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• The ruling Democratic Party of Korea has approved a contentious change to its national convention rules despite ongoing internal infighting. • The party will now implement a ranked-choice voting system to elect its new leader during the upcoming convention in August. • This rule change is significant as it alters the mechanism for leadership selection, potentially shifting the power dynamics within the party.

Home secretary also set to outline plans to enable deportation of grooming gang ringleader Shabir AhmedUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham is expected to vote for the immigration bill on Monday night in the Commons, with his team indicating that he backs Shabana Mahmood’s changes for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and on refugee settlement.The bill returns to the Commons on Monday for its second reading, where Mahmood is also expected to announce plans to make it possible to deport the ringleader of a grooming gang, Shabir Ahmed, a move publicly backed by Burnham. Continue reading...

Sudden shift may be linked to affinity for Erdoğan but what might be consequences of erratic behavior towards alliance?Donald Trump’s relationship with Washington’s Nato allies is nobody’s idea of a happy marriage.But the US president’s volatile performance at the western military alliance’s annual summit in Ankara this week seemed extreme, even by Trumpian standards. As commentators sought toexplain what happened, their usually capacious stock of Trump-fitting cliches was at risk of exhaustion. Continue reading...

• Japanese political commentator Akio Yaita, CEO of the Indo-Pacific Strategy Thinktank, was punched in the face by a Chinese national at a hotel lobby in Taichung on Monday. • The suspect, a 33-year-old man surnamed Liao traveling on a Hong Kong passport, was arrested at Taichung International Airport while attempting to flee to South Korea. • In response to the assault, the Executive Yuan is now considering legal amendments to specifically address and penalize acts of cross-border repression.

• The Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter, a decision that legal expert Mark MacCarthy argues is misguided but will only result in a minor increase in executive power. • The case revisits the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor precedent, which previously protected FTC commissioners from at-will removal by defining their roles as quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative. • This shift matters because it challenges the historical distinction between the executive branch's law enforcement duties and the independent regulatory functions of agencies.

Collegiate sports organization led by Charlie Baker banned trans athletes from women’s sports after 2025 Trump orderThe president of the US’s top administrator of collegiate sports on Sunday said his organization does not anticipate adjusting its rules on transgender athletes after a recent federal supreme court decision allowed states to ban them from participating in school athletics.In an interview with CBS News’ Face the Nation, Charlie Baker, the NCAA president, alluded to how his organization in late January 2025 had effectively banned transgender athletes from women’s sports by closing off those programs to athletes who were assigned male at birth or were taking testosterone therapy. There are no restrictions for participation in NCAA men’s sports, which Baker referred to on Sunday as “the open network”. Continue reading...

• A new study published in *Earth's Future* warns that certain geoengineering methods to combat climate change could inadvertently disrupt global weather patterns. • Researchers found that brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El Niño cycle, whereas stratospheric aerosol injection had little impact on the system. • This discovery is critical because the El Niño cycle is one of Earth's most important climate drivers, and altering it could trigger unpredictable and massive weather shifts worldwide.