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- [Trump floats ‘Trump Strait’ name for contested Hormuz waterway](https://newscour.com/world/trump-strait-hormuz-name/): Trump Strait is now the name President Donald Trump wants attached to one of the world's most fought-over waterways. He floated the idea on Truth Social this week, tying it directly to his claim that the United States has taken control of the passage from Iran.
- [Bessent says U.S. likely to announce Iran bank sanctions this week](https://newscour.com/world/bessent-iran-bank-sanctions/): Bessent Iran bank sanctions are set to hit within days, according to the U.S. Treasury Secretary himself — and he's already promising more after that.
- [Twice-Yearly HIV Shot Marks a Turning Point in Prevention](https://newscour.com/health/mrna-flu-vaccine-2/): That burden may be ending. A twice-yearly HIV shot called lenacapavir has moved from clinical trials to real-world approval, offering protection from just two injections a year. It is one of the most significant shifts in prevention since the first pills arrived.
- [Fibermaxxing Is the Quiet Nutrient Trend Beating Protein in 2026](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/fibermaxxing-gut-health-trend/): The trend is called fibermaxxing, and it describes a simple shift: people deliberately loading their plates with more dietary fiber to feed the gut. What started as a social media hashtag has grown into one of the year's defining wellness ideas, backed by a genuine gap in how most of us eat.
- [Germany’s Merz warns far-right govt would ‘harm’ eastern region](https://newscour.com/world/merz-warns-far-right-eastern-region/): Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned far-right govt control of eastern Germany's Saxony-Anhalt would leave lasting economic scars, days before voters there could hand the Alternative for Germany its first-ever state government.
- [Nepal Floods Kill Hundreds as a Glacier Falls From the Sky](https://newscour.com/world/nepal-floods-glacier-collapse/): The Nepal floods of 26 August have become one of the deadliest disasters the region has seen in years, with more than 675 confirmed dead in the country, several more across the border in Tibet, and thousands still missing. Many of the missing are foreign pilgrims and trekkers, including around 90 Americans, drawn to the sacred routes toward Mount Kailash in Tibet.
- [PIMS Fire That Killed 14 Newborns Was a Disaster Foretold](https://newscour.com/world/pims-fire-14-newborns-inquiry/): At about 6:45 on the morning of 26 August, a fire tore through the neonatal nursery on the third floor of the Mother and Child Health ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. The PIMS fire has since become a national accountability crisis, drawing a government inquiry, eight suspensions, and criminal proceedings ordered within days of the deaths.
- [Krystle D’Souza gets big compliment from Karan Johar as her game in The Traitors wins him over](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/krystle-dsouza-karan-johar-compliment/): Krystle D'Souza has spent weeks avoiding the spotlight on India's biggest reality gamble, and it's paying off. Host Karan Johar has now singled her out for one of the season's most pointed compliments, telling her directly that she has played a very, very smart game.
- [Partial Lunar eclipse transforms the Moon into a “blood red” celestial display 2026](https://newscour.com/world/blood-red-moon-eclipse/): A blood red moon hung over four continents this week, and it wasn't even a total eclipse.
- [FDA Clears the First Robot to Draw Your Blood](https://newscour.com/health/robotic-blood-draw-device/): The robotic blood draw device, called Aletta, became the first standalone system authorized to draw blood from a patient's arm without hands-on operator intervention when the FDA gave it the green light on August 19. The robotic blood draw device is a small milestone with large implications for how routine care gets delivered.
- [Fed Rate Hike Goes From Unthinkable to Likely](https://newscour.com/world/us-strikes-on-iran/): For most of 2026, the debate was how many times the Federal Reserve would cut. Now the question has flipped, and a Fed rate hike is suddenly the live scenario nobody priced in at the start of the year.
- [Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnian genocide, dies](https://newscour.com/world/ratko-mladic-dies-84/): Ratko Mladic dies at 84, closing one of the darkest chapters of European history. The former Bosnian Serb military commander died in a prison hospital in The Hague on August 27, according to Serbian state broadcaster RTS, ending decades of legal pursuit, denial, and unresolved grief across the Balkans.
- [NFL CTE Study Finds Brain Disease in at Least 1 in 4 Players Who Died](https://newscour.com/sports/nfl-cte-study/): The NFL CTE study, published Tuesday in the medical journal The BMJ, found that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts. Researchers called it the largest ever effort to estimate the disease's prevalence among deceased professional players, and they were blunt that the true figure is almost certainly higher.
- [The Wellness Kitchen Is 2026’s Biggest Home Trend: It Starts With Your Layout](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/wellness-kitchen/): The wellness kitchen is the year's fastest rising home design idea, and it is less about buying gadgets than about shaping a space so healthy choices get easier and unhealthy defaults get harder. The National Kitchen and Bath Association named healthier, wellness-focused spaces one of its defining themes for the year, and the shift is showing up in real remodels, not just mood boards.
- [Pacific Typhoons Churn as China Braces for Heavy Rain](https://newscour.com/world/pacific-typhoons/): Multiple Pacific typhoons are churning over the western Pacific and the South China Sea at the same time, prompting China to brace for heavy rain and severe weather. Authorities have activated an emergency response for several southern regions as the storms approach.
- [Russian Strikes on Ukraine Kill at Least 18 in Kyiv Barrage](https://newscour.com/world/russian-strikes-on-ukraine/): Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least 18 people in one of the heaviest barrages on the capital in months, officials said, as rescuers dug through the wreckage of homes across Kyiv. The overnight assault damaged residential buildings, a children's hospital and a school, and left about 40 people wounded.
- [Israeli Airstrikes Kill Two in Gaza, 4-Year-Old Boy Dead](https://newscour.com/world/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-four-year-old/): Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill two people, including a 4-year-old boy, medics say, in an attack that tore through a residential building in central Gaza on Sunday and reignited questions about whether the territory's fragile truce still means anything on the ground.
- [Bangladesh President Election Ends 35 Years Without a Contest](https://newscour.com/world/bangladesh-president-election/): The Bangladesh president election caps a period of dramatic political change in the South Asian nation. Here is who won, why the contest mattered, and the turbulent backdrop against which it unfolded.
- [Alibaba launches $10 billion Hong Kong share placement to fund AI spending](https://newscour.com/markets/alibaba-hong-kong-ai-placement/): Alibaba's $10 billion Hong Kong share placement landed on markets Sunday like a thunderclap, and it tells you everything about how expensive the AI race has become. The Chinese tech giant isn't raising cash to survive. It's raising cash to keep up.
- [Iran Economic Pressure Plan Replaces Combat Says Bessent](https://newscour.com/world/iran-economic-pressure/): The United States is betting on Iran economic pressure rather than renewed fighting to force change in Tehran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said. He told CNBC that a maximum-pressure campaign would likely make a return to large-scale combat unnecessary.
- [Hind Rajab Investigation Opened by Israel in a First](https://newscour.com/world/hind-rajab-investigation/): Israel's military has opened a Hind Rajab investigation into the killing of the young Palestinian girl in Gaza, its first criminal probe into troop conduct during the war. For the first time, the military acknowledged that its forces fired on the car she was in.
- [Sword Attack at Swedish High School Injures Several](https://newscour.com/world/sword-attack-swedish-high-school/): A quiet industrial town northwest of Stockholm became the site of Sweden's latest school tragedy on Friday. A sword attack at a Swedish high school in Fagersta left one person dead and at least three others wounded, just as students were settling back into classes after summer break.
- [Harvard Study Links Airline Crew Cancer Risk to Radiation](https://newscour.com/world/harvard-study-flight-crew-cancer/): A Harvard study links higher cancer risk to airline flight crews due to cosmic radiation exposure, and the numbers are hard to ignore. Pilots and flight attendants now top a list of over 500 US occupations for radiation-related cancer deaths.
- [US National Debt Tops $40 Trillion for the First Time](https://newscour.com/markets/us-national-debt/): The US national debt has surged past $40 trillion for the first time, a milestone reached months earlier than forecasters expected. The Treasury Department reported that total public debt stood at $40.05 trillion, a figure that has renewed warnings about the country's fiscal path.
- [British Columbia Wildfire Forces Thousands From Their Homes](https://newscour.com/world/british-columbia-wildfire/): A fast-moving British Columbia wildfire has upended life in Canada's Okanagan Valley, forcing some 20,000 people from their homes and destroying about 150 structures. The Bald Range fire near the community of Summerland grew so quickly that the province declared a state of emergency.
- [Hind Rajab Criminal Probe: Family Calls It a ‘Sham’](https://newscour.com/world/hind-rajab-israel-criminal-probe/): Hind Rajab Criminal Probe Family Says Israel Is Trying to 'Justify' a Killing, Not Investigate It More than two years of denial ended in a single statement. And the family of a five-year-old girl says it changed nothing.
- [Lindsay Clancy Trial: Experts Testify on Hallucinations](https://newscour.com/world/lindsay-clancy-trial-hallucinations/): A jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, has spent more than two weeks hearing dueling medical theories about what was happening inside Lindsay Clancy's mind the day she killed her three children. The Lindsay Clancy trial: experts testify on hallucinations and postpartum psychosis has now become one of the most closely watched criminal cases in the country, not because anyone disputes what happened, but because of the question no one can answer with certainty: was she sick, or was she culpable?
- [South Korea Military Exercises Cut by Trump in a Shock Move](https://newscour.com/world/south-korea-military-exercises/): President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to substantially reduce its joint South Korea military exercises, an abrupt move that has unsettled a decades-old alliance. The surprise announcement, made in a social media post, left many South Koreans baffled and concerned.
- [Syria accuses Israel of striking military airfield](https://newscour.com/world/syria-accuses-israel-airfield-strike/): Syria accuses Israel of striking a military airfield in Idlib province, reviving fears of a fresh escalation just as Damascus tries to rebuild its shattered air defenses. The predawn attack on Tuesday hit a facility that had sat dormant for over a decade — until Turkey started taking interest in it.
- [Dodo Bird Was Far Smarter Than Its Silly Reputation](https://newscour.com/knowledge/dodo-bird-study/): For centuries, the dodo bird has been a punchline, its very name a synonym for stupidity. But new research suggests we owe the extinct bird an apology, revealing a creature with a keen sense of smell, owl-like vision and a perfectly normal brain.
- [Dormant Viruses Can Reawaken After Severe COVID Cases](https://newscour.com/health/health-mrna-flu-vaccine/): A severe bout of COVID-19 can do more than make you sick in the moment. It can also stir dormant viruses that have been quietly living in the body for years, according to a large new study published in the journal Nature.
- [Indiana Floods Kill at Least 7 in Record Rainfall](https://newscour.com/world/world-indiana-floods/): Historic Indiana floods have killed at least seven people after days of relentless rain overwhelmed rivers and neighborhoods across the state. Some areas received more than 11 inches of rainfall over three days beginning August 11, sending the White River in Indianapolis to record levels.
- [Twelve Killed and At Least 10 Injured in Polish Bus Crash in Hungary](https://newscour.com/world/polish-bus-crash-hungary/): A Polish bus crash in Hungary has left twelve people dead and at least ten others seriously injured after a coach carrying pilgrims overturned on a motorway before dawn. The vehicle, registered in Poland and carrying 57 passengers plus two drivers, veered into a ditch on the M3 motorway near Mezőkeresztes, roughly 140 kilometers east of Budapest, at around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday.
- [Strait of Hormuz Attack Hits Tankers as Oil Fears Rise](https://newscour.com/world/strait-of-hormuz-attack/): A fresh Strait of Hormuz attack has struck two oil tankers in the world's most important energy chokepoint, adding to fears over already dwindling global oil supplies. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said two of its vessels were hit while transiting the strait on Thursday evening.
- [Gaza Peace Plan Rejected by Netanyahu in a Rare Rift](https://newscour.com/world/gaza-peace-plan-rejected/): A US-backed Gaza peace plan has hit a wall, exposing a rare public rift between two close allies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country rejects the 15-point document set out by President Donald Trump, insisting Israeli forces will not withdraw until Hamas is fully disarmed.
- [Colombia Earthquake Kills at Least 265 in the West](https://newscour.com/world/colombia-earthquake/): A powerful Colombia earthquake has killed at least 265 people and injured hundreds more after striking the country's west on Monday. The magnitude 7.4 quake was the strongest to hit the country this century, according to the Colombian Geological Service.
- [US Veteran Released by Russia After 4 Years Detained](https://newscour.com/world/us-veteran-released-russia/): A US veteran has been released by Russia and has arrived back in the United States after more than four years in detention. Robert Gilman, a 32-year-old former Marine, was freed on Tuesday on what officials described as humanitarian grounds.
- [US Naval Blockade on Iranian Ports Could Last Indefinitely](https://newscour.com/world/us-naval-blockade-iran-ports/): The US naval blockade on Iranian ports isn't going anywhere soon — and the Pentagon just said so out loud. Standing aboard a warship in Panama, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters the United States has the ships, the manpower, and the will to keep the blockade running for as long as it takes.
- [Ted Lasso Season 4 Breaks Apple TV Streaming Record](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/ted-lasso-season-4-record/): Ted Lasso season 4 breaks Apple TV streaming record with a premiere that even Apple didn't see coming this big. Three years after the show seemed to close its final chapter, Jason Sudeikis walked back onto the pitch — and viewers showed up in numbers the platform had never recorded before.
- [Afghanistan Bomb Attack Kills Mayor of Faizabad City](https://newscour.com/world/afghanistan-bomb-attack-kills-mayor/): An Afghanistan bomb attack kills mayor Habib-ur-Rahman Mansour, officials confirmed Thursday, marking the second assassination of a senior Badakhshan official in under a month. The blast tore through his vehicle in the provincial capital of Faizabad, according to hospital and municipality sources who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, citing security concerns.
- [Childhood Vaccine Order Sparks a Fierce Medical Backlash](https://newscour.com/health/childhood-vaccine-order/): President Donald Trump has signed a childhood vaccine order that would reshape decades of federal guidance on how American children are immunized. The executive order, signed Monday with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his side, calls for fewer routine shots and a more spread-out schedule.
- [NBA Christmas Day Schedule Delivers 5 Blockbuster Games](https://newscour.com/sports/nba-christmas-day-schedule/): Basketball's biggest regular-season showcase has its lineup. The NBA Christmas Day schedule for 2026 was revealed on Tuesday, and the league has loaded December 25 with five games stacked with stars, rivalries and storylines.
- [Assad Sentenced to Death in Absentia by Syrian Court](https://newscour.com/world/assad-sentenced-death-absentia/): Assad sentenced to death in absentia. Those five words, read aloud inside a Damascus courtroom on Tuesday, closed a chapter Syrians spent fourteen years waiting to see written.
- [Ukraine Drone Attack Kills 13 Deep Inside Russia](https://newscour.com/world/ukraine-drone-attack-nizhnekamsk/): A Ukraine drone attack has struck one of Russia's largest oil refineries deep in the republic of Tatarstan, killing at least 13 people, including a child, and wounding 75 others. The strike on the city of Nizhnekamsk on Monday was among the deadliest inside Russia in the four-year war.
- [Pluto’s Atmosphere Is Slowly Freezing Out of the Sky](https://newscour.com/knowledge/plutos-atmosphere/): On the frozen edge of our solar system, a whole atmosphere is quietly disappearing. Pluto's atmosphere, a thin veil of mostly nitrogen, is expected to grow steadily thinner over the coming decades and eventually freeze solid onto the surface.
- [Iranians ‘Professional Chess Players,’ Says Ministry](https://newscour.com/world/iranians-professional-chess-players/): Tehran picked up on a metaphor Donald Trump didn't expect to see turned back on him. Iranians, the foreign ministry says, are "professional chess players" — and the line landed just as Washington and Tehran circle each other over the fate of one of the world's busiest oil corridors.
- [Indian Students Step Up Exam Protests in Jharkhand](https://newscour.com/world/jharkhand-students-exam-protests/): Indian students step up exam protests in Jharkhand this week, marching by the thousands toward the state legislative assembly in Ranchi after weeks of failed negotiations with the government. What began as a localized sit-in has grown into one of the year's most sustained youth-led movements in eastern India — and it's forcing officials to answer uncomfortable questions about who controls access to government jobs.
- [Malaysia PM Anwar Ibrahim Undergoing Medical Procedures](https://newscour.com/world/anwar-ibrahim-medical-procedures-update/): Anwar Ibrahim medical procedures news broke Monday, catching much of Kuala Lumpur off guard. Malaysia's 79-year-old prime minister is currently being examined and treated by a team of specialists, according to his own office.
- [Netanyahu Rules Out Gaza Withdrawal Before Hamas Disarms](https://newscour.com/world/netanyahu-gaza-withdrawal-hamas-disarms/): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any Gaza withdrawal before Hamas disarms, publicly rejecting the US-backed peace framework his own government had appeared to accept weeks earlier. The reversal, delivered at a cabinet meeting, throws a carefully built diplomatic process into open doubt.
- [Moneymaxxing Is the Money Trend Quietly Winning 2026](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/newscour-com-lifestyle-moneymaxxing-finance-trend/): The internet's obsession with optimizing everything has finally reached your bank account. Moneymaxxing, the latest entry in the sprawling maxxing trend, applies the same relentless self-improvement energy to personal finance, and experts say it might be the most useful version yet.

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