Qatari negotiators in Tehran to finalise truce deal, official says Qatari negotiators travelled to Tehran early Wednesday to finalise a US-Iran ceasefire agreement, Reuters reported. According to an official with knowledge of the situation who spoke to Reuters, the negotiators made their way to the Iranian capital after consultations with the United States.
CAIRO, 10th June, 2026 (WAM) -- The League of Arab States condemned in the srongest terms the Iranian aggression against the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, carried out today, Wednesday, through ballistic missile and drone attacks.
Nearly four months after the latest Middle East crisis erupted and despite a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, tensions continue to reverberate across the region and beyond. The UN Security Council is holding a high-level debate on advancing political solutions in the Middle East, amid continuing conflicts, humanitarian emergencies and concerns over regional stability. Follow live in-depth meetings coverage here.
Trump may order new strikes on Iran: Report US President Donald Trump said he may order new strikes on Iran's power plants and bridges because Tehran is taking too long to make a deal, Fox News reported on Wednesday citing a phone interview. "Iran is all talk and no action," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post earlier in the day. "They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price," he said.
Belfast race riots see families targeted and houses torched after stabbing Submitted by Imran Mulla on Wed, 06/10/2026 - 11:01 Hundreds of masked men storm through Belfast after Elon Musk and other far-right figures urged protests following alleged stabbing by Sudanese asylum seeker A building is set alight in the Sandy Row area of Belfast city centre, Northern Ireland, in the evening of 9 June 2026 (AFP) Off Race riots broke out in the Northern Irish capital Belfast on Tuesday night as hundreds of masked men torched homes and vehicles belonging mostly to ethnic minority residents. The rioters set up checkpoints to search cars for foreign nationals, after the arrest on Tuesday of a Sudanese asylum seeker who has been charged with attempted murder. Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK, was filmed attacking a man on a residential street with a knife in what many commentators have described as an attempted beheading.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Recent US actions against Iran and repeated violations of ceasefires have damaged diplomatic efforts, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, stressing that negotiations cannot move forward without a minimum level of stability and political consistency.
DUBAI/BEIRUT: Israel carried out an airstrike on the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on June 9, killing at least eight people. This escalation is putting more pressure on efforts to negotiate a peace deal to end the wider war in the Middle East. A day earlier, Israel and Iran had stopped direct attacks on each other after U.
Tehran [Iran], June 10 (ANI): An explosion has been reported in the vicinity of Qeshm Island in southern Iran, according to the country's Mehr News Agency. Detailing the initial reports from the ground, the news agency stated that 'the exact nature of these sounds is still unknown. ' The incident follows a night of intense military exchanges in the region.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Describing national unity as the key factor behind the failure of enemy strategies against Iran, President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country will never surrender to threats, pressure, or aggression against its dignity and national interests.
Israeli military abducts municipal councillor, worker in southern Lebanon Israeli forces abducted a municipal councillor and a worker on Wednesday in the southern Lebanese town of Kfarshuba, amid continuous Israeli strikes in the area. “An Israeli patrol took away Kfarshuba municipal council member Mohammad Hassan al-Hajj and worker Ahmad Salah Diab, taking them to an unknown location,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said. A local Lebanese outlet confirmed that the two individuals were taken by the Israeli patrol in the morning, around 10am, while operating a water pump outside the village.
Rights groups call for release of detained pro-Gaza activists in Libya Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Wed, 06/10/2026 - 09:59 Ten members of the Global Sumud Convoy have been held by Khalifa Haftar's authorities since 24 May Members of the Global Sumud Convoy at the staging and coordination camp in the Joud Daem forest area in Libya on 15 May 2026 (Mahmud Turkia/AFP) Off Rights groups have called for the release of 10 foreign pro- Palestinian activists who have been held by forces loyal to Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar in eastern Libya since 24 May. The detainees - including activists from Spain, Poland, the United States , Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia and Italy - have been held by the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) after being arrested as part of the Global Sumud Convoy. The convoy aimed to travel across land to deliver aid and other services to the inhabitants of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Two crew missing in tanker fire off Oman coast, UK maritime agency says A tanker’s engine room caught fire off the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a UK maritime agency said, reporting two missing and one casualty. Earlier, British maritime security company Vanguard Tech said the Palau-flagged tanker Settebello had “transmitted a distress call stating that its engine room had been struck by a missile while operating off Sohar in the Gulf of Oman” and that there was a fire on board. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency later reported an incident 37km (20 nautical miles) northeast of Sohar in Oman.
Seoul [Korea], June 10, (ANI): Asian tech stocks led by heavyweight names like Softbank, Samsung and SK Hynix resumed their slide after a brief pause on Monday as stretched AI valuations and a renewal in conflict in West Asia made investors cautious. Broader Asian indices saw weakness in trade as the US and Iran exchanged fire over a downed US Apache helicopter.
Tehran [Iran], June 10 (ANI): The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the US military strikes on southern Iran, labelling the overnight attacks as a 'blatant violation' of international law. According to a report by Al Jazeera, the ministry issued an official statement asserting that 'in the early minutes of Wednesday morning ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran awarded the “Right Side of History” Medal to a group of international activists, artists, and politicians during a ceremony in Tehran, highlighting themes of resistance, global awakening, and support for Palestine.
A new decree from the Taliban enabling child marriage is the latest salvo in an ongoing assault on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, Amnesty International said in a new legal analysis. The Decree No. 18 “Code on Judicial Separation of Spouses”, published by the Taliban in an official gazette on 14 May […] The post Afghanistan: New code enabling child marriage compounds dismal situation for women’s and girls’ rights appeared first on Amnesty International .
New Amnesty report reveals Israel’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouins An Amnesty International report has called attention to Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign against Bedouin and herding communities in the occupied West Bank. “Israeli authorities are accelerating annexation through a state-driven campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities,” said the report released on Wednesday. Amnesty said its research showed that 27 Bedouin and herding communities comprising hundreds of Palestinians were forcibly displaced between 2023 and 2025 or were at risk of displacement in the West Bank’s Area C, which encompasses 60 percent of the territory and is under Israeli control under the Oslo agreements.
Iran official accuses US of double standards over helicopter crash and school attack Following the US’s allegation that Tehran is responsible for the downing of a US army helicopter, Iranian official Ebrahim Rezaei contrasted that quick response with the Minab school attack , which killed more than 165 children and teachers. “In just two days, the Pentagon and the White House concluded that the helicopter crash in the Strait of Hormuz was Iran’s doing,” Rezaei, spokesman for Iran’s parliamentary National Security Committee, said in a post on X. “Yet 102 days have passed since the Minab school massacre, and the investigation into the killing of the Minab girls is still ongoing.
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], June 10 (ANI): When the inaugural World Yogasana Championships concluded at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad earlier this week, India, with a century of gold medals, reinforced its dominance in a sport rooted in its ancient traditions. But beyond the medal table, another trend quietly emerged: the growing embrace of Yogasana across the Middle East, according to a release.
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has increased the prices of critical goods as hunger rises in scores of poor and unstable countries.
