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Aug 30, 2026 - World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing

Aug 30, 2026 - World

The United States conducted its first offensive operation in Iran in almost a month on Sunday by striking multiple sites where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had stored rocket launchers, according to reports. A U.S. official who spoke with multiple news outlets said the strikes occurred on Larak Island, which sits in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that is responsible for about 20% of the global energy trade. The official told CNN that "U.S. forces are monitoring the area closely and remain prepared to protect the free flow of commerce through this essential waterway."The new round of strikes marks the first time in a month that the U.S. has conducted strikes against Iran. It happened at a time when peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iranian officials have almost completely broken down, according to reports. CNN reported that the IRGC claimed the attack led to the deaths of “a number of our fighters and fellow countrymen.”

Aug 30, 2026 - World

Norway’s royal palace says the funeral of the late King Harald V will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 9

Aug 30, 2026 - World

Meanwhile, Trump posts video of himself kicking over a Lake Ontario sign and replacing it with Lake America signDonald Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the Ontario premier erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA.Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbor involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa. Continue reading...

Aug 30, 2026 - World

Total of 804 confirmed dead and more than 3,000 missing amid threat of fresh inundation‘Their whole village has disappeared’: frantic hunt for survivors in Kathmandu hospitalRescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages.The latest updates on Sunday put the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There was a total of 804 confirmed deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream possibly as far as India. Continue reading...