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G7 leaders demand ceasefire in Lebanon, welcome Iran deal

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France/DUBAI, JUne 17 (Agencies): Leaders of the G7 countries demanded a ceasefire in Lebanon on Wednesday and said they will diversify energy supply routes to reduce dependence on the Strait of Hormuz in response to the war in Iran, as they welcomed an interim deal to end the conflict.The...

Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque

JILJILIYA (Palestinian Territories): Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in a West Bank village on Wednesday, the local mayor said, while AFP journalists at the site saw signs of arson and vandalism.The incident comes amid an increase in attacks against Palestinian communities by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...

China calls for more Global South voices to be heard at UN

BEIJING, June 17 (Reuters): Emerging markets suffer from inadequate representation at the United Nations, its authority increasingly challenged by escalating political and economic disputes worldwide, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday. The comments, featuring brief mention of the Middle East and Ukraine conflicts but few details, came in...

Hope, gratitude as Saudi doctors prepare Filipino conjoined twins for surgery

MANILA, June 17 (Arab News): As two-year-old conjoined twins Olivia and Gianna Manuel prepare for separation surgery on Thursday, their parents are filled with hope that it will give them a childhood and life like other children.Born in Nueva Ecija in the central Philippines in April 2024, the girls are...

Congo Ebola response strained a month after WHO declares int’l emergency

NAIROBI/LONDON/DAKAR, June 17 (Reuters): Health workers battling an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo lack the personnel to identify suspected cases, the ambulances to transport them and even the construction materials to build isolation wards, officials and aid workers told Reuters.A month after the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Sri Lanka ex-leader’s son arrested over corruption

COLOMBO, June 17 (AFP): The son of Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa was arrested on Wednesday on corruption charges, the anti-graft commission said, the latest case to target the once all-powerful political clan.Yoshitha Rajapaksa (38), was accused of tapping state funds for overseas training during his career as a...

US military footprint growing in Australia

SYDNEY, June 17 (AFP): US Marine Corps plans for a crisis-ready stockpile in Australia are part of a "growing US footprint" in the country and important for national security, Defence Minister Richard Marles said Wednesday.The US Marines will include Australia in a global prepositioning programme for weapons, ammunition and vehicles...

Mumbai rations water supply as June rainfall hits 12-year low

MUMBAI, June 17 (Reuters): Grappling with its driest June in more than a decade, India's financial capital of Mumbai has cut water supply to construction sites and reduced industrial usage by 20 per cent starting from Wednesday, as reservoir levels decline.Mumbai, on the western coast of the country, is dependent...

Pentagon restores name of US Pacific Command

WASHINGTON, June 17 (AFP): The Pentagon is restoring the name of the US Indo-Pacific Command to the US Pacific Command, it said on Tuesday, reversing a 2018 decision.The renaming will not change the command's area of responsibility, which stretches from the western part of India to America's Pacific coastline, the...