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.

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.