BBC: Israel has carried out strikes across southern Lebanon, despite a warning from Iran not to continue attacks in the country. The Lebanese health ministry said eight people were killed in Tyre, where the Israeli military issued a new order for residents to leave the southern city, including its Christian quarter for the first time. […]
BBC: A demonstrator has been shot during a protest in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki against the construction of an Ebola quarantine centre for US citizens, witnesses have told journalists. A protest leader told the Reuters news agency that police shot dead the demonstrator. The police have not yet commented. Groups of protesters, who were […]
BBC: Germany has pulled the plug on a joint fighter jet programme with France, in a blow to European defence co-operation. The flagship project had been billed as an ambitious and unparalleled military partnership. Instead, it became a glaring example of discord between the two nations. The decision undermines efforts to show that Europe can […]
BBC: A former Air Canada pilot has been accused of flying thousands of passengers on commercial flights without the required licence for the position, officials say. Air Canada said the pilot flew with a valid licence, but allegedly failed to obtain an airline transport pilot permit, a credential required after his promotion to captain and […]
BBC: Two crew members of a US army helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday were rescued by an American sea drone, US officials have told CBS News, the BBC’s media partner. It was the first such operation carried out by US forces, the officials added. US Central Command (Centcom) earlier said […]
The Hindu: 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 the city of Peshawar with firearms, hand […]
BBC: Japanese authorities have sedated and captured a black bear, days after it was spotted roaming around a city near Tokyo. A veterinarian fired a tranquiliser gun at the bear in Utsunomiya, home to half a million people, but missed the first shot. A second was fired about 15 minutes later, followed by a third. […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, June 9 – More than 5,500 Myanmar refugees living in camps along Thailand’s border have found jobs since Bangkok eased employment curbs last year, an approach that offers a regional example, a senior U.N. refugee official told Reuters. The step came in response to a sharp decline in global humanitarian funding, in part as U.S. […]
(Reuters) TAICHUNG, Taiwan, June 9 – Taiwan’s military simulated destroying an invading Chinese force in a coastal exercise on Tuesday, firing off rockets and artillery to stop an amphibious assault in what it described as a more realistic combat scenario with less preparation time. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has […]
(Reuters) DUBAI/JERUSALEM, June 9 – Two U.S. pilots whose helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormuz “are fine”, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday after the New York Times reported the crew of an Apache gunship had been rescued after the aircraft went down near the Iran-controlled waterway. It was not immediately clear whether the […]
