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Polluter-paid climate damages up for council vote

Polluter-paid climate damages up for council vote

Sydney [Australia], June 24: Sick of floods, storms and other climate extremes eating into council budgets, local governments are seeking...

UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza

UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children...

Gaza [Palestine], June 24: Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children , resulting ​in genocide, crimes against...

US Senate votes to halt Iran war in latest rebuke of Trump

US Senate votes to halt Iran war in...

New York [US], June 24: The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military...

Trump allies defend him to Israelis anxious over Iran deal

Trump allies defend him to Israelis anxious over...

New York [US], June 24: American allies of President Donald Trump this week defended him to an Israeli public anxious...

NATO is preparing for war against Russia, says Putin

NATO is preparing for war against Russia, says...

Moscow [Russia], June 24: The West, fronted by NATO, is actively preparing for war against Russia, President Vladimir Putin told...

More killed as Israel says it targets fighters near Nabatiyeh

More killed as Israel says it targets fighters...

Beirut [Lebanon], June 24: Two people were killed and another was wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on the southern...

Eiffel, Louvre shut doors as France swelters in historic heat

Eiffel, Louvre shut doors as France swelters in...

Paris [France], June 24: The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre in Paris closed early for visitors on Tuesday in response...

EU hosts Taliban officials in Brussels for first time since takeover

EU hosts Taliban officials in Brussels for first...

Brussels [Belgium], June 24: The European Commission hosted Taliban representatives in Brussels on Tuesday for the first time since the...

Jordan resumes executions after nearly a decade with six hangings

Jordan resumes executions after nearly a decade with...

Cairo [Egypt], June 24: Jordan has executed six convicted criminals for the first time in nearly a decade, Human Rights...

Poland-Ukraine history row escalates

Poland-Ukraine history row escalates

Kiev [Ukraine] / Warsaw [Poland], June 24: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not expected to travel to a reconstruction conference...

Iran to hold Khamenei burial on July 9, four months after death

Iran to hold Khamenei burial on July 9,...

Tehran [Iran], June 24: The funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike...

UN maritime agency to evacuate 11,000 seafarers from Middle East

UN maritime agency to evacuate 11,000 seafarers from...

London [UK], June 24: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will evacuate thousands of sailors from the Middle East following the...

Protests erupt after two young Palestinians shot dead in West Bank

Protests erupt after two young Palestinians shot dead...

Tel Aviv [Israel], June 24: Protests erupted in the occupied West Bank on Monday after the Palestinian Health Ministry reported...

Starmer resigns as UK prime minister, Andy Burnham poised to take over

Starmer resigns as UK prime minister, Andy Burnham...

London [UK], June 24: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as prime minister less than two...

US eases sanctions on Iranian oil after 'productive' talks

US eases sanctions on Iranian oil after 'productive'...

Washington [US], June 24: The United States Treasury on Monday announced the temporary easing of sanctions on Iranian oil up...

Music icon Clive Davis dies at 92

Music icon Clive Davis dies at 92

New York [US], June 23: Clive Davis' final public appearance was just weeks before his death.

Ethiopian PM's party gets big parliamentary majority

Ethiopian PM's party gets big parliamentary majority

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], June 23: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party ​won another large parliamentary majority in this month's...

Spain swelters in first official heatwave of 2026

Spain swelters in first official heatwave of 2026

Madrid [Spain], June 23: Tourists and locals in Madrid struggled to cope with temperatures reaching up to 40 ​degrees Celsius...

Syria has made no progress on Sweida reintegration plan, UN says

Syria has made no progress on Sweida reintegration...

Damascus [Syria], June 23: A United Nations official warned on Monday that efforts to repair divisions and stabilise ​southern Syria...

Youths reach breaking point before seeking counselling

Youths reach breaking point before seeking counselling

New York [US], June 23: Crisis interventions for young people seeking counselling have more than tripled in recent years with...

Ukraine may recalibrate its offer of ceasefire with Russia, envoy tells UN

Ukraine may recalibrate its offer of ceasefire with...

Kiev [Ukraine], June 23: Ukraine may revise its offer to Russia of a ceasefire along the de facto frontline if...

North Korea's Kim says country will exercise its position as nuclear state, KCNA reports​​

North Korea's Kim says country will exercise its...

Pyongyang [North Korea], June 23: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said exercising the country's position as a ​nuclear state...

Ukraine's Kyiv issues air raid alert, authorities ask people to seek shelter

Ukraine's Kyiv issues air raid alert, authorities ask...

Kiev [Ukraine], June 23: Ukraine's capital Kyiv issued an ​air raid alert authorities in a Telegram post ​asked people ​to...

All US passengers from hantavirus-hit ship return to home states

All US passengers from hantavirus-hit ship return to...

New York [US], June 23: The University of Nebraska Medical Center said on Monday all 18 ​U.S.-resident passengers from the...

Starmer 'will resign' as he failed on energy, migration: Trump

Starmer 'will resign' as he failed on energy,...

London [UK], June 23: US President Donald Trump has said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will resign, in a social...

Four killed as Ukraine targets fuel depot in Russian-occupied Crimea

Four killed as Ukraine targets fuel depot in...

Moscow [Russia], June 23: At least four people have been killed in Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula,...

Hungary's new PM Magyar plans anti-corruption drive, new constitution

Hungary's new PM Magyar plans anti-corruption drive, new...

Budapest [Hungary], June 23: Hungary's new Prime Minister Peter Magyar has announced a shake-up of the top ranks of state...