World,Politics
North Korea says it has successfully relaunched its new 5,000-ton naval destroyer, less than a month after it capsized during the first attempted launch, state media reports.The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, had reacted furiously to the warship's failed launch in May, and demanded it be qui...
Democratic US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday and placed in handcuffs.Noem was giving an update on immigration enforcement after nearly a week of protests in the city, when Senator Padilla int...
World
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday confirmed that several senior military figures and scientists were killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting Tehran.Iran’s former national security chief Ali Shamkhani has been killed in Israel’s strikes on Iran, according to Iran...
National,Politics
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus has refused to meet Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to discuss corruption allegations against her during his visit to London.Yunus told the BBC the allegations were a "court matter" and said he had confidence in Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commiss...
Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependants in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said.Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, but have been told Israel was ready to launch an operation into Iran, the BBC's ...
Singapore and Taipei: A Chinese national has been sentenced to three years in prison for damaging an undersea cable connecting Taiwan's main island and the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait.The man, identified by his surname Wang, was the captain of the Togolese-registered vessel Hong Tai 58.T...
Police have been attacked with fireworks, bottles and bricks as violence erupted for a third night in Northern Ireland.The worst of the disorder was in Ballymena, but unrest also spread to other towns on Wednesday evening.In Larne, masked youths attacked a leisure centre and set it on fire. The cent...
A federal judge said on Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot deport or continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist who was arrested by immigration officers in March.But Judge Michael Farbiarz put a pause on his injunction until the morning of 13 June to give the feder...
The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen worke...
World,Business,Politics
Delhi is "hopeful" of reaching a trade agreement with the US before the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends on 9 July, India's foreign minister has said.In an interview with French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday, S Jaishankar, who is on a four-day visit to Belgium and France, said Indi...
World,Business
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media."I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far," he said on his platform X.The two were embroiled in a public ...
World,Travel & Tourism
Africa is the continent worst affected by the travel ban announced by US President Donald Trump, with seven of the 12 countries on the list, which comes into effect on Monday.The order prohibits people from Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan - as well as Af...
New Zealand's parliament has voted to suspend three Māori MPs for their protest haka during a sitting last year.Opposition MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who started the traditional dance, was suspended for seven days, while her party's co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer wer...
World,Education & Culture
Donald Trump has suspended for an initial six months the entry of foreign students seeking to study or participate in exchange programmes at Harvard University.The US president issued the proclamation on Wednesday, citing "national security" concerns and declaring it "detrimental"...
The Canadian government has proposed a bill to restrict some asylum claims and give authorities more power to halt the processing of immigration applications.Canada's immigration minister Lena Diab said the Strong Borders Act is meant to curb organised crime and the flow of illegal drugs and wea...
Mokwa, Nigerian: The death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say.There are still 500 people missing in the town in north-central Niger State, as a search mission continues.The deputy chairman of Mokwa Local Government, Musa...
Shangri-la Dialogue, Singapore: Australia's defence minister Richard Marles has called on China to explain why it needs to have "such an extraordinary military build-up".He said Beijing needs to provide greater transparency and reassurance as it is the "fundamental issue" for...
Sports,Football
Former Argentina and Benfica winger Angel di Maria will return to his boyhood club Rosario Central - 10 months after death threats forced him to backtrack on the same move.The 37-year-old began his career at Rosario in 2005 and the Argentine top-flight club announced his return on Thursday.“Ou...
US President Donald Trump's administration can temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday.The ruling put on hold a previous federal judge's order stopping the administration from ending the "parole" immigratio...
US President Donald Trump has accused China of violating a two-week-old truce on tariffs - a sign trade tensions between the world's two largest economies could again escalate.Washington and Beijing agreed to temporarily lower tit-for-tat tariffs after talks in Geneva earlier this month.Trump sa...
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