Under a resolution, children under 15 will be prohibited from creating, using or operating personal social media accounts | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set a minimum age of 15 for social media use, becoming the first Arab country to introduce such a restriction as governments worldwide seek to address growing…
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos The agreement on social security that India and the U.K. have signed and that will come into force on July 15 will save Indian companies and workers there about $500 million worth of social security payments that they otherwise would have had to pay in the U.K., according…
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File picture | Photo Credit: AP A top Kremlin aide said on Thursday (June 18, 2026) that European leaders had probably pumped Donald Trump with harmful ideas at this week’s G7 summit, but that the U.S. president was a strong leader who stuck to his…
The story so far: On June 14, Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s speech at Stanford was disrupted as over 100 students walked out in protest. Some carried Palestinian flags, others draped black-and-white patterned keffiyeh as scarves, and they shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” The students were protesting against Google’s Project Nimbus, a tech contract between the search…
During the nearly 40-day war, Iran’s missile infrastructure came under heavy U.S.-Israeli bombardment, but Tehran continued to respond with missile and drone attacks across the region. File photo | Photo Credit: AFP Iran said on Thursday (June 18, 2026) that its missile programme would not be part of future negotiations with the United States, after…
Sri Lanka’s Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) launched the Kumari Jayawardena Feminist Archive, marking the 95th birthday of one of South Asia’s foremost feminist scholars, whose contributions to the study of labour, ethnicity and nationalism, women’s history and movements, are internationally acclaimed. The archive aims to collate and showcase Dr. Jayawardena’s published work —…
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian holding a document showing a Memorandum of understanding he signed to end the West Asia war on June 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Initial talks between the United States and Iran are planned at the Buergenstock mountaintop resort in Switzerland on Friday (June 19, 2026), following the signing of a…
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran. File | Photo Credit: West Asia News Agency/ Reuters The text of the Iran-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), as read out by U.S. officials and reported in the media, contains two key provisions regarding shipping. While promising to relieve sanctions on Iranian…
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te speaks during a press conference with the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday (June 18, 2026). | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan safeguarding its own security and refusing rule by China’s Communist Party should not be seen as a provocation, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday (June 18, 2026),…
Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus [File] | Photo Credit: AP Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at…