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G7 leaders urge 'de-escalation' but stop short of...
Kananaskis [Canada], June 18: The leaders of G7 nations have urged a "de-escalation of hostilities in the Middle East, including...

Russia's deadliest attack on Kiev for months flattens...
Kiev [Ukraine], June 18: Russia has carried out a mass missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital, Kiev, killing at...

Italy blocks German rescue ship from leaving Sicilian...
Rome [Italy], June 18: A German rescue ship has been blocked from leaving Italy after docking with several dozen migrants...

Indonesia's Lewotobi volcano erupts
Jakarta [Indonesia], June 18: Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, a volcano located on Indonesia's Flores island, erupted on Tuesday and sent a...

Sweden's 'garbage queen' given jail term
Copenhagen [Denmark], June 18: Sweden's self-proclaimed "garbage queen" Fariba Vancor has been sentenced to six years in prison for 19...

Greenpeace concerned as two oil tankers on fire...
Tehran [Iran], June 18: Following a suspected collision between two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Greenpeace is warning...

Baltic countries begin evacuation of citizens from Middle...
Riga [Latvia], June 18: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have begun to evacuate their citizens from the crisis-hit Middle East, according...

President Trump 'repeating the same mistakes' as Bush:...
Washington DC [US], June 18: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned Trump's call for mass displacement in Tehran,...

Jordan's king says Israeli attacks on Iran threaten...
Amman [Jordan], June 18: Jordan's King Abdullah II warned in an address to the European Parliament that Israel's "attacks" on...

Dozens of Palestinians reported killed near aid distribution...
Tel Aviv-Yafo [Israel], June 18: The Israeli military has again killed people waiting near a distribution centre for humanitarian aid...

Trump threatens Iran's leaderas Israel warns major strikes...
Tehran [Iran], June 18: US President Donald Trump warned that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is an "easy target"...

Iranians speak of their fears and hopes as...
Tehran [Iran], June 18: Traffic was gridlocked for hundreds of kilometres heading out of Tehran before Israel and Donald Trump...

Iranians describe fear and sadness over Trump evacuation...
Tehran [Iran], June 18: Many Iranians have reacted with fear and dismay at Donald Trump's instruction to "immediately evacuate Tehran".

Trump urges Tehran evacuation as Iran-Israel conflict enters...
Jerusalem [Israel], June 18: Israel and Iran attacked each other for a fifth straight day on Tuesday, and U.S. President...

US and UK announce a trade deal, but...
Washington DC [US], June 18: U.S. President Donald Trump signed an agreement on Monday formally lowering some tariffs on imports...

Israel targets hospital, TV station; Iran pledges further...
Tel Aviv [Israel] / Tehran [Iran], June 17: Israel has attacked civilian targets in Iran, striking a hospital and an...

European countries seek fresh talks with Iran over...
Larnaca [Cyprus], June 17: Germany, France and Britain want to resume talks with Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme at short...

West Bank life paralysed as Israeli closure enters...
Ramallah [Palestine], June 17: Daily life for Palestinians across the West Bank has ground to a halt for the third...

Risk of nuclear war grows amid new arms...
Stockholm [Sweden], June 17: There are nine nuclear-armed states in the world and nearly all of them continued with intensive...

US police arrest suspected shooter of Minnesota lawmakers
Minnesota [US], June 17: A man suspected of killing a lawmaker in Minnesota and wounding another was taken into custody...

UN cuts back aid plan amid 'brutal funding...
New York [US], June 17: The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday...

Netanyahu does not rule out assassinating Iran's supreme...
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 17: In an interview with ABC News, Prime Minister Netanyahu affirmed that Israel's attack on...

President Trump rushes out of G7 summit, calls...
Tehran [Iran], June 17: This morning (Vietnam time), President Trump urged Iranians to quickly leave the capital Tehran while...

Israel - Iran in the war of 'sharp...
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 17: Entering the fourth day, the Israel-Iran conflict has become a battle between air strikes and...

US, UK finalize 'historic' trade deal
New York [US], June 17: On the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Canada on June 16, President Trump held...

Zelensky calls for further sanctions on Russia during...
Moscow [Russia], June 17: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrial nations to...

Suspect in killing of politician, husband arrested: US...
Washington DC [US], June 17: Police in the US mid-western state of Minnesota have arrested the suspected perpetrator of the...