15-06-2026 ABUJA: Nigeria’s military has “neutralised” more than 13,000 “terrorists” in the past year, the president says, as armed groups and criminal gangs continue to carry out mass attacks and kidnappings in the country. In a televised national address on Friday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said the death toll from …

15-06-2026 BEIJING: China says it is holding an American citizen accused of espionage, identifying the man as a political analyst at a policy think tank focusing on neighboring Myanmar. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the arrest of the man on suspicion of “spying” and “endangering national security” on Friday, …

15-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MUSCAT: Three Indian sailors are confirmed killed as the country reports a separate incident involving a vessel ⁠⁠off Shinas port in Oman, the third attack linked to the United States this week. The latest maritime incident against Guinea-Bissau flagged MT Jalveer came the day after …

14-06-2026 BAGHDAD: It was his first speech in front of parliament as Iraq’s prime minister, and Ali al-Zaidi was quick to set out his stall. “(I am committing to) reforming the security apparatus by restricting weapons to state control and strengthening the capabilities of the security forces,” al-Zaidi pledged in …

14-06-2026 BELFAST, NORTH IRELAND: When violence broke out in east Belfast near Zeinab’s home, as a mother of three from Sudan, she felt terrified. Anti-immigrant rioters have carried out a wave of racist attacks in the Northern Irish capital after a knife attack on Wednesday. The alleged assailant, a 30-year-old …

14-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Miten Patel remembers the day hospital staff in Ahmedabad drew two vials of his blood to help identify his parents. He had landed in the Indian city hours earlier with his brother, carrying dental records for Ashok and Shobhana Patel. “We had to fly Air …

14-06-2026 BANGKOK: Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha, who had been in a coma for more than three years, has died, the royal household has announced. She was 47. She collapsed in December 2022 while exercising her dogs. Her doctors attributed it to a severely irregular heartbeat, caused by a mycoplasma infection in …

14-06-2026 JERUSALEM: There is the loud din of a demolition below Jerusalem’s walled Old City and from a hillside I watch a large Israeli excavator tearing into a Palestinian house. Some 59 properties have now been destroyed in the al-Bustan area of the Silwan neighborhood since late 2023. With world …

14-06-2026 KHARTOUM: A drone strike on a funeral procession at a cemetery in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid has killed at least four people and injured several others, two rights groups, Sudan Doctors Network and Emergency Lawyers, have said. Both groups blame the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for the …

14-06-2026 TEHRAN: Iran has insisted that a final decision on an agreement to end the current conflict with the US has not yet been reached, despite President Trump again claiming a deal was likely to be signed imminently. Trump had declared the US would strike Iran “very hard” again on …