12-06-2025 PARIS: A teaching assistant has died after being stabbed by a student outside a school in Nogent, north-east France, officials say. The 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed on Tuesday morning outside Françoise Dolto middle school as pupils’ bags were being checked by police, the Haute-Marne prefecture said. French media …

12-06-2025 LONDON: Britain and four other nations imposed sanctions on Tuesday on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, accusing them of repeatedly inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway joined Britain in freezing the assets and imposing travel bans …

12-06-2025 MASCOT, AUSTRALIA: The Qantas Group has today announced a strategic restructure which supports its historic fleet renewal program and strengthens its core businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The closure of intra-Asia airline, Jetstar Asia, enables the Qantas Group to recycle up to $500 million in capital, supporting its …

12-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The US and China say they have agreed in principle to a framework for de-escalating trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the deal should result in restrictions on rare earth minerals and magnets being resolved. Both sides said they …

12-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles (LA) Mayor Karen Bass has announced a partial curfew for Los Angeles to tackle the protests against immigration raids. US President Donald Trump says the protests are an “assault on peace and public order”. He has doubled down on deploying more National Guard troops and …

11-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS: Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born but it always comes back to one question; ‘can we afford it?’ She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her husband works at a tyre …

11-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: US President Donald Trump’s administration has sent thousands more troops to Los Angeles (LA) on a fourth day of chaotic protests against immigration raids, as the unrest spread to other US cities. Some 700 US Marines have been deployed to the LA area and the contingent of …

11-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI: India has started to push people it considers illegal immigrants into neighboring Bangladesh but human rights activists say authorities are arbitrarily throwing people out of the country. Since May, the northeastern Indian state of Assam has “pushed back” 303 people into Bangladesh out of 30,000 declared …

11-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by attacking Palestinian civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, an independent United Nations commission report says. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, made …

11-06-2025 TOKYO: Two Chinese aircraft carriers have been seen operating in the Pacific at once for the first time, Japan’s Ministry of Defence has said. China’s Shandong and four other vessels on Monday sailed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier conducted …