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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 19, 2026, in Washington

United States / 20 August 2026

Trump halts all talks with Iran and ramps up ‘economic warfare’

20 August 2026

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks to the media at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, August 20, 2026

Middle East / 20 August 2026

Australia ‘outraged’ over Israeli decision not to open criminal probe into killing of Gaza aid worker

20 August 2026

U.S. Army soldiers try to dismantle a floating bridge during a training exercise on a river in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, August 20, 2026

East Asia / 20 August 2026

North Korea dismisses US-South Korean war games reduction

20 August 2026

Economics / 20 August 2026

US national debt hits record high of $40 trillion

20 August 2026

Hui Ka Yan, also known as Xu Jiayin, founder of property developer Evergrande stands trial at the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, August 20, 2026

China / 20 August 2026

Top Chinese property developer gets life in prison for fraud

20 August 2026

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026

Ukraine / 20 August 2026

Zelensky sacks a top advisor amidst corruption probe

20 August 2026

Tyler Robinson, who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appears during a hearing

World / 19 August 2026

World in brief August 19 2026

19 August 2026

California Attorney General Rob Bonta discusses a lawsuit against Meta during a press conference. At right is New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport

World / 19 August 2026

Meta trial in US focuses on social media’s impact on children

19 August 2026

Decommissioned Syrian air force planes are seen at the Abu Duhur military air base east of Idlib, which was bombed by Israel on Tuesday

World / 19 August 2026

Israeli troops raid Syria and kidnap two a day after bombing air base near Turkey

19 August 2026

The International Criminal Court in The Hague

World / 19 August 2026

International Criminal Court denounces latest US sanctions

19 August 2026

Cargo ships are seen at sea in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates

World / 19 August 2026

UAE cuts off trade with Iran in response to alleged missile attack

19 August 2026

Mikhailo Fedorov

World / 19 August 2026

Sacked defence minister demands Ukraine hold new elections

19 August 2026

A boy plays football with a robot at the conference in Beijing

World / 19 August 2026

China’s robotics edge showcased at World Robot Conference

19 August 2026

People walk past Shifa International Hospital, where imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan will be transferred for a medical examination following Pakistan's Supreme Court order, in Islamabad, Pakistan, August 18, 2026

Round-up / 18 August 2026

World in brief: August 18, 2026

18 August 2026

Mourners arrive to attend a ceremony marking 40 days since the burial of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran, August 18, 2026

Middle East / 18 August 2026

Iran’s top diplomat accuses Israel of sabotaging US ceasefire deal

18 August 2026

Loui Ridi, an Ohio-based Palestinian-American landlord of one of the homes besieged by Israeli settlers for over a week, talks to the media at his parent's home upon his return from the U.S., in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, south of Nablus, Monday, Aug. 17, 2026

Middle East / 18 August 2026

Palestinian American travels to occupied-West Bank home to join fight against Israeli settlers

18 August 2026

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (centre) speaks during a cabinet meeting at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, August 18, 2026

Geopolitics / 18 August 2026

South Korea’s president talks up the US alliance after Trump cuts war games

18 August 2026

People dressed in protective gear lower into a grave the coffin containing the remains of Jeannine Katusabe, who died of Ebola, during a burial service in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, August 11, 2026

Central Africa / 18 August 2026

Congo’s fast moving Ebola outbreak has killed over 2,300

18 August 2026

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema shares a light moment with journalists after casting his vote at a polling station in Lusaka, Zambia, August 13, 2026

Southern Africa / 18 August 2026

Zambian President Hichilema re-elected for second term

18 August 2026

Lev Shlosberg, 2nd right, senior member of the Yabloko party, stands in the defendant's box prior to a verdict in the case against him is delivered, in a court in Pskov, Russia, August 17, 2026

Eastern Europe / 18 August 2026

Russian court jails Ukraine war critic for 11 years

18 August 2026

A road is flooded due to heavy rain in Geoje, South Korea, August 17, 2026

Round-up / 17 August 2026

World in brief: August 17, 2026

17 August 2026

A man rides on his motorbike past a billboard with a message that reads in Farsi:

Middle East / 17 August 2026

Iran claims victory over the US and Israel

17 August 2026

Displaced Palestinian Children carry food portions in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 14, 2026

Middle East / 17 August 2026

Israeli minister calls for 30 to 40 Palestinians to be killed in Gaza nightly

17 August 2026

People clear debris from a mosque that residents said was damaged in a drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan, August 12, 2026

Northeast Africa / 17 August 2026

African Union makes new push for Sudan ceasefire

17 August 2026

A man walks past a building that collapsed during an earthquake in Reo, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, August 17, 2026

Southeast Asia / 17 August 2026

Thousands in Indonesia await aid after quake kills 54

17 August 2026

US Army armoured vehicles gather to cross a river at a training field in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, August 17, 2026

Korean Peninsula / 17 August 2026

Trump orders Pentagon to scale back South Korea war games

17 August 2026

South Asia / 17 August 2026

Temple stampede and hotel fire in eastern India kill 14

17 August 2026

Firefighter work to extinguish wildfires at Hautes Fagnes near Waimes, Belgium

World / 16 August 2026

World in Brief August 16 2026

16 August 2026

A motorist fills up their car at a petrol station in Colorado, August 12, 2026

Cost-of-Living Crisis / 16 August 2026

US oil reserves sink to 40-year low

16 August 2026

Hezbollah scouts carry the coffins of a Hezbollah member Ali al-Haj Hassan, his wife and his four children, who were killed on Saturday by an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral procession in the southern suburb of Beirut

World / 16 August 2026

Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon kill at least 11

16 August 2026

From left: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign a trilateral defense agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026

Middle East / 16 August 2026

Erdogan says Egypt could soon join the ‘Mecca Pact’

16 August 2026

Taliban government supporters attend celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's return to power, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2026

Central Asia / 16 August 2026

UN warns of rights crisis as Taliban marks 5 years of power in Afghanistan

16 August 2026

An election worker holds a ballot as counting starts in Lusaka, Zambia, August 13, 2026

Southern Africa / 16 August 2026

Observers report intimidation and violence during Zambian elections

16 August 2026

A rescuer inspects earthquake damage at a neighborhood in Mbay, Nagekeo regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia, August 16, 2026

Southeast Asia / 16 August 2026

Rescue teams dig through rubble and debris after quake kills more than 50 in Indonesia

16 August 2026

Cars make their way through flooded road after heavy rain in Oamishirasato, Chiba prefecture, Japan, August 14, 2026

Round-up / 14 August 2026

World in brief: August 14, 2026

14 August 2026

Sailors and Marines line the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as it deploys from San Diego, January 3, 2021

Middle East / 14 August 2026

US threatens ‘indefinite’ blockade of Iran

14 August 2026

An explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound during what the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said were several Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026

Middle East / 14 August 2026

Yemen at highest risk of returning to war since 2022 truce, UN says

14 August 2026

Sweden Tesla

Workers' Rights / 14 August 2026

Swedish union ends dispute with Tesla

14 August 2026

A shepherd tends to his flock as they graze on a rubbish dump near a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 14, 2026

Middle East / 14 August 2026

Rights groups accuse Israel of attempting to hide Gaza genocide with rubble clear-up plan

14 August 2026

A shepherd tends to his flock as they graze on a rubbish dump near a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 14, 2026

East Asia / 14 August 2026

North Korea hits out at the latest US war games

14 August 2026

Cuban leader Raul Castro speaks during a gala commemorating the 100th anniversary of his brother Fidel Castro’s birth at the Karl Marx theater in Havana, Cuba, August 13, 2026

Latin America / 14 August 2026

Cuba slams expulsion of its diplomats from the Dominican Republic

14 August 2026

An injured person is moved for treatment at a hospital after the collapse of an under-construction tunnel at a hydropower project in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India, August 13, 2026

Disaster / 14 August 2026

Tunnel collapse in India kills at least 7

14 August 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, interacts with local residents in Kurilsk on the Iturup Island, the largest of the Kuril Islands of Russia's far-east, August 13, 2026

Round-up / 13 August 2026

World in brief: August 13, 2026

13 August 2026

Street vendors push their cart of vegetables past a mural of Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, August 12, 2026

Latin America / 13 August 2026

Cuba marks the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth

13 August 2026

Residents swim as cargo and commercial vessels are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 6, 2026

Middle East / 13 August 2026

Iran’s top diplomat accuses US of miscalculating its war due to poor intelligence

13 August 2026

A Palestinian child pushes a wheelchair carrying empty water jerrycans at a camp for displaced people in Gaza City, August 13, 2026

Palestine / 13 August 2026

More than half of Gazans lack access to water, says UN

13 August 2026

A health worker sprays disinfectant in a freshly dug grave for the body of Jacques Lobo Dhena, who died of Ebola, in Bunia, Ituri province, eastern Congo, August 12, 2026

DR Congo / 13 August 2026

Ebola outbreak on track to be the deadliest ever, UN says

13 August 2026

Australian dollars [Pic: Joshua Hoehne / Creative Commons]

Equality / 13 August 2026

Australia’s gender pay gap is at its lowest on record

13 August 2026