Thu 26 June 2025: US President Donald Trump has called for the immediate cancellation of the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or for him to be granted a pardon, describing the ongoing legal proceedings during wartime as “unprecedented” and “a ridiculous campaign”. Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 in Israel on charges of bribery, fraud and […]
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Visitors walk past a monument of the Ten Commandments outside of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, the US. Thu 26 June 2025: The complaint alleges that a law requiring the religious text violates ‘fundamental religious-freedom principles’ in the US. A group of faith leaders in the United States have filed a lawsuit seeking […]
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Thu 26 June 2025: The order to restrict cannabis use for medical purposes only must pass another hurdle before becoming law. The Thai government is moving to tighten rules around the sale of cannabis, just three years after the kingdom decriminalised recreational use of the popular substance. Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday night ordered […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: One person was killed and at least 17 injured Wednesday in Kenya during nationwide protests to mark the anniversary of the deadly 2024 anti-taxation protests, according to media reports. At least 10 people, including a female police officer who sustained head injuries, were taken to Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, according […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday said he is “optimistic” that member states will agree on a new defense spending target of 5% of GDP, meeting the US expectations for a stronger European contribution to collective defense. Speaking ahead of a NATO leaders’ meeting in The Hague, Rutte said that […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: China on Wednesday criticized the “once renowned” US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for “violating the most basic tenets of spycraft” while hiring foreign citizens to engage in espionage activities, according to state-run media. In a statement, the Chinese Ministry of State Security accused the CIA of attempting to contain China by […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: Ruling sides against authors who alleged that Anthropic trained an AI model using their work without consent. A United States federal judge has ruled that the company Anthropic made “fair use” of the books it utilised to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools without the permission of the authors. The favourable ruling comes at […]
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Wed 25 June 2025: The death sentence has been removed from eight criminal offences in Vietnamese law and replaced with life imprisonment for offenders. Vietnam will end capital punishment for eight categories of serious crime – including embezzlement, attempts to overthrow the government and sabotaging state infrastructure, state media has reported. The state-run Vietnam News Agency reported […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: The Israeli occupation army announced Monday that a reserve soldier was moderately wounded in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of soldiers wounded to 6,000 since the beginning of the genocidal war on 7 October 2023. Israel Hayom newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying that the Israeli reserve soldier […]
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Tue 24 June 2025: Dissenting justice warns court actions expose ‘thousands to the risk of torture or death’. A divided Supreme Court has allowed the administration of United States President Donald Trump to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homeland, lifting a court order that requires they get a chance to […]
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