Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the disputed Kuril Islands has triggered a fresh diplomatic confrontation with Japan, which has denounced the trip as “absolutely unacceptable” and reaffirmed its claim to four southern islands.
Former Nepalese prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has returned to the country despite an arrest warrant issued against him in a corruption case. The 80-year-old veteran politician returned on Thursday, August 13, after nearly six months abroad for medical treatment.
An experimental maglev train in China has set a new world record by accelerating from zero to 800 kilometers per hour in just 5.3 seconds. Researchers claim that this breakthrough could play a vital role in the development of ultra-high-speed transportation technology.
The death toll from a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia has risen to 265, with nearly 3,500 people injured and 496 still missing as rescuers continue searching collapsed buildings for survivors for a third day.
A 17-year-old Indian-American teenager has been arrested and charged with killing his mother and 14-year-old brother at their family home in Acton, Massachusetts, with investigators saying he had recently used the internet and the AI chatbot ChatGPT to explore fictional ideas and theories about killing his family.
The United States will withdraw all of its remaining troops from Iraq by September 30, bringing an end to the US-led military mission in the country more than two decades after American forces invaded to topple Saddam Hussein.