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Transgender student wins as US Supreme Court rebuffs bathroom appeal

Transgender student wins as US Supreme Court rebuffs bathroom appeal

Reuters 2021-06-28 20:47:47

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a major transgender rights case, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that a Virginia public school board acted unlawfully in preventing a transge...

Sweden to ease restrictions from July 1

Sweden to ease restrictions from July 1

REUTERS 2021-06-28 20:04:55

Sweden will ease many of its restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 on July 1, allowing larger crowds at stadiums and restaurants, the minister of health said on Monday. Sweden has...

Al Shabaab attack kills 30 in Somalia, security official says

Al Shabaab attack kills 30 in Somalia, security official says

-- 2021-06-28 12:33:00

An estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in the country's semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, a security official said. The ins...

North Koreans worried about Kim Jong’s apparent weight loss, state media says

North Koreans worried about Kim Jong’s apparent weight loss, state media says

Reuters 2021-06-28 09:53:34

Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country's tightly controlled state media, after watching...

US conducts air strikes in Iraq, Syria targeting Iran-backed militia

US conducts air strikes in Iraq, Syria targeting Iran-backed militia

-- 2021-06-28 09:17:28

The United States said on Sunday it carried out another round of air strikes against Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria, this time in response to drone attacks by the militia against US personnel a...

Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to nine

Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to nine

Reuters 2021-06-27 22:55:11

As the death toll rose to nine, searchers worked on Sunday to find more than 150 missing residents amid the rubble of a Florida apartment building that collapsed three days ago, as questions arose abo...

39 rights abuser countries get weapons worth £17b from UK

39 rights abuser countries get weapons worth £17b from UK

The Guardian 2021-06-27 21:15:48

Two-thirds of countries classified as ‘not free’ because of their dire record on human rights and civil liberties have received weapons licensed by the UK government over the past decade,...

Secret UK defence documents found in soggy heap at bus stop, says BBC

Secret UK defence documents found in soggy heap at bus stop, says BBC

-- 2021-06-27 20:49:17

Classified documents from Britain's defence ministry containing details about a British warship and Russia's potential reaction to its passage through the Black Sea have been found at a bus stop in so...

Twin blasts rock Indian Air Force base in first-ever drone attack

Twin blasts rock Indian Air Force base in first-ever drone attack

-- 2021-06-27 19:56:37

In a first-ever drone attack on a military facility in India, two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early...

Florida building collapse: Fifth body found in survivor hunt

Florida building collapse: Fifth body found in survivor hunt

BBC 2021-06-27 18:06:24

The death toll has risen to five after the collapse of an apartment block in Florida, authorities say. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the number unaccounted for has now dropped to 156, wi...

Iran warns it will not negotiate nuclear deal forever

Iran warns it will not negotiate nuclear deal forever

REUTERS 2021-06-27 13:50:46

Iran said on Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers is possible but warned that Tehran “will not negotiate forever”. "Out of a steadfast com...

India's daily COVID-19 infections rise by 50,040

India's daily COVID-19 infections rise by 50,040

-- 2021-06-27 12:53:25

India's daily COVID-19 infections rose by 50,040 on Sunday, official data showed, as concerns grew about the detection of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus in some states. The CO...

Trump slams Biden on border, hints at 2024 plans at Ohio rally

Trump slams Biden on border, hints at 2024 plans at Ohio rally

-- 2021-06-27 11:51:21

At his first rally since leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump on Saturday lambasted the Biden administration's immigration policies and sought to energize Republicans to take back ma...

Two blasts rock Indian Air Force station in Jammu

Two blasts rock Indian Air Force station in Jammu

-- 2021-06-27 11:44:14

Two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Indian Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were re...

UK health minister resigns after violating coronavirus rules

UK health minister resigns after violating coronavirus rules

-- 2021-06-27 11:34:35

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has led the country’s response to the coronavirus, resigned Saturday, a day after apologising for breaching social distancing rules with an aide with whom h...

Miami death toll rises to five with 156 still missing

Miami death toll rises to five with 156 still missing

-- 2021-06-27 11:21:45

The death toll rose to five on Saturday at the site of the Florida building collapse where rescue workers methodically searched for more than 150 missing residents while firefighters made progress in...

Engineer found structural damage years before Florida building collapsed

Engineer found structural damage years before Florida building collapsed

REUTERS 2021-06-26 21:19:18

An engineer found evidence of major structural damage beneath the pool deck and "concrete deterioration" in the underground parking garage of a Florida 12-storey condominium in a 2018 report, three ye...

India's digital database for farmers raises concerns about privacy, exclusion

India's digital database for farmers raises concerns about privacy, exclusion

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-26 15:05:36

A plan by India to build digital databases of farmers to boost their incomes has raised concerns about privacy and the exclusion of poor farmers and those without land titles. Tech firm Microsoft wil...

Myanmar forces seize arms cache

Myanmar forces seize arms cache

REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:41:18

Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media reported on Fr...

Thirteen peacekeepers wounded in Mali militant attacks

Thirteen peacekeepers wounded in Mali militant attacks

REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:18:40

Thirteen UN peacekeepers, 12 Germans and one Belgian, were wounded in northern Mali on Friday by a car bomb, the UN mission said, while Mali's army said six of its soldiers were killed in a separate a...

Myanmar forces seize huge cache of illegal arms  

Myanmar forces seize huge cache of illegal arms  

-- 2021-06-26 12:07:41

Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media has reported....

India's Maharashtra shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads

India's Maharashtra shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads

Reuters 2021-06-26 10:42:15

India's richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has scuppered plans to ease lockdown measures....

Death toll rises to four from Miami building collapse with 159 still missing

Death toll rises to four from Miami building collapse with 159 still missing

-- 2021-06-26 10:31:59

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to...

Former US police officer Chauvin gets over 22 years in jail for Floyd murder

Former US police officer Chauvin gets over 22 years in jail for Floyd murder

-- 2021-06-26 10:08:03

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. The judge said Derek Chau...

93pc organisations in Saudi Arabia faced a cyberattack last year

93pc organisations in Saudi Arabia faced a cyberattack last year

-- 2021-06-25 19:38:55

Nearly 93 per cent organisations, of 252 surveyed in a study, in Saudi Arabia experienced a cyberattack last year, according to a report. VMware, an American cloud computing technology company, relea...

Israel requires masks indoors again as Delta variant drives up cases

Israel requires masks indoors again as Delta variant drives up cases

REUTERS 2021-06-25 19:28:42

Israel told its citizens on Friday they must again wear masks indoors, 10 days after being allowed to ditch them, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly contagious D...

Search for survivors in Miami building collapse continues

Search for survivors in Miami building collapse continues

BBC 2021-06-25 19:00:56

Rescuers are desperately searching for any survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed 12-storey residential building north of Miami. At least one person has been killed and 99 are still missing,...

Too many obstacles for vaccinating refugees: UNHCR

Too many obstacles for vaccinating refugees: UNHCR

-- 2021-06-25 17:46:16

Too many barriers still prevent refugees from being vaccinated against COVID-19, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Thursday, as only a small portion of the 82.4 million di...

Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children

Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children

Reuters 2021-06-25 12:37:59

A fire tore through a martial arts training centre in China on Friday killing 18 people, with one state media outlet saying most of the victims were children who were staying there. The blaze broke o...

Russia warns it will bomb British vessels next time

Russia warns it will bomb British vessels next time

-- 2021-06-25 11:31:03

Russia has warned Britain that it would bomb British naval vessels in the Black Sea if there were any further provocative actions by the British navy off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea. Russia su...