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US pulls nonessential staff from Middle East posts amid rising tensions

WASHINGTON — The United States has ordered the departure of nonessential staff from several diplomatic and military posts across the Middle East, citing rising regional tensions and the growing uncertainty around stalled nuclear talks with Iran.The State Department announced Wednesday it had directed nonessential personnel to leave the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.Additionally, it authorized voluntary departure for staff and family members in Bahrain and Kuwait.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also approved the optional exit of military dependents across the region, according to U.S. Central Command.“These decisions are based on the most recent security assessments and our unwavering commitment to the safety of Americans abroad,” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly.The move comes amid...

June 12, 2025

US pulls nonessential staff from Middle East posts amid rising tensions

Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich are key members of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition

UK, four other countries sanction far-right Israeli ministers for 'inciting violence' against Palestinians

LONDON — The UK has sanctioned two far-right Israeli ministers over "repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities" in the occupied West Bank.Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will both be banned from entering the UK and will have any assets in the UK frozen as part of the measures announced by the foreign secretary.It is part of a joint move with Australia, Norway, Canada and New Zealand announced on Tuesday.In response, Israel said: "It is outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are subjected to these kind of measures."David Lammy said Finance Minister Smotrich and National Security Minister Ben-Gvir had "incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights".US Secretary of State...

June 11, 2025

UK, four other countries sanction far-right Israeli ministers for 'inciting violence' against Palestinians

Top officials from the US and China have been meeting in London

Trump says US-China deal 'is done'

SINGAPORE — US President Donald Trump has said a deal with China "is done" after two days of talks between top officials in London.Trump said that, subject to final approval from President Xi Jinping and himself, the US will get the rare earth metals it needs, while Chinese students can take up their places at American colleges.Earlier, the US and China said they had agreed in principle a framework for de-escalating trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies.Last month, Washington and Beijing agreed a temporary truce over trade tariffs but each country has since accused the other of breaching the deal.Posting on his Truth Social platform, the president said: "Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me."Full...

June 11, 2025

Trump says US-China deal 'is done'

Demonstrators walk past photos of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance during an 'ICE Out Of NYC' in New York on Tuesday

More protests pop up across US; Texas to deploy National Guard

LOS ANGELES — Protests are unfolding in major US cities, including New York, Chicago, Austin and Washington against President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. The protests come as Immigration and Customs Enforcement races to meet White House arrest quotas.More demonstrations are planned this week and weekend. Texas is deploying the National Guard in anticipation.Since Trump took office, ICE, which had previously been operating with a set of guidelines focused on public safety and national security threats, has had to pivot as the key agency at the core of the president’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations.While the administration has touted its immigration crackdown publicly, privately officials have come under fire for failing to meet White House arrest quotas,...

June 11, 2025

More protests pop up across US; Texas to deploy National Guard

Members of the National Guard guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an operation in Los Angeles, in this image shared by ICE on Tuesday.

LA police enforce curfew as Trump vows to 'liberate' city

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say they have made "mass arrests" after a fifth day of protests over US President Donald Trump's immigration raids.Mayor Karen Bass declared an overnight curfew within a relatively small area of the city's downtown district, saying businesses were being vandalized and looted.Elsewhere, the immigration raids that triggered the protests last Friday have continued, with deployed National Guard troops now protecting border control agents on enforcement operations.Trump's row with state officials ramped up after he deployed troops to LA. The president has now vowed to "liberate" the city, but has been accused by California Governor Gavin Newsom of an "assault" on democracy.On Tuesday, Trump defended his decision to...

June 11, 2025

LA police enforce curfew as Trump vows to 'liberate' city

Tearful Graz residents light candles at Austrian school shooting vigil

Austrians hold minute of silence and vigil for 10 victims of school shooting

GRAZ — Austria has held a minute of silence for 10 people killed in a school shooting, after thousands gathered for a candlelight vigil for the victims on Tuesday evening.Police said the 21-year-old suspect, a former student, took his own life in a school bathroom shortly after the gun attack in Graz on Tuesday - the deadliest in the country's recent history.In a statement on Wednesday, police said they found a "farewell letter" and a non-functional pipe bomb during a search of the suspect's home. Authorities have not confirmed the gunman's motive.The incident, which left a further 12 people injured, took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city.Six females and three males were killed in the attack, and a seventh female died later...

June 11, 2025

Austrians hold minute of silence and vigil for 10 victims of school shooting

A vehicle burns during a second night of riots, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, on June 11, 2025

Masked rioters in Northern Ireland attack police, torch houses for second night

BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland — Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town, according to Reuters news agency.Police said they were dealing with “serious disorder” in the town, which is about 45 km (30 miles) from the capital Belfast, and urged people to avoid the area.Officers in riot gear and driving armored vans responded with water cannon and plastic baton rounds after being attacked by petrol bombs, scaffolding and rocks that rioters gathered by knocking down nearby walls, a Reuters witness said.One house was burned out and a police officer vomited after leaving another in a different part of...

June 11, 2025

Masked rioters in Northern Ireland attack police, torch houses for second night

Players of Reversed Front — Bonfire can pledge allegiance to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet or Uyghurs, among other options

HK bans 'seditious' mobile game about fighting communists

SINGAPORE — Hong Kong residents found downloading or sharing a mobile game app about defeating the communist regime may be punished under national security laws, police have said.According to the website for Reversed Front: Bonfire, players can "pledge allegiance" to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Tibet or Uyghurs, among other options, "to overthrow the Communist regime".In a statement on Tuesday, police warned that those who download the game "may be regarded as in possession of a publication that has a seditious intention".It comes as Beijing has tightened grip over the city and has been seen as increasingly cracking down on dissent in the wake of the 2019 pro-democracy protests.In a line on the game's website, it stated that it was a "work of...

June 11, 2025

HK bans 'seditious' mobile game about fighting communists

The speakers, seen in this file photo, broadcast propaganda across the border

South Korea turns off propaganda loudspeakers to North

SINGAPORE — South Korea's military says it has suspended its loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the border to North Korea, as part of a bid to "restore trust" between both countries.The move comes a week after the country elected its new president Lee Jae-myung, who had campaigned on improving inter-Korean ties.Pyongyang considers the loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts an act of war and has threatened to blow them up in the past.They were previously paused for six years but resumed in June last year in response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border to the South.In recent years, the broadcasts have included news from both Koreas and abroad as well as information on democracy and life in the South.Ties between North and South...

June 11, 2025

South Korea turns off propaganda loudspeakers to North

India had already begun trade negotiations when tariffs were announced, Jaishankar said

India 'hopeful' of reaching deal with US before Trump's tariff deadline

DELHI — India is "hopeful" of reaching a trade agreement with the US before the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs ends on 9 July, the country's foreign minister has said.In an interview with French daily Le Figaro on Tuesday, S Jaishankar, who is on a four-day visit to Belgium and France, said India and the US had already begun trade negotiations before Trump unveiled his 2 April 'Liberation day' tariffs on global partners, including up to 27% on India."Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi met with Donald Trump in February and they decided to further open access to our respective markets," Jaishankar told the paper."We are hopeful of reaching an agreement before the end of the tariff suspension on 9 July."Earlier in the day, a US delegation held...

June 11, 2025

India 'hopeful' of reaching deal with US before Trump's tariff deadline

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