Guwahati (AFP) – Floods in northeast India have killed scores of people and swamped a national park, drowning six vulnerable rhinos and other wildlife, government authorities said on Tuesday. Floods have begun to subside, according to Assam state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who noted that the “water level ofRead More →
AMMAN (Reuters) — The Iranian-backed militant organisation Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had launched a drone attack on Mount Hermon in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, where Israel operates a crucial surveillance centre. It said this was the first such bombing since it began trading fire with Israel onRead More →
JAKARTA (Reuters) — Officials said Monday that a torrential rain caused a landslip in an illegal gold mine on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island over the weekend, killing at least 12 people and missing 18. Miners and residents living near the illegal mine were killed in a landslip in Suwawa district, GorontaloRead More →
BRAZIL (Reuters) – Leading a conservative rally on Saturday, former far-right president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro hopes to mobilise support for allied candidates in this year’s local elections and project his power ahead of the 2026 presidential contest. The first significant opposition gathering of the campaign for the October localRead More →
Cairo/Dubai (Reuters) – A senior Hamas source told Reuters on Saturday that Hamas has accepted a US request to start negotiations on freeing Israeli detainees, including men and soldiers, 16 days after the first round of an agreement meant to put an end to the Gaza war. According to aRead More →
(Reuters) – Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, according to the Kremlin, for discussions on regional security and defence as well as a number of bilateral meetings with officials from China and Turkey. On July 3–4, in Astana, Kazakhstan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), aRead More →
BEIJING (Reuters) — China has enacted legislation to better safeguard farmers’ land rights and encourage the formation of village collectives, with the goal of bolstering the country’s struggling rural economy and achieving food security, according to official media. While all farmland in China is state-owned, farmers have decades-long land leaseRead More →
(Reuters) – Russia’s air defence systems destroyed 36 drones fired by Ukraine overnight, targeting different districts in Russia’s southwest, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. Fifteen drones were destroyed over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, and nine over the Lipetsk region, several hundred kilometres south of Moscow, accordingRead More →
Johannesburg (Reuters) – South African parties are close to reaching an agreement on who would fill which cabinet positions, local media reported on Sunday, the final obstacle to forming a government after the ruling party lost its majority in an election for the first time in three decades. According toRead More →
TEHRAN (AFP)- Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s lone reformist contender, and ultraconservative Saeed Jalili advanced to a runoff presidential election after leading in the first round, an official announced on Saturday. According to Mohsen Eslami, spokesperson for Iran’s electoral administration, Pezeshkian received over 10,400,000 votes, while Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, receivedRead More →
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