29-06-2025 BUDAPEST: Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through Hungary’s capital as a banned LGBTQIA+ rights rally has swelled into a mass anti-government demonstration. In a major show of opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, crowds set off across one of the main bridges, waving rainbow flags and with …

29-06-2025 ATHENS/ MADRID: Health and fire warnings have been issued in countries across southern Europe, with temperatures expected to exceed 40C in some places over the weekend. Italy, Greece, France, Spain and Portugal are among the countries affected with the Spanish city of Seville forecast to hit 42C. Hot air …

29-06-2025 TEHRAN: Tens of thousands of people have lined the streets in Iran’s capital, Tehran, as the country held a funeral service for military commanders, nuclear scientists and some civilians martyred in Israeli attacks earlier this month. State TV showed footage of people donning black clothes, waving Iranian flags and …

Hyderabad, June 28:(Shoukat-PMI) The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (South East Zone) on Saturday apprehended three individuals for allegedly selling e-cigarettes illegally in the city. A total of 190 e-cigarettes, two motorcycles, three mobile phones, and ₹13,500 in cash were seized during the operation. The arrested individuals have been identified as …

28-06-2025 TOKYO: Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man …

28-06-2025 CAIRO/ TEHRAN LONDON: Short of commanders, deprived of much of its tunnel network and unsure of support from its ally Iran, Hamas is battling to survive in Gaza in the face of rebellious local clans and relentless Israeli military pressure. Hamas fighters are operating autonomously under orders to hold …

28-06-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a “permanent solution” to their decades-old border dispute, in a new push for a conclusive outcome. Singh met China’s Dong Jun on the sidelines of the meeting of …

28-06-2025 JOHANNESBURG: On the night of June 27, 1985 in South Africa, four Black men were travelling together in a car from the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, to Cradock. They had just finished doing community organizing work on the outskirts of the city when apartheid police officials …

28-06-2025 WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE: The White House has recommended terminating US funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to three US sources familiar with the matter and internal government documents reviewed by …

28-06-2025 ASSAM, WEST BENGAL: Ufa Ali could barely stand. On May 31, the 67-year-old bicycle mechanic returned to his home in India’s northeastern state of Assam after spending four harrowing days stranded in Bangladesh, the neighboring country he claims he had only heard of “as a slur” since birth. Ali’s …