Aug 22 At least 8 people drown after migrant boat overturns while crossing Drina river from Serbia to Bosnia By Associated Press Serbia's interior minister says that 18 migrants, including three children, managed to cross to Bosnia. Continue reading
Aug 22 Botswana uncovers one of the largest diamonds ever found at 2,492-carats By Associated Press Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corp. said in a statement Wednesday that it recovered the “exceptional” rough diamond from its Karowe Mine in Botswana. Continue reading
Aug 22 Floods cause at least 15 deaths, strand hundreds of thousands in Bangladesh and India By Julhas Alam, Associated Press Floodwaters have stranded hundreds of thousands of people in India’s northeast and neighboring Bangladesh’s eastern region, officials and media reports said Thursday. Continue reading
Aug 22 Zelenskyy visits northeastern border for the first time since Ukrainian forces entered Russia's Kursk region By Illia Novikov, Associated Press Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces have claimed control of another settlement in the Russian region of Kursk and taken more Russian prisoners of war whom he hopes to swap for captured Ukrainians, adding to what he calls an “exchange fund.”… Continue reading
Aug 22 Body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch is among those recovered from superyacht wreck, officials say By Associated Press One woman remains missing. The bodies of Lynch and five others were recovered by rescue crews following Monday's tragedy. Continue reading
Aug 21 Guatemalan police arrest 7 people accused of trafficking 53 migrants abandoned to asphyxiate in Texas in 2022 By Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press They were the latest arrests after years of investigation into one of the deadliest human smuggling attempts to the United States. Continue reading
Aug 21 Moscow comes under one of Ukraine's largest drone attacks as fighting rages in Kursk, eastern Ukraine By Associated Press Moscow came under one of the largest attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported Wednesday, saying they destroyed all of those headed toward the country's capital. Continue reading
Aug 21 Taylor Swift says cancellation of Vienna shows 'devastating' and explains her silence By Associated Press “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating,” she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 6:02 News Wrap: Golan Heights damaged by Hezbollah rocket attack on Israel In our news wrap Wednesday, Hezbollah fired more than 50 rockets toward Israel, Congo health authorities reported more than 1,000 mpox cases in the last week, divers recovered five more bodies from the luxury yacht that sank off Sicily’s coast,… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 10:18 Hardliners violently expel Palestinians to expand Israeli settlements in West Bank By Leila Molana-Allen, Zeba Warsi, Teresa Cebrián Aranda While Gaza endures a devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought over land in another Palestinian territory: the West Bank. Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians there more frequently and ferociously than ever before and forcing them to flee… Continue watching