KABUL, June 10 (Reuters) – Pakistani air strikes on three Afghan provinces killed at least 13 people, including 11 children, on Wednesday, the Afghan Taliban government said, in a renewal of a conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives this year. At least 14 others – all of them children and women – were injured…
Anti-immigration protests erupted into riots in Northern Ireland on Tuesday after a Sudanese migrant’s shockingly barbaric knife attack — with masked demonstrators breaking windows, setting homes on fire, and torching buses. Tensions flared after a 30-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan, who was charged with attempted murder, allegedly tried to behead a man in Belfast on…
The Pentagon signalled on Monday that it was adding Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies to its list of entities it says are linked to China’s military, widening a blacklist that increasingly targets sectors at the heart of US-China technological competition. In a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication on Wednesday, the…
A United States Army Apache helicopter gunship went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. The ship’s two crew members were safely rescued, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing two people briefed on the incident. It was unclear on Monday night whether the Apache was shot down by Iranian fire, experienced mechanical failure or…
Follow our live coverage of the June 8 Mindanao earthquake here. Police gather in front of a collapsed fast food restaurant after an 7.8 magnitude earthquake in General Santos City on June 8, 2026. (AFP) (Updated as of 11:03 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off Sarangani on Monday morning, killing at…
The Israeli prime minister’s brief statement added that “right now, the fire has been halted.” It was his first public statement since Iran fired missiles at Israel late Sunday. They were intercepted. Netanyahu asserted Israel’s right to self-defense, “and I say this with appreciation and respect in my good conversations with my friend President Trump.”…
Greetings from Tyler, The news says Trump is sleeping through high level meetings. Maybe he’s just resting his eyes. Maybe he’s thinking of Melania. Who knows? They’ve got a load of photos with his eyes closed, but who hasn’t blinked? We’ve all been guilty. They’re all posting the same photo. I don’t know if he’s…
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration’s latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean island, which is already facing fuel shortages and an economy in free fall. The fresh sanctions are set to be imposed on five entities as well as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife…
Relations rebuilding after years of relative isolation due to pandemic, Beijing’s denuclearisation stance and closer Pyongyang-Moscow ties Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea on Monday and Tuesday in a show of the two countries’ strong ties. Continue reading HERE Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3356021/chinese-leader-xi-jinping-visit-north-korea-confirmed-next-week [Disclaimer]
As many of you will know, I have been covering the Henry Nowak case rather extensively of late. Murders, alas, come and go these days. The true tragedy of Nowak’s death, however, is not just the callous indifference of those involved but what the response says about Britain, its governing class, and how far we…