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Wreckage showing the tail section of the Air India Boeing 787-8 is pictured in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad June 14, 2025. — AFP pic

Indian investigators retrieve black box data as search for answers continues after deadly Air India crash

This picture taken on June 24, 2025 and released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 26, 2025 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his daughter Kim Ju Ae (3rd left), and his wife Ri Sol Ju (left) visiting the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area in Kangwon Province, North Korea. — KCNA via KNS handout pic via AFP

North Korea unveils ‘world-class’ beach resort with water slides, vows more to come

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said the purpose of her visit was to survey the ongoing crackdown on transnational crime and gauge the impact of border restrictions, which saw Thailand halting all vehicles, tourists and traders from all land border crossings into Cambodia. — Reuters pic

Thai PM, Cambodia’s Hun Sen visit tense border amid troop buildup and political crisis

US physician-scientist Drew Weissman speaks during an interview with AFP in Mexico City on June 25, 2025. Drew Weissman, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine, voiced fears Wednesday that vaccine sceptics appointed by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr would block approvals of new vaccines. — AFP pic

Nobel laureate fears US will block life-saving shots as RFK Jr fills panel with sceptics

As of Thursday morning, 474 such earthquakes had been observed around the Tokara island chain, south of Kyushu, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. — Reuters pic

Hundreds of earthquakes shake Japan’s remote Tokara Islands, agency warns of stronger tremors ahead

Palestinian photographer and Instagram star Motaz Azaiza in the middle of the crowd during an event at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia to collect donations for UNRWA, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 2025. — AFP pic

‘This is not me’: Reluctant Gazan war photographer Motaz Azaiza draws crowds, funds in US tour

File picture of US President Donald Trump arriving to address troops at the Al-Udeid air base south-west of Doha on May 15, 2025. Trump Wednesday likened Washington’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the US dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. — AFP pic

Trump compares US strike on Iran to Hiroshima, says it ‘ended a war’

File picture of barbed wire fences seen outside a shuttered Great Wall Park compound where Cambodian authorities said they had recovered evidence of human trafficking, kidnapping and torture during raids on suspected cybercrime compounds in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia September 21, 2022. — Reuters pic

Amnesty: Cambodia turning blind eye as brutal scam compounds traffic victims, children

This photo shows an aerial view of flooded buildings and streets in Congjiang, in south-western China’s Guizhou province on June 25, 2025. — AFP pic

Six dead as floodwaters from upstream swamp China’s Guangxi, cyclone looms

Defendants stand during their corruption trial at the High People’s Court in Hanoi on June 26, 2025. A Vietnamese appeal court on June 26, 2025 slashed former property and aviation tycoon Trinh Van Quyet’s jail sentence in a US$146 million fraud and stock market manipulation case from 21 years to seven. Quyet and 49 others were punished for fraud, stock market manipulation, abuse of power and publishing incorrect stock market information. — AFP pic

Vietnamese tycoon’s jail term cut to seven years in US$146m stock fraud case

People walk past a cannabis shop on Sukhumvit Road, one of the most popular tourist spots in Bangkok, Thailand, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic

Thai cannabis shops in limbo as govt pushes for doctor-approved sales only

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, speaking at a conference in Naypyidaw, pledged to hold elections in December and January, according to state-run ‘The Global New Light of Myanmar’. — AFP pic

Myanmar junta eyes December-January for elections despite war, boycotts

Zohran Mamdani reacts as he walks during a watch party for his primary election, which includes his bid to become the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor in the upcoming November 2025 election, in New York City, June 25, 2025. — Reuters pic

Zohran Mamdani on track to become NYC’s first Muslim mayor in shock primary win over Cuomo

This handout photograph taken and released on June 25, 2025 by Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) shows rescue personnel evacuating hiker Juliana Marins, a Brazilian national who went missing on June 21 at Mount Rinjani on Lombok island. — Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency handout pic via AFP

Indonesian rescuers recover Brazilian tourist’s body after fatal fall from Mount Rinjani

File picture of migrants of African origin trying to flee to Europe crammed on board of a small boat, as Tunisian coast guards prepare to transfer them onto their vessel, at sea between Tunisia and Italy, on August 10, 2023. Germany’s conservative-led government will stop funding groups that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean, a foreign ministry source said Wednesday, prompting opposition parties to warn that the decision could worsen a ‘humanitarian crisis’. — AFP pic

Germany to cut funds for Mediterranean migrant rescues, sparking outcry

On the day her partner revealed he had been unfaithful, she poured gasoline on her grandfather’s mattress and threw a burning sheet of paper on the bed before fleeing the room. — Picture via pexels.com/Francesco Ungaro

‘Act of love’? French woman who burned grandfather alive gets five-year prison sentence