On 9 August, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Axios and, in the space of a few sentences, reversed the tone of the previous week. “We're moving…
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Only six vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on 10 August, according to shipping data reported by Reuters. Before the war broke out in late…
What’s the connection between the global move towards multipolarity in recent decades and the Iran conflict today? Israel and the US have been…
Throughout its illustrious history, Mecca has been the venue for numerous social, economic, intellectual, political, and security agreements. These…
The clashes between Ethiopian federal soldiers and Tigrayan fighters in the country’s north last week were no sudden, unexpected outburst. Rather, it…
At his Senate confirmation hearing for the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Jay Clayton confronted a line of questioning that reached…
Some scholars of Turkish music argue that taqāsīm, understood in its early sense as unmeasured vocal and instrumental improvisation, emerged at the…
Russia said on 11 August that it had reached a deal with Syria on the future of Moscow's military bases, describing it as "an important step that…
Devastating earthquake in Colombia, and unbearable heat in Gaza
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A woman walks past the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Pereira, Colombia on August 11, 2026. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia on 10 August 2026 and killed at least 111 people.
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A young Palestinian pours water from a plastic container over their head amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during the war, at Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on 5 August 2026.
REUTERS/Dipta Wahyu
A person observes flames during wildfires on a hill slope in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Probolinggo, East Java province, Indonesia, on 9 August 2026.
MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP
A gaping hole scars the wall of a church following Israeli military activity in the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah on 8 August 2026.
JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
An athlete jumps from the Women's 20m Platform during training at the LEN European Aquatics Championships, alongside the Seine River, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, in Paris on 5 August 2026.
Henry NICHOLLS / AFP
Hot air balloons take to the air in a Mass Ascent at dawn during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol, western England, on 7 August 2026.
UROS ARSIC / AFP
A man runs as smoke billows from a wildfire in Deliblatska Pescara (Deliblato Sands), near the village of Sumarak, some 70 kilometres northeast of Belgrade, on 7 August 2026.
MARKO PERKOV / AFP
This aerial photograph shows a man walking on the sandbanks exposed by the receding waters of the Danube river in Batina, northeastern Croatia on 9 August 2026.
OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP
The sons of Ibrahim al-Dabba (unseen), head of the Beekeepers Cooperative in the Gaza Strip, tend to beehives with their father on the roof of a destroyed building in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, on 5 August 2026.
AP /Dan Bashakov
Firefighters put out a fire after Russian missiles hit a warehouse in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 5 August 2026.
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