China’s top diplomat Wang Yi concluded his visit to South Korea on Friday but declined to endorse Seoul’s push for multi-party peace talks involving the North. However, North Korea responded with more than 10 short-range ballistic missile launches on Thursday, prompting the South’s presidential office to call an emergency security meeting. exchanges between peoples. But … Read more
According to a local resident, more than 100 people were at the monastery for a religious retreat. Published August 21, 2026 August 21, 2026 A military airstrike killed 14 people at a Buddhist monastery in central Myanmar, an opposition group and a local resident said. The attack occurred in the village of Swel Le Oh … Read more
Last year, Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He is now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-torn nation. The 31-year-old said he only learned that the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after … Read more
2-year-old twin sisters born joined at the head in Brazil died minutes after enduring a grueling fifth surgery to separate them, according to a report. Little Heloísa and Helena Batista da Silva, who shared brain tissue and blood vessels, suffered insufficient blood flow to their organs along with a heart attack in Ribeirão Preto on … Read more
The number of US service members reported injured or killed in the Iran war rose to 774, after the Pentagon added dozens of new troops to the wounded list in recent days. To date, 18 of those soldiers have been killed in the conflict and 756 have been wounded, according to the Pentagon’s casualty reporting … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones attacked a shopping center in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said. The attacks on the shopping center, in addition to two separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, left a total of 21 … Read more
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One person has been arrested following the attack at a high school in Fagersta, local authorities said. Published August 21, 2026 August 21, 2026 A person armed with a sword injured several people in an attack at a school in central Sweden, authorities said. “An attacker armed with a sword has entered Brinellskolan [school] and … Read more
Prince Harry and six others were ordered to pay an initial £9.5 million to the BBC, publisher of the Daily Mail. Prince Harry, Elton John and other high-profile figures will pay £9.5 million to cover the legal costs of UK tabloid publisher CNN. Multi-million dollar bill for failed lawsuit Reuters
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries on Friday concluded their annual exercise six days earlier than initially scheduled in a conciliatory gesture toward North Korea, although the North said the step is not enough to persuade it to return to talks. Previously, US President Donald Trump had abruptly ordered the … Read more