Tue 01 July 2025: A punishing heatwave gripped southern Europe on June 30, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again. France, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44 degrees Celsius in some places. “This is unprecedented,” Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s ecology transition minister said as […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: Around 40 million people across the world are currently living with HIV, a virus that has claimed more than 42 million lives since the beginning of the epidemic. But for the first time in decades, scientists and public health officials are daring to talk about a realistic path to ending HIV […]
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Tue 01 July 2025: The administration of US President Donald Trump has approved a $510 million arms deal in favour of Israel. The US Department of State said on Monday that the approved deal includes over 7,000 guidance kits for two different types of Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). The potential sale includes 3,845 KMU-558B/B […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: A majority of Israelis support ending the war in Gaza and reaching a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, according to a poll published on Wednesday by Israeli news site Walla. The survey, conducted in collaboration with the private research institute Panel4All, sampled 583 Israeli and carries a margin of error of 4.3%. Public insistence on ending […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: Catholic pontiff says international rules have been ‘replaced by the presumed right to overpower others’. 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 […]
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Iran shot down Israeli Hermes drone during the recent conflict, but Israel also launched large numbers of smaller drones from inside Iranian territory Fri 27 June 2025: Israel used small drones and precision-guided missiles to assist its surprise offensive that started war against Iran. Gilan, Iran – The Israeli military used hundreds of fighter jets, armed […]
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Fri 27 June 2025: US President Donald Trump has said the United States signed a trade deal with China on Wednesday, without disclosing the details. “Well, we just signed with China yesterday, right? Just signed with China,” Trump said at the One Big Beautiful Bill Event at the White House on Thursday. “In the China […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: US President Donald Trump has launched a sharp attack on Zohran Mamdani, the Muslim Democratic candidate and outspoken supporter of Palestine, following his victory in the party’s primary for New York City mayor, describing him as an “extreme communist” and a “communist lunatic”. In a post published on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: Educated but jobless, young Kenyans take to the streets to demand a future, met by police force that has left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured. At least 16 people have been killed and approximately 400 injured after thousands of Kenyans, led by a wave of discontented youth, clashed with […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: Pakistani army chief Munir’s US trip suggests warming ties after past diplomatic friction. But challenges remain. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, has held an unprecedented one-on-one meeting with United States President Donald Trump at the White House, where the two leaders spoke for more than two hours, according to […]
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