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13-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ BAGHDAD: Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependents in Baghdad are to be evacuated from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources have said. Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, however, in recent days talks over Iran’s nuclear program appear to have stalled. …

13-06-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s Islamist-led interim government has decreed that women must wear burkinis, a swimsuit that covers the body except for the face, hands and feet or other “decent” clothes at public beaches and swimming pools. The regulations, issued by the tourism ministry, were “aimed at enhancing public safety standards …

12-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ AHMEDABAD: All 242 passengers were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 230 people and 12 crews on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, one of the country’s worst aviation disasters. The …

12-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and 474 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Three bodies of those killed previously were also recovered from the rubble. At least 57 aid seekers were killed and more …

12-06-2025 BRASILIA: Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has denied his involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the country’s current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Speaking for the first time in court, Bolsonaro, who ruled the country between 2019 and 2022, said a coup was an “abominable thing” and …

12-06-2025 PARIS: A teaching assistant has died after being stabbed by a student outside a school in Nogent, north-east France, officials say. The 31-year-old teaching assistant was stabbed on Tuesday morning outside Françoise Dolto middle school as pupils’ bags were being checked by police, the Haute-Marne prefecture said. French media …

12-06-2025 LONDON: Britain and four other nations imposed sanctions on Tuesday on two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, accusing them of repeatedly inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway joined Britain in freezing the assets and imposing travel bans …

12-06-2025 MASCOT, AUSTRALIA: The Qantas Group has today announced a strategic restructure which supports its historic fleet renewal program and strengthens its core businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The closure of intra-Asia airline, Jetstar Asia, enables the Qantas Group to recycle up to $500 million in capital, supporting its …

12-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ BEIJING: The US and China say they have agreed in principle to a framework for de-escalating trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the deal should result in restrictions on rare earth minerals and magnets being resolved. Both sides said they …

12-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles (LA) Mayor Karen Bass has announced a partial curfew for Los Angeles to tackle the protests against immigration raids. US President Donald Trump says the protests are an “assault on peace and public order”. He has doubled down on deploying more National Guard troops and …