Pro-Palestinian protest leader released from US custody

Khalil a legal permanent resident in the United States who is married to a US citizen and has a US-born son
21 June 2025, 03:27 AM

Nuclear diplomacy stuck, Israel says it killed top Iran commander

Israel's war with Iran entered its second week on Friday
21 June 2025, 02:16 AM

Pro-Gaza activists in UK damage planes at air base

Pro-Palestinian activists broke into a Royal Air Force base in central England yesterday, damaging and spraying red paint over two planes used for refuelling and transportation.
20 June 2025, 20:00 PM

Pope warns of AI risks to young brains

Pope Leo XIV yesterday warned of the potential consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) on the intellectual development of young people, saying it could damage their grip on reality.
20 June 2025, 19:59 PM

Myanmar junta battles guerrillas for control of jade hub

Myanmar’s junta and anti-coup guerillas battled over the country’s jade mining hub yesterday, a combatant and a local said, displacing desperate civilians as they vied for supplies of the precious stone.
20 June 2025, 19:59 PM

Violence against kids hit ‘unprecedented levels’ in 2024: UN

From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached “unprecedented levels” in 2024, a United Nations annual report said Thursday.
20 June 2025, 19:58 PM

Israeli forces kill 60 Palestinians across Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said 31 Palestinian aid seekers were among at least 60 people killed yesterday by Israeli forces, the latest in a string of deadly incidents near aid distribution sites.
20 June 2025, 18:38 PM

Trump ‘Golden Dome’ plan expensive, tricky: experts

President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” defence system is a plan that will face mammoth technical and financial hurdles, and could increase global insecurity, experts say.
20 June 2025, 18:10 PM

Negotiations start amid raging war

European powers hoped to offer a “diplomatic solution” to the Iran-Israel crisis as they met with Iran in Geneva yesterday, as arch foes continue to exchange missile attacks for an eighth day.
20 June 2025, 18:04 PM

Israeli scientists scramble to save work after Iranian missile hits labs

The missile struck the institute's campus at Rehovot, on the southern periphery of Tel Aviv, in the early hours of Sunday
20 June 2025, 16:03 PM

US sanctions target those providing Iran with defence machinery, Houthi oil trading

The Trump administration said on Friday it had issued fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting eight entities, one vessel and one person for their alleged role in providing sensitive machinery for Tehran's defense industry
20 June 2025, 15:57 PM

Qatar holds talks with energy companies on risk of Israel-Iran conflict

Saad Al Kaabi, CEO of state-owned QatarEnergy and the Gulf Arab state's energy minister urged companies to warn the US, Britishand European governments about the risks the conflict poses to gas exports from Qatar and the increasing threat to the global gas supply, they said
20 June 2025, 14:20 PM

UK MPs vote in favour of assisted dying law

Lawmakers in the lower House of Commons chamber voted 314 in favour to 291 to send the proposal to the upper House of Lords for further scrutiny following four hours of emotional debate
20 June 2025, 14:04 PM

What are the nuclear contamination risks from Israel's attacks on Iran?

Israel says it is determined to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities in its military campaign, but that it also wants to avoid any nuclear disaster in a region that is home to tens of millions of people and produces much of the world's oil
20 June 2025, 13:01 PM

Countries evacuating citizens from Iran and Israel

Here are some of the countries whose citizens have left
20 June 2025, 12:57 PM

Moth uses stars to navigate

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometres every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said Wednesday, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances.
19 June 2025, 18:27 PM

Trump to decide on US action in Israel-Iran conflict within 2 weeks: White House

The White House said on Thursday that President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether the U.S. will get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks
19 June 2025, 18:13 PM

Israeli gunfire, strikes kill 72 across Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 72 people yesterday, including 21 who had gathered near aid distribution sites as famine looms after more than 20 months of war.
19 June 2025, 18:09 PM

‘Two weeks for diplomacy’

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he will decide whether to attack Iran within the next two weeks due to a “substantial” chance of negotiations, as Israel and its regional rival traded fire for a seventh day.
19 June 2025, 18:08 PM