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China said today that strengthening its military is beneficial to world peace, slamming a think tank report that warned the threat of a direct strike by Beijing on Australia was increasing. — Reuters pic

China says growing its military helps world peace

Britain hopes a newly announced ban ‌on social media for children under 16 will be in force by early next year. — Reuters file pic

Britain announces sweeping social media ban for under-16s

Smoke and fire rises from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on June 15, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. A major missile attack struck Kyiv early on June 15, an AFP reporter witnessed, with projectiles intercepted in the sky and glowing debris falling onto the city. Ukrainian officials including the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram that strikes hit various districts. — AFP pic

Deadly strikes on Ukraine leave Kyiv cathedral in flames

Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, who joined the royal family when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, ‌was acquitted on two other accounts of ⁠rape. — Ane Him pic via AFP

Stepson of Norway's crown prince convicted of rape, sentenced to four years in prison

ondon’s High Court will today rule on a legal standoff between the government and activist group Palestine Action that has seen thousands of people—from students to an 83-year-old retired vicar—arrested and carried away from protests by police. — AFP pic

UK court to rule on ban of pro-Palestinian group

Demonstrators place wood and branches in the fire of a burning trash container during a rally of a

G7 protest turns from carnival to violent stand-off

Missouri Highway Patrol, Butler City Police and the Bates County Sheriff's Department vehicles block access to the scene of a fatal plane crash involving a skydiving aircraft near Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, Missouri, on June 14, 2026. A skydiving plane crashed June 14 in the central US state of Missouri, killing 12 people on board, officials said. The crash occurred near Butler Memorial Airport, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Kansas City, said Dennis Jacobs, director of Bates County Emergency Management Agency. The private plane, carrying 11 skydivers and a pilot, turned around for an unknown reason after taking off around 11:30 am and crashed near a highway, prompting authorities to close the road, local media reports said. — AFP pic

Skydiving plane crash kills 12 in Missouri

US President Donald Trump and UFC CEO Dana White stand in the Blue Room of the White House as they prepare to walk outside for the

Trump celebrates 80th birthday with cage fight, Iran deal

The content of the agreement, which follows weeks of fraught negotiations and periodic threats from Trump of fresh hostilities unless Iran reached a deal—remained unclear. — Reuters pic

US-Iran peace deal announced with ‘permanent’ end to military action

This screen grab from a video posted by US President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account on June 12, 2026, shows what President Trump says is a deadly strike on the leader of Tren de Aragua. — US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social Account handout pic via AFP

How ‘Niño Guerrero’ built Latin America’s most feared gang from behind bars

Protesters holds a banner during a protest against a luxury resort, a plan by a company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast, in Tirana, Albania June 12, 2026. — Reuters pic

‘I was ready to get a rifle and start shooting’: Trump’s son‑in‑law Kushner resort project sits on disputed land, Albanian villagers say

An aerial view from a UN helicopter shows the Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in Mongbwalu, Djugu Territory of Ituri province, which is the epicentre of the Ebola epidemic, in Democratic Republic of the Congo, in this handout image released on June 4, 2026. — Joel Lumbala/World Health Organisation handout pic via Reuters

A cracked coffin, a funeral and the hunt for Ebola’s patient zero in a remote Congo gold town

 The US says it is close to signing a peace deal that would end the ‌three-month-old war with Iran, though terms have not yet been made public. It is not clear at this point how any agreement would stack up against the 2015 deal with ‌Iran, which lifted sanctions in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities. — Reuters pic

As US nears Iran peace deal, a look at the 2015 nuclear pact abandoned by Trump

Trump’s approval rating among rural Americans dropped in June to a new low of 50 per cent, according to the June 3-8 Reuters/Ipsos poll. — AFP pic

‘My ⁠day to day is negatively impacted’: Trump’s support in rural America slips as voters cite fuel and food cost hikes, poll shows

An woman walks past a billboard displaying Iran’s national flag at Enghelab Square in Tehran June 14, 2026. A senior Iranian official told Reuters a final draft ‌of the memorandum of understanding with the US covered a range of issues, from Tehran’s nuclear work to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and US waivers ‌on oil sanctions, with a final deal to be discussed in the 60 days following agreement by the two sides. — AFP pic

Iran says draft US deal would reopen Hormuz and grant oil‑sanctions waiver, nuclear curbs and release of frozen assets

British armed forces intercepted a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet oil ‌tanker in the Channel today, leading for the first time an operation to disrupt the oil revenue that helps fund Russia’s war in Ukraine. — Reuters pic

UK seizes Russian shadow‑fleet tanker in Channel in move Starmer calls a blow to Moscow