Friday

Hamas releases a video showing a speech by two Israeli hostages in Gaza kidnapped during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023. (Reuters) (The Jerusalem Post)

The United Nations Human Rights Office reports that M23 rebels, the Congolese armed forces, and other groups in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have committed serious abuses, including killings, torture, sexual violence, and child recruitment, some of which may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Reuters)

The Trump administration deploys ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to take part in military action against drug cartels in Venezuela and Latin America. (The Guardian)

Venezuelan Air Force F-16 fighter jets fly over the USS Jason Dunham in international waters for a second time in 24 hours as tensions mount between the United States and Venezuela. (CBS News)

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accuses the U.S. of seeking a regime change in Venezuela under the guise of combating cartels. (Reuters)

Caribbean Airlines halts all flights between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for the entire month of September due to the military situation in the region. (Guyana Times)

A roadside bomb kills seven Cameroonian soldiers in the Southwest Region. An English-speaking separatist group claims responsibility for the bombing. (ABC News)

At least 63 people are killed, including seven soldiers, and others are reported missing in attacks by Boko Haram jihadists in Darul Jamal, Borno State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Eight security officials are killed, four others are seriously injured, and five Chinese workers are kidnapped, with four rescued afterwards, in an attack on a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps convoy in Edo State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Lashkar-e-Jihadi warns police that multiple terrorist attacks involving 34 explosive-laden vehicles and 14 terrorists are being planned for the Ganesh Chaturthi finale on Saturday in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, causing security to be tightened. (The Times of India)