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Latin America
Santo Domingo ordered Cuban diplomatic personnel and their families to leave without explaining the decision, prompting a sharp response from Havana and demands for clarity at home.
Russia
The Russian president travelled to Iturup in the Moscow-controlled chain claimed by Japan, reinforcing rival sovereignty positions and further narrowing space for a postwar peace treaty.
Middle East
Baghdad and Washington expect the coalition mission to end on a fixed September deadline, but powerful Iran-backed groups reject a parallel demand to surrender their weapons.
Latin America
A magnitude-7.4 earthquake devastated western Colombia, damaging about 1,600 buildings and confronting a newly inaugurated government with a national rescue, security and humanitarian emergency.
India
A proposal to raise the CCEA review line from ₹50 billion to ₹150 billion would give ministries greater authority over large FDI applications, while a parallel review seeks to prevent duplicate approvals for indirect investment.
Middle East
A memorandum transfers designated civilian facilities to Damascus and turns Russian military sites into joint training centers, preserving Moscow's access while reducing the exceptional privileges attached to its former bases.
Europe
Reciprocal checks on travellers have turned the Ceuta migration crisis into a dispute between two major EU governments, testing free movement while both sides insist the measures are temporary.
Brazil
Indonesia's sovereign investment arm will take 25% of a new venture built around JBS operations in Australia and New Zealand, combining $2.5 billion in equity with planned debt capacity of the same size.
China
Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body headquartered in the city and framed around AI cooperation, governance, safety and shared benefit.
China
Beijing opened a national-security trade investigation, tightened controls on drone exports, restricted seven US entities and suspended American certification inspections after actions by the FCC and Homeland Security.
Middle East
Peacekeepers counted 113 Israeli projectiles on Wednesday and 120 within 16 hours on Thursday, alongside airstrikes, displacement and new casualties around Al-Mansuri and other parts of southern Lebanon.
Africa
The tiered salary structure will take effect on September 1 and add 264 billion naira to the annual armed-forces wage bill as Abuja confronts insurgency, banditry and kidnapping.
