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On today's podcast:

(1) More than 300,000 people have fled their homes in towns and villages across France and Spain even as wildfires threaten the major cities of Madrid and Bordeaux, and as a new blaze erupted in the Vall d’Uixó region in Spain’s east.

(2) The US paused an almost two-week run of strikes against Iran for a second night while the Islamic Republic signaled it was refraining from any retaliatory attacks and held talks with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz.

(3) ⁠⁠Oil sank as the US and Iran paused strikes, easing tensions in the five-month-old conflict, even as the Houthis claimed attacks against Saudi targets and ship-tracking suggested flows remained constrained.

(4) The suspect in Saturday’s deadly van attack on Berlin’s LGBTQ pride event was shot dead early Sunday evening in a police operation in the German capital, city officials said.

(5) CXMT’s shares opened 472% higher in their Shanghai debut on Monday, making the memory chipmaker China’s largest onshore-listed company as investors flock to beneficiaries of the AI boom.