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30 July, 2025: Netanyahu, Starmer clash over Palestine & other world news of the day

ThePrint’s round-up of major news events from around the world.

‘You committed genocide’: King Charles heckled by Indigenous Australian senator on visit to Canberra

On 1st major foreign trip since being diagnosed with cancer, Charles had finished speaking when independent senator Lidia Thorpe shouted she did not accept his sovereignty over Australia.

UK PM Starmer condemns ‘far-right thuggery’ as unrest flares again. ‘Will face full force of the law’

Violent anti-immigration protests erupted across Britain after 3 girls were killed in knife attack in Southport last week. On Sunday, hundreds gathered by hotel housing asylum seekers.

JK Rowling & the biological definition of sex: Author backs Communist Party over trans rights stance

Rowling, a former Labour donor, accused party leader Keir Starmer of ‘abandoning women’ who are concerned about trans rights & said she does not trust his judgment.

English ‘disappearing’ from England is a misplaced fear. The nation was always multilingual

Old English, the earliest ancestor of the modern English language, was a relative newcomer to Britain. Its speakers, the Anglo-Saxons, came from different regions.

UK summons Chinese envoy after three men arrested for working with Hong Kong intelligence

On Monday, Metropolitan Counter Terrorism Command arrested & charged them with assisting foreign intelligence services & foreign interference.

UK loses position as global leader in climate action, say country’s climate advisers

Britain in 2019 became the first member of G7 nations to set a target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, requiring major changes in the way Britons travel and use electricity.

‘It’s called mateship’— UK ex-politician told off for racist tweet on Australian cricket team

Former Brexit Party leader said the Aussies did not celebrate their WTC win with champagne because of Usman Khawaja.

UK to do away with Chinese-made surveillance systems from sensitive govt sites

British lawmakers previously called for a ban on the sale and use of security cameras made by Hikvision and Dahua, two partly state-owned Chinese firms, over privacy fears.

Britain to host Admiral’s Cup which is set to comeback after over 20 years

The event which last took place in 2003, will be held in Britain in July 2025 over a period of six days of inshore and offshore races.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.