Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) resigned and disbanded the sitting minority government on Thursday morning.

Kallas handed a resignation notice to President Alar Karis at Kadriorg Palace in order to start the formation of the new Reform/Isamaa/SDE coalition.

The French President backed the development of Uber in France singing a deal when he was economy minister between 2014 to 2016. The findings, leaked after an investigation based on 124,000 confidential internal Uber documents, prompted calls for Mr Macron to resign.

Nearly five months after Moscow’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended the country’s security chief and top prosecutor, saying they failed to purge Russian spies from their organizations.

One of those sidelined in the biggest government overhaul of the war, SBU security service chief Ivan Bakanov, was a childhood friend of Zelensky.

Bakanov and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova embodied Zelensky’s policy of putting young political allies in charge of fighting corruption following the former TV comic’s 2019 election.

In his first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran for a summit with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts on Syrian conflict, Iranian state TV said yesterday.

The three countries are working together to try to reduce the violence in Syria despite supporting opposing sides in the war. Russia and Iran are Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s strongest backers, while Turkey supports anti-Assad insurgents.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch another operation in Northern Syria, which Tehran and Moscow oppose. In Tehran, Putin and Erdogan will meet to discuss a deal aimed at resuming Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports.

Britain recorded its highest ever temperature of 40 degrees today as a heatwave gripping Europe intensified, forcing train tracks to buckle and fuelling a spate of fires across London.

The Met Office said the provisional record, which still needs to be confirmed, was recorded at 12.50 pm (1150 GMT) at London’s Heathrow Airport, surpassing the previous high of 38.7 degrees recorded in 2019.

“During a Thursday speech addressing Russian parliament officials, President Vladimir Putin warned that the military has barely started its operations in Ukraine – suggesting he sees a long haul fight possibly for the whole of Ukraine ahead – in a direct challenge to the West as it continues to send arms to Kiev.”

The Chinese government has reacted angrily to news that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be traveling to Taiwan next month.

According to a report in the Financial Times, Pelosi’s stopover in Taiwan will come as part of a regional trip in Asia that includes visits to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, Reuters noted.

“If the U.S. side obstinately clings to this course, China will definitely take resolute and forceful measures to firmly defend its national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response.

The Canadian government, which is issuing a “time-limited and revocable permit” to exempt the return of turbines from its Russian sanctions, said the move would support “Europe’s ability to access reliable and affordable energy as they continue to transition away from Russian oil and gas.”

Almost 13,000 people have crossed the Channel from France in dinghies and RIBs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) since the beginning of January, with the monthly total for June at 3,136, the highest of the year.

But on Tuesday, in an operation coordinated by Eurojust—the European Union’s criminal justice cooperation agency—homes in Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands were raided and more than 40 people were arrested.

Eurojust is expected to reveal more about Operation Thoren at a press conference in The Hague later on Wednesday.

Russia has taken control of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in the country’s far east. Moscow’s decision to do so could drive out the project’s three investors and raise the stakes in its economic war against the West.

A five-page decree signed June 30 by Russian President Vladimir Putin establishes a new company to gain 100 percent control of all rights and obligations of Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, reported the Epoch Times. State-run Gazprom owns 50 percent plus one shares in Sakhalin-2. Royal Dutch Shell, meanwhile, holds 27.5 percent minus one shares in the project. Mitsui and Mitsubishi are also minority shareholders.

The Russian Government officials announced they expect the final report from Russian MIL on US Biologically Activity in Ukraine “in Autumn”. Parliamentary Council announced they are compiling a dossier against the US with all the proof of BWC violations, and will present this to the UN Security Council to invoke Articles V and VI of the Biological Weapons Convention. If these articles were to be invoked, and the Nations of the UN agree with the findings, those responsible for the crimes committed would be put before an international military tribunal for crimes against humanity.