USA - When details about the latest phone call between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were leaked, the headlines focused on the wave of profanities from the US president. “What the f--- are you doing?” shouted Mr Trump in reference to the Israeli prime minister’s continued bombing of Lebanon. “You’re f---ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me.” It is strong stuff, revealing genuine anger – but it is not the first time an American president has lost his patience with the aggressive brinkmanship of Mr Netanyahu. Much more troubling for the Jewish state are the words from Mr Trump that followed: “Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

EUROPE - IPCC admits doomsday scenario was “implausible” garbage – but Brussels refuses to scrap a single regulation built on the lie. The House of the Great Climate Scam is collapsing. The United Nations’ own climate priesthood has finally admitted what skeptics have screamed for years: their favorite apocalyptic scenario, RCP8.5 – the one predicting civilization-ending warming, floods, fires, and famines unless we destroy our economies with Green New Deals – is “implausible.” Fake. Junk science sold as gospel. But here’s the real bombshell the fake news won’t touch: The European Union, that bloated bureaucratic beast strangling its citizens with Net Zero madness, hasn’t pulled even one document, “scientific” report, regulation, or taxpayer-funded scare tactic based on this now-discredited fairy tale. Not a single one. Trillions in subsidies, destroyed industries, skyrocketing energy bills, and farmers rioting in the streets – all propped up on a foundation of lies.

GERMANY - Germany’s industrial decline is accelerating, with more than 341,000 manufacturing jobs disappearing since 2019 and industry leaders warning that another 300,000 positions could soon be at risk as Europe’s largest economy struggles with rising costs, shrinking competitiveness, and intensifying global competition.

USA - No matter what happens now, the world is facing a very painful energy crisis. Let’s be as wildly optimistic as we possibly can and assume that Iran agrees to allow free passage through the Strait of Hormuz with absolutely no tolls or restrictions starting tomorrow. Before normal traffic through the Strait could resume, Iran would first have to remove all of the mines that they have laid in the Strait, and that could take months.

IRAN - The independent outlet Iran International reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources, that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian submitted a resignation letter to alleged “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei complaining that the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made his job impossible. In Iran, the “supreme leader” is the all-powerful dictator of the country, who maintains a delicate balance of power between the IRGC, a formal wing of the Iranian military, and the civilian leaders of the country.

UK - The world could be on the brink of a “Godzilla-like” El Niño extreme weather pattern that could trigger economic and political disruption around the world. El Niño, an oceanic heatwave that occurs two to three times each decade, is building in the Pacific around the equator, and is expected to peak in September, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned. The warm current will affect weather patterns and increase the risk of droughts in Australia, and southern parts of Asia and Africa. It will also increase the likelihood of violent storms and heavy rainfall in parts of the Americas. While droughts and storms are bad enough, experts say this could be the strongest El Niño on record, with even more severe potential outcomes. These include flooding, landslides, wildfires, famine, conflict and migration. El Niño is expected to disrupt global food systems by causing droughts and floods, leading to spikes in food prices and deepening existing supply-chain pressures. Severe El Niño-driven droughts can trigger migration, particularly in regions heavily dependent on hand-to-mouth agriculture. Extreme weather conditions linked to El Niño can heighten instability in already fragile states, experts warn.

UK - Hannah Verrell’s car boot is packed with slabs of tinned tomatoes, UHT milk and toilet roll – in fact, you could be forgiven for thinking she runs a restaurant. In reality, the 53-year-old is part of the growing wave of British micro-preppers who are quietly stockpiling reserves due to growing threats to the food supply chain. “I’ve always been someone who has been prepared, in a Boy Scouts way,” says Verrell, who also shops for her mother, Jane, 79, who resides in a granny annexe connected to her farmhouse in Pembrokeshire. “It’s part of my personality, although I’ve increased it a little bit recently. I have a stash of wind-up torches and rechargeable batteries because where I live is remote – we’re about six miles from the nearest town. I’m also thinking of getting some solar power so I can be more resilient in the future.” “Basically, I stockpile anything that’s non-perishable,” Verrell says. “And of course, things we like to eat. I work as a digital projects consultant, so I’m used to contingency planning and preparing for the unexpected.”

MIDDLE EAST - With Donald Trump's Iran ceasefire on the verge of collapse, Tehran is threatening to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the world's most vital shipping route, to punish the US and Israel, in a move that could send the global economy into a recession. The regime said on Monday that all diplomatic talks with the US have been suspended, citing Israel's attacks on Lebanon as a violation of the ceasefire, according to state media outlet Tasnim.

IRAN - Donald Trump is trying to toughen the terms of a draft peace agreement with Iran and has sent back revised proposals to Tehran. The US president has asked envoys to strengthen provisions on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear material, sources told the news site Axios. Mr Trump reportedly also wants to amend the wording on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which one US official claimed on Sunday was under American control. He was also concerned about parts of the potential deal that would unfreeze Iranian funds, the New York Times reported. Washington and Tehran were said to be close to a deal late last week that would extend the current ceasefire for 60 days and launch talks on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme and its enriched uranium stocks. The framework could allow “unrestricted” passage through the Strait of Hormuz and give Iran 30 days to remove mines from the waterway, according to reports.

AUSTRALIA - A plague of mice is devastating fields and invading homes in parts of rural Australia. Farmers are reporting infestation levels as high as 3,000 to 4,000 mice per acre, as they scramble to lay down poison to save their grain crops. The plague sweeping across parts of western and southern Australia is costing farmers large sums of money as they replant crops that have been eaten, and lay down bait to kill the vermin, the BBC reported. The infestation is the second in five years and has been triggered by a record harvest last year, as well as wet weather. Belinda Eastough, 59, who has a 14,000-acre farm 50 miles north-east of Geraldton, said: “Last year, we had a record-breaking harvest, so that gives the mice a lot of food.” Officials define a mouse plague as 320 mice per acre, and Ms Eastough estimates her fields currently have more than 10 times as many.

USA - In the US TV drama For All Mankind, settlers on a future Mars revolt against a scheme by an oligarch to replace all but 2 per cent of them with machines. This may be one case where science fiction captures a current angst. People across the West increasingly fear the tech oligarchs, people who run companies with stock market valuations larger than the GDP of most nations. By some measures, Apple alone is worth twice the GDP of Mexico; Microsoft is as large as Italy. Even people obsessed about their devices believe the tech overlords have overreached, enticing the enmity of Right, Left and pretty much everyone in between. Globally, trust in tech firms has been heading down for years, and is particularly low in Japan, France, and the US. In America, notes Pew, barely 10 per cent of people – Republican, Democrat or independent – see social media in a positive light.

UK - Britain is giving up on babies. Figures from the Office for National Statistics last week showed that the birth rate continues to fall, from 1.41 children per woman to 1.39 in 2025. This is a problem, and a problem that is going to get worse. Already, the state is starting to struggle with demographic change. Primary schools are closing. The growing costs of services for an ever-larger older population fall on a shrinking group of working taxpayers. In time, the impact of demography will grow. It could fundamentally undermine economic policy. Despite the sky-high stakes, political parties are quiet about the collapse in births. Only Reform UK has really engaged directly with the issue, and largely as a social policy issue rather than an economic one. Across countries and over time, the pattern is clear: as women gain more education, economic independence and control over reproduction, fertility tends to fall.

POLAND - On a wet and windy Saturday morning, Wojciech Krol, a father of two, is learning how to enter “stealth mode” in the forests of southern Poland. As rain dribbles off the hood of his windbreaker, the 33-year-old computer programmer digs two holes in the lawn connected by a small tunnel to ignite a fire that is hot enough to cook on but emits very little smoke. The lesson is being held inside a Polish military base, but this is no corporate retreat: Mr Krol is learning how to keep his family alive if they need to hide from Russian troops and drones. Mr Krol, who has sons aged one and five, told The Telegraph: “I decided to take part because there’s a war over the border [in Ukraine] and I have a family, so it’s important for me to learn how to take care of them." As Europe rearms against Russia, the concept of civil defence – training and protection of civilians in wartime – has become just as important as the ability to draft recruits or churn out weapons. It is the first time in a generation that nations across Europe, some of which still carry scars from the 20th century, are bracing for war. Yet Britain appears to be sleepwalking into potential disaster.

RUSSIA - As AI becomes part of everyday learning, educators face a growing challenge: how to use technology without weakening critical thinking. “Would you like me to help with the other problems on the list?” That was the sentence a physics teacher recently found at the end of a pupil’s homework assignment. The solution itself was elegant and correct. Unfortunately, it was not produced by the child. It was generated by artificial intelligence and copied so carelessly that the pupil left in the chatbot’s question. A video on this went viral because it was funny in the uneasy way bad news can be funny. Today’s schoolchildren, it seems, are not only forgetting how to think, but some are forgetting how to cheat properly.

NEPAL - Mount Everest’s highest campsite is strewn with abandoned tents, empty oxygen bottles and human waste, footage has shown. A social media video clip of Camp IV, the highest campsite on Earth, shows battered tents flapping in gale-force winds and mounds of rubbish left behind by people on climbing expeditions. The camp is situated at around 26,000ft and is the final place to rest before mountaineers attempt their push to the 29,032ft summit of Everest. “What should be one of the most extraordinary places on the planet has, in many ways, become one of the ugliest faces of Everest’s commercialisation,” Everest Today, an account dedicated to climbing the mountain, posted on X. Drone footage of long queues of climbers making their way in single file towards the summit revived the debate about overcrowding and commercialisation on the mountain. The traffic jam of climbers was caused, in part, by Nepal issuing a record 492 permits this season. Thousands of mountaineers have climbed the peak since it was first scaled by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.