Top 10 world news: Trump arraignment, Fukushima water discharge row and more
WION Top 10 news brief.
DonaldTrump's arraignment has been set for September 6 at 9:30 a.m. This makeshim the first among the defendants to face proceedings in a comprehensive election racketeering case.In other news, just days after Japan began releasing water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, the nation is reportedly facing harassment at the hands of Chinese citizens. Condemning the calls, Tokyo has called on Beijing to avoidunnecessarily raising "people's concerns with information that is not based on scientific evidence". Finally,on day 551 of the Russia-Ukraine war, in a unified stance, Poland and the Baltic nationshave formally requested Belarus to expel the Russian mercenary group known as Wagner.
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US: Trump, co-defendants to face arraignment in Georgia on September 6
Former US President Trump's arraignment scheduled on charges related to his alleged involvement, along with 18 co-defendants, in efforts to overturn the state's election results has been announced.
Japan has raised concerns over "extremely regrettable" harassment phone calls it has received since the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. began releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
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US vs China over South China Sea: Washington backs Philippines, Beijing hits back
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Bigg Boss 20: Isha Rikhi evicted after three weeks in Salman Khan’s show
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Musk plans to more than double xAI's chips to over 1.2 million Nvidia GPUs by year-end
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After JU, clash erupts at SRFTI: BJP’s ‘Dimagi Naxal’ jibe sparks political firestorm after students protest RSS-linked event
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‘Anti-social elements spreading false rumours’: LPU issues statement amid massive unrest over alleged rape
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LPU students go on rampage, vandalise campus amid widespread protest: What's happening
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Trump asked Xi to pressure Iran. China did not say yes — here’s what Beijing wants
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hails global crackdown on Iranian banks and airlines
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An OpenAI agent escaped its locked test cage again, by hiding questions in DNS lookups
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'Our video was trimmed': LPU girls who featured in rape-denial video make U-turn
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3 males killed, four others injured in shooting after fight at strip club in Detroit
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'Victory for low-budget consumers': Raghav Chadha hails 30-day telecom recharge rules
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Claude rebuilt the 1989 game 'Prince of Persia' by reusing the original's own code
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Beyond metros: How Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities could drive India’s next AI wave
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Tesla builds first Cybertruck with its own refined lithium: Elon Musk's $1 billion Texas bet pays off
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IndiGo flight suffers tail strike in Bengaluru while landing; DGCA to probe incident
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The US and China set up an AI 'red telephone', but skipped the rulebook
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‘Terror suspects arrested near UK air base were looking to do big damage’: Trump
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Russian envoy claims US tactics to contain India were revealed in ‘Freudian slip’
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IND vs WI 1st ODI: Kohli breaks Sachin's most runs in one country record with unbeaten 139 as India thump West Indies by 8 wickets
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Nations League: Spain sink England at Wembley; Modric shines for Croatia
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'What kind of confession is this?': Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif’s 'terrorists would be roaming New York' remark goes viral, raises alarm online. Watch
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South Korea demands apology from Ukraine over North Korean prisoners' transfer
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Beyond BrahMos: India targets Rs 50,000 crore in defence exports with unmatched price edge
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Sri Lankan Tamil migrant worker gets death sentence in Saudi Arabia, help sought from India
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Muslim marriage cannot shield sex with minor wife from prosecution under POCSO: Delhi HC
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'Can't help but draw painful parallels to Nirbhaya case': SC on latest incidents of rape cases in Delhi-NCR
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'FIRST LOOK from inside Noah’s Ark': Researchers share video from inside mysterious mound in Turkey
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UNSC reform momentum grows: Russia, Portugal, Mauritius push for India's permanent seat bid
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8 US marines injured in Iranian missile attack on vessel in Strait of Hormuz: Report
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Afghanistan says 28 fighters killed in clash near Pakistan border, Islamabad denies
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Ceuta migrant crisis: Protesters take to streets as Spain grapples with migrant challenge
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Poland and Baltic states urge Belarus to expel Russian fighters
In a unified stance, Poland and the Baltic nations, comprising Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, have formally requested Belarus to expel the Russian mercenary group known as Wagner. These fighters have sought refuge in Belarus following a failed rebellion against Moscow.
Saudi Arabia to execute man for criticising government on X account with only nine followers
Saudi Arabia has reportedly sentenced to death Mohammed al-Ghamdi, a government critic, for denouncing alleged corruption and human rights abuses via his social media posts.
Indonesian school shaves heads of 14 girls for 'incorrectly' wearing Islamic head scarves
A school on Indonesia's main island has stirred controversy by partially shaving the heads of 14 girls. The school's headmaster saidthat this drastic action was taken after accusations that these students were wearing their Islamic hijab headscarves incorrectly.
China relaxes entry rules: No more predeparture COVID-19 tests for inbound travellers
China will soon lift the requirement for incoming travellers to present a negative COVID-19 test result. On Monday, (August 28) China announced that starting Wednesday (August 30) inbound travellers to the country will no longer be required to take up a pre-departure antigen test for COVID-19.
Sergey Lavrov to represent Russia in G20 meet: Vladimir Putin tells PM Modi in phone call
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephonic conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed developing bilateral cooperation in the space sector, the expansion of BRICS membership, and the upcoming G20 Summit that will take place in the capital New Delhi in September, an official statement from India Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday (Aug 28).
UK airspace shuts down after breakdown of air traffic control system
Hundreds of thousands of passengers across the United Kingdom and beyond found themselves in the middle of chaos after the breakdown of the UK's air traffic control system.
Big blow to Luis Rubiales! Spain prosecutors open preliminary sex abuse probe over kiss controversy
Prosecutors at Spain's top criminal court said Monday they had opened a preliminary investigation intoLuisRubiales' forcible kiss on the lips of World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on grounds it could constitute a crime of "sexual assault".
From snakes to humans: Live parasitic roundworm discovered in Australian woman's brain
In Australia, a medical case has left doctors and neurosurgeons flabbergasted as a 64-year-old woman was found to have a live parasitic roundworm living in her brain. What's more surprising is that the worm called Ophidascaris robertsi is usually found in snakes, pythons to be exact, and this is actually the first documented case of it being present in a human.
