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Seven people, mostly foreign tourists, killed in helicopter crash in Kenya 

A helicopter taking tourists on a safari has crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya, killing all seven people on boa...

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Trump nominates Heidi Overton to lead US Food and Drug Administration 

News|Donald Trump US President Donald Trump has selected Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...

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NATO ‘prepared’ to defend allies amid report of Iranian strike plans 

News|US-Israel war on Iran NATO says it is prepared to address threats over possible Iranian attacks on United States mi...

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Brazil bus crash kills at least 23 and injures five in Parana state 

19 August 2026

At least 23 people have been killed and five others injured after a bus carrying patients and healthcare workers to hosp...

Kennedy Center board says it won’t try to immediately restore Trump’s name 

19 August 2026

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the United States has announced it will not attempt to immediately reinscr...

Canada pledges $50m aid to Lebanon and condemns Israeli ‘unlawful invasion’ 

19 August 2026

News|Politics Canada’s secretary of state for international development, Randeep Sarai, visited Lebanon to announce ne...

Iran’s hardline parliament raises concerns with ‘foreign infiltration’ plan 

19 August 2026

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament has approved the broad outlines of a plan presented as a means o...

Hamas condemns ‘new war crime’ as Israel kills 10 in crowded Gaza hubs 

19 August 2026

Israeli strikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians in two separate attacks targeting a Gaza City police post and Nusei...

Israel admits firing on car carrying Hind Rajab, symbol of Gaza’s suffering 

19 August 2026

More than two years after Hind Rajab was killed, becoming a symbol of the suffering of children in Gaza, Israel’s mili...

Seven decades of US regime change efforts: What have they achieved? 

19 August 2026

More than seven decades after the United States helped to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh,...