Category: World
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A mudslide killed one person and left eleven missing in Jiangxi this morning — a week after the typhoon that caused the rain made landfall somewhere else. Slopes fail on a delay, which is why the danger outlasts the coverage.
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C$27.6 billion in Canadian retaliatory tariffs start on Monday, on top of 50 per cent American duties. No talks have resumed since 22 August. Retaliation is a tax a country levies on itself — and governments choose it anyway.
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Airstrikes on two FARC-dissident factions, an extradition, talks ended with three groups and a blanket terrorist designation — all in four weeks. ACLED says August was Colombia’s deadliest month for such clashes since 2018.
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Two offensives are under way in South Kivu, days after monitors made their first inspection of the ceasefire there. Taking ground while a framework is being set up is not a contradiction — it is the incentive the framework creates.
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A doctors’ network has counted 158 deaths in South Kordofan. No ceasefire framework being discussed for Sudan acknowledges that this front exists — because the fighting there started twelve years before the current war did.
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Soldiers took officers hostage at the Niamey air base that hosts Turkish drones, Russian Africa Corps personnel and the Alliance of Sahel States headquarters. Russia and Algeria helped put it down. The alliance itself did nothing.
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US Central Command says it struck three Iranian oil tankers on Friday after the Revolutionary Guard fired at two American navy vessels. Tankers are not bases: they carry civilian crews from countries with no part in this.
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Rescuers pulled two people alive from the debris in Nepal today, one of them from a tunnel at a hydropower project buried nine days ago. Why a tunnel is survivable when a collapsed building is not.
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Sixty people were killed in a single day of fighting in south-west Yemen, including six civilians on a bus in Taiz. The offensive is moving toward Bab al-Mandab, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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A Hezbollah drone was launched and shot down, injuring no one. The Israeli strikes that followed killed three people in southern Lebanon and wounded more than twenty. Both sides say they remain committed to the ceasefire.