Category: World

China, Russia, India and Iran Sign Declaration Slamming US “Hegemonic Practices” and Sanctions Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation closed a two-day summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 1, 2026, signing a joint “Bishkek Declaration” that condemned Western economic sanctions on member states and denounced recent military strikes on Iran as violations of international law,…

Russia’s Sixth Straight Night of Missile Strikes Kills a Dozen in Kyiv, Six of Them Railway Workers Russian forces launched ballistic missiles and drones at Kyiv overnight into September 1, 2026, marking the sixth consecutive night of heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital. A ballistic strike hit a railway depot operated by state rail company…

US and Iran Trade Strikes Again — and Trump Posts a Fake Video Claiming Credit The United States struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz late Sunday, with US Central Command saying it took “limited, precise action against IRGC minelaying forces posing an imminent threat” to shipping after observing…

Russia Batters Kyiv for a Sixth Straight Night as Washington Fights Over the Aid Bill Russia launched a large-scale aerial assault on Kyiv and the surrounding region beginning at 6 p.m. Monday and continuing into Tuesday morning, using ballistic, cruise and anti-radar missiles alongside 218 drones and decoys, about a third of them jet-powered, plus…

Himalayan Flood Death Toll Tops 1,000 With Thousands Still Missing The death toll from catastrophic flooding across Nepal and Tibet passed 1,000 on Tuesday, authorities said, after a glacial collapse high in the Himalayas on Aug. 26 sent rock, ice and meltwater surging into valleys below in a bedrock failure that registered as a magnitude…

Haiti’s Police Couldn’t Free the Kenscoff Hostages — A Civilian Mediator Did A Haitian community leader entered the gang-controlled hillside town of Kenscoff on August 28 and, with support from UNICEF, secured the release of 13 hostages taken during a mass kidnapping that killed at least 47 people and abducted more than 50 [1]. Among…

US Strikes Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Reopening a War Nobody Voted to Continue U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first American military action in the conflict in roughly a month, after Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps units were observed preparing to fire…

Russia’s Deadliest Strike of the Year Turns a Kyiv-Area Village Into Rubble The death toll from Russia’s Friday night strike on a Ukrainian ammunition depot near Kyiv rose to 38 on Sunday, with four people still unaccounted for, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said [1]. The strike hit a warehouse storing munitions in the village of Myla,…

Deadliest Strike of the Year: Russian Drone Attack Levels Kyiv-Area Ammo Depot, Kills 37 A Russian drone strike late Friday hit an ammunition depot in the village of Myla in Ukraine’s Bucha district near Kyiv, triggering a massive detonation that killed at least 37 people in the war’s deadliest single attack this year, Ukrainian officials…

Trump’s $209 Billion Venezuela Oil Deal Draws Fire From Both US Parties — and From the Venezuelans It Was Supposed to Help President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration has struck a deal giving the United States a majority stake in a new venture to develop 17 Venezuelan oil fields holding roughly 65 billion…