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Aug 23, 2026 - World

Ukrainian president says some of minister's actions were wrong.

Aug 23, 2026 - World

Iran's president on Sunday defended a memorandum of understanding with the United States as the best way out of a stalled war while the new head of the Islamic Republic's top security body took a more defiant stance, warning of retaliation if neighbors support U.S. threats to further sanction Tehran.

Aug 23, 2026 - World

Indonesian police on Sunday arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the recent forest and peatland fires as huge blazes in central and western parts of the country triggered a harmful cloud known as a choking haze.

Aug 23, 2026 - World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected calls for wartime elections, saying such political contests at a critical moment in his country's war with Russia would "split Ukraine" apart.

Aug 23, 2026 - World

Mark Carney drew international attention as Canada's prime minister by warning that middle powers must resist economic coercion by more powerful countries. Now President Donald Trump is putting that warning to the test with sweeping new tariffs that could show how much economic pain Canada can absorb.