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Macron calls crisis meeting after second night of rioting in France, Ukraine accuses man of treason over deadly Russian missile attack, and the WHO's cancer research agency is set to declare one of the world's most common sweeteners a possible carcinogen.

Plus, in the third part of our special report Slavery's Descendants, a Reuters journalist considers how today's America can learn from its racist past.

By Edson Caldas

Today's Top News

Firefighters extinguish burning vehicles during clashes between protesters and police in Nanterre, Paris suburb, June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

AROUND THE WORLD

President Emmanuel Macron battled to contain a mounting crisis after riots spread across France overnight, set off by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of North African descent during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. Listen to the Reuters World News podcast for more on the French police use-of-force powers at road traffic stops.
Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, London's Court of Appeal ruled, in a major setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Britain's government planned to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers more than 4,000 miles to the East African country.
South Korean shoppers are snapping up sea salt and other items amid safety concerns over Japan's plan to dump more than 1 million metric tons of treated radioactive water from a wrecked nuclear power plant into the sea. The water was mainly used to cool damaged reactors at the Fukushima power plant.
Presumed human remains and debris from the tourist submersible crushed to pieces in an undersea implosion that killed all five people aboard were recovered from the ocean bottom and brought ashore to Canada, the US Coast Guard said. The nature and extent of the possible remains recovered from the site were not specified.

WAR IN UKRAINE

Ukraine has arrested a man suspected of committing treason by helping Russia carry out a missile strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk. The prosecutor general's office said an employee at a local gas transportation company helped Moscow target the restaurant by filming cars with military license plates in its parking lot and sending the footage to Russian special services.
Russia's most senior generals have dropped out of public view following a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top brass, amid a drive by President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority. Meanwhile, European Union leaders will debate the repercussions of the aborted mutiny in Brussels.

Business & Markets

With US inflation well above the Federal Reserve's 2% goal and a labor market that's still very tight, most of the central bank's policymakers expect they will need to raise interest rates at least twice more by year's end, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said. He did not say when those rates hikes may come.
Inflation rose in five economically important German states in the month of June, preliminary data showed, suggesting a bumpy road ahead for German inflation. National inflation data will be published at 1200 GMT, with economists forecasting a 6.3% year-on-year rise, up from 6.1% in the previous month.
Sri Lanka is asking foreign investors in its international sovereign bonds to take a 30% haircut and is seeking similar concessions from domestic holders of its other dollar-denominated bonds, its central bank governor said. We have an explainer on Sri Lanka's domestic debt restructuring plan announced today.
Lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft, which is seeking to buy Activision Blizzard, trade their final blows and make their final points before a judge who has been asked to tap the brakes on the proposed $69 billion transaction.
Aspartame, one of the world's most common artificial sweeteners, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer research arm, according to two sources with knowledge of the process. For more pharmaceutical news, sign up to the Reuters Health Rounds newsletter.

"All We Are is Memory"

Reuters journalist Donna Bryson, right, with her father, Andrew Bryson, at his home in San Diego, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake

"I grew up hearing my father's reminders to be aware of my surroundings. But it was too dark to heed that advice by the time I reached my destination in rural Georgia, the starting point of an exploration of where my family's history dovetails with efforts to reckon with some of the bleakest moments of America's past."

On a journey to the town where her ancestors lived and died, a Reuters journalist considers how today's America can learn from, rather than avoid, its racist past.

Read the third part of our special report Slavery's Descendants.

And Finally...

Barbie's iconic Malibu Dreamhouse is making a return in real life. via Airbnb

A life-sized Barbie dreamhouse is opening its doors for overnight stays ahead of the release of the highly-anticipated "Barbie" movie. The three-story lookalike Malibu mansion that mirrors the set of the movie is available for booking via Airbnb.

See the photo gallery here.

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