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U.S. strikes Iran for first time in a month, Tehran retaliates The United States said on Sunday (August 30, 2026) it had attacked Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, its first strikes on Iran in a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate. The U.S. strikes resulted in “casualties,” said Iran’s…
U.S. strikes Iran for first time in a month, Tehran retaliates The United States said on Sunday (August 30, 2026) it had attacked Iranian rocket launchers on a small island in the Strait of Hormuz, its first strikes on Iran in a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate. The U.S. strikes resulted in “casualties,” said Iran’s…
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Screen grab of the Google Maps view of Lake Ontario/America Google Maps has changed the name of “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” for U.S. users to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the lake, according to a Google statement. Mr. Trump announced on Thursday (August 27, 2026) that he was changing the name of…
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UN climate chief Simon Stiell | Photo Credit: PTI The glacial collapse and flash flood near the Nepal-China border are a devastating reminder of how fragile mountain environments can be, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Sunday (August 30, 2026). He said scientists and local communities have been…
Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Field Marshal Asim Munir on Sunday (August 30, 2026) reached Turkiye for a trilateral defence pact meeting, which also includes Saudi Arabia. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye signed the…
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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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