Category: World
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The Army Secretary resigned after eighteen months, saying the Defense Secretary was blocking modernisation by firing the generals running it. He is the fourth senior Army departure this year, six months into a war.
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The president posted an AI-generated image of Kharg Island being destroyed; the vice president called it a message to Iran. The new AI labelling laws have nothing to say about it — they were built for a different problem.
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Emails show US immigration officials arranged three deportation flights to Iran carrying more than 100 people between September 2025 and January 2026 — a working channel between two governments heading for war.
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Two dead and about fifteen missing after a flash flood through Bright Angel Creek. Sixty were airlifted out. The flood also destroyed the only water pipeline serving the park, where 1,600 people live year-round.
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At least fifteen attacks off Somalia this year, eight in the Gulf of Aden since May. The warships that suppressed piracy went to the Red Sea and Hormuz. Puntland and the federal government now disagree over whether a ransom was paid.
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Targeted killings, PCC–CV clashes and dead farm workers along Bolivia’s border with Brazil. ACLED’s analyst says pressure on gangs inside Brazil may be pushing them across — the same displacement logic as Michoacán.
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A militia ambushed an army convoy escorting thirty buses, two ambulances and three bank vehicles in East Wollega. Sixteen died, including a midwife and a patient. Fano activity in western Oromia is up 80 per cent this year.
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Settlers besieged three homes in Qusra on 9 August. Three weeks on, the Israeli army has installed metal gates at Ras al-Ain — pushing the settlers back 150 metres and replacing them with checkpoints.
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New Mexico’s former House Democratic floor leader was convicted of diverting education funds. It is the latest in a run of cases in one small, unsalaried legislature — and it stopped at the state line.
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Washington stopped inspecting Michoacán avocados in August and Mexico sent 1,557 troops. ACLED’s reading is that guarding one crop moves the extortion rather than ending it — and the state’s own violence data already shows the shift.