International from Tuesday, June 30th, 2026

Handing President Donald Trump a stinging defeat, the US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected his audacious attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States — a right long woven into the fabric of American society — scuttling one of his top priorities in his crackdown on immigration.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled on Tuesday his long-delayed Defence Investment Plan, promising an increase of £15 billion in funding to better equip Britain to fight the wars of the future in a blueprint he described as his legacy.

Police in Monaco and France were searching for a suspected bomber on Tuesday after three people were wounded by an explosion in the wealthy principality which two sources said was an attack on a Ukrainian-born oligarch.

Anti-immigrant protesters draped in flags and wielding wooden weapons marched across cities in South Africa on Tuesday to mark a deadline they had set for undocumented migrants to leave, with some marches hit by violence and looting.

A 45-year-old man in an apparent child custody dispute was the suspected shooter at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany that left six dead on Monday, officials said.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday she is "willing to do whatever it takes" to enter Venezuela to help with the country's recovery efforts following last week's back-to-back earthquakes.