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Trump waives ‘out-of-quota’ beef tariffs for 90 days to lower prices 

21 August 2026

United States President Donald Trump says he will allow imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of ground beef over the next thr...

Russian drone attack on busy shopping centre kills 14 in Ukraine 

21 August 2026

Russian drones have hit a busy shopping centre ⁠in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing at least ⁠14 pe...

Israeli army, settlers kill 2 Palestinians in separate West Bank incidents 

21 August 2026

A Palestinian teenager in Hebron and a former colonel in Jenin have been shot and killed in separate incidents involving...

Why Iran is threatening Europe’s ‘strategically important’ southeast 

21 August 2026

London, United Kingdom – The United States and Israel’s war on Iran was largely unexpected, given the repeated warni...

What to know about the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, Trump’s capital car race 

21 August 2026

Washington, DC – Over the next two days, a portion of the United States capital will transform into a seven-turn prof...

Ukraine sanctions popular Russian cartoon ‘Masha and the Bear’ 

21 August 2026

News|Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine has sanctioned the popular Russian cartoon ‘Masha and the Bear’ in a step to ban the...

Russian expert warns of impending social crisis as Ukraine death toll rises 

21 August 2026

Russian ballistic missile attacks have begun to cause record civilian deaths in Ukrainian cities without any Patriot int...

El Nino set to be most intense ‘for over a century’: UK forecasters 

21 August 2026

News|Weather The impact of this year’s El Nino event is expected to be the most intense in more than a century, United...

Ebola outbreak ‘growing faster, ⁠⁠wider’ as DRC death toll passes 2,500: UN 

21 August 2026

News|Ebola The Ebola virus continues spreading “exponentially” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Un...

Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ claims first victim: Not Iran, but US markets 

21 August 2026

United States President Donald Trump has threatened a crushing financial campaign against Iran, which he has referred to...