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Soldiers described as young officers attacked a military base, the presidential palace area, and the state broadcaster in Niger’s capital, Niamey, overnight from Friday, August 28, into Saturday, August 29, 2026. Gunfire and explosions were reported for hours around Base 101, located within Diori Hamani International Airport. By Saturday evening, Niger’s military said the situation … Read more
President Donald Trump announced on Friday, August 28, 2026, that the United States had secured what he called “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY” with Venezuela, giving the US “majority control” of more than 65 billion barrels of the country’s proven oil reserves. Venezuela’s interim government, led by Delcy Rodríguez, described the same agreement in nearly … Read more
Armed men from the Viv Ansanm gang coalition attacked the highland community of Kenscoff, roughly 10 kilometers southeast of Port-au-Prince, on the night of August 23 into August 24, 2026. At least 47 people were killed, more than 50 kidnapped, and 22 injured, according to the UN’s count, which the Haitian mayor’s office says may still … Read more
Courts in several Chinese cities have ruled, in a string of cases over the past year, that dismissing a worker because artificial intelligence took over their job does not meet the legal bar for lawful termination under China’s Labor Contract Law. The most-cited case involves a quality assurance supervisor surnamed Zhou at a Hangzhou tech … Read more
Trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed late on Friday, August 21, 2026, minutes before a midnight deadline, and 50% US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government would impose matching retaliatory tariffs starting September 8, and at … Read more
A spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon early Wednesday, August 5, 2026, near the Einstein Crater on the lunar far side, at roughly 5,400 miles per hour. The four-metric-tonne stage had launched in January 2025 carrying two commercial lunar landers, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience, and was … Read more
Colombia’s president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, will be inaugurated on Friday, August 7, 2026, in the city of Cali rather than Bogotá’s Plaza de Bolívar, breaking a tradition of holding the ceremony in the capital that has held for more than a century. The event will take place at the covered Arena USC on the … Read more
Oil prices fell sharply for a second consecutive session on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, as hopes grew for an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that has been effectively closed since Iran mined and blockaded it earlier this year amid its war with the United States and Israel. Brent crude … Read more
Published July 30, 2029 Several large news organisations are weighing whether to block Google’s web crawlers entirely, a step that would remove them from search results in exchange for keeping their journalism out of Google’s AI systems. The Wall Street Journal reported on July 22 that Reddit, USA Today, Reuters, Politico, The Economist and People … Read more
Modern sanctions are mostly not embargoes against countries. They are lists of named people, companies, banks, ships and aircraft, and the legal effect of being on a list is that anyone within the sanctioning state’s jurisdiction is barred from dealing with you and must freeze any of your assets they hold. Enforcement runs through … Read more