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QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistan has closed all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite period, provincial officials said on Monday (Jun 16), as Israel and Iran trade intense strikes and threaten further attacks. “Border facilities in all five districts – Chaghi, Washuk, Panjgur, Kech and Gwadar – have been suspended,” Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani, a senior official in Balochistan province, which borders Iran, told AFP. Crossing into Iran “has been suspended until further notice”, said Atta ul Munim, an official at one of the crossings in Chaghi district. However, there was “no ban on trade” activities at the border and…

Life sentence handed to Alaa Mousa highlights the ‘brutality of Assad’s dictatorial, unjust regime’.A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of  Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court imposed the sentence on Alaa Mousa on Monday, ruling that the doctor’s actions formed part of the Assad regime’s “inhumane and repressive” campaign against opposition figures. The court had found the 40-year-old guilty of crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, in connection with acts committed during Syria’s civil war between 2011 and 2012.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New York law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul that would impose as much as $75 billion in liabilities on major fossil fuel companies by forcing them to pay into a state “climate super-fund” depending on their emissions would hurt way more than the firms themselves, West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey warned Friday.”It would be catastrophic, not just for the economies of West Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, but the economies of every state,” McCuskey said, as those states are likely to see the most negative effects due to their role in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles Dodgers player Enrique Hernandez claimed in a social media post over the weekend that the community was “being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart” amid an illegal immigration crackdown in the city and in parts of the county.The two-time World Series champion expressed his feelings about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) raids over the last week that led to hundreds of arrests and sparked riots in parts of Los Angeles. Hernandez made no mention of the violence that took place against law enforcement officers. Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Enrique…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vance Boelter, the suspect charged with killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and wounding a second lawmaker and his wife, had an arsenal of weapons and a hit list in his vehicle, according to court documents.Boelter, 57, allegedly posed as a police officer and drove a Ford SUV, registered in his name, equipped with police lights to carry out the shootings of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning at their Brooklyn Park home in Minneapolis after allegedly shooting State Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and…

By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted June 16, 2025 7:08 am Updated June 16, 2025 7:23 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet this morning with U.S. President Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Alberta. It’s Trump’s first visit to Canada since he started repeatedly saying the country should become an American state, leading Canadians to boo the American anthem at hockey games.Trump stormed out of the last G7 summit that Canada hosted, in 2018, and many will be watching this morning’s meeting, scheduled for 9 a.m.…

The Kremlin says an offer to take Iran’s enriched uranium and convert it to civilian reactor fuel as a means of de-escalating tensions is still on the table.

HANOI: The death toll in Vietnam from heavy rains and flooding caused by Typhoon Wutip has risen to seven, authorities said on Monday (Jun 16). Wutip made landfall in southern China at the weekend with winds gusting up to 128kmh before downgrading to a tropical storm. Seven people have been killed, 100 houses damaged and almost 60,000ha of crops submerged in central Vietnam, according an update on Monday from the disaster and dyke management authority. Vietnam is hit by roughly a dozen tropical storms every year, but in June, they normally affect the north of the country and move southwards later…

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Ori Goldberg says Israel’s attack on Iran reveals there’s no clear endgame – in Iran nor in the ongoing war on Gaza.Ori Goldberg, a political commentator, says Israel’s attack on Iran reveals Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no clear endgame – neither in Iran nor in the ongoing war on Gaza.