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Two days after the lunch, Erin Patterson went to hospital but left within minutes against medical advice, saying she needed to make arrangements for her children and animals and would return shortly afterwards. — AAP handout pic via Reuters

Australian court hears mushroom suspect left hospital ‘to pack ballet bag’, not cover tracks

Participants gather during a rally to show their support for activists aboard a boat stopped by Israeli forces enroute to deliver aid to Gaza, during a rally in Lyon, south-eastern France on June 9, 2025. An independent United Nations commission said on Tuesday Israeli attacks on schools, religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes and the crime against humanity of seeking to exterminate Palestinians. — AFP pic

UN experts accuse Israel of ‘extermination’ in Gaza school, religious site attacks

A satellite image shows an overview smoke rising from the York Factory First Nation wildfire, in Manitoba, Canada, May 30, 2025. — Maxar Technologies handout pic via Reuters

Canada wildfires edge into Ontario, prompting military evacuations of remote First Nation

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief Major General, Hossein Salami speaks during a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2024. On Monday, Salami said the intelligence would make ‘the impact of Iranian missiles more precise’ in case of a confrontation. — Reuters pic

Iran claims intel on Israeli nuclear sites, threatens retaliation for any strike

Shenghua Wen, 42, who was living illegally in the United States after overstaying his student visa, was charged with violating long-standing US sanctions against North Korea. — AFP pic

Chinese national pleads guilty in US for illegally exporting arms to North Korea

Posters with a photo of Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe that read ‘Strength, Miguel’ are seen at the Congress in Bogota on June 9, 2025. Doctors treating a Colombian presidential hopeful shot twice in the head by a would-be assassin warned he was not responding well to treatment Monday and that his condition remained grave. Right-wing Senator Miguel Uribe, 39, was shot by a 15-year-old alleged hitman at close range while campaigning in Bogota on Saturday. — AFP pic

Colombia president Petro fuels plot talk after teen gunman shoots presidential hopeful

A firefighter works at the site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 10, 2025. — Reuters pic

Fires rage in Kyiv, Odesa as Russia launches night of drone attacks; hospitals and homes damaged

A picture shows the aid sailboat Madleen escorted by an Israeli military boat approaching the southern port of Ashdod on June 9, 2025. Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound aid boat Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition activist group, on June 9, preventing the activists on board from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory. — AFP pic

Israel prepares to deport Gaza-bound aid boat activists, including Greta Thunberg

Protesters hold signs reading ‘Neutrality = complicity’ and Palestinian flags as they attend a demonstration to show their support for activists aboard a boat stopped by Israeli forces enroute to deliver aid to Gaza, in Toulouse, south-western France on June 9, 2025. — AFP pic

Macron demands release of Gaza boat activists as protests erupt across Europe

Demonstrators holding signs and flags face California National Guard members standing guard outside the Federal Building as they protest in response to federal immigration operations in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2025. — AFP pic

‘Deranged’ deployment: Trump floods LA with National Guard and Marines, California governor Newsom blasts move

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr removed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement, and is in the process of considering new members to replace them. —  Reuters file pic

RFK Jr clears out CDC vaccine panel, raising alarm over future health guidance

A Ukrainian serviceman from the 13th Operational NGU Khartiia Brigade operates a Vampire drone during a test and training flight. — Reuters pic

Ukraine’s ‘spider’s web’ attack was a game changer — Nato’s top admiral explains why

Police clear demonstrators after they blocked a street with a barricade during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles. — Reuters pic

Does US law allow Trump to send troops to quell protests?

Infants undergo a daily medical examination at a maternal and child health care hospital in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, December 3, 2012. — Reuters pic

Pushing for births: China mandates epidurals to ease labour pain

An Alaska Airlines jet takes off from San Francisco International Airport on June 4 — AFP pic

US aviation industry warns tariffs on aircraft parts risk harming key supply chains

China’s consulate in Los Angeles told its citizens in the area on Monday to strengthen personal security, after unrest in America’s second-biggest city. — AFP pic

After days of protests, Beijing tells Chinese nationals in LA to avoid trouble spots