Headlines: 10-16 August 2026

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Ukraine, Zelensky: 'Zaporizhzhia attacked with North Korean missiles, 6 dead' (LINK) — 11 August 2026

Death toll rises to 132 in western Colombia afters strongest earthquake in years: tremor was felt strongly in capital (LINK) — 11 August 2026

Indonesia races to contain fires as haze spreads across six priority provinces (ground news LINK) — 11 August 2026

Ousted Syrian President Assad and brother sentenced to death in absentia (ground news LINK) — 11 August 2026

China, Indonesia navies to hold drills in sensitive waters to east of Taiwan this month (ground news LINK) — 11 August 2026

Trump hid in catering truck for secret plane swap after Nato summit in Turkey last month over Iran threat, reports say (LINK) — 11 August 2026

— The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, the Washington Post said. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out. The White House has not confirmed the secret switch.

Monday, 10 August 2026

China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives in eastern China including the financial capital Shanghai: nearly 1,000 flights cancelled in Shanghai (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Ukraine steps up drone attacks inside Russia: drone attack on Nizhnekamsk, an industrial city east of Moscow, killed at least 13 people, including a child, and injured 39 others: hit the Taneko oil refinery (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Trump signs executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Fox News: President Donald Trump notched a legal victory on Monday when a district judge granted his Leave to File First Amended Complaint in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), allowing the president's legal team to amend his complaint against the global broadcaster. (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Venezuela quake death toll rises to 6,301 (ground news LINK) — 10 August 2026

— Tremors measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude struck on June 24, destroying around 190 buildings and leaving 24,000 people homeless in makeshift camps. Estimates regarding missing persons vary significantly: the United Nations initially estimated around 50,000 missing, while independent initiatives documented approximately 40,000, and La Guaira Governor Jose Alejandro Teran reported around 1,400.

IAEA set to remove nuclear material from Syrian site in US-brokered deal (ground news LINK) — 10 August 2026

Car bomb kills eastern Libyan military intelligence chief (ground news LINK) — 10 August 2026

— His Libyan National Army, commanded by Khalifa Haftar, controls significant portions of eastern and southern Libya and aligns with authorities in Benghazi, while the Government of National Unity controls Tripoli. Separately, Central Bank Governor Naji Issa submitted his resignation to rival legislative chambers, citing sensitive reasons in documents confirmed Monday. Libya remains divided between rival eastern and western factions since 2014, despite a 2020 ceasefire that halted major warfare.

UK probes major Muslim charity, the Al-Khair Foundation, over alleged Hamas funding during Gaza War (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Three-quarters of England in drought as summer's fifth heatwave looms: 27 million people under restrictions on water use (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Fire bans tighten across Switzerland in new heat wave: Geneva, Basel regions impose strict fire restrictions as MeteoSwiss warns temperatures could reach 36C (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Nearly 70 percent of France under water restrictions amid record heat (LINK) — 10 August 2026

The U.S. just had its hottest month in 132 years of records (LINK) — 10 August 2026

North Korean hackers build AI tools for cyberattacks: report (LINK limited) — 10 August 2026

DRC's Ebola outbreak began months before it was officially declared, says WHO: earlier cases were wrongly attributed to malaria and typhoid (LINK) — 10 August 2026

Russia's top court bars anti-war Yabloko party from parliamentary vote (LINK) — 10 August 2026

— The court ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed by the small pro-Kremlin nationalist party Rodina, which sought Yabloko's exclusion from the election. Rodina alleged that Yabloko had received undeclared campaign support, including from Western sources, among other accusations.

South Australia is home to the only mass cuttlefish gathering in the world. This year these giants didn't return: but the cuttlefish life cycle lasts only a year (LINK) — 10 August 2026

— Crucially, after mating, all adult cuttlefish die, meaning the next generation is dependent on the mating success of the previous year