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ICE agent behind fatal shooting in Maine reportedly had troubled history 

17 July 2026

News|Donald Trump Reports have emerged that David Brouillette, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who...

US launches seventh straight night of strikes on Iran 

17 July 2026

The United States Army has launched a seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, as a military adviser to the Iranian...

Top IRS lawyer to resign post amid disagreements with Trump administration 

17 July 2026

The top lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the federal tax-collecting agency in the United States, is schedu...

Suspected Somali pirates seize tanker near Yemen amid wave of hijackings 

17 July 2026

An oil tanker has been seized off the coast of Yemen, in an attack the country’s coastguard says was carried out by So...

At least two dead as heavy rains, floods strike central Texas 

17 July 2026

Two people have died, and more than 230 were rescued, as torrential rains and flash floods ravaged central Texas this we...

At least three killed and hundreds displaced by heavy rain in Chile 

17 July 2026

News|Floods Torrential rain and fierce winds have lashed central and southern Chile, leaving at least three people dead ...

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 14, including mourners attending funeral 

17 July 2026

Multiple Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 14 Palestinians, more than half of them in a drone s...

Uganda school bus crash kills 20 children and 1 adult 

17 July 2026

News|Transport ‌Twenty schoolchildren have been killed after the bus carrying them ⁠crashed ⁠on the way back from ...

Ukraine suffers port attacks as protests persist over defence shake-up 

17 July 2026

Russia carried out several deadly attacks in Ukraine, including reportedly killing two people aboard a foreign vessel, a...

Ukraine ‘cuts off’ Crimea from Russia, plunging it into an energy crisis 

17 July 2026

Crimea’s energy crisis deepened during the past week, as Ukraine demonstrated it could exercise fire control over the ...