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Sep 1, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump threatened Iran Tuesday with an ominous warning that seemed to allude to the use of nuclear weapons.Trump’s latest threat comes amid a wave of fresh U.S. strikes against Iran near the Strait of Hormuz, strikes that U.S. officials say were designed to “prevent Iran from rebuilding the radar and missile capabilities it needs to attack ships” traveling through the strait, Axios reported. The strikes were also, according to Trump, retaliation for Iranian strikes on the U.S. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.“The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.“If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!”Trump’s threat echoed a previous threat he issued to Iran in April when he warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Sep 1, 2026 - World

A Hungarian man is accused of stealing a small plane, flying it and landing while intoxicated and then trying to take the car of a passerby who stopped to help him.

Sep 1, 2026 - World

Religious freedom advocates lambasted the two-year prison term given in Seoul Monday to Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the 83-year-old leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, as an assault on religious liberty.

Sep 1, 2026 - World

Relatives of missing tourists asked for blood samples and photos, as efforts continue to rescue trapped hydropower workersNepal-Tibet floods – latest updatesVisual guide: How the Nepal-Tibet flash flood unfoldedNepali rescuers have built temporary bridges to reach remote areas and dug through the ruins of hydropower projects in the Himalayas to rescue hundreds of trapped workers, as the death toll passed 1,000 nearly ⁠a week after devastating ​floods left a trail of destruction across the country’s towns and valleys.About 600 people remain stuck in several devastated hydropower stations that have become the focus of rescue efforts. The prime ⁠minister, Balendra Shah, said more than 11,000 people had been rescued across the affected region, and power and communication lines had been restored in some areas. Continue reading...

Sep 1, 2026 - World

The United Nations' top anti-discrimination body said that states parties to a binding 1965 anti-discrimination treaty are legally obligated to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, escalating a fight that has already landed in a federal courtroom in Illinois.