The United States Supreme Court allows Alabama to swap out its current map for a Republican-drawn one that will likely give the party an edge in six of the state’s seven congressional districts. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday (June 2, 2026) for Alabama to use…
Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (centre), gestures to his supporters following his release on parole from a Bangkok prison in Bangkok, Thailand. File | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra formally completed all his obligations related to a prison sentence on Wednesday (June 3, 2026), when a royal pardon ended his…
Thai authorities received reports of the blast in Tak province, opposite Myanmar’s Karen state, on Tuesday (June 2, 2026) afternoon and rushed to the scene, police said. Image for representation only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Three migrants from Myanmar have been killed and two wounded after a drone used in their country’s civil war…
People watch results at an election night event for California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra in Los Angeles on June 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Republican television commentator Steve Hilton and Democratic former Cabinet Secretary Xavier Becerra took the early lead in the open primary race for California governor on Tuesday (June 2, 2026). They…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The U.S. Trade Representative has proposed slapping 12.5% additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour. The action follows investigations launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their failure to…
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of Homeland Security in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP More than two lakh applicants opted to pay $100,000 for their H-1B visas…
U.N. chief Guterres presents options for future Lebanon presence U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has written to U.N. Security Council members stressing the need for a continued uniformed U.N. presence in Lebanon after the mandate of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) expires at the year-end. Mr. Guterres outlined three options to replace the 7,500-strong…
Resident Olha Mudra and her daughter Natalia, 6, look at their damaged apartment after a nearby building got struck during overnight Russian missile and drone attacks, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday (June 2, 2026). | Photo Credit: Reuters When a large explosion shook Olha Mudra’s apartment block in Kyiv in the…
Sentencing in a Southampton murder case involving a kirpan (a ceremonial dagger associated with Sikhism), along with the release of video footage of the police response sparked debates online and in the U.K. Parliament on Tuesday around policing and knife crime and the politicization of a brutal murder. Vickrum Digwa, 23, was sentenced on Monday…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on President Donald Trump’s FY2027 budget request for the Department of State, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 2, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday (June 2, 2026) that Iran’s supreme…