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South Korea Fires First 2026 Warning Shots After North Korean Troops Cross the MDL

SEOUL, Aug. 16 -- For the first time this year, South Korean forces fired warning shots along the most heavily fortified border on earth. The soldiers who triggered them were North Korean, apparently ... Read More


Reform UK Plans £50bn Welfare Overhaul Targeting Millions of Disabled Claimants

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- a network of local council disability support accounts. Reform UK's Treasury spokesman unveiled what he called the party's welfare overhaul blueprint, a package the party says w... Read More


US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Could Give Riyadh Path to Uranium Enrichment, Triggering Regional Arms Race

RIYADH, Aug. 16 -- For a year, the central question in US-Saudi negotiations over a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement was not whether Saudi Arabia should have the technology. It was whether the d... Read More


ICC Removes Prosecutor Who Dared Issue Warrants for Netanyahu - Days Before Judges Cleared Him

THE HAGUE, Aug. 16 -- The International Criminal Court removed its chief prosecutor on July 25 under circumstances that, six days later, its own judges would describe as legally incoherent. A yearlon... Read More


Emilie Kiser Apologizes After Posting Toddler Without Life Jacket, a Year After Son's Drowning

PHOENIX, Aug. 16 -- The photograph was of a boat, of sunlight, of a toddler having a difficult afternoon. It was also of a 16-month-old boy without a life jacket. For Emilie Kiser, whose millions of T... Read More


Qatar Denies Holding Three Iranian Bomber Pilots From March Al Udeid Attack

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Three Iranian bomber pilots went down over Qatar in March. Six months later, Tehran names them publicly and says they are alive. Doha has returned one man's remains and insists i... Read More


Shadow Fleet Tanker Caroline Bezengi Spills Oil Into Oman's Protected Marine Reserve

The Caroline Bezengi, Aug. 16 -- The oil did not announce itself. It crept out through the hull of a half-sunken tanker named Caroline Bezengi, spreading across the surface of the Gulf of Oman in slow... Read More


Farage Wins Clacton By-Election, but Nearly 10,000 Votes for a Satirist Signal a Hollow Mandate

LONDON, Aug. 16 -- Nine thousand, four hundred and fifty-five people in Clacton voted last Thursday for a man whose campaign helmet is a rubbish bin and whose platform included capping the price of cr... Read More


Erdogan Says Egypt Could Join Mecca Pact as Saudi-Led Defence Bloc Reshapes Middle East

CAIRO, Aug. 16 -- The defence pact signed in Mecca last week is already drawing a fourth member, or at least the prospect of one. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Egypt's entry ... Read More


Epstein Survivors to Press Burnham for Public Inquiry Into Andrew

LONDON, Aug. 16 -- Six months ago Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on his birthday, held him for eleven hours and released him under investigation. He has not been charged sinc... Read More