Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi urged foreign forces on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) to leave the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding areas, warning that they face a persistent risk of being caught in the crossfire.” “The Strait of Hormuz is NOT international waters but shared…
A fire burns during a protest after a knife attack on June 8 left a man seriously injured and prompted police to declare a critical incident, on Newtownards Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Protesters on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) torched a bus and other vehicles and blocked…
Police officials patrol an area amid the ongoing violence in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after violent clashes in Muzaffarabad, PoK on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI India on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) called on the global community to hold Pakistan accountable for the loss of lives in the police crackdown in Rawalkot, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir…
‘U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed on building a constructive relationship of strategic stability’. | Photo Credit: AP In the past six months, specifically from December 2025 to May 2026, the top leaders of all the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have visited China. In…
The meeting will mark the first interaction between Modi and Trump since they last met in February 2025 in Washington DC. File | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit taking place in Evian, France on June 16-17, official sources…
Seven people were killed in eastern Afghanistan when a scrap collector sawed into a recovered shell, residents and the police told AFP on Tuesday (June 9, 2026). Decades of conflict have left Afghanistan littered with the explosive remnants of war, with the country registering the third-highest casualty rate globally according to the United Nations. The…
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Demonstrators take part in a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan to establish a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, Laikipia County, Kenya, on June 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Kenyan police fired tear gas on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) and…
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants. File | Photo Credit: AP Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants killed six paramilitary personnel and abducted eight others during an attack on a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, security officials said on Tuesday (June 9, 2026). Dozens of members of the militant group, which claimed responsibility for the attack, stormed a checkpoint in…
Palestinian civilians are caught between “mass atrocities” of Israeli forces, settlers, and Hamas’s brutal rule, a United Nations (UN)-mandated inquiry said on Tuesday (June 9, 2026). Also read | Israel-Hamas war: a timeline Civilians across war-ravaged Gaza and the occupied West Bank are being “systematically and deliberately” subjected to severe rights violations, the UN’s Independent…