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Ukraine has carried out another daring deep-drone strike inside Russia, hitting the city of nizhnekamsk in tatarstan, more than 1,000 kilometres from Ukraine’s border. Russian officials say at least 13 people were killed and dozens injured. The strike comes as Ukraine intensifies attacks on Russia’s oil and military infrastructure. But Kyiv now faces a major danger: Russian retaliation. Moscow continues its heavy missile campaign while Ukraine faces an acute shortage of air-defence interceptors, including patriot missiles capable of tackling ballistic threats.

Taiwan is rapidly transforming its military strategy for a possible Chinese invasion. Drawing lessons from Ukraine’s drone warfare, Taipei is expanding fleets of aerial drones and unmanned attack boats designed to locate, track and strike invading forces. During the 10-day Han kuang exercises, Taiwan is testing how these systems could operate alongside missiles and conventional weapons against a Chinese amphibious assault. Taiwan also aims to eventually produce up to 100,000 drones a month. But can cheap, mass-produced unmanned weapons really slow down China's vastly larger military?

President Trump called it an “interesting idea” and turned around the compensation demand back on Iran saying the US demand would cover people killed and seriously wounded in conflicts involving Iran, including the families of those killed in the USS Cole attack and others killed in combat.

Ahead of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna's 20th anniversary, Karan Johar took to social media to express gratitude to fans and recall the criticism over the film when it released.

Right-wing activist T.G. Mohandas has been arrested over his controversial “women enjoy rape” comment, while the RSS has distanced itself from the remarks and clarified its position.

DeepSeek released V4 Flash on July 31, scoring 79.0% on SWE-bench Verified — within 1.8 points of Claude Opus 4.7 — at roughly $0.09-0.14 per million input tokens against Claude Opus 4.8's $5. It activates 13 billion of 284 billion parameters per token.

ByteDance is pre-training an AI model of up to 10 trillion parameters, the FT reported August 7 — over three times Kimi K3's size. It needs ~30,000 GPUs and three to six months, with founder Zhang Yiming reportedly directing the team to avoid distilling from Western models.

The all-party meeting called by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay in Chennai on August 8 saw a major boycott, with 37 of the state’s 57 MPs staying away. The DMK, AIADMK, PMK, MNM and DMDK skipped the consultation, while around 20–21 MPs, mainly from Congress and smaller allies, attended.

Taiwan has conducted a major live-fire military drill simulating a Chinese assault, testing its forces’ ability to respond to a potential attack. The exercise comes amid heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait and growing concerns over China’s military pressure on the island. The drills come amid rising tensions across the Taiwan Strait as China continues to increase military pressure through frequent air and naval patrols around the island. The Han Kuang exercise is considered Taiwan's most important annual defense drill and reflects its efforts to strengthen combat readiness against possible aggression.

Mojtaba Khamenei has not made any public appearances since he became supreme leader. Besides, no videos or audio recordings of him speaking have been aired, and only written statements attributed to him have been read out by state media.

A growing rift is emerging between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the future of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Trump is pushing for diplomatic resolutions, while Netanyahu insists on continued military action until Hamas is fully disarmed.

CWG 2026 silver medalist Narender Berwal left PM Modi in splits with a story about a Pakistani opponent who grew tired of the name 'Narendra'.

Pakistan’s internal security crisis is deepening as armed attacks intensify across Balochistan, while unrest and instability also persist in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The escalation has made 2025 and 2026 among the deadliest periods in the decades-long Balochistan conflict.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a light-hearted exchange with boxer Narender Berwal on Sunday as the CWG medalists were honoured for their performance at Glasgow 2026.

Donald Trump acknowledged contractor errors during the White House Reflecting Pool renovation while continuing to accuse Olympian David Hearn of vandalism.

Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Terafab in Grimes County, Texas — a $16.8 billion first phase, 3,000+ workers, over 100 million square feet combining logic, memory, packaging and testing. Later phases could reach $119 billion.

Meta confirmed on August 6 that Muse Spark 1.1 gained live internet access during a third-party evaluation, exploited a vulnerability and altered an outside company's internal systems — the fourth such disclosure by a frontier AI lab in a month.

The case of Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old rapper who was killed in 1996 in Las Vegas, has finally moved to court. Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. Read on to know more.

Iran has appointed Mohsen Rezaei as its new security chief. A veteran IRGC commander, Rezaei led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from 1981 to 1997, bringing decades of military and security experience to the role.