“Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank,” an independent U.N. inquiry said on Tuesday (June 23, 2026). International criminal law, as codified in the Rome Statute of the Internation Criminal Court (ICC) and customary…
Wildfires raged across southern Europe on Monday (July 6, 2026), forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and prompting officials to ban spectators from a stage of the storied Tour de France cycling race. Hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes that have devastated more than 19,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land — an area…
Children watch from atop a promontory overlooking shelters for people displaced by war, as smoke billows in the background near the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: EYAD BABA What began as a response to the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023,…
Muslim worshippers perform Friday prayers during the holy month of Ramadan at Salah al-Din School, which has been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians amid the Israel–Hamas war, in Gaza City on February 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Discussions on Gaza’s future must begin with a total halt to Israeli “aggression”, Palestinian Islamist…
Mohamed Ashek, 13, carries a toolbox as he walks amid the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after returning home following displacement during the war, after the Israel-Lebanon deal, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on July 5, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Four people were killed by an Israeli drone strike on a…
A view of firefighting trucks during a wildfire in Ille-sur-Tet near Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales department, France, on July 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A wildfire burning out of control in southwestern France has forced the evacuation of over 10,000 people from two dozen small towns and villages near the Spanish border and officials said strong…
Displaced children from el-Fasher playing at a camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan. File. | Photo Credit: AP More than 300 children have been killed or injured in the last six months in the war in Sudan, mostly from drone strikes, the UN…
Mumbai continues to reel under heavy rainfall as flooding and transport disruptions affect daily life. In this episode, we bring you the latest on the city’s rain situation, an update on the Karur stampede case, and the Supreme Court’s refusal to “short-circuit” procedure while hearing a plea over remarks on the Prophet Mohammad, and more….
U.K.’s Carrier Strike Group was approached by a Russian ‘Bear-F’ maritime patrol aircraft that flew close to HMS Prince of Wales and dropped multiple sonobuoys nearby on July 6, 2026. Photo: X/@DefenceHQ London British F-35 jets, on Monday (July 6, 2026), escorted a Bear-F Russian aircraft that “repeatedly approached” the U.K.’s Carrier Strike Group in…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto receives Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the airport in Jakarta on July 6, 2026. Photo: Narendra Modi Photo Gallery via ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (July 6, 2026) arrived in Indonesia on the first leg of his three-nation tour, aimed at further strengthening India’s Act East Policy, MAHASAGAR Vision…