- Japan’s H3 rocket successfully lifted off after an earlier failure, an important milestone for the country’s effort to boost its rocket industry’s international competitiveness.
- Germany’s justice ministers are moving to abolish special legal protections that shield top politicians from insults, though one category of officials will reportedly retain protections.
- Spain expanded its Plan VEO programme with an additional €22 million, having already subsidised eyeglasses for more than 325,000 children under 17.
- Iceland: A new report from the Employers’ Association argues that corporate loans are “systematically more expensive” in Iceland, and that joining the EU and adopting the euro would likely lead to considerably lower interest rates.
- A bear cub was found shot dead in Kozani, Greece, with three bullets to the head — an act condemned as an atrocity by Greek media.
Walter Murrow
June 12, 2026
