President Donald Trump announced that he had called off planned strikes against Iran, a move that followed weeks of diplomatic signaling about a possible nuclear understanding.
Iran’s foreign ministry quickly responded, clarifying that no formal agreement had been sealed and that the terms of any future deal remain under negotiation.
The same week, the U.S. men’s soccer squad was drawn into Group F of the 2026 World Cup, where they will meet Paraguay, among other opponents, with the hope of rewriting a history marked by repeated early exits.
In Washington, the administration of President Trump unveiled a proposal to shrink the U.S. Forest Service, a plan that would trim its budget and dissolve a research unit focused on wildfire prediction, raising concerns among environmental advocates.
A conservation win
Meanwhile, conservationists celebrated a modest victory as the northern bald ibis, once extinct in Europe, began to reappear in the wild, a comeback documented by photographer Gunnar Hartmann, whose striking image of the bird’s migration earned a top prize in a recent competition.