Baghdad, (Reuters), 22.06.2017 -  More than 5 million children are in urgent need of aid in Iraq, the United Nations said on Thursday.   

A suicide bombing outside a bank in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 36 people, many of them teachers and security personnel collecting their salaries ahead of Eid.  

The UAE operates a network of ‘black sites’ in war-torn Yemen, where terrorist suspects are abused and tortured, an AP investigation has found. US personnel have been involved in at least some interrogations, agency sources said.  &n

South Africa, (Daily Mail), 22 June 2017 - Superstitious villagers in Eastern Province, South Africa, have been living in fear since a sheep gave birth to a creature that elders claimed was half-human half-beast and ‘sent by the devil’. &

(Daily Mail), 22 June 2017 -  The United States Navy conducted a test of a ballistic missile defense system in Hawaii which failed, according to a report on Thursday.   

Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippines town have been cornered and their firepower is flagging, the military said on Thursday, as the five-week battle for control of Marawi  City raged on.

Belgian counter-terrorism police are investigating the motives of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after he set off explosives that failed to injure anyone.  

REUTERS, 21st JUNE, 2017- Saudi Arabia’s King Salman made his son next in line to the throne on Wednesday, handing the 31-year-old sweeping powers as the kingdom seeks radical overhaul of its oil-dependent economy and faces mounting tensions wi

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Chinese efforts to persuade North Korea to rein in its nuclear programme have failed, ratcheting up the rhetoric over the death of an American student who had been detained by Pyongyang.  

DPA, 21st JUNE, 2017- Venezuela’s highest court on Tuesday approved proceedings against Attorney General Luisa Ortega, the highest- profile government critic of President Nicolas Maduro, which could lead to her removal.

REUTERS, 21st JUNE, 2017- From the deck of an aircraft carrier to the sub-zero temperatures of a Himalayan military outpost, tens of thousands of Indians joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday to celebrate the third International Yoga Day.

French police have taken into custody four members of the family of a radicalised Islamist who was killed when he rammed a car loaded with guns and a gas bottle into a police van on the Champs-Elysees, a judicial source said Tuesday.   

(c) 2017, Bloomberg · June 19, 2017 - Iran said it fired missiles at Islamic State targets in Syria in retaliation to the jihadists’ deadly attacks in Tehran last week, a rare strike signalling Iran’s willingness to escalate its us

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · Jun 20, 2017 - Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died Monday afternoon, his parents announced. 

London, (Daily Mail), 20 June 2017 -   The Cabinet has broken out into infighting over who should take over as Tory Party with friends of Boris Johnson branding David Davis too old for the top job.    The 68 year-old Brexit Secretary h

YANGON AFP June20, 2017- A self-proclaimed sorcerer was sentenced to death by a Yangon court on Tuesday for killing three children in an exorcism ritual he believed would banish evil spirits that possessed them.   

London, (Daily Mail), 18 June 2017-  The 2018 Queen’s Speech has been cancelled to give Brexit laws two years to clear Parliament in the face of a Remain backlash.  

New Delhi, (Press Trust of IndiaHindustan Times), June 19, 2017 -    He is a born frequent flier -- a baby boy, born 35,000 feet above sea level on a Jet Airways plane from Saudi Arabia to India on Sunday, has received a free lifetime pass

 PARIS, (AFP), June19, 2017 -  French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party swept to a large majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday, although it fell short of a predicted landslide.   

Two people are feared dead after pedestrians were hit by a white van near a renowned north London mosque, in what is being described as a ‘terrorist attack’.   

(c) 2017, The Washington Post ·Jun 19, 2017 - A U.S. strike aircraft shot down a Syrian government fighter jet Sunday shortly after the Syrians bombed U.S.-backed fighters in northern Syria, the Pentagon said in a statement.  

With her strategy unclear and her position insecure, Prime Minister Theresa May plunges this week into tortuous divorce talks with the European Union that will shape Britain’s prosperity and global influence for generations to come.

HINDUSTAN TIMES, 18th JUNE, 2017-Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 62 people, most of whom burnt to death in their cars, and injured scores of others, the government said Sunday. Portugal declares 3 days of national mourning.

 Jaipur, (Hindustan Times), June 18, 2017 -  Click a photo of people defecating in the open, and name and shame  them. For the officials involved in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, this is  the simplest and the most effective way to ma

(c) 2017, The Washington Post · · Jun 17, 2017 - PARIS - One is a female bullfighter. Another is an acclaimed mathematician who likes to dress like the Mad Hatter.

A heightened sense of unease gripped the White House on Thursday, as President Donald Trump lashed out at reports that he’s under scrutiny over whether he obstructed justice, aides repeatedly deflected questions about the probe and Vice Preside

(Daily Mail), 15 June 2017 -  The fiasco that left British Airways passengers stranded will cost the airline at least £80 million.  

MOSCOW AFP June16, 2017   -The Russian army on Friday said it hit Islamic State leaders in an airstrike in Syria last month and was seeking to verify whether IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed.   

CINCINNATI - Otto Warmbier, who was medically evacuated from a 17-month detention in North Korea this week, has extensive loss of brain tissue and is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, University of Cincinnati doctors said Thursday afternoon. &n

(Daily Mail), 15 June 2017 -  -The Ministry of Defence today issued a 48-hour global ban on the firing of tank shells after two soldiers were killed and two more injured when ammunition exploded.