Dubai Police have issued a warning about the “tragic consequences” of performing reckless social media stunts on the road, after a passenger was caught on camera sitting on an open car door and taking pictures.The force said the incident, which was widely shared online, reflected a “lack of awareness” about the dangers and told the public to abide by traffic rules.Police seized the vehicle used in the stunt for 60 days, issued a Dh2,000 ($544) fine to the driver and imposed 23 black points on her licence. Brig Juma bin Suwaidan, director of the Dubai Police traffic department, said the…
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Hong Kong Watch strongly condemns the Hong Kong government’s enactment of the Safeguarding National Security (Procedural Matters) Regulation, which grants the Chief Executive the power to certify any criminal case as a national security matter, with immediate and binding effect on Hong Kong courts.That this legislation was gazetted and brought into force on 9 June 2026, the seventh anniversary of the day more than one million people marched through Hong Kong’s streets in opposition of the proposed extradition bill, is a deeply troubling statement of intent. The government chose to mark that anniversary not with reflection, but with yet another…
‘Human dignity has no passport,’ Leo XIV says at migrant centre on Tenerife PUBLISHED : 12 Jun 2026 at 17:45 UPDATED : 12 Jun 2026 at 18:33 Pope Leo XIV is presented a wreath by two migrants, to make a floral tribute to remember all the migrants who perished during their journey, at the Port of Arguineguin on the Canary Island of Gran Canaria.(Photo: AFP) SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain – Pope Leo XIV told migrants at a reception centre on the Spanish island of Tenerife on Friday that “all of us are migrants”, on the final day of…
The relatives of victims of the Air India crash are demanding answers about the world’s deadliest air disaster in a decade, one year on.The Boeing 787 Dreamline crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025, killing 260 people.The crash’s only survivor, Vishwashkumar Ramesh, whose brother was killed in the incident, said he lives with “significant psychological scars”, the loss of his brother, and “constant unanswered questions”.He said that the families of victims were grieving like him, as he urged for “transparency and answers.” “The trauma didn’t end on the day of the disaster,” he said in a statement.”More…
Ahmad Adil12 June 2026•Update: 12 June 2026India Friday called for collaboration on food security as the South Asian nation hosted two-day BRICS Agriculture Ministers’ meeting in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.India’s Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh said the conference was an “important platform” for “collectively addressing challenges faced by small and marginal farmers across the world,” particularly those “arising from climate change, pressure on natural resources, rising input costs and uncertainties in agricultural market.”Appealing to BRICS nations for “greater collaboration,” Chouhan urged all member countries “to work together towards empowering small farmers, ensuring food security…
In January, a draft presidential regulation (perpres) on the Indonesian National Armed Forces’ (TNI) Role in Counterterrorism was released. Much like an earlier version released in 2020, the draft outlines three main counterterrorism functions for the military: prevention, which grants authority for the TNI to carry out intelligence, territorial, information, and “miscellaneous” operations for counterterrorism purposes; enforcement, which permits TNI’s use of force in response to terrorist acts that, among others, threaten the president and vice president, targets strategic national infrastructure, or poses danger to Indonesia’s state ideology and sovereignty; and recovery, which the draft leaves largely unspecified. As in…
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Newsfrom Japan Society Jun 12, 2026 21:22 (JST) Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Seedlings of Beni Princess, a premium citrus variety developed by the western Japan prefecture of Ehime, may have been leaked to China, Japanese agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki said Friday.The agriculture ministry learned last year that seedlings with a name similar to the Japanese variety were being sold on a Chinese website.Since receiving this information from the ministry, the Ehime prefectural government has been working to determine the facts.In 2005, the Ehime prefectural government began breeding Beni Princess from Beni Madonna, whose fruit has a jelly-like texture, and Kanpei,…
For U.S. media and investors only DUBLIN, June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced top-line results from the Phase 3 LAGOON trial, conducted by PharmaMar, evaluating Zepzelca® (lurbinectedin) in patients with relapsed (second-line) metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The trial did not meet its primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) evaluating Zepzelca as monotherapy or in combination with irinotecan compared to investigators’ choice of topotecan or irinotecan. No new safety signals were identified with Zepzelca monotherapy or in combination with irinotecan, and the overall safety profiles of the investigational arms were consistent with the…
The Hong Kong government has granted 1,000 restaurants the city’s first permits to allow dogs into their premises starting on July 9. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Friday that it “conducted an open balloting today and allocated 1,000 quotas for allowing dogs to enter food premises according to the ballot result.” Pixel, the HKFP news hound, welcomes the move. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Among the 1,000 restaurants, 343 are located on Hong Kong Island, 326 in Kowloon, and 331 in the New Territories. With 111 restaurants granted permits, Wan Chai has the highest number of dog-friendly…