SUDAN – The Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out drone attacks on Friday targeting Omdurman city in Khartoum state and Atbara in River Nile state. Residents in both cities reported hearing explosions and the sound…
CHINA – The first Chinese electromagnetic catapult-equipped aircraft carrier – Fujian – went to service on Friday and commissioned to the navy’s southern Hainan province. President Xi Jinping attended the commissioning ceremony. Beijing’s first electromagnetic catapult-equipped…
JAPAN – After a blanket ban in 2023 over the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan have resumed seafood exports to China. Farm Minister Norikazu Suzuki said Friday that six…
USA – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the US carried out another airstrike targeting a “narco-terrorists” vessel in the international waters on Thursday. 3 men were killed in the strike. The strike targeted a vessel…
SOUTH KOREA – At least 3 workers were killed and 2 others went missing and presumed dead after South Korea’s Ulsan power plant boiler tower collapsed on Friday. Firefighting officials said the bodies of two workers…
LEBANON – Late Thursday, the Israeli army launched a series of airstrikes in Lebanon targeting the southern parts of the country shortly after issuing evacuation orders. A ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel has been in…
USA – On Thursday, Donald Trump said that Kazakhstan had agreed to join the Abraham Accords, becoming the fifth Muslim-majority nation to enter into normalization agreements with Israel after United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco….
PERU – The Peruvian Congress on Thursday declared the Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum persona non grata after former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chavez was granted political asylum by her administration. After Sheinbaum reaffirmed her decision to…
USA – US District Judge John McConnell Jr. from the state of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund SNAP benefits by Friday in full. The judge ruled the government must make full…
NIGERIA – The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) have prepared options for a possible intervention in Nigeria after Donald Trump claimed that there were persecutions and killing of Christians by terrorists in the country. US defense officials…
ISRAEL – The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that border with Egypt was closed and was now a military zone according to local reports on Thursday. “We are declaring war. Anyone who enters the restricted…
KYRGYZSTAN – A new state-backed stablecoin – USDKG – was launched by Kyrgyzstan, becoming the first state-owned digital asset. The Finance Ministry said on Thursday that the new stablecoin is pegged to the US dollar at…
RUSSIA – The Russian Ministry of Defense on Thursday said that the condition of the encircled Ukrainian forces in Kupyansk continue to deteriorate as the city is set to be taken over within the coming week….
USA – According to data released by the Federal Reserve New York on Wednesday, the average household debt in the US rose by 1% in the third quarter of 2025, reaching an all-time high overall of…
USA – Amid ongoing government shutdown, US airport flights will be reduced by 10% at 40 airports across the country from Friday, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday. “There is going to be a…
SOUTH KOREA – Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol‘s home was on Thursday raided by prosecutors in a 2022 relocation of the presidential office and residence investigation. A special counsel team led by Special Counsel…
PHILIPPINES – According to officials on Thursday, the death toll from Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) is now at least 114, with 127 people still missing in the latest update. Diego Mariano, deputy spokesperson for the Office of…
HAITI – Hurricane Melissa death toll in both Haiti and Jamaica have risen to 75 after it triggered massive flooding and landslides in the Caribbean. The hurricane has battered Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba since late October,…
USA – The death toll from the UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky have risen to 12 according to the local Mayor Craig Greenberg on Wednesday. “I’m deeply saddened to share that the death toll…
SOUTH KOREA – A toxic gas leak in the south Korea’s POSCO steel factory on Wednesday left 1 worker dead and 3 others experienced breathing difficulties according to local reports. The incident occurred at a POSCO…
CHINA – On Wednesday, China said that it had suspended 24% of imposed tariffs on US imports for an year. The move comes after Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump held a…
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA – At least 11 people were killed in a retirement home fire in Bosnia & Herzegovina on Tuesday evening, according to local reports on Wednesday. Breaking out on the seventh floor of a…
PALESTINE – Hamas on Tuesday handed over another Israeli hostage remains under the Gaza ceasefire deal. A statement by the Israeli military said a coffin of a deceased hostage had been transferred to the International Committee…
USA – At least 7 people were killed in a UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky late Tuesday according to local reports. The cargo plane crashed near Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) in Louisville. “The news…
INDIA – The death toll from train collision between a passenger and a freight train in India’s Chhattisgarh state have risen to 11 according to an official statement on Wednesday. A passenger train had collided with…
SUDAN – A Sudanese military cargo plane crash late Tuesday in West Kordofan state killed all crew members, according to a military statement. A military statement said the aircraft suffered a technical malfunction in its right…
ISRAEL – Israel‘s Knesset on Tuesday approved a bill in preliminary reading aimed at granting the government greater control over the country’s media. According to a Knesset statement, the draft law introduces “comprehensive reforms in the…
PAKISTAN – At least 12 people were injured on Tuesday following a gas explosion at Pakistan‘s Supreme Court building in the country’s capital. Islamabad’s Inspector General of Police Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi said that a “gas…
NIGERIA – On Tuesday, the Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Maitama Tuggar refuted Donald Trump‘s claims that Nigerian government was allowing the persecution and killing of Christians. At a press conference in Berlin, Tuggar presented a document…
PHILIPPINES – As Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) batters Philippines leaving at least 19 dead, a helicopter on a humanitarian and disaster relief mission crashed on Tuesday according to the Eastern Mindanao Command. Rescue and recovery operations are…