Reuters : Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash last month, with the outcome expected to influence the succession of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s top decision-maker. With Iran’s supreme leader now age 85, it is likely that the next president will be closely involved in the eventual process of choosing a successor to Khamenei, who has ensured candidates sharing his hard-line views dominate the presidential contest. The election...
AFP : Scientists have discovered a new tipping point toward “runaway melting” of Antarctic ice sheets, caused by warm ocean...
Reuters : Finland plans to offer preemptive bird flu vaccination as soon as next week to some workers with exposure...
Al Jazeera : The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s former defence minister and its military...
Al Jazeera : At least five people have been killed and dozens hurt as wildfires swept through several villages in...
Reuters : India opposition leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by a city court in a...
News Desk : As many as 192 homeless people died in Delhi due to a heatwave between June 11 and...
Al Jazeera : A 36-year-old man has been killed and his body burned in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
AFP : Paris on Friday reported nearly 200 cases of cholera on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, which is struggling to contain the deadly epidemic. “As of June 18, 2024, 193 cases of cholera have been reported in Mayotte,” France’s SPF public health agency reported in its weekly update. Of those, 172 were locally acquired cases, while 21 were in people infected abroad in the neighbouring Comoros archipelago and countries on the African continent. Cholera is an infectious...
CNN : A massive explosion on Tuesday evening near Chad’s capital city of N’Djamena killed at least nine and injured 46 others, according to a statement from its foreign minister. Video authenticated and geolocated to the international airport in N’Djamena shows a massive fireball and sparks rising in the night sky. Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows that 17 structures at the ammo depot were destroyed. In the satellite image, the structures destroyed in the explosion were spread out, and...
AFP : American philanthropist Melinda French Gates, the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, endorsed President Joe Biden on Thursday...