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Israeli drone strike on ‘civilian vehicle’ causes injuries in Syria 

22 August 2026

An Israeli drone strike in southwestern Syria has injured several people, the country’s foreign ministry says, in the ...

Russian strikes kill 6 people in Ukraine, day after shopping complex attack 

22 August 2026

News|Russia-Ukraine war Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine have killed at least six people and injured 26 others, while a...

Pakistan’s PTI seeks contempt action over jailed Imran Khan’s hospital move 

22 August 2026

News|Imran Khan The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has filed a contempt petition against the govern...

More than 16,000 doses of Ervebo vaccine arrive in Ebola-hit DR Congo 

22 August 2026

News|Ebola The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has received more than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the c...

Iran says new US sanctions violate sovereignty of other states 

22 August 2026

News|US-Israel war on Iran Iran has decried impending United States sanctions as a “complete erosion of sovereignty”...

Somalia child hunger crisis deepens after aid cuts, UNICEF says 

22 August 2026

News|Hunger Life-threatening malnutrition among children is spiking in Somalia as more than 200 health and nutrition fac...

World Bank projects war-hit Lebanon’s economy to contract by 6.4 percent 

22 August 2026

Lebanon’s economy is projected to shrink by 6.4 percent this year as conflict turns a brief post-crisis recovery into ...

‘Young want to leave’: Libya’s brain drain, 15 years after Tripoli fell 

22 August 2026

London, United Kingdom – Sarah Mizran, a 32-year-old architect, was a teenager when Tripoli fell in August 2011, as op...

‘It was a tsunami’: Floods leave death trail in India’s Assam 

22 August 2026

Assam, India – Debiram Panika, a 37-year-old daily wage labourer from northeastern India’s Assam state, would speak...

China’s new moon mission could unlock secret of lunar ice: Why that matters 

22 August 2026

China is set to launch its Chang’e-7 unmanned, robotic space mission, possibly as early as Monday morning, to look for...