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An American surveillance drone has crashed northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, according to a report. The Iraqi Arabic-language Burath news agency cited informed sources on Friday saying that the drone, registered under the number “52187,” had probably crashed due to hacking or electronic jamming from an “unknown source.” …

Yemen’s Interior Ministry says Ibrahim al-Houthi, the brother of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has been assassinated. “The treacherous hands affiliated with the US-Israeli aggression and its tools assassinated Ibrahim Badreddin al-Houthi,” a statement from the ministry, cited by al-Masirah TV, said on Friday. The statement did not provide any further …

US immigration authorities have arrested nearly 700 mostly Latino workers at seven food processing plants across the southern state of Mississippi, the largest workplace raid in at least a decade. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement on Wednesday that the agency detained about 680 people who …

More than 300 children have been killed across Yemen in a year since the coalition airstrike on a school bus in Saada province, killing 41 children and wounding nearly 600, Oxfam International said today. International arms sales to the coalition countries. A total of 335 children have been killed since …

Pakistan said on Thursday it would suspend a rail service linking it to India. The move comes as relations between the arch-rivals continue to deteriorate over the contested Kashmir region. “We have decided to shut down Samjhauta Express,” Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed told a news conference on Thursday. The …

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers found his car parked outside a 7-Eleven convenience store and arrested him, authorities said. In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police …

An earthquake of 5.7 magnitudes has rocked Turkey’s southwestern city of Denizli, the country’s monitoring agency said on Thursday. The city’s mayor said there were no immediate reports of casualties, Reuters reports. The Kandilli observatory had initially said the tremor measured 6.5 in magnitude. The earthquake occurred 8km (5 miles) …

Two people were killed in an explosion of a propulsion system at a military range in Russia’s northwestern Arkhangelsk region, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday. “During tests of a liquid propulsion system, an explosion occurred and the product ignited. As a result of the accident, six representatives …

Special forces have arrested Kyrgyzstan’s former president Almazbek Atambayev at his mansion, in an operation in which gunfire could be heard. He was previously stripped of immunity over corruption accusations. Armed troops in body armor stormed the residence in the village of Koi-Tash late on Wednesday. Atambayev’s supporters started tossing …

Mount Asama is sending a column of smoke and fire up to the sky as the Japan Meteorological Agency has issued warnings to the public to maintain a safe distance from the volcano. Smoke spewed from the crater of the volcano, reaching an altitude of about 1,800 meters. A level …

An “active police event” is ongoing at the headquarters of USA Today in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, according to police. Law enforcement officers arrived at the newspaper’s headquarters around noon on Wednesday and began evacuating the scene. Videos shared on social media show lines of evacuees leaving the building and police …

The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand. Judging by the size of the leg bones, the bird would have stood about 1m tall and weighed up …

Donald Trump is to visit the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas amid warnings he will not be welcome. The attacks in El Paso, where Hispanic people appear to have been targeted, and Dayton left 31 people dead. Before leaving for Ohio, he said he was concerned about …

Pakistan says it’s going to downgrade diplomatic relations with India and suspend trade with the neighbor state, Reuters reported. The move comes after New Delhi revoked the autonomous status of the disputed Kashmir region. The statement by the Pakistani government vowed that the country will take the Kashmir issue to …

A national dengue epidemic has been declared in the Philippines, where 622 people have died of the mosquito-borne disease since January and millions more are at risk. From the start of the year to July 20, there have been more than 146,000 cases recorded — a 98% increase from the …

At least 18 people were killed and over 100 others, including women and children, were injured in a car bomb explosion in Kabul on Wednesday morning, according to the Public Health Ministry. The blast targeted police headquarters in the west of Kabul during rush hour on Wednesday morning, TOLOnews said. …

Fifty-seven people have died and more than 18,000 have sought hospital treatment since July 29, when Japan was blanketed by an extreme and unrelenting heatwave. The government announced the startling figures on Tuesday, revealing that the number of people hospitalized has tripled from the previous week. Those aged 65 and …

Crowds fled in horror in New York’s iconic Times Square after fears of gunshots. Eyewitness footage captured the moment that tourists and residents sprinted for their lives in abject panic. The alarm took place at approximately 10 pm local time Tuesday night in one of the city’s busiest intersections, just …

The apparent misspelling is merely the latest such social media gaffe coming from Trump’s social media presence. US President Donald Trump, who has often managed to amuse social media with his Twitter gaffes such as the infamous “covfefe”, has now upped his game further with one of his latest tweets …

Article 370 of the Indian Constitution gives special status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir. India controls the southern portion of Kashmir, a region that has historically been hotly contested between India and Pakistan. The Indian government has moved to scrap Article 370 of the national constitution, which grants …