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  • Jun 17

    Commodore returns with a flip phone that locks out social media and browsers, aiming for a digital detox

    The resurrected brand’s Callback 8020 runs essential apps like Spotify and WhatsApp but blocks Instagram, TikTok, and web browsers at the system level, with pre-orders starting June 30.

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Twelve countries ban settlement goods

Allies punish settlements as missiles hit Saudi sites and AfD shakes Germany

Governments spent the day drawing lines, then discovered how quickly others could cross them. Europe hardened trade policy toward Israeli settlements, Saudi energy sites burned after Houthi strikes, and German conservatives confronted the scale of their eastern collapse.

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  • Brazil Supreme Court removes police chief

    Second Panel of the Supreme Court votes to remove Federal Police Director-General Andrei Rodrigues, prompting other top directors to resign in protest.

  • Twelve nations target settlement goods

    Poland and 11 other nations restrict or review trade on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, following a joint initiative announced by the UK Foreign Office.

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Culture, media and the new divides

Ireland's media regulator opened a formal probe into X under the Online Safety Code, adding a national enforcement track alongside the Commission's existing DSA case against Meta.

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