[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, shakes hands with Vietnamese officials upon his arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, on June 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Vietnam early on June 20 for talks with the country’s Communist leaders after concluding a defence pact with North … Read more
[ad_1] Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a televised address at a memorial service for Taleb Abdallah, a senior field commander in the group who was killed on June 11 alongside three other Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli strike on the south Lebanon village of Jouaiyya, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon on June … Read more
[ad_1] Muslim pilgrims take part in the annual haj pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia, June 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 19 Jordanian and Iranian pilgrims have died while on the haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, authorities from their countries said on June 16, as temperatures soar in the kingdom. “Fourteen Jordanian pilgrims … Read more
[ad_1] Masses of pilgrims on Sunday embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat. The ritual marks the final days of the Haj, or Islamic pilgrimage, and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world. The stoning is among the final rites of … Read more
[ad_1] Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (L), President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Swiss Federal President Viola Amherd, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Chile’s President Gabriel Boric and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend the closing press conference during the Summit on Peace in Ukraine on June 16, 2024 in Lucerne, Switzerland. … Read more
[ad_1] South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa (CL) and his wife Tshepo Motsepe (CR) arrive ahead of Ramaphosa’s inauguration as President at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on June 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: VIA REUTERS Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president on Wednesday in a ceremony in the administrative … Read more
[ad_1] Demonstrators rally on motorcycles to mark the 79th birthday of the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Launglon township in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar, on June 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar authorities arrested 22 people for marking the birthday of imprisoned democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi, local media reported on … Read more
[ad_1] An image grab from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying an orange substance at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, southwest England, on June 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Climate activists of the ‘Just Stop Oil’ group sprayed orange powder on to the stones of Stonehenge, the prehistoric … Read more
[ad_1] Voters born after 1997 only made up 9% of the electorate in the general election in 2019, but are up to 15% this time. | Photo Credit: AFP Many young voters in next month’s U.K. general election have lived under a Conservative government for most of their lives, with the ruling party having been … Read more
[ad_1] Russian policemen and Rosguardia servicemen gather not far from a pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Sunday, June 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Russian special forces freed two prison guards and shot dead six inmates linked to the Islamic State militant group who had taken them hostage at a detention centre in the … Read more