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The Israeli military confirmed on Sunday that it carried out an airstrike on a Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon, targeting what it described as military infrastructure, including underground facilities. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the strike hit a location in the Beaufort Ridge area where “military activity was identified.” The army said the existence and use ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025. Authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them, said the New York-based rights body on August 29. In May, states in India governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) initiated a ...

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday removed Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who had already been suspended, from office as prime minister. In its verdict, the court ruled that although Paetongtarn did not show “dishonesty” and had demonstrated the “required integrity,” she violated ethics rules in a leaked phone call with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen. During the phone call, the pair had discussed ...

The Trump administration has withdrawn former vice president Kamala Harris’s Secret Service security protection, a White House official said Friday. The administration terminated an extension approved by then-president Joe Biden for Harris, the defeated Democratic presidential candidate whose customary six-month period of protection as ex-VP ended July 21, CNN reported. A senior Harris aide told AFP that Harris was “grateful ...

At least 34 people have died and over 210,000 have been displaced as torrential rains pounded parts of Pakistan and India this week, triggering flash floods, landslides, and large-scale evacuations across the region. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue operations continue. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, a landslide in the Jammu region killed several Hindu pilgrims late Tuesday after ...

Donald Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has marked a dramatic escalation in his effort to control the US central bank — in a step that puts the institution’s independence at risk. For months, the US leader has been calling for the bank to slash interest rates, lashing out repeatedly at Fed Chair Jerome Powell for being ...

At least six people were killed and 86 others injured in an Israeli airstrike in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, according to Yemeni health officials. The strike took place on Sunday in retaliation for a new type of missile attack launched by Yemen’s Houthi forces on Israeli territory, Reuters reported. The Israeli military stated that it targeted a military complex housing the ...

Syria’s Kurds on Sunday criticized the upcoming selection of members of a new transitional parliament as undemocratic, after authorities postponed the process for Kurdish-controlled areas in the north and northeast, reports AFP. After toppling longtime ruler Bashar Assad in December, Syria’s new authorities dissolved the parliament and adopted a temporary constitution for a five-year transition. The selection of a transitional ...

The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and left four others missing, state media reports said, reports AP. Aerial photos from the official Xinhua News Agency show a large section missing from the bridge’s curved aquamarine arch. A bent section of the bridge deck hangs downward into the ...

Sri Lanka’s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe was arrested on Friday for allegedly “misusing government funds,” a senior police detective said, reports AFP. Wickremesinghe was taken into custody after being questioned about a September 2023 visit to London to attend a ceremony for his wife at a British university while he was head of state, the officer said. “We are producing ...