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  • More than 140 migrants believed dead as boat capsizes off Yemen | Yemen

    More than 140 migrants believed dead as boat capsizes off Yemen | Yemen

    A boat has capsized off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the UN’s migration agency said.

    It was the latest in a series of shipwrecks off Yemen that have killed hundreds of people fleeing conflict and…

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  • Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam | US news

    Ninety laptops, millions of dollars: US woman jailed over North Korea remote-work scam | US news

    In March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote…

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  • At least 68 African migrants killed after boat capsizes off Yemen coast, U.N. says : NPR

    At least 68 African migrants killed after boat capsizes off Yemen coast, U.N. says : NPR

    This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa.

    AP…

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  • Codelco ends El Teniente rescue effort after five miners found dead – Reuters

    1. Codelco ends El Teniente rescue effort after five miners found dead  Reuters
    2. Copper Rises as Chile Stoppage Stirs Fresh Concerns About Supply  Bloomberg.com
    3. Chile rescuers find body of last trapped miner – five confirmed dead  BBC
    4. The bodies of all…

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  • Netanyahu asks Red Cross to help hostages in Gaza, as families warn against an ‘expanding war’

    Netanyahu asks Red Cross to help hostages in Gaza, as families warn against an ‘expanding war’

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  • World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns | Plastics

    World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns | Plastics

    Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and…

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  • All five missing miners confirmed dead after Chile copper mine collapse | Chile

    All five missing miners confirmed dead after Chile copper mine collapse | Chile

    All five trapped workers who were missing in a collapsed shaft in the world’s biggest underground copper mine have been found dead, an official said on Sunday.

    Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile’s O’Higgins region, said the body…

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  • Israeli minister prays at flashpoint holy site; officials say 33 aid-seekers killed in Gaza – Politico

    1. Israeli minister prays at flashpoint holy site; officials say 33 aid-seekers killed in Gaza  Politico
    2. Far-right Israeli minister prays at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, breaching decades-old agreement  CNN
    3. Ben-Gvir Joined By Thousands For…

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  • Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 3, 2025

     

     

     

     

    Daria Novikov, Christina Harward, Jennie Olmsted, Anna Harvey, Angelica Evans, and Kateryna Stepanenko

    August 3, 2025, 6:00 pm ET

    Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily…

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