16-07-2026 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has targeted US military facilities in Bahrain, claimed it has destroyed radar systems in Oman and hit Jordan and Kuwait in its latest round of overnight retaliatory strikes against the United States. Tehran’s attacks on Monday came as a response to …
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16-07-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BHOPAL: An Indian judge has become the target of online abuse and death threats days after she sentenced 14 men to life imprisonment for lynching a man to death. On 12 June, the additional district and sessions judge of a court in Madhya Pradesh state, …
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16-07-2026 BRUSSELS: The European Union’s foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Pressure from EU member states to impose sanctions has increased in recent months due to escalating violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property and the …
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16-07-2026 ABUJA: Nigeria’s military says it has freed all 44 pupils and teachers who were abducted two months ago from schools in the southern state of Oyo, and arrested some of their captors. A local teachers’ union has told media of its “relief” but families say the ordeal has been …
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16-07-2026 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: The US launched a fresh wave of strikes in response to Iranian forces hitting a ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. In response to the American strikes, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the waterway was closed until further notice and launched attacks on US …
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16-07-2026 MADRID: Hundreds of firefighters in Spain are still battling to contain pockets of flames in the south east after one of the country’s worst-ever wildfires. Emergency services have been deployed around the village of Bedar where 12 people have been killed among them four Britons, according to Spanish authorities. …
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15-07-2026 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s coalition suffered a crushing defeat to a key partner in a regional poll on Saturday, raising questions over the strength of the blocs’ alliance at the federal level amid talk of an early general election. While the result in Malaysia’s southern Johor …
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15-07-2026 WENZHOU, CHINA: Emergency crews on China’s east coast used excavators and chainsaws on Sunday to clear streets littered with fallen trees hours after Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to hit the country this year, swept through the region. Triggering a landslide and waterlogging some areas, Bavi had weakened …
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15-07-2026 WELLINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon upgraded their nations’ diplomatic ties on Saturday, as Modi seeks to bolster New Delhi’s ties in the Asia-Pacific region. The leaders elevated bilateral relations to a “strategic partnership” during talks in Auckland, reflecting their nations’ “shared …
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15-07-2026 SREBRENICA, BOSNIA: Thousands have gathered in Bosnia and Herzegovina to mark 31 years since the Srebrenica genocide, as leaders and activists’ worldwide use the anniversary to call on people to fight dehumanization. On Saturday, mourners, survivors, foreign dignitaries and religious leaders gathered at the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center to commemorate …
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