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Nearly 100 Rohingya migrants from Myanmar, including 30 children, were rescued from a rickety wooden boat off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday. They had gone without food for several days, officials said Survivors from a boat crammed with over 300 Rohingya Muslim refugees told Malaysian authorities that …

Libya’s coast guard intercepted 71 migrants hoping to make it to Europe, including four women and two children and returned them to the capital Tripoli, the U.N. migration organization said Thursday. The International Organization for Migration tweeted that the migrants, who were stopped late Wednesday, were given food and emergency …

Australia is sending 1,000 army personnel to Victoria amid a surge in virus cases in the south-eastern state. This comes after Victoria has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases in recent days, with 33 infections reported overnight. Melbourne, the state capital, has been the only source of community transmissions in …

More than 30% of civilian pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses and are not qualified to fly, the country’s aviation minister revealed Wednesday. Addressing Pakistan’s National Assembly, Ghulam Sarwar Khan said 262 pilots in the country “did not take the exam themselves” and had paid someone else to sit it …

Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions, authorities said on Wednesday. While many were trying to guard their property, about 800 people had been evacuated since the rains began on Monday, said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov who …

Japan has scrapped the deployment of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile system, the government confirmed Thursday, days after saying the programme had been suspended. Interceptors for the Aegis Ashore system were to be placed in two regions under the costly and controversial programme. But the government reversed course under pressure from …

An impromptu block party in Brixton, South London resulted in chaos after police called to the scene were assaulted and forced to flee. At least 15 officers were reportedly injured. Officers came under attack by a large crowd that had assembled near Angell Town estate in Brixton, according to media …

Three domestically-built Kowsar fighter jets were delivered on Thursday to Iran’s Army Air Force. Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami and a number of military and state officials were present in the ceremony. Manufacturing Kowsar which is a short-range air support aircraft has put Iran among the few countries …

A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday said three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot dead while running in a residential neighborhood in February, have been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges. The three men — Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and …

The Pentagon put Huawei Technologies and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology on a list of 20 companies it says are owned or controlled by China’s military, opening them up to potential additional U.S. sanctions. In letters to lawmakers dated June 24, the Pentagon said it was providing a list of “Communist …

The United Nations and European and Arab powers on Wednesday warned Israel that its plans to annex Palestinian land would deal a major blow to peace but the United States offered its green light. One week before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to start the annexation process, a …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared the choice of whether Israel should annex the occupied West Bank is “for Israelis to make.” Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory remain illegal under international law. Pompeo gave the go-ahead to Israel’s annexation effort during a press conference on Wednesday, effectively …

A 5.8 earthquake struck in central California Wednesday morning, with aftershocks shaking the area between Fresno and Bakersfield, north of the Mojave Desert. According to the US Geological Society, people up and down California reported feeling the quake when it happened around 10:30 a.m. PT. Self-reported accounts on the USGS …

Tensions again flared on D.C. streets this week after groups of protesters erected barricades and set up tents and signs declaring an “autonomous zone” on city streets near the White House. City officials mobilized Monday to clear out the area and returned Tuesday morning to remove similar signs. President Trump …

A surge in the number of coronavirus infections around the world has pushed European stocks down from a two-week high as investors turned cautious amid fears of a new wave of COVID-19. The pan-European STOXX 600 declined 1.5, with travel & leisure, automakers and banks being among the hardest hit …

The United States has recorded the second-largest increase in coronavirus cases since the health crisis began, with a rise of 35,588 new infections on Tuesday as a dozen states see infections surge, according to a Reuters tally. Florida saw a record increase on Wednesday of over 5,500 new cases. On …

In May, Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach released audio recordings allegedly proving collusion between former US Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko in relation to the firing of the country’s prosecutor general, who was investigating the gas company Burisma, where Biden’s son Hunter was working. New tapes, allegedly …

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake, damaged 55 cultural heritage sites in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the country’s Secretariat of Culture said on Wednesday. “The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Oaxaca Institute of Cultural Heritage state in their latest report that 55 objects of cultural heritage were …

A massive plume of Saharan dust has shrouded swathes of the Caribbean, turning blue skies into a milky-brown haze and sparking health warnings across the region as air quality fell to unhealthy levels. Strong warm winds over the Sahara desert typically whip up sand at this time of year and …

The semi-official Syrian newspaper, Al-Watan, published the first scenes of the destruction left by the Israeli strikes in the Hama countryside this morning. The photos published by the Syrian newspaper on its official Facebook page show the great destruction caused by the raids on some installations, buildings and structures in …