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Russian forces on Friday (August 28, 2026) resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said. Prolonged air raids in Kyiv on Thursday (August 27) essentially locked down the Ukrainian capital for 15 hours, the Foreign…
Barrister Iftikhar Ali Gillani was on Friday (August 28, 2026) elected to the so-called post of ‘prime minister’ of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following recent elections marred by violent protests and allegations of massive rigging. Mr. Gillani, of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), secured 30 of the 44 votes in the so-called legislative assembly…
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A satellite image shows one of two lakes at the site of the glacial collapse in the border area between Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Two more glacial lakes have formed in Nepal, near the apparent source of the ice-rock avalanche that triggered flooding in Nepal’s…
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Health workers and other people working on the front lines of the Ebola response are among the first to receive the vaccine |Image used for representational purpose only | Photo Credit: AFP Congo on Thursday began vaccinating people against Ebola as health authorities work to slow the country’s deadliest outbreak of the disease on record….
A view of a building partially damaged and surrounded by thick mud and debris as rescue operations underway following the devastating flash floods, in Trishuli on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI Nepal is monitoring two lakes upstream of the flood zone, one of which began overflowing on Friday (August 28, 2026), an official…
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A mail-in ballot. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A U.S. federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on Thursday (August 27, 2026) curbing the use of mail-in ballots, the latest twist in a legal dispute months before November’s midterm elections. Mr. Trump signed an order in March seeking to restrict mail-in voting ahead of…
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Displaced people watch a health worker in full personal protective equipment (PPE) preparing to disinfect the area during the burial of suspected Ebola victims at the Kigonze displaced persons camp in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 18, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: AP Iran warned the United States on Friday (August 28, 2026) that “pressure doesn’t work” against the Islamic republic, calling on Washington to honour its commitments, after six months of conflict between the sworn enemies. The war in West Asia started in late February with U.S.-Israeli…
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In a first for France’s aviation industry, a court in Bayonne has recognised breast cancer as an occupational disease. The landmark ruling came in July this year after Sophie Lainault, a former flight attendant who is now in cancer remission, took her case to court. Inside the landmark ruling The ruling, seen by Agence France-Presse,…
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A preliminary assessment suggested the collapse of a high-altitude glacier in Nepal was behind the mudslides and floods along the Nepal-China border, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday (August 28, 2026). “We noted that experts and official institutions of China and Nepal have made preliminary…
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