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UN 'deeply saddened' by Monday attack on convoy in Jonglei State, calls for investigation.

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A hospital in Scotland is testing a patient for Ebola as central Africa faces a deadly outbreak of the virus. The person arrived at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow on Tuesday, according to a report from the BBC. A representative for the hospital declined to comment. Public Health Scotland (PHS), the government health agency, said there are no confirmed cases in the country and the risk to the public remains low. The UK’s National Health Service has “safe procedures in place...

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The leader of the Topos Chile rescue group, Francisco Lermanda, alleged that his teams deployed in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira have been harassed by soldiers during search operations in the area hardest hit by the June 24 twin earthquake, which according to the official toll has left at least 1,943 dead. The Venezuelan authorities have not commented on the accusations.

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French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday against a renewed debate in favour of the death penalty and said he was appalled by the rising number of executions around the world. Addressing the ninth World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Paris, Macron said opposition to capital punishment is needed “because today this debate is resurfacing in our societies. Because today many in our societies once again believe that the death penalty is a solution, amid a confusion of principles and...

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Tens of millions of Americans sweltered under furnace-like temperatures Tuesday as central and eastern cities hunkered down for a heat wave set to last through the July 4 holiday weekend. Dozens of local temperature records could be broken, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned, with temperatures in many places to surpass 38 degrees Celsius and high humidity pushing the heat index as high as 115 degrees. It comes as America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence, and as the United States along with Canada and Mexico co-host the World Cup soccer tournament amid the extreme heat. Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, announced it was opening cooling centers and sending city employees to carry out wellness checks on vulnerable populations. In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office said it was launching an “unprecedented, historic” plan to deal with the heat that includes vans to provide residents with hydration, as well as “pop-up” cooling stations with misting fans and cooling towels. People cool off at Coney Island beach on June 29, 2026 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. — AFP Washington, the capital, meanwhile was forecast to see 38C temperatures from Thursday through Saturday, when it will host a fireworks display on the National Mall that organizers said would be the biggest in history. More than 60 million people are currently under heat alerts, the NWS said. Health agencies are urging citizens to watch for signs of heat-related illness, ranging from cramps and exhaustion to life-threatening heat stroke. Child hot-car deaths are another concern, with nine such deaths reported so far this year in the United States, against an average of 37 annually, according to the National Safety Council. Pets are also at risk, with authorities recommending dogs remain indoors except for bathroom breaks, and warning owners to watch for hot asphalt that can burn paws. In World Cup news, numerous knockout-stage matches will be p

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Kyiv has stepped up its long-range drone strike campaign against Russia in recent months, as Moscow's full-scale offensive against Ukraine drags on for almost 4.5 years

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By the latest official count, some 1,700 are dead and 5,000 are injured, with no governmental word on the number of missing. Other estimates place these in the tens of thousands

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[Premium Times] Drawing on a six-year study covering attacks between 2020 and 2025, Mr Vierhout, who spoke in Jos during a peace summit on Monday, said the dominant focus on jihadist groups such as Boko Haram obscures a far deadlier reality on the ground.

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The government is stepping up efforts to address the renewed violence in the southernmost provinces following a series of bomb attacks, with Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul scheduled to hold talks with Malaysian leaders on July 9-10 to seek more concrete solutions to the long-running insurgency.

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Protests in South Africa after campaign groups set June 30 as a deadline for undocumented migrants to leave the country.

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It was not immediately clear who was behind the shooting but Tehran has frequently blamed Kurdish separatist groups in the area for previous violence

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[The Point] The High Court has raised serious concern over what it describes as a growing surge in knife-related violence among young people, warning that offenders will face the full force of the law as the country grapples with an escalating culture of deadly street confrontations.

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Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Tuesday criticised what he described as the “unfortunate trend” of calling terrorists ‘militants’. Referring to a news report published by Turkish public broadcaster TRT World on the recent terrorist attack on a Rangers facility in Karachi in which three security personnel were martyred, Tarar strongly objected to the use of the term “militants” for the attackers. “The Karachi attack was a terrorist attack in which innocent people were killed,” he said. “Terrorists must not be called by any other name.” “Terrorists are terrorists, they have no caste, colour, creed or religion,” he explained. Tarar’s statements come days after the military’s media wing announced the capture of one of the terrorists involved in the Rangers facility attack. The terrorist was identified by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) as an Afghan national with links to Indian proxy Jaamatul Ahrar. He and his companions had been trained in Afghanistan before crossing the border to carry out their attack, ISPR said. On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to issue a strong demarche over the Karachi terrorist attack. Islamabad has repeatedly urged the Taliban administration in Kabul to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil that are used for attacks in Pakistan. Officials say those appeals have gone unheeded. The information minister has been a vocal critic of the Afghan Taliban’s “perversion of religion” to legitimise its rule and ‘authoritarian motives’. Tarar has also accused the regime of providing safe haven for the training and facilitation of terrorists.

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The European Union set an October deadline for “tangible results” in tackling its growing trade deficit with China, after the two sides held talks in Brussels in an attempt to avoid a trade war. “Not everything will be solved, not everything will be fixed, but we think that between now and October, our teams have sufficient time to deliver the tangible results,” EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic told reporters on Monday, according to Bloomberg News. He spoke after “intensive, focused and...

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The death toll from two powerful quakes in Venezuela crossed 1,700 on June 29, with thousands more injured and many more missing

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The latest Ebola outbreak in DRC has infected 1,307 people and claimed 377 lives since May.

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Leaders of India’s youth Cockroach Janta Party neared two weeks of sit-in protests on Tuesday, backed by a well-known activist who has started a hunger strike in support of their demand for the resignation of the education minister. The protests in the capital Delhi, come as sources say the government is weighing significant cabinet changes, with Indian media reporting Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan could be moved from his portfolio. Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) during a sit-in protest called by CJP demanding the resignation of Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, June 30, — Reuters The CJP, which gained 22 million followers on Instagram within a few days of being set up last month, is demanding his resignation for the leak of question papers for a national medical college entrance examination. Pradhan, his ministry and the government’s chief spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. About 100 supporters of the CJP have been gathering daily at the protest site in central Delhi. “With each passing day, more people are coming here from different parts of India,” said 30-year-old party founder Abhijeet Dipke as he and social activist Sonam Wangchuk sat on a makeshift stage beneath a banner calling for Pradhan’s removal. Supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) sleep on a carpet during a sit-in protest called by CJP demanding the resignation of Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, India, June 30. — Reuters “We are waiting to see what the government decides because there are reports of a cabinet reshuffle. Once that announcement comes, we will decide the next course of action.” Wangchuk is a prominent critic of the government who was arrested last year after violent protests demanding statehood for his native Himalayan federal territory of Ladakh. ‘Six weeks of hunger strike or death’ Wangchuk said

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A year after the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), most Americans still support foreign aid to provide disaster relief, prevent disease outbreaks and improve security, according to a new poll commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation and released on Tuesday. The poll of 2,022 voters showed Republicans and President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base were sceptical of foreign aid before getting more details. Nearly all Americans overestimated by far how much Washington spent on such programs, with over a third thinking they accounted for 20 per cent of the annual US budget. When told that foreign aid accounted for just 1pc of the US budget before 2025 and briefed on what it accomplished, Americans’ support grew to 70pc from 54pc, the poll showed. Republican support reached 58pc, and even MAGA Republicans, defined as those who primarily support Trump over the party, backed aid by 50pc, the foundation said. Trump, who made cutting off foreign aid a cornerstone of his “America First” campaign promises, ordered the closure of USAID when he took office in January 2025. Well over 10,000 USAID personnel and contractors were fired and thousands of programmes were cancelled, throwing into turmoil US-funded aid operations on which millions of the world’s poorest people depended. US foreign aid disbursements dropped to $47 billion in fiscal year 2025 from $72bn a year earlier, US data shows. Those cuts could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal last year. The poll, conducted June 12-16 by Echelon Insights, showed that 78pc of those surveyed favoured maintaining or expanding foreign aid outlays. This data is a direct rebuttal to anyone who claims Americans have lost their appetite for the world,” said John Gans, a former Pentagon speechwriter and project lead at The Rockefeller Foundation. “One year after USAID’s r

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on Monday accused the government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez of closing the country's airspace to prevent her return, as Venezuela copes with the emergency caused by the June 24 twin earthquake, which has left more than 1,700 dead and some 5,000 injured. "They want to block my return to Venezuela," Machado said in a video posted on social media, in which she said she was in Panama.

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Rescuers from the Mexican Army's Emergency Response Battalion (BAE), considered among the most experienced in the world in natural disasters, say the earthquake that devastated north-central Venezuela is "one of the largest tragedies" they have attended, above all because of the scale of the damage. The team is working in the coastal state of La Guaira, the hardest-hit area, where the official toll exceeded 1,700 dead on Monday.

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When late Venezuelan ⁠leader Hugo Chavez built this coastal housing development bearing his name as part of his socialist revolution, residents found ⁠a fresh start after deadly floods had decimated the area more than a decade earlier. But after two back-to-back earthquakes flattened parts of the 1,100-unit complex last Wednesday, engineers have urged the Venezuelan government to swiftly audit similar public housing that is still standing. “I lost my whole apartment,” said Yelsa Rojas, who since...

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International and local emergency teams are continuing to recover the bodies of victims under the rubble

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KASHMIRI leader Mohammad Yasin Malik, who has been imprisoned by India on terrorism charges for more than four years now, has now been implicated in the 36-year-old murder case of a nurse in Srinagar, Indian media reported on Monday. Malik, who is the chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), was named by India’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) as one of five men charge sheeted for the killing of Sarla Bhat, who was killed in 1990. The investigation into her murder, which went cold several years ago, was reopened by former lieutenant governor of India-held Kashmir Manoj Sinha to appease local pressure groups. Earlier, in 2017, the Indian Supreme Court had declined to reopen several Kashmiri Pandit murder cases, citing that the mass killings took place nearly three decades prior, and it was difficult to gather reliable evidence and witnesses, the Indian Express reported. In 2023, Kashmiri pandit groups approached Sinha, who directed the police to prepare a list of killings from the 1990s. The Sarla Bhat case was subsequently transferred to the SIA in March 2024 for a fresh probe, according to the Hindustan Times. Investigators submit 737-page charge sheet naming Yasin Malik and six others, three of whom are now deceased In a statement, the SIA said the investigation was based on oral, documentary, forensic, ballistic, medical and electronic evidence collected and analysed over the years. Apart from Malik, the 737-page charge sheet names Khursheed Ahmad Chalkoo, Abdul Hamid Sheikh, Ghulam Mohammad Taploo and Mohammad Yousuf Sofi as accused. According to the Hindustan Times, three of the accused are now dead, while Mr Malik has been languishing in Tihar jail in connection with separate trumped up terror charges since 2019. Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2026

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Anti-migrant groups had given a deadline to undocumented foreigners to leave by June 30.

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China’s top leadership has warned of the dangers of extreme weather and the need for better forecasting and disaster prevention, according to state media. The Politburo issued the warning at its first flood and drought prevention meeting for the year in Beijing on Tuesday, a gathering chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Politburo urged local governments to take “forceful” measures against drought, flooding and typhoons, to “always put the safety of people’s lives first”, evacuate in a...

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[Premium Times] Elegbeje Ado built a career spanning over 20 years in the Yoruba film industry, earning recognition as one of the respected faces of indigenous cinema.

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Firefighter Ho Wai-ho, who was killed in Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades, has been recognised for his bravery in this year’s Honours List, while eminent economist Lawrence Lau Juen-yee is among three recipients of the city’s highest award. Fencer Ryan Choi Chun-yin and cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing were also among the 466 individuals named in the 2026 Honours List on Wednesday, with the pair recognised for their achievements at last year’s National Games. Ho was posthumously awarded the Medal...

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The Civil Court has ordered the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Thai Army to pay 4.9 million baht in compensation to the family of a private who was beaten to death at an army camp in 2017.

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The six people killed were all adults, among them one who succumbed to their injuries in hospital, while another person was wounded and in stable condition, a police spokesman told AFP

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Has Iran's regional deterrence been permanently degraded, or is its proxy network mutating into a resilient force?

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The future of the 224.5-billion-baht high-speed rail project linking Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi and U-Tapao airports now hinges on whether the government approves amendments to its concession agreement, with the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) warning the contract could otherwise be terminated.

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PREMIUM TIMES found that 40 valid mineral titles are currently active in Bayelsa, including 12 licences for ilmenite and titanium mining, as Governor Douye Diri warns that unregulated black sand extraction could trigger environmental damage and erosion. The post Bayelsa hosts 40 mineral titles as Gov Diri demands stricter mining regulations appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

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There were no World Cup games being screened at the time of the shooting, with the only match of ‌the day in the tournament finishing around 2 p.m. local time

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French police on Monday detained a couple after their 15-month-old twin daughters died of suspected dehydration, a source close to the investigation said.

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Grid operators warn the US heatwave could send electricity demand near record levels before Fourth of July weekend.

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Britain said on Tuesday it could intervene in Paramount Skydance’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, potentially holding up the US$110 billion deal after the US and China gave it the green light. The move could see the deal referred to the UK’s antitrust regulator, which made headlines in 2023 when it blocked Microsoft’s US$69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard to the fury of the two US companies. It later changed its mind after Microsoft amended its...

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U.S., Iran pause strikes but disagree over next steps on talks; Pakistan, also a key mediator, had said talks between Iran and the U.S. would resume on June 30

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In one of his final big-ticket policy interventions after he announced his resignation last week, Mr. Starmer said the ‘Defence Investment Plan’ will be backed by £298 billion of investment across the next four years

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Analysts say Russia's fuel crisis may affect its domestic economy, but the war in Ukraine will remain the priority.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's military, backed by Turkish forces, carried out airstrikes using F-16 fighter jets on Tuesday targeting al-Shabab positions in the Godey area of the Lower Shabelle region, the Ministry of Defence said.

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