Militants kill 6, abduct 8 security personnel in Pakistan: officials

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…

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Palestinians ‘trapped’ between Israeli forces, settlers and Hamas: UN probe

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…

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CJI Surya Kant bats for mediation; says arbitration faces procedural hurdles

Observing that international arbitration is increasingly facing procedural hurdles, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said mediation is no longer an alternative but an essential instrument to achieve timely, amicable and lasting resolution of disputes. He was delivering a lecture on “Mediation, Arbitration and the Courts: Converging Trends in the Indian and English Approaches…

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Indian envoy meets U.S. tech leaders; discusses perspectives on future of AI

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra. File | Photo Credit: ANI India‘s Ambassador to the U.S. Vinay Mohan Kwatra held a series of meetings with top American technology leaders and discussed perspectives on the trajectory of advanced technologies, including Quantum, and the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Mr. Kwatra held separate meetings on Monday (June 8, 2026)…

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Political reality of Afghanistan has changed, UN sanctions regime must take this into account: India at UN

Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, New York, Parvathaneni Harish. File photo: Youtube/@IndiaatUnitedNations India said the current UN sanctions regime must take into account the changed political reality of Afghanistan, and called for incentivising positive actions rather than only wielding tools of punishment. “We lend our voice again in reemphasising the importance of…

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