Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from US President Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting’”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon.The wave of attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel…
June 9 (Reuters) – Three people were killed in a Russian attack on the town of Chuhuiv in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday, with emergency services working to extinguish a fire. Two men, one 70 years old and one 50, and a 70-year-old woman…
GENEVA, June 8 (Reuters) – Spending on nuclear weapons by the world’s nine nuclear-armed states rose by almost a fifth in 2025 to $119 billion, a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Tuesday. The 19% increase from 2024 produced the highest expenditure on nuclear weapons since the campaign group began…
Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry into the United States after getting selected to officiate in the World Cup. U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed Monday that a Somali national who was planning to referee in the World Cup had been denied entry after arriving to Miami International Airport from Istanbul on Saturday….
new video loaded: Iran and Israel Move to De-Escalate After Hours of Fighting 0:54 Iran and Israel signaled that they would move to de-escalate military hostilities after exchanging strikes for the first time since April. By Axel Boada June 8, 2026 0 Iran Fires Missiles at Israel for First Time Since April 0:32 Israel Trades…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck oil facilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian and Russian officials said on Monday, as part of their campaign aimed at making Moscow pay an economic cost for the war. Separately, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that Roman Abramovich acted as a go-between for messages between Kyiv…
WHEN XI JINPING last visited North Korea, in 2019, international efforts to halt its nuclear weapons programme were still under way. China and Russia, North Korea’s longtime patrons, had backed stiffer UN sanctions on the country as part of an American-led campaign of “maximum pressure” on its leader, Kim Jong Un. Mr Kim had just…
First-hand accounts of eyewitnesses of the Philippines earthquake have emerged, with people terming the tremors as “very strong” and saying they could “hardly stand”. Visuals during the tremors and in the aftermath showed buildings collapsing. (AFP) The death toll in the quake climbed to 32 after at least 17 people were killed in a southern…
SpaceX’s years of courting the national-security establishment are paying off. FILE PHOTO: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell reacts during a keynote conference at the 2026 Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo (REUTERS) The U.S. government is SpaceX’s largest single client, which the 24-year-old company identified as “Customer A” in…
The Trump administration is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands, the Indian Ocean archipelago from Mauritius, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. This comes as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius. White House is ramping up efforts aimed at providing alternatives to Keir Starmer’s plan. (AP/AFP)…