Iran's supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Aug. 30 called on Muslim countries in the region to unite against the United States and Israel, in a written message issued six months on from the start of the Middle East war.
As a far-right regional election victory looms in an ex-communist eastern German state, many migrants are readying to pack their bags, fearful of the AfD party's threatened "deportation and remigration offensive".
One person was killed and five others were wounded, some of them seriously, in a shooting at a rave party in northern Switzerland, local police said on Aug. 30.
A Russian strike on a warehouse near Kiev and the explosions that followed killed at least 27 people and injured 42, Ukrainian officials said on Aug. 29.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has said that there are grounds to no longer consider Russia a strategic partner of Armenia.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa appointed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) leader Mazloum Abdi as a presidential adviser, state media said on Aug 28, days after Abdi announced the dissolution of the forces under an integration deal with Damascus.
Russian forces on Aug. 28 resumed their drone barrageof Ukraine’s Kiev region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said.
Serbia's Justice Minister Nenad Vujic said on Aug. 28 that former Bosnian Serb military leader and convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic "will receive all the military and state honors to which he is entitled."
Thailand's government has warned that "problematic" tourists could face deportation as new rules on removing foreigners convicted of illegal activities came into effect on Aug. 28.
Norway's King Harald has died at age 89, the palace said on Aug. 28, his 53-year-old son Crown Prince Haakon automatically succeeding him on the throne.
South Korea said on Aug. 28 that it will hold joint military exercises with the United States and Japan in September, after Washington scaled back annual drills with Seoul in an apparent bid to encourage dialogue with North Korea.
Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety on Aug. 28 as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floodsthat killed more than 500 people and left more than 1,500 missing.
Witnesses and representatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide said Ratko Mladic’s death would not erase the crimes for which he was convicted, noting that he died under a life sentence.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin during an unannounced visit to Moscow this week, as conflicting accounts emerged over whether he carried a U.S. warning against any Russian move on NATO territory.
Iran left the door open to diplomacy on Aug. 28, six months into a war with the United States that has upended the Middle East, but only if Washington abandons its pressure campaign.
Protests over security in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta escalated into violent clashes with the Spanish military on Aug. 27, a month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco.
