International

01-07-2026 BEIRUT: Israeli air strikes in Lebanon have killed one person, the country’s health ministry said’ a day after the two countries signed a deal aimed at paving the way to a lasting peace. Lebanon’s state news agency said an Israeli drone hit the southern town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, and …

01-07-2026 NEW YORK: A U.S. judge ordered the Justice Department on Friday to justify its decision to drop criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, ‌declining to rule immediately on Adani’s lawyers’ request to dismiss the case. Brooklyn-based US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said federal prosecutors’ May 18 announcement that …

01-07-2026 QUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso has broken off diplomatic relations with France, further widening the rift with its former colonial ruler. “The government of Burkina Faso hereby informs the national and international community that it has decided to sever diplomatic relations with France with effect from today, June 26, 2026,” said …

01-07-2026 JERUSALEM: Israeli prosecutors have filed charges against six people following attacks on villages and a mosque by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. “Six indictments were filed for acts of terrorism, arson, sabotage and violent rioting in the village of Deir Dibwan out of a nationalistic motive,” Israeli …

30-06-2026 BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has demanded that Israel must pull its troops completely out of Lebanon “unconditionally”. Qassem delivered the remarks in a televised address on Friday, on the Muslim holy day of Ashura, and as the latest round of United States-mediated ceasefire talks between Lebanon and Israel …

30-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian Supreme Court bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Arun Palli has closed criminal proceedings under section 304 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with the punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, against three convicts. The top court has noted …

30-06-2026 PYONGYANG:  North Korea has conducted major weapons tests as part of its push to strengthen its military capabilities and reinforce its southern border amid ongoing tensions with South Korea. Seoul said on Friday that it is building an army of “drone warriors” after the North’s leader Kim Jong Un …

30-06-2026 KYIV: A former high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence official has been sentenced to life in prison for spying for Russia’s FSB security service. Col Dmytro Kozyura was found guilty of high treason under martial law, Ukraine’s prosecutor general said. He was previously chief of staff of the Security Service of Ukraine’s …

30-06-2026 LONDON: The heatwave scorching Western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever and is only possible due to the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning, scientists have said. Almost half of Europe’s 850 largest cities are also enduring their worst ever heat stress, a combination of temperature …

30-06-2026 TOKYO: Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology firms as investors worried that recent jumps in share prices had gone too far. Trading on South Korea’s Kospi was temporarily halted as an 8% fall in the benchmark index triggered a mechanism intended to …