Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief: here are the top news stories for 7th August, covering the latest developments you need to know.
Caspian Sea shallowing in spotlight at UN Conference
A meeting of government officials from the Caspian littoral states was held on the sidelines of the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) in Awaza, Turkmenistan.
The meeting focused on key areas of joint action to mitigate the negative impacts of the shallowing of the Caspian Sea.
Addressing the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev highlighted the sustainable growth in trade turnover among the Caspian littoral states.
He noted that the Third Caspian Economic Forum, held in Tehran in February this year, played an important role in expanding trade and mutual investment, as well as in deepening cooperation in the energy and transport-logistics sectors.
Two Ghanaian ministers killed in helicopter crash, along with six others
Ghana's ministers of defence and environment have died in a military helicopter crash in the central Ashanti region, along with six other people, according to a government spokesperson.
Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment, Science and Technology Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, 50, were killed in the crash, which Chief of Staff Julius Debrah described as a "national tragedy".
Earlier, the Ghana Armed Forces said the Z9 helicopter, which was carrying three crew and five passengers, had gone "off the radar".
Trump slaps 50% tariff on Indian goods over imports of Russian oil
United States President Donald Trump has issued an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on goods from India, as penalty for importing Russian oil.
Wednesday’s hike comes in addition to the 25% tariff India already faces, making it subject to one of the U.S.’s highest import tax brackets under Trump, at a total of 50%.
Five troops injured after soldier opens fire at Georgia military base
Five American soldiers were injured after an Army sergeant opened fire at a military base in the U.S. state of Georgia before being tackled by other troops.
Officials say the soldier, identified as Quornelius Radford, opened fire with his own personal handgun, and was targeting his fellow troops.
The attack at Fort Stewart, about 386km (240 miles) south east of Atlanta, triggered a lockdown at the sprawling Army base.
Massive wildfire in France leaves at least one dead, nine injured
Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battled to halt the spread of a wildfire in southern France that has scorched a vast area, in the Aude region, killing one person and injuring nine others.
The fire, which started on Tuesday, has destroyed or damaged 25 homes, where more than 1,800 firefighters are seeking to control the largest wildfire in France this summer.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliam...
Türkiye’s benchmark stock index, the BIST 100, closed Tuesday at 10,814.11 points, up 0.74% from the previous session....
Iran says one million undocumented Afghan refugees have returned to their country majority of them voluntarily in the last six and half months critici...
The European Parliament has passed new legislation making it easier to suspend visa-free travel for nationals of third countries found to violate huma...
Two years after the Gaza conflict began, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged United States backing for Gaza’s security guarantees and said he ...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, marking the first visit to Ukraine by the group’s president, Pere Joan Pons.
Türkiye’s benchmark stock index, the BIST 100, closed Tuesday at 10,814.11 points, up 0.74% from the previous session.
The European Parliament has passed new legislation making it easier to suspend visa-free travel for nationals of third countries found to violate human rights or ignore international court rulings.
Two years after the Gaza conflict began, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged United States backing for Gaza’s security guarantees and said he believed an agreement to free the remaining hostages was nearing completion.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
The newly elected mayor of Herdecke in northwestern Germany, Social Democrat Iris Stalzer, was seriously injured in a knife attack near her home by an unknown assailant or assailants.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha met on Tuesday with a delegation from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, marking the first visit to Ukraine by the group’s president, Pere Joan Pons.
The European Parliament has passed new legislation making it easier to suspend visa-free travel for nationals of third countries found to violate human rights or ignore international court rulings.
Two years after the Gaza conflict began, President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged United States backing for Gaza’s security guarantees and said he believed an agreement to free the remaining hostages was nearing completion.
At least 15 people have been killed after a rain-triggered landslide sent huge boulders crashing onto a private bus in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday evening.
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