Trump warns Iran, US may back Israel with military aid

Trump warns Iran, US may back Israel with military aid

Wednesday, 18 June 2025 | Associated Press | Washington

President Donald Trump in about eight hours Monday went from suggesting a nuclear deal with Iran remained achievable to urging Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut short his visit to an international summit to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security...

Mehul Choksi takes kidnapping allegations against India to UK court

Wednesday, 18 June 2025 | Press Trust of India | London

Mehul Choksi, the businessman wanted in India to face charges in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, is suing the Indian government and five individuals in the High Court in London as conspirators for his alleged kidnap, torture and attempted rendition. The Indian authorities have denied the allegations and objected...

A guide to what Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Associated Press | Washington

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday - it’s name combining “June” and “nineteenth” - has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021,...

Volodymyr visits Austria for first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Associated Press | Vienna

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria on Monday in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Austria is famously neutral - a stance it declared in 1955 after World War II - and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since...

Israel condemns black partition walls around its pavilions at Paris Air Show

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Associated Press | Paris

Israel’s Ministry of Defence has condemned the erection of black partition walls around its defence industry pavilions at the Paris Air Show, calling the move “outrageous and unprecedented” and demanding an immediate reversal by French authorities and event organisers. The walls appeared overnight ahead of the air show’s opening Monday, visually...

Ireland prepares to excavate ‘mass grave’ at mother and baby home

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Associated Press | London

Officials in Ireland began work Monday to excavate the site of a former church-run home for unmarried women and their babies to identify the remains of some 800 infants and young children who died there. The long-awaited excavation at the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway...

UK PM appoints MI6 spy agency’s first-ever female chief

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Press Trust of India | London

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced the “historic” appointment of Blaise Metreweli as the first female chief of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, in the 116-year history of the organisation. Commonly referred to as ‘C’, the international spy agency’s chief has operational responsibility for MI6 and is...

German court sentences Syrian doctor to life for crimes against humanity

Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Associated Press | Berlin

A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court also established the particular gravity of the guilt, which in practice virtually...

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Jyotisha: A Scientific, Validated Vedic Science

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