Hajj 1446: 1.673 million pilgrims
Mecca [Saudi Arabia], June 6: Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Statistics has announced that the total number of Hajj pilgrims for the year 1446 AH...
UN Security Council calls for immediate release of hostages detained by Houthis
New York [US], June 6: The United Nations Security Council, in a statement today, called on the Houthis to immediately and unconditionally release all United...
Gaza doctors give their own blood to patients
Gaza [Palestine], June 6: Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down...
Russia targets teachers who cooperated with the British Council
Moscow [Russia], June 6: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) accused British intelligence on Thursday of using the British Council as cover to undermine Russia and...
Israeli military strikes Beirut's southern suburbs
Gaza [Palestine], June 6: The Israeli military said on Thursday that it was attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs, and the Lebanese state news...
Trump: 'I'm very disappointed in Elon'
New York [US], June 6: President Trump said he's always liked Elon Musk, and was surprised to see Musk's criticism of Trump's signature tax and...
Eight injured on Ryanair flight hit by 'severe turbulence'
Berlin [Germany], June 6: Eight passengers were injured on a Ryanair flight that diverted to an airport in southern Germany after experiencing "severe turbulence" due...
Canada prepares reprisals over US metals tariffs
Ottawa [Canada], June 6: Canada prepared possible reprisals while the European Union reported progress in trade talks on Wednesday as new U.S. metals tariffs triggered...
Three New Zealand lawmakers suspended for performing Maori haka
Wellington [New Zealand], June 6: Three lawmakers in New Zealand were formally suspended from parliament on Thursday for performing a traditional Maori dance, or haka.
'Premeditated genocide': Brazil President Lula slams Israel over Gaza war
Paris [France], June 6: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of carrying out "premeditated genocide" in Gaza during a visit to Paris.
Trump refuses to lay blame for war on Russia
Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump once again refused to single out Russia as the aggressor and instigator of the more than three-year...
Israeli strikes kill at least 52 across Gaza
Gaza [Palestine], June 6: At least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Thursday, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as a US-backed...
NATO begins Baltic drills; Russian spy plane triggers jet scramble
Rostock [Germany], June 6: NATO forces began conducting a two-week exercise on the Baltic Sea, with the first ships departing from the north-eastern German port...
Trump imposes travel ban on 12 countries for security concerns
Washington [US], June 6: US President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban on 12 countries on Wednesday, citing security risks.
Musk turns on Republicans
New York [US], June 5: For 130 days, tech billionaire Elon Musk was a "special government employee" working inside the Trump administration to slash what...
North Korea's Kim vows unconditional support for Russia
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 5: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russia's Secretary of the Security Council Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday, state media KCNA...
Deported Venezuelans have right to challenge detention
Caracas [Venezuela], June 5: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th-century wartime law must be given the chance...
Trump cannot proceed with gutting US Education Department
New York [US], June 5: A federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to lift a judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from carrying out...
US vetoes UN Security Council demand for Gaza ceasefire
Gaza [Palestine], June 5: The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council demand on Wednesday for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" between Israel and...
Justice Department accuses two Chinese researchers of smuggling
New York [US], June 5: U.S. federal prosecutors have accused two Chinese nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that had the potential to be...
Israeli military unleashes strikes on Syria
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 5: The Israeli military said in a statement it struck weapons belonging to the Syrian regime in southern Syria, in a...
China calls on WTO for greater oversight on unilateral tariffs
New York [US], June 5: China's commerce minister has called on the World Trade Organisation to strengthen supervision over unilateral tariffs, and put forward objective...
Judge extends ban on Trump administration canceling COVID school aid
New York [US], June 5: A federal judge in Manhattan has extended an injunction banning the Trump administration from canceling unspent funding to help elementary...
UNICEF spokesman 'shocked' by extent of malnutrition in Gaza
Gaza [Palestine], June 5: UNICEF spokesman James Elder, currently in Gaza, has described the "horrors" he witnessed within just 24 hours.
Gaza aid centres shut, access to area prohibited
Tel Aviv [Israel] / Gaza [Palestine], June 5: Following reports that Israeli forces killed people near a food distribution site in Gaza, all aid centres...
Pro-Palestine protesters in UK call for Israel arms embargo and sanctions
London [UK], June 5: Pro-Palestine campaigners have rallied against Israel's punishing war on Gaza, gathering outside the British Parliament in London and demanding a full...
Russia condemns NATO naval exercise
Moscow [Russia], June 5: Russia on Wednesday criticized a two-week NATO naval exercise in the Baltic Sea as "provocative," one day before it was to...