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A family member prays at the crash site during the first anniversary of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad June 12, 2026. — Reuters pic

Air India crash: One year on, no final report timeline as families of 260 victims seek answers

The Russian messaging app MAX is displayed on a smartphone next to a screen showing the state flag of Russia in this illustration taken September 4, 2025. — Reuters file pic

Two phones and an app: How Russians skirt Putin’s digital iron curtain

An American consultant and author of a memoir about Myanmar’s 2021 coup is being detained in the country over a property dispute, a police source told AFP today. — AFP pic

Myanmar detains US businessman who wrote about 2021 coup on breach‑of‑trust complaint, sources say

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi meets with Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, in Tehran June 7, 2026. — Iranian Foreign Ministry/WANA (West Asia News Agency) handout pic via Reuters

Mediator Pakistan says US and Iran expected to sign initial peace deal within 24 hours

A woman walks past a banner with a picture of the late Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran June 7, 2026. — Majid Asgaripour/Wana (West Asia News Agency) pic via Reuters

National funeral for Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei to begin July 4, with burial in Mashhad on July 9

A person holds a sign after National Park Service workers reinstalled a slavery exhibit at the President’s House, following a US judge’s order to reinstall it, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 19, 2026. — Reuters pic

Judge says US govt must tell ‘full history’, orders reinstatement of slavery references on national monuments

Five Indian air force personnel were killed when a military plane crashed while landing at a base in the country’s remote north-east today, the military said in a statement. — Reuters pic

Five personnel killed, co-pilot survives as Indian Air Force transport plane crashes while landing in Assam

Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman’s Musandam governance, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates March 11, 2026. — Reuters/Stringer pic

US and Iran edge toward peace deal as new military action flares near Strait of Hormuz

Workers remove the lettering referencing US President Donald Trump from the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after a federal judge ordered that President Trump's name be removed from the building in Washington DC on June 12, 2026. — Reuters pic

Kennedy Center drops Trump name six months after controversial addition

Hundreds of black-clad Thai mourners gathered at the royal palace in Bangkok on June 13, 2026, awaiting the arrival of the body

Royal protocol, grief and devotion converge in Bangkok palace as Thais bid farewell to Princess Bha

A statue of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, a famous Russian poet, is seen in Rostov-On-Don, Russia July 25, 2017. Rare editions of Russian literary classics, including works by Pushkin, were stolen from the National Library of France in a series of heists targeting European libraries. — Reuters pic

Who’s stealing Pushkin? Inside a multimillion-euro library crime spree

Smoke billows as an Indian Air Force transport aircraft crashes while landing at the Jorhat Air Base in Assam on June 13, 2026. — Picture from Facebook/jourhat.unofficial

Indian Air Force transport plane crashes during landing in Assam, casualties unknown

A drone view shows a collapsed building after a magnitude 7.8 quake in General Santos, Mindanao Island, Philippines, June 8, 2026. — GenSan DEV handout picture via Reuters

Death toll rises to 61 in Mindanao quake, dozens remain missing

The French Interministerial Border Force is deployed for the first time to bolster security and cross-agency coordination during the G7 Summit in Evian. — AFP pic

G7 braces for Trump as allies head to France expecting turbulence

Switzerland has offered to host the possible signing of a peace agreement between the United States and Iran. — Unsplash pic

Pakistan says US-Iran peace deal text agreed as Switzerland offers to host

Yangon-based US businessman Adam Castillo was stopped at a Myanmar airport after landing on June 12, 2026, believed to be be linked to his book ‘Finding Our Voice’ that criticises the junta government led by president Min Aung Hlaing (pictured). — AFP pic

Ex-US chambers chief held in Myanmar after book criticising junta and US sanctions policy