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A satellite view shows Typhoon Saudel approaching the Ryukyu Islands, Japan in this screengrab from a timelapse video taken between August 24 and August 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A powerful typhoon headed west over the East China Sea on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) after slamming Okinawa and other remote southwestern Japanese islands, causing…
President Donald Trump speaks during a back to school event in the Rose Garden of the White House. File | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader’s second term in…
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A surge in attacks across Southern Thailand has put a spotlight on the low-level insurgency by Muslim separatists that has killed thousands of people in the last two decades. Dozens of coordinated night-time attacks across the three southernmost provinces near Malaysia over the weekend injured three people and left government buildings and vehicles burned. Also…
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Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto At least 14 infants were killed in a fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, after a fault in the air-conditioning system triggered the blaze, local broadcaster Geo TV reported on Wednesday (August 26, 2026). This is a developing story….
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Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: “Little Tiny Tasseltop,” an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox. “I loved that little doll,” Parton wrote decades later. “I expressed myself and my feelings through writing — I’m sure what I was thinking…
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Trump has submitted to Congress for review an agreement with Saudi Arabia aimed at bolstering the kingdom’s civilian nuclear program, but continues to insist that it won’t move forward if Saudi Arabia doesn’t normalise relations with…
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Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. File | Photo Credit: AP A prominent Sikh separatist said on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) that the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have warned him that he faces a new credible threat to his life even as a man from India faces sentencing later this year for…
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The sun rises over the city skyline in Panama City on August 11, 2026. Panama declared an emergency over the El Nino climate phenomenon on August 25, 2026, after Honduras and El Salvador, which has already forced a reduction in shipping through the Panama Canal. File | Photo Credit: AFP Panama on Tuesday (August 25,…
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The “economic onslaught” that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared on Iran’s financial connections around the world may have one major caveat, says China. Beijing is Iran’s biggest trading partner and its leading oil buyer. While the U.S. is trying to isolate the Islamic Republic from its remaining economic partners, President Donald Trump is also…
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U.S. forces strike a vessel in the Caribbean as part of operations against suspected narco-terrorist networks. (Screengrab) (X/@Southcom) The U.S. military said on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) that four people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, the latest in a series of attacks Washington says target “narco-terrorists”, but human rights…
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