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This handout photograph taken on June 15, 2025 and released by the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) of India’s Uttarakhand state shows smoke billowing from the site of a chopper crash near Gaurikund. Seven people including a toddler were killed on June 15, in India when a helicopter ferrying Hindu pilgrims back from a shrine crashed in the Himalayas, officials said. — Uttarakhand’s State Disaster Response Force handout/AFP pic

Toddler among seven killed as chopper crashes near Kedarnath shrine in northern India

A picture taken on June 12, 2025 shows an empty road in front of one of the entrances of the US embassy building in Baghdad's Green Zone, following an announcement by a US official the previous day that staff levels at the diplomatic mission in Iraq were being reduced over security concerns. Iraq has approached the Iranian and US governments in a bid to prevent being caught up in a regional escalation, officials said yesterday. — AFP pic

Iraq appeals to US, Iran to keep conflict from spreading to its territory

A photograph taken on May 20, 2025 shows the site of the former St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, in Tuam, in the outskirts of Galway, western Ireland, a site believed to be containing a mass grave of children and mothers. St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home was run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, Catherine Corless’s research has uncovered that, between 1925 and 1961, 796 children died in the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home and are believed to be buried at this site some in large septic tanks. Over a decade since her findings, excavation crews will seal off the site on June 16, ahead of breaking ground the following month to search for remains. — AFP pic

‘Dirty little secrets’: Ireland to begin long-awaited excavation of mother and baby home ‘mass grave’ site

This combination of pictures created on May 19, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump (left) on the phone on January 28, 2017 in Washington, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) on the phone Moscow on December 27, 2023. Putin told his US counterpart yesterday that Moscow was ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22, once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies.— AFP pic

Putin signals readiness for fresh Ukraine talks in Trump’s birthday call

Military personnel stand guard at a nuclear facility in the Zardanjan area of Isfahan, Iran, April 19, 2024, in this screengrab taken from video. — WANA (West Asia News Agency) pic via Reuters

Oman confirms cancellation of US-Iran nuclear talks as Tehran refuses to negotiate under pressure

An incident at the US Army’s Fort Cavazos, formerly called Fort Hood, in central Texas was being investigated, CBS News said late yesterday, but there was no active shooter and no lockdown. — Reuters file pic

No active shooter, no lockdown: US military probing incident at Texas fort, says CBS News

A helicopter carrying six people has crashed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, news agency ANI reported today. — Reuters file pic

Media: Helicopter carrying six crashes in northern India, search efforts underway

Fire from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot is seen following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. — Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) pic via Reuters

Iran vows ‘heavier’ retaliation after Israeli strikes hit gas field as both sides continue trading fresh missile strikes

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday announced a national inquiry focused into a UK child-sex scandal that attracted the attention of US billionaire Elon Musk. — Jordan Pettitt/Pool/AFP pic

Starmer U-turn: UK launches national inquiry into decades-long child-sex abuse scandal involving ‘grooming gangs’

Demonstrators hold US flags and signs amid tear gas during a protest against US President Donald Trump’s policies and federal immigration sweeps during a No Kings Day demonstration in Los Angeles, California June 14, 2025. — Reuters pic

Balloons, bubbles, tear gas: LA’s ‘No Kings’ anti-Trump rallies spiral into chaos as police clash with protesters

People take part in a ‘No Kings’ protest in Denver, Colorado, on June 14, 2025 as US President Donald Trump presides over a military parade in Washington, DC. — AFP pic

‘No crown for the clown’: Tens of thousands throng US streets against ‘king’ Trump in nationwide rallies

US President Donald Trump speaks during a celebration of the Army's 250th birthday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. June, 14, 2025. — Doug Mills/Pool/Reuters pic

Tanks roll, protests swell: Trump basks in 79th birthday military parade as critics decry ‘authoritarian display’

An FBI poster shows images of 57-year-old Vance Luther, the primary suspect involved in the shooting deaths of senior Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband, in Minneapolis, Minnesota released on June 14, 2025. — FBI handout pic via Reuters

Minnesota gunman texted chilling message: ‘I might be dead soon’; suspect linked to manifesto, evangelical ties

Officers canvas the neighbourhood after what police said was a targeted shooting in the area around Edinburgh Golf Course in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota June 14, 2025. — Reuters pic

‘Armed and dangerous’: Manhunt underway after gunman kills Minnesota lawmaker and husband, wounds another in attacks

The Greenlandia expedition’s sailing boat ‘Kamak’ sails between icebergs released by glaciers around Milne Land in the Scoresby Sound Fjord, Eastern Greenland, August 15, 2023. — AFP pic

Global powers eye Greenland’s rare earth minerals and strategic Arctic position

A demonstrator holds an anti-war sign during a protest against Israeli strikes on Iran, in New York June 13, 2025. — Reuters pic

Israel’s Iran strikes hint at bigger goal: Regime change