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Mexico to cut school year short ahead of World Cup
Education Secretary Mario Delgado said the decision to end the school year 40 days early was made in part due to a heat wave impacting several states.
What does China want out of Trump’s visit?
Beijing is a close partner of Tehran and has called US-Israeli strikes on Iran illegal, but it has also criticised Iranian attacks on Gulf countries and called for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened.
Trump threatens more Iran strikes if deal not signed ‘fast!’
"We'll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don't get their Deal signed, FAST!" he added.
Japan fires missiles during drills, drawing China rebuke
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has accelerated Japan's shift towards a more muscular defence policy, further shedding with US encouragement Tokyo's pacifist stance in place since World War II.
Iranian embassy denies armed forces struck South Korean ship in Hormuz
Tehran's embassy said in a statement on Thursday that it "firmly rejects and categorically denies any allegations regarding the involvement of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the incident involving damage to a Korean vessel in the Strait of Hormuz".
Suu Kyi’s son urges Myanmar to provide ‘proof of life’
The country's junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing on Thursday ordered the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner to be moved, five years after putting her into detention in a coup.
Spain says no decision taken on hantavirus cruise ship
The health ministry statement in a social media post came shortly after World Health Organization epidemic and pandemic preparedness director Maria Van Kerkhove said in Geneva that the ship would head for the Canary Islands.
Seoul akan menilai semula penyertaan operasi Amerika di Selat Hormuz
Kementerian Luar Korea Selatan berkata, kesemua 24 anak kapal HMM Namu termasuk enam rakyat Korea Selatan tidak mengalami sebarang kecederaan.
Rights group says Israel to seek six-day detention for flotilla activists
Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avila were brought to Israel for questioning last week and are being held at an Israeli prison in Ashkelon.
Indian pilots demand further probe of Air India crash
An Indian pilot group has submitted a letter to the aviation ministry suggesting that electrical failure, and not pilot action, could have caused the deadly Air India crash last year.
