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Iran War: Tehran Puts $30,000 Bounty on US Troops as Persian Gulf Ceasefire Nears Collapse

TEHRAN, Aug. 17 -- An American soldier's life is worth $30,000 in Tehran. That is the price Iran's Army formally put on American troops Sunday, offering a bounty for the killing or capturing of any Un... Read More


UNIFIL Logs Israeli Warships in Lebanese Waters With Four Months Left

BEIRUT, Aug. 17 -- United Nations peacekeepers watched Israeli naval vessels operate inside Lebanon's territorial waters and wrote it down. They have four and a half months left to write anything down... Read More


Trump's World Liberty Financial Wins OCC Bank Charter in a US Presidential First

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency handed conditional approval on August 15 to World Liberty Trust Co. to operate as a national trust bank - a move that makes Donald ... Read More


Princess Eugenie Names Daughter Adelaide Elizabeth Annina, Honoring Queen Elizabeth II and Portuguese Roots

LISBON, Aug. 17 -- Two weeks after welcoming her daughter into the world in Portugal, Princess Eugenie broke a quiet that felt intentional, the kind of pause a mother takes when she knows the weight o... Read More


Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls for Killing '30 to 40' Palestinians in Gaza Every Night

JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 -- Israel's far-right national security minister escalated his public calls for mass killing in Gaza this week, stating on a podcast that Israeli forces should "kill 30 or 40" peopl... Read More


Japan Economy Grows Just 1.1% in Q2 2026, Missing Forecasts as Consumer Spending Retreats

TOKYO, Aug. 17 -- For a country that has spent two years watching food prices climb and energy bills thicken, Japanese households have quietly started to push back. The result arrived Friday in a numb... Read More


Stripe Acquires AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7 Billion, Betting the Future Runs Through AI

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 -- For three years, OpenRouter's value proposition was simple and, for developers, genuinely useful: stop betting on one AI model. The platform sat between developers and a chao... Read More


Iran Nuclear Deal Deadline Expires: Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman as Hormuz Talks Fail

MUSCAT, Aug. 17 -- When diplomats from Tehran and Muscat agreed in early August on the coordinates of shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, it appeared, briefly, like the geometry of a deal. In... Read More


Ukraine War: Six Killed in Belgorod as Massive Overnight Drone Offensive Targets Wildberries Warehouses

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- In the village of Koloskovo, on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, six people died overnight Sunday in what acting Belgorod Region Governor Alexander Shuvaev called a U... Read More


StreamEast Operators Jailed in Egypt After Running World's Largest Illegal Sports Streaming Platform

CAIRO, Aug. 17 -- For most of its users, StreamEast looked like a miracle. Every NFL Sunday, every NBA playoff game, every Premier League fixture, every UFC pay-per-view - all of it, free, in a browse... Read More