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Colombia quake: Frantic search for survivors as over 2,700 reported missing 

11 August 2026

Rescuers are searching through collapsed buildings in western Colombia for survivors after the country’s strongest ear...

Who is Atef Najib, former Syrian official sentenced to death with al-Assad? 

11 August 2026

Atef Najib, the former Syrian security official widely seen as the man who oversaw a regime of murder, torture and force...

East Libya military intelligence chief killed in car bomb 

11 August 2026

The head of military intelligence for eastern Libya’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has been killed in a targ...

DRC Ebola death toll passes 2,000 amid fastest-growing outbreak on record 

11 August 2026

News|Ebola More than 2,000 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since its outbreak wa...

What to know about South Carolina’s election to replace Lindsey Graham 

11 August 2026

Republicans in South Carolina will head to the polls on Tuesday to decide who will replace the late Senator Lindsey Grah...

Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region suffers as US-Iran war drags on 

11 August 2026

Erbil, Iraq – For the last five months or so, Iraq’s Kurdistan region has suffered the impact and ramifications of t...

Indonesian officials race to contain wildfires as dozens of schools shut 

11 August 2026

Authorities in Indonesia are scrambling to contain wildfires that have burned through more than 100,000 hectares (247,00...

Iran threat prompted secret Trump flight from Turkiye: Reports 

11 August 2026

News|Donald Trump An Iranian assassination threat prompted United States President Donald Trump to secretly switch plane...

Bashar al-Assad, Atef Najib sentenced to death in landmark Syria trial 

11 August 2026

Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad and Atef Najib, the former head of political security in southern Syria’s Deraa...

‘My father is in RSS’: India’s Gen Z confronts Modi-loving parents at home 

11 August 2026

New Delhi, India – When Kunal Choudhary left Punjab’s Ludhiana city on July 14 to join the Gen Z-led protests in New...