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The magnitude 7.4 that struck Chocó on August 10 has killed at least 265 people, injured more than 3,700 and left over 4,100 reported missing across Cali, Pereira, Quibdó and Manizales. A 32-year-old woman was pulled alive from rubble in Pereira after 36 hours; specialist teams with vibration sensors and sniffer dogs report intermittent signs of others still beneath the concrete. It is also the first real test of a Colombian government only months into office.
An MH-60 put two Hellfire missiles into the engine room of the Panama-flagged M/V Vela Nova roughly 71 nautical miles off Pakistan's coast, knocking out its steering after the crew ignored repeated warnings to turn back. No casualties were reported, and the crew appeared to be transferring to another civilian vessel. It is the third ship disabled since the United States reimposed its naval blockade of Iranian ports on July 14 — a tempo that turns a policy into a pattern.
Mohsen Rezaei, 71, commanded the IRGC from 1981 to 1997 — through most of the Iran-Iraq war — and now becomes secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the body coordinating security and foreign policy. A separate decree also makes him Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's representative on the council, seating him alongside fellow hardliner Saeed Jalili. No reason was given for his predecessor's departure, and Rezaei is a markedly more outspoken figure — all as Tehran says talks with Oman on reopening the Strait of Hormuz are nearing a deal.
The Taneco plant at Nizhnekamsk, in Tatarstan, sits far beyond the range Ukraine could reach for most of this war. Russian officials put the toll at 13 killed and more than 70 injured; those figures have not been independently verified. It is part of a campaign that has now struck every one of Russia's eleven largest refineries at least once, and a Rosneft facility in Saratov halted crude intake after a separate strike the same day.
The offensive follows a week of Houthi ballistic missile and drone attacks that killed 17 soldiers at army camps in Marib and Hadhramaut, and earlier strikes on Marib city that hit residential neighborhoods and camps for displaced families. The UN's warning is blunt: after a years-long lull, Yemen may be sliding back into full-scale civil war.
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Shehbaz Sharif, treats an armed attack on any signatory as an attack on all three. It binds together a leading oil exporter, a NATO member and the only nuclear-armed Muslim state — and the choice of Islam's holiest city as the venue was not incidental.
After several rounds of talks, Iran says it has agreed with Oman on coordinates for new commercial shipping routes through the strait, with a joint statement covering technical, legal, security, and environmental terms now in final drafting. Tehran maintains that actually reopening the waterway depends on the US lifting its naval blockade and halting strikes on Iranian infrastructure.
The outbreak, declared May 15 and linked to the Bundibugyo strain with no approved vaccine or treatment, has grown to roughly 3,800 cases and more than 1,700 deaths — making it the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record. Nearly 80% of new cases now arise from community spread rather than traced contacts, and officials say it's unclear when it will peak.
CENTCOM said the overnight barrage — roughly twice the size of its previous strikes — hit dozens of IRGC sites across southern Iran, from missile and drone facilities to coastal defense positions. Iran retaliated within hours: a strike on a building tied to a Chinese company in Kuwait killed one worker, and Jordan's air defenses intercepted five missiles fired at its territory overnight, the second such barrage in as many nights.
At least 30 are dead and 63 injured after Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 quake in Kumamoto prefecture, with crews racing the window in which survivors are typically found. An explosion collapsed the second floor of an Aeon Mall in Kashima, where six of the 11 people pulled from the rubble died, and a chimney collapse at a Nippon Paper factory in Yatsushiro killed eight more. Dozens remain unaccounted for, nearly 23,000 homes are without power, and more than 10,000 people are sheltering in some 400 government facilities.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's southern island of Kyushu on Tuesday, collapsing part of an Aeon Mall in Kashima Town and leaving 20 to 30 employees missing. A tsunami advisory was issued and quickly lifted; officials reported no damage to major infrastructure or nearby nuclear plants.
The Rowe Creek Complex has grown to nearly 300,000 acres as Oregon's fire season peaks roughly a month early. The National Guard has been activated and I-84 is closed, with about 6,000 people under Level 3 'Go Now' evacuation orders statewide.
The Iran-backed group claimed Saturday's attacks on two Aramco refineries — a day after Saudi Arabia bombarded the port city of Hodeidah — and declared a naval blockade of the kingdom while striking commercial shipping in the Bab Al Mandeb strait. Analysts warn the Houthis believe they are negotiating from strength, making further escalation plausible.
A severe heatwave has fueled major wildfires across southern Europe, killing three firefighters and forcing mass evacuations — more than 10,000 people fled the Gironde region of southwestern France, while a blaze in Spain's Guadalajara province has burned roughly 32,000 hectares north of Madrid. Halfway through summer, 2026 already ranks as the second-worst EU wildfire season in two decades by area burned, per EU satellite data.
President Trump has approved a civil nuclear agreement that could let Riyadh enrich uranium on its own soil — a break from the "gold standard" nonproliferation terms the UAE accepted in 2009. A joint US-Saudi team would first assess whether enrichment is warranted, and the 30-year deal bars Saudi Arabia from developing or buying the technology for a decade, but looser inspection limits and the absence of an IAEA Additional Protocol are drawing scrutiny as it heads to Congress.
The Sunshine Protection Act, backed by President Trump, clears the House with bipartisan support and heads to the Senate, where its path is far less certain.
A heat dome combined with smoke from more than 3,000 Canadian wildfires is pushing air quality alerts across the Midwest and Northeast, with roughly 100 million people affected through Friday.
The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight and into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that threatens to collapse their agreement to end the war.
The woman suspected of carrying out a parcel bombing in Monaco which injured a sanctioned Ukrainian multi-millionaire and his family has been found dead, Ukraine's security service (SBU) has said.