Hezbollah on Thursday (June 4, 2026) rejected the latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and the Lebanese government, demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal. The announcement came as Israeli strikes killed at least four people, according to local authorities, and a UN peacekeeper was killed in the crossfire. West Asia war LIVE on June 4, 2026…
A joint operation by Nigerian forces and U.S. African Command that killed 175 Islamic militants has drawn attention to the complex security situation in Lake Chad basin. The operation has renewed the focus on Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which has steadily eclipsed Boko Haram to become the most powerful jihadist organisation operating in…
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in a rare open letter to the Russian leader Thursday (June 4, 2026), shortly after the Kremlin chief had conceded Moscow needed to strengthen its air defences following a spate of Ukrainian attacks. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pushed both sides to end the…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at an event about coal, Thursday, June 4, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (June 4, 2026) announced he was using Cold War-era legislation to tap $700 million in funding for a slew of coal…
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. File | Photo Credit: AFP The U.S. on Thursday (June 4, 2026) imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and some affiliated people and entities, the U.S. Treasury Department’s website showed. The Cuban government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sanctions, which also targeted four other…
The military government of Mali has banned the sales and use of large motorcycles outside major urban areas. | Photo Credit: AFP The military government of Mali has banned the sales and use of large motorcycles outside major urban areas and established military zones that are off limits to civilians in an attempt to reduce…
Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Colombia top the list of the world’s most neglected displacement crises, a prominent Norwegian aid group said on Thursday (June 4, 2026), noting that nationalism and rearmament campaigns grabbed attention in wealthy countries. Sudan, which since 2023 has been ravaged by a bloody conflict between two rival generals…
Emergency fire crews on Thursday (June 4, 2026) continued to battle a blaze at Tata Steel U.K.’s steelworks at Port Talbot in south Wales, which a workers’ union said had caused “substantial damage”. The Mid and West Wales Fire Service rushed several firefighters to the site on Wednesday (June 3, 2026) evening and soon confirmed…
Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto China is targeting personnel linked to the English-speaking Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K and the U.S. — on job websites to get access to classified or sensitive information, the group said on Wednesday (June 3, 2026). In a bulletin,…
From the deepening rift within the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal to the U.S. House vote on the Iran war and the latest developments in the deadly Delhi fire tragedy, here are the top stories of the day on Above the Fold. Source link