28-06-2025 TOKYO: Japan executed a man on Friday who killed nine people after contacting them on social media, the first use of capital punishment in the country in nearly three years. Takahiro Shiraishi had been sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man …
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28-06-2025 CAIRO/ TEHRAN LONDON: Short of commanders, deprived of much of its tunnel network and unsure of support from its ally Iran, Hamas is battling to survive in Gaza in the face of rebellious local clans and relentless Israeli military pressure. Hamas fighters are operating autonomously under orders to hold …
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28-06-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a “permanent solution” to their decades-old border dispute, in a new push for a conclusive outcome. Singh met China’s Dong Jun on the sidelines of the meeting of …
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28-06-2025 JOHANNESBURG: On the night of June 27, 1985 in South Africa, four Black men were travelling together in a car from the southeastern city of Port Elizabeth, now Gqeberha, to Cradock. They had just finished doing community organizing work on the outskirts of the city when apartheid police officials …
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28-06-2025 WASHINGTON/THE HAGUE: The White House has recommended terminating US funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to three US sources familiar with the matter and internal government documents reviewed by …
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28-06-2025 ASSAM, WEST BENGAL: Ufa Ali could barely stand. On May 31, the 67-year-old bicycle mechanic returned to his home in India’s northeastern state of Assam after spending four harrowing days stranded in Bangladesh, the neighboring country he claims he had only heard of “as a slur” since birth. Ali’s …
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28-06-2025 GAZA STRIP: Hospital sources in Gaza tell media that at least 71 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the territory over the past 24 hours. Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 549 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while trying to access humanitarian supplies in the …
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28-06-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV has lamented what he described as the rise of blunt power over the rules of international law as conflicts rage around the world and global institutions continue to fail to end abuses and war crimes. “It is disheartening to see today that the strength …
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27-06-2025 TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: Iranian authorities are pivoting from a ceasefire with Israel to intensify an internal security crackdown across the country with mass arrests, executions and military deployments, particularly in the restive Kurdish region, officials and activists said. Within days of Israel’s airstrikes beginning on June 13, Iranian security forces …
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27-06-2025 WASHINGTON/ JERUSALEM: US President Donald Trump has called for Israel to “pardon” Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for alleged corruption, or drop the case altogether. He also claimed in a social media post that the US had saved Israel, alluding to its intervention in Israel’s war with Iran …
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