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France is celebrating Bastille Day with nationwide festivities commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution.In Paris, the celebration features 7,000 participants marching along the Champs-Elysees, including troops and armoured vehicles, followed b...
United States President Donald Trump has said he will send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine as his administration signals growing disillusionment with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to negotiate an end to Moscow’s invasion.“We will send them Patriots, which they d...
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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overth...
The succession of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is a “thorn” in China-India relations, says the Chinese embassy in New Delhi.The remarks on Sunday came ahead of the first visit by India’s foreign minister to China since the deadly border clashes between the South Asia...
Israeli air strikes have killed at least 50 Palestinians, including 10 near a water distribution point on Sunday, Gaza’s Civil Defence agency says.Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza killed 110 Palestinians across the Strip yesterday, including 34 people waiting for food at the US-ba...
Houthi rebels in Yemen attempted to strike Israel’s Ben Gurion airport after sinking two vessels in the Red Sea this week, as the group ramps up its military pressure in support of Palestinians under Israeli fire in its bid to bring the war in Gaza to an end.Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sar...
South Korea’s former president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has been arrested for a second time and returned to a solitary jail cell over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law last December.Yoon’s detention on Thursday came after a court in the South Korean capital, Seoul, ordered his arrest, c...
Israeli troops have entered southern Lebanon, the military says, to dismantle infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah, in its latest near-daily violation of its November ceasefire with the Lebanese armed group.The military said in a statement on Wednesday that it had launched “special, targeted ...
Five crew members have been rescued from a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea after a suspected attack from Yemen’s Houthi group, according to a maritime monitor. The attack is so far known to have killed at least three sailors out of the 22-member crew and wounded two.The United Kingd...
Some 2,300 people are likely to have died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during a severe heatwave that ended last week, with two-thirds of the deaths directly linked to climate change, according to a new study.The analysis, published on Wednesday, focused on the 10-day period betwe...
At least nine people have been killed after the collapse of a bridge over a river in India’s western Gujarat state, according to authorities.Gujarat’s Health Minister Rushikesh Patel said several vehicles fell into Mahisagar River when a portion of Gambhira Bridge collapsed on Wednesday ...
At least 105 Palestinians have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.The toll included seven aid seekers killed and more than 57 injured, the statement published by the ministry on Telegram said.Israel’...
Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since early June, according to the United Nations refugee agency, after Tehran imposed a July 6 deadline for undocumented migrants and refugees to leave the country.The surge compounds Afghanistan’s existing challenges as the impoverished nation s...
Thousands of daredevils ran, skidded and tumbled out of the way of six charging bulls at the opening run of the San Fermin festival in Spain.Monday was the first of nine morning runs during the famous celebrations held in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.The bulls pounded along the twisting cob...
Countries across the Mediterranean are battling fast-spreading wildfires and soaring temperatures as a heatwave sweeps through Southern Europe and parts of the Middle East, prompting evacuations and emergency alerts.Blazes broke out in Greece, Turkiye, France and Syria on Sunday, with several other ...
Several people have been injured in Kenya after police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital Nairobi as they mark the 35th anniversary of pro-democracy rallies.Authorities on Monday ramped up police deployments in the city as hundreds of demonstrators advanced, with s...
An Australian police officer who shot dead an Indigenous teenager was a racist drawn to “high adrenaline policing”, a landmark coronial inquiry has found.Racist behaviour was also “normalised” in Zachary Rolfe’s Alice Springs police station, said the 682-page findings r...
Suriname has elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as its first female president, with parliament backing the 71-year-old physician and lawmaker to lead the crisis-hit South American nation.Her election came after a coalition deal was struck in the National Assembly, which voted by a two-thirds majority...
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk has stepped up his criticism of United States President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and spending bill and renewed his call for a new political party.Musk’s criticism of Trump’s 940-page “Big, Beautiful Bill“, which proposes tax breaks and sweeping...
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