Doves fly past the “Peace Statue” after being released into the air during the annual memorial ceremony for the victims at the Peace Park in Nagasaki on August 9, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing during WWII. Str | Afp | Getty Images Thousands bowed theirRead More →
Here are the key events on day 1,260 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Thursday, August 7: Fighting Russian artillery shelling on a car belonging to Ukraine’s state emergency services killed three people, including an emergency worker, and injured four others in the southeastern UkrainianRead More →
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 21, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Keep America Great rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 19, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020 commemorating the people ofRead More →
Here are the key events on day 1,258 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Tuesday, August 5: Fighting Three people were killed in a Russian attack on the Stepnohirsk community in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, the local military administration said on Telegram. Russia launched 405 attacksRead More →
Witkoff will discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine as Trump says again that he wants a ‘deal where people stop getting killed’. United States President Donald Trump said his special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Russia next week to continue talks on the war in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters on Sunday,Read More →
Here is how things stand on Monday, August 4: Fighting A Russian attack killed three people in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region on Sunday, Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a major fire at an oil depot in Sochi in southern Russia, the governor of Russia’s KrasnodarRead More →
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff (L) arrives to meet families of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 as they demonstrate in Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage’ square on August 2, 2025. Witkoff met the anguished families as fears for the captives’ survival mounted almost 22 monthsRead More →
Russia fired more than 6,000 drones on Ukraine in July, more than any other month since it launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, the AFP news agency and the Kyiv Independent reported. The drone attacks killed dozens of people and injured many more. They also damaged civilian targets, including manyRead More →
Here are the key events on day 1,256 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 3: Fighting Kyiv’s military administration warned residents of the Ukrainian capital to take shelter on Saturday night due to the takeoff of a Russian MiG-31K, the carrier of theRead More →
Defence Ministry accuses Kurdish-led SDF of injuring four army personnel and three civilians in rocket attack near Manbij. Syria’s Ministry of Defence has accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of carrying out a rocket attack on a military position in northern Syria, injuring four army personnel and three civilians.Read More →
