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People gather next to the bodies of people they said were their relatives and were killed in a gang attack in the Kenscoff neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on August 24 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Gang members attacked displaced people huddling inside a church near Haiti’s capital, killing around 40, some of them execution-style, the…
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U.S. President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump is moving toward levying a new tariff on China that would penalise the world’s second-largest economy for flooding the global market with underpriced goods, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two of the people who spoke…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing them as “an economic D-Day”, in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department on August 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty Images via AFP. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday (August 24, 2026) laid out plans for the “economic asphyxiation”…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son Yair. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday (August 23, 2026) that Iran had attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, without offering further details. “Something incredible happened: Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill one of my…
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Mannar For about a decade now, successive governments in Sri Lanka have sought to tap Mannar’s strong winds to power the island’s transition to green energy. But renewable energy projects — existing and proposed — have left local communities increasingly fearful about the possible impact on their environment and livelihoods. Residents in villages across Mannar…
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South Korea’s Marines take part in U.S. and South Korea’s marine corps combined amphibious landing drill called the ‘Ssangyong’ exercise, in Pohang, South Korea. File | Photo Credit: Reuters South Korea said on Monday (August 24, 2026) that the United States had cancelled a large joint amphibious landing exercise scheduled for next month due to…
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Syria’s former grand mufti under ousted President Bashar Assad, Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, stands as a court sentences him to life in prison at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, on August 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP A former Islamic religious leader was sentenced to life in prison on Monday (August 24, 2026) in…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Yemen’s Houthis said on Monday (August 24, 2026) that their forces hit a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile, as the Iran-backed rebels pursue a maritime blockade of the kingdom. Also read | ‘Economic D-Day’: U.S. threatens Iran with new…
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Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers a speech next to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday (August 24, 2026) that the U.K. will help Ukraine make its own long-range missiles by sharing…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday (August 24, 2026) threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Canadian automobiles, car parts, and steel starting next year as the trade rift with Ottawa continued to deepen. The announcement comes after trade talks between otherwise allies and reliable trading partners collapsed…