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29-08-2025 LONDON: From Turkiye to Greece, from France to Spain, this summer’s Mediterranean wildfires make one thing clear: Something has changed. These are no longer occasional dry spells or extreme seasons. The so-called sixth-generation fires are fueled by a climatic and social logic deeply embedded in the machinery of global …

29-08-2025 KHARTOUM: The city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an “epicenter of child suffering”, with starvation, mass displacement, and relentless violence taking a catastrophic toll following nearly 17 months under siege, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned. At least 600,000 people, half of them children, …

29-08-2025 MINNESOTA: Two children aged eight and 10 have been killed and 17 people injured when a gunman opened fire on schoolchildren attending Mass at a Catholic school in the United States, authorities say. The police chief of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said that of the people injured in the morning attack, …

29-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 313, 119 of whom were children. Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians since dawn on Wednesday, including 12 waiting for …

28-08-2025 COPENHAGEN: Denmark has summoned the United States charge d’affaires for talks over Danish intelligence reports that US citizens have been conducting covert influence operations in Greenland, Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The diplomat was summoned on Wednesday after Denmark’s main national broadcaster reported that the government believed that …

28-08-2025 PARIS/ ANTANANARIVO: France has returned to Madagascar three human skulls kept at a Paris museum for 128 years, after they were looted during the colonial period including one believed to be that of a Madagascan king decapitated by French troops. The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera, …

28-08-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Indian exporters are bracing for a sharp decline in US orders after trade talks collapsed and Washington confirmed steep new tariffs on the South Asian nation’s goods will take effect from Wednesday, escalating tension between the strategic partners. An additional 25% duty …

28-08-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA: The UN has said “there needs to be justice” following Israel’s double strike on a Gaza hospital which killed at least 20 people, as an initial Israeli military probe said the strike had targeted a “camera positioned by Hamas”. Condemnation of the attack, whose victims included …

28-08-2025 KYIV: Ukrainian forces have acknowledged that Russia’s military has crossed into the eastern industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk and is trying to establish a foothold. “This is the first attack of such a large scale in Dnipropetrovsk region,” Viktor Trehubov, of the Dnipro Operational-Strategic Group of Troops told media, although …

28-08-2025 TEHRAN: “For me, hell was not the moment Israel attacked; hell was the moment they wouldn’t open the door (of the cell) for us,” Motahareh Goonei recalls in an exclusive interview with the BBC. A political activist, Goonei was in solitary confinement in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison when it …