Five adults — two women and three men — drowned in Ohio's Scioto River at the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir, about 10 miles northwest of Columbus, on Sunday night, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said. Two people entered the water to rescue a struggling swimmer, and two more adults died attempting their own rescue. A child alerted authorities after flagging down a passing motorist.
F-1 international students, including many visiting India, are being advised to return to the US before September 15, when a new Department of Homeland Security rule takes effect, a Times of India report said. The rule replaces the open-ended 'Duration of Status' system with fixed admission periods capped at four years. Only students physically present on September 15 keep the older protections.
US President Donald Trump has not backed a 10-day ceasefire proposal brokered by Qatar, Oman, Egypt and Pakistan to pause the Iran war, Axios reported. The truce would open talks on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The White House believes continued strikes strengthen its leverage, especially after an Iranian missile attack in Jordan killed two US troops. Iran is reviewing it.
New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Jonathan Reynolds as Business Minister and Angela Rayner as Housing Minister, his office announced on Monday. Reynolds returns as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade in an expanded brief, having earlier lost the business portfolio to Peter Kyle during a reshuffle under former Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom Burnham has succeeded.
The Pentagon said nearly 100 US service members have been injured in Iranian strikes on West Asian bases since July 7, though 96% returned to duty and most suffered minor concussions. Spokesperson Sean Parnell's statement followed a New York Times report alleging undisclosed attacks in Jordan. Three troops died over the weekend, raising US fatalities since the February 28 war to 17.
Donald Trump signed orders on Monday for new 50% tariffs on Canadian products including wine, dairy, hockey sticks, furniture and cement, taking effect August 19. The White House accused Ottawa of discriminating against US alcohol, autos and dairy, invoking Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act. Energy, potash, fish and critical minerals are exempt. PM Mark Carney's office has not responded.
A 43-year-old former US Army soldier, Andrew Arrabaca, was arrested on Monday after allegedly pouring gasoline and setting a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, which houses ICE offices and immigration courts. Two federal employees and a civilian suffered minor injuries. Police said a sign reading 'ICE off our streets' was recovered. A federal terrorism task force is investigating.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators have proposed a 10-day ceasefire to give room for reviving last month's interim understanding with Washington, as fighting entered a second week. The Wall Street Journal named Qatar and Pakistan as the main brokers, with Qatar also seeking an end to shipping curbs in the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has fallen to around 10 vessels a day.
The United States and Iran exchanged fresh strikes on Monday, with US deaths in the renewed fighting rising to three and more vessels attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. The contest over the shipping chokepoint pushed oil to a one-month high, Brent crude climbing above $91 a barrel, its strongest level since June 11, according to AFP.
Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way while in the United States, responding to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani has said he is unsure whether he can direct police to detain a foreign leader and is consulting his legal team before September's UN General Assembly.
A Dawn analysis of Pakistan's latest official household surveys puts the poverty rate at 28.9% in 2024-25, up from 21.8% in 2018-19 and the first such reading in nearly six years. Rural areas worsened most, rising about eight percentage points against six in cities. The report blames balance-of-payments crises, the pandemic and inflation, with wage-dependent families hit hardest.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said two Palestinian men were shot dead by Israeli forces on Monday when a group of settlers attacked a village in the occupied West Bank overnight. The Israeli military said its troops opened fire after being pelted with stones. One of those killed, Awda Farakhneh, 53, was buried in Deir Jarir, northeast of Ramallah.
Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would pay many times over for every American service member killed, posting the warning on Truth Social and saying the instruction had gone to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs chairman Daniel Caine and military commanders. The Pentagon confirmed three US deaths over the weekend, two at a base in Jordan and one in northern Iraq.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni reached Islamabad on Monday evening leading a delegation that includes senior Revolutionary Guard commanders, with meetings expected with Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir. It coincides with a ninth consecutive night of US strikes on Iranian military sites, Iranian retaliation against Gulf states, and a reported mediator proposal for a 10-day ceasefire.
Yemen's Houthi movement said on Monday it was imposing an immediate maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, which military spokesman Yahya Saree framed as retaliation for the blockade of Houthi-held ports and a strike on Sanaa airport. The group has not said how it would enforce this. Last week it fired missiles at Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia.
Andy Burnham took office on Monday as Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade, speaking outside Downing Street of a new political and social model that shifts power from London to the regions. He called the change a circuit breaker. Keir Starmer, who led Labour to a landslide two years ago, leaves as the party's shortest-serving modern prime minister.
Pakistan's largest copper and gold mine, the Chinese-operated Saindak project, told the energy ministry on 29 June that militant attacks on transport routes could force it to stop within a month, the Financial Times reported. Saindak supplies most of Pakistan's roughly $750 million in copper exports. Barrick has separately delayed the $9 billion Reko Diq mine over security concerns.
Speaking to Fortune, FedEx chief executive Raj Subramaniam recalled overhearing his roommate turn down a FedEx interview in 1991, then phoning the recruiter himself to ask if he could send a resume. The IIT Bombay graduate, then finishing an MBA in Austin during a recession, joined in Memphis, led Asia-Pacific marketing from Hong Kong, and became CEO in 2022.
Russia's five-hour overnight assault on Sunday sent roughly 41 ballistic missiles, including Iskander-M and Zircon types, alongside more than 125 drones at Kyiv and other cities, killing at least six. Ukraine downed 108 drones and 18 missiles. Analysts read the mixed salvo as an attempt to swamp radars while Kyiv rations scarce Patriot interceptors. Moscow said it hit drone plants and fuel depots.
Andrew and Tristan Tate were detained in Miami on Saturday on a sealed US Marshals warrant after British prosecutors authorised further charges, taking their combined total to 59 counts involving seven alleged victims between 2010 and 2017. Both deny all allegations. A presidential pardon is not available, since that power reaches only US federal offences, not British charges.