Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman (second right) attends a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, on Friday (June 26, 2026). | Photo Credit: AP Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday (June 26, 2026), where he urged…
American allies of President Donald Trump this week defended him to an Israeli public anxious about a U.S. interim deal with Iran and White House criticism that together appeared to signal fissures in Israel’s decades-old alliance with Washington. West Asia war LIVE updates on June 23, 2026 The U.S.-Israeli relationship has been on a roller…
United Nations-certified rescuers will help search for quake survivors, interim President Delcy Rodriguez said in a televised message. Spain and France were sending dozens of specialists, and Germany promised six military transport planes. Switzerland mobilized 80 personnel, eight rescue dogs and 18 tonnes of equipment to be sent to Venezuela as soon as possible. Dutch…
Every business Meta builds or acquires is centred around community and advertisers. Take Facebook for instance: Mark Zuckerberg built it while he was at Harvard, creating a new urban town square on the internet. The web-based application caught the zeitgeist and moved from strength to strength. Back then, the platform solved a distance problem. Friends…
Violators will have their cellphones smashed and face punishment under the law, the order said. | Photo Credit: AFP Afghanistan’s Taliban government has ordered a nationwide ban on civil servants’ smartphone use, a military court order showed, prompting warnings from rights activists that the move could further restrict access to information. The court order seen…
Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday (June 25, 2026) and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people and left more than 200 trapped. More were feared dead from the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck Wednesday (June 24, 2026)…
King Charles III will not live at Buckingham Palace after the completion of a 10-year, £369 million ($487 million) refurbishment programme as the monarchy seeks to increase public access to the historic building that has been the centre of royal life for almost 200 years. Royal officials stressed that the king and Queen Camilla would…
The incident was deemed an attack based on initial assessments, British maritime security company Ambrey said. File picture of container ship Ever Lovely. | Photo Credit: vesselfinder.com A cargo ship reported a suspected attack as it attempted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz close to the coast of Oman on Thursday (June 25, 2026),…
A United Nations agency paused the evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday (June 25, 2026) after the British military said a vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman following the passage of several tankers that used a route backed by the UN. The head of the International…
The U.S. security apparatus is keeping watch at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, whose blue color has been fouled by green algae after being newly renovated at President Donald Trump’s request. National Guard troops patrol the area around the roughly 2,000-foot-long (610-meter) basin on Washington’s National Mall in groups of threes and fours. Solar-powered light…