While Sri Lanka’s support for Palestine is noteworthy amidst Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the hypocrisy of this stance reveals itself.
A senior United Nations official has issued a grave warning on the deteriorating crisis in Sudan, stating that the risk of genocide remains “very high” as ethnically targeted violence continues to escalate.
Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Virginia Gamba, the UN Under-Secretary-General and Acting Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, expressed deep concern over ongoing atrocities committed by both warring factions in Sudan.
The president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, will officially open the diplomatic base during a ceremony that will honour the resilience and contributions of the British Bosnian community.
Myanmar is on “a path to self-destruction” if violence in the Southeast Asian nation doesn’t end, a U.N. envoy warned following a visit to the country.
The Israeli military conducted an airstrike in southern Syria on June 8, 2025, claiming it targeted and killed a member of Hamas in the Mazraat Beit Jin area. Hamas has not issued a statement regarding the reported death.
On Tuesday, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia imposed sanctions on Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) welcomed the recent decision by Pakistan and Afghanistan to upgrade diplomatic relations, following a trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers last month.
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto – blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
General Anil Chauhan, India’s chief of defence staff, has admitted that an unspecified number of fighter jets were shot down during its conflict with Pakistan last month.
Martin Griffiths, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, says it is now “unequivocal” that Israel is carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Namibia has held its first Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate more than 70,000 Herero and Nama people killed by German colonisers in the early 1900s.
The Herero and Nama genocide, which took place from 1904 to 1908, is described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century.
Far-right Israelis have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and a UN facility for Palestinian refugees during the controversial annual “Flag March” which celebrates Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem.
