Category: International

Presidential elections are being held in Iran today. Voting has started at 8 am at more than 58,000 polling booths across the country.

Indian-origin PM Rishi Sunak and his Conservative Party's gamble of early elections in Britain seems to be failing. Before the voting on July 4, a week later, most surveys are predicting the Conservative Party's wipeout.

The police identified Charandeep's mortal remains with a DNA test. Before jumping, the youth had kept his mobile near Niagara Falls.

A total of 1,294 candidates from 19 political parties and two coalitions, alongside 42 independents, are competing in the parliamentary elections.

On Wednesday, hundreds of soldiers led by Gen. Juan Jose Zuniga marched on Murillo Square, the epicentre of Bolivia's political power, and forced their way into the old Government Palace, in a failed bid to oust President Luis Arce from office.

Maldives' State Minister for Environment Fatimath Shamnaz has been arrested on charges of doing black magic on President Mohammed Muizzu. According to Spanish news agency EFE, apart from Fatimath, 2 more people have been arrested. The court has sent everyone on 7-day police remand.

Two people were killed and three others injured in a shooting overnight near the Midi train station in Saint-Gilles in the Brussels region, the media reported on Thursday.

Using artificial intelligence (AI), Google announced arrival of 110 new languages to Google Translate, including Cantonese, NKo and Tamazight.

568 people have died in the last 6 days due to scorching heat in Pakistan. BBC News has given this information. Out of the dead, 141 people lost their lives on Tuesday (25 June). The mercury in Pakistan's largest city Karachi was 41 degrees Celsius on 24 June.

Armoured vehicles and troops of the Bolivian Armed Forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday evening, hours after an attempted coup.