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GENEVA: Nearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in central Africa, a WHO overview showed on Saturday, amid mounting concern over the swelling scale of the epidemic. In its daily update on the situation, the World Health Organisation tallied 452 confirmed cases, i...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 5:00 am
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A cargo vessel identified as NATRA, damaged by a Ukrainian drone at an undefined location in Azov sea.—Reuters SAINT PETERSBURG/BRUSSELS: Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia early on Saturday, leaving one person dead and setting an oil depot ablaze on the final day of the country's f...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 4:56 am
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PARIS: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday that Europe faced what he called an invasion of dangerous ideologies arriving by sea, linking immigration to the legacy of the D-Day landings in remarks in Normandy. His remarks echo criticisms often made by the administration of President ...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 4:53 am
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• Cites restricted access to bombed nuclear sites as key reason for inspection gaps, denies seeking nuclear weapons• IAEA warns lack of access poses a 'proliferation concern', urges immediate resumption of verification activities TEHRAN: Iran has repudiated an International Atomic Energy Age...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 3:09 am
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BEIRUT: An Israeli strike on a military vehicle in southern Lebanon killed three soldiers, the Lebanese military said on Saturday, laying bare Israel's continued aggression just days after the countries discussed a conditional truce during talks in the United States. Israel has launched an invasio...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 2:57 am
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council's annual report for 2025, presented to the General Assembly on Friday, reaffirmed the continued relevance of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and the Palestinian question, describing them as long-standing issues on the UNSC's agenda with implications for regi...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 2:53 am
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• Iran launches fresh missile, drone attacks on Kuwait, Bahrain• Kuwait says new attack 'dangerous escalation'; Bahrain denounces 'blatant aggression'• Falling debris causes 'material damage' in Kuwait• Centcom says four attack drones downed near Hormuz; Iranian coastal radar sit...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 2:40 am
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• IRNA says 'important message' meant for Iran's supreme leader• Interior minister receives instructions from PM before departure ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday stepped up efforts to break the impasse in the US-Iran dialogue, with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi arriving in Tehran carrying...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 2:32 am
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GAZA CITY: Gaza's civil defence service reported that Israeli strikes killed nine people on Saturday, with Israel's military saying one of the dead was a Hamas ''commander". In Gaza City, a drone strike killed seven people and wounded 15 others in the Jawazat camp for displaced people, a...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 12:53 am
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ISLAMABAD: Cybercriminals launched more than 92,000 malware attacks worldwide disguised as popular artificial intelligence agents and services between January and May, according to data shared by the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky. Fake ChatGPT applications accounted for 49pc of all d...
Posted on 7 June 2026 | 12:52 am
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Pakistan and India again traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) — this time on occupied Kashmir — with Islamabad slamming the other side for "misleading" the council. Speaking during the presentation of the UNSC's Annual Report to the General Assembly on Friday, Pakista...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 9:18 am
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New attacks in the Middle East on Friday threatened to unravel an already fragile US-Iran ceasefire. Weeks of complex talks marked by threats and flare-ups of violence have failed to secure a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key conduit for global energy flows. A ceasefire in t...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 8:40 am
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Hundreds of young students gathered in New Delhi on Saturday for the first street protest by the satirical "Cockroach People's Party" over alleged irregularities in recent major examinations. Carrying paper cockroach masks and pamphlets, the protesters called for the resignation of Education M...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 8:30 am
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Anthropic is calling on major artificial intelligence (AI) labs to consider a coordinated and verifiable pause in development, warning that rapid advances in the technology could soon allow AI systems to improve themselves faster than society can manage the risks. The Claude creator said AI's abil...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 8:10 am
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North Korea plans to build a 10,000-ton destroyer and develop secret underwater weapons, state media said on Saturday, ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, reporting on a Thursday naval test supervised by leader Kim Jong Un, said he ordered the navy to deplo...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 7:49 am
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LONDON: A rapist who escaped justice in the United Kingdom for more than 20 years while an innocent man served a life sentence for the crime was finally jailed on Friday. "You sat back and enjoyed your liberty at the expense of an innocent man," judge Robert Bright told Paul Quinn, 52, as he ja...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:37 am
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WASHINGTON: A US federal court struck down on Friday a major set of the Trump administration's immigration policies that had paused or severely slowed the processing of green cards, asylum claims, work permits, and citizenship applications for nationals from 39 countries. Chief judge John J. McCon...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:30 am
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LONDON: Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew earned a private income from subletting cottages while paying a symbolic "peppercorn rent" for a mansion for over two decades, government auditors revealed on Friday. The report into the royal family's residences was sparked by controversy ove...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:17 am
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A PAKISTANI couple living in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia have been sentenced to two years in prison for forcing their 22-year-old daughter to abort and coercing her into marrying her cousin in Pakistan, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The case echoes the tragic tale of Saman Abbas, a young ...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:10 am
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WASHINGTON: US senators blocked legislation renewing a major foreign surveillance authority on Friday after President Donald Trump's choice of a loyalist housing official as acting intelligence chief upended a bipartisan deal. The protest was led by Democrats objecting that Bill Pulte had no relev...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:07 am
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DUBLIN: Ireland announced on Friday it has banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, slamming their behaviour towards pro-Palestinian activists. Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan "has instructed immigration officers ...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 3:00 am
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• Israeli attacks kill 12 people in Tyre and Nabatieh• Iran reiterates support for Hezbollah• Lebanese president accuses Tehran of treating his country as bargaining chip in deal with US BEIRUT: Israeli air strikes intensified across southern Lebanon on Friday, killing seven people in the hist...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 2:39 am
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• Centcom denies Iranian claim of firing 'warning shots' at American destroyers• Oman port comes under attack; US forces board sanctioned vessel in Indian Ocean• Araghchi threatens Gulf states hosting US bases, again• Iranian official says deal hinges on fate of 'frozen assets'• IA...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 2:31 am
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GENEVA: The Middle East conflict is pushing millions of people closer to hunger, as rising fuel and transport costs drive up food prices while funding shortfalls force aid agencies to scale back assistance, the UN World Food Programme said on Friday. Joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February tri...
Posted on 6 June 2026 | 1:07 am
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WASHINGTON: The US Congress is moving to tighten oversight of Pentagon leadership decisions and limit unilateral military action against Iran, in a rare bipartisan effort that underscores renewed tensions over presidential war powers and civilian control of the military. On Thursday, the House Armed...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 7:06 pm
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A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, Nasa said. The four astronauts of Nasa's Crew-12 missio...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 4:47 pm
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The ex-wife of a nephew of Dubai's ruler has been arrested following a long-running custody battle, prosecutors in the UAE said on Friday. Zeynab Javadli was detained after her former husband, Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, accused her of abducting their three children. "Dubai P...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 3:48 pm
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Residents of Gaza, south Lebanon, northern Israel and Kuwait were all under fire this week despite United States-arranged ceasefires supposedly in force in their regions. Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza and Lebanon, with Israeli forces still actively deployed in both places. Hezbollah rockets struck nor...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 2:34 pm
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The founder of India's satirical online "Cockroach People's Party" said he was flying back to New Delhi on Friday, to take the viral social media campaign to the streets. Abhijeet Dipke, the 30-year-old Boston University graduate behind the online movement, said he was flying back from the U...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 9:27 am
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US President Donald Trump's legal team has refused to hand over financial information sought by BBC lawyers in his $10 billion defamation case against the broadcaster, the Financial Times (FT) said on Friday, citing court filings. Trump has accused the publicly funded broadcaster of defaming him b...
Posted on 5 June 2026 | 6:38 am