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(VENEZUELA) — The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X. The deal included the release of 10 Americans […]

(LONDON) —  An overnight fire at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed more than 60 people, according to the country’s interior ministry. The massive fire broke out early Thursday in the new, five-story shopping center in Kut, the capital of the Wasit province in eastern Iraq. Most of the 61 victims died from smoke […]

Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dialogue heard on a cockpit voice recording indicates that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in June, killing 260 people, may have turned off the fuel just after takeoff, prompting the first officer to panic, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited […]

(LONDON) — A fire overnight at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed dozens of people in the city of Kut, authorities said. Early reports say that as many as 60 people have been killed with dozens more reported missing in the eastern Iraqi city. The cause of the fire is not immediately known. This […]

Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Holy Family Church, a Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged on Thursday and its priest was injured along with several others, the parish said. “Currently there are no fatalities confirmed,” the parish said in a press release. “The church sustained damage.” Father Gabriel Romanelli was […]

Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images (BOOM, BELGIUM) — A massive fire severely damaged the main stage at Belgium’s Tomorrowland, one of the world’s largest electronic dance music festivals, just days before its scheduled opening. The blaze erupted Wednesday at the festival grounds in Boom, Belgium, where thick plumes of black smoke could be seen rising […]

Handout/Ukrainian State Emergency Service (LONDON) — Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down at least 126 Ukrainian drones overnight into Thursday morning, with at least three craft intercepted over the capital Moscow region. The attack was Ukraine’s largest drone barrage into Russia since it launched 167 craft into the country on July 11, according […]

Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images (LONDON) — Law enforcement officials in Europe said they had coordinated the dismantling of an international pro-Russian cybercrime network, arresting two members, issuing warrants for others in Russia and disrupting the group’s main infrastructure. The network, known as NoName057(16), was alleged to have targeted Ukraine and countries that supported Kyiv in […]

Ramez Habboub / GocherImagery/Future Publishing via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 20 people were killed in an incident at one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in the southern Gaza Strip, the U.S.-backed group said in a statement on Wednesday. The GHF said in a post to X that 19 of the dead […]

Abdulkarem Al-Mohammad/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces said it struck “the entrance” of Syria‘s military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday. Syria’s Ministry of Health told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency that at least one person was killed and 18 others were injured Wednesday in the Israeli airstrikes on the capital, Damascus. The high-profile […]