Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 9th of August, covering the latest developments.
Iran and mediator Oman are 'very close' to agreeing on a new route for vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. However, Araghchi warned that resuming shipping through the waterway would depend on multiple conditions, including the U.S. paying compensation to Iran.
A 12-year-old girl has become the ninth fatality following a school shooting in Thailand on Friday. The victim, who was being treated for serious injuries, died in hospital. Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has vowed to tighten gun laws following the incident last week, where a 14-year-old boy allegedly shot his grandparents and then killed five more people at his school, before turning the gun on himself.
The Bald Range wildfire in the western Canadian province of British Columbia has doubled in size overnight to 9,500 hectares, roughly the same size as Paris. More than 20,000 people have so far fled the fast-moving blaze. British Columbia has declared a state of emergency.
A total of 14 people died on the Moroccan side of the Ceuta border following last week’s mass crossing into the Spanish exclave, Morocco’s National Human Rights Council has said. Ceuta’s local leader Juan Jesus Vivas said on Thursday that at least 100 people died overall in the crossing attempt last week .
Glaciers in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Basin have decreased in size by a third (33.7 per cent) over the past 90 years, according to the central Asian country’s state climate agency. The agency attributed the continued reduction in glacier area to climate change.
U.S. efforts to squeeze Iran’s economy through an oil blockade and sanctions are becoming increasingly difficult for Tehran to withstand, acc...
U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia then Ukraine over the weekend, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citi...
The 83rd Venice Film Festival has opened on the Lido, bringing Hollywood stars and leading filmmakers together for a programme dominated by war, po...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he thinks there is a chance of a peace being reached with Ukraine. He told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia that he believed there was "a chance of finding a solution," to the conflict.
The Iranian Health Ministry said at least 18 people were killed and 142 others injured in U.S. airstrikes carried out between 30 August and 2 September.
U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia then Ukraine over the weekend, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citing an unnamed source. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also said American envoys will visit the capitals of both countries.
Start your day informed with the AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top stories for the 3rd of September, covering the latest developments.
The Iranian Army has again struck at U.S. bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for U.S. attacks on southern and western parts of Iran late on Tuesday, which reportedly killed 18 people and injured more than 100 others.
U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Russia then Ukraine over the weekend, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citing an unnamed source. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also said American envoys will visit the capitals of both countries.
Southern Chinese provinces were bracing for more torrential rain on Friday after Typhoon Saudel triggered severe flooding, swamping vehicles, collapsing at least one building and forcing mass evacuations.
President Donald Trump is leaving more than a paper trail from his time in office. The U.S. is now minting commemorative $1 coins for America’s 250th anniversary, featuring a portrait of the sitting president.
Pacific Island leaders expressed concern about China's Pacific missile test at their annual summit, though Nauru formally dissented, in a meeting largely overshadowed by Beijing's objections to Taiwan's presence.
China’s southern coastal provinces of Fujian and Guangdong are bracing for more torrential rain after Typhoon Saudel triggered widespread flooding, swept away vehicles and caused a three-storey building to collapse.
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