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 […]
AL Jazeera: Iran and Israel have paused tit-for-tat attacks against each other that had threatened to unravel the fragile ceasefire in place since April 8, but tensions remain high. Tehran has warned that fighting could resume if Israel continues with its attacks, including on Lebanon. The ceasefire is also facing pressure from growing public disagreements between Israel […]
ཨཱལ་ཇ་ཟི་ར། སྤྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ པའི་ཚེས་ ༨ ལུ་ ཨིཛ་རེལ་གྱི་ དམག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་ལེ་བཱ་ནཱོན་གྱི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ལུ་ མཁའ་དམག་ཐོག་ལས་ གནོད་འཚུབ་བཀལ་མིའི་ནང་ མི་གྲངས་ ༡༤ དེ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཤི་རྐྱེན་དང་ མང་རབས་ཅིག་ལུ་ རྨ་སྐྱོན་བྱུང་ནུག། རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ ༢ ཀྱི་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ ཁ་གསལ་སྦེ་ མཁྱེན་འདོད་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ངོ་ ༡ གི་དོན་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་དངུལ་ཁང་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསར་ཤོག་གི་ རྩིས་ཁྲ་ཨང་ ༡༠༠༩༡༥༣༣༤ ཅན་མར་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ ༥༠༠ བཙུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ རྒྱུན་མངག་མཛད་གནང་ཟེར་ ཞུ་ནི་དང་། བརྡ་དོན་ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ འགྲུལ་འཕྲིན་ཨང་ ༡༧༡༡༡༡༠༧ ཐོག་ལུ་ འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།
Al Jazeera: Israeli forces have killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens in air attacks across southern Lebanon after Iran warned of “crushing measures” if Israel presses ahead with its assault on the country. The killings on Monday came after Iran and Israel traded fire in the most significant escalation since their “ceasefire” began on April […]
BBC: OpenAI has revealed plans to sell shares to the publicthrough a stock listing expected to be one of the largest public offerings ever. The artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT said on Monday that it had made a confidential filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to pursue an initial […]
BBC: Donald Trump has been booed at a basketball match in New York as he became the first sitting US president to attend the NBA Finals. The catcalls came after frustrated ticketholders waited for hours in lines that stretched more than two blocks outside Madison Square Garden on Monday due to the intense security restrictions […]
BBC: Ukraine’s sustained campaign of drone attacks on Russian-occupied territories is disrupting Moscow’s supply lines and intensifying a fuel crisis already triggered by long-range strikes on Russia’s oil refineries. Crimea – which Russia illegally annexed in 2014 – in particular has been experiencing serious logistical difficulties and shortages. Many of the issues stem from recent […]
BBC: Political parties usually survive defeat. What they often struggle to survive is the sudden loss of power. That is the predicament facing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party in West Bengal, a state of more than 100 million people in eastern India. Barely a month after being voted out of office, the party is facing a […]
