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Iran and Oman Open Strait of Hormuz Shipping Corridor in Deal That Leaves the US Outside

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- The tanker captains who have been rerouting around the Arabian Peninsula since February finally have something to track: a seven-mile lane through the Strait of Hormuz, carved ou... Read More


The US Navy Is Paying for the Iran War Out of Its Payroll Accounts

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- A sailor's pay is the last thing a navy touches. It is the account nobody raids, because the consequences of getting it wrong are immediate and personal and impossible to explain... Read More


Russia Calls France's Tanker Seizures Piracy. Its Own Lawyers Have a Better Argument.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- The word Moscow keeps reaching for is the one word that guarantees it loses. Artem Studennikov, who runs the First European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Nov... Read More


Moscow Says the Line to Kyiv Is Open. What It Carries Is Prisoner Swaps.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- Every few months a Russian official confirms that the line to Kyiv still works, and every time the confirmation lands the same way: as reassurance about plumbing rather than news ab... Read More


Modi to Meet Putin at SCO Summit in Bishkek as India Pushes to Rebalance Bilateral Trade

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- For Indian industrialists watching the rupee pile up in accounts they cannot easily repatriate from Russia, the Modi-Putin bilateral scheduled for August 31 on the sidelines of t... Read More


Ninety Americans Are Missing in Nepal, and the Lists Do Not Agree

KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 -- Ninety is a number the State Department arrived at by counting people nobody had heard from. It is not a casualty figure, and the department was careful to say so. Tommy Pigott,... Read More


Ratko Mladic, 'Butcher of Bosnia' Convicted of Genocide, Dies in Hague Prison at 84

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- THE HAGUE - The tribunal had said no just one day before he died. Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander convicted of genocide for ordering the execution of more than 8... Read More


CENTCOM Declares Hormuz Mine-Free. Iran Calls It Propaganda.

DUBAI, Aug. 28 -- Ten commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Before February, roughly twenty million barrels of oil crossed that passage every day. On Thursday night, the ... Read More


South Delhi hit by traffic gridlock as multiple projects clog roads

India, Aug. 28 -- A string of infrastructure and repair projects being carried out simultaneously across the city has brought traffic to a near-standstill on key roads, including the Ring Road and Out... Read More


Singapore bus driver assaulted on duty, second Go-Ahead case since May 2026

SINGAPORE, Aug. 28 -- A public bus driver was assaulted while on duty earlier this month, marking the second such incident involving Go-Ahead Singapore staff in three months, local news outlet CNA rep... Read More