Thu 27 August 2026: Hamas and other armed factions in Gaza have agreed — for the first time — to surrender their weapons and transfer full civilian and security authority to a UN-recognized transitional administration, Nikolay Mladenov, the Gaza Peace Board’s high representative, said Wednesday. Mladenov made the remarks at a UN Security Council briefing […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive but has sustained severe injuries to the left side of his body. “He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing,” Trump told political commentator Glenn Beck. He […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from wasting, including about 1 million with life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, UNICEF said Tuesday. UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan Tajudeen Oyewale said nearly 40% of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and medical complications are babies under 6 months old. Children under 2 account for 83% of severe acute malnutrition […]
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Thu 27 August 2026: At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a devastating flash flood swept through northern Nepal, destroying villages, roads, bridges and power infrastructure near the border with Tibet. Nepal Police said late on Wednesday that 157 bodies had been recovered, while emergency teams continued searching for survivors […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The US Treasury Department on Wednesday designated the British group Palestine Action as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), Anadolu reports. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for administering US economic sanctions, added the group to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN). The designation was made […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: The U.S. said Wednesday it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation that broke into some of the country’s most sensitive government institutions, including the Justice Department, NASA, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Senate. The Justice Department said authorities had seized domains linked to two hacking platforms used in the campaign, […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: South Africa can produce enough food for its population, according to official statistics. But millions face hunger, partly because food is lost and wasted in the value chain. An estimated 10.3 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the country, 19% of it fresh produce. A substantial portion of this loss and waste occurs during harvesting, transportation and marketing in […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri rejected allegations from US prosecutors that the company withheld damaging information from the public, as he took the stand in a major federal trial over social media’s impact on young people. “I am not trying to encourage my team to hide anything,” the CEO, Adam Mosseri, told […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: US media outlets report that America’s top intelligence official is in Moscow for discussions, even though the Kremlin has stated that no meetings with US envoys are scheduled this week. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, CBS News said CIA Director John Ratcliffe was in the Russian capital on Tuesday. […]
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Wed 26 August 2026: In a further sign that support for Israel is becoming politically toxic, Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers’s team has asked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) not to run advertisements backing his campaign in Michigan, amid fears that association with the pro-Israel lobby could cost him votes. The request, reported […]
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