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August 28, 2026
Hundreds still missing on Nepal-China border as flash flood death toll passes 500
AP – Rescue teams continued to work on Friday through mud and debris in areas devastated by a flash flood on the Himalayan border between Nepal and China. Hundreds of people remain missing as the…
August 28, 2026
Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump said he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada. The Republican president signed…
August 28, 2026
Ex-Bosnian warlord who oversaw atrocities dies as a prisoner at 84
BELGRADE (AP): Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II,…
August 28, 2026
Haitians demand answers from police after gangs kill 47, kidnap more than 50
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): Haiti’s National Police faced mounting criticism Thursday over why authorities failed to prevent a recent gang attack in which 47 people were killed and more than 50 kidnapped.…
August 28, 2026
America-born children among Haitians deported from United States
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Several children, including a one-year-old child born in the United States, were among the latest batch of Haitians deported from the United States on Thursday to the…
August 28, 2026
Leeward Islands residents urged to monitor progress of Tropical Storm Dolly
MIAMI, CMC – Residents in the Leeward Islands were on Friday told that they should monitor the progress of Tropical Storm Dolly, which is expected to pass near the islands this weekend. The…
August 28, 2026
Trump says US will take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves
President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States has entered into an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves. Trump, in a…
August 27, 2026
Nepal’s catastrophic floods kill more than 350, with over 1,300 missing
DEVIGHAT, Nepal (AP) – Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border, where a catastrophic and deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high…
August 27, 2026
People from more than 30 countries missing after flash floods in Nepal and China
AP – People from more than 30 countries are missing after catastrophic flash floods in a border area of China and Nepal killed at least 353 people and left more than 1,300 missing as of Thursday. …