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A double-tap attack by Houthi rebels on a vessel in the Bab Al Mandeb strait, which killed six people, has drawn international condemnation and raised questions about how far the rebels are willing to go to exert pressure on Saudi Arabia and the international community for their own gain.
Libya was plunged into fresh turmoil this week after a car bomb killed eastern military intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri in Benghazi, drone attacks struck the country’s largest operational oil refinery and the central bank governor resigned from his post.
Impeachment Court Presiding Officer Francis Escudero wraps up Day 15 of the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Aug. 12, 2026 by issuing a subpoena for Duterte's assistant chief of staff to appear in court on Aug. 17 and warning the Prosecution and Defense against commenting on the proceedings on social media. T…
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Three nonprofit organizations petitioned the Jerusalem District Court to overturn the approval of a plan to build a yeshiva and dormitory for foreign students on public land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem.
The Likud’s top internal court approved a reserved place on the party’s Knesset slate for senior minister Haim Katz on Wednesday, one day after temporarily blocking a vote on the move.
In Zarzal, around 700 homes were damaged, with some reduced to rubble. At least one person died, while emergency teams assessed homes door to door to identify residents needing shelter and supplies. Debris blocked streets, and some badly damaged buildings may have to be demolished. In Roldanillo, residents returned …
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Russian authorities said Ukraine’s overnight bombardment of the western Krasnodar region killed two people and injured at least 12.
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The border between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams is seen Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Yemen's Houthis attacked a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, on Tuesday, Houthi-run news agency Saba reported, and Pakistan said on Wednesday that three of its nationals had been killed in an attack on a ship.
The alleged sergeant-at-arms of an outlaw motorcycle gang accused of being part of a trio who threatened a man with a gun has a job working on North East Link, a court has heard.
The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) on Wednesday filed an indictment with the Hadera Magistrate's Court against Amir Warkani, 27, and Yosef Warkani, 33, both residents of Fureidis, after they were allegedly caught illegally collecting antiquities at the Horvat Hadarim archaeological site.
Avraham Hadi, 44, was indicted by prosecutors on Wednesday for allegedly targeting the offices of several news outlets and the Justice Ministry in a series of vandalism and threat incidents.
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New laws that criminalise coercive control put vulnerable women at risk of being wrongly charged with family violence crimes, women’s safety advocates say.
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Supreme People’s Court says judgment was first to ‘explicitly establish the mandatory application’ of five-year-old law
Supreme People’s Court says judgment was first to ‘explicitly establish the mandatory application’ of five-year-old law
Senior Libyan National Army officials gathered in Benghazi on Tuesday for the funeral of military intelligence chief Fawzi al-Mansouri, killed in a car bombing a day earlier as he left a mosque. His assassination has raised fresh security concerns in Libya’s divided east.
Defence lawyers cross-examined witness Ross Tighe on Wednesday. (ABC News: Carole Howlett)
Coalition demands police investigate apparent leaking of diplomatic cable to newspaper but Labor calls it a ‘silly political stunt’
The IDF announced on Wednesday that after a lengthy investigation, the burial place of IDF soldier Shlomo Haimson, whose burial place had been unknown for almost 78 years, has been located.
Alleged Irish mob boss Daniel Kinahan was charged in Dublin, Ireland on August 9th with directing a criminal organization.
An overnight drone attack killed a child, damaged four enterprises and over two dozen residential buildings in the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said on Telegram on Wednesday.
A new dawn has arrived in Britain. Andy Burnham has replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister. The Labour Party has arrested its seemingly irreversible slump, having learned its lessons, and is ready to resume governing, while addressing the concerns of ordinary people. Faith in politics has been restored.
Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly overnight drone attacks, killing three people in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, according to regional officials.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court upheld the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s discretion to keep its unfinished flood-control report confidential, ruling that the right to information does not cover preliminary legislative deliberations.
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Spanish police said Tuesday they have dismantled a criminal ring accused of recruiting unaccompanied migrant girls from care centres in Gran Canaria and moving them to mainland Spain and France, where some were sexually exploited.
CCTV footage shows people fleeing the building as debris fell, injuring one person who survived. The hospital said around 90 patients were transferred after parts of its facilities, including emergency areas, became unusable. The damage came as rescue teams searched across western Colombia for survivors after the ea…
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Jon Adgemis’ former chief financial officer has told a court about the severe financial stress of running businesses which the failed pub baron used to fund a lavish lifestyle in the lead-up to the $1.8 billion collapse of his hospitality empire.
Rather than hiding his criminal record, Ru Ping flaunts it as a badge of honour, proudly boasting to his followers that he ‘grew up in prison’
Rather than hiding his criminal record, Ru Ping flaunts it as a badge of honour, proudly boasting to his followers that he ‘grew up in prison’
Leung Kai-lok, 19, is potentially the first person to avoid a custodial sentence for violating the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Leung Kai-lok, 19, is potentially the first person to avoid a custodial sentence for violating the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
Prosecutors successfully argued for date ranges of alleged indecent assault offences to be expanded. (ABC News: Greg Bigelow)
Former NSW police officer David Robert Blackbourne was charged in 2023 with multiple offences, including two counts of sexual intercourse without consent. (ABC News: Liam Patrick)
Guy Sebastian's former manager Titus Day (right) says he accepts his "failures ... had a serious and regrettable impact" on the pop singer. (AAP: Bianca De Marchi)
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- Police said Wednesday they have busted a criminal ring suspected of creating and operating illegal pornography and gambling websites to rake in several tens of billions of won.
At least 15 people have been killed and 27 remain missing after an overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba, according to the country’s Civil Protection Unit.
A man carries schoolgirls outside the site of a school shooting in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)