Start your day informed with AnewZ Morning Brief. Here are the top news stories for the 26th of August, covering the latest developments.
The U.S. will focus on economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran rather than launching new strikes for the time being according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Axios reports that Rubio made the statement to allied foreign ministers. Meanwhile Iran and Oman resumed talks on a temporary shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz. Five commodity vessels crossed the strait on Tuesday, well below the 10-day average of 15, according to the latest Kpler data.
U.S. President Donald Trump has formally sent a 30-year nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to Congress for review. The deal would give U.S. companies a central role in developing the kingdom’s nuclear infrastructure. Uranium enrichment remains a key concern because of its potential link to nuclear weapons development. The agreement is also tied to wider U.S. efforts to encourage Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalisation.
Officials from both Moscow and Kyiv are finalising lists of people who could be released, according to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova. The latest major exchange took place on 19 August, with each side releasing 103 servicemen. The United Arab Emirates mediated the exchange. Prisoner swaps remain one of the few areas of practical cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv since the war began in 2022.
At least 15 infants were killed in a fire at a state-run hospital in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. The fire broke out at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), a local broadcaster, Geo TV, reported. The blaze was reportedly caused by a fault in the hospital’s air conditioning system. Sixteen newborns were in the gynaecology ward when the fire started, with one infant rescued.
China’s coastal and southern regions are bracing for days of heavy rain as Typhoon Narra moves inland and Saudel approaches the eastern coast. Narra made landfall in Hainan on Tuesday after lingering over the Beibu Gulf for several days. Authorities in Guangxi and Hainan have evacuated tens of thousands of people and suspended some businesses and tourism activities. Saudel is expected to make landfall between Zhejiang and Fujian provinces on Thursday or Friday.
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Iran’s Assembly of Experts has backed withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and overhauling the country’s defence doctrine, calling both steps essential to national security and deterrence.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration lifted a nationwide ground stop on Friday (13 November) after a communications failure at air traffic control centres caused chaos at airports and triggered the longest nationwide shutdown since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
More than 30 people have been taken to hospital after a cargo ship collided with a passenger cruise docked on the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Friday (13 November).
Europe will send a team of diplomats to Ukraine peace talks rather than a single envoy, EU leaders agreed on Friday at the end of a summit in Dublin.
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles targeting Riyadh and three drones in its oil-rich Eastern Province on Sunday (15 November), as Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed separate attacks on a U.S. military facility in Bahrain.
SpaceX's spacecraft on Saturday returned from a 22-hour voyage in orbit and descended for the first time into the grasp of giant mechanical arms at the Texas tower it was launched from a day earlier, a catch that is essential to the company's decade-long effort to develop a fully reusable rocket.
The Philippines and Australia signed a new defence cooperation arrangement in Manila on Sunday, aimed at accelerating joint military activities and strengthening security ties amid tensions with China in the South China Sea.
Southeast Asian leaders opened the 49th ASEAN Summit in Manila Sunday, with Myanmar's crisis, security and economic uncertainty dominating talks. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called for continued engagement with Myanmar and urged a stronger response to conflict and energy disruptions.
U.S. air travel is not expected to return to normal schedules until late on Sunday (15 November), the head of the FAA said, as the aviation system gradually recovers from a nationwide flight shutdown that officials blamed on routine maintenance gone awry.
Irish army bomb disposal experts safely neutralised an explosive device discovered in central Dublin on Friday (13 November), close to where European leaders gathered for dinner the previous evening during a two-day summit. Police have launched an investigation into the incident.
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