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Desperate families search for missing
Anxious relatives crowded the corridors of a Kathmandu hospital yesterday as they searched for missing family after devastating floods on the Nepal-Tibet border killed at least 270 people.
28 August 2026
Half of world’s soils are in poor condition: UN
More than half of the world’s soils are in poor condition, threatening global food supplies and biodiversity, while proven measures to improve soil health are not being implemented, said a UN report released yesterday.
28 August 2026
CIA chief warned Russia against Nato attacks
A highly unusual trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on Nato member states, US media reported Wednesday, after President Donald Trump sought to downplay the visit.
28 August 2026
Trump orders Lake Ontario to be renamed 'Lake America'
Trump signed an order in the White House, telling reporters the change was "effective immediately"
27 August 2026
8.7m customers’ data stolen in cyberattack on three UK airports
MAG, which operates the Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, said the data of 8.7 million customers had been compromised
27 August 2026
New barrier lake in Nepal raises fresh flood threat, China warns
China’s Ministry of Water Resources estimated the lake’s volume at about 2 mn cubic metres as of this morning
27 August 2026
Death toll nears 400, rescuers search for 1,400 missing after Nepal-Tibet floods
Prime Minister Balendra Shah visited some of the hardest-hit areas today
27 August 2026
How the Nepal flood unfolded over 10 hours
The surge then moved downstream through the Bhotekoshi into the Trishuli river and gradually spread to downstream areas.
27 August 2026
Nearly 100 Chinese missing in Nepal after mudslide, foreign ministry says
When asked for a breakdown of nationalities of the missing foreigners, Lin said specific information was still under further verification.
27 August 2026
Iran unable to import petrol amid US blockade: official
"Petrol production is insufficient, and because of the US naval blockade, we cannot import it," the official IRNA news agency quoted Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah as saying on Wednesday.
27 August 2026
Dalai Lama prays 'for all' killed in Tibet-Nepal floods
Flash floods and landslides on Wednesday killed at least 165 people and more than 1,300 remain missing on the Nepal-Tibet border.
27 August 2026
What scientists say about the cause of deadly Nepal-Tibet floods
Satellite imagery suggests a section of glacier about 2,000 feet wide broke off at an altitude of around 17,000 feet, falling nearly 4,000 feet to the valley below, said geologist Daniel Shugar
27 August 2026
Nepal-Tibet floods: The devastation in pictures
Flash floods and landslides have left homes, roads and bridges submerged or destroyed along the Nepal-Tibet border.
27 August 2026
Nearly 1,500 missing after Nepal-Tibet flood kills more than 165
US Geological Survey said an earthquake with magnitude initially reported as 4.4 was in fact seismic energy generated by the collapse of glacial rock and ice, followed by debris flow.
27 August 2026
List of nationalities of missing tourists in Nepal-Tibet flood
Here is a list of the nationalities of tourists who have been determined to be missing
27 August 2026
Shipping traffic through Strait of Hormuz rises slightly, data shows
Visible commodity vessel transits at Hormuz totalled 10 on Wednesday, up slightly from eight on Tuesday, data from Kpler showed. This remained below a 10-day moving average of about 15 vessels.
27 August 2026
Japan's "polka dot queen" Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97
"It is with profound sorrow that the passing of Yayoi Kusama at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97," the statement said.
27 August 2026
3 dead, 558 missing in Tibet mudslide: Chinese authorities
The disaster has "resulted in three deaths and 558 people still missing", it added, doubling the missing person count from the 265 reported late Wednesday.
27 August 2026
'Saved by a mango tree': How a Nepali labourer survived deadly flash flood
"I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if it was an earthquake," the worker said
27 August 2026
Nepal says 468 tourists, mainly foreigners, out of contact after floods
Nepal said that 468 tourists and travellers, including 393 foreigners, remained out of contact
27 August 2026