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Iconic Sri Lankan singer Nanda Malini, whose voice travelled with generations of Sinhalese through the island’s political and social upheavals of the 1970s and 1980s, passed away in Nawala, near Colombo, on Thursday. She was 82. The Sri Lankan government announced three days of mourning beginning Friday (August 21, 2026) to pay respects to one…
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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan gives a press conference at his home, in Lahore. File | Photo Credit: AP Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was transferred back to jail early on Friday (August 21, 2026), hours after being taken to a hospital for court-ordered medical checks, the government said. Also Read | Pakistan…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has rejected the economic threats made against his country, saying that such “failed policies” will stir more hostility among Iranians and “bring more failures”. Mr. Araghchi’s comments came a few hours after Donald Trump threatened “crushing economic measures” against Iran…
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Participants take part in an anti-terror drill simulating the suppression and recapture of detainees who escaped following a drone attack on a detention facility, on the sidelines of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. and South Korean militaries were wrapping up their annual drills six days earlier than initially scheduled…
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The U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti on Thursday (August 20, 2026) for the first time since the Trump administration won a legal battle to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for some 350,000 Haitians. The plane landed in the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haitien because the main international airport in Port-au-Prince is considered…
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Frail and malnourished children and women lay on rows of hospital beds, their bodies bearing the scars of six months of captivity deep in the Nigerian bush. The patients were among 163 kidnapping victims rescued in August in the Kainji Lake National Park forest, after their village, Woro, was attacked by suspected jihadists. In total,…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos Six Indians were aboard a Cameroon-flagged cargo ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia’s Puntland coast earlier this week, a Somali official said on Thursday (August 20, 2026). The M/V LUTUF, which was carrying Turkish weapons, was seized on Monday (August 17, 2026) and taken by the pirates toward…
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National Transportation Safety Board. File | Photo Credit: AP A charter plane carrying eight people crashed on Thursday (August 20, 2026) near a remote radar site in western Alaska, a federal official said. Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, said two pilots and six passengers were on board. He did not…
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August 21, 2026 07:36 Oil prices hit three-week high on U.S. threats to end war Oil prices rose to more than a three-week high on Thursday following those U.S. threats of financial penalties aimed at forcing an end to a nearly six-month-old war that has stranded millions of barrels of oil. Source link
Police officers take a position outside the Shifa International Hospital, where imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan will be transferred for a medical examination following Pakistan’s Supreme Court order, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was transferred to a hospital in Islamabad early…
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