A strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck southern Peru on 21 Aug 2026, damaging homes and schools; access around the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu was separately disrupted by El Niño-linked heavy rains earlier in the week.
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Anti-government protesters took to Tunisia's streets for a second consecutive month on 21 Aug 2026 against President Kais Saied, rejecting "one-man rule" and "a slide towards dictatorship" and urging the release of jailed opposition figure…
Transboundary haze forced Malaysia's Sarawak state to shut almost 600 schools on 21 Aug 2026, affecting about 200,000 pupils, as air pollution in parts of the state reached "very unhealthy" levels.
Eight people died when a civilian-contracted plane crashed at a remote Alaskan military radar site on 21 Aug 2026; the air force did not say why the plane was at the radar site on Alaska's south-west coast.
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