Fri 06 June 2025: The president says Biden’s aides hid his alleged mental health decline and unlawfully used an autopen. United States President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation of Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and raising doubts over his use of an autopen to sign documents. The […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: Zia Yusuf, a self-described ‘British Muslim patriot’, leaves a party accused of fuelling Islamophobia after 11 months. The Muslim chairman of the United Kingdom’s radical right-wing Reform UK party has quit after denouncing a call from within party ranks to ban the burqa as “dumb”. “I no longer believe working to […]
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Fri 06 June 2025: The majority of people across the world have a negative view of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a Pew survey. Views on Israel were mostly negative in 20 out of 24 countries surveyed by Pew between January and April 2025, Middle East Eye reported. Most people in Arab […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: Elon Musk says Donald Trump appears in files relating to the disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. It’s the latest in a string of barbs between the men as they appear to have dramatically fallen out in a public spat. In a post on X, the tech billionaire said: “@realDonaldTrump is in […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: The Russian Finance Ministry reported Wednesday that oil and natural gas revenues fell 35.4% in May, compared to the same month last year, to 512.7 billion rubles ($6.5 billion). In the first five months of 2025, they dropped 37.4% to 4.24 trillion rubles. The ministry said there was more revenue loss […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: The warning from China’s embassy in the Philippines follows criticism from a top EU official about Beijing’s conduct. China has told the European Union to stop “provoking trouble” in the South China Sea after EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed concerns about Beijing’s coercive activities in the strategically important waterway. […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that completely prohibits travel from 12 countries and imposes restrictions on citizens from seven others, according to the White House. The banned countries are Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Trump issued the directive in […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: The war in Gaza is having a devastating effect on pregnant women and nursing mothers, with an estimated 50,000 at serious risk due to shortages of food and essential medicines, according to a hospital in central Gaza. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, said rates of miscarriage […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned Tuesday that approximately 239,000 Sudanese refugees remain stranded on the Sudan-Chad border, facing the risks of extreme weather fluctuations and insecurity. In a briefing from the Chadian-Sudanese border to journalists in Geneva, UNHCR Principal Situation Coordinator in Chad, Dossou Patrice Ahouansou, said […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: More than 200,000 Afghans have left Pakistan since the government renewed a deportation drive in April, Islamabad’s ministry of interior told AFP. More than 135,000 Afghans left Pakistan in April, while the number dropped to 67,000 in May and more than 3,000 were sent back in the first two days of June, according to the […]
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