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Iran Singer, Artistes Sentenced To 74 Lashes Each Over Concert
The concert featured Ahmadi singing powerful, mournful songs to an empty audience on a dimly lit stage adorned solely with a large Persian carpet in the grounds of a traditional caravanserai complex. Iran on the Map An Iranian court sentenced a prominent singer named Parastoo Ahmadi and a group of seven fellow artistes to 74…
Trump Launches Qatar-Gifted Luxury Jet, Calls It ‘Flying White House’
Trump has previously said it would be “stupid” to reject the gift, while also stoking further concern by saying the plane would eventually be donated to his presidential library. US President Donald Trump speaks in front of the new Air Force One, gifted to him by Qatar, in a hangar at Joint Base Andrews in…
Australia Detects First Case Of Contagious H5 Bird Flu
The country was previously the only continent where the H5 strain, which can devastate poultry and wild bird populations, had not been detected. Updated June 20, 2026 Bird Flu…photo by Tempo.co English Scientists have detected the H5 strain of bird flu in Australia for the first time, the country’s agriculture minister said on Saturday, meaning…
Sudan: The African Development Bank and UNICEF launch a $58 million response to Port Sudan’s water crisis
The African Development Bank Group (Bank Group), in partnership with UNICEF, is scaling up efforts to restore safe water and sanitation services for hundreds of thousands of children and families in Port Sudan, with a $54.8 million investment to address the city’s deepening water crisis. Access to safe water remains one of the most urgent…
Israel, Hezbollah Agree Ceasefire As US-Iran Deal Under Strain
Tehran’s top negotiator warned it would not bend on its red lines and that its finger was still “on the trigger”, even as shipping appeared to pick up in the Strait of Hormuz, which had essentially been closed during the war. Updated June 19, 2026 A Lebanese soldier sits on top of a military vehicle…
US push to get Iran talks started hits an early bump. Vance stays at home, for now
The American push to quickly begin high-stakes talks with Iran hit a snag Friday, just days after the signing of an agreement that opens a two-month window for negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program and returning oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to prewar levels. Iranian officials did not travel as planned to Switzerland, insisting that Israeli strikes on Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon must…
Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt fighting, officials say, as US-Iran talks hang in the balance
Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group agreed Friday to halt the heavy fighting in southern Lebanon that had threatened to unravel an interim agreement between the United States and Iran to end their war, officials said. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah immediately confirmed the truce. It came after a heavy exchange of fire killed 47 people in…
Israel “firmly committed” to ceasefire in Lebanon, Israeli ambassador to US says
and Hezbollah to renew the cessation of hostilities. Earlier in the day, Hezbollah said in a statement to Qatar-based Al-Araby TV that they “will abide by the ceasefire if Israel abides by it.” Leiter is set to take part in next week’s talks between Israel and Lebanon in the newest round of diplomatic meetings between…
US-Iran Deal Under Immediate Strain As Fighting Flares In Lebanon
The deal signed this week by President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian aims to end a war that began on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Updated June 19, 2026 People make their way through the heavily damaged historic market of Nabatieh as residents displaced by…
Bank Of England Follows Fed In Holding Interest Rate
The widely expected BoE decision came after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday signalled a US rate increase this year even as it kept borrowing costs steady. By Aramide Folorunsho Updated June 18, 2026 A view of the Bank of England in London, United Kingdom. The Bank of England held its benchmark interest rate at 3.75 per…
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