17-06-2026 GENEVA/ GAZA STRIP: The International Committee of the Red Cross has said the risk that the thousands of Palestinians buried beneath Gaza’s rubble may never be identified is increasing by the day, as recovery efforts remain slow and many victims have yet to be retrieved, the Guardian can reveal. …
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17-06-2026 GENEVA/ N’DJAMENA: An internal report by the aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has found that local and foreign staff exploited refugees in Chad, sometimes targeting underage girls and other times trading food aid and jobs for sex. The report was completed last July …
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17-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train artificial intelligence-powered robots to take on household tasks in the future. Earning 250 rupees ($2.6) for one hour of video, her mundane recordings are invaluable for global tech …
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17-06-2026 TEHRAN: The anniversary of a 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025 is being marked this week in Tehran, as American and Iranian officials engage in last-minute negotiations to end a more recent conflict between the two sides. Tehran and Washington have signaled that a deal to …
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17-06-2026 JERUSALEM: Longstanding tensions between the US’s progressive Jewish diaspora and the Israeli government came into focus this month, when Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other far-right Israeli legislators attended the annual Israel Day Parade in New York City. As Smotrich, who says he is wanted by the International …
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16-06-2026 LOS ANGELES/ CALIFORNIA: Eight people are presumed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday morning at a US air force base in California’s Mojave Desert, officials said. “An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after take-off …
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16-06-2026 CARACAS/ WASHINGTON: The US military has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in an airstrike, President Donald Trump has announced. “At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero,” Trump wrote on social media. …
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16-06-2026 JAKARTA: Hundreds of students took to the streets of Indonesia’s capital on Friday to protest government policies they said could “bankrupt” the country. The students were demanding President Prabowo Subianto stop what they called wasteful state spending and scrap his flagship free meals program, which has been dogged by …
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16-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Investigators looking into the cause of the Air India crash that killed 250 people say they are not yet ready to release their final report. India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released an update on Friday, the first anniversary of the disaster, saying “significant progress” …
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16-06-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, after Iran cast doubt on the timing. In a post on social media, Trump said the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route, would be …
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