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The United States has announced new penalties, called sanctions, meant to cut off money and trade with Iran, calling the move an 'economic D-Day.' Iran's government called the sanctions 'economic terrorism.' Washington also asked China, which buys most of Iran's oil, to help enforce the sanctions, but China publicly refused, saying they won't solve the underlying conflict.
Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank (which sets interest rates for countries using the euro), told a Geneva business forum on 19 August that Europe's decades-old growth formula of open trade, cheap energy and US military protection is breaking down for good, not just going through a rough patch.
News outlets report that Russia has built about ten new drone bases along its borders with Ukraine and Belarus, which could put NATO member Poland, including its capital Warsaw, within reach of drone strikes.
Ukraine's drones destroyed the largest warehouse of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer, near Moscow overnight on 15-16 August, the biggest drone attack of 2026.
A magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off Flores island in Indonesia early Saturday.
Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country in Central Africa, has now spread to a sixth province.
After roughly 70,000 migrants rushed the Ceuta border fence on 30 July 2026, a surge partly driven by viral videos that left nearly 100 people dead, the European Union pressed Meta and TikTok to act.
Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Yabloko, the country's only liberal party campaigning against the war in Ukraine, cannot run in next month's parliamentary elections.
A drone crashed and exploded near a natural gas pipeline in Bulgaria on Saturday, in a field near the Romanian border and the Black Sea.
After migrants crossed in large numbers into Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, Spain and Italy began checking IDs at their shared borders again, straining the EU's normally open-border area known as Schengen.
Spain and Italy have started checking travelers crossing between their two countries, each retaliating after the other imposed checks first.
EasyJet's board has chosen a takeover offer from Apollo Global Management, a US investment firm, worth £5.7bn, after a rival bidder, Castlelake, withdrew.