Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast

• Onda Madrid launched the "De cara al mundo" program to provide international analysis on current global conflicts and diplomatic trends. • The broadcast covers a range of critical topics including the 25th anniversary of 9/11, institutional visits to Ukraine, and the healthcare collapse in Sudan.

• Top global leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, are gathering this weekend for the BRICS summit to address global crises. • Attendees include World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and New Development Bank representative Dilma Rousseff.

• The Russian Embassy in the United States called for the two nations to cooperate within a new geopolitical environment to avoid further confrontation. • The embassy stated that this partnership is necessary to prevent a "globalist elite" from provoking new conflicts between the countries.

• India will host the BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026. • The event will test whether the expanded and more diverse group of nations can effectively wield its political influence.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host leaders from BRICS nations, including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, for a two-day summit in New Delhi starting Saturday. • The meeting focuses on insulating developing economies from the economic impacts of conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia.

• UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned delegates at the opening of the 81st UN General Assembly session in New York that the multilateral system is straining under fractured geopolitics. • Guterres offered his full backing to Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh, who serves as the President of the 81st General Assembly session.

• World leaders will gather in New Delhi on September 12 and 13 for the 18th Brics Leaders’ Summit. • The expanded grouping will discuss global governance, trade, investment, technology, and food and energy security.

The deadly fire had begun in the ferry’s cargo hold, then tore through the ship within secondsThe bodies of passengers killed in a ferry fire off the Philippines arrived at a port near the resort town of Coron, Palawan, on Saturday morning, as the country’s coast guard warned the death toll of 35 would grow.Tents were being set up to receive 30 bodies brought from the M/V June Aster, which ran aground near the tourist hotspot after a fire erupted on Wednesday evening and tore through the vessel “in seconds”. Continue reading...

A militaristic operation with features of influencer culture, the new anti-migrant movement seems to show a shift in tactics and rhetoricShortly after 7am last Saturday in the English coastal town of Dover, livestreamed footage distributed by Britain’s newest anti-migrant movement showed dozens of men in paramilitary outfits jumping out from the backs of vehicles, their faces covered beneath balaclavas, their hands in black gloves.Within an hour, hundreds more masked agitators, dressed head to toe in black, some wearing silver crosses around their necks, were marching through the town’s streets, clapping and chanting “Stop the boats” and “Christ is king”, blockading the busy port for hours. Continue reading...

Latest poll shows 0.3-point gap between left and right blocs, with country’s reputation as global champion of human rights said to be at stakeSweden goes to the polls on Sunday in an extremely close election that could see the far right enter government for the first time if the country’s rightwing parties can form a majority.Opinion polls show the centre-left opposition alliance ahead, with Magdalena ⁠Andersson of the Social Democrats the favourite to become prime minister again after four years in opposition, but her bloc’s lead has narrowed considerably in the final days of the campaign. Continue reading...

Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibitionRewilding areas do not usually conform to traditional notions of beauty in England’s green and pleasant land. Detractors may bewail the beaver-felled trees, untidy scrub, deadwood, weeds, mud and “mess”.But a new exhibition highlights the aesthetic delights that can be discovered on rewilding sites where fungi grows on dying trees, water buffalo gather in new wetlands and brown-watered beaver pools flood once-desiccated fields. Continue reading...

NSW police say 18-year-old was operating drone when arrested and likely ‘conducting surveillance on someone or some premises’A Sydney teenager has been charged with murder after police accused him of operating a drone as part of a suspected botched gang hit in the city’s west.Joshua Macdonald, 40, was shot dead at a Merrylands West home on 2 September in what police believe may have been a case of mistaken identity. He was not known to police and had no links to organised crime. Continue reading...