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Iran’s incumbent Supreme Leader Mojtaba Ali Khamenei will not attend the official janaza events of his late father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after receiving assassination threats from Israel, according to Iran’s representative in India. The representative also said the decision was made after Israel threatened to assassinate Mojtaba Khamenei if he appeared at the funeral ceremonies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed ...

More than 20 million people are expected to attend the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, according to Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB. IRIB, citing Al Jazeera, said the turnout could include nearly 10 million residents of the capital, along with millions of mourners from across the country. Funeral prayers and mourning ceremonies are also scheduled in the ...

The West Bengal legislative assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills to formally change Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation laws and remove 77 Muslim communities from OBC lists as directed by the Calcutta high court in May 2024. The amendments have also revised the reservation quota for OBCs from 10% to 7% and reorganised OBC categories. Also, a 1993 law ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s historic bid to restrict birthright citizenship. The court, in an eagerly awaited decision on the final day of its term, ruled 6-3 to maintain the right to American citizenship for nearly everyone born on US soil, reports AFP.

At least 36 civilians were killed and more than 160 others injured in overnight Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the two neighbouring countries continue to rise. Pakistan said its security forces carried out a ground operation along the Afghanistan border late Sunday, followed by airstrikes targeting militant hideouts and safe havens. Information Minister ...

A skydiving aircraft crashed in northeastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board, local authorities said. The accident occurred near the city of Nancy at around 11:00 am local time, according to Yves Séguy, prefect of the Meurthe-et-Moselle region, reports AP. Emergency responders rushed to the crash site immediately after the incident, while investigators began gathering statements from ...

A severe heatwave that has already claimed dozens of lives across Western Europe is tracking eastward, bringing sweltering conditions to Germany and Poland. As originally reported by Reuters, temperatures in these regions are projected to approach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend. Prior to shifting east, the weather system baked Britain, France, and Switzerland with record-breaking June ...

The earthquake-related death toll in Venezuela has risen to 589, more than doubling from the previous count, and the number of injured is now 2,980, said Acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Friday afternoon. On Thursday night, the official death toll was 235, with 4,300 injured. She said there have been 214 aftershocks so far since the twin earthquakes struck on ...

Residents walk among the rubble of building damaged in earthquakes the previous day in Venezuela’s Catia La Mar on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey) Residents walk among the rubble of building damaged in earthquakes the previous day in Venezuela’s Catia La Mar on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey) Rescue teams and residents continued searching through collapsed buildings in northern Venezuela on Thursday ...

Powerful twin earthquakes that shook Venezuela killed at least 32 people and injured more than 700, interim president Delcy Rodriguez said on Thursday. “At this time, we have received reports of 32 deaths” and “more than 700 injured,” Rodriguez said in an address to the nation, adding she did not yet have data on the “hardest-hit region” of La Guaira, ...