Firefighters extinguish a fire at the “Panorama of the Defence of Sevastopol” museum, which, according to local authorities, was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Sevastopol, Crimea, in this still image taken from video footage released on June 10, 2026. Photo: Government of Sevastopol Via Reuters A…
No showpiece event of a sport has lived up to its billing quite like the FIFA World Cup. The 2026 edition, which kicks off on Thursday, offers proof. With 48 teams and 104 matches, it is the biggest ever. With roughly one in four FIFA member nations qualifying, and six of the seven continents represented,…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan | Photo Credit: Reuters Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday (May 10, 2026) that Israel’s attacks on Syria and Lebanon had reached a point where they also threaten Turkey, adding Israel’s “aggression” posed a threat to the whole world and must be stopped. NATO member Turkey has been one of…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) that the U.S. would continue to “attack Iran very hard”, after a tit-for-tat exchange in which the U.S. launched airstrikes following the downing of an American military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran retaliated with attacks on U.S. bases in the region. West…
British maritime security group Ambrey “assessed” that the incident “was likely the result of U.S. operations to blockade Iranian ports. File picture from vesseltracker.com Three Indians went missing after an attack on oil tanker Settebello, northeast of Sohar, Oman, on Wednesday (June 10, 2026), the External Affairs Ministry said. Twenty-one Indian seafarers were rescued from…
While the stage is set for the FIFA World Cup 2026 commencing on June 11, the mood in the host nations is not entirely euphoric. In Mexico’s capital, where the first match is to be held, teachers associated with the CNTE union have toppled statues of football players and disrupted traffic in their protests for better wages…
Smoke billows after an army Mi-17 helicopter crashed due to a technical fault, in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, on June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP An Mi-17 helicopter of the Pakistan Army Aviation crashed near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday (June 10, 2026), killing all personnel on board, the army said. “There were…
In his long political career that started in the early 1990s, Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu was written off several times. And every time, he made a stronger comeback. In 1996, he became Israel’s youngest Prime Minister, and the first to be born in the state of Israel. After losing the 1999 election heavily to Labour’s Ehud…
Taiwan’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) fire rockets during a live-fire military exercise, which simulates an enemy invasion, in Taichung, Taiwan on June 10, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China‘s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) in a demonstration of how it might try to…
Representational image only. Fie | Photo Credit: AP “Ukrainian forces struck several key facilities at the Russian-occupied port of Mariupol,” Kyiv said on Wednesday (June 10, 2026), in an attack that has “significantly limited” its capacity as a critical logistics hub for Moscow’s war effort. Russia-Ukraine Crisis The port was left without power after strikes…