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. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces have redirected 82 commercial vessels as part of efforts to enfo...
A fire broke out at a warehouse used by Russian retailer Ozon in Rostov, southern Russia, overnight following a drone strike the firm sai...
Vast flocks of storks passed through Türkiye and the Bosporus this week as part of their annual autumn mig...
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has dismissed media reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow earlier this week to warn Russia against attacking NATO, dismissing them as "scare stories," which had nothing to do with reality.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for greater economic cooperation among Muslim countries, saying their combined economic weight remains disproportionately small compared with their population, strategic location and resources.
Iran is setting conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including an end to the war, the lifting of the U.S. blockade and sanctions. At the same time, Washington is stepping up economic pressure on Tehran through what the White House calls “Operation Economic Outcast.”
Mail sorting centres used by Nova Poshta, Ukraine's largest private postal company, were destroyed in Russian strikes overnight, the firm said. Elsewhere, four people were injured after drones struck an apartment building in Sevastopol, Crimea, according to the Moscow-installed governor.
The Israeli-U.S. invasion of Iran, which began on 28 February, entered its seventh month on Friday, as Tehran wrapped up a week of high-level visits the region, with officials from Pakistan, Oman and Qatar helping to negotiate a way out of the current stalemate in the conflict.
A fire broke out at a warehouse used by Russian retailer Ozon in Rostov, southern Russia, overnight following a drone strike the firm said. Rostov's Governor, Yury Slyusar, said seven people were injured across the region in Ukrainian attacks.
Greenland’s opposition parties have called for Denmark to be held accountable before the International Court of Justice over a decades-long campaign in which women and girls were fitted with contraceptive devices, often without their consent.
Icelanders will vote on Saturday, 29 August, on whether to resume negotiations with the European Union, in a referendum that could reopen the country’s long-debated membership question.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for greater unity across the Islamic world, saying Türkiye is seeking to strengthen alliances and reduce divisions amid growing instability in the region.
Iran is setting conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, including an end to the war, the lifting of the U.S. blockade and sanctions. At the same time, Washington is stepping up economic pressure on Tehran through what the White House calls “Operation Economic Outcast.”
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