BBC: A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking more than 2.2bn yuan ($325m; £243m) in bribes over 30 years. Yang Youlin, who served in various positions in Nanjing city from 1993 to 2023, was also convicted of embezzlement, abuse of power and money laundering, with his ill-gotten […]
(Reuters) July 6- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials. Two commercial ships suffered significant damage but had no casualties, the report said, citing a U.S. official. Separately, Britain’s maritime security agency said a tanker caught […]
BBC: More than 1,000 people have been arrested as part of a global crackdown on human trafficking spanning 59 countries. Coordinated by Interpol, Operation Global Chain saw officers target trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour and criminality, and coerced begging. A network that was trafficking victims into online scamming in Cambodia, and a network forcing […]
BBC: Ukraine’s president plans to use the Nato meeting in Turkey to urge Kyiv’s allies to deliver the air defence systems it urgently needs to protect it from escalating Russian attacks. Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for help rings with extra intensity after Russian missiles rained down on the Ukrainian capital twice in less than a week, […]
BBC: President Donald Trump has confirmed he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match suspension at the World Cup. Trump says football’s world governing body “made the right decision” to suspend Balogun’s ban, adding it would have left a “big stain” on the tournament had it been implemented. Balogun, who is his […]
BBC: Huge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Israel. Footage from Iranian state TV showed many tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin being […]
BBC: A wildfire has forced the evacuation of thousands of people in southern France as the country grapples with the impacts of an early summer heatwave that scorched much of Europe. More than 10,000 people have been ordered to leave more than a dozen small towns and villages in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, […]
(Reuters) BEIRUT, July 6- Four people were killed by an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, in what Lebanese security sources said marked the deadliest such attack in several weeks. The Israeli military said it was checking the report. Israel has occupied a […]
Al Jazeera: At least 20 people have been killed and more than 100 were wounded in clashes at a prison in Sri Lanka. Violence broke out at the prison in Negombo, about 35km (22 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, on Sunday and continued on Monday, according to local media reports and police. Footage from […]
BBC: UK fighter jets intercepted a Russian maritime patrol aircraft after it “repeatedly approached” a carrier strike group in the Norwegian Sea, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The Russian Bear-F plane passed at low altitude and “unnecessarily close” to the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier and is believed to have dropped 10 sonobuoys […]
