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June 20, 2025 5:15 PM

British lawmakers to vote on landmark assisted dying law

British lawmakers held their final debate ahead of a historic vote on Friday on whether to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people, in what would be a major step toward the biggest social reform in the country for a generation. The vote is...

June 20, 2025 4:52 PM

Indian missions in Riyadh and Doha to mark International Day of Yoga with community events

The Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia will celebrate the 11th International Day of Yoga tomorrow in partnership with the Saudi Yoga Committee and the Indian diaspora. The event, to be held at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Sports City Stadium in Riyadh, will s...

June 20, 2025 4:21 PM

Air India crash: 220 DNA matches confirmed as Centre reviews aviation safety protocols

DNA identification of 220 victims who perished in the Air India plane crash on June 12 in Ahmedabad has been completed, the Gujarat Health Department said on Friday. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, en route to London with 242 people on board, crashed j...

June 20, 2025 4:15 PM

Gaza faces a man-made drought as water systems collapse, UNICEF says

Gaza is facing a man-made drought as its water systems collapse, the United Nations' children agency said on Friday. "Children will begin to die of thirst ... Just 40% of drinking water production facilities remain functional," UNICEF spokesperson J...

June 20, 2025 4:01 PM

Israel says it hit dozens of military targets in Iran, including nuclear research site

The Israeli military said on Friday it carried out strikes on dozens of military targets in Iran overnight, including the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research that it said is involved in Iran's nuclear weapons development. An industrial...

June 20, 2025 1:40 PM

Europe launches diplomatic push as Israel-Iran conflict enters second week

World powers initiated high-stakes diplomatic efforts on Friday to defuse escalating tensions between Israel and Iran as the conflict entered its second week. Senior European diplomats met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva, seeking to...

June 20, 2025 12:36 PM

Pakistan fears militants will thrive on restive border if Iran destabilised

Separatist and jihadist militants on the Pakistan-Iran border could take advantage of any collapse of authority in Iran, fears that Pakistan’s army chief pressed in a meeting this week with the U.S. President Donald Trump. Anti-Iranian and anti-Pa...

June 20, 2025 4:23 PM

Europeans try to coax Iran back to diplomacy, as Trump considers strikes

European foreign ministers were to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday, seeking a path back to diplomacy over its contested nuclear programme despite the U.S. considering joining Israeli strikes against Iran. Ministers from Britain, France and ...

June 20, 2025 12:15 PM

Russia says any use of tactical nuclear weapons by US in Iran would be catastrophic, TASS reports

Potential use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States in Iran would be a catastrophic development, Russian state news agency TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday. Peskov was commenting on what he called speculativ...

June 20, 2025 12:04 PM

Several injured in Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine’s Odesa

At least 14 people were injured when Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, damaging high-rise buildings and railway infrastructure, local authorities said on Friday. Odesa is Ukraine's largest Black Sea port, key f...

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