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Earthquake rattles opening day of PIF summit in...
Nuku'alofa [Tonga], August 26: A 6.6 magnitude earthquake has rattled the opening day of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting...

Russian attacks on Ukraine kill 4 and injure...
Moscow [Russia], August 26: Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring...

French Polynesia hits Paris approach to New Caledonia
Papeete [French Polynesia], August 26: French Polynesia says France failed to heed warnings of unrest in New Caledonia and Paris...

Reuters safety adviser killed, two journalists injured in...
Kyiv [Ukraine], August 26: Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine, was killed and...

Harris raises $540 million since launching her presidential...
Washington [US], August 26: Democrat Kamala Harris has raised $540 million in little more than a month since she began...

Twenty dead, 5 million affected in Bangladesh floods
Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 26: At least 20 people have died and more than 5.2 million have been affected in Bangladesh...

Israel and Hezbollah in major missile exchange as...
Tel Aviv [Israel], August 26: Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel's military...

Aussie homeowners face rising insurance costs due to...
Sydney [Australia], August 26: Home insurance is becoming unaffordable for a growing number of Australian households as increased climate threats...

TICAD Ministerial Meeting explores boosting AU-Japan cooperation
Tokyo [Japan], August 26: Participants in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Meeting, which took place on...

Sheikh Zayed, Fatima bint Mubarak shaped UAE's vision...
Cairo [Egypt], August 26: Dr. Omar Habtoor Al Darei, Chairman of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, and Zakat,...

Guterres stresses importance of de-escalation, calls for urgent...
New York [US], August 26: Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), has expressed deep concern over the significant...

Tunisia reshuffles cabinet, appointing new foreign, defence ministers
Tunis [Tunisia], August 26: Tunisian President Kais Saied ordered on Sunday a cabinet reshuffle, which included 19 ministries.

NASA astronauts cannot return, one-week mission turns into...
Washington [US], August 25: This decision was made after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft used to carry two NASA astronauts Sunita...

Many people suddenly realize they belong to a...
Washington [US], August 25: News.com.au reported on August 25 that many people realized their true gender after discovering the term...

Italy investigates manslaughter after yacht sinking kills British...
London [UK], August 25: Chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said investigators had found that the cause of the sinking was not...

Hezbollah is about to launch a massive attack,...
Gaza [Palestine], August 25: The Israeli military said on August 25 that it had launched preemptive strikes in Lebanon after...

US warns Houthi-attacked ship could spill 'millions of...
Washington [US], August 25: The US State Department on August 24 warned of the risk of an environmental disaster in...

Trump 'riding a lion' to campaign
Washington [US], August 25: The Independent newspaper reported on August 25 that former US President Donald Trump shared on the...

Hezbollah begins retaliatory attacks, Israel declares emergency
Jerusalem [Israel], August 25: Hezbollah has just announced the start of a large-scale attack on Israel in response...

Canada rail shutdown: Union challenges government move
Ottawa [Canada], August 25: The union representing over 9,000 Canadian rail workers vowed on Friday to challenge the federal government's...

Floods, landslides in India's Tripura displace tens of...
Tripura (Assam) [India], August 25: Soldiers in lifeboats ferried people to safety in India's northeastern state of Tripura after heavy...

Three stab victims after car crash in southern...
Sydney [Australia], August 25: A police officer and two people have been stabbed at the scene of a two-car crash...

Germany attack: Police arrest suspected knifeman
Berlin [Germany], August 25: German police have arrested a man suspected of killing three people and injuring another eight in...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Paris [France], August 25: Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of...

Wildfires affecting 30 cities in Brazil's Sao Paulo...
Brasilia [Brazil], August 25: Brazil's Sao Paulo state said that wildfire outbreaks were affecting or closing in on 30 of...

Zelenskiy touts new 'drone missile', calls Putin 'sick...
Kyiv [Ukraine], August 25: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would...

Uganda confirms two more cases of mpox
Kampala [Uganda], August 25: Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the east...