Indian temple stampede kills seven people and injures dozens
A stampede at a Hindu temple in eastern India kills seven people and injures nineteen more.
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Iraqi Kurdish PM Barzani’s office targeted in drone attack
ListenListen (1 min) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government [File: Safin Hamid/AFP] Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 The office of the prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been targeted in a […]
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USS Lincoln crisis: How it compares to past aircraft carrier deployments
ListenListen (8 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo USS Abraham Lincoln at an undisclosed location, on March 3, 2026 [Handout/US Navy via Reuters] By Marthe van der Wolf Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 The nearly nine-month extended deployment of the USS Abraham […]
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Is the world experiencing more earthquakes now than before?
ListenListen (6 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo By Mohammed Haddad and Amr Alkazaz Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 In the past month, three earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above have struck Indonesia, Colombia and Mexico, killing hundreds of people. In June, […]
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Trump orders US to scale back South Korea military drills
Donald Trump has ordered the US military to scale back joint exercises with South Korea.
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Hong Kong halves environmental impact review times with AI in efficiency drive
Advertisement Hong Kong society Hong KongSociety Hong Kong halves environmental impact review times with AI in efficiency drive Government rolls out first batch of 30 projects across 13 departments to improve services such as food licensing, leisure facility bookings 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Matthew Cheng Published: 7:20pm, 17 Aug 2026Updated: 7:59pm, 17 Aug 2026 Hong Kong […]
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Billionaire Geely Auto head Li Shufu steps down as profit slips
Advertisement Electric & new energy vehicles BusinessChina Business Billionaire Geely Auto head Li Shufu steps down as profit slips China’s second-largest carmaker names new chairman and CEO as profit drops despite record revenue and export surge 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Daniel Renin Shanghai Published: 7:32pm, 17 Aug 2026 Chinese billionaire Li Shufu has relinquished his role […]
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EU plans most far-reaching sanctions on Russia in coming months
Advertisement European Union WorldEurope EU plans most far-reaching sanctions on Russia in coming months EU sanctions must be approved unanimously. Traditional EU packages against Russia have frequently been dogged by lengthy disputes 2-MIN READ2-MIN Listen Reuters Published: 7:48pm, 17 Aug 2026 The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months […]
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Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years
Advertisement Science ChinaScience Chinese team aims to put ‘smart’ diabetes probiotic on US shelves within 2 years The engineered probiotic, named Gift, can sense high blood sugar and automatically release the glucose-lowering hormone GLP-1 3-MIN READ3-MIN Shi Huang Published: 7:58pm, 17 Aug 2026 Chinese researchers have engineered a probiotic that could make diabetes care as […]
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Scottie Scheffler wins St Jude Championship by eight shots
ListenListen (2 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Scottie Scheffler celebrates with the 2026 St Jude Championship trophy at TPC Southwind on August 16, 2026, in Memphis, Tennessee [Stacy Revere/Getty Images via AFP] By Reuters Published On 17 Aug 202617 Aug 2026 Scottie Scheffler […]
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