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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, dissolved the country's six-person war cabinet.

The move, which was widely expected, came just

over a week after Benny Gantz, a centrist, resigned from Mr Netignahu's government.

It's a Mar Ben Gvere, a far-right security minister who wants Israel to escalate its operations

in Gaza and against Hezbollah, a Shia militia in Lebanon, had long demanded to join the war cabinet.

Mr Netanyahu will instead hold smaller in formal consultations with advisors.

The London Stock Exchange once again with advisors.

The London Stock Exchange once again became Europe's biggest equity market as political turmoil

in France spooked investors in Paris. The total value of companies listed on Britain's main exchange

reached almost 3.2 trillion dollars, according to Bloomberg. The LSC, long in decline, shrunk below the Paris Stock Exchange in November 2022,

following a disastrous economic shakeup under Liz Truss, the short-lived Conservative Prime Minister.

China opened an anti-dumping probe into pork imports from the EU, less than a week after the block hit China's carmakers with hefty tariffs.

China's Commerce Ministry said that an animal husbandry group formerly requested the investigation on June 6th.

Any retaliatory tariffs would affect Denmark, the Netherlands and particularly Spain,

which accounts for about a fifth of China's pork imports.

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