Iran holds state funeral for military leaders killed in Israel conflict
Dearbail Jordan
A state funeral has been held in Iran for about 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel.
Coffins draped in the Iranian flag, bearing portraits of deceased commanders, were flanked by crowds near Tehran's Enghelab Square.
The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this week, after the US became directly involved by bombing key nuclear sites in Iran.
China ‘planned car collision’ during Taiwan vice-president’s visit to Prague
Czech intelligence revealed Chinese diplomats allegedly planned staged incident during Hsiao Bi-khim’s 2024 visit
Sat 28 Jun 2025 14.05 BST
China ‘planned car collision’ during Taiwan vice-president’s visit to Prague
Czech intelligence revealed Chinese diplomats allegedly planned staged incident during Hsiao Bi-khim’s 2024 visit
Taiwan’s vice-president has said she will not be intimidated after reports by Czech intelligence that Chinese officials planned to stage a car collision when she was in Prague last year.
Hsiao Bi-khim visited the Czech Republic in March 2024, in the first overseas visit by her and Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, after winning the election in January. It was reported at the time that a Chinese diplomat had run a red light while following her car – under police escort – from the airport.
Big attendance expected at Budapest Pride despite police ban
The annual Budapest Pride march this year is expected to go ahead in the face of a police ban and government hostility. Organizers said they expect tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations to attend the event.
LGBTQ+ rights supporters from some 30 countries are expected to join the Budapest Pride march on Saturday, defying a police ban imposed under legislation introduced earlier this year that forbids the exposure of young people to non-heterosexual lifestyles.
The annual event has now come to symbolize resistance to a general repression of civil society in Hungary under the nationalist government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which is facing a growing challenge from center-right opposition leader Peter Magyar's Tisza party ahead of elections next year.
'We only have one exit': Life under blockade in West Bank villages
Since the Israel-Iran war started in June 2025, life has become even more constrained in Ras Karkar, a village west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Hatem Nofal, head of the local emergency committee, describes a daily existence dictated by Israeli iron gates, expanding settlements, and the increasing isolation of his community.
There are currently nearly 900 movement obstacles in the West Bank, including checkpoints, concrete roadblocks, earthmounds, and, notably, iron gates locked at the entrances to Palestinian villages. The UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA recorded 205 of these gates in May 2025, with most being closed or intermittently controlled by the Israeli army.
This policy of closure has intensified since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, and further, with the Israel-Iran war, making daily life for Palestinians even more challenging. In August 2023, OCHA documented 645 permanent obstacles across the West Bank, including 118 iron gates.
Protesters gather in Bangkok to demand Thai PM's resignation over leaked Cambodia call
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Thailand’s capital on Saturday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, part of the brewing political turmoil set off by a leaked phone call with former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Paetongtarn faces growing dissatisfaction over her handling of a recent border dispute with Cambodia involving an armed confrontation May 28. One Cambodian soldier was killed in a relatively small, contested area. The clash set off a string of investigations that could lead to her removal.
'I had never been separated from my family': Refugee children
If the global refugee population were just 100 people, 33 would be children, each in need of protection.
Sameer - not his real name - fled Afghanistan when he was just 17 years old.
The Taliban had overthrown the government of President Ashraf Ghani - which his father worked for - placing his family at risk.
“I was doing well in my life, practising and exercising normally," Sameer, an aspiring mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, tells Al Jazeera. "But when the Taliban took power … the situation became very hard, like putting us under pressure.”
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