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Russian expert warns of impending social crisis as Ukraine death toll rises
21 August 2026Russian ballistic missile attacks have begun to cause record civilian deaths in Ukrainian cities without any Patriot int...
El Nino set to be most intense ‘for over a century’: UK forecasters
21 August 2026News|Weather The impact of this year’s El Nino event is expected to be the most intense in more than a century, United...
Ebola outbreak ‘growing faster, wider’ as DRC death toll passes 2,500: UN
21 August 2026News|Ebola The Ebola virus continues spreading “exponentially” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Un...
Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ claims first victim: Not Iran, but US markets
21 August 2026United States President Donald Trump has threatened a crushing financial campaign against Iran, which he has referred to...
Several people injured in sword attack at Swedish school
21 August 2026News|Crime A person armed with a sword has injured several people in an attack at a school in central Sweden, authoritie...
China rejects US claim that Myanmar analyst wrongfully detained
21 August 2026China has denied a claim by Washington that it has wrongfully detained a United States citizen. Rejecting the US designa...
Why are Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil organisers facing prison?
21 August 2026Two prominent Hong Kong activists who helped organise annual vigils commemorating China’s deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square...
Why Israeli tenders for illegal E1 West Bank settlement prompted outrage
21 August 2026Israel has opened tenders for the construction of 1,234 Israeli homes in the occupied West Bank, advancing a major illeg...
How a Swedish Palestinian minister raised controversy with Star of David
21 August 2026Simona Mohamsson, Sweden’s minister for education and integration, wore a Star of David necklace during a televised po...
PTI accuses Pakistan government of defying ex-PM Imran Khan hospital order
21 August 2026Islamabad, Pakistan — Uzma Khanum had not seen her brother in nearly a year. When she finally did, in a borrowed offic...