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Latest News Today Live Updates: An explosion at a military barracks in Bolivia on Friday claimed at least 10 lives. The blast in the Viacha municipaliy, about 30 km (19 miles) from La Paz occurred at around 2:30 p.m.
And from the world of technology, US federal regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla’s new steering-wheel-free Cybertruck vehicles, just a day after the company began offering rides in the autonomous taxis in Austin, Texas.
Coming to India, ISRO's succesfull satellite launch has now placed a first imaging satellite in orbit at an altitude of 36,000 km.
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday (Sep 5) denied that Israel was preparing to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza, following proposals by far-right Israeli ministers calling for the territory’s population to leave.
Following the successful launch of India's GSLV F-17/EOS-05 space mission on Friday(4th September), employees of the Indian space agency ISRO have sought a clarification from the Indian Government over the ongoing privatisation of certain ISRO activities.
Russian strikes hit Kyiv’s two airports overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday (Sep 5). The attacks come as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner prepared to visit the region in a fresh attempt to break the deadlock over ending the war. Zelensky said Russia also struck a civilian target in the Dnipro region, killing four people, and accused Moscow of trying to disrupt the visit.
Israel is not planning forced displacements from Gaza, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says during an occupied West Bank trip.
Zelensky condemns Russian strikes on Ukrainian airports ahead of US envoys' visit.
“The Israeli government must guarantee the safety and security of the population in the West Bank,” US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said.
The IDF says its airstrikes last night in southern Lebanon, in response to a Hezbollah drone attack, targeted members of the terror group and its infrastructure. Lebanese health authorities reported three dead in Israeli strikes near Nabatieh and Rmadiyeh.
An Iranian oil tanker off Kharg Island has been struck by missiles, according to Iran’s Student News Network (SNN). The tanker was struck by four US missiles and is being evacuated.
Israeli forces arrested one woman and two men during raids in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. Adwan al-Krouz and his mother were detained during a raid on a shelter housing people displaced from the Jenin refugee camp—a camp that the Israeli military has forcibly emptied, according to Wafa. In a separate raid in eastern Jenin city, Israeli forces also arrested Mohammad Nasser al-Saadi.
United States President Donald Trump has admitted that the various construction projects he has undertaken in Washington, DC, will one day bear his name to secure his presidential legacy.
Sudan Doctors Network, which tracks violence throughout the war in Sudan, said that the rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, launched an attack on Thursday in the areas of Debi and Luweri in the town of Kauda in South Kordofan.
Jalandhar Police Commissioner confirmed that the fraud case was filed at a city police station on August 16, 2026, after cops launched a probe.
The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage a shift away from the familiar Mercator world map towards projections that show continents closer to their true size. The non-binding “Correct the Map” resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union members, passed 164-1 on Friday, with six abstentions. The United States cast the only no vote. For more than four centuries the Mercator projection has been the default classroom and newsroom map. It keeps compass bearings straight, useful for sailors, but stretches land near the poles. Greenland can look as large as Africa. Africa is in fact about 14 times bigger.
US President Donald Trump has reiterated threat to attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, days after Washington targeted Iranian military targets. While speaking to reporters at the Oval office, Trump backed his months-long US military campaign against Iran, saying it was being done to stop Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
On Friday (Sep 4), the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the "Correct the Map" resolution. For centuries, standard world maps visually shrunk the true size of Africa. Now, 164 countries have voted in favour of introducing a map that accurately depicts the region's scale, with the United States casting the sole opposing vote. In a session held at the UN headquarters in New York, the UNGA officially moved away from the 16th-century Mercator projection in favour of the 2018 Equal Earth design.
Eight people from Tamil Nadu were killed after the car they were travelling in crashed into a lorry parked on a highway in Kerala’s Thrissur district, police said on Saturday. Seven of the victims died on the spot while an eighth was rushed to hospital but could not survive.
An explosion at a military barracks in Bolivia on Friday claimed at least 10 lives. The blast in the Viacha municipality, about 30 km (19 miles) from La Paz occurred at around 2:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) local time in an area used to store pyrotechnic material, authorities said.
Though the immediate cause of the explosion is yet to be determined, preliminary investigations point to the blast originating from the defence ministry's fireworks stockpile.
