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1Nirmal Purja, Renowned Mountaineer, Is Found Dead After Pakistan Avalanche
Binod Ghimire and Elian Peltier — August 02, 2026, 03:59 AM PHT -
2Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after migration influx
FRANCE 24 — August 02, 2026, 03:53 AM PHT -
3Tankers near Oman come under fire as Iran threatens to choke off shipping routes
US Top News and Analysis — August 02, 2026, 04:55 AM PHT -
4Israel Bombards Gaza, Days After Trump Announced Deal to Advance Cease-Fire
Aaron Boxerman — August 02, 2026, 04:54 AM PHT -
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6Democrats see chance to flip House seat as abuse claims mount against GOP rep
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7At least 13 dead as tourist plane crashes during flight over Peru’s Nazca Lines
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9California announces minimum wage increase as governor taunts Trump
Uwa Ede-Osifo — August 02, 2026, 04:39 AM PHT -
10Three killed after woman detonates bomb at Moscow restaurant, state media say
BBC News — August 02, 2026, 04:39 AM PHT -
11Fighting breaks out in western Tigray as Ethiopia and TPLF trade blame
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 04:38 AM PHT -
12Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row defends his work
BBC News — August 02, 2026, 04:32 AM PHT -
13Iran Plotted Wider War With Help of Its Proxies
Farnaz Fassihi and Neil MacFarquhar — August 02, 2026, 04:26 AM PHT -
14Greece battles raging wildfires as flames appear to ease in France
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 04:24 AM PHT -
15Goldman traders are on pace for a record year. A close-up look at how they're doing it
US Top News and Analysis — August 02, 2026, 04:22 AM PHT -
16Trump Calls for $1.8 Billion Fund Over Blanche Attorney General Fight
Mark Walker — August 02, 2026, 04:14 AM PHT -
17Israel Says It Killed Several Hezbollah Members on Key Lebanon Hilltop
Pranav Baskar — August 02, 2026, 04:14 AM PHT -
18Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More
Linda Qiu — August 02, 2026, 04:13 AM PHT -
19Record-breaking climber Nirmal Purja among those killed in avalanche
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 04:10 AM PHT -
20EU calls emergency meeting to discuss Ceuta migrant crossings
BBC News — August 02, 2026, 04:09 AM PHT -
21Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Dustin Volz and Ernesto Londoño — August 02, 2026, 03:54 AM PHT -
22Timeline of Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Saga
Pooja Salhotra — August 02, 2026, 03:52 AM PHT -
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24In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath
Glenn Thrush — August 02, 2026, 03:16 AM PHT -
25Trump denounces Justice Department decision to drop Reflecting Pool charges
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 03:08 AM PHT -
26EU to hold urgent meeting of interior ministers on Tuesday over Ceuta crisis
Sam Jones in Madrid and Lisa O’Carroll in London — August 02, 2026, 03:03 AM PHT -
27Palestinian children among those detained by Israel in West Bank raids
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 02:51 AM PHT -
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29Police searching for clues after woman fatally shot after Puerto Rican festival
ABC News: Top Stories — August 02, 2026, 02:29 AM PHT -
30At least three killed in explosion near cafe in Russia’s Moscow
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 02:22 AM PHT -
31Last Missing Climbers’ Bodies Are Found, Pakistan Officials Say
Zia ur-Rehman and Elian Peltier — August 02, 2026, 02:18 AM PHT -
32‘Marathon’ shines light on Gaza’s orphaned children and humanitarian crisis
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 01:57 AM PHT -
33Spain pushes migrants back to Morocco as fallout deepens over mass border breach
Dalila Olmo López , Anthony Faiola, Mohamad El Chamaa — August 02, 2026, 01:56 AM PHT -
34Italy putting nearly all major cities on highest heat alert
BBC News — August 02, 2026, 01:51 AM PHT -
35'A giant of the industry, Purja leaves behind a legacy that inspired a generation to climb higher'
FRANCE24 — August 02, 2026, 01:49 AM PHT -
36Trump pledges to pursue ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund amid Blanche standoff
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 01:48 AM PHT -
37At least 9 people killed in Russian missile attacks on Kyiv
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 01:45 AM PHT -
38Care for a dirty soda? How this drink trend became a US obsession
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 01:37 AM PHT -
39Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Marina Dunbar — August 02, 2026, 01:29 AM PHT -
40Israeli forces detain residents and demolish homes in southern Syria
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 01:28 AM PHT -
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42Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool vandalism charge and admits 'botched' repairs
BBC News — August 02, 2026, 01:16 AM PHT -
43I Flew in the Douglas DC-3, a WWII Workhorse of Aviation, Over the Amazon
Max Bearak and Federico Rios — August 02, 2026, 01:12 AM PHT -
44Iran live updates: Trump weighs strikes on Iranian energy sites, US officials say
ABC News: Top Stories — August 02, 2026, 01:10 AM PHT -
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47Turkiye and Iraq sign one-year oil pipeline deal amid global shift
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 12:43 AM PHT -
48Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
Devlin Barrett — August 02, 2026, 12:32 AM PHT -
49Wiebes wins Tour de France Femmes opener to win first yellow jersey
FRANCE 24 — August 02, 2026, 12:32 AM PHT -
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51Moroccan rapper Mehdi El Youbi temporarily released from prison
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 12:15 AM PHT -
52Israeli strikes kill seven across Gaza, destroy medical supply warehouse
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 02, 2026, 12:07 AM PHT -
53Migration Surge on the Spain-Morocco Border
Jason Horowitz, Coleman Lowndes, Leila Medina, June Kim and Samuel Granados — August 02, 2026, 12:01 AM PHT -
54Russian forces strike targets in Ukraine's Odesa, Mykolaiv ports
FRANCE 24 — August 01, 2026, 11:53 PM PHT -
55At least 11 wounded by Colombia car bomb days before presidential election
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 11:48 PM PHT -
56'Our hearts are in ruins,' Savannah Guthrie says after kidnapped mother's ransom notes released
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 11:38 PM PHT -
57Two ex-Sri Lanka officials sentenced to death over 2019 Easter bombings
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 11:34 PM PHT -
58Fast access to Trump's ‘Truth Social’ posts goes on sale for $100,000 per month
FRANCE 24 — August 01, 2026, 11:29 PM PHT -
59She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.
Lisa Lerer and Beth Reinhard — August 01, 2026, 11:24 PM PHT -
60India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 11:00 PM PHT -
61‘Agony and despair’: Nancy Guthrie’s family issues new plea for information on her whereabouts
Edward Helmore — August 01, 2026, 10:59 PM PHT -
62EU offered Spain support ‘from first moment’ of Ceuta crisis, says von der Leyen, after Sánchez hits out – Europe live
Taz Ali (now); Emily Mackay (earlier) — August 01, 2026, 10:58 PM PHT -
63What Caused the Surge of Migrants From Morocco Into Ceuta?
Jonathan Wolfe — August 01, 2026, 10:56 PM PHT -
64What to Know About Ceuta
Pranav Baskar, Lynsey Chutel and Isabella Kwai — August 01, 2026, 10:49 PM PHT -
65In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear
Steven Erlanger — August 01, 2026, 10:46 PM PHT -
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67Berkshire Hathaway shares hit eight-month high
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 10:41 PM PHT -
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70Trump vows to push $1.8bn slush fund as Senate committee set to reconsider AG nomination
Edward Helmore — August 01, 2026, 10:31 PM PHT -
71India cracks down on protesters accused of ‘abusing’ Modi
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 10:28 PM PHT -
72Zelensky says Ukraine has ‘no interceptors’ as ballistic missiles hit Kyiv
David Stern, Kostiantyn Khudov, Serhii Korolchuk, Serhiy Morgunov — August 01, 2026, 10:19 PM PHT -
73Trump Media's new paid data service goes live, giving clients faster access to Trump’s posts
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 10:17 PM PHT -
74The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump
Robert Siegel, Jamelle Bouie, E.J. Dionne Jr. and Jillian Weinberger — August 01, 2026, 10:12 PM PHT -
75Within Uber-Waymo split, a key labor battle over AVs is being waged in the nation's capital
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 10:10 PM PHT -
76European football body declares no confidence in FIFA's Infantino after World Cup sell-off plan
FRANCE 24 — August 01, 2026, 10:09 PM PHT -
77Israeli strike destroys Gaza hospital warehouse
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 10:07 PM PHT -
78Infantino’s FIFA crisis: What is reaction to World Cup investment U-turn?
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 09:59 PM PHT -
79Is Spain being punished?
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 09:50 PM PHT -
80Dozens injured as earthquake hits near Naples in seismic swarm
Donna Ferguson and agencies — August 01, 2026, 09:49 PM PHT -
81Russian Missiles Kill 9 in Kyiv After Trump Backs Off Air-Defense Pledge
Constant Méheut — August 01, 2026, 09:49 PM PHT -
82Children run marathon to spotlight Gaza’s growing orphan crises
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 09:46 PM PHT -
83Looking at just the odds isn’t enough. How traders gain an edge on prediction markets
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 09:44 PM PHT -
84Nine killed in strikes on Kyiv, as Ukraine sinks Russian container ship
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 09:35 PM PHT -
85Buying a condo with a mortgage may soon get more complicated. Here's why
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 09:30 PM PHT -
86Greater Manchester mayor says Burnham's new powers will change lives
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 09:15 PM PHT -
87Meet the Americans Who Can’t Afford Hair Cuts or Toilet Paper
Nicholas Kristof — August 01, 2026, 09:12 PM PHT -
88Most Australian teens still online three months after under-16 ban
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 09:10 PM PHT -
89D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case
Uwa Ede-Osifo in Los Angeles — August 01, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
90Spain says migrants leaving Ceuta after mass influx in which 67 died
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 08:57 PM PHT -
91Iran warns against ‘flames of war’ amid US strike threats on energy sites
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 08:44 PM PHT -
92Kuwait Says It Downed Iranian Drones as Mideast Braces for Possible Escalation
Euan Ward — August 01, 2026, 08:44 PM PHT -
93The five dramatic days that shook Infantino and world football
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 08:42 PM PHT -
94Faisal Islam: Four reasons why the World Cup plan never stacked up
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 08:41 PM PHT -
95Sde Teiman walkout lays bare an Israeli military running out of trust
Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — August 01, 2026, 08:40 PM PHT -
96Extreme Heat Has Transformed What Summer Means Across Generations in Europe
Jim Tankersley and Tatiana Firsova — August 01, 2026, 08:39 PM PHT -
97Johns Hopkins researcher released after being detained by ICE at airport
ABC News: Top Stories — August 01, 2026, 08:37 PM PHT -
98As Americans go direct with GLP-1 prescriptions, Walmart, Costco, Amazon will be big weight-loss winners
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 08:30 PM PHT -
99Watch: Tens of thousands of migrants enter Spain's Ceuta from Morocco
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 08:04 PM PHT -
100Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite
Helena Horton — August 01, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
101To keep growing, incoming Best Buy CEO says he first wants to go smaller
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
102OpenAI's Hugging Face hack confirmed months of AI cyber warnings: 'Pandora's box is open'
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 08:00 PM PHT -
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106African Union mission in Somalia in question after US funding to end
FRANCE24 — August 01, 2026, 07:23 PM PHT -
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109On the ground in the English seaside town rightwing influencers say is being ‘invaded’
Kevin Rawlinson — August 01, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
110U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel
Dan Lamothe — August 01, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
111France Cricket implodes: letters hidden in a drawer and a board at war
Peter O'BRIEN — August 01, 2026, 06:55 PM PHT -
112Italy says it’s temporarily suspending EU Schengen arrangement with Spain after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta – as it happened
Jakub Krupa — August 01, 2026, 06:44 PM PHT -
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115Boxer secures Tuvalu’s first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a bout
Sean Ingle in Glasgow — August 01, 2026, 06:07 PM PHT -
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117A Weekend That Marks a Historical Moment for Black Canadians
Ian Austen — August 01, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
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119The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)
Sébastian SEIBT — August 01, 2026, 05:52 PM PHT -
120Sir John Curtice: The 'Burnham bounce' is real but it's not massive
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 05:13 PM PHT -
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123Ceuta: Most migrants have returned to Morocco, 57 died crossing the border
FRANCE24 — August 01, 2026, 05:04 PM PHT -
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125A French Village Becomes a Ghost Town After the Wildfires
Bethlehem Feleke, Alex Pena, Michael Anthony Adams, Mark Boyer and Yasu Tsuji — August 01, 2026, 05:02 PM PHT -
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127The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.
Paul Sonne and Milana Mazaeva — August 01, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
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129Knickers in a twist: why M&S selling crotchless underwear isn’t as outrageous as it seems
Lauren Cochrane — August 01, 2026, 04:00 PM PHT -
130Beijing Protests After New Zealand Minister Insults Chinese-Born Lawmaker
Victoria Kim — August 01, 2026, 03:28 PM PHT -
131‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster
Denis Campbell — August 01, 2026, 03:00 PM PHT -
132EU relations, climate crisis and Gaza: why Ed Miliband is fired up by Foreign Office challenges
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor — August 01, 2026, 03:00 PM PHT -
133Building for 131°F: Europe races to protect its infrastructure from a ‘quiet catastrophe’
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 02:58 PM PHT -
134Iran's overlapping power centers make ending the war more complicated
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 02:52 PM PHT -
135First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent — August 01, 2026, 02:12 PM PHT -
136‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall
Deborah Cole in Berlin — August 01, 2026, 02:00 PM PHT -
137Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM
Helena Horton — August 01, 2026, 02:00 PM PHT -
138Did 75,000 Students Cheat on a College-Entrance Exam in Mexico?
Annie Correal — August 01, 2026, 01:59 PM PHT -
139Trump Backs Away From Deal to Let Ukraine Build Patriot Missiles
Chris Cameron — August 01, 2026, 01:49 PM PHT -
140Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 01:01 PM PHT -
141What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain and why does Trump say he wants to bomb it?
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 01:01 PM PHT -
142Japan’s Rescuers Battle Cruel Heat After Major Earthquake
River Akira Davis, Hisako Ueno, Kiuko Notoya and Chang W. Lee — August 01, 2026, 12:57 PM PHT -
143How 50,000 Migrants Surged Into Ceuta, a Spanish Exclave Near Morocco
Jason Horowitz — August 01, 2026, 12:01 PM PHT -
144Singapore bans Massive Attack for showing Palestinian flag, breaching ban on foreign emblems
Agence France-Presse in Singapore — August 01, 2026, 11:51 AM PHT -
145Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians
Christiaan Triebert, Sanjana Varghese and Christoph Koettl — August 01, 2026, 11:40 AM PHT -
146Trump blames Minnesota governor, not Iran, for cyberattacks on state's water systems
ABC News: Top Stories — August 01, 2026, 11:15 AM PHT -
147Watch: Why Fifa dropped plans to sell stakes in the World Cup
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 10:44 AM PHT -
148Thousands of Migrants Surge Into Ceuta from Morocco, Prompting Political Backlash
Jason Horowitz, Carlos Barragán and Thomas Fuller — August 01, 2026, 10:35 AM PHT -
149Petrol prices on track to top $2 a litre as Bowen sounds death knell for fuel excise relief
Luca Ittimani — August 01, 2026, 10:22 AM PHT -
150Peru's ex-president leaves jail after 15-year jail term for corruption overturned
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 10:21 AM PHT -
151WATCH: Connecticut man speaks out after shark attack in the Bahamas
ABC News: Top Stories — August 01, 2026, 09:08 AM PHT -
152WATCH: Tony Romo on leave after DUI arrest video
ABC News: Top Stories — August 01, 2026, 09:07 AM PHT -
153Former workers fight for wages they say they're owed: 'It makes me sick'
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 09:04 AM PHT -
154Bessent ‘to-do’ list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen
Robert Mackey and agencies — August 01, 2026, 08:33 AM PHT -
155Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine
Jonathan Barrett Business editor — August 01, 2026, 08:00 AM PHT -
156Chelsea was murdered 10 years ago – will a new police podcast catch her killer?
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 07:42 AM PHT -
157He thought a fitness supplement was safe, but it sent him into psychosis
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 07:42 AM PHT -
158Death row inmates desperate to escape execution in Saudi Arabia call the BBC
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 07:41 AM PHT -
159What we know about the Pakistan avalanche and missing climbers
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 07:20 AM PHT -
160Pirro moves to drop case against Olympian, says Reflecting Pool damage caused by 'flawed installation'
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 07:19 AM PHT -
161Migrants overrun a Spanish outpost, stirring European outrage
Anthony Faiola, Imogen Piper — August 01, 2026, 07:11 AM PHT -
162Trump appeals order that slammed his IRS lawsuit and referred his lawyer to bar
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 06:04 AM PHT -
163Fintech broker Clear Street offers investors pre-IPO access to $188 billion AI giant Databricks
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 05:49 AM PHT -
164Trump's AI executive order nears key deadline as regulation debate intensifies
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 05:46 AM PHT -
165Greyhounds bound for Australia as New Zealand racing ban takes effect
BBC News — August 01, 2026, 05:09 AM PHT -
166‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ sets domestic box office preview record with $72 million
US Top News and Analysis — August 01, 2026, 05:06 AM PHT -
167Missing Australian hiker found dead in Wyoming, officials say
Edward Helmore — August 01, 2026, 05:06 AM PHT
