Category: World
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Zelenskyy says a Russian drone struck the central building of Ukraine’s Security Service in Kyiv, and that it was aimed at the office of the service’s head. He has ordered a mirrored response. The claim about the target is the part that changes what follows.
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The US president says he does not believe Russia intends to attack NATO territory, and is sending Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow with a proposal to end the war, then to Kyiv. An assessment of intent is the hardest kind of claim to check.
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The General Assembly endorsed map projections that show countries at their true relative sizes, by 164 votes to one. The resolution binds nobody. Here is what the Mercator projection actually does, why it was built that way, and what would have to change for the vote to matter.
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China’s internet regulator says a campaign against AI misuse removed more than 5.61 million pieces of content, acted against 49,000 accounts and dealt with 2,400 sites and apps. Enforcement totals like these are published precisely because they cannot be checked.
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Ten days after the glacier collapse, the toll along the Nepal–China border has passed 1,300 and more than 5,500 people are recorded missing. The second figure has grown faster than the first, and it should not be read as a second death toll.
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Buenos Aires has opened sanction proceedings against 45 people and companies over oil work around the Falkland Islands. The firms involved mostly do not trade in Argentina — which is why the interesting part is the shareholders, directors and suppliers.
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Uruguay declared a nationwide health emergency on Friday after highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza was confirmed in backyard birds in Colonia. One flock triggered a country-wide response — and the reason is in how the virus travels, not in how bad this outbreak is yet.
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Cameroon’s school year starts Monday. The UN counted more than 88 attacks on education in the Anglophone regions in the first half of 2026, and Crisis Group warns August violence could disrupt the reopening. It will be the tenth school year the conflict has taken.
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The US added nearly 5 GW of land-based wind in the second quarter while the pipeline behind it shrank. Those measure different years — and the number worth watching is the one nobody reports.
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The AfD is polling at 41 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt ahead of Sunday’s vote. But the number that decides the seat count is how many small parties clear five per cent — which is why campaigners are urging tactical votes for parties they don’t support.