Australia appoints spl envoy to confront rise in antisemitism
The Australian government named a special envoy on Tuesday to confront a rise in antisemitism across the country since the Israel-Hamas war began. A similar envoy will soon be appointed to challenge Islamophobia in Australia and both will promote social cohesion, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters at the Sydney...
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Pakistan PM urges int’l community to recognise ‘burden of Afghan refugees’
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Suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targets ship in the Gulf of Aden
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Pak SC reserves judgment in plea about reserved seats allotment
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Pak authorises ISI to intercept, trace calls for national security
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Search on for dozens buried in deadly Indonesian landslide
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Kyiv mourns as rescuers make last-ditch efforts
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Hurricane Beryl kills four, plunges 3 million into darkness in Texas
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Displaced families struggle amid ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict
On his key chain, Hassan Nofal keeps the keys to two homes. One is to the house of his grandparents in what is now southern Israel, which he says his family was driven out of by Israeli forces in 1948 and to which they’ve never been able to return. The...
Indian-origin jailed for rape in Singapore
(): An Indian-origin Singaporean bar owner was sentenced to jail for 13 years and four weeks on Monday and will receive nine strokes of the cane for raping a runaway 17-year-old girl after allowing her to work for him. Raj Kumar Bala, 42, was convicted of a charge each of raping...
Newly elected French lawmakers negotiate to form next government
Newly elected lawmakers arrived Tuesday at the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, for talks seeking to cobble together a government majority after a chaotic election result left the legislature split among left, centre and far-right parties. President Emmanuel Macron on Monday asked his prime minister, Gabriel Attal, to continue...
Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza
Israeli forces advanced deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest city in pursuit of militants who had regrouped there, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing on Monday from an area ravaged in the early weeks of the nine-month-long war. Hamas warned that the latest raids and displacement in Gaza City could lead to...
EU halts Georgia’s accession to bloc, freezes financial aid over much-criticised law
Georgia’s accession to the European Union has been halted, and some of the bloc’s financial support to the South Caucasus country has been frozen after the Georgian authorities adopted a new law that critics feared would curb democratic freedoms, the EU Ambassador in Georgia said Tuesday. According to Pawel Herczynski,...
To counter China, NATO moving closer under US leadership
In the third year of the war in Ukraine, NATO is set to deepen relations with its four Indo-Pacific partners, which, although not part of the military alliance, are gaining prominence as Russia and China forge closer ties to counter the United States and the two Koreas support opposing sides...
Rishi Sunak names shadow Cabinet
Rishi Sunak, the interim UK Opposition Leader until his Conservative Party finalises the process to choose his successor, has named a shadow Cabinet who will take their place in the House of Commons as the new members of Parliament begin being sworn in on Tuesday. The 44-year-old British Indian leader had...
