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Ukraine War: Largest Drone Barrage Kills Six Across Russia, Wildberries Depot Burns Near Moscow

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- At 4 a.m. in the Moscow suburbs, an 83-year-old man was asleep when a Ukrainian drone struck his house in Podolsk. He did not survive. Across the Russian capital's outer belt, fi... Read More


Trump Orders Pentagon to Reduce South Korea Military Drills After Seoul Refused to Join Iran War

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The forces that fired warning shots at North Korean soldiers crossing the Military Demarcation Line on Thursday are now preparing for smaller joint exercises with American troops... Read More


Italy Museum Heist: Thieves Steal €80 Million in Antonello da Messina Works During Ferragosto

Sometime around 9, Aug. 17 -- The call came late Sunday morning, and museum director Marisa Mercurio could not find the words to describe what Messina had just lost. "We are devastated by what happene... Read More


Quordle Answers Today - August 17, 2026 (#1666)

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Quordle Answers Today, August 17, 2026 (Game #1666) The Quordle answers today for Monday, August 17, 2026 (#1666) are BLIMP, DRYER, MINER, and BIDDY. If you are here for the se... Read More


Oil Prices Today, August 17, 2026: Brent $88.31 as the US-Iran Deadline Passes

DUBAI, Aug. 17 -- The deadline that was supposed to decide the oil year arrived on Monday. Brent moved twenty cents. That is the whole market reaction to the expiry of the memorandum Donald Trump and... Read More


Meta Social Media Addiction Trial: Four States Seek $1.4 Trillion as Federal Case Opens in Oakland

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- In a federal courthouse here Monday, the attorneys for four states stood before a judge and argued something that would have sounded improbable a decade ago: that the features de... Read More


Grok AI CSAM Lawsuit: Stepfather Created 7,000 Deepfakes, Wyoming Woman Joins Class Action

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 -- A Wyoming woman whose childhood photographs were turned into thousands of sexually explicit images by her stepfather using xAI's Grok chatbot has joined a class action lawsui... Read More


Belarus Says It Is Trading Flight Warnings With Three NATO Neighbours

MINSK, Aug. 17 -- In May, Andrei Lukyanovich described a difficult military-political situation around Belarus, driven by what he called the unprecedented militarisation of its neighbours, and told th... Read More


Tommy John, Namesake of Baseball's Most-Performed Surgery, Dead at 83

BRADENTON, Aug. 17 -- The number that defined Tommy John's career was not 288, though those wins placed him among the most successful left-handers of his generation. It was not the 26 years he spent o... Read More


Iran War: US-Iran Peace Deal Expires as Trump Threatens to Seize Hormuz and Tehran Hardens

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The agreement that was supposed to end the Iran-United States war expired Monday with no extension, no new framework, and no date for the negotiations that both sides say they ha... Read More