Our daily trip around the world

🇫🇷🇷🇺 Microsoft identified a Russian misinformation campaign targeting the Paris Olympics. In a blog post published Sunday, Microsoft said Russia has intensified an online campaign designed to “denigrate the reputation” of the International Olympic Committee, and to create the expectation of violence breaking out at the games this summer. The tech giant said Russia’s efforts include a series of falsified news websites, as well as a fake documentary narrated by an AI version of Tom Cruise (☝️).

🇳🇬 Nigeria's main labor unions shut down the country’s national power grid. The blackout, which has left tens of millions of Nigerians without power since early yesterday morning, was part of an indefinite strike by domestic labor unions seeking to increase the national minimum wage. Union workers also blocked access to parliament and disrupted airport operations across the country, in the fourth such strike since President Bola Tinubu took office last year.

💥 Israel-Hamas war: On Friday, President Biden announced his support for a three-phase truce proposal he said was crafted by Israel and passed by mediators to Hamas, which would include the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the return of all hostages taken by Hamas. However, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Biden’s description of the proposal was “not accurate,” and that Israel hasn’t agreed to fully remove its troops from Gaza.