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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 Labour leader Starmer says wants to recognise Palestinian state as part of peace process

Ireland, Spain and Norway announced this week that they would recognise a Palestinian state on May 28.

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.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.