Israel to release five Lebanese detainees amid talks with Lebanon

🔮 Israel will release five Lebanese citizens detained in southern Lebanon after finding they had no links to militant groups, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday (September 3, 2026).

🔮 “States Parties must implement comprehensive reparatory measures for people of African descent, covering all aspects of remedies,” said the U.N. document, which may be cited in courtrooms.

🔮 Water and the IWT remain a contentious issue between India and Pakistan, following New Delhi’s unilateral abeyance of the accord in April last year — a move that was followed by a brief military conflict between the two sides in May 2025.

🔮 Nepal’s disaster management authority warned that a lake formed by debris blocking the Bhotekoshi River was rising and at risk of bursting, while on the other side of the border China said that some three million cubic metres of water, the equivalent of about 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools, was expected to flow into an already dammed lake over the next three days.

🔮 ‘If Singapore Airlines wants to continue its bet on Air India, it should do so on its own two feet, and not on Temasek’s,’ Kenneth Tiong says “I will not support, nor expect, any future use of Temasek’s funds to prop up Air India via Singapore Airlines.

🔮 Moscow warns of potential strikes on British military targets, urging London to change its stance on supporting Kyiv Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Russia could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russia using British missiles.

🔮 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Tuesday he did not support an upcoming event in his city featuring the leader of the Hindu nationalist group that is the ideological parent of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

🔮 US President Donald Trump last week called on Congress to pass a bill that would bring clearer definitions to the growing cryptocurrency sector.

🔮 Malaysia says Indonesia to open airspace for cloud seeding to tackle haze Both countries will escalate firefighting and fire prevention programmes ahead of national holidays, Malaysia’s environment minister says Indonesia has given Malaysian agencies official permission to enter its airspace to conduct cloud seeding operations, Malaysia’s environment minister has said, part of both countries’ efforts to combat the haze blanketing the region. Indonesia has been stepping up efforts to slow the spread of haze caused by forest and land fires across several provinces, which this month led to dozens of school closures, including in neighbouring Malaysia. Malaysia’s national disaster management agency and its meteorological department were currently preparing schedules for cloud-seeding operations in shared border locations, to be coordinated with the Indonesian military, Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Arthur Joseph Kurup said in a statement.

🔮 The DHS said Luis Manuel Aviles Roa entered the US illegally and would remain in immigration and customs enforcement detention pending removal proceedings.