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July 9 1600 UTC Brief
In Britain
Labour’s leadership contest is opening with Andy Burnham, the former Greater Manchester mayor, unopposed for now as nominations begin. The party’s internal drama remains impressively efficient, at least in the sense that it has already found a way to make “no contest” sound like a contest.
Elsewhere, the government is preparing a law change to allow the deportation of Shabir Ahmed, the Rochdale grooming gang ringleader, after Maggie Oliver said he should have been removed years ago. And more buildings will now be eligible for funding to remove dangerous cladding, including smaller blocks that had previously been left out of support.
In international security
Ukraine has denied involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts after Germany indicted a former Ukrainian soldier, with Kyiv proposing a joint investigative team instead. Germany says the suspect was acting on behalf of Ukrainian entities, while Ukraine is pushing back hard against that account.
Syria has regained voting rights at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons after its new leadership made progress on chemical weapons issues. In Sudan, the ICC says new evidence could help prosecute Rapid Support Forces leaders accused of war crimes in Darfur. And traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has continued after the June 17 US-Iran memorandum of understanding, even though a number of vessels are still stuck there, which is not the kind of logistical success anyone puts on a poster.
In tech and global policy
The AI for Good summit is underway in Geneva, with countries debating what global AI rules should actually look like, while the conference also reports a record number of visitors this year. The pace of the technology keeps outrunning the pace of agreement, which is becoming a recognizable feature of the genre.
In sport
Karolina Muchova is through to the Wimbledon final after saving a match point and beating Coco Gauff in a deciding-set tiebreak. It was the kind of match that reminds everyone why tennis insists on making emotional collapse look like a scoring system.
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