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Colombia's EMC guerrilla group claimed on August 30 to have captured a Colombian soldier of the French Foreign Legion, taken hostage on August 6 in Nariño department.
A 55-year-old bricklayer died instantly when a concrete slab collapsed and crushed him at a construction site in Origgio, in the province of Varese, Italy.
A Russian drone strike on a weapons depot near Kyiv killed at least 37 people and forced hundreds to evacuate, prompting an investigation into the storage of munitions near residential areas.
A primary school in Ginostra, a hamlet on Stromboli island, will reopen on September 10 after 20 years, with a single six-year-old student, Aisha.
US forces struck two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, killing two and injuring two, prompting Iranian retaliatory missile attacks on US bases in Jordan and a drone attack on an air base in the UAE.
Venus Williams, 46, was defeated by Sofia Kenin in straight sets in a late-night US Open first-round match, marking her earliest exit in recent years.
CISA published an advisory for an authenticated OS command injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-76060) in ZoneMinder versions 1.37.48 and 1.38.3, which could allow remote code execution as the web server user. The vendor recommends upgrading to 1.38.3 or later.
Somerset cider orchards are harvesting as little as 10% of their normal apple crop due to a severe summer drought, threatening cider production and tree health.
Australia's music charts will now require songs to be 'substantially human made' to be eligible, following a controversy over an AI-assisted Madonna remix that topped the charts.
CISA published an advisory on August 25, 2026, disclosing three vulnerabilities in Bendix EC80 Brake ECU used in commercial vehicles. The flaws include a stack-based buffer overflow, an out-of-bounds write, and use of hard-coded credentials, which could allow an attacker to crash the ECU, execute arbitrary code, inject CAN bus traffic, or disable safety functions like ABS and traction control. Bendix has released firmware updates to address the issues.