International from Tuesday, June 10th, 2025

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday defended a $134-million deployment of Marines and National Guard to Los Angeles, saying they would safeguard officers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose roundups of alleged immigration offenders have triggered days of clashes.

Britain and other allies imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, on Tuesday over "their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities", the UK's foreign ministry said.

Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of a US-backed humanitarian group in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said.

A former pupil killed 10 people and himself at a secondary school in Austria's second city, Graz, on Tuesday in the worst school shooting in the country's modern history.

Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian activists have been taken to Tel Aviv airport ahead of their deportation, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, after the Israeli navy prevented them from sailing to Gaza.

Russia launched another prolonged drone attack on Ukraine, killing one person and damaging swathes of Kyiv as well as striking a maternity ward in the southern port of Odesa, regional officials said early on Tuesday.

The US military will temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles until more National Guard troops can arrive on the fourth day of street protests over US President Trump's immigration policies.

Israel killed three medical services staff and a journalist during strikes on Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, Palestinian media said on Monday.