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European countries and EU summon Russian envoys over threats on Kyiv

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EU spokesperson Anitta Hipper says Russia’s threat to diplomats and foreign citizens is an ‘unacceptable escalation’.

Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the European Union have summoned Russian envoys a day after Moscow warned foreigners and diplomats to leave the Ukrainian capital ahead of renewed air strikes.

On Tuesday, EU spokesperson Anitta Hipper called Russia’s threat to diplomats and foreign citizens an “unacceptable escalation”.

Hipper added in a post on X that the charge d’affairs had been summoned, calling on Moscow to “stop hitting civilians & Russia to engage in genuine peace talks starting with a full and unconditional ceasefire”.

At the beginning of May, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a three-day ceasefire for Moscow’s celebrations to mark its victory over Nazi Germany in 1945 at the end of World War II, but fighting quickly resumed with both sides accusing the other of violating the agreement.

On Monday, Moscow said that it planned to launch more strikes on Kyiv after it launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine over the weekend that killed four people.

Among the weapons Russia used in its attacks were its Oreshknik hypersonic missile, which can travel 10 times the speed of sound.

The warning came after Russia accused Ukraine of targeting a vocational school last week in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region that killed 21 people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military on Friday to prepare options for retaliation in response to the attack.

“Under the current circumstances, the Russian Armed Forces are starting to launch systematic strikes against Ukrainian military-industrial facilities in Kyiv,” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Monday.

“The strikes will target both decision-making centres and command posts … We are warning foreign citizens, including personnel of diplomatic missions and international organisations, to leave the city as soon as possible,” it added.

But in response to the call to leave the country, Germany’s Federal Foreign Office said on Tuesday that Moscow was resorting to “threats, terror & escalation”, which is why they summoned the Russian ambassador.

“We made it clear to Russia today: We will not be intimidated by threats and will continue to support Ukraine with full force,” the ministry wrote on X.

Norway and the Netherlands also summoned their Russian ambassadors over threats to attack Kyiv.

With no clear end to the war in sight, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated on Tuesday that Washington had remained ready to mediate between Russia and Ukraine, as talks have stalled.

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Do we owe the world children?

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Is having children a choice or responsibility?

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US Supreme court rejects NFL attempt to move racism case to arbitration

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The league, plus New York Giants, Denver Broncos and Houston Texans, to move case to proceedings controlled by the NFL.

The US Supreme Court has turned away a ⁠bid by the National Football League to move a Black coach’s racial discrimination claims out of federal court and into arbitration proceedings controlled by the NFL.

The justices declined to hear an ⁠appeal by the league and three of its teams filed after a lower court ruled that the NFL cannot force Brian Flores, the former Miami Dolphins head coach and current Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator, to arbitrate workplace bias ⁠claims through a process overseen by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

The teams involved in the appeal were the New York Giants, Denver Broncos and Houston Texans.

Flores, 45, has accused the NFL, the most popular professional sport league in the United States, of systematic discrimination against Black coaches.

According to his 2022 lawsuit, the NFL and several teams discriminated against Black candidates for ‌coaching and management jobs in violation of federal and state laws. Flores filed the suit after being fired as head coach of the Miami Dolphins despite the team having a winning record for two consecutive seasons.

Flores alleged that during his career, he was asked to have “sham interviews” with the Giants and Broncos merely to satisfy a 2003 NFL policy called the Rooney Rule requiring that minorities be interviewed for coaching jobs. The NFL adopted the Rooney Rule in 2003 in light of the historically low number of minorities in NFL ⁠head coaching positions.

Two more Black coaches, former Arizona Cardinals head coach Steve Wilks and ⁠former longtime NFL assistant coach Ray Horton, later joined Flores as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit seeks to force the NFL to make a series of changes, incentivise teams to hire Black coaches and general managers, and require teams to explain hiring and termination decisions in ⁠writing.

The NFL, which has denied claims of racial discrimination, responded to the lawsuit by arguing it should either be dismissed as lacking legal merit, or else sent to ⁠arbitration.

A New York-based federal judge in 2023 ruled that the NFL and ⁠the Giants, Broncos and Texans must face Flores’s claims of systematic discrimination against Black coaches in the league, while sending other aspects of the case to private arbitration.

On appeal, the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2025 agreed that some of Flores’s claims belonged in ‌federal court. The 2nd Circuit ruled that a provision in the NFL constitution granting Goodell unilateral authority to arbitrate was “plainly unenforceable” because it would deny Flores arbitration “in any meaningful sense of the word”.

An arbitration agreement that “compels one ‌party ‌to submit its disputes to the substantive and procedural authority of the principal executive officer of one of their adverse parties, is an agreement for arbitration in name only,” Judge Jose Cabranes wrote for the 2nd Circuit.

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Twitch to politics: Hasan Piker on Gaza and the US right-wing

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Twitch streamer Hasan Piker tackles politics, Gaza, and culture for nearly 3M viewers.

With nearly three million Twitch followers, Hasan Piker is one of the internet’s biggest political streamers. He blends humor, culture, and masculinity talk with sharp political commentary, drawing young men away from the US alt-right. And on Gaza, he has become one of the loudest US voices for Palestine.

This is a story from the archives. This originally aired on August 19, 2025. None of the dates, titles or other references from that time have been changed. 

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