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Jun 30, 2026 - World

The vessel, thought to have been carrying 10 people, did not issue a mayday call before sinking in the strait of GeorgiaSearch teams in Canada have launched a recovery effort for six people believed to have drowned in a “bizarre” sinking of a fishing charter off the coast of Vancouver.Police and rescue crews praised a couple who were passing in their yacht for making a critical mayday call and saving stranded passengers by pulling them onboard their craft. Continue reading...

Jun 30, 2026 - World

More than 2,000 anti-foreigner protesters march through Durban city centre as the arbitrary deadline passes for undocumented migrants to leave the countrySouth Africa was holding its breath on Tuesday as mass anti-immigration protests were held across the country. They come after a weeks-long campaign against foreigners that has seen at least four killed and tens of thousands fleeing for safety.In the coastal city of Durban, where violence had been expected, the streets were unusually quiet and shops were shuttered as tension hung thick in the air. Continue reading...

Jun 30, 2026 - World

A China-based American tycoon is funding a Beijing-backed influence campaign in the U.S. to block construction of large computer data centers, according to a new think tank report.

Jun 30, 2026 - World

President Trump's envoys met with the Qatari prime minister on Tuesday but U.S. and Iranian delegations kept their distance from each other in Doha as the countries tried to negotiate an end to their four-month-old war.

Jun 30, 2026 - World

Normally safe principality left reeling from apartment blast that also injured Vadym Iermolaiev’s wife and child‘He isn’t political’: the Ukrainian-born oligarch targeted by a Monaco bomberAn international search is under way for a suspected bomber after a Ukrainian tycoon and his family were injured in an explosion in Monaco in an unprecedented attack that has shaken the normally ultra-safe principality.Stéphane Thibault, Monaco’s public prosecutor, told reporters that a man entered an apartment block on Monday evening, left a package in the lobby and walked away. Moments later, as three occupants of a ground-floor flat approached the entrance, the package exploded, he said. Continue reading...