While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 16, 2025
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Rescue personel assist an injured woman at an impact site following a missile attack from Iran on Israel, at Haifa, on June 15.
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Israel-Iran clashes escalate, civilians urged to evacuate target areas
Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on June 15, killing and wounding civilians and raising concerns of a broader regional conflict, with both militaries urging civilians on the opposing side to take precautions against further strikes.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he hoped a meeting of the Group of Seven leaders convening in Canada on June 15 would reach an agreement to help resolve the conflict and keep it from escalating.
The Israeli military, which launched the attacks on June 13 with the stated aim of wiping out Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, warned Iranians living near weapons facilities to evacuate.
“Iran will pay a heavy price for the murder of civilians, women and children,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from a balcony overlooking blown-out apartments where six people were killed in Bat Yam, a town south of Tel Aviv.
Second black box recovered from Air India crash site, official says
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Investigators in India on June 15 recovered the second black box from the London-bound Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in the city of Ahmedabad, killing at least 279 people, authorities announced.
The cockpit voice recorder has been found, Mr PK Mishra, a senior aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said in a statement. The flight data recorder was recovered on June 13, one day after the crash.
Only one passenger survived among the 242 travellers and crew on board the Air India jet when it crashed June 12 into a residential area of Ahmedabad, killing at least 38 people on the ground.
Macron criticises Trump’s threats to annex Greenland during visit
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French President Emmanuel Macron on June 15 criticised US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, as he made a visit to the Danish autonomous territory.
“That’s not what allies do,” Mr Macron said as he arrived in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital.
Mr Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit the vast territory – at the crossroads of the Atlantic and the Arctic – since Mr Trump’s annexation threats.
Estee Lauder chairman emeritus Leonard Lauder dies at 92
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Leonard Lauder, who built Estee Lauder into one of the world’s biggest cosmetics makers and catapulted himself into the top echelon of wealthiest New Yorkers, has died. He was 92.
Mr Lauder died on June 14 surrounded by family, according to a statement by Estee Lauder.
In almost 40 years running the New York-based company founded by his parents, Mr Lauder oversaw the launch or acquisition of such brands as Clinique, Aveda, MAC Cosmetics, Tom Ford Beauty, Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone London and La Mer. He took the company public in 1995, and its share price rose 33 per cent on the first day of trading.
Russell wins in Canada after McLarens collide, Norris out
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George Russell took Mercedes’ first win of the Formula One season in Canada on June 15 while McLaren’s Oscar Piastri went 22 points clear in the championship after teammate Lando Norris smashed into him and retired.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who had hoped to win for a record fourth year in a row at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, took second.
Russell’s 18-year-old Italian rookie teammate Kimi Antonelli finished third for his first F1 podium.
