06-07-2026 LONDON: Andy Burnham will have to find an additional 4.7 billion pounds ($6.2bn) to close a defence funding gap if, as is widely expected, he becomes the United Kingdom’s prime minister later this month. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced a long-delayed defence plan aimed at making the …
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06-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: The government of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal has decided to drop eggs from a school lunch scheme that spans all government-run schools, stirring up debate about politics and nutrition. The government, led by Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has …
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06-07-2026 JOHANNESBURG: South African police have arrested more than 900 people during nationwide anti-migrant protests that were mostly peaceful but at times turned violent with shops looted and one person shot dead. The demonstrations on Tuesday were organized by a coalition of more than 20 civil society groups, including the …
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06-07-2026 WASHINGTON: The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced felony charges against a former Olympic athlete for allegedly harming the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC. At a news conference on Thursday, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro accused professional canoeist David Hearn, 67, of deliberately vandalizing the …
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05-07-2026 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was conspicuously absent from his father’s funeral, as senior regime figures joined thousands paying their respects to the late ayatollah on Sunday. Ali Khamenei’s other three sons Masoud, Mostafa and Meysam, all attended the service on Sunday, alongside officials including President Masoud Pezeshkian …
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05-07-2026 MELBOURNE: An Australian court has granted the religious order Catholic Brothers a pause on payouts to child sex abuse victims after it claimed that it was running out of money to settle millions of dollars in civil claims. The group had told the court it was going broke and …
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05-07-2026 LONDON/ KHARTOUM: Sudanese paramilitaries committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher last year, a rights group report says. The siege and takeover of the city in the western region of Darfur marked one of the bloodiest episodes in Sudan’s civil …
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05-07-2026 JAKARTA: A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province have been publicly caned after a Sharia court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream. The court ordered the couple, a 22-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, to be whipped with a rattan cane 21 …
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05-07-2026 DOHA: Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect technical talks on Wednesday with no sign they had made headway towards a lasting peace. Instead, the two countries focused on issues that they said had been resolved when an interim agreement was announced two weeks ago. The …
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05-07-2026 MOSCOW: Russian forces launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 20 people, in what the city’s mayor has described as the “most massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital. Vitaly Klitschko said around 90 people were injured. He said an ambulance station was among the places …
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