Category: World
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A former senior executive of the Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged over payments to informants inside extremist groups — the first individual charged in a case the organisation says is politically motivated. Nothing has yet been tested in court.
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Trump announced on 12 August that Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, will leave at the end of the month. No successor has been named, with under three months to the midterms.
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A ballistic missile launched from the Wonsan area on 12 August was the second from the same location in under a week, and came ahead of joint military drills that Pyongyang has denounced for decades.
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A cargo of 42,000 tonnes of gasoline from an Indian refinery part-owned by Rosneft reached a Russian port on 5 August, routed through a ship-to-ship transfer off Egypt. It is the clearest sign yet of how far Ukrainian strikes have cut into Russian refining.
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Zawiya, home to Libya’s largest operating refinery, an export terminal and a power plant, has been hit repeatedly since 9 August. Engineers have been withdrawn twice, and the national oil company has warned it may declare force majeure.
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Speaking aboard a warship during Pacific Fleet exercises, Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond in kind if European states begin confiscating Russian vessels and selling their cargo — and that the response would not be limited to the waters where seizures happen.
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Former Ukrainian prisoners have described torture in Russian detention. Why survivor testimony is gathered, why prosecutions take decades, and what documentation achieves anyway.
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A pattern runs through several Gulf royal cases: confinement in a home rather than a prison, doctors employed by the household, and a psychiatric label attached to the woman who objects. An explainer on why that pattern is so difficult for courts, police and the UN to touch.
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Eighteen years before her sister’s escape by sea, Sheikha Shamsa ran from her family’s Surrey estate and spent weeks living quietly in England. She was found in Cambridge in August 2000. A British court later found she was abducted. She has not been seen in public since.
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Yesterday’s eclipse crossed Greenland, Iceland, Portugal and Spain. Baily’s beads, the diamond ring and totality — what each stage was, and what to do if your eyes hurt today.