The 15th Chinese peacekeeping engineer contingent to South Sudan on Friday donated educational supplies, sports equipment and daily necessities to students and teachers of a local girls’ primary school in Wau, northwest of the country.

To celebrate the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Hong Kong Garrison held an open day event starting on Saturday. The national flag-raising ceremony was held on Saturday. 

Pope Leo XIV said humanity is crying out for peace, and called for an end to wars. Each member of the international community has the moral responsibility to end the tragedy of war, before it becomes an irreparable chasm," the pontiff says during his weekly Angelus prayer at the Vatican. The pope also called on the world not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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The US defense chief said Sunday that strikes ordered by President Donald Trump overnight had "devastated" Iran's nuclear program and urged Iranian leaders to seek peace to avoid further attacks, adding that the operation did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.

The president authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of troops and ally Israel, he added.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden to commemorate the 84th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi’s invasion of the Soviet Union.

As of June 22nd, the extremely powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28 has resulted in 3,758 deaths, 5,104 injuries, and 48 missing persons across the six regions and states severely affected.

U.S strikes 3 Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump says

 "A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terror.

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The police seized drug traffickers who transported narcotics from Mandalay to Sagaing, confiscating heroin worth 920 million kyats, weighing over 24.35 kilogrammes, according to the Myanmar Police Force.

The seizure occurred at around 8 pm on 10 June near Tagaung Ward in Sagaing Township. A combined task force intercepted a Pajero heading to Kalay from Mandalay, driven by Kyaw Swar Lin, and discovered 6.93 kilogrammes of heroin powder.

Hundreds of couples tied the knot on Amsterdam’s A10 highway on Saturday, as the Dutch capital marked its 750th anniversary with a one-day festival that turned the city’s busy ring road into a pedestrian-only celebration. The event, called “Op de Ring,” saw 400 couples marry in temporary tents set up on the closed highway, in a mass wedding ceremony that mixed civic pride with personal vows.

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