Before I forget:
Québec is starting efforts to control wildfires that many of us in North America couldn’t fail to notice this week. Now they’re spreading in British Columbia as Canada endures its worst start to wildfire season.
Our World News podcast host Kim Vinnell interviewed Kosovo’s leaders and people about a smoldering situation between the government and its minority Serb population. Have a listen and learn interesting things.
Germany’s far-right faction is the most successful party of its kind there since the Nazis. What’s their secret? They want immigrants out and they hate the “green” agenda, and that seems to resonate.
Two toddlers gravely wounded by a Syrian knife-wielding attacker in Annecy, France, were in a stable condition and doctors are optimistic for their recovery. The outlook is less certain for President Emmanuel Macron’s new immigration bill.
The founder of an “orgasmic meditation company” was charged with forced-labor conspiracy. Send punchlines here. I’ll publish the winning entry as long as my editor thinks it won’t get me fired.
Finally, there is much excited chatter that automation will unleash a fourth Industrial Revolution. Anyone who thinks that should take a second look at today’s very different political and economic conditions, Breakingviews columnist Edward Chancellor writes.
Note: The June 9 edition of the Daily Briefing included an incorrect photo caption. The description should have read, ‘The House of Culture on a flooded street in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, June 6, 2023. Alexey Konovalov/TASS/Handout via REUTERS.’
