supposedly storing for the client. ...Over the last few months we have been observing Swiss and German banks enforcing cash and gold withdrawal limits for clients. 

IRAN - Tehran will close the Strait of Hormuz, effectively blocking all the oil shipments from the Persian Gulf if Washington succeeds in its attempts to reduce Iranian oil exports, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said. “Any hostile attempt by the US [to impede Iran’s oil trade] will be followed by an exorbitant cost for them,” Esmail Kowsari, a deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Sarollah base in Tehran told the Iranian Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the national broadcaster controlled by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

UK - Theresa May's Brexit plans could jeopardise a post-Brexit trade deal with the US because Britain would be tied to EU rules on goods, Downing Street has suggested. Papers released to Cabinet ministers ahead of a summit at the Prime Minister's rural retreat in Chequers state that the UK will make an "upfront choice" to "harmonise" with EU rules on goods.  Downing Street adds that alignment with EU standards "would not allow the UK to accommodate a likely ask from the US" to recognise its own standards as a condition for a future trade deal. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of a 60-strong group of Eurosceptic Tory MPs, has been clear that regulatory alignment with the EU is a "red line" for MPs.