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11-06-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JERUSALEM: Israel has committed the crime against humanity of “extermination” by attacking Palestinian civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites in Gaza, an independent United Nations commission report says. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, made …

11-06-2025 TOKYO: Two Chinese aircraft carriers have been seen operating in the Pacific at once for the first time, Japan’s Ministry of Defence has said. China’s Shandong and four other vessels on Monday sailed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier conducted …

11-06-2025 KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin faces criminal charges for the “unlawful deportation and transfer of children”. That is the definition of the 2023 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, the intergovernmental tribunal based in The Hague. On June 2, as ceasefire talks rumbled on, Ukrainian diplomats handed their …

11-06-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ MEERUT: The last of the paint had begun to peel off Mohammad Mohsin’s house two years ago. The faded green, white and yellow paints on the walls still bore stains from last year’s monsoons. A narrow, 3-foot-tall (0.9 metres) passage only possible to enter by …

10-06-2025 VIENNA: Nine people have been killed in a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz, the local mayor says. Seven students, an adult and the suspected gunman are among the dead, Graz Mayor Elke Kahr tells media. The shooting happened at the Dreierschutzengasse high school …

10-06-2025 JERUSALEM: Israeli forces have taken command of a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and the boat with its crew of 12 including activist Greta Thunberg is now heading to a port in Israel, officials said on Sunday. The British-flagged yacht …

10-06-2025 NEW DELHI/ LONDON: Britain and India on Saturday discussed expanding their “counter-terrorism” collaboration following recent fighting between India and Pakistan, Britain’s foreign minister told media after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. British foreign minister David Lammy is the highest-profile Western official to have visited both New Delhi and …

10-06-2025 MADRID: Tens of thousands of people have taken part in an opposition-organized demonstration in Spain’s capital, Madrid, accusing the government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of corruption and urging him to call early elections. Protesters, many waving red and yellow Spanish flags, massed on Sunday in the Plaza …

10-06-2025 BANGKOK/ PHNOM PENH: Thai and Cambodian forces will return to their previously agreed-upon positions on the border, both sides have announced, after the two governments reinforced their military presence following an eruption of violence that killed a Cambodian soldier. Thai Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said on Sunday that both …

10-06-2025 LOS ANGELES: Protests have flared up again in Los Angeles, as demonstrators against immigration raids face off with law enforcement for a third day. Watch live coverage at the top of this page. National Guard units deployed by President Donald Trump use tear gas to force back protesters downtown. …