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- [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.
- [Meta Child Safety Ruling Orders a Stunning $567 Million](https://newscour.com/tech/meta-child-safety-ruling/): A landmark Meta child safety ruling has landed one of the heaviest legal blows yet against a social media giant. A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a fund to address harms to young users, on top of penalties already imposed.
- [Memory Chip Investment of $38 Billion Signals an AI Boom](https://newscour.com/tech/memory-chip-investment/): The artificial intelligence boom just triggered one of the year's biggest bets on hardware. A memory chip investment worth $38 billion has been approved by SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory maker, to build two new factories in South Korea.
- [Total Solar Eclipse Will Stun Europe on August 12](https://newscour.com/knowledge/total-solar-eclipse-2026/): For the first time in more than two decades, a total solar eclipse is about to darken the skies over mainland Europe. On August 12, 2026, the moon's shadow will race across Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, turning day briefly into an eerie twilight.
- [mRNA Flu Vaccine Wins a Landmark First FDA Approval](https://newscour.com/health/mrna-flu-vaccine/): The technology that reshaped the COVID era is coming for the flu. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, Moderna's mFlusiva, clearing it for adults 50 and older ahead of the 2026-2027 season.
- [Thailand School Shooting Near Bangkok Leaves 5 Dead](https://newscour.com/world/thailand-school-shooting/): A Thailand school shooting near Bangkok has left five people dead in the country's worst mass killing since 2022. On Friday morning, a 14-year-old student opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Bang Kruai district, north of the capital, before taking his own life.
- [Germany Hybrid Warfare Threat: Inside the New Alarm](https://newscour.com/world/germany-hybrid-warfare-threat/): Germany's hybrid warfare threat is no longer a background worry for Berlin — it's now being described by the government itself as a daily reality.
- [UK Solar Eclipse 2026: Best Times and Viewing Spots](https://newscour.com/world/uk-solar-eclipse-2026-spots/): The UK solar eclipse 2026 arrives on Wednesday, 12 August, and for the first time in nearly three decades, the country will see its evening sky dim noticeably as the moon slides across the sun. It won't bring total darkness, but astronomers are calling it the deepest partial eclipse Britain has witnessed since 1999.
- [Spain Deploys 275 Firefighters in Andalusia Forest Blaze](https://newscour.com/world/spain-andalusia-forest-blaze-firefighters/): Spain deployed 275 firefighters to tackle a fast-spreading Andalusia forest blaze on Saturday, as shifting winds turned a routine summer callout into one of the toughest fire fights the region has seen in weeks. The flames, burning north of the town of Niebla in Huelva province, had already scorched around 4,000 hectares by the time crews caught a brief break in conditions.
- [Democrats Trump Investigations Plan Over Impeachment](https://newscour.com/world/democrats-trump-investigations-plan/): Democrats Trump investigations are moving from talk to paperwork. Senior House Democrats and committee aides are quietly building a wide-ranging inquiry into companies and financial firms connected to President Donald Trump, according to four people familiar with the discussions — and impeachment is not the opening move.
- [India Panel Warns Meta Over Modi Video Removal](https://newscour.com/world/meta-modi-video-removal/): A three-day countdown is now running against one of the world's most powerful tech executives. The Meta Modi video removal controversy has escalated from a routine content-moderation complaint into a direct threat against the company's legal protections in its largest market. An Indian parliamentary panel wants an apology from Mark Zuckerberg himself — and it isn't bluffing about the consequences.
- [Europe Heat Wave Uncovers Grim WWII Wrecks in the Danube](https://newscour.com/world/europe-heat-wave-danube-wrecks/): Europe's punishing summer is dredging up the past. As a record Europe heat wave bakes the continent, the Danube has fallen to some of its lowest levels in a century, and the retreating water has exposed the rusting hulks of dozens of World War II German warships near the Serbian port of Prahovo.
- [Russian Drone in Moldova Sparks a Chilling Border Alarm](https://newscour.com/world/russian-drone-in-moldova/): The war in Ukraine keeps refusing to stay inside Ukraine. On Wednesday, a Russian drone in Moldova became the latest sign that the fighting is spilling across borders, when police recovered the wreckage of a Geran-2 attack drone near a village in the country's south.
- [Strait of Hormuz Deal Nears in a Fragile Breakthrough](https://newscour.com/world/strait-of-hormuz-deal/): A Strait of Hormuz deal is closer than at any point since the war began, with Iran and Oman working on a plan that could reopen the world's most important oil chokepoint. Regional officials said Tuesday the two sides had made real progress, raising hopes that the fighting could finally wind down.
- [Black Sea Ship Attack Sinks a Russian Cargo Vessel](https://newscour.com/world/black-sea-ship-attack/): A Black Sea ship attack has sent a Russian-owned cargo vessel to the bottom, in one of the boldest maritime strikes of the war so far. Ukrainian naval drones sank the container ship Yanina early on Saturday, forcing its 17-member crew to abandon the vessel as it went down.
- [Michigan Primary Israel Fight Tests Democratic Party](https://newscour.com/world/michigan-primary-israel-test/): The Michigan primary Israel debate has turned a routine Senate nomination contest into the most closely watched Democratic primary of 2026. Voters across the state headed to the polls on Tuesday to choose a nominee in a race that has become a proxy battle over U.S. support for Israel's war in Gaza.
- [Turkish Ministry Denounces Attacks on Two Ships in Black Sea](https://newscour.com/world/turkish-ministry-black-sea-attacks/): Turkish ministry denounces attacks on two ships in Black Sea, marking the latest flashpoint in a conflict that keeps spilling into civilian waters. The strike, confirmed Tuesday, left several crew members wounded and reignited warnings from Ankara that have so far gone unheeded.
- [UN Experts Urge Canada To Protect Threatened Sikh Activist](https://newscour.com/world/un-experts-canada-sikh-activist/): Five UN experts urge Canada to protect Sikh activist Moninder Singh after Canadian authorities warned him four separate times that his life was in danger. The warnings, spanning nearly four years, have drawn fresh international scrutiny to Canada's handling of alleged foreign-directed violence on its own soil.
- [Greece Wildfire Helicopter Crash Kills 2 in a Grim Blow](https://newscour.com/world/greece-wildfire-helicopter/): A Greece wildfire helicopter collision has killed two crew members at the most dangerous front of Europe's summer fire emergency. The two aircraft crashed into each other in midair on Sunday while battling a fast-moving blaze west of Athens.
- [Idaho In-N-Out Shooting Kills 3 in a Terrifying Attack](https://newscour.com/world/idaho-in-n-out-shooting/): The Idaho In-N-Out shooting turned an ordinary Saturday lunch into one of the deadliest attacks the state has seen in years. A gunman opened fire outside a newly opened restaurant in Twin Falls, and by the time it was over, three people were dead and seven were wounded.
- [House of the Dragon Season 3 Finale: What to Know](https://newscour.com/lifestyle/house-of-the-dragon-season-3-finale/): House of the Dragon Season 3 finale is barreling toward what may be the most consequential hour of television HBO has produced since the original Game of Thrones ended.
- [Trump’s Iran War: On-Again, Off-Again, in His Words](https://newscour.com/world/trumps-iran-war-on-again-off-again-in-his-words/): The Trump Iran war has followed a strange rhythm for five months now obliteration threats one week, praise for Tehran's "very smart" leaders the next, then strikes again days later. Nowhere is that whiplash clearer than in the president's own statements.
- [US Measles Outbreak 2026 Hits Alarming 35 Year High](https://newscour.com/health/us-measles-outbreak-2026/): The US measles outbreak 2026 has now topped 2,371 confirmed cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number already exceeds the entire 2025 total.
- [Zelenskyy Burnham Meeting Delivers Stunning Drone Tech Pledge](https://newscour.com/world/zelenskyy-burnham-meeting/): The Zelenskyy Burnham meeting took place Monday aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth Naval Base, making Ukraine's president the first foreign leader received by Andy Burnham since he took office. The two announced that Britain will give Ukraine the intellectual property behind a new electronic warfare system called Stone Cloak, intended to protect Ukrainian drones from Russian jamming, alongside talks on joint drone production and Ukraine's request for more ballistic missile interceptors.
- [Iran War Funding Fight Splits Congress as It Also Votes to End the War](https://newscour.com/world/iran-war-funding/): The Iran war funding fight became impossible to ignore this week, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators the conflict has cost $37.5 billion so far, House Republicans muscled through a $95 billion budget package to keep it running, and then, two days later, the House voted 214 to 208 to direct the president to pull US forces out of the fighting. Four Republicans crossed over to join every Democrat on that vote. It was the second time this year the House has taken that step, and it changed nothing about the war on the ground.
- [August 12 Skywatching Brings a Stunning Four Event Night](https://newscour.com/knowledge/knowledge-august-12-skywatching/): Mark your calendar for Wednesday. Astronomers say a night this good for August 12 skywatching may not happen again for years.
- [Glen Hansard Death Leaves Dublin Mourning a Musical Giant](https://newscour.com/world/glen-hansard-death/): The Glen Hansard death, confirmed by his management early Wednesday, has stunned Ireland and the wider music world. The 56-year-old Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash near Strawberry Beds in the Chapelizod area of Dublin, just before 4:30 a.m. He is survived by his wife and their three-year-old son. Irish police, who have not officially named him, said a man in his 50s was treated at the scene but pronounced dead shortly after.
- [Ceuta Border Crisis Death Toll Hits 67 as Europe Divides](https://newscour.com/world/ceuta-border-crisis/): The Ceuta border crisis has killed at least 67 people, Spain's government confirmed Saturday, after 50,000 to 60,000 migrants breached the frontier separating Morocco from Ceuta, Spain's tiny North African territory, on Thursday. The dead include people who drowned attempting a sea crossing and others killed in a stampede at a breakwater barrier.
- [Russia Intercepted 635 Ukrainian Drones Overnight](https://newscour.com/world/russia-intercepted-635-ukrainian-drones-overnight/): Russia intercepted 635 Ukrainian drones overnight, its defense ministry announced Sunday, marking one of the heaviest single-night barrages in a war that keeps finding new ways to escalate. The strikes stretched across more than a dozen regions, and one of them turned deadly.
- [Deep Sea Gold Kitchen Reveals How Earth Forges Its Treasure](https://newscour.com/knowledge/deep-sea-gold-kitchen/): Researchers analyzing volcanic glass from submarine volcanoes along the Kermadec island arc, north of New Zealand, say they have identified what they are calling a deep sea gold kitchen, a natural process by which water rich in dissolved metals becomes concentrated with gold deep beneath the seafloor before it ever reaches the surface. The team's analysis suggests these underwater systems may be quietly manufacturing precious metal deposits on a timescale, and by a mechanism scientists are only now beginning to map in detail.
- [Salmonella Egg Recall Hits 19 Million Eggs Across 17 States](https://newscour.com/world/salmonella-egg-recall/): This Salmonella egg recall covers 1,589,577 dozen eggs, more than 19 million individual eggs, produced and distributed by Midwest Poultry Services from farms in Texas. The Food and Drug Administration says the recalled eggs are the likely source of an outbreak that has sickened 98 people across 17 states, hospitalizing 26 of them, though no deaths have been reported. The affected cartons were sold under the Kroger, Simple Truth, and Brookshire's brand names.
- [Sinaloa Cartel El 20 Arrest Ends Years on the Run in Mazatlan](https://newscour.com/world/sinaloa-cartel-el-20-arrest/): The Sinaloa cartel El 20 arrest took place Tuesday in Villa Union, a town in the Mazatlan municipality of Sinaloa state, when a coordinated operation by Mexico's Army, Navy, National Guard and federal prosecutors captured Adrian N, alias El 20, identified by the Secretariat of National Defense as a regional operator for the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. He is accused of controlling six municipalities in the south of the state and of involvement in a 2016 ambush that killed five Mexican soldiers.

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