Pakistan resumes rescue operations in flood-hit areas; death toll over 300

Pakistan resumes rescue operations in flood-hit areas; death toll over 300

Houses damaged in flash flood, at the Pir Baba neighbourhood, an area of Buner district, in Pakistan’s northwest on August 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Authorities in Pakistan resumed rescue and relief work on Monday (August 18, 2025) in the country’s northwest where flash floods have killed over 300 people after heavy rain forced them … Read more

Myanmar election to begin December 28: junta

Myanmar election to begin December 28: junta

An official shows how to use a voting machine for future elections in Yangon on September 5, 2023. File | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta said Monday (August 18, 2025) that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control and … Read more

India’s purchase of Russian crude funding war in Ukraine, has to stop: U.S. trade adviser Navarro

India’s purchase of Russian crude funding war in Ukraine, has to stop: U.S. trade adviser Navarro

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro. File | Photo Credit: AP White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said India’s purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and had to stop, adding that New Delhi was “now cozying up to both Russia and China.” “If India wants to be treated as a strategic … Read more

Three killed, 17 injured in Russian air attack on Kharkiv

Three killed, 17 injured in Russian air attack on Kharkiv

A toy lies with debris on the ground at the site of an overnight Russian air attack on a residential area, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in a location given as Kharkiv, Ukraine in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released on August 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters/Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office A Russian … Read more

Trump-Zelenskyy meeting in Washington LIVE updates: Ukraine President Zelenskyy arrives in U.S.

Trump-Zelenskyy meeting in Washington LIVE updates: Ukraine President Zelenskyy arrives in U.S.

Alaska Summit: Trump, Putin fail to reach deal to end Ukraine war in first meeting since conflict began President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday (August 15, 2025) to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling … Read more

Early results show Bolivia’s presidential vote headed for first-ever runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates

Early results show Bolivia’s presidential vote headed for first-ever runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates

Election workers arrange boxes of ballots at the counting center of the Departmental Electoral Tribunal (TED) following the general election for president and members of Congress, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, August 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Early results show Bolivia’s presidential vote headed for first-ever runoff between centrist and right-wing candidates. Center-right Senator Rodrigo … Read more

U.S. may not be able to create scenario to end war in Ukraine: Rubio

U.S. may not be able to create scenario to end war in Ukraine: Rubio

Secretary of State Marco Rubio. File | Photo Credit: AP The United States will keep trying to create a scenario to help end Russia’s war with Ukraine, but that might not be possible, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told CBS on Sunday (August 17, 2025). “If peace is not going to be possible here … Read more

Bolivia votes in elections expected to empower the right wing for first time in decades

Bolivia votes in elections expected to empower the right wing for first time in decades

After a lacklustre campaign overshadowed by a looming economic collapse, millions of Bolivians voted on Sunday (August 17, 2025) for a new President and parliament in elections that could see a right-wing government elected for the first time in over two decades. The vote, which could spell the end of the Andean nation’s long-dominant leftist … Read more