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An arid rocky island in hazy Gulf light with a thin column of smoke rising from a damaged structure near its ridge, a laden crude oil tanker transiting the shipping lane behind it and a grey naval warship holding station on the horizon.

The US Bombed Iran Under a Standing Order Trump Issued Five Days Earlier

American forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 30

A white passenger catamaran lies capsized on its side in heavy grey seas while an orange coast guard vessel, rescue boats and a helicopter search among scattered life rafts near a rocky coastline.

Northern Cyprus Says Bad Weather Sank the Filo Jet. Its Own Leader Says the Sea Was Fine.

A 43-meter catamaran carrying 267 people went down about four nautical miles off Kyrenia…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 30

A plain brass geodetic survey marker set into granite at the edge of a large lake at first light, far shoreline visible on the horizon

Renaming a Lake Costs Trump Nothing. Refusing to Repeat It Cost the AP Its White House Seat.

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 29

Firefighters hose down the collapsed, smouldering steel frame of a burned-out warehouse at night while two fire engines stand on a village road beside scorched single-storey houses

Ukraine Opened a Negligence Investigation Into the Warehouse Where 27 of Its Own People Died

A Russian drone hit a warehouse in Myla, near Kyiv, and at least 27…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 29

A man in a dark navy suit and black tie stands alone in a gilded palace room with tall arched windows and an empty carved chair behind him

Because Harald V Refused to Abdicate, Norway’s New King Inherits a Monarchy Mid-Scandal

Norway’s King Harald V died at Oslo University Hospital early Friday morning at the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 28

Aerial view of a Himalayan river valley after a flash flood, with a collapsed steel truss bridge lying in a churning grey torrent and a mountain village reduced to mud, splintered timber and buried vehicles

Nepal Spent Fourteen Months Watching Tibet for the Next Flood. This One Started at Home.

A wall of water came down the Bhote Koshi river in Nepal’s Rasuwa district…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

Firefighters on an extended ladder reaching a smoke-blackened upper-floor hospital window as fire engines and open ambulances stand in the forecourt below and hospital staff in scrubs look on

Fourteen Newborns Died in an Islamabad Nursery Fire That Started with an Air Conditioner

A fire that began in a nursery air conditioner killed 14 newborn babies on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

Firefighters on a debris-covered village street beside stone houses whose terracotta tile roofs have been torn away, under a heavy post-storm sky

A Supercell Tornado Injured 41 People in Pomas While the Aude Sat Under a Thunderstorm Alert

A supercell tornado came down on Pomas, a village of about a thousand people…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

A fresh landslide scar down the flank of a large municipal refuse mountain, with crushed corrugated-metal shacks and brown floodwater at its base and a yellow excavator working the debris under heavy grey cloud.

The Dar-es-Salam Landfill Was Due to Close on Sunday. It Killed at Least 30 People First.

Guinea’s government had already concluded that the mountain of refuse at Dar-es-Salam was too…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

A tall wooden wardrobe toppled against a bed in a dark Tokyo apartment bedroom, with books, a fallen lamp and broken dishes scattered across the floor and city high-rise lights visible through the window

Tokyo Earthquake Injures 37 as Japan’s Building Codes Hold and Its Furniture Does Not

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Ibaraki Prefecture early Sunday, shaking Tokyo hard enough…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

A line of stationary transport trucks waits under the lit canopy of a commercial border inspection plaza at night, barrier arms down and booths empty, with a Canadian flag on a pole at the left

Canada Walks Away and Suspends Trade Talks as 50% New Tariff Kicks In

Canada is done with the idiocy of the Trump regime and their use of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

A line of transport trucks waits at customs booths on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge, with the bridge and the Detroit skyline behind them on an overcast morning.

Three Days After Trump Declared a Canada Deal, 50 Percent Tariffs Took Effect Anyway

The United States began charging 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 22

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Firefighters in navy turnout gear direct a hose at a blackened, smoking retail building as a red fire engine and an ambulance with blue lights stand on a debris-covered forecourt.

Russia Waited Thirty Minutes to Strike the Kryvyi Rih Mall a Second Time

Uniformed police officers stand behind blue and white cordon tape in front of a brick Nordic secondary school building, with marked police cars and an ambulance parked in the forecourt

A Sword Attack at a Swedish School Fell Outside Every Law Sweden Passed After Örebro

Firefighters on an extended red aerial ladder work at the gutted upper floors of a nine-storey pale concrete apartment block, its facade blackened and torn open, with debris across wet asphalt and emergency vehicles at a cordon in the grey morning light

Fifteen People Died in Kyiv Because Ukraine’s Patriot Interceptors Still Have Not Been Replaced

Commuters in a Seoul train station stand watching a large screen showing grey footage of a ballistic missile lifting off over open sea

North Korea Fired 10 Missiles Into Trump’s Diplomatic Opening

The flat-topped granite massif of Mount Ololokwe rises above dry red scrubland and acacia trees, with a thin column of grey smoke at the base of its cliffs and a distant helicopter overhead

Four Americans Died When a Scenic Helicopter Flight Went Down in Northern Kenya

Aerial view of a wide circular patch of churning white water on the grey Baltic Sea where gas boils to the surface, with a naval patrol vessel standing off in the distance

Croatia Arrested the Nord Stream Diver Poland Already Let Go

A dark-suited American envoy walks past an empty negotiating table in a marble government reception room

Kushner Got Hamas to Say Yes to a Gaza Plan Netanyahu Has Already Rejected

President Donald Trump seated at the Resolute Desk in a darkened Oval Office, speaking, with a blue-lit map of the Korean peninsula displayed on a screen behind him

Trump Cut the South Korea Drills Two Days After Pyongyang Threatened Overwhelming Force

Firefighters and emergency vehicles at a large purple and white Wildberries distribution warehouse with flames and black smoke pouring from its collapsed roof

600 Drones Hit the Moscow Region. Kyiv’s Real Target Was a Warehouse Company.

Overturned white touring coach lying on its side in a grassy ditch beside a straight motorway at dawn, with a yellow mobile crane and emergency crews in high-visibility jackets working alongside

Hungary’s Deadliest Crash Since 2003 Hit a Polish Pilgrim Coach Carrying Two Drivers

Rescue workers in orange high-visibility jackets and white helmets search the rubble of a collapsed concrete house on a hillside in southern Lebanon, with olive terraces and village homes behind them at dawn

Eleven Killed in South Lebanon Under a Truce Hezbollah Never Signed

Rescue workers in orange uniforms and white helmets pick through the rubble of a collapsed port terminal building in Maumere, with undamaged fishing boats floating on calm water behind them

A 7.7 Struck the Flores Coast Where 2,500 Died in 1992. This Time the Water Never Came.

A white sedan submerged to its windows in brown floodwater on a residential street in Japan at night, with emergency vehicle lights glowing in the distance

Chiba Got Three Times Its August Rain in Half a Day, and Japan Had Never Sent That Alert There Before

Health workers in full protective equipment, yellow coveralls, white aprons, goggles and green gloves, walk a fenced circuit between white canvas tents at an Ebola treatment centre

Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is on Track to Be the Deadliest Ever. Every Licensed Vaccine Targets a Different Species.

Rinat Akhmetov, Ukrainian businessman and founder of SCM, at a lectern with a steel works behind him

Who Is Rinat Akhmetov? A Look at His Business Career and Public Impact

A small rust-streaked general cargo coaster sails alone through an empty strait at dawn, with an arid mountainous coastline in the background

Three Crew Died on the Tihamah, the Kind of Ship That Cannot Reroute Out of Bab el-Mandeb

Bashar al-Assad in a dark suit at the left of an empty Syrian courtroom, a vacant metal defendant cage standing behind him

Assad Was Sentenced to Death in Absentia, and Atef Najib Was the Only One in the Cage

Residents stand in a wet street looking at a cracked and partly collapsed two-story building with rubble and broken furniture spilled across the pavement, jungle hillsides behind the rooftops

Colombia’s 7.4 Earthquake Struck 66 Miles Down, and Chocó Still Took the Worst of It