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3 Chinese zodiac signs that are likely to see career growth and financial windfall this week

India, Aug. 22 -- The week of August 24, 2026, could bring fresh opportunities for some Chinese zodiac signs, according to astrologer and YourTango Senior Editor Aria Gmitter. Her weekly forecast poin... Read More


Russia Says It Downed 211 Drones on Friday. Six Days Earlier the Figure Was 1,478.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22 -- The Russian defence ministry published a number on Friday evening. Between eight in the morning and eight at night, Moscow time, air defence crews on duty intercepted and destroyed ... Read More


Ukraine Is Missing Its Budget Targets. The Ports Stopped Working on July 22.

ODESA, Aug. 22 -- A Ukrainian farmer with grain or oilseed to sell is being offered about 30 percent less for it than before the summer, and many are taking the loss and borrowing against the differen... Read More


UK, France, Germany and Allies Demand Israel Halt West Bank E1 Settlement Project

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Ed Miliband did not send a letter. He summoned Israel's charge d'affaires to hear Britain's position in person - the most emphatic diplomatic signal the UK has deployed against I... Read More


North Korea Fires 10 Missiles After Trump Curtails Ulchi Freedom Shield, Announces Kim Summit

SEOUL, Aug. 22 -- South Korea's Defence Minister sat in an emergency security meeting Friday as the news came in: more than ten KN-25 missiles, short-range ballistic type, launched from the Pyongyang ... Read More


Ukraine's Election Question Reaches the UN. Nobody Has Actually Asked for Help.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- A reporter from RIA Novosti asked Stephane Dujarric on Friday whether anyone in Ukraine had approached the United Nations for help organising an election. The secretary-gene... Read More


Lula Asked Trump to Convene the UN Security Council. Brazil Has No Seat on It.

BRASILIA, Aug. 22 -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent eighty minutes on the telephone to Donald Trump on Friday, and somewhere inside them he asked the American president to convene an extraordinary se... Read More


Araghchi Says Every US Sanctions Campaign Failed. The Numbers Say Something Worse.

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- Abbas Araghchi's answer to the largest sanctions campaign in American history was a list, and it was short enough to fit inside a single post. Fourteen years ago Washington promised... Read More


Moon Phase Today, August 22, 2026: Waxing Gibbous at Apogee

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- 20 UTC on August 22, at a distance of 404,644 km. That is as far away as the moon gets in this lunation, and it is the reason the full moon arriving next week will be one of the ... Read More


Iran Deepens Trade Ties With Oman, Turkey, and Iraq as US Declares 'Greatest Economic Isolation in History'

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- For the family of the textile merchant in the Isfahan bazaar, the math of the war has arrived in the form of new geography. A cotton shipment that used to clear the port of Shahid R... Read More