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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 …

24-06-2026 KYIV: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland’s highest honor after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award. The Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej Duda but Kyiv caused outrage last month …

23-06-2026 LOS ANGELES: Climate activists are planning protests Sunday against FIFA’s sponsorship deal with Saudi state-owned oil and gas giant Aramco at World Cup sites and fan zones across the country. Organizer Zan Dubin told POLITICO the protests are aimed at pressuring FIFA to drop Aramco while calling attention to …

23-06-2026 BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed several people amid overnight exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese Civil Defense, 16 people were killed and 12 wounded in Israeli attacks on the city of Nabatieh and nearby villages in southern Lebanon. The …