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Israel Bombs Syrian Airbase to Block Turkish Troops, Igniting Three-Way Standoff Eight Israeli airstrikes hit the Abu al-Duhur military base in Idlib province’s eastern countryside early Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties, Syrian state media reported. It was the first Israeli strike on the airbase since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024…

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Ukraine Hits Moscow With Largest Drone Barrage in Two Years as Kharkiv Pays the Price Ukraine launched more than 620 drones at Moscow and the surrounding region overnight into Tuesday, in what Russian state media described as the largest drone assault on the capital in two years. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 180 drones were…

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Zambia’s Hichilema Wins Landslide Re-Election as Opposition Cries Fraud Zambia’s electoral commission declared President Hakainde Hichilema the outright winner of a second five-year term on Tuesday, crediting him with roughly 61.4% of valid votes to 38% for his closest rival, Brian Mundubile — enough to avoid a runoff. Hichilema, 64, received about 2.97 million votes…

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Zimbabwe’s Deadliest Ferry Disaster Death Toll Hits 92 as Overloading Questions Mount The death toll from the Aug. 11 capsizing of the passenger ferry Mbuya Nehanda on Lake Kariba has risen to at least 92, Zimbabwean authorities said, making it the deadliest boat disaster in the country’s history. The vessel, authorized to carry 90 people,…

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Hundreds of Migrants Arrested Trying to Storm Ceuta Again, Two Weeks After 72,000 Made It In Moroccan security forces arrested at least 111 migrants attempting to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Saturday, after social media posts called for a new mass crossing attempt. Other tallies put the number higher, with police…

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Trump Guts South Korea War Games Over His “Very Good Relationship” With Kim Jong Un President Donald Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump said he did not want to send a signal that…

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Ukraine’s Biggest Drone Barrage Yet Kills Civilians on Both Sides of a War With No End in Sight Ukraine launched hundreds of drones into Russia early Sunday in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least six people. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight, with Moscow…

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Myanmar Says It’s Ready to Take Back 300,000 Rohingya — Refugees Aren’t Buying It Myanmar’s military-backed government said Saturday, August 15, that it has verified more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh as former residents of western Rakhine state and will accept their return once security conditions there improve. The Ministry of…

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Trapped for Six Days: Israeli Settlers Besiege Palestinian Homes in West Bank Village of Qusra A standoff in the West Bank village of Qusra entered its sixth day on Friday, August 14, after dozens of Israeli settlers arrived the previous Sunday and blocked the doors of three Palestinian homes, trapping the families inside. Settlers rebuilt…

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7.7 Earthquake Rips Through Indonesia’s Flores Island, Killing Dozens as Rescuers Battle Landslides to Reach the Cut-Off A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Flores Island at 5:58 a.m. local time on Saturday, August 15, 2026, with an epicenter roughly 68 kilometers (42 miles) north-northwest of the city of Ende in East…

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