From Manhattan to Paris, today’s world news carried both protest and warning. Outside the United Nations, a Tibetan activist died after setting himself on fire while holding a Tibetan flag, an act exile groups say was a plea for independence and renewed attention to China’s rule in Tibet. In France, officials linked a nearly 30% weekly rise in deaths to the late-June heatwave, underscoring Europe’s deepening vulnerability to extreme weather. In Britain, history resurfaced in quieter fashion, as archivists identified a vanishingly rare 1776 printing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence hidden for centuries among Royal Navy papers from a captured American ship. Elsewhere, football manager Ange Postecoglou took charge of Saudi champions Al Nassr, where he will coach Cristiano Ronaldo, while a lighter celebrity note saw Prince William make a surprise appearance on the Kelce brothers’ podcast amid intense Taylor Swift wedding speculation.