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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...

Palestine weekly: Netanyahu hedges on Gaza roadmap 

11 August 2026

Israel has rejected the 15-point Gaza roadmap put forward by US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, Israeli Prime...

Future of southern Lebanon peacekeeping uncertain ahead of UNIFIL phase-out 

11 August 2026

Beirut, Lebanon – As time runs out on the mandate for UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebano...

‘New level of danger’: Drone incidents scare Europe amid Russia-Ukraine war 

11 August 2026

A quadcopter drone with plastic explosives attached to it flew unnoticed past air defence installations at Germany’s L...

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...

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...

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...

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...