Geopolitics beyond the usual borders.
A Russian strike hit a Ukrainian military warehouse near Kyiv overnight, killing at least 37 people, in one of the deadliest single attacks on Ukraine this year.
The US and Venezuela have agreed that Washington will take control of a fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves, the largest in the world, President Trump said after talks with acting president Delcy Rodríguez.
A flash flood on the border between Nepal and Tibet, in China, has killed more than 500 people since it struck on Wednesday, set off by a glacier collapse.
Taiwan is strengthening defenses on Penghu, a small group of islands roughly halfway across the strait separating it from mainland China.
Norway's King Harald V, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, died on Friday at 89 after 35 years on the throne.
Iran has been blocking ships from the Strait of Hormuz, the only sea route in or out of the Gulf, amid a standoff with the United States.
Flash floods hit Nepal and Tibet on 27 August 2026 after collapsing glacier rock sent water and debris crashing through valleys, destroying buildings and bridges.
President Donald Trump has suggested the United States could punish Chinese banks for helping move Iranian oil, using financial penalties called sanctions.
US and NATO officials say the supply of Patriot interceptor missiles stored in Europe has dropped to a level they call 'beyond critical.' Patriot missiles are the main weapons NATO uses to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles.
The New York Times reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe, during a secret trip to Moscow, told Russian officials privately that Russia's war effort in Ukraine looks bleak.
US President Trump, European Union officials and Russia's foreign ministry have all played down fears that Russia might attack NATO, the military alliance of the US, Canada and European countries.
Pakistan told the United States it doesn't have to follow US sanctions on Iran — penalties meant to cut Iran off from world trade.