International

13-06-2025 LONDON: The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s former Minister of Land, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities to take action against assets owned by Chowdhury, a political ally …

13-06-2025 Bureau Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has announced a major boost to defence spending in its new budget, just weeks after coming to the brink of a fifth war with archrival India. The budget for the fiscal year 2025-2026, announced by the government on Tuesday, ramps up defence spending to 2.55 …

13-06-2025 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have said their fighters have seized a strategic zone on the border with Egypt and Libya, as the regular government-aligned army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced its withdrawal from the area. The announcements on Wednesday came a day after SAF accused …

13-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: An uneasy calm has descended over Los Angeles after the first night of a curfew lifted on Wednesday, as cities across the US brace for more protests. In Los Angeles, nearly 400 people have so far been arrested including 330 undocumented migrants and 157 people arrested for …

13-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ BAGHDAD: Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependents in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said. Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, however, in recent days talks over Iran’s nuclear program appear to have stalled. …

13-06-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s Islamist-led interim government has decreed that women must wear burkinis, a swimsuit that covers the body except for the face, hands and feet or other “decent” clothes at public beaches and swimming pools. The regulations, issued by the tourism ministry, were “aimed at enhancing public safety standards …

12-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: All 242 passengers were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 230 people and 12 crews on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, one of the country’s worst aviation disasters. The …

12-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and 474 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Three bodies of those killed previously were also recovered from the rubble. At least 57 aid seekers were killed and more …

12-06-2025 BRASILIA: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has denied his involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the country’s current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Speaking for the first time in court, Bolsonaro, who ruled the country between 2019 and 2022, said a coup was an “abominable thing” and …

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 …