International

25-06-2026 LONDON: The UK’s parliament is expected to debate the need for an inquiry into Israeli influence on British politics on Monday. This debate, which will be broadcast on the parliament YouTube channel was triggered after a petition gathered more than 118,000 signatures. Launched on January 28 this year, the …

25-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Hundreds of students, young professionals and job seekers have gathered in India’s capital for a third day of protests demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over a controversial medical exam. The demonstration at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar is being led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), …

25-06-2026 SYDNEY: Australian police have seized 2.7 tons of cocaine, the country’s largest ever such bust from an underground bunker system in western Sydney. The drugs, with an estimated street value of AU$816m (£433m, €500m), were found on Friday in compartments concealed beneath false floors in three shipping containers at …

25-06-2026 PARIS: More than half of France’s regions are under a red heat alert, as the country braces for sweltering temperatures due to an intensifying heatwave. Highs of more than 40C (104F) are expected across parts of western France on Monday, with temperatures expected to hit 42C in Bordeaux, according …

24-06-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: If sitting one of India’s most difficult exams wasn’t trying enough, more than 2 million medical school candidates are now experiencing ‌severe stress as they have to do it again on Sunday through no fault of their own. They initially sat the exam on May …

24-06-2026 NOVI SAD: Thousands protested in Serbia’s northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday to mark the 2024 deaths of 16 people after a railway station awning collapsed and demand snap general elections. Student-led anti-government protests that turned ‌violent at times spread across Serbia following the disaster, rattling the 13-year …

24-06-2026 CANBERRA: The H5N1 strain of bird flu has for the first time been found in Australia, the country’s agriculture ministry confirmed. It means the highly contagious variant has now reached every continent. The disease was found in a migratory seabird, a brown skua, in remote Western Australia, Agriculture Minister …

24-06-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: United States President Donald Trump has pledged there will be no tolls for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, unless they are collected by his own country. Trump’s statement, made in a Saturday afternoon post on Truth Social, is the latest sign that a recently signed memorandum …

24-06-2026 BEIRUT: Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean’s most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike. Khalil, 76, was injured when her house on Mansouri …

24-06-2026 GAZA STRIP: Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers. Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed …