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Washington, June 11 (UNI) The United States condemns the imposition of sanctions on two sitting ministers in the Israeli government imposed by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, and urges their reversal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday. “The United States condemns the sanctions imposed by the governments of United Kingdom,…

Washington, June 11 (UNI) A curfew will be enforced in some parts of Los Angeles amid the ongoing protests, Mayor Karen Bass said. “I wanted to let the city know that I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” Bass said…

London/Moscow, June 10 (UNI) Urging for a 5% hike in NATO’s defence expenditure, the body’s secretary general Mark Rutte claims that Russia seeks to attack NATO nations by 2030. During his visit to London, Reutte asked all 32 NATO member states to agree to his demand for a big hike in military spending at a…

Aden, Yemen, June 10 (UNI) Yemeni security forces rescued 177 African migrants, including dozens of women, from a human trafficking ring in the Bab al-Mandab area along Yemen’s Red Sea coast on Monday, a security source told Xinhua. Government forces freed the migrants mostly Ethiopians from a smuggling network operating in the coastal district of…

Sydney, June 10 (UNI) Two teenagers have been killed and a third has been injured in a late-night car crash east of Melbourne. Emergency services were called to reports of a car crashing into a tree in the town of Orbost, 300 km east of Melbourne in Australia’s East Gippsland region, at about 12:20 a.m….

Washington, June 10 (UNI) NATO member states plan to buy a total of 700 F-35 fighter jets from the United States as part of strengthening the alliance’s military power, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. “Allies will invest in more warships and aircraft. To give just one example, America’s Allies will procure at least 700…

Los Angeles, June 10 (UNI) Following noise grenades, Los Angeles police began shooting rubber bullets at the most active protesters, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. Earlier, the correspondent reported that security forces used flash-bang grenades. Later, in an attempt to disperse the crowd, law enforcement officers used rubber bullets — primarily at those who threw…

Beirut, June 9 (UNI) A Hezbollah member was killed and three Lebanese civilians were injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a motorcycle on the Chehabiyeh-Kfar Dounin road in southern Lebanon, security and civil defence sources said. A Lebanese security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Xinhua that the victim was identified…

Hong Kong, June 9 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge at 21:15:07 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 47.83 degrees south latitude and 115.95 degrees east longitude.

Kuala Lumpur, June 9 (UNI) At least 15 people were killed when a bus transporting students was struck by a multipurpose vehicle along the East-West Highway in Perak state early on Monday, authorities said. The collision, which was reported at 1:10 a.m. local time, involved 48 individuals, with 13 of them being found dead at…