International

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 …

13-06-2026 TEHRAN: President Donald Trump says Iran will “pay the price” for taking “too long to negotiate a deal”, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed responsibility for attacks on American military bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian ports and islands in …

13-06-2026 LONDON/ BRUSSELS: European confidence in an American “security guarantee” has hit a historic low, a survey suggests, with only one in 10 people across 15 countries seeing the US as an ally and majorities in all doubting it would come to their aid if they were attacked. The survey, …

13-06-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: US president Donald Trump said Iran has “taken too long to negotiate a deal” and that it will “have to pay the price” as a result. He did not clarify what action he intended to take but the US military has been striking Iranian targets, including air …

13-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ HAKIMPUR: Raisul Islam stands under the scorching sun near a checkpoint in Hakimpur village along the border with neighboring Bangladesh in the North 24 Parganas district of India’s West Bengal state. His wife, Rebeka Khatun, 36, and their two sons, Riad, 14, and Jubair, 16, …

13-06-2026 SYDNEY: The man accused of killing fifteen people in an attack on a Jewish festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in December has been charged with 19 additional offences. Naveed Akram was already facing 59 charges after the shooting including 15 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and …

13-06-2026 By SJA Jafri + Agencies ISLAMABAD/ KABUL: Pakistan has launched deadly air strikes along its border with Afghanistan, breaking months of relative calm in the restive region. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday that four targets had been destroyed in “calibrated strikes” that had killed 26 militants. Afghanistan’s …