Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 1st of August, covering the latest developments.
Russia launched a major ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring 28 others, including four children, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. More than a dozen explosions were heard across the city as Russia intensified its attacks on the Ukrainian capital. Russia has not yet commented on the attack.
Spain said most of the more than 50,000 people who entered its North African enclave of Ceuta by land and sea had returned voluntarily. Authorities said 57 bodies were recovered on the Spanish side of the border, with further casualties possible in Morocco. Moroccan forces used batons and tear gas to push back crowds attempting to enter the Spanish territory, which borders Morocco.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait welcomed an agreement to implement the next phase of the comprehensive peace plan for the Gaza Strip, urging Israel to fully comply with the deal, withdraw its forces and ensure the uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid. The reactions came after U.S. President Donald Trump and the Board of Peace announced an agreement to move forward with the next stage of the ceasefire plan.
Yemen’s Houthi-run maritime coordination body denied reports that it planned to impose fees on commercial ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, saying transit through the strategic waterway remains free. The statement came after a Reuters report, citing regional sources, said the Iran-aligned group had discussed possible charges for ships using the southern Red Sea route after declaring a maritime blockade of Saudi shipping.
Separately, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree claimed eight Saudi oil tankers had been forced to reroute via the Cape of Good Hope because of the blockade. The claim has not been independently verified.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said he had dropped plans to sell a stake in a new $20 billion subsidiary overseeing the World Cup. He said the proposal had created divisions and was no longer served its intended purpose. He said the plan to offer private investors up to 20% of the FIFA Forward Enterprise unit "will not proceed," and that he intended to reconvene stakeholders to support football’s continued growth, particularly in countries most in need of support.
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Melting glaciers, recurring droughts and dust storms are putting growing pressure on Central Asia’s water resources, agriculture and public h...
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence...
European leaders gathered in Dublin on Thursday, 12 November, for the ninth European Political Community (EPC) summit, with security, defence and energy high on the agenda. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev held talks focused on peace, trade and regional cooperation.
Iran will not let a single particle of its enriched nuclear material leave the country, and any new U.S. attack would be met with strikes on distant American bases, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei has said.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is stepping down amid reports linking him to a woman suspected by U.S. authorities of spying for China, throwing the future of the $4 trillion chipmaker into uncertainty.
Kazakhstan’s security service has arrested Nurlan Zhakupov, CEO of Samruk-Kazyna, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, on suspicion of corruption. Yelzhas Otynshiyev, Chairman of KTZ, Kazakhstan’s national railway firm has also been detained.
Eight people have been killed and at least 17 injured after an apartment building collapsed into a neighbouring construction site in Brooklyn, New York, as rescuers continued searching the rubble for possible survivors.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, as worsening drought and funding shortages threaten to deepen the crisis amid the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye.
A consortium of Türkiye’s Limak and Qatar’s HBK Contracting has won an international tender to build and operate a new airport terminal in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, under a 23-year public-private partnership, with the project potentially costing up to $300 million.
Spain’s parliament has approved a government package aimed at easing the country’s housing crisis, a day after workers staged the first general strike in 14 years over soaring housing costs.
Here's your AnewZ Technology Daily Brief for the 13th of November. This week, a Microsoft outage hit Australian agencies, Google restricted mapping data in South Korea, a lawsuit targeted advanced AI development, and Nvidia faced a leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's resignation.
Microsoft struggled to restore its services on Friday after a major outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot across the United States and Asia-Pacific region.
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