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Three New Zealand lawmakers suspended for performing Maori...
Wellington [New Zealand], June 6: Three lawmakers in New Zealand were formally suspended from parliament on Thursday for performing a...

'Premeditated genocide': Brazil President Lula slams Israel over...
Paris [France], June 6: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of carrying out "premeditated genocide" in Gaza...

Trump refuses to lay blame for war on...
Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump once again refused to single out Russia as the aggressor and instigator...

Israeli strikes kill at least 52 across Gaza
Gaza [Palestine], June 6: At least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Thursday, medical sources told...

NATO begins Baltic drills; Russian spy plane triggers...
Rostock [Germany], June 6: NATO forces began conducting a two-week exercise on the Baltic Sea, with the first ships departing...

Trump imposes travel ban on 12 countries for...
Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on 12 countries on Wednesday, citing security risks.

Musk turns on Republicans
New York [US], June 5: For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a "special government employee" working inside the...

North Korea's Kim vows unconditional support for Russia
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 5: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu...

Deported Venezuelans have right to challenge detention
Caracas [Venezuela], June 5: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law...

Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department
New York [US], June 5: A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald...

US vetoes UN Security Council demand for Gaza...
Gaza [Palestine], June 5: The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council demand on Wednesday for an "immediate, unconditional and...

Justice Department accuses two Chinese researchers of smuggling
New York [US], June 5: U.S. federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that...

Israeli military unleashes strikes on Syria
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 5: The Israeli military said in a statement it struck weapons belonging to the Syrian regime...

China calls on WTO for greater oversight on...
New York [US], June 5: China's commerce minister has called on the World Trade Organisation to strengthen supervision over unilateral...

Judge extends ban on Trump administration canceling COVID...
New York [US], June 5: A federal judge in Manhattan has extended an injunction banning the Trump administration from canceling...

UNICEF spokesman 'shocked' by extent of malnutrition in...
Gaza [Palestine], June 5: UNICEF spokesman James Elder, currently in Gaza, has described the "horrors" he witnessed within just 24...

Gaza aid centres shut, access to area prohibited
Tel Aviv [Israel] / Gaza [Palestine], June 5: Following reports that Israeli forces killed people near a food distribution site...

Pro-Palestine protesters in UK call for Israel arms...
London [UK], June 5: Pro-Palestine campaigners have rallied against Israel's punishing war on Gaza, gathering outside the British Parliament in...

Russia condemns NATO naval exercise
Moscow [Russia], June 5: Russia on Wednesday criticized a two-week NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea as "provocative," one...

Taiwan commemorates 1989 Tiananmen anniversary amid China-US war...
Taipei [Taiwan], June 5: Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday commemorated the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, urging...

Hezbollah chief meets Iran's top diplomat amid Israeli...
Beirut [Lebanon], June 5: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem met on Wednesday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, amid heavy Israeli...

Dutch king accepts government's resignation after Wilders withdrawal
The Hague [Netherlands], June 5: Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Dick Schoof, while asking...

Pilgrims arrive in Mina for Day of Al-Tarwiyah
Mecca [Saudi Arabia], June 5: Pilgrims have completed their arrival at Mina, the 8th of Dhul-Hijjah, to observe the Day...

Ukraine allies pledge continued support
Brussels [Belgium], June 5: Defence ministers from the Ukraine Defence Contact Group pledged further support for Ukraine on Wednesday despite...

No chance for immediate resolution to ongoing Ukraine...
Washington [US] / Moscow [Russia] / Kiev [Ukraine], June 5: US President Donald Trump sees no chance for an immediate...

Bill Gates to give most of $200 billion...
Washington [US], June 4: US billionaire Bill Gates on Tuesday announced that the majority of his philanthropic Gates Foundation's $200...

US President remains positive about progress...: White House...
Washington [US], June 4: US President Donald Trump remains optimistic about the progress being seen amid the ongoing conflict between...