05-07-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was conspicuously absent from his father’s funeral, as senior regime figures joined thousands paying their respects to the late ayatollah on Sunday. Ali Khamenei’s other three sons Masoud, Mostafa and Meysam, all attended the service on Sunday, alongside officials including President Masoud Pezeshkian …

05-07-2026 MELBOURNE: An Australian court has granted the religious order Catholic Brothers a pause on payouts to child sex abuse victims after it claimed that it was running out of money to settle millions of dollars in civil claims. The group had told the court it was going broke and …

05-07-2026 LONDON/ KHARTOUM: Sudanese paramilitaries committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher last year, a rights group report says. The siege and takeover of the city in the western region of Darfur marked one of the bloodiest episodes in Sudan’s civil …

05-07-2026 JAKARTA: A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province have been publicly caned after a Sharia court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream. The court ordered the couple, a 22-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, to be whipped with a rattan cane 21 …

05-07-2026 DOHA: Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect technical talks on Wednesday with no sign they had made headway towards a lasting peace. Instead, the two countries focused on issues that they said had been resolved when an interim agreement was announced two weeks ago. The …

05-07-2026 MOSCOW: Russian forces launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 20 people, in what the city’s mayor has described as the “most massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital. Vitaly Klitschko said around 90 people were injured. He said an ambulance station was among the places …

05-07-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s military headquarters warns any US interference in the Strait of Hormuz will be met with a “decisive and swift response” as tensions continue to roil negotiations. Qatar reports “positive progress” as the US and Iran conclude indirect technical talks in Doha on issues related to the memorandum …

05-07-2026 LONDON: Research published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has found that a United Kingdom-United States pharmaceutical deal could cause 229,000 excess deaths as a result of the diversion of billions of pounds away from Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). In December, the UK and US signed a pharmaceutical …

04-07-2026 TEHRAN: More than 10 million people, including representatives from more than 100 countries, expected in Tehran for funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was martyred along with family members at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran. Israel has attacked multiple sites in southern Lebanon, …

04-07-2026 BEIRUT: Some 400,000 Lebanese uprooted by war have returned to southern Lebanon, with ‌more expected to follow in the coming week, the social affairs minister said on Tuesday, encouraged by a lull in the four-month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Yet many remain unable to go back. Since March, …