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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since the start of the Iran war, over which they have publicly disagreed.Relations between Netanyahu and Trump have occasionally appeared strained in recent months, but both have sought to tone things down.Tuesday’s meeting is expected to be dominated by the war, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February, as Washington says it wants to give negotiations a chance.Israel has not taken part in the latest round of hostilities between the United States and Iran, which flared earlier this month as an April ceasefire collapsed. Tuesday’s meeting will be the eighth between the leaders since Trump’s return to office last year, as well as their first in-person talks since the war began.”This is a great privilege, but it is also a great responsibility,” Netanyahu said before departing from Israel on Monday. “We will discuss all the issues on the agenda, first and foremost Iran. Naturally, our goal is to safeguard our security and also to expand the circle of peace around us,” he added. Upon arriving in Washington, Netanyahu attended a private memorial dinner on Monday evening in honour of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, his office said.He is also scheduled to attend the memorial service for Graham later on Tuesday. Source link
India’s government proposed on Tuesday longer jail terms and heftier fines for examination paper leaks, seeking to restore confidence after youth-led protests focused on education reforms rocked the country. Under the proposed legal change submitted to parliament, the maximum prison term for those involved in paper leaks would be doubled to 10 years, while fines could exceed $1 million and court proceedings would be fast-tracked. The legislative push follows weeks of protests over exam paper leaks and other irregularities, which culminated in the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan last week. The protests, spearhead by the online Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, drew massive support from young students across the country and presented a major challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The proposed amendments reaffirm “this government’s deep commitment to safeguard the welfare of the students and the youth of this country”, senior minister Jitendra Singh told the lower house of the parliament.The changes seek to make the legislation “more stringent and to ensure speedy justice”, Singh said, “so that the credibility of all these exams gets enhanced and gets reinstated”.The parliament reconvened last week for its monsoon session, with the first few days repeatedly disrupted by opposition lawmakers seeking accountability over a police crackdown on the student-led protests.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the release of all detained protesters who are under the age of 18 and have no prior criminal record. Examination paper leaks have long plagued India’s highly competitive education system.The intense pressure to succeed has fuelled a vast network of coaching centres and created opportunities for criminal groups to profit by selling leaked question papers. Despite repeated government crackdowns, paper leaks have remained a recurring problem in both national and state-level examinations.Demonstrations in New Delhi turned violent on July 20 when huge crowds attempted to march towards parliament from the Jantar Mantar protest site.Police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse the protest, triggering clashes and a wave of detentions. Source link
A young Palestinian boy walks in front a building containing shops and flats that were demolished by Israeli forces, citing the lack of a building permit,…
Rohingya refugees gather in front of the office of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) after being evicted from their homes, in Kuala Lumpur Monday. (Reuters) Malaysian authorities detained more than 100 Rohingya Muslim asylum seekers Monday who had gathered outside the UN refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur, saying they were seeking protection after being evicted from their homes. All of the refugees outside the UNHCR were taken away with their belongings in four police trucks at around 8:30pm (1230 GMT), according to Reuters witnesses at the scene. A police official, who declined to be identified, said they were being taken to police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur for further checks. The refugees, who included women and children, said they were driven out of their homes by local residents in the northern state of Penang on Sunday and had travelled to the Malaysian capital on buses overnight to seek assistance on resettlement from the UNHCR. Penang police said the Rohingya “voluntarily moved” to Kuala Lumpur with the assistance of state and federal authorities, including the national security council. “This transfer was carried out due to economic and territorial competition that arose following an increase in the Rohingya population in the area,” Seberang Perai Utara district police chief Anuar Abdul Rahman said in a statement. The evictions came amid a rise in online hate speech and misinformation targeting the Rohingya since May that has led to greater harassment and scrutiny of the community, including widespread school closures. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Monday the gathering outside the UNHCR building had raised concerns from the public, and warned that anyone without proper permits would be detained by immigration authorities. “No one has the right to take over any part of the city,” he said in a video posted on social media. Bryony Lau, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said Rohingya refugees in Malaysia live under constant threat of arrests and raids in a climate of fear that has only gotten worse due to the surge of online hate directed towards them. “The Malaysian government should prioritise protecting refugees who have been evicted from their homes instead of terrifying them further by detaining them,” she said. Around 126,000 Rohingya Muslims were registered with the UNHCR in Malaysia as of the end of February, according to the agency’s website, though rights groups say many more remain undocumented. …
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr delivers his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) as Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian and House Speaker Faustino “Bodjie” Dy clap, at the…
Police officers move past Ikshana, a mobile surveillance van, parked at the protest site, days after thousands of the supporters of India’s Cockroach Janta Party marched…
U.S. President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth walk as they attend a dignified transfer of the remains of U.S. Army service members, Army…
Vessels transit the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of southern Yemen on Saturday. The shipping disruption caused prices of physical crude cargoes in the Middle…
A shooting near the Space Needle landmark in Seattle killed three people on Sunday and wounded at least four others including a toddler, officials said.Seattle Police said one suspect was arrested and they were searching for another following the incident at a food festival in a popular tourist district of the northwestern US city. Assistant Police Chief Tyrone Davis said shots were heard around 6:00 pm (0100 GMT) and “there were two people who we believe were shooting at each other.” Two weapons were recovered.There is “no outstanding threat to the community,” he said.Seattle Police said two people died at the scene at the Seattle Center and a third died in hospital.Washington Governor Bob Ferguson said State Patrol SWAT officers had been deployed to assist local police.”My prayers are with the families of the victims, and the responders as they work to keep people safe,” he said on X.Mayor Katie Wilson said the shooting was “an act of horrific violence.””Our attention belongs to the people whose lives were taken, those fighting to recover, and the families beside them,” she said in a statement. Wilson also expressed her thanks to “the Seattle police officers who responded to the scene and took a suspect into custody.” Four patients were being treated at the trauma center facility at Harborview Medical Center, according to spokesperson Susan Gregg: a child, a woman of unknown age who was in surgery, a 23-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman. One of them did not survive their injuries, Davis said, without identifying the victim.The shooting took place during the “Bite of Seattle” summer festival celebrating local businesses and food vendors. Source link
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed ten newly recognized cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage List, representing civilizational and environmental diversity from around the globe.This came during the 48th session currently underway in Busan, Republic of Korea, which will continue until July 29, 2026.The newly inscribed sites include the Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara in Japan, Tashkent Modernist Architecture in Uzbekistan, the Rocas of Sao Tome and Príncipe, the Wider Area of Mount Olympus in Greece, Aalto Works in Finland, and the Beaches of the D-Day Landings, Normandy, 1944.Also placed on the List are the Capetian Royal Fortresses of Languedoc in France, the System of Italian-style Condominio Theatres in Italy, in addition to the extension of the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates site through the inclusion of Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf.The new sites highlight crucial chapters in the history of human civilizations, the evolution of architecture and the arts, and historical memory, alongside natural sites of outstanding value, reinforcing efforts to preserve global cultural and natural heritage for future generations.The 21 committee members, elected from among 196 countries, uphold a fundamental responsibility under the World Heritage Convention, identifying new sites to be added to the List and monitoring the conservation status of sites already inscribed. Related Story Source link
