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BANGKOK, 6 September, 2026(Kamran Raja): The United States aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln departed Thailand on Sunday after a five-day port visit, bringing to an end a brief respite during an extended deployment that included military operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy said. “We would like to thank the people of Thailand for their incredible hospitality,” U.S. Navy Captain Dan Keeler, commanding officer of the Abraham Lincoln, said in a statement. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which carries around 5,000 personnel, arrived in Thailand early Wednesday along with other U.S. naval vessels. The visit took place in Pattaya, a resort city located around 150 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. Naval deployments generally last between six and nine months, but they can be extend...

SANAA, 5 September, 2026 (Nosheen) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a major offensive against government forces, triggering some of the country’s deadliest clashes in years and leaving nearly 130 people dead. The fighting erupted on Thursday after the Houthis launched ground assaults alongside rocket and drone attacks near coastal areas in an effort to strengthen their control over the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. According to military and medical sources, the death toll rose to 129, including 66 government-affiliated fighters and at least 62 Houthi militants. The Houthis have seized elevated positions overlooking government-held areas near the Red Sea and Taiz, raising concerns that they could use the strategic locations to target shipping. The offensive also aims to cut off the govern...

 JAKARTA, 5 September, 2026 (Ghufraan) – Indonesian authorities on Saturday launched a water bombing operation to contain wildfires spreading near Nusantara, the country’s future capital city on the island of Borneo, an official said. The operation was initiated after fires intensified in buffer areas surrounding Nusantara since mid-August. Authorities are using aerial water bombing to support firefighters battling the blazes on the ground and to prevent the fires from spreading toward the city’s main development area.Nusantara Authority Environment and Natural Resources Deputy Myrna Asnawati Safitri said the aerial operation serves not only to extinguish active fires but also to accelerate the cooling of areas already treated by ground firefighting teams. “The function of water b...

WASHINGTON, 5 September, 2026 (Kamran Raja): The US State Department has approved a series of potential arms sales worth approximately $6.1 billion to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Iraq, including precision-guidance kits, tank engines, fighter jet support and helicopters. The largest proposed deal would see Saudi Arabia acquire more than 10,000 extended-range Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits and related equipment in a package valued at around $5 billion. The deal also includes a similar number of unguided bombs, divided roughly equally between 500-pound and 2,000-pound munitions. The JDAM kits, supplied by Boeing, can convert conventional bombs into precision-guided weapons. The proposed sale comes as Saudi Arabia seeks to replenish its stocks of precision-guided munitions following heavy...

 NEPAL, 05 September, 2026 (Nosheen): Rescue teams in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive from a tunnel buried under debris on Saturday, 10 days after catastrophic flooding swept through the region and left thousands missing. A joint rescue team comprising Nepal Army personnel and foreign experts rescued the man from around 225 metres inside a tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project in Rasuwa district, according to a military statement. The survivor, identified as Luhaitao, was found alive with his body covered in thick mud. Rescue officials said his health was being assessed while search and rescue operations continued at the site.He was among hundreds of hydropower workers who went missing after a tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept across the China-Nepal border...

 MOSCOW, 5 September, 2026 (Ghufran): US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday to discuss a proposed plan aimed at ending more than four years of war between Russia and Ukraine. The two envoys, sent by US President Donald Trump, are expected to hold talks in Moscow before travelling to Kyiv as part of Washington’s latest diplomatic effort to break the deadlock in peace negotiations over Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of attempting to disrupt the visit by carrying out overnight strikes on Kyiv’s two airports and a civilian target in the Dnipro region. According to Ukrainian officials, the attack on the civilian target killed five people. Zelensky said the strikes appeared to be lin...

  SANAA, 5 September, 2026(Kamran Raja): Fresh fighting between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi rebels has killed more than 60 people, including civilians, according to Yemeni military and medical sources. Three Yemeni military sources said that 26 government troops were killed during several hours of clashes in southwestern Yemen. Houthi medical and military sources reported that 31 rebel fighters were also killed. A medical source in the government-held city of Taiz said a missile strike killed six civilians travelling on a bus and wounded seven others. A government official blamed the attack on the Houthis.The latest fighting erupted over control of strategic areas providing access to the Red Sea and came after some of the deadliest clashes in years on Friday. Th...

 GENEVA, 03 September, 2026 (Ghufran): The United Nations’ weather agency has warned that El Nino could intensify into one of the strongest events ever recorded, with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cautioning that the world is entering a “danger zone of extreme weather.” The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said El Nino is expected to become “very strong” in the coming months and is almost certain to continue through February. The natural climate phenomenon warms surface waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, affecting global wind, pressure and rainfall patterns. WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said the phenomenon could become stronger than anything observed since monitoring began four decades ago if the current trend continues.According to t...

GREENBELT, 03 September, 2026 (Kamran Raja): A US federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship. US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction after immigrant rights advocates challenged the order, which was signed by President Donald Trump on August 6 following the Supreme Court’s rejection of his earlier attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. The latest order targeted so-called “birth tourism” and proposed denying citizenship to certain children born in the United States under specific circumstances. Judge Boardman said the new order was almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the certified class, noting that the Supreme Court had already ruled that children covered by the...

 WASHINGTON, 03 September, 2026 (Ghufran): The United States has decided to keep some of its military forces deployed in the Middle East through 2027 amid ongoing regional tensions, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered certain American forces currently deployed in the region to remain in place until 2027. Around 50,000 US troops are currently deployed or on alert across the Middle East, including air defence units, fighter aircraft, naval vessels and other military assets. The deployment of some personnel from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division has also reportedly been extended through 2027.