NEWS IN BRIEF_2026-06-29

Three Pakistani rangers killed
in Karachi attack
KARACHI, June 28: A bomb and gun attack on a Sindh Rangers facility in Karachi killed three paramilitary troops and injured four on Saturday, Pakistan's military said, as the country battles a surge in violence. Militants from the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, detonated an explosive at the entrance of the Rangers camp in Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar neighbourhood before opening fire on the troops, the military said in a statement. — Reuters

Aramco helicopter crash kills
14 in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, June 28: A helicopter crash in Saudi Arabia killed 14 Saudi citizens on Sunday, the kingdom's official press agency reported, adding that the aircraft belonged to state oil giant Aramco. The Saudi Press Agency, citing an official at the energy ministry, reported the helicopter crashed in Ras Tanura in the country's east. "The accident claimed the lives of all 14 passengers, all Saudi citizens," the agency said. — AFP

Eleven people killed in plane crash
in northeastern France
PARIS, June 28: Eleven people were killed when a small plane crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine on Sunday, the local prefecture said. The plane belonged to a parachutist school. The pilot and all 10 passengers - five students and five instructors - died in the accident, the prefecture said. The French interior minister was on his way to the scene, the interior ministry said. Yves Seguy, the regional prefect, told broadcaster BFM the aircraft appeared to suffer damage before plunging vertically to the ground. The crash occurred in a built-up area near a shopping centre. —Reuters

Drone, artillery attacks kill civilians on
both sides of Russia-Ukraine border
MOSCOW, June 28: Drones and artillery killed civilians on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine border on Saturday, local officials said. In the Russian border region of Bryansk, a Ukrainian drone strike killed two people in their car in a village near the border, the region’s acting Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on Telegram. In Ukraine, the governor of the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk Region, Oleksandr Ganzha, said a combined total of more than 40 drone strikes and artillery fire had killed one person and injured one near Nikopol. — Arab News

Israel govt recognises Armenian
genocide in rebuke to Turkey
JERUSALEM, June 28: The Israeli government on Sunday unanimously recognised the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, a move widely seen as a rebuke to Turkey and a stark signal of the deepening rift between the two countries. "A historic decision: the Israeli government has unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Saar's proposal to recognise the Armenian genocide," the foreign ministry said. — AFP