What happened
Iran has warned of possible retaliation after accusing the US of breaching the fragile ceasefire with fresh military strikes near the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command said it had carried out “self-defense strikes” against Iranian missile positions in southern Iran and boats allegedly attempting to deploy naval mines in the shipping corridor.

Who said what
Iran’s foreign ministry described the attacks as a “gross violation” of the truce and warned Washington that “without a doubt, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not leave any evil unanswered and will not hesitate to defend the Iranian nation”.

What next?
The “ratcheting up of hostilities after a period of relative calm” has “added to the uncertainty surrounding negotiations for a potential peace deal”, said Max Bearak in The New York Times.

Talks involving US, Iranian, Pakistani and Qatari officials are continuing, although both sides acknowledge that a broader agreement remains some way off. The “guns have not yet fallen silent over the Persian Gulf”, said Amir Handjani in Foreign Policy magazine, but “the region knows that Iran won the war”.

What happened
All undergraduates at the University of Manchester will be required to complete a real-world work placement as part of their degree course under new plans being rolled out by the institution. Until now, placements have only been mandatory for “those training directly for professions such as teaching, medicine or nursing”, said The Times.

Who said what
Vice-chancellor Duncan Ivison told The Times it was increasingly important for universities to equip students with the real-world experience “they would have normally got in that traditional first job out of uni”.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a history student or a chemical engineer,” he said. “What does it mean to take those skills and apply them to the problems of a customer or patient or government agency?”

Other planned reforms will see the university “moving away from lecture theatres”, added The Times, with more learning to take place in “collaborative teaching spaces”.

What next?
This year about 500 undergraduates are expected to take part in two-week internships, with most taking place after the end of the summer term.

What started as online satire has spiralled into a mass movement for India’s disaffected younger generation.

The parody Cockroach Janta Party launched this month and quickly amassed more than 22 million followers on Instagram – more than twice that of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the world’s largest political party.

The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, was created by Abhijeet Dipke, a public relations student at Boston University in the US. The 30-year-old launched the CJP via social media accounts and a website, inspired by comments from India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant in which he compared unemployed young people to cockroaches.

While Kant later clarified his remarks, saying they only referred to some people acquiring fraudulent degrees, his remarks drew “considerable ire”, said Al Jazeera, “mainly from Gen Z internet users, as they battle large-scale unemployment, inflation and bitter religious divides” following 12 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.

With a cockroach as its symbol, the CJP has exploded across social media, fed by “memes and short videos mocking corruption, joblessness and political dysfunction” that turned “absurdist humour into protest”, said The Associated Press. One million people have signed up to join the movement in the past week, with “its tongue-in-cheek membership criteria” including “being unemployed, lazy, chronically online and capable of ranting professionally”.
 
“I don’t expect CJP to become a functioning political party, but its rapid growth sends a message to the ruling party that many, especially the youth, are unhappy with corruption and the economy,” 29-year-old digital marketer Oindrila Mohinta told The Telegraph India.