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Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. forces have struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in the first military action in a month, a U.S. official said Sunday. Semiofficial news outlets in Iran reported sounds of…
Bangladesh’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir in a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, at the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry on August 30, 2026. Photo: X/@BDMOFA Bangladesh-China two-plus-two dialogue will commence in the “very near future”, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir announced in Dhaka on Sunday (August 30,…
Armed Police Force (APF) officers work on transporting bodies to the pit at the Devghat mass burial site for victims of deadly flash floods and mudslides in Chitwan, Nepal. | Photo Credit: Reuters Four days after the flood in Nepal, the death toll in the disaster reached 788, and 2,502 people remained missing even as…
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Mother of three-year-old Palestinian child Tayyem Hamdan, who was killed in an Israeli strike according to medics at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, reacts during his funeral in the central Gaza Strip, on August 30, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza…
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Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on Saturday (August 29, 2026) that an energy agreement with the U.S. would remain in force for 25 years, target an increase in crude output to 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) and preserve the country’s sovereignty over its…
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Russia’s Defence Ministry on Sunday (August 30, 2026) said it was gearing up for large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a tit-for-tat response to strikes by Kyiv. “Russian forces have begun preparations for massive strikes against facilities in Ukraine’s energy sector in response to the ongoing attacks by the Kyiv regime on civilian infrastructure…
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by their ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence, pose after signing a joint defence agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Turkey will host Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for the first ministerial…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays homage to the bust of former Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, at the Shastri Memorial in Tashkent. | Photo Credit: ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes at the Shastri Memorial in Uzbekistan’s capital on Sunday (August 30, 2026), honouring the legacy of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur…
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Five-year-old Ishara Tamang lies in a hospital bed in Kathmandu, injured and separated from her family, after surviving the flash floods that devastated Rasuwa district on the Nepal-Tibet border. She was rescued from the floodwaters in Khalte, a village in Rasuwa, after being trapped in a net, the Onlinekhabar news portal reported. Ishara told hospital…
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A helicopter brings survivors ashore after they were rescued from the sea following a boat capsize off Kyrenia, northern Cyprus. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least six people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday (August 30, 2026), Turkish media reported. More…