Category: 1. Palestine

Southern Shan State, Myanmar – Tian Win Nang squats on the hard-packed earth, balancing a kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of chocolate-coloured raw opium in each hand like a human weighing scales.

“Each kilogramme is worth around $250,” said Tian Win Nang, wearing worn white flip-flops and a black T-shirt.

The son of poppy farmers, Tian Win Nang appears to be barely out of his teens.

“Chinese traders pay us in advance for the harvest,” he said, showing Al Jazeera three dinner-plate-sized…

These are the key events on day 1,199 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here’s where things stand on Saturday, June 7:

Fighting

• At least six people were killed in Russian missile and drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and across the country on Friday.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said three of the victims were emergency responders who were killed in a missile and drone attack on Kyiv, while a further 80 people nationwide were injured in the attacks.
• Two people were killed…

The United States Supreme Court has sided with the administration of President Donald Trump in two cases about government records — and who should have access to them.

On Friday, the six-member conservative majority overturned a lower court’s ruling that limited the kinds of data that Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could access through the Social Security Administration (SSA).

In a separate case, the majority also decided that DOGE was not required to turn over…

Paris (Quds News Network)- French prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into French-Israeli settlers accused of helping block humanitarian aid to Gaza, reported Politico. Authorities are examining whether their actions amount to complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity.

The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the investigation on Friday. It said the probe began after two NGOs filed formal complaints in November 2024. The offenses took place…

Jannik Sinner downs Novac Djokovic to reach maiden French Open final against defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) to set up a French Open final against defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Djokovic is the men’s record 24-time Grand Slam champion but could not counter Sinner’s relentless accuracy and pounding forehands on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Friday evening.

Sinner became only the second Italian man to reach the final at…

After his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia faces US charges of transporting undocumented migrants.

A man the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been brought back to the United States, where authorities say he will face criminal charges.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, a Salvadoran immigrant who had lived nearly half his life in Maryland before he was deported in March, faces charges of transporting undocumented migrants inside the US, according to…

Teams will try to resolve tariffs war amid spats over China’s curbs on rare minerals and US revocation of student visas.

United States President Donald Trump has announced a new round of trade talks with China in an apparent bid to dial down a bitter battle over tariffs between the world’s two biggest economies.

The president said on social media that the meeting would take place in London on Monday, his announcement coming one day after a rare leader-to-leader phone call with Chinese…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported from the US to El Salvador, has been returned to the US, where he will face charges including “alien smuggling.” US Attorney General Pam Bondi says the charges were returned by a Tennessee grand jury last month.