Global cocaine market hit new record highs: UNODC

The current surge is mainly due to an increase in the size of the area under illicit coca bush cultivation in Colombia and updated yield data, it added.
26 June 2025, 07:54 AM

Hundreds of earthquakes rattle Japanese island chain

No major damage has been reported from the series of quakes with a strength of at least one -- slightly perceptible to people seated quietly indoors -- on Japan's seven-point seismic intensity scale.
26 June 2025, 07:19 AM

Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

Iranian security forces started a campaign of widespread arrests accompanied by an intensified street presence based around checkpoints
26 June 2025, 07:13 AM

For first time, Webb telescope discovers an alien planet

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn
26 June 2025, 05:12 AM

Trump says US to hold nuclear talks with Iran next week

Trump said his decision to unleash huge bunker-busting bombs in Sunday's attack had devastated Iran's nuclear program and called the outcome "a victory for everybody".
26 June 2025, 02:38 AM

Iran partially reopens airspace after ceasefire with Israel: state media

Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign
25 June 2025, 20:14 PM

Success of US strikes on Iran faces scrutiny

President Donald Trump yesterday insisted that US strikes led to the “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, contrary to a leaked US intelligence report that assessed those did not destroy the core components of the programme and likely only set it back by months. 
25 June 2025, 18:56 PM

Iranians wary of what future holds

People in Tehran said the hours of darkness before Trump’s truce took hold were the most terrifying of the war as Israel intensified its bombardment.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Is Trump seeking a quick US exit?

United States President Donald Trump is attempting a high-risk manoeuvre in bombing Iran and then quickly seeking to de-escalate tensions, analysts told Al Jazeera.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

UN expert urges rejection of election ‘fraud’

Elections being planned by Myanmar’s ruling junta are a ploy to feign legitimacy and should be rejected by the international community as a “fraud”, a UN expert said yesterday.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Gaza ceasefire talks ‘intensified’

A senior Hamas official told AFP yesterday that talks for a Gaza ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group “intensified in recent hours” with mediator countries.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump reassures Nato allies on security guarantees

US President Donald Trump took a victory lap at Nato’s Hague summit yesterday, joining leaders in reaffirming the “ironclad” commitment to protect each other after allies agreed to his demand to ramp up defence spending.
25 June 2025, 18:00 PM

Trump teases Iran talks next week, says nuclear programme set back 'decades'

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold nuclear talks with Iran next week
25 June 2025, 16:04 PM

Iran calls NATO chief remarks on US strikes 'disgraceful'

The US strikes on Sunday hit key sites of Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz
25 June 2025, 13:08 PM

Trump plays nice as NATO eyes 'historic' spending hike

Everything has been carefully choreographed at the gathering in The Hague to keep the volatile US president on board
25 June 2025, 10:09 AM

Israel designates Iran central bank 'terror organisation': minister

Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat strikes between the longtime foes.
25 June 2025, 09:37 AM

Trump says 'great progress being made on Gaza'

"I think great progress is being made on Gaza, I think because of this attack that we made," said Trump
25 June 2025, 09:20 AM

IAEA chief: top priority is returning to Iran nuclear facilities

Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was speaking to reporters at an Austrian cabinet meeting in Vienna.
25 June 2025, 09:06 AM

Trump says damage from Iran strikes severe despite "inconclusive" intelligence

"It was very severe. There was obliteration," he added.
25 June 2025, 09:04 AM

Iran 'much further away' from building nuclear weapon after US strike, Rubio tells Politico

Rubio dismissed the media reports as "false" and said they did not capture the full picture, according to Politico.
25 June 2025, 08:08 AM