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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

Russian ballistic missiles tore the top two floors off a nine-storey apartment block in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

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

Three days after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to shrink a joint exercise…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

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

Four Americans were killed Wednesday morning when a sightseeing helicopter came down in the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

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

Croatian police arrested the Ukrainian diver a Polish court freed in 2025, leaving two…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

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

Jared Kushner spent 90 minutes in Egypt on Sunday persuading Hamas to reaffirm a…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 17

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

President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to substantially reduce Ulchi Freedom Shield,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 16

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.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it shot down 822 Ukrainian drones overnight, the heaviest single…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 16

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

A coach carrying Polish pilgrims home from Bosnia-Herzegovina left the M3 motorway in northeastern…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 16

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

Israeli airstrikes killed eleven people in southern Lebanon early Saturday, seven of them inside…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 15

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 magnitude 7.7 earthquake ruptured the seafloor north of Indonesia’s Flores Island at 5:58…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

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

Eight people are dead in the prefecture that borders Tokyo after a night of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 14

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.

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that Congo’s Ebola epidemic is now on pace…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 12

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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

A towering orange-lit smoke column rises from a burning mountain ridge above a narrow lake at dusk, with a small lakeside town lit below

Weather & Environment

The Bald Range Fire Made Its Own Lightning, and British Columbia Emptied Two Towns Overnight

Soviet-era apartment blocks in Nizhnekamsk with an oil refining and petrochemical complex directly behind them, a flare stack burning orange and dark smoke drifting across a hazy dawn sky

Nizhnekamsk Was Built to Serve the Refinery, and Ukraine’s Deepest Drone Strike Killed 13 There

Aerial view at dawn of a coastal oil refinery beside calm water, with distillation columns, a field of white storage tanks, marine loading jetties, and a column of dark smoke rising from one stack

Houthis Hit Aramco’s Jazan Refinery Six Days Before Its Restart Date

Thai police officers standing behind yellow cordon tape at a closed school gate with two rescue ambulances parked on a wet street

Thailand School Shooting: Six Dead in Nonthaburi and Four Years of Unfinished Gun Reform

Above-ground crude oil pipeline running across arid desert terrain toward a pumping station at sunset

Middle East Pipeline Projects Aim to Reduce Hormuz Risk

A man in a navy suit stands with arms crossed at the edge of a floodlit soccer pitch in an empty stadium at dusk

US Soccer Gave Mauricio Pochettino More Than a Contract Extension, and the Extra Part Is the Real News

Two Metropolitan Police officers in high-visibility jackets and custodian helmets stand with their backs to the camera behind blue and white police cordon tape stretched across a wet central London street lined with cafe seating, a red double-decker bus at the junction beyond

The Met Called the Covent Garden Stabbing ‘Isolated’ Before It Called It Anything Else. Southport Is Why.

Firefighters in dark navy uniforms and blue helmets aim a hose at a gutted, still-burning steel warehouse beside freight rail wagons, with scattered wooden pallets and debris across wet asphalt

Russia Killed 17 Around Kyiv Using the One Weapon Ukraine Can No Longer Intercept

Abandoned striped sun loungers, tilted umbrellas and a child's inflatable ring left on an empty pebble beach beside turquoise water, with forested mountains behind and emergency vehicles with blue lights parked in the distance

Russia’s Beach Alert Lasted Ten Minutes. Seven People Died After It Was Called Off.

Two heavy firefighting helicopters with orange belly tanks parked on a dirt staging strip in dry Greek hills, rotors stopped, as a column of wildfire smoke rises over pine ridges above the sea behind them

Greece Grounded Its Bell Helicopters After a Midair Collision Killed Two Aircrew Over Psatha

Two columns of smoke rise over a dense coastal skyline of damaged mid-rise concrete apartment blocks with collapsed upper floors, seen from above at dawn

Trump’s Gaza Deal Set a 300-Day Disarmament Clock and No Date to Stop Shooting

Aerial view from a rescue aircraft of a scorched blue and white roll-on roll-off ferry adrift at sea, black smoke pouring from its upper decks, with tugboats and small orange inflatable boats alongside and people in life jackets in the water

Indonesia Is Searching for 41 People From the Mutiara Sentosa 2. The Manifest Is the Problem.

Crude oil tankers moving in single file through a narrow sea channel between rocky coastlines at dusk, with a grey naval destroyer in the distance

Trump Called Off a Second Iran Strike for a Deal Iran Has Not Confirmed

Mountaineer Nirmal Purja in a red and black down expedition suit standing on a snow ridge with a glaciated Karakoram peak behind him

The Avalanche That Killed Nirmal Purja Caught All Ten of His Climbers at Once