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In naming Alibaba, the Pentagon said the tech giant helps boost China’s defense industrial base because it is affiliated with the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Alibaba is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including tech giant Alibaba, electric…
Karim Ahmed Khan, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor. File | Photo Credit: AP The embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was suspended from his duties late on Monday (June 8, 2026), after the court’s oversight body referred Karim Khan for disciplinary proceedings. In a scandal that has dragged on for more than two…
‘An influential segment within the BNP feel that as a goodwill gesture towards the new government, India should have reversed some of the retributory steps that it had taken during the interim government’s rule under Muhammad Yunus’. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto More than hundred days have passed since the Tarique Rahman government took charge…
Representative image. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A federal judge on Monday (June 8, 2026) struck down a $100,000 fee that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorised. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the…
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Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from Britain in 1966. File Image. | Photo Credit: Reuter Mauritius said on Monday (June 8, 2026) that it had not received any proposal from the Trump administration on…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin. File | Photo Credit: AP The Kremlin said on Monday (June 8, 2026) that the leaders of Germany, France, and Britain spoke of peace in Ukraine, but were helping Kyiv with new weapons to continue the war, a position it said was inconsistent. The leaders of Britain, Germany , and France…
Brigadier Juma Salem bin Suwaidan, Director of the General Department of Traffic at Dubai Police, said that preliminary investigations showed the truck had stopped suddenly in the middle of the Emirates Road due to a technical fault. Photo: X/@DubaiPoliceHQ Several Indian workers were killed on Monday (June 8, 2026) when a minibus collided with a…
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On June 3, for the first time, Germany failed to win a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The largest economy in the European Union (EU) won just 104 votes, well below the required 127 votes, and lost to the other two contenders in the race, Portugal, which won 134 votes, and…
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Israel “has full right to self-defence,” which it will use “to the full extent necessary,” says Israeli Prime Minister. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the halt in fighting with Iran on Monday (June 8, 2026), but he vowed to respond “with force” to future attacks. In a videotaped statement, Mr….
From the INDIA bloc’s latest strategy meeting and growing alliance tensions to the escalating U.S.-Iran conflict, a major arrest in West Bengal and Xi Jinping’s North Korea visit — The top stories of the day. Source link