
Israel Bombed the Doors Shut on a Syrian Uranium Store. Now the IAEA Is Flying In to Empty It
Site 99 holds yellowcake meant for the reactor Israel destroyed in 2007. A US-brokered deal gives everyone until the end of the year to get it out.

Site 99 holds yellowcake meant for the reactor Israel destroyed in 2007. A US-brokered deal gives everyone until the end of the year to get it out.
Nicholas Garaufis dismissed the charges against India's richest industrialist because prosecutors asked him to. He also wrote that a single political appointee had overridden the judgment of officials across four federal offices.

A crackdown on undocumented migration and a wave of anti-immigrant protests built around a June 30 'deadline' have produced one of the largest sudden migrant exoduses the continent's richest economy has seen.

The unit pulls in case officers, analysts, cyber specialists and covert influence operators — but is not authorized to arm proxies or run lethal operations, according to officials briefed on it.

After 18 months of negotiation, Syria's Foreign Ministry says Moscow's only two military bases outside the former Soviet Union will become 'joint training and capacity-building centres.'

The Office of Civil Defense counts 12 dead, eight missing and 11 injured. The national police, counting differently, put the toll at 15.

Nizhnekamsk, in Tatarstan, was hit Monday morning in what regional authorities called a massive attack on industrial and civilian sites.

The strike hit a plant that processes 400,000 barrels of crude a day. A separate Houthi barrage on the Yemeni port of Mocha killed seven people.

The Mecca Joint Deterrence Agreement binds NATO's second-largest military, the world's top oil exporter and the only Muslim state with nuclear weapons — after nearly a year of quiet negotiation.
The blast went off at 5 a.m. Saturday about 200 meters from a Romanian compressor station on the Trans-Balkan line. Bulgaria's defense ministry says the wreckage looks Ukrainian.
Daniel Kinahan ran a cocaine and money-laundering network from Dubai for years while the UAE ignored extradition requests. On Sunday an Irish Air Corps plane brought him home.
Israel's prime minister told his Cabinet on Sunday that the framework drawn up by Trump's Board of Peace is unacceptable, insisting Hamas surrender every weapon first. Hamas signed on to the framework in July.
Officials say the network laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue through shell companies in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. "Every facilitator that keeps the regime afloat is putting a target on its own back," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

Zawtar al-Gharbiya was one of two 'pilot zones' handed to Lebanon's military under a U.S.-brokered June framework. Residents woke Saturday to an earthen berm at the eastern entrance. Israel's military said it was unaware of any such operation.
WatchA Saudi official told CNN the kingdom has tracked meetings between Iraqi militiamen, Houthi operatives and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, along with the movement of drones and missiles. The warning came a day after the Houthis hit a Saudi oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

Abelardo de la Espriella, a 48-year-old criminal defense lawyer who has never held elected office, ended his predecessor's peace talks on day one and promised to retake the countryside by force.

More than 20,000 people fled British Columbia's Okanagan Valley overnight as the Bald Range fire crossed toward Highway 97, burning homes in its path.
WatchA new assessment reported by The Wall Street Journal concludes the Kremlin's goal would be to fracture the alliance, not seize territory. A full ground invasion is judged the least likely option because it would plainly trigger Article 5.

Prosecutors say Yinon Levi fired toward a crowd that included children in Umm al-Khair. The bullet passed through Awdah Hathaleen's lungs and a major blood vessel in his chest.

The attack at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Bang Kruai district is Thailand's deadliest mass killing since the 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu massacre. Investigators say the boy had been bullied and had been locked in a school bathroom by other students the day before.

Uganda joins Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Indonesia and Albania in pledging troops to the 20,000-strong International Stabilization Force proposed by Trump's Board of Peace — a force that has struggled for six months to find soldiers.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds an oil power, a nuclear-armed state and NATO's second-largest military — signed as the Iran war reshapes the region.

It is the sharpest escalation since the de facto truce of April 2022. A Houthi commander claimed 'hundreds' of casualties and told followers to strike Saudi positions 'wherever they may be.'

The draft would keep 'hostile' ships out until Tehran is compensated for war damage and fine violators a fifth of their cargo. A U.S. official told NPR the strait is international water and 'no party controls the lanes.'
Lava fountains reached 1,000 feet above the crater and pyroclastic flows poured into six ravines. Officials raised red alerts in three departments and closed the highway that runs past the volcano.
Zelensky said allied interceptor deliveries have collapsed across the whole first half of 2026, blamed the Middle East war, and would not rule out that the squeeze is meant to push Kyiv toward a deal.
The State Department raised the bounty on Juan Carlos Valencia González fivefold and announced $102 million in total rewards for leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, six months after Mexican troops killed his stepfather.
The State Department pulled Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti's credentials after Brazil declined to approve Daniel Perez, the speaker of Florida's House and a Rubio ally, as the next U.S. ambassador — two months before a presidential election.

The Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine or treatment, has produced 3,802 cases since May 15 — the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded. Patient zero has still not been identified.

Twenty-five cities were already at the health ministry's maximum warning level this week, with Messina and Reggio Calabria projected to join by Thursday. Nights that never drop below 25°C are what makes this wave dangerous.